
Lecturer @RMITComputing. Crowdsourcing. Social Computing. PhD @unimelb. Former Software Engineer.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined February 2011
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Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
"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
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
Yesterday, @kaixin_ji and @SachinPC10 presented that idea at @ACMMobileHCI
#proudPhDsupervisor
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36404…
Video: dl.acm.org/doi/suppl/10.1145…
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 🙌
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
Welcome to country by the aboriginal elders from the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country @ACMMobileHCI #MobileHCI2024 #MobileHCI24
@scrankskunk @danulaera
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
New @AdmsCentre paper, "Comprehension Is a Double-Edged Sword: Over-Interpreting Unspecified Information in Intelligible Machine Learning Explanations" in IJHCS sciencedirect.com/science/ar…, Yueqing Xuan, Edward Small, Kacper Sokol, @danulaera @RMITComputing
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
Props to @HiruniKegalle for writing up her PhD work into a @ConversationEDU article about the Melbourne City e-Scooter ban. theconversation.com/we-asked…. Based in @RMITComputing, her work is supported by @AdmsCentre. @flosalim @danulaera
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
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
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
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: damianospina.com/publication…
@AdmsCentre @RMITComputing @UNSWCOMPUTING @SIGIRConf
Replying to @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]
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
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 –rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
-Lecturer, ECDF –rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
@RMIT #RMIT
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
The @RMITComputing School is hiring! Two lecture positions are open just now. Want to join?
One position open to any topic of the school rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
The other more focussed on human factors of computing rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
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
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
#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]
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
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 humancomputation.com. #EthicalAI #HCI 📊👩🔬
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
Come and check out the latest #LLM Powered #Chatbot demo at #chiir2024 called walert!
Full paper is available online!
doi.acm.org?doi=3627508.3638…
@rmit @rmit_cidda @ResearchRMIT @RMITComputing @damiano10 @ACM_CHIIR
Thanks Andrea, it was great to have you at @RMITComputing 🙌
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Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
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.
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
Fantastic news! @SachinPC10 's presentation received an award at #ntcir17 @ntcirfairweb 🎉🎉
Very well done, Sachin!
damianospina.com/publication…
w/ @kaixin_ji @JTrippas @danulaera & F. Scholer @RMITComputing
Replying to @SachinPC10
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
"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
Danula Hettiachchi retweeted
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 – at Melbourne, Victoria
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 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/HCOMP…
@AdmsCentre @RMITComputing
📚 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





























