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Conference Program

All NEAIS 2024 conference sessions/events will be held at the Odeum, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Campus.

All conference sessions/events will be held on Thursday, October 24, 2024.

All times are listed in Eastern Time (ET).

*Agenda subject to change.

** See conference paper sessions below for details

Agenda

Time	Event	Location
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast	Midcentury / Lobby
9:00 am – 9:30 am	Welcome Address	Odeum A & B
9:30 am – 10:15 am	Session 1 (Award winning papers)	**Odeum A & B
10:15 am – 10:30 am	Break	Midcentury / Lobby
10:30 am – 12:00 pm	Sessions 2 and 3 (Parallel)	**Odeum A & B and Odeum C
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm	Networking Lunch	Midcentury / Odeum A & B
12:45 pm –1:45 pm	Keynote by Prof. Monideepa Tarafdar	Odeum A & B
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm	NEAIS 2025 Invitation	Odeum A & B
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm	Sessions 4 and 5 (Parallel)	**Odeum A & B and Odeum C
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm	Networking Break	Odeum A & B
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm	NEAIS Business Meeting	Odeum C

Conference Paper Sessions

Session 1: Award-winning Papers Session Chair: Nima Kordzadeh, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Location: Odeum A & B Time: 9:30 am - 10:15 am
Best Academic Paper: Teaching Programming with Generative AI Tools: Implications for students with different learning styles (Nada Hashmi, Zhi Li, Salvatore Parise and G. Shankaranarayanan)
Best Student Paper: The Impact of Anxiety on Reading Behavior: An Exploratory Eye-Tracking Study (Doaa Alrefaei, Soussan Djamasbi, Diane Strong, Javad Norouzi Nia and Ashwin Sukumar)

Session 1: Award-winning Papers

Session Chair: Nima Kordzadeh, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Location: Odeum A & B

Time: 9:30 am - 10:15 am

Best Academic Paper: Teaching Programming with Generative AI Tools: Implications for students with different learning styles

(Nada Hashmi, Zhi Li, Salvatore Parise and G. Shankaranarayanan)

Best Student Paper: The Impact of Anxiety on Reading Behavior: An Exploratory Eye-Tracking Study

(Doaa Alrefaei, Soussan Djamasbi, Diane Strong, Javad Norouzi Nia and Ashwin Sukumar)

Session 2: AI and Data-Driven Solutions for Marketing and Decision-Making Session Chair: Yuzhu (Julia) Li, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Location: Odeum A & B Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Customer Profile Construction (Xiaoping Liu and Xiaobai Li)
Designing a Digital Marketing Engage AI Platform Using Design Science Research (Xavier Babu and Luvai Motiwalla)
Categorizing Products with User-Generated Content: Evidence from Pandemic-Era Steam (Zachary Sheffler and Jonathan Borowsky)
Mitigating Misconduct: An AI-Powered Social Media Screening Study (Noopura Vaidya, Ajinkya Ghorpade and Adrienne Hall-Phillips)
Reliability and Agreement Comparison of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 (Roshni Harish, Ana Merlo and Adrienne Hall-Phillips)

Session 2: AI and Data-Driven Solutions for Marketing and Decision-Making

Session Chair: Yuzhu (Julia) Li, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Location: Odeum A & B

Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Customer Profile Construction

(Xiaoping Liu and Xiaobai Li)

Designing a Digital Marketing Engage AI Platform Using Design Science Research

(Xavier Babu and Luvai Motiwalla)

Categorizing Products with User-Generated Content: Evidence from Pandemic-Era Steam

(Zachary Sheffler and Jonathan Borowsky)

Mitigating Misconduct: An AI-Powered Social Media Screening Study

(Noopura Vaidya, Ajinkya Ghorpade and Adrienne Hall-Phillips)

Reliability and Agreement Comparison of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4

(Roshni Harish, Ana Merlo and Adrienne Hall-Phillips)

Session 3: IT and AI for Healthcare and Organizational Performance Session Chair: Kui (Andy) Du, University of Massachusetts Boston Location: Odeum C Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
IT Intensity and Business Complexity: The Role of Industry IT Strategies (Ping Lin and Kui Du)
Impacts of Query Functions of Electronic Health Record Systems on Hospital Performance (C. Christopher Lee, Irfan Mridha, Kishan Kunver, Arashdeep Singh, Dylan Knipple, Weihong Ning and Ying Chen)
UX Approach to Designing a Clinical Decision Support System for Pain (Doaa Alrefaei, Soussan Djamasbi and Diane Strong)
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Clinical Decision Making in Healthcare (Kaushik Ghosh and Sagnika Sen)
The Role of AI in Gamification in User-System Collaboration and Technological Adoption of ERP Systems (Esi Adeborna and Luvai Motiwalla)

Session 3: IT and AI for Healthcare and Organizational Performance

Session Chair: Kui (Andy) Du, University of Massachusetts Boston

Location: Odeum C

Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

IT Intensity and Business Complexity: The Role of Industry IT Strategies

(Ping Lin and Kui Du)

Impacts of Query Functions of Electronic Health Record Systems on Hospital Performance

(C. Christopher Lee, Irfan Mridha, Kishan Kunver, Arashdeep Singh, Dylan Knipple, Weihong Ning and Ying Chen)

UX Approach to Designing a Clinical Decision Support System for Pain

(Doaa Alrefaei, Soussan Djamasbi and Diane Strong)

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Clinical Decision Making in Healthcare

(Kaushik Ghosh and Sagnika Sen)

The Role of AI in Gamification in User-System Collaboration and Technological Adoption of ERP Systems

(Esi Adeborna and Luvai Motiwalla)

Session 4: Security, Interpretability, and Uncertainty in AI-Driven Systems Session Chair: Luvai Motiwalla, University of Massachusetts Lowell Location: Odeum A & B Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Developing Reliable Gradient Explanations for Artificial Intelligence: Addressing Consistency in Local Interpretability (Nolan Talaei, Asil Oztekin, Hongwei Zhu and Luvai Motiwalla)
Phishing Email Detection Through Amygdala Hijack Threats (Soumik Chemudupati and Rohit Valecha)
Towards a Systematic Literature Review of Common PII Identification Labels Patterns Based on OSINT (Sophia Bucaj and May Bantan)
Navigating Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty in AI-Driven Decisions (Amir Asrzad, Sambit Tripathi and Xiaobai Li)

Session 4: Security, Interpretability, and Uncertainty in AI-Driven Systems

Session Chair: Luvai Motiwalla, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Location: Odeum A & B

Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Developing Reliable Gradient Explanations for Artificial Intelligence: Addressing Consistency in Local Interpretability

(Nolan Talaei, Asil Oztekin, Hongwei Zhu and Luvai Motiwalla)

Phishing Email Detection Through Amygdala Hijack Threats

(Soumik Chemudupati and Rohit Valecha)

Towards a Systematic Literature Review of Common PII Identification Labels Patterns Based on OSINT

(Sophia Bucaj and May Bantan)

Navigating Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty in AI-Driven Decisions

(Amir Asrzad, Sambit Tripathi and Xiaobai Li)

Session 5: AI, Ethics, and Strategic Interactions in Digital Platforms Session Chair: Yuxiao (Rain) Luo, Appalachian State University Location: Odeum C Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Can AI be a Moral Agent? A Study of Fortune Global 500 CSR reports using LLM (Yuxiao Luo, Jared Peifer and Elias Brockman)
Unveiling the Impact of Narrative Persuasion in Manager Responses on Product Reputation (Xavier Babu and Julie Zhang)
Balancing Personalization and Privacy: A Theoretical Model for Enhancing Chatbot User Experience (Shirin Javadi and Nima Kordzadeh)
Co-opetition in Online Seller Networks: Evidence from Etsy (Ermira Zifla and Burcu Eke Rubini)

Session 5: AI, Ethics, and Strategic Interactions in Digital Platforms

Session Chair: Yuxiao (Rain) Luo, Appalachian State University

Location: Odeum C

Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Can AI be a Moral Agent? A Study of Fortune Global 500 CSR reports using LLM

(Yuxiao Luo, Jared Peifer and Elias Brockman)

Unveiling the Impact of Narrative Persuasion in Manager Responses on Product Reputation

(Xavier Babu and Julie Zhang)

Balancing Personalization and Privacy: A Theoretical Model for Enhancing Chatbot User Experience

(Shirin Javadi and Nima Kordzadeh)

Co-opetition in Online Seller Networks: Evidence from Etsy

(Ermira Zifla and Burcu Eke Rubini)