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Debugprograde: Improving Automated Assessment Of Coding Assignments With A Focus On Debugging, Amit Patel, Hardik Joshi Feb 2025

Debugprograde: Improving Automated Assessment Of Coding Assignments With A Focus On Debugging, Amit Patel, Hardik Joshi

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

In education, the evaluation of programming assignments is challenging, especially to do with the debugging aspect. Self-grading technologies are unable to capture the level of understanding of students and context-bound responses. In light of these, we created DebugProGrade to take what we normally know about grading and improve it with semantic analysis and keyword extraction. DebugProGrade identified 1000 first-year BCA students who in Google Forms provided their answers to evaluate error detection and solution proposals for a basic C programming assignment. For the explanations’ specificity and for the context-level evaluation, the system employs the SBERT embedding, namely, the sentence-transformer bidirectional …


Optimising Phishing Detection: A Comparative Analysis Of Machine Learning Methods With Feature Selection, Mohamad Asraf Daniel, Siew-Chin Chong, Lee-Ying Chong, Kuok-Kwee Wee Feb 2025

Optimising Phishing Detection: A Comparative Analysis Of Machine Learning Methods With Feature Selection, Mohamad Asraf Daniel, Siew-Chin Chong, Lee-Ying Chong, Kuok-Kwee Wee

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Phishing is an act of cybersecurity attack that tricks people into sharing sensitive data. Due to the inefficiency of the current security technologies, researchers have been paying much attention to employing machine learning methods for phishing detection lately. In our proposed solution, the effectiveness of machine learning techniques with feature selection techniques for phishing detection is investigated. To be specific, Random Forest (RF) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) are integrated with feature selection techniques, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE). The goal was to identify and classify the model with the highest accuracy. The experiments were evaluated …


Integrating Moral Values In Ai: Addressing Ethical Challenges For Fair And Responsible Technology, Khushboo Shah, Hiren Joshi, Hardik Joshi Feb 2025

Integrating Moral Values In Ai: Addressing Ethical Challenges For Fair And Responsible Technology, Khushboo Shah, Hiren Joshi, Hardik Joshi

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our day-to-day life. From personal task to professional life everywhere we need AI. All the sectors like - transport, education, healthcare, agriculture, we find AI everywhere. Each coin has two side, similarly AI has its own pros and cons. Main challenge with AI is ethics. There is no doubt in the work efficiency of AI but ultimately, it’s a machine without emotions hence whatever the decision it takes it purely without ethical values. Sometimes, this type of decision may lead to disasters, especially in the industry where human life is …


Creating An Android-Based Calisthenics Application To Assist Students In Improving Their Physical Fitness, Restyandito, Narendra Poetra Wisnoewardhana, Danny Sebastian Feb 2025

Creating An Android-Based Calisthenics Application To Assist Students In Improving Their Physical Fitness, Restyandito, Narendra Poetra Wisnoewardhana, Danny Sebastian

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

College students, particularly those heavily involved in coursework, frequently do not prioritize physical fitness. Regular exercise is essential for preserving physical fitness and facilitating demanding academic tasks. Although there are other fitness programs available, such as GYM, jogging, CrossFit, and Yoga, users sometimes fail to make full use of them because the content is confined to exercise videos and descriptions. This matter highlights the progress of the Android application Kali Tech, which specifically concentrates on organizing and documenting calisthenics workouts. This program employs the concept of gamification by utilizing student achievement levels to encourage students to be diligent in doing …


Machine Learning Model For Predicting Net Environmental Effects, Sellappan Palaniappan, Rajasvaran Logeswaran, Shapla Khanam, Zhang Yujiao Feb 2025

Machine Learning Model For Predicting Net Environmental Effects, Sellappan Palaniappan, Rajasvaran Logeswaran, Shapla Khanam, Zhang Yujiao

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Environmental sustainability is a global challenge in the face of increasing incidences of disasters affecting communities worldwide. This requires predicting net environmental effects accurately. While various approaches exist, we need more sophisticated prediction models that account for both environmental and social factors. This study presents a proof-of-concept machine learning model for predicting net environmental effects using synthetic data. We developed a multiple linear regression model incorporating nine key features: renewable energy usage, carbon emissions, air quality index, water usage, biodiversity impact, land use, public awareness, and environmental attitudes. We generated a synthetic dataset of 1000 samples using probability distributions and …


Fiber Break Prevention Using Machine Learning Approaches, Zhan Heng Ng, Tee Connie, Kan Yeep Choo, Michael Kah Ong Goh, Nurul Ain Abdul Aziz, Hong Yeap Ngo Feb 2025

Fiber Break Prevention Using Machine Learning Approaches, Zhan Heng Ng, Tee Connie, Kan Yeep Choo, Michael Kah Ong Goh, Nurul Ain Abdul Aziz, Hong Yeap Ngo

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Modern fiber-optic communication systems are built around optical fiber, which allows data to be sent by emitting infrared light pulses. It is widely used by telecommunications firms and is essential to the smooth transmission of information in internet communication as well as the transmission of telephone signals. Nonetheless, optical fibers intrinsic fragility raises a problem, especially in areas where building projects are taking place. Especially nowadays construction-related impact and crushing pressures can cause physical damage that jeopardizes the fiber optic's integrity. Therefore, this research emphasizes the necessity of taking preventative and mitigating actions to reduce the possibilities of fiber optic …


Migraine Generative Artificial Intelligence Based On Mobile Personalized Healthcare, Michelle Ting-Ting Yong, Sin-Ban Ho, Chuie-Hong Tan Feb 2025

Migraine Generative Artificial Intelligence Based On Mobile Personalized Healthcare, Michelle Ting-Ting Yong, Sin-Ban Ho, Chuie-Hong Tan

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Migraine is a complicated genetic disorder characterized by episodes of moderate-to-severe headaches that are usually unilateral and are frequently accompanied by nausea and increased sensitivity to sound and light. A migraine attack induces intense pain, hindering an individual from engaging in daily activities and potentially persisting for hours or even days. By the growth of the Internet of Things, we have new opportunities to try to apply it to the medical field. To identify the origin of a migraine, specialists need access to a patient's medical history and a comprehensive understanding of migraine symptoms for effective treatment. Determining the true …


Exploration Of The Impact Of Cyber Situational Awareness On Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) In Malaysia, Tan Chee Keong, Sofiah Kadar Khan, Umar Farooq Khattak Feb 2025

Exploration Of The Impact Of Cyber Situational Awareness On Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) In Malaysia, Tan Chee Keong, Sofiah Kadar Khan, Umar Farooq Khattak

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

The objective of this study is to explore the cyber situational awareness (CSA) level among the employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Malaysia, by extending Endsley's situation awareness (SA) theory. It is crucial to understand the level of cyber situational awareness among employees as it sheds light on how well the employees understand the cyber threats and if they can handle them effectively. Literature has reviewed that SMEs are subject to a greater danger of cyber-attacks. Therefore, employees' awareness of cyber situations is of the utmost significance in studying cyber security. A convenient non-probability sampling method was chosen …


Climate Change Analysis In Malaysia Using Machine Learning, Anishalache Subramanian, Naveen Palanichamy, Kok-Why Ng, Sandhya Aneja Feb 2025

Climate Change Analysis In Malaysia Using Machine Learning, Anishalache Subramanian, Naveen Palanichamy, Kok-Why Ng, Sandhya Aneja

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Climate change presents significant challenges to ecosystems, economies, and societies globally. In Malaysia, a tropical country highly dependent on its natural resources, the impacts are evident in altered rainfall patterns, rising temperatures, and extreme weather events. Despite these challenges, many studies still predominantly rely on traditional statistical methods, which limit their capacity for making accurate climate predictions and developing effective policy solutions.This study effectively addresses the existing gap in research by analyzing extensive historical climate data using advanced machine learning (ML) techniques. The primary focus is on accurately forecasting trends in both precipitation patterns and surface air temperature fluctuations. Performance …


Path To A Healthy Work-Life Balance: Mobile Application For Work And Personal Life Mastery, Erfan Rahmani, Zarina Che Embi Feb 2025

Path To A Healthy Work-Life Balance: Mobile Application For Work And Personal Life Mastery, Erfan Rahmani, Zarina Che Embi

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Drawing insights from diverse organizational methods, this study endeavors to facilitate effective self-development and organization in the face of contemporary demands as solutions for integrating goal tracking, event coordination, and task management within a unified calendar framework in a mobile application. There are three primary objectives of this study: firstly, to explore essential functionalities crucial for addressing the multifaceted challenges of modern life; secondly, to design and develop a mobile application that seamlessly integrates these functionalities; and finally, to evaluate the usability of the application through rigorous testing and feedback mechanisms. Envisaged deliverables include a fully functional mobile application designed …


Personalized Drug Recommendation System Using Wasserstein Auto-Encoders And Adverse Drug Reaction Detection With Weighted Feed Forward Neural Network (Waes-Adr) In Healthcare, J Omana, P. N Jeipratha, K Devi, S Benila, K Revathi Feb 2025

Personalized Drug Recommendation System Using Wasserstein Auto-Encoders And Adverse Drug Reaction Detection With Weighted Feed Forward Neural Network (Waes-Adr) In Healthcare, J Omana, P. N Jeipratha, K Devi, S Benila, K Revathi

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

In recent years, the use of deep learning approaches in healthcare has yielded promising results in a variety of fields, most notably in the detection of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and drug recommendations. This paper promises a breakthrough in this field by using Wasserstein autoencoders (WAEs) for personalized medicine recommendation and ADR detection. WAEs' capacity to manage complex data distributions and develop meaningful latent representations makes them ideal for modeling heterogeneous healthcare data. This study intends to improvise the precision and efficiency of drug recommendation systems while also improving patient safety by combining WAEs and early ADR detection strategies. Previous …


Yinyang-Align: Benchmarking Contradictory Objectives And Proposing Multi-Objective Optimization Based Dpo For Text-To-Image Alignment, Amitava Das, Yaswanth Narsupalli, Gurpreet Singh, Vinija Jain, Vasu Sharma, Suranjana Trivedi, Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth Feb 2025

Yinyang-Align: Benchmarking Contradictory Objectives And Proposing Multi-Objective Optimization Based Dpo For Text-To-Image Alignment, Amitava Das, Yaswanth Narsupalli, Gurpreet Singh, Vinija Jain, Vasu Sharma, Suranjana Trivedi, Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth

Publications

As Text-to-Image (T2I) models become more advanced, they face a fundamental challenge—balancing conflicting alignment goals such as faithfulness vs. artistic freedom, realism vs. stylization, and verifiability vs. creativity. Existing alignment methods often optimize for one objective at the cost of another, leading to inconsistencies in AI-generated images.
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Tla+ For All: Model Checking In A Python Notebook, Konstantin Laufer, George K. Thiruvathukal Feb 2025

Tla+ For All: Model Checking In A Python Notebook, Konstantin Laufer, George K. Thiruvathukal

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

TLA+ is widely recognized for its effectiveness in specifying and verifying concurrent and distributed systems. However, for educators and practitioners, barriers to adoption include installation complexity and tooling setup. In the proposed presentation, we demonstrate a lightweight, easily shareable, and fully reproducible approach to running TLA+ in a Python notebook hosted on Google Colab without requiring new tools or custom Jupyter kernel development. By creating an environment where users can experiment with TLA+ models instantly, we lower these barriers and demonstrate the suitability for education and outreach.


Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Pharmacy, Giang Nguyen, Elizabeth Sartschev, John Reyes, Allie Honigford, Marisa Petrunich, Kiley Devoll, Brianna Lu, Joshua Honaker, T'Bony M. Jewell Feb 2025

Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Pharmacy, Giang Nguyen, Elizabeth Sartschev, John Reyes, Allie Honigford, Marisa Petrunich, Kiley Devoll, Brianna Lu, Joshua Honaker, T'Bony M. Jewell

Pharmacy and Wellness Review

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the pharmaceutical field by enabling computer software systems to learn and perform human behavior. Specifically, AI has revolutionized chronic diabetes management through continuous glucose monitoring, showcasing its immense potential in healthcare. However, alongside its transformative impact, AI’s increasing role in healthcare has prompted concerns over privacy and its premature integration. Despite these challenges, AI offers limitless opportunities to improve medication management and treatment regimens, driving advancements across various domains. From improving CT imaging to enhancing adenoma detection in colonoscopies and facilitating medication adherence, AI’s impact on healthcare is profound. Furthermore, AI plays a pivotal role …


Comparing In-Person, Standard Telehealth, And Remote Musculoskeletal Examination With A Novel Augmented Reality Exercise Game System: Pilot Cross-Sectional Comparison Study, Richard Wu, Keerthana Chakka, Sara Belko, Ninad Khargonkar, Kevin Desai, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Thiru Annaswamy Feb 2025

Comparing In-Person, Standard Telehealth, And Remote Musculoskeletal Examination With A Novel Augmented Reality Exercise Game System: Pilot Cross-Sectional Comparison Study, Richard Wu, Keerthana Chakka, Sara Belko, Ninad Khargonkar, Kevin Desai, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Thiru Annaswamy

SKMC Student Presentations and Publications

BACKGROUND: Current telemedicine technologies are not fully optimized for conducting physical examinations. The Virtual Remote Tele-Physical Examination (VIRTEPEX) system, a novel proprietary technology platform using a Microsoft Kinect-based augmented reality game system to track motion and estimate force, has the potential to assist with conducting asynchronous, remote musculoskeletal examinations.

OBJECTIVE: This pilot study evaluated the feasibility of the VIRTEPEX system as a supplement to telehealth musculoskeletal strength assessments.

METHODS: In this cross-sectional pilot study, 12 study participants with upper extremity pain and/or weakness underwent strength evaluations for four upper extremity movements using in-person, telehealth, VIRTEPEX, and composite (telehealth plus VIRTEPEX) …


A Review Of Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, And Robots Through The Lens Of Stakeholder Theory, Michael J. Matthews, Su Runkun, Lindsey Yonish, Shawn Mcclean, Joel Koopman, Kai Chi Yam Feb 2025

A Review Of Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, And Robots Through The Lens Of Stakeholder Theory, Michael J. Matthews, Su Runkun, Lindsey Yonish, Shawn Mcclean, Joel Koopman, Kai Chi Yam

Management Faculty Publications

With the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, intelligent machines are affecting the daily lives of multiple organizational stakeholders. However, despite the continued expansion of intelligent machines in society, management scholarship has generally lagged, and current frameworks are under-equipped to offer meaningful guidance regarding the intersection of intelligent machines and organizations. We address this issue via a multidisciplinary review and a novel framework of intelligent machines and value creation. First, we discuss the characteristics of intelligent machines (i.e., autonomy, learning, inscrutability, and materiality) and how variation in these characteristics impacts their affordances and, subsequently, the value offered to stakeholders. We …


Plc-Controlled Intelligent Conveyor System With Ai-Enhanced Vision Of Efficient Waste Sorting, Natheer Almtireen, Nathir Rawashdeh, Viraj Reddy, Max Sutton, Alexander Nedvidek, Caden Karn, Et. Al. Feb 2025

Plc-Controlled Intelligent Conveyor System With Ai-Enhanced Vision Of Efficient Waste Sorting, Natheer Almtireen, Nathir Rawashdeh, Viraj Reddy, Max Sutton, Alexander Nedvidek, Caden Karn, Et. Al.

Michigan Tech Publications

Current waste sorting mechanisms, particularly those relying on manual processes, semi-automated systems, or technologies without Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration, are hindered by inefficiencies, inaccuracies, and limited scalability, reducing their effectiveness in meeting growing waste management demands. This study introduces a prototype waste sorting machine that integrates an AI-driven vision system with a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) for high-accuracy automated waste sorting. The system, powered by the YOLOv8 deep learning model, achieved sorting accuracies of 88% for metal cans, 75% for paper, and 91% for plastic bottles, with an overall precision of 90%, a recall of 80%, and a mean average …


Confronting Catastrophic Risk: The International Obligation To Regulate Artificial Intelligence, Bryan Druzin, Anatole Boute, Michael Ramsden Feb 2025

Confronting Catastrophic Risk: The International Obligation To Regulate Artificial Intelligence, Bryan Druzin, Anatole Boute, Michael Ramsden

Michigan Journal of International Law

While artificial intelligence (“AI”) holds enormous promise, many experts in the field are warning that there is a non-trivial chance that the development of AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Existing regulatory initiatives do not address this threat but instead merely focus on discrete AI-related risks such as consumer safety, cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy. In the absence of regulatory action to address the possible risk of human extinction by AI, the question arises: What obligations, if any, does public international law impose on states to regulate its development?

At present there is no scientific consensus as to the …


Zombie-Auras: Genai And Hybrid Text Production, Joshua Nieubuurt Feb 2025

Zombie-Auras: Genai And Hybrid Text Production, Joshua Nieubuurt

English Faculty Publications

This paper explores the iterative evolutions of textual production and their impact on the “aura” of texts, as conceptualized by Walter Benjamin. The study identifies three key phases of textual production: the natural, the mechanized, and the digitized, each progressively displacing the “cult value” of texts. This cult value is lost through increased ease of creation, reproduction, dissemination, and dislocation of creators and audiences in time and space. The advent of Generative AI (GenAI) marks the latest evolution, transforming the “aura” into a memetic “zombie” form—familiar yet opaque, evoking both the sublime and fear. By examining Benjamin’s notion of “aura” …


Hotpatching On The Fly: Mitigating Drone Incidents Arising From Incorrect Configuration, Ruidong Han, Juanru Li, Zhuo Ma, David Lo, Arash Shaghaghi, Jianfeng Ma, Siqi Ma Feb 2025

Hotpatching On The Fly: Mitigating Drone Incidents Arising From Incorrect Configuration, Ruidong Han, Juanru Li, Zhuo Ma, David Lo, Arash Shaghaghi, Jianfeng Ma, Siqi Ma

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Manufacturers offer adjustable control parameters for flight control systems to accommodate diverse environments and missions. To ensure flight safety, they also develop established boundaries, i.e., range specifications for parameter values. However, even when the configuration parameters fall within the prescribed manufacturer range, they could still lead to instability or even severe incidents like crashes, which are referred to as Range Specification Bugs. Prior research has suggested shrinking the range of parameter values to protect drones from the adverse effects of such bugs. However, narrowing the range of parameters may only reduce the probability of errors and could potentially limit the …


Proactive Conversational Ai: A Comprehensive Survey Of Advancements And Opportunities, Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Wenqiang Lei, Grace Hui Yang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua Feb 2025

Proactive Conversational Ai: A Comprehensive Survey Of Advancements And Opportunities, Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Wenqiang Lei, Grace Hui Yang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Dialogue systems are designed to offer human users social support or functional services through natural language interactions. Traditional conversation research has put significant emphasis on a system's response-ability, including its capacity to understand dialogue context and generate appropriate responses. However, the key element of proactive behavior-a crucial aspect of intelligent conversations-is often overlooked in these studies. Proactivity empowers conversational agents to lead conversations towards achieving pre-defined targets or fulfilling specific goals on the system side. Proactive dialogue systems are equipped with advanced techniques to handle complex tasks, requiring strategic and motivational interactions, thus representing a significant step towards artificial general …


Qultsf: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting With Quantum Machine Learning, Hari Hara Suthan Chittoor, Paul Robert Griffin, Ariel Neufeld, Jayne Thompson, Mile Gu Feb 2025

Qultsf: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting With Quantum Machine Learning, Hari Hara Suthan Chittoor, Paul Robert Griffin, Ariel Neufeld, Jayne Thompson, Mile Gu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) involves predicting a large number of future values of a time series based on the past values. This is an essential task in a wide range of domains including weather forecasting, stock market analysis and disease outbreak prediction. Over the decades LTSF algorithms have transitioned from statistical models to deep learning models like transformer models. Despite the complex architecture of transformer based LTSF models ‘Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting? (Zeng et al., 2023)’ showed that simple linear models can outperform the state-of-the-art transformer based LTSF models. Recently, quantum machine learning (QML) is evolving …


Impact Tracing: Identifying The Culprit Of Misinformation In Encrypted Messaging Systems, Zhongming Wang, Tao Xiang, Xiaoguo Li, Biwen Chen, Guomin Yang, Chuan Ma, Robert H. Deng Feb 2025

Impact Tracing: Identifying The Culprit Of Misinformation In Encrypted Messaging Systems, Zhongming Wang, Tao Xiang, Xiaoguo Li, Biwen Chen, Guomin Yang, Chuan Ma, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Encrypted messaging systems obstruct content moderation, although they provide end-to-end security. As a result, misinformation proliferates in these systems, thereby exacerbating online hate and harassment. The paradigm of “Reporting-then-Tracing” shows great potential in mitigating the spread of misinformation. For instance, message traceback (CCS’19) traces all the dissemination paths of a message, while source tracing (CCS’21) traces its originator. However, message traceback lacks privacy preservation for non-influential users (e.g., users who only receive the message once), while source tracing maintains privacy but only provides limited traceability. In this paper, we initiate the study of impact tracing. Intuitively, impact tracing traces influential …


Effectiveness Of Postoperative Cephalosporins In Reducing Urinary Tract Infections And Other Parameters Following Transurethral Resection Of The Prostate: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Wael Hafez, Feras Al-Obeidat, Asrar Rashid, Arun Kumar Venkatachalapathi, Amr Massaod, Ziad Albaha, Samy Kishk, Tesfalidet Emoshe, Samuel Tesfaye Tefera, Ismail A. Ibrahim, Mohammad Alkammar, Gowhar Rashid, Ahmed Fayed, Karim Soliman, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan, Alaaldeen Mohamed, Daniel Simancas-Racines, Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda Feb 2025

Effectiveness Of Postoperative Cephalosporins In Reducing Urinary Tract Infections And Other Parameters Following Transurethral Resection Of The Prostate: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Wael Hafez, Feras Al-Obeidat, Asrar Rashid, Arun Kumar Venkatachalapathi, Amr Massaod, Ziad Albaha, Samy Kishk, Tesfalidet Emoshe, Samuel Tesfaye Tefera, Ismail A. Ibrahim, Mohammad Alkammar, Gowhar Rashid, Ahmed Fayed, Karim Soliman, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan, Alaaldeen Mohamed, Daniel Simancas-Racines, Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda

All Works

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Ai As Your Ally: The Effects Of Ai-Assisted Venting On Negative Affect And Perceived Social Support, Meilan Hu, Xavier Cheng Wee Chua, Shu Fen Diong, K. T. A. Sandeeshwara Kasturiratna, Nadyanna M. Majeed, Andree Hartanto Feb 2025

Ai As Your Ally: The Effects Of Ai-Assisted Venting On Negative Affect And Perceived Social Support, Meilan Hu, Xavier Cheng Wee Chua, Shu Fen Diong, K. T. A. Sandeeshwara Kasturiratna, Nadyanna M. Majeed, Andree Hartanto

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have made significant strides in generating human-like conversations. With AI's expanding capabilities in mimicking human interactions, its affordability and accessibility underscore the potential of AI chatbots to facilitate negative emotional disclosure or venting. The study's primary objective is to highlight the potential benefits of AI-assisted venting by comparing its effectiveness to venting through a traditional journaling platform in reducing negative affect and increasing perceived social support. We conducted a pre-registered within-subject experiment involving 150 participants who completed both traditional venting and AI-assisted venting conditions with counterbalancing and a wash-out period of 1-week between …


Vaxbot-Hpv: A Gpt-Based Chatbot For Answering Hpv Vaccine-Related Questions, Yiming Li, Jianfu Li, Manqi Li, Evan Yu, Danniel Rhee, Muhammad Amith, Lu Tang, Lara S Savas, Licong Cui, Cui Tao Feb 2025

Vaxbot-Hpv: A Gpt-Based Chatbot For Answering Hpv Vaccine-Related Questions, Yiming Li, Jianfu Li, Manqi Li, Evan Yu, Danniel Rhee, Muhammad Amith, Lu Tang, Lara S Savas, Licong Cui, Cui Tao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is an effective measure to prevent and control the diseases caused by HPV. However, widespread misinformation and vaccine hesitancy remain significant barriers to its uptake. This study focuses on the development of VaxBot-HPV, a chatbot aimed at improving health literacy and promoting vaccination uptake by providing information and answering questions about the HPV vaccine.

METHODS: We constructed the knowledge base (KB) for VaxBot-HPV, which consists of 451 documents from biomedical literature and web sources on the HPV vaccine. We extracted 202 question-answer pairs from the KB and 39 questions generated by GPT-4 for training and …


A Statistical Framework For Multi-Trait Rare Variant Analysis In Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Studies, Xihao Li, Han Chen, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Eric Van Buren, Hufeng Zhou, Yuxuan Wang, Ryan Sun, Zachary R Mccaw, Zhi Yu, Min-Zhi Jiang, Daniel Dicorpo, Sheila M Gaynor, Rounak Dey, Donna K Arnett, Emelia J Benjamin, Joshua C Bis, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Donald W Bowden, Jennifer A Brody, Brian E Cade, April P Carson, Jenna C Carlson, Nathalie Chami, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Joanne E Curran, Paul S De Vries, Myriam Fornage, Nora Franceschini, Barry I Freedman, Charles Gu, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Jiang He, Lifang Hou, Yi-Jen Hung, Marguerite R Irvin, Robert C Kaplan, Sharon L R Kardia, Tanika N Kelly, Iain Konigsberg, Charles Kooperberg, Brian G Kral, Changwei Li, Yun Li, Honghuang Lin, Ching-Ti Liu, Ruth J F Loos, Michael C Mahaney, Lisa W Martin, Rasika A Mathias, Braxton D Mitchell, May E Montasser, Alanna C Morrison, Take Naseri, Kari E North, Nicholette D Palmer, Patricia A Peyser, Bruce M Psaty, Susan Redline, Alexander P Reiner, Stephen S Rich, Colleen M Sitlani, Jennifer A Smith, Kent D Taylor, Hemant K Tiwari, Ramachandran S Vasan, Satupa'itea Viali, Zhe Wang, Jennifer Wessel, Lisa R Yanek, Bing Yu, Nhlbi Trans-Omics For Precision Medicine (Topmed) Consortium, Josée Dupuis, James B Meigs, Paul L Auer, Laura M Raffield, Alisa K Manning, Kenneth M Rice, Jerome I Rotter, Gina M Peloso, Pradeep Natarajan, Zilin Li, Zhonghua Liu, Xihong Lin Feb 2025

A Statistical Framework For Multi-Trait Rare Variant Analysis In Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Studies, Xihao Li, Han Chen, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Eric Van Buren, Hufeng Zhou, Yuxuan Wang, Ryan Sun, Zachary R Mccaw, Zhi Yu, Min-Zhi Jiang, Daniel Dicorpo, Sheila M Gaynor, Rounak Dey, Donna K Arnett, Emelia J Benjamin, Joshua C Bis, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Donald W Bowden, Jennifer A Brody, Brian E Cade, April P Carson, Jenna C Carlson, Nathalie Chami, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Joanne E Curran, Paul S De Vries, Myriam Fornage, Nora Franceschini, Barry I Freedman, Charles Gu, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Jiang He, Lifang Hou, Yi-Jen Hung, Marguerite R Irvin, Robert C Kaplan, Sharon L R Kardia, Tanika N Kelly, Iain Konigsberg, Charles Kooperberg, Brian G Kral, Changwei Li, Yun Li, Honghuang Lin, Ching-Ti Liu, Ruth J F Loos, Michael C Mahaney, Lisa W Martin, Rasika A Mathias, Braxton D Mitchell, May E Montasser, Alanna C Morrison, Take Naseri, Kari E North, Nicholette D Palmer, Patricia A Peyser, Bruce M Psaty, Susan Redline, Alexander P Reiner, Stephen S Rich, Colleen M Sitlani, Jennifer A Smith, Kent D Taylor, Hemant K Tiwari, Ramachandran S Vasan, Satupa'itea Viali, Zhe Wang, Jennifer Wessel, Lisa R Yanek, Bing Yu, Nhlbi Trans-Omics For Precision Medicine (Topmed) Consortium, Josée Dupuis, James B Meigs, Paul L Auer, Laura M Raffield, Alisa K Manning, Kenneth M Rice, Jerome I Rotter, Gina M Peloso, Pradeep Natarajan, Zilin Li, Zhonghua Liu, Xihong Lin

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Large-scale whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies have improved our understanding of the contributions of coding and noncoding rare variants to complex human traits. Leveraging association effect sizes across multiple traits in WGS rare variant association analysis can improve statistical power over single-trait analysis, and also detect pleiotropic genes and regions. Existing multi-trait methods have limited ability to perform rare variant analysis of large-scale WGS data. We propose MultiSTAAR, a statistical framework and computationally scalable analytical pipeline for functionally informed multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale WGS studies. MultiSTAAR accounts for relatedness, population structure and correlation among phenotypes by jointly analyzing multiple …


Data And Digitalization In Energy Efficiency Policy Design: The Case Of Singapore, Ishani Mukherjee, Diandrea Ho Feb 2025

Data And Digitalization In Energy Efficiency Policy Design: The Case Of Singapore, Ishani Mukherjee, Diandrea Ho

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Overarching and broad policy goals for enhancing energy efficiency have existed globally over the last 50 years as a response to rising energy demands, heightening costs, and construction levels of residential and commercial buildings, and the associated rises in greenhouse gas emissions from energy use (Levine et al., 2007; World Bank, 2010). Buildings, in particular, have been widely recognized as offering the greatest potential for reducing energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions, followed by reduced energy consumption in manufacturing, appliances, electronic goods, and end-users of electricity (Levine, 2007; IEA, 2010). And while significant technological strides have been made globally …


Chatgpt Didn’T Write This: Evaluating The Impact Of Llms With A Case Study In Grading Cuny Language Immersion Program Student Essays, Benjamin Inbar Feb 2025

Chatgpt Didn’T Write This: Evaluating The Impact Of Llms With A Case Study In Grading Cuny Language Immersion Program Student Essays, Benjamin Inbar

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study evaluates the capabilities and limitations of large language models (LLMs), specifically OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o, in grading essays from students in the City University of New York’s Language Immersion Program. The program serves English language learners with diverse linguistic and demographic backgrounds, offering intensive language instruction to prepare students for academic success in college. Using a dataset of 30 pre- and post-program essays scored by program instructors and ChatGPT-4o under three paradigms, this research explores the alignment between human and AI-generated scores across five rubric-based competency areas. Findings reveal that ChatGPT-4o aligns moderately with human grading, with the strongest agreement …


Bgp Anomaly Detection As A Group Dynamics Problem, Ben A. Scott, Michael N. Johnstone, Patryk Szewczyk, Steven Richardson Feb 2025

Bgp Anomaly Detection As A Group Dynamics Problem, Ben A. Scott, Michael N. Johnstone, Patryk Szewczyk, Steven Richardson

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Understanding group information and collective behaviors is an ongoing area of research, encompassing natural phenomena and human dynamics. Quantifying interactions and interdependencies at the group level can be valuable for understanding complex and dynamical systems. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the default inter-domain routing protocol for the Internet, operates within a large, complex, and dynamic system vulnerable to security threats. Traditional BGP anomaly detection focuses on single observables from individual Autonomous Systems (ASes), which inadequately addresses the multidimensional, multi-viewpoint nature of the Internet and interdomain routing. This paper introduces a novel approach for quantifying group AS-level information and dynamics. We …