I am a PhD student in Northwestern University's Technology and Social Behavior program, and my research interests include human computer interaction, journalism, and language. With my research, I aim to improve how people derive insights from complex, raw data and to make mass communication of information more accessible and equitable.
Before starting my PhD at NU, I worked as a visual and data journalist at National Geographic and NBC News. I finished my bachelor’s degree in computer science and math at Columbia University in 2022.
I have experience in data analysis, digital storytelling, data visualization and natural language processing. You can view my art here. You can contact me at charlotte.li@u.northwestern.edu.
Publications
Understanding Journalistic Practices Surrounding AI: Towards the Design of Support Resources for Journalists to Foster Public AI Literacy [pdf]
Charlotte Li, and Duri Long
In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25).
Probing GPT-4 for Knowledge of Journalistic Tasks [pdf]
Charlotte Li, and Nicholas Diakopoulos
Presented at Computation + Journalism Symposium 2024.
Generative AI in Journalism: The Evolution of Newswork and Ethics in a Generative Information Ecosystem [pdf]
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Hannes Cooles, Charlotte Li, Natali Helberger, Ernest Kung, and Aimee Rinehart
Associated Press Report 2024.
Domain-Specific Evaluation Strategies for AI in Journalism [pdf]
Sachita Nishal*, Charlotte Li*, and Nicholas Diakopoulos
In Workshop on Evaluating Interactive AI at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24).
A Design Space for Writing Support Tools Using a Cognitive Process Model of Writing [pdf]
Katy Gero, Alex Calderwood, Charlotte Li, and Lydia Chilton
In In2Writing Workshop at ACL 2022.
*authors contributed equally to this research