Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Shiroma, K., Zimmerman, T., Xie, B., Fleischmann, K.R., Rich, K., Lee, M.K., Verma, N., & Jia, C. (2023). Older Adults’ Trust and Distrust in COVID-19 Public Health Information: A Qualitative Critical Incident Study. JMIR Aging. DOI
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K., & Koltai, K. (2023). Designing adaptive, mixed-mode HCI research for resilience. Interacting with Computers. DOI
Zimmerman, T., Shiroma, K., Fleischmann, K. R., Xie, B., Jia, C., Verma, N., Lee, M. K. (2023). Misinformation and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine. DOI
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., Zhou, L., Xie, B., Lee, M. K., Rich, K., Shiroma, K., Jia, C., & Zimmerman, T. (2022). Trust in COVID-19 public health information. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. DOI
Slota, S. C., Fleischmann, K. R., Greenberg, S. R., Verma, N., Cummings, B., Li, L., & Shenefiel, C. (2022). Locating the work of artificial intelligence ethics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. DOI
Slota, S. C., Fleischmann, K. R., Greenberg, S. R., Verma, N., Cummings, B., Li, L., & Shenefiel, C. (2021). Many hands make many fingers to point: Challenges in creating accountable AI. AI & Society.
Verma, N. (In Preparation) [On the conceptualization of trust in video in the wake of deepfake technology].

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Verma, N. (Accepted May 2024). “One Video Could Start a War”: A Qualitative Interview Study of Public Perceptions of Deepfake Technology. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST Annual Meeting 2024). DOI
Hatfield, K., Ezenyilimba, A., Verma, N., Mesa, J. J., Moon, S.E., Tibbetts, E., Turaga, P., Pavlic, T.P. (2024). Fine-tuned thin-plate spline motion model for manipulating social information in paper-wasp colonies. IEEE/CVF Workshop on CV4Animals (in conjunction with IEEE CVPR). PDF
Stangl, A., Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., Morris, M. R., & Gurari, D. (2021). Going Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Image Descriptions to Satisfy the Information Wants of People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision. Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’21).
Verma N., Shiroma K., Rich K., Fleischmann K.R., Xie B., Lee M.K. (2021). Conducting Quantitative Research with Hard-To-Reach-Online Populations: Using Prime Panels to Rapidly Survey Older Adults During a Pandemic. In: Toeppe K., Yan H., Chu S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue (pp. 384–393). iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12646. Springer, Cham. DOI
Slota, S. C., Fleischmann, K. R., Greenberg, S., Verma, N., Cummings, B., Li, L., & Shenefiel, C. (2021). Something New Versus Tried and True: Ensuring ‘Innovative’ AI is ‘Good’ AI. In: Toeppe K., Yan H., Chu S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue (pp. 24–32). iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12646. Springer, Cham. DOI
Slota, S. C., Fleischmann, K. R., Greenberg, S., Verma, N., Cummings, B., Li, L., & Shenefiel, C. (2020). Good systems, bad data?: Interpretations of AI hype and failures. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e275. DOI
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., & Koltai, K. S. (2019). Understanding Online Trust and Information Behavior Using Demographics and Human Values. In: Taylor N., Christian-Lamb C., Martin M., Nardi B. (eds) Information in Contemporary Society (pp. 654–665). iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11420. Springer, Cham. DOI
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., & Koltai, K. S. (2018). Demographic factors and trust in different news sources. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 524–533. DOI
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., & Koltai, K. S. (2017). Human Values and Trust in Scientific Journals, the Mainstream Media and Fake News. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 426–435. DOI
Karadkar, U. P., Verma, N., Dong, L., Galloway, P., Obaseki, V., & Davis, K. (2017). Digital Preservation and Compliance-based Access for Privacy-sensitive Records. 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, USA.

Refereed Workshop Papers and Posters

Verma, N., Landrum, A. R. (2025). AI in Peer-Review: The Future of Human-Machine Communication in Scientific Knowledge Production. To be presented at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. June, 2025, Denver, CO, USA
Verma, N. (2025). Deepfake technology and public trust in video. In A. R. Landrum (Organizer) & K. Roschke (Moderator), Trusting AI solutions for pressing societal challenges [Conference session]. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Boston, MA.
Landrum, A. R., Verma, N., & Kehrberg, A. (2025). Trusting health advice from ChatGPT. In A. R. Landrum (Organizer) & K. Roschke (Moderator), Trusting AI solutions for pressing societal challenges [Conference session]. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Boston, MA.
Verma, N. (2023). Synthetic Media: A Credible Threat to the Credibility of Professional Photojournalists. 73rd Annual ICA Conference. May 25–29. 2023, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Verma, N. (2022). Artifice in the artifact: Deepfakes and the future of trust in visual media. The 18th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 4th Annual Information Ethics and Policy Symposium: Resilient Sociotechnical Systems for Social Good. October 29, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Verma, N. (2022). Understanding deepfakes from an evolutionary perspective. 72nd Annual ICA Conference, May 26–30, 2022, Paris, France (Hybrid).
Fleischmann, K. R., Greenberg, S. R., Longoria, R. G., Hill, K. M., Pejlatowicz, P. M., Bendana, J., Slota, S. C., Verma. N., Ko, E. G. (2022). Smart hand tools: Leveraging AI to empower blue-collar workers. iConference 2022. February 28–March 4, 2022. Online.
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., & Koltai, K. S. (2021). From the Crowd to the Lab: Replicating a Crowdsourced Information Behavior Data Collection in a Usability Lab. SIG-USE 2021 21st Annual Research Symposium.
Verma, N. (2020). Deepfakes and disinformation: A grand challenge for information behavior research. SIG-USE 2020 20th Annual Research Symposium at ASIST 2020: Grand Challenges in Information Behavior Research – Theory. Virtual.
Fleischmann, K. R., Xie, B., Lee, M. K., Verma, N., Shiroma, K., Rich, K., Sagna, A., Davis, N., Jia, C., Zhang, A., & Zimmerman, T. (2020). Trust in health information about COVID-19: age, eHealth literacy, and human values. Presented at The University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Conference. Virtual.
Verma, N., Shiroma, K., Rich, K., Fleischmann, K. R., Xie, B., & Lee, M. K. (2020). Studying the COVID-19 Related Health Information Behavior of Older and Younger Adults. Poster presented at The University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Conference. Virtual.
Fleischmann, K. R., Simons, R. N., Greenberg, S. R., Gurari, D., Stangl, A., Verma, N., Day, Jaxsen R., Yeh, T. (2019). Good Systems: Ethical AI for CSCW. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Austin, Texas.
Verma, N., Fleischmann, K. R., & Koltai, K. S. (2018). Understanding the Information Experience of Fake News. SIG-USE Symposium: Moving Toward the Future of Information Behavior Research and Practice, Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Verma, N. (2018). Knowledge Practices and Information Behavior in Astrology. *SIG-USE Symposium: Moving Toward the Future of Information Behavior Research and Practice, Annual