publications

  1. Informing Group Informatics System Design: Balancing the Benefits and Concerns of Data-Driven Collaboration Feedback
    R. Chan, D. Kisob, and S. Ferguson
    Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction at Work (CHIWORK), 2026
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  2. A matter of perspective (s): Contrasting human and llm argumentation in subjective decision-making on subtle sexism
    Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Kelsey Stemmler, Sharon A Ferguson, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
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  3. Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Hybrid Design Teams’ Perceptions of Psychological Safety on Slack
    Marjan Naghshbandi, Sharon Ferguson, and Alison Olechowski
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2025
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  4. Speaking of Users: Assessing the Frequency, Consistency, and Depth of User-Related Internal Communication of Strong and Weak Novice Engineering Design Teams
    A. Trivedi, S. Ferguson, A. Olechowski, and 1 more author
    International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2025), 2025
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  5. Team and communication impacts of remote work for complex aerospace system development
    Sharon Ferguson, Eric Velzen, and Alison Olechowski
    Systems Engineering, 2024
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  6. The explanation that hits home: The characteristics of verbal explanations that affect human perception in subjective decision-making
    Sharon Ferguson, Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Rimsha Rizvi, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2024
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  7. Exploring Subjectivity for more Human-Centric Assessment of Social Biases in Large Language Models
    Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Sharon Ferguson, and Anastasia Kuzminykh
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.11048, 2024
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  8. No risk, no reward: Towards an automated measure of psychological safety from online communication
    Sharon A Ferguson, Georgia Zande, and Alison Olechowski
    In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
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  9. Just Like Me: The Role of Opinions and Personal Experiences in The Perception of Explanations in Subjective Decision-Making
    Sharon Ferguson, Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Young-Ho Kim, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12558, 2024
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  10. Circle Back Next Week: The Effect of Meeting-Free Weeks on Distributed Workers’ Unstructured Time and Attention Negotiation
    Sharon A Ferguson and Michael Massimi
    In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
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  11. Social Capital and Persistence in Computer Science of Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) Students
    Marjan Naghshbandi, Sharon Ferguson, and Alison Olechowski
    American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2024
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  12. Something borrowed: exploring the influence of AI-generated explanation text on the composition of human explanations
    Sharon A Ferguson, Paula Akemi Aoyagui, and Anastasia Kuzminykh
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
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  13. Are We Equal Online?: An Investigation of Gendered Language Patterns and Message Engagement on Enterprise Communication Platforms
    Sharon A Ferguson and Alison Olechowski
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023
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  14. Let’s take this offline: a thematic analysis of virtual conflict in hybrid collaborative design teams
    Meagan Flus, Sharon Ferguson, and Alison Olechowski
    Proceedings of the Design Society, 2023
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  15. Measuring gendered communication patterns on enterprise communication platforms
    Sharon Ferguson and Alison Olechowski
    In Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2023
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  16. "Just a little bit on the outside for the whole time": Social belonging confidence and the persistence of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence students
    Katherine Mao, Sharon Ferguson, James Magarian, and 1 more author
    American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2023
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  17. “Why couldn’t we do this more often?”: exploring the feasibility of virtual and distributed work in product design engineering
    Sharon Ferguson, Kimberly Lai, James Chen, and 3 more authors
    Research in engineering design, 2022
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  18. Communication patterns in engineering enterprise social networks: an exploratory analysis using short text topic modelling
    Sharon A Ferguson, Kathy Cheng, Lauren Adolphe, and 3 more authors
    Design Science, 2022
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  19. Advancing a Model of Students’ Intentional Persistence in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
    Sharon Ferguson, Katherine Mao, James Magarian, and 1 more author
    American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2022
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