Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. The Cruel Optimism of Staying: Understanding the Role of Affect and Adaptation in Dating App Persistence

    Elizabeth Li, Supraja Sudarsan, Harper Barnowski, Calvin A. Liang

    2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS)

  2. From “Time to BeReal” to “Let Me Post My BeFake:” A Case of Operationalizing Authenticity Through Design

    Elizabeth Li, Annika Pinch, Justine Fisher*, Darren Gergle, Jeremy Birnholtz

    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW 2025), 🏆 Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Papers

  1. The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges

    J. Kim, L. Popowski, L. Conwill, Elizabeth Li, M. Ye, J. Liu, J. A. Guridi, T. Henderson, B. Han, D. Wang, A. H-C. Hwang, S. Wyche, Y. Kotturi, G. R. Hayes, A. D. R. Smith

    Companion of the 2026 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion)

  2. Between Hope and a Hard Place: Contextualizing Dating App Users’ Emotional Experiences

    Elizabeth Li

    CSCW 2025 Workshop on Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges, Bergen, Norway

  3. Investigating Human Values in Social Platform Design: The Case of BeReal

    Elizabeth Li

    CHI 2025 Workshop on Defining a UX Research Point of View (POV), Yokohama, Japan

Thesis

  1. Social-Psychological Aspects of Privacy and Self-Disclosure on the Hinge Dating App Profile

    Elizabeth Li. Advised by Steven M. Bellovin.

    MA Thesis, Human Rights Studies, Columbia University, 2023

Other Writing

  1. Screenshot, Share, Save: An Exploration into Dating App Profile-Sharing Behaviors

    Elizabeth Li

    Medium, 2023

* Undergraduate research mentee