Hi, my name is

Paula Akemi Aoyagui

I am an academic researcher and User Experience (UX) strategist based in Toronto, Canada. Currently, focusing on Human-AI Collaborative decision-making processes. Excited to be joining the PhD program at
the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at University of Toronto in September 2024 under doctor Anastasia Kuzminykh’s supervision.

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Academic Experience

[May 2022 ~ ongoing]
Research Assistant | COokie Lab | University of Toronto with Professor Anastasia Kuzminykh
[June 2021 ~ July 2021]
Lack of Data Transparency in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes | Economic, Individual, and Societal Impacts of Pandemic Responses on Cities research stipend
[Sep 2020 - April 2022]
Master of Information (UX Design) | Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

2023

Ferguson, S. A., Aoyagui, P. A., & Kuzminykh, A. (2023, April). Something Borrowed: Exploring the Influence of AI-Generated Explanation Text on the Composition of Human Explanations. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7). (link here)

Li, J., Sousa, M., Mahadevan, K., Wang, B., Aoyagui, P. A., Yu, N., ... & Grossman, T. (2023, April). Stargazer: An Interactive Camera Robot for Capturing How-To Videos Based on Subtle Instructor Cues. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-16). (link here)

2022

Panel speaker at NeurIps 2022. A Thematic Comparison of Human and AI Explanations of Sexism Assessment. Sharon Ferguson, Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Rohan Alexander, Anastasia Kuzminykh. (link here)