Alice is a PhD student advised by Dr. Luanne Sinnamon. She is interested in the experiences and decision-making of information seekers using Generative AI search engines (e.g., Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s CoPilot). Other areas of research interest include search engine biases, user cognitive biases, heuristics, and information quality assessment.

• Interactive information retrieval
• Generative AI
• User experiences and decision-making

Li, A., & Sinnamon, L. (in press). Generative AI search engines as arbiters of public knowledge: An audit of bias and authority [Paper presentation]. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T’24), Calgary, AB, Canada (10 pages, 9000 words, double-blind peer review). https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14034

Sinnamon, L., Dodson, S., Li, A., & Shahid, S. H. (in press). Re-envisioning search education through a critical information literacy lens. 2024 The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE’24) (5 pages, 2500 words, double-blind peer review)

Li, A., & Sinnamon, L. (2023, August 28- September 2). Examining query sentiment bias effects on search results in large language models. In I. Frommholz, H. Liu, Y. Moshfeghi (Chairs), Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) co-located with The 2023 European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR), TU Vienna, Austria. https://2023.essir.eu/FDIA/papers/FDIA_2023_paper_2.pdf (8 pages, 3700 words, single-blinded peer review)

Li, A., O’Brien, H., & Sinnamon, L. (2023, March 19-23). The effect of research video abstract presentation style on viewer comprehension and engagement [Poster presentation]. ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’23), Austin, TX, USA. (8 pages, 3000 words, double-blind peer review). https://doi.org/10.1145/3576840.3578326

• Canada Graduate Scholarships–Doctoral Fellowships (CGS-D), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2023-2026)
• Four-year doctoral fellowship (4YF) for PhD students, UBC (2023-2027)
• Anne and George Piternick Award, School of Information, UBC (2023)
• Taiwanese Canadian Scholarship Award (2021)
• Valedictorian of Business Administration Class of 2019, NTNU