[Air-L] Call for Participants: AI, Academic Labor, and Productivity

[Alexis de Coning]

Hi AoIR folks,

I'm expanding on prior research and recruiting more participants for the
study described below. As always, I'm genuinely interested in hearing a
range of views -- from pro-AI to anti-AI, good experiences and bad, and
everything in between. Please see the call for participants below and
contact me directly to participate or ask for further details.

Best regards,
Lexi

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This study explores how faculty in the United States use AI technologies to
help manage their time and productivity – including but not limited to
large language models, AI chatbots, agentic AI, and AI-integrated
productivity tools and platforms. In particular, I want to hear about how
you use (or may have tried but stopped using) AI technologies for
scheduling and calendar management, literature reviews and secondary
research, writing and editing, teaching and assessment, note-taking and
transcription software, and goal-setting and motivation and goals tracking,
as well as any other ways you use AI to support your academic work.

I’m looking for scholars based in the United States from all walks of
academic life – from early career researchers to full professors, from
small liberal arts colleges to large R1 institutions, from tenure-track
faculty to visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows. You may consider
yourself incredibly AI savvy, or still a novice of AI adoption; you may
even be skeptical about AI’s promises or experienced minimal benefits from
AI tools. All experiences and “experience levels” are encouraged to
participate. The only requirement is that you have completed your PhD and
work at a higher education institution in the United States in the fields
of Humanities or Social Sciences.

If you agree to be interviewed, you’ll be asked to participate in a
semi-structured conversation with me for roughly 60 minutes, to be
conducted and recorded via Zoom. Your participation is entirely voluntary;
there is no compensation for participating, and no penalty for choosing not
to participate or to withdraw from the study. You can withdraw your
participation at any time and for any reason.

The anticipated risks to participants are minimal; some participants may
feel frustrated or overwhelmed by the use of AI in the academy.

All data collected will remain confidential as required by the law and
institutional policy. All the information and methods in this study have
been approved by the West Virginia Wesleyan College Institutional Review
Board. Names will not be attached to any data and recorded responses will
be kept in a secure location. Following completion of this research and
analysis of the data, all audio-visual recordings of the interviews will be
deleted; only anonymized transcripts will be kept for research purposes.

In the event of injury or illness as direct result of participation in this
research study, no compensation, financial or otherwise will be available
from the researcher or West Virginia Wesleyan College. If you If I have any
questions about this study, you may contact Alexis de Coning at
deconing.a at wvwc.edu, or  contact the chairperson of the IRB, Dr. Meleesa
Wohleber at wohleber.m at wvwc.edu.

If you would like to participate in this study, please contact Alexis de
Coning at deconing.a at wvwc.edu.

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Assistant Professor of Communication
Legal Studies Minor Coordinator
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