Research Interest
My research interests include Information Retrieval, Social media, and Natural Language Processing. More specifically, I am interested in the research question of how online search and social media interactions affect the decision making process and human behavior in the health domain.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
F. Shazra Asmy, Daniel Boxer, Hunter Shiells, Deborah I. Fels, Amira Ghenai. 2025. Gaining Presence for Neurodiverse Students in Hybrid Classes Using WebMoti. AIS Transactions on Human- Computer Interaction. (under review)
Amira Ghenai, Xiaoning Wang, Karyn Moffatt, 2025. Navigating Online Misinformation: Understanding Older Adults’ Information-Seeking Behavior in Health Crises. Computers and Human Behavior Reports. (under review)
Amira Ghenai, Keshav Nath, Aarat Satsangi, 2025. AGECovP: Identifying Ageism and Analyzing COVID-19 Discourse on Older Adults in YouTube. EPJ Data Science. (under review)
Zeinab Noorian, Parya Abadeh, Amira Ghenai, Fattane Zarrinkalam, 2025. Music Listening, Mental Health, and Stress: A Computational Framework for Personalized Analysis and Recommendation. Transactions on Information Systems. (under review)
Mazin Abdalla, Parya Abadeh, Zeinab Noorian, Amira Ghenai, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Soroush Zamani Alavijeh, 2025. The Impact of Listening to Music on Stress Level for Anxiety, Depression and PTSD: Mixed-Effect Models and Propensity Score Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, Zeinab Noorian, Hadiseh Moradisani, Parya Abadeh, Caroline Erentzen, Fattane Zarrinkalam, 2025. Exploring Hate Speech Dynamics: The Emotional, Linguistic, and Thematic Impact on Social Media Users. Information Processing and Management. [PDF]
Soroush Zamani Alavijeh, Xingwei Yang, Zeinab Noorian, Amira Ghenai, Fattane Zarrinkalam, 2025. Twitter-MusicPD: Melody of Minds - Navigating User-Level Data on Multiple Mental Health Disorders and Music Preferences. EPJ Data Science. [PDF]
Zeinab Noorian, Amira Ghenai, Hadiseh Moradisani, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Soroush Zamani Alavijeh, 2024. User-centric Modeling of Online Hate through the Lens of Psycholinguistic Patterns and Behaviors in Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. [PDF]
Anatoliy Gruzd, Amira Ghenai, Philip Mai, 2024. How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread on Twitter. The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, Robin Cohen, Karyn Moffatt, Xueguang Ma, Andy Yang, Yipeng Ji, 2021, April. E- Health for Older Adults: Navigating Misinformation. The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health. [PDF]
Robin Cohen, Karyn Moffatt, Amira Ghenai, Andy Yang, Margaret Corwin, Gary Lin, Raymond Zhao, Yipeng Ji, Alexandre Parmentier, Jason P’ng, Wil Tan, Lachlan Gray, 2020. Addressing Misinformation in Online Social Networks: Diverse Platforms and the Potential of Multiagent Trust Modeling. Information, Special issues: Tackling Misinformation Online. [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, Mark D. Smucker and Charles L. A. Clarke, 2020, July. A Think-Aloud Study about Medical Misinformation in Search Results. ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR'20), Vancouver, British Columbia. [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, Mark D. Smucker and Charles L. A. Clarke, 2019, July. A Think-Aloud Study about Medical Misinformation in Search Results. ACM SIGIR 2019 Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure (ROME), Paris, France. [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, Yelena Mejova, 2018, November. Fake Cures: User-centric Modeling of Health Misinformation in Social Media. The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, New York City's Hudson River (Jersey City). [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, Yelena Mejova, 2017, January. Catching Zika Fever: Application of Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning for Tracking Health Misinformation on Twitter. The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2017), Park City, Utah. [Short paper, Full paper]
Frances Pogacar, Amira Ghenai, Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke., 2017, October. The Positive and Negative Influence of Search Results on People's Decisions about the Efficacy of Medical Treatments. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. Amsterdam. [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, 2017, June. PhD Track: Health Misinformation in Search and Social Media. In Proceedings of the 7rd ACM Digital Health Conference. London.UK. [PDF]
Amer-Yahia, S., Anjum, S., Ghenai, A., Siddique, A., Abbar, S., Madden, S., Marcus, A. and El-Haddad, M., 2012, May. Maqsa: a system for social analytics on news. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (pp. 653-656). ACM. [PDF]
Posters
Amira Ghenai, Daniel J. Lizotte , 2015, March. What makes a review useful, funny or cool on Yelp.com?. Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium - MLDAS 2015 - Doha, Qatar. [Poster, Full paper]
Non Peer-Reviewed Publications
Amira Ghenai, Moustafa M.Ghanem. Exploring Trust-Aware Neighbourhood in Trust-based Recommendation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05380, Aug 2016. [PDF]
Amira Ghenai, Eldar Khalilov, Pavel Valov, Charles L. A. Clarke, 2015, November. WaterlooClarke: TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track. TREC Conference 2015 - Maryland, US. [PDF]
Ghenai, Amira Salah Eddine. Data Analysis Using MapReduce Programming Model on the Cloud. Diss. Qatar University, 2010. [PDF]