Danula Hettiachchi

Lecturer @RMITComputing. Crowdsourcing. Social Computing. PhD @unimelb. Former Software Engineer.

[Johanne @JTrippas]

"Multi-stage Large Language Model Pipelines Can Outperform GPT-4o in Relevance Assessment" w/@juschnab @danulaera @umbrellacorpn accepted at #webconf2025! 😱🌟

We present an LLM-based pipeline that boosts relevance assessment accuracy through modular classification.
#SIGIR2025

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Yesterday, @kaixin_ji and @SachinPC10 presented that idea at @ACMMobileHCI

#proudPhDsupervisor

https://t.co/8OuAU8RLMY

Video: https://t.co/CjId65tke0

[Danula Hettiachchi @danulaera]

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

[Flora Salim @flosalim]

Welcome to country by the aboriginal elders from the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country @ACMMobileHCI #MobileHCI2024 #MobileHCI24
@scrankskunk @danulaera

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

New @AdmsCentre paper, "Comprehension Is a Double-Edged Sword: Over-Interpreting Unspecified Information in Intelligible Machine Learning Explanations" in IJHCS https://t.co/GzPK1oFunf, Yueqing Xuan, Edward Small, Kacper Sokol, @danulaera @RMITComputing

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

Props to @HiruniKegalle for writing up her PhD work into a @ConversationEDU article about the Melbourne City e-Scooter ban. https://t.co/3PfXLBA3xg. Based in @RMITComputing, her work is supported by @AdmsCentre. @flosalim @danulaera

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

10 years ago I was giving my first SIGIR full paper presentation at #sigir2014

.@kaixin_ji just gave an amazing talk (running out of the long 9’ she allocated for questions) presenting her first #sigir2024 full paper! ✨

Lots of thought provoking questions!

#proudPhDadvisors

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Pre-print of our #SIGIR2024 paper "Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals" led by PhD student @kaixin_ji w/ F. Scholer @danulaera @flosalim is now available: https://t.co/tVCtLlmcwN
@AdmsCentre @RMITComputing @UNSWCOMPUTING @SIGIRConf

[Johanne @JTrippas]

Two exciting early career academic positions are open at the @RMITComputing.

This is a fantastic opportunity for emerging scholars to join a vibrant academic community.

Due 19 May
-Lecturer, Level B –https://t.co/72WJ0y0Iy8
-Lecturer, ECDF –https://t.co/gklXMUV4V1

@RMIT #RMIT

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

The @RMITComputing School is hiring! Two lecture positions are open just now. Want to join?

One position open to any topic of the school https://t.co/qcAGAdpkVE

The other more focussed on human factors of computing https://t.co/dsfOntjxsm

[Johanne @JTrippas]

Excited to share that @RMITComputing has four publications accepted for #SIGIR2024! 🎉

From exploring transparent conversational information-seeking to analysing user interactions with LLMs!🔍

#RMIT @RMIT @IR_oldie @damiano10 @danulaera @kaixin_ji @AdmsCentre @SIGIRConf #LLMs

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

#SIGIR2024 full paper titled "Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals" led by PhD student @kaixin_ji w/ F. Scholer @danulaera @flosalim
@AdmsCentre @RMITComputing @UNSWCOMPUTING @SIGIRConf @sigir_students [2/4]

[HCOMP 2026 @hcomp_conf]

Let's advance 'Responsible Crowd Work for Better AI.' Share your latest research at #HCOMP2024. Submit your abstracts and be a part of an enriching experience in Pittsburgh! Learn more at https://t.co/j2BMERoIru. #EthicalAI #HCI 📊👩‍🔬

[Johanne @JTrippas]

Come and check out the latest #LLM Powered #Chatbot demo at #chiir2024 called walert!

Full paper is available online!
https://t.co/Kxhtc0PfgW

@rmit @rmit_cidda @ResearchRMIT @RMITComputing @damiano10 @ACM_CHIIR

[Danula Hettiachchi @danulaera]

Thanks Andrea, it was great to have you at @RMITComputing 🙌

[Mark Sanderson @IR_oldie]

First gathering of the year for @RMITComputing search, information, and interaction researchers! @damiano10 @DanaChatter @Marwah_k @JTrippas @SachinPC10 @danulaera @kaixin_ji @SpeechPathKate @FtoonShaqra. Welcome @GeorgeRBuchanan & @SenuriW Apologies if I missed some.

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Fantastic news! @SachinPC10 's presentation received an award at #ntcir17 @ntcirfairweb 🎉🎉

Very well done, Sachin!

https://t.co/yiszsOdEcR

w/ @kaixin_ji @JTrippas @danulaera & F. Scholer @RMITComputing

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

"Walert: Putting Conversational Information Seeking Knowledge into Action by Building and Evaluating a Large Language Model-Powered Chatbot" accepted as demo paper to #CHIIR2024

@SachinPC10 L. Tian @FtoonShaqra @AngelMagnossao @kaixin_ji @danulaera @JTrippas H. Ali & F. Scholer

[SIGIR-AP 2025 @ACMSIGIR_AP]

The second day of #SIGIR_AP2023 #MelbourneSatellite is kicking off with @kaixin_ji presenting her #ubicomp2023 work on using physiological signals to characterise interactive information seeking processes

[Danula Hettiachchi @danulaera]

Great to be at #HCOMP2023 sharing our work on hate speech annotations with @Indigo_H_J Stephanie @deSilva_Anjalee @mattlease @flosalim @IR_oldie

Paper available at https://t.co/wvQPAxJIOU

@AdmsCentre @RMITComputing

[HCOMP 2026 @hcomp_conf]

📚 Paper Session on Annotation at #HCOMP2023 #CI2023 is complete. We were treated to wonderful presentations on crowd annotations and the utilization of human-AI collaboration to enhance data annotation. #Annotation #DataAnnotation #HCI