By Al Dickenson
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee School of Information Studies is pleased to announce two faculty researchers, Dr. Wonchan Choi and Dr. Hyerin Bak, recently won an award for a paper published in 2024.
The Association for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ASIS&T SIG AI) presented the award at their annual meeting in November 2025. The award included a certificate from ASIS&T and a cash prize.
The paper, “College students’ credibility assessments of GenAI-generated information for academic tasks: An interview study” was coauthored with four other researchers and published in the Journal the Association for Information Science and Technology. This paper explored how college students assess the credibility of artificial intelligence-generated materials, including how they use them in their own academic tasks, such as writing and programming.
Through interviews with 25 students, Dr. Choi, Dr. Bak, and their coresearchers analyzed the transcripts and offer theoretical and empirical data to determine how students view using tools such as ChatGPT in their academic work. A link to the study by can be found here.