Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn

Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa. Chair, ACM IUI Steering Committee.

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Email: omokryn [at] is.haifa.ac.il

Office: Amir 321

Hanamal 65, Haifa, Israel

I study complex human systems: how people interact, make decisions, and adapt when technology, uncertainty, and time shape their choices.

In my research on human–AI collaboration, I examine what changes in people when an AI system becomes part of the team. How does a group generate ideas with a language model in the room? How does trust change when a teammate is a machine? And how do professionals preserve, and redefine, their expertise? I am particularly interested in human–AI decision-making under pressure, including in medical settings.

I also study absence: the gap between what is expected and what is actually observed. Absence can contain important information, but conventional analyses often overlook it. I developed two information-theoretic methods that transform data so consequential absences can be detected and used in analysis.

A third strand of my research examines how interactions unfold over time. Social and organizational interactions have rhythms, and those rhythms can shape collective outcomes. In our work on temporal networks and community dynamics, we showed that the timing of interactions within a community can influence how a disease spreads, sometimes more strongly than differences in the pathogen itself. I presented this research in a keynote at NetSciX 2025 and, more recently, at SigmaPhi 2026.

I chair the ACM IUI Steering Committee and serve as an Associate Editor at ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. from the Technion. Prospective students: please see the lab page and get in touch.

news

Jan 05, 2026 Two papers accepted to ACM IUI 2026: Hagit Ben-Shoshan et al., Seeing What’s Not There, and Eran Fainman et al., DiSCo: Making Absence Visible in Intelligent Summarization Interfaces. 🎉
Jan 01, 2026 I began my term as Chair of the ACM IUI Steering Committee.
Sep 01, 2025 Our PhD student Eran Fainman (co-advised with Dr. Adir Solomon) had PAIRSAT accepted to ACM RecSys 2025. 🎉
May 15, 2025 New papers accepted: Interpretable Transformation and Analysis of Timelines through Learning via Surprisability (Chaos) and Emotion Diversification for Movie Recommenders (ACM TiiS).
Feb 01, 2025 I delivered a keynote at NetSciX’25 in Indore, India, presenting our interaction-driven model for the dynamics of viral transmission in real-world interactions.

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selected publications

  1. IJHCI
    Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
    Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, and 3 more authors
    International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2026
  2. CHIWORK
    From 911 to Hospital: Challenges and Opportunities for AI Integration in Emergency Medical Services
    Emily Hou, Marelyn Gonzalez, Andrew L. Kun, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK), 2026
  3. IUI
    Making Absence Visible: The Roles of Reference and Prompting in Recognizing Missing Information
    Hagit Ben-Shoshan, Joel Lanir, Pavel Goldstein, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2026
  4. IUI
    DiSCo: Making Absence Visible in Intelligent Summarization Interfaces
    Eran Fainman, Hagit Ben-Shoshan, Adir Solomon, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2026
  5. CSCW
    Mind Your Manners: The Dynamics of Politeness in Human-AI vs. Human-Human Interactions
    Teddy Lazebnik, Lior Zalmanson, and Osnat Mokryn
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2025
  6. Chaos
    Interpretable Transformation and Analysis of Timelines through Learning via Surprisability
    Osnat Mokryn, Teddy Lazebnik, and Hagit Ben-Shoshan
    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2025
  7. ICIS
    Tensions of Occupational Identity and Patterns of Identity Protection: Preliminary Insights on Generative AI in the Software Engineering Domain
    Anuschka Schmitt, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Osnat Mokryn
    In ICIS 2025 Proceedings, 2025
  8. CHI
    AI-Augmented Brainwriting: Investigating the Use of LLMs in Group Ideation
    Orit Shaer, Angelora Cooper, Osnat Mokryn, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
  9. Sci. Rep.
    Assessing Individual Risk and the Latent Transmission of COVID-19 in a Population with an Interaction-Driven Temporal Model
    Yanir Marmor, Alex Abbey, Yuval Shahar, and 1 more author
    Scientific Reports, 2023
  10. UMUAI
    Domain-Based Latent Personal Analysis and its Use for Impersonation Detection in Social Media
    Osnat Mokryn and Hagit Ben-Shoshan
    User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2021
  11. IR J.
    Sharing Emotions: Determining Films’ Evoked Emotional Experience from their Online Reviews
    Osnat Mokryn, David Bodoff, Nadim Bader, and 2 more authors
    Information Retrieval Journal, 2020
    Best Research Paper Award, Israel Association for Information Systems (ILAIS), 2022
  12. SIGCOMM
    The Power of Prediction: Cloud Bandwidth and Cost Reduction
    Eyal Zohar, Israel Cidon, and Osnat Mokryn
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, 2011