Ekaterina Novozhilova

Ekaterina’s research interests encompass human-computer interaction, human-centered AI, chatbots, and virtual companions. She conducted multiple projects exploring public perceptions of AI systems deployment across various societal contexts, including education, healthcare, journalism, and creative arts. Ekaterina is a member of the AI in Emerging Media research group, affiliated with the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, which applies computational methods to understand public communication flows in the age of AI.

Contribution on NSF-funded grants: BIGDATA: IA: Multiplatform, Multilingual, and Multimodal Tools for Analyzing Public Communication in over 100 Languages

Convergence HTF: A Research Coordination Network to Converge Research on the Socio-Technological Landscape of Work in the Age of Increased Automation

Recent publications:

Novozhilova, E., Mays, K., Paik, S., Katz, J. (2024). More Capable, Less Benevolent: Trust Perceptions of AI systems across Societal Contexts. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction.

Novozhilova, E., Mays, K.K., Huang, D., Lee, H. & Katz, J.E. (2023, October). Where in society will AI agents fit? A proposed framework for understanding attitudes toward AI occupational roles from theoretical perspectives of status, identity, and ontology. The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Paik, S. Bonna, S., Novozhilova, E., Gao, G., Kim, J., Wijaya, D., Betke, M. (2023, September). The Affective Nature of Generative News Images: Impact on Visual Journalism. Affective Computing + Intelligent Interaction (ACII) Conference of the Association for the Advancements of Affective Computing (AAAC). MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA. USA.

Novozhilova, E., Mays, K., Katz, J. (2022). Looking Towards an Automated Future: U.S. Attitudes Towards Future Artificial Intelligence Instantiations and Their Effect. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.