
Danula Hettiachchi
@danulaera
Lecturer @RMITComputing. Crowdsourcing. Social Computing. PhD @unimelb. Former Software Engineer.
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Great to be at #HCOMP2023 sharing our work on hate speech annotations with Indigo Holcombe-James Stephanie Dr Anjalee de Silva Matt Lease Flora Salim Mark Sanderson Paper available at ojs.aaai.org/index.php/HCOM… @AdmsCentre RMIT School of Computing Technologies


"Walert: Putting Conversational Information Seeking Knowledge into Action by Building and Evaluating a Large Language Model-Powered Chatbot" accepted as demo paper to #CHIIR2024 Sachin PC L. Tian Futoon M. abushaqra Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula KAIXIN JI Danula Hettiachchi Johanne H. Ali & F. Scholer


Fantastic news! Sachin PC 's presentation received an award at #ntcir17 FairWeb 🎉🎉 Very well done, Sachin! damianospina.com/publication/pa… w/ KAIXIN JI Johanne Danula Hettiachchi & F. Scholer RMIT School of Computing Technologies
First gathering of the year for RMIT School of Computing Technologies search, information, and interaction researchers! Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com A/Prof. Dana McKay Marwah Alaofi Johanne Sachin PC Danula Hettiachchi KAIXIN JI Kate Anderson Futoon M. abushaqra. Welcome George Buchanan & Senuri Wijenayake Apologies if I missed some.


Thanks Andrea, it was great to have you at RMIT School of Computing Technologies 🙌

Come and check out the latest #LLM Powered #Chatbot demo at #chiir2024 called walert! Full paper is available online! doi.acm.org/?doi=3627508.3… RMIT University RMIT Centre for Info Discovery & Data Analytics RMIT Research RMIT School of Computing Technologies Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com ACM CHIIR 2025



#SIGIR2024 full paper titled "Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals" led by PhD student KAIXIN JI w/ F. Scholer Danula Hettiachchi Flora Salim @AdmsCentre RMIT School of Computing Technologies UNSW Computing SIGIR 2025 SIGIR Students [2/4]
![Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com (@damiano10) on Twitter photo #SIGIR2024 full paper titled "Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals" led by PhD student <a href="/kaixin_ji/">KAIXIN JI</a> w/ F. Scholer <a href="/danulaera/">Danula Hettiachchi</a> <a href="/flosalim/">Flora Salim</a>
@AdmsCentre <a href="/RMITComputing/">RMIT School of Computing Technologies</a> <a href="/UNSWCOMPUTING/">UNSW Computing</a> <a href="/SIGIRConf/">SIGIR 2025</a> <a href="/sigir_students/">SIGIR Students</a> [2/4] #SIGIR2024 full paper titled "Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals" led by PhD student <a href="/kaixin_ji/">KAIXIN JI</a> w/ F. Scholer <a href="/danulaera/">Danula Hettiachchi</a> <a href="/flosalim/">Flora Salim</a>
@AdmsCentre <a href="/RMITComputing/">RMIT School of Computing Technologies</a> <a href="/UNSWCOMPUTING/">UNSW Computing</a> <a href="/SIGIRConf/">SIGIR 2025</a> <a href="/sigir_students/">SIGIR Students</a> [2/4]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJjcLd3a0AAYmC1.jpg)

Excited to share that RMIT School of Computing Technologies has four publications accepted for #SIGIR2024! 🎉 From exploring transparent conversational information-seeking to analysing user interactions with LLMs!🔍 #RMIT RMIT University Mark Sanderson Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com Danula Hettiachchi KAIXIN JI @AdmsCentre SIGIR 2025 #LLMs

The RMIT School of Computing Technologies School is hiring! Two lecture positions are open just now. Want to join? One position open to any topic of the school rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car… The other more focussed on human factors of computing rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car…

Two exciting early career academic positions are open at the RMIT School of Computing Technologies. This is a fantastic opportunity for emerging scholars to join a vibrant academic community. Due 19 May -Lecturer, Level B –rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car… -Lecturer, ECDF –rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RMIT_Car… RMIT University #RMIT

Pre-print of our #SIGIR2024 paper "Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals" led by PhD student KAIXIN JI w/ F. Scholer Danula Hettiachchi Flora Salim is now available: damianospina.com/publication/ji… @AdmsCentre RMIT School of Computing Technologies UNSW Computing SIGIR 2025

Props to Hiruni Kegalle for writing up her PhD work into a The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article about the Melbourne City e-Scooter ban. theconversation.com/we-asked-melbu…. Based in RMIT School of Computing Technologies, her work is supported by @AdmsCentre. Flora Salim Danula Hettiachchi
New @AdmsCentre paper, "Comprehension Is a Double-Edged Sword: Over-Interpreting Unspecified Information in Intelligible Machine Learning Explanations" in IJHCS sciencedirect.com/science/articl…, Yueqing Xuan, Edward Small, Kacper Sokol, Danula Hettiachchi RMIT School of Computing Technologies

Welcome to country by the aboriginal elders from the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country MobileHCI 2025 #MobileHCI2024 #MobileHCI24 @scrankskunk Danula Hettiachchi


It was great fun organizing MobileHCI 2025 alongside amazing @lucyamsparrow as local chairs. Many thanks to the SV team, committee and all attendees. Shout out to our lovely General chairs @scrankskunk & Flora Salim for bringing MHCI to Melbourne and their leadership 🙌


"Multi-stage Large Language Model Pipelines Can Outperform GPT-4o in Relevance Assessment" w/Julian Schnabel Danula Hettiachchi Soho Tv accepted at #webconf2025! 😱🌟 We present an LLM-based pipeline that boosts relevance assessment accuracy through modular classification. #SIGIR2025
