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AI for Social Good

Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.

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2026

7 publications
AI-Human Interaction2026

It's Not How They Talk, It's Who They Are: Learning Style, Not Interaction Modality, Predicts AI Newbies’ Engagement with Educational Chatbots

Trang Xuan, Joni Salminen, Jack Tillotson, Waleed Akhtar, Thanh Van Bui, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Johanne Medina, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. JansenJournal of Educational Technology Systems (2026)
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AI-Human Interaction2026

What it means to learn with GenAI: Theorising student teachers’ perspectives on learning with GenAI through Q methodology research

Youmen Chaaban, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J JansenEuropean Journal of Teacher Education (2026)
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Humanitarian AI2026

DisasterVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark Dataset for Disaster Scenes

Aisha Al-Mohannadi, Ayisha Firoz, Yin Yang, Muhammad Imran, Ferda OfliProceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2026)
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AI-Human Interaction2026

Agentic Engagement with Educational AI Chatbots Among Pre-service Teachers: A Mixed-Method Study in Qatar

Youmen Chaaban, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J JansenJournal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (2026)
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AI-Human Interaction2026

From Priming Modalities to Educational AI Chatbot Engagement: A Study of 67 Learners

Trang Xuan, Joni Salminen, Ilkka Kaate, Farhan Ahmed, Danial Amin, Rajat Patil, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jinan Y. Azem, Bernard J. JansenInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (2026)
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AI-Human Interaction2026

Understanding User Engagement with Cross-Platform Social Media Content Created by Humans Versus AI: An Evaluation of ChatGPT in Content Marketing

Kholoud Aldous, Joni Salminen, Ali Farooq, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard JansenACM Transactions on the Web (2026)
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AI-Human Interaction2026

AI representing personas representing user groups: Applying the agency theory to examine interaction challenges of conversational personas as decision-making tools

Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Ilkka Kaate, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Jinan Y. Azem, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Danial Amin, Bernard J. JansenDecision Support Systems (2026)
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2025

13 publications
AI-Human Interaction2025

Examining Student Teachers’ Agency in an AI-Supported Learning Environment: Q Methodology Research

Youmen Chaaban, Soon-Gyo Jung, Johanne Medina, Jinan Y. Azem, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. JansenInternational Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

Cipherbot: An AI-Powered Educational Assistant for Conversational Q&A About Course Material

Jinan Azem, Soon-Gyo Jung, Johanne Medina, Kholoud K. Aldous, Joni Salminen, Bernard J JansenInternational Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

Investigating the Usability of an Educational AI Chatbot by Middle School Teachers and Students for Enhanced Learning

Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Jinan Y. Azem, Johanne Medina, Salar M. Khan, Amani Alabed, Bernard J. JansenInternational Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

What is User Engagement?: A Systematic Review of 241 Research Articles in Human-Computer Interaction and Beyond

Bernard J. Jansen, Kathleen Guan, Joni Salminen, Khloud Aldous, Soon-gyo JungProceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

Cipherbot: A Learning Platform for AI-Augmented Education

Soon-Gyo Jung, Johanne Medina, Kholoud Aldous, Jinan Azem, Joni Salminen, Bernard J JansenProceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference (2025)
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Humanitarian AI2025

AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring

Noora Al-Emadi, Muhammad Imran, Yin Yang, Ingmar Weber, Fabjan Lashi, Gaia Rigodanza, Ivana Hajžmanová, Ferda OfliCommunications of the ACM (2025)
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Humanitarian AI2025

Analysing Satellite Imagery Classification under Spatial Domain Shift across Geographic Regions

Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda OfliInternational Journal of Computer Vision (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

When Personas Talk to You: Evaluating the Evolution of User Personas from Static Profiles to Conversational User Interfaces

Ilkka Kaate, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Jinan Y Azem, João M Santos, Bernard J JansenProceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (2025)
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Humanitarian AI2025

Benchmarking Object Detectors under Real-World Distribution Shifts in Satellite Imagery

Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda Ofli. Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition(CVPR) (2025)
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Humanitarian AI2025

Evaluating Robustness of LLMs on Crisis-Related Microblogs across Events, Information Types, and Linguistic Features

Muhammad Imran, Abdul Wahab Ziaullah, Kai Chen, Ferda OfliWWW 2025 – Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

Human-centred artificial intelligence in progressive education: unravelling the benefits and challenges in Qatar’s HEIs

Bernard J. Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Ali Farooq, Joni Salminen, Kholoud Aldous, Pilira Stella Msefula, Amani Alabed, Salar M. Khan, Richard O’Kennedy The Future of Education Policy in the State of Qatar, Singapore:Springer Nature (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

What is User Engagement?: A Systematic Review of 241 Research Articles in Human-Computer Interaction and Beyond

Bernard J Jansen, Kathleen W Guan, Joni Salminen, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Soon-Gyo JungProceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2025)
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AI-Human Interaction2025

PersonaCraft: Leveraging language models for data-driven persona development

Soon Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Bernard J. JansenInternational Journal of Human Computer Studies (2025)
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