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7th Annual NEAIS Conference Program

Conference Theme: Grand Scholarly Challenges in the Age of AI

Keynote Speaker:

Chrysanthos (Chris) Dellarocas is the Richard C. Shipley Professor of Information Systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.

Expert Editors’ Panel

Andrew Schwarz is Professor of Information Systems at LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business. He is the current editor of IJIM and a former editor of DATA BASE.

Monideepa Tarafdar is Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor at Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the AIS.

Jennifer J. Xu is a Professor of Computer Information Systems at Bentley University. She is currently serving as Senior Editor at Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), and Associate Editor at Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Information & Management.

Pratyush Bharati (Moderator) is a Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the Senior Editor of The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems Journal and an Associate Editor of Communications of the AIS.

Agenda

Session Number	Time	Conference Session	Location (Campus Center)
1	8am to 8:45am	Breakfast/Registration	Ballroom A
2	8:45am to 9am	Dean’s Welcome Address	Ballroom A
3	9am to 10am	Keynote Address	Ballroom A
4	10am to 10:30am	Networking Break	Terrace
5	10:30am to 12noon	Expert Editors’ Panel	Ballroom A
6	12 noon to 1pm	Lunch and Awards Ceremony	Ballroom A
7	1pm to 2pm	Paper Session I	3540
8	1pm to 2pm	Paper Session II	3545
9	1pm to 2pm	Paper Session III	Ballroom A
10	2pm to 2:30pm	Networking Break	Terrace
11	2:30pm to 3:30pm	Paper Session IV	3540
12	2:30pm to 3:30pm	Paper Session V	3545
13	2:30pm to 3:30pm	Paper Session VI	Ballroom A
14	3:30pm to 4pm	NEAIS Business Meeting	Ballroom A
15	4pm to 5pm	NEAIS Reception (Sponsor: Prospect Press)	Ballroom A

Recommended Presentation Guideline:

Complete Research: 15 minutes (10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A)

Research-in-Progress: 10 minutes (7 minutes presentation + 3 minutes Q&A)

Presentation Schedule (pdf download):

Paper Sessions (1:00pm – 2:00pm)

Paper Session I: Algorithms & Systems

(Room 3540)

Paper Session II: IT and Business

(Room 3545)

Paper Session III: Human-AI Interaction

(Ballroom A)

Session Chair: William Du (UMass Boston)

Session Chair: Jin Sik Kim (UMass Boston)

Session Chair: Torrie Tong Wu (UMass Boston)

[Complete Research] Topic Modeling for Analysis with Covariates

Xiaoping Liu (Northeastern U.) and Xiaobai Li (UMass Lowell)

[Complete Research] Merchants of Vulnerabilities: How Bug Bounty Programs Benefit Software Vendors

Esther Gal-Or (U. Pittsburgh), Zia Hydari (U. Pittsburgh), and Rahul Telang (Carnegie Mellon U.)

[Complete Research] MindStream: An AI-Era Research Framework

Shan Jiang (UMass Boston)

[Complete Research] Phishing Email Detection Using Linguistic Cues

Md. Shafiq Newaj Shovo (Khulna Univ.) and Rohit Valecha (U.Texas San Antonio)

[Research-in-Progress] Can Free Money Drive Financial Inclusion through FinTech?

Sanghyun Park (CUNY Baruch) and Qiang Gao (CUNY Baruch)

[Complete Research] Overcoming Echo Chambers: Harnessing Cross-Platform

Feedback on Social Media

Shan Jiang (UMass Boston)

[Research-in-Progress] Autonomy in AI Systems: Validating An Autonomy Taxonomy Through Literature and Text Mining

Kenneth Walsh (UMass Amherst), Cherie Trumbach (Univ. of New Orleans) and Dinah Payne (Univ. of New Orleans)

[Research-in-Progress] The Impact of AI Disclosure in IPO Prospectuses on IPO Underpricing

Kai Yang (UMass Boston) and Kui Du (UMass Boston)

[Research-in-Progress] Artificial Authenticity of AI-Generated Emotional Text: The Case of ChatGPT and Beyond

Vincent Xie (UMass Boston), Jeny Sherchan (UMass Boston) and Isaac Weng (Belmont High School)

[Research-in-Progress] UX in the Age of AI: A Systematic Approach for Assessing

the Perceived Value of Digital Innovations

Gaayathri Sankar (WPI), Soussan Djamasbi (WPI), Yunus Telliel (WPI) and Diane

Strong (WPI)

[Research-in-Progress] Chasing the Winner's Trail: Radiology Information System Vendor Response to Competitor Installations

Nan Clement (MIT) and Catherine Tucker (MIT)

[Research-in-Progress] Escaping the Productivity Trap: Designing Motivating

Rewards for an AI-Powered Workforce.

Tamilla Triantoro (Quinnipiac Univ.)

[Research-in-Progress] Budget-Aware, Ambiguity-Sensitive Triage for AI

Explanations in IS Decision Support

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

[Research-in-Progress] The Face of Success: How Facial Cues Influence Crowdfunding Outcomes

Huiyan Chen (Penn. State Univ. Erie), Jiaying Liu (Univ. of Southern Indiana) and Chenbo Shi (Univ. of Hawai’i at Hilo)

[Research-in-Progress] Trust Repair in AI-Based Recruitment

Shishi Wu (Appalachian State U.)

Coffee Break (2:00pm – 2:30pm)

Paper Sessions (2:30pm – 3:30pm)

Paper Session IV: AI & Education

(Room 3540)

Paper Session V: Societal Impacts of IT

(Room 3545)

Paper Session VI: [Emerging Tech]

(Ballroom A)

Session Chair: Vincent Xie (UMass Boston)

Session Chair: Romilla Syed (UMass Boston)

Session Chair: Sunny Whang (UMass Boston)

[Complete Research] Signals in the Prompt: Classifying Tone in Student–LLM

Dialogues

Talha Gulzar (Babson College) and Nada Hashmi (Babson College)

[Complete Research] Delivery of Behavioral Therapy for Perinatal Mental Health through Digital Clinics in Low‐Resource Settings

Zia Hydari (U. Pittsburgh) and Muhammad Yasir Khan (U. Pittsburgh)

[Complete Research] Perception Beyond Reality: Temporal Awareness in VR

Alexandra Scheman (Babson College), Krista Hill Cummings (Babson College) and Ganesan Shankaranarayanan (Babson College)

[Complete Research] The AI Readiness Gap: How Student Perceptions Misalign with Professional Demands

Sana Hamdan (American Univ. in the Emirates), Talha Gulzar (Babson College) and Nada Hashmi (Babson College)

[Complete Research] Preventive Innovation in Marginalized Contexts: A Qualitative Examination of Diffusion Innovation Characteristics

Asli Kalayci (WPI), Rosanna Garcia (WPI), Bengisu Tulu (WPI), Lindsay Smith (George Mason U.), Steven Jenkins (Q2i Group) and Faye Taxman (George Mason U.)

[Complete Research] Defining Intervention Engagement Through Effective Use in Digital Health: A Conceptual Model and Taxonomy

Lidan Zhang (WPI), Bengisu Tulu (WPI), Soussan Djamasbi (WPI) and Jennifer Jewer (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

[Research-in-Progress] Applying Pertinent AI Policy Statements to Keep Academic

Integrity While Allowing AI Usage in Higher Education Courses

Yu Chen (SUNY, Farmingdale State College)

[Research-in-Progress] Surveillance or Support? Understanding the Privacy-Accountability Tension in Marginalized Populations

Asli Kalayci (WPI) and Bengisu Tulu (WPI)

[Research-in-Progress] When Training Backfires: A Behavioral Perspective on the

Negative Effects of Phishing Simulation in Cybersecurity Awareness

Ruilin Wang (UMass Lowell) and Luvai Motiwalla (UMass Lowell)

[Research-in-Progress] AI Infrastructure for Trust and Learning in Education: The

Emergence of the ‘Learning Provenance’ Concept

Mohd Qaiser Malik (Answer Labs Inc.) and Trond Arne Undheim (Answer Labs Inc.)

[Research-in-Progress] Overcoming Human Challenges to Environmental Friendliness: A Proposal and Recommendation

Dora Chatterjee (Caltech) and Sutirtha Chatterjee (Univ. Nevada Las Vegas)

[Research-in-Progress] Nudging Deliberation: Affective–Cognitive Integration in Cryptocurrency DSS

Daniel Treku (WPI) and Shahbaz Shah Khan (WPI)

[Research-in-Progress] Human-AI Collaboration and Knowledge Management

Rui Huang (UMass Dartmouth) and Leili Soltanisehat (UMass Dartmouth)

[Research-in-Progress] AI, Digital Technologies, and Climate Adaptation: A Systematic Literature Review

Youngho Yoon (Miami U.), Mubarak Iddrisu (UMass Boston), Carol Lee (Northeastern U.) and Pratyush Bharati (UMass Boston)

[Research-in-Progress] Examining Providers’ Behavioral Patterns of Reviewing

Suicide Screening through Eye-Tracking

Kaidi Huang (WPI), Soussan Djamasbi (WPI), Bengisu Tulu (WPI), Ashwin Sukumar (WPI), Doaa Alrefaei (King Abdulaziz Univ.) and Rachel Davis-Martin (UMass Chan Medical School)