Publications

JournalPapers

1. A. Razi, J. Seberger, A. Alsoubai, N. Naher, S. M. De Choudhury, and P. Wisniewski, “Toward Trauma-Informed Research Practices with Youth in HCI: Caring for Participants and Research Assistants When Studying Sensitive Topics." Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 134 (April 2024), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637411

2. A. Alsoubai, A. Razi, Z. Agha, S. Ali, G. Stringhini, M. De Choudhury, and P. Wisniewski, “Profiling the Offline and Online Risk Experiences of Youth to Develop Targeted Interventions for Online Safety,” Accepted at ACM CSCW 2024. 

3. A. Razi, A. Alsoubai*, S. Kim*, S. Ali, G. Stringhini, M. De Choudhury, P. Wisniewski, “Sliding into My DMs: Detecting Uncomfortable or Unsafe Sexual Risk Experiences within Instagram Direct Messages Grounded in the Perspective of Youth”. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, (April 2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3579522 * Equal contribution. CSCW'23 Impact Recognition Award

4. S. Ali, A. Razi, A. Alsoubai, S. Kim, C. Ling, G. Stringhini, M. De Choudhury, P. Wisniewski, “Getting Meta: A Multimodal Approach for Detecting Unsafe Conversations within Instagram Direct Messages of Youth”. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, (April 2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3579608

5. A. Alsoubai, J. Song,  A. Razi, N. Naher, M. De Choudhury, P. Wisniewski, “From 'Friends with Benefits' to 'Sextortion:' A Nuanced Investigation of Adolescents' Online Sexual Risk Experiences”. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.  CSCW 2022.  

6. A. Razi, S. Kim, A. Alsoubai, G. Stringhini, T. Solorio, M. De Choudhury, P. Wisniewski, M. De, “A Human-Centered Systematic Literature Review of the Computational Approaches for Online Sexual Risk Detection”. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 465 (October 2021), 38 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479609

7. S. Kim, A. Razi, G. Stringhini, P. Wisniewski, M. De Choudhury, “A Human-Centered Systematic Literature Review of Cyberbullying Detection Algorithms”, Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 325 (October 2021), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476066

8. H. Hartikainen, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, “Safe Sexting: The Advice and Support Adolescents Receive from Peers regarding Online Sexual Risks”, Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 42 (April 2021), 31 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3449116

9. S. Masoudi, A. Razi, C. H.G. Wright, J. C. Gatlin, U. Bagci, "Instance-Level Microtubule Tracking", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2019.2963865

Conference Papers 

10.  Jordyn Young, Laala M Jawara, Diep N Nguyen, Brian Daly, Jina Huh-Yoo, and Afsaneh Razi. “The Role of AI in Peer Support for Young People: A Study of Preferences for Human- and AI-Generated Responses.” In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642574  (26.4 % acceptance rate) 

11. Nora McDonald, John S. Seberger, and Afsaneh Razi. “For Me or Not for Me? The Ease With Which Teens Navigate Accurate and Inaccurate Personalized Social Media Content.” In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642297 (26.4 % acceptance rate) CHI’24 Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%) 

12. N. Samreen Ali, S. Qadir, A. Alsoubai, M. De Choudhury, A. Razi, and P. J. Wisniewski. “I’m gonna KMS:” From Imminent Risk to Youth Joking about Suicide and Self-Harm via Social Media.”  In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642489 (26.4 % acceptance rate) 

13. A. Alsoubai, J. Park, A. Razi, S. Qadir, G. Stringhini, and P. J. Wisniewski. “Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): Creating a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Real-Time Risk Detection on Social Media Platforms.” In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642315 (26.4 % acceptance rate) CHI’24 Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%) 

14. J. Park, J. Gracie, A. AlSoubai, A. Razi, and P. Wisniewski, “Examining the Differing Online Risk Perceptions of Youth vs. Third-Party Annotators in Privately Shared Media on Instagram,” Accepted at ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) 2025. 

15. S. Kim, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, and M. De Choudhury, “Assessing the Impact of Online Harassment on Youth Mental Health in Private Networked Spaces,” Accepted at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023)  

16. J. Huh-Yoo, A. Razi, K. Nguyen, S. Regmi, P. Wisniewski, ““Help Me:” Examining Youth’s Private Pleas for Support and the Responses Received from Peers via Instagram Direct Messages.” In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 22 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581233

17. S. Ali, A. Razi, S. Kim, A. AlSoubai, J. Gracie, M. De Choudhury, P. Wisniewski, and G. Stringhini, “Unlocking the Digital Lives of Youth: Analyzing Media Shared within Safe Versus Unsafe Private Conversations on Instagram”, 2022 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.  https://tinyurl.com/ycknh7ty   CHI’22 Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%) 

18. S. Kim, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, M. De Choudhury, “You Don't Know How I Feel: Insider-Outsider Perspective Gaps in Cyberbullying Risk Detection”, Proceedings of the International AAAI ICWS, 15, 1 (May 2021), 290-302. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3462204.3481739

19. J. Cambre, A. Williams, A. Razi, I. Bicking, A. Wallin, J. Tsai, C. Kulkarni, J. Kay, “Firefox Voice: An Open and Extensible Voice Assistant Built Upon the Web”, In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-18). https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3411764.3445409

20. Alsoubai, J. Song, A. Razi, Dacre, P., & Wisniewski, P. “Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Public Health Crisis or a Political Battle?”, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2021. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-77685-5_23

21. A. Razi, K. Badillo-Urquiola, P. Wisniewski, “Let’s Talk about Sex: How Teens Seek Support and Advice about Their Online Sexual Experiences”, 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3323994.3372138

22. M. Uzair Tariq, A. Razi, K. Badillo-Urquiola, P. Wisniewski, "A Review of the Gaps and Opportunities of Nudity and Skin Detection Algorithmic Research for the Purpose of Combating Adolescent Sexting Behaviors", HCI International 2019, Orlando, Florida, July 26-31, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22636-7_6

23. A. Razi, K. A. Hua, A. Majidi, "NQ-GPLS: N-Queen Inspired Gateway Placement and Learning Automata-based Gateway Selection in Wireless Mesh Network", ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Miami, Florida, November 21-25, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3132062.3132084

Conference Proceedings

24. A. Armin, J. J. Trybala III, J. Young, and A. Razi, “Support in Short Form: Investigating TikTok Comments on Videos with #Harassment.” In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650849  (33.8% acceptance rate) 

25. P. Dev, J. Medina, Z. Agha, M. De Choudhury, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, “From Ignoring Strangers’ Solicitations to Mutual Sexting with Friends: Understanding Youth’s Online Sexual Risks in Instagram Private Conversations”, In CSCW’22 Companion, November 8–22, 2022, Virtual Event, Taiwan, https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559469

26. A. Razi, , AlSoubai, A., Kim, S., Naher, N., Ali, S., Stringhini, G., De Choudhury, M., and Wisniewski, P. , “Instagram Data Donation: A Case Study on Collecting Ecologically Valid Social Media Data for the Purpose of Adolescent Online Risk Detection,” Accepted Case Study at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI 2022). https://tinyurl.com/b6hcvamc

27. H. Hartikainen, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, “If You Care About Me, You'll Send Me a Pic’ - Examining the Role of Peer Pressure in Adolescent Sexting”, In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '21 Companion), October 23-27, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481739

28. A. Razi, “Deploying Human-Centered Machine Learning to Improve Adolescent Online Sexual Risk Detection Algorithms”, 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2020), Sanibel Island, FL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3323994.3372138

29. K. Badillo-Urquiola, A. Razi, J. Edwards, P. Wisniewski, “Children’s Perspectives on Human Sex Trafficking Prevention Education”, 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2020), Sanibel Island, FL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3323994.3369889

30. R. Dey, S. Sultana, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, “Exploring Smart Home Device Use by Airbnb Hosts”, 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382900

31. Z. Agha, N. Chatlani, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, “Towards Conducting Responsible Research with Teens and Parents regarding Online Risks”, 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3383073

32. R. Tang, J. Lee, A. Razi, J. Cambre, I. Bicking, J. Kaye, J. Lin, “Howl: A Deployed, Open-Source Wake Word Detection System”, EMNLP workshop, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09606

Co-organized Workshops and Panels 

33. McDonald, N., Razi, A., Badillo-Urquiola, K., Seberger, J., Agosto, D., & Wisniewski, P., “AI through the Eyes of Gen Z: Setting a Research Agenda for Emerging Technologies that Empower Our Future Generations” Accepted workshop at 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. https://aiyouthcscw2023.wordpress.com/  

34. Caddle, X., Razi, A., Kim, S., Ali, S., Popo, T., Stringhini, G., Choudhury, M. D., & Wisniewski, P, “MOSafely: Building an Open-Source HCAI Community to Make the Internet a Safer Place for Youth” In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 315-318) https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481731

Workshop Position Papers 

35.  Mohammad (Matt) Namvarpour and Afsaneh Razi, “Apprentices to Research Assistants: Advancing Research with Large Language Models,” position paper presentation at CHI 2024 LLMs as Research Tools: Applications and Evaluations in HCI Data Work Workshop. 

36. Razi, A., Kim, S., Alsoubai, A., Caddle, X., Ali, S., Choudhury, M. D., & Wisniewski, P. (2021, May). “Teens at the Margin: Artificially Intelligent Technology for Promoting Adolescent Online Safety” Extended Abstract presented at the Workshop Artificially Intelligent Technology for the Margins: A Multidisciplinary Design Agenda at the 2021 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), Virtual due to COVID-19. https://tinyurl.com/ef5utk57

37. Caddle, X., Alsoubai, A., Razi, A., Kim, S., Ali, S., Stringhini, G., Choudhury, M.D. and Wisniewski, P., 2021, May. “Instagram Data Donation: A Case for Partnering with Social Media Platforms to Protect Adolescents Online”. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)/Social Media as a Design and Research Site in HCI: Mapping Out Opportunities and Envisioning Future Uses Workshop. https://tinyurl.com/5bprkrr9

38. A. Razi, Z. Agha, N. Chatlani, P. Wisniewski, “Privacy Challenges for Adolescents as a Vulnerable Population”, Extended Abstract presented at the Workshop on Privacy and Power: Acknowledging the Importance of Privacy Research and Design for Vulnerable Populations at the 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), Virtual due to COVID-19. https://tinyurl.com/y5tj24j4

39. A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, “Qualitative Analysis on Large Scale Social Media Data for Adolescent Online Safety”, Extended Abstract presented at the Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods for CSCW at the 2019 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2019), Austin, TX. https://tinyurl.com/ps567jdd

40. A. Razi, S. Kim, M. De Choudhury, P. Wisniewski, “Ethical Considerations for Adolescent Online Risk Detection AI Systems”, Extended Abstract presented at the Workshop on Good Systems: Ethical AI for CSCW at the 2019 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2019), Austin, TX. https://tinyurl.com/ynefabyb

Methods Toolkit & Handbook

41. H. Hartikainen, A. Razi, P. Wisniewski, “Qualitative analysis of social media trace data concerning online peer support for adolescent sexting”, In Children Online: Research and Evidence (CO:RE), 2022. https://core-evidence.eu/methods-toolkit/handbook-part1/handbook-adolescent-sexting