Publications

Updated lists of my publications can be found in my profile at Google Scholar, DBLP, or Scopus.

Book

Arriagada-Bruneau, G., López, C., Mendoza, M. (2025) Ethics in artificial intelligence and information technology. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis (upcoming).

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Correa, T, Luco, F, Humeres, M., Cotoras, D., Davidoff, A., Hernández-Estrada, Y., Oyarzun-Merino, I., López, C. (2025). Reimagining AI in Latin America: Situated narratives of users, developers, and decision-makers on understanding and governing AI. Communications and Change. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44382-025-00012-1
  2. López, C., Luco, F, Humeres, M., Correa, T. (2025). Performing productivity: Exploring the narratives of state-funded AI projects over a decade in Chile. Social Science Computer Review. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HZCXASI6MNRECGP79BFY/full
  3. Valderrama, M., Tironi, M., Cotoras, D., Correa, T., Humeres, M. & López, C. (2025). From Industry Hype to Emerging Criticism: Analysing Chilean News Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence. Digital Journalism, 1–23. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2450624
  4. Humeres, M., Cotoras, D., Moretti, R., Oyarzun-Merino, I., Correa, T., & López, C. (2025). Cooling-Down AI Regulation Controversies: Three Closure Processes in the Chilean Legislative Arena. Big Data & Society, 12(1). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241311067
  5. Arriagada-Bruneau, G., López, C., Davidoff, A. (2025) A bias network approach (BNA) to encourage ethical reflection among AI developers. Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 31, article number 1, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-024-00526-9
  6. López, C., Davidoff, A., Luco, F, Humeres, M., Correa, T. (2024). Users’ Experiences of Algorithm-Mediated Public Services: Folk theories, trust, and strategies in the Global South. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2356910 (https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XNJWEYSUG2CATSAYWZH7/full?target=10.1080/10447318.2024.2356910)
  7. González, F., López, C., Vásquez, A. & Castro, C. (2023) Inequalities in Computational Thinking among Incoming Students in a STEM Chilean University. IEEE Transactions on Education, 67(2), 180-189. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TE.2023.3334193
  8. Mendoza, M., Valenzuela, S., Núñez-Mussa, E., Padilla, F., Providel, E., Campos, S., Bassi, R., Riquelme, A., Aldana, V., & López, C. (2023). A Study on Information Disorders on Social Networks during the Chilean Social Outbreak and COVID-19 Pandemic. Applied Sciences13(9), 5347.
  9. Li, A., Farzan, R., & López, C. (2023). Let’s Work Together! Wikipedia Language Communities’ Attempts to Represent Events Worldwide. Interacting with Computers, 35(2), 69-82.
  10. González-Pizarro, F., Figueroa, A., López, & C., Aragon, C. Regional differences in information privacy concerns after the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal (2022). Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) 21(1), 33-77.
  11. López, C., Farzan, R., & Lin, Y. R. (2017). Behind the myths of citizen participation: Identifying sustainability factors of hyper-local information systems. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)18(1), 1-28.
  12. Brusilovsky, P., Oh, J. S., López, C., Parra, D., & Jeng, W. (2017). Linking information and people in a social system for academic conferences. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia23(2), 81-111. (nrhm)
  13. López, C., Butler, B., & Brusilovsky, P. (2014). Does anything ever happen around here? Assessing the online information landscape for local events. Journal of Urban Technology21(4), 95-123. (jut)
  14. López, C., Codocedo, V., Astudillo, H., & Cysneiros, L. M. (2012). Bridging the gap between software architecture rationale formalisms and actual architecture documents: An ontology-driven approach. Science of Computer Programming77(1), 66-80. (doi)
  15. López, C., Inostroza, P., Cysneiros, L. M., & Astudillo, H. (2009). Visualization and comparison of architecture rationale with semantic web technologies. Journal of Systems and Software82(8), 1198-1210. (doi)

Peer-reviewed conference papers and posters

  1. Li, A, Farzan, R., López, C. (2021) Collaboration in editing world wide news in four Wikipedia language communities. In X Latin American Conference on Human Interaction, 1-4.
  2. Gaytán Lugo, L.S., Hourcade, J.P., López, C. Magallanes, Y., Prietch, S.S. (2021) ¡Síganme los buenos! Construyendo puentes entre comunidades de interacción humano-computadora en América Latina. In X Latin American Conference on Human Interaction.
  3. Vargas, H. Buil-Aranda, C., Hogan, A., López, C. (2020) A user interface for exploring and querying knowledge graphs. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.
  4. González, F., Figueroa, A., López, C., & Aragon, C. (2019). Information Privacy Opinions on Twitter: A Cross-Language Study. In Companion of CSCW (pp. 190-194)
  5. Dombrovskaia, L., Lopez, C., & Reyes, C. (2019). Attrition of women students in the first year of informatics studies at UTFSM. In SCCC (pp. 1-4)
  6. Vargas, H., Buil-Aranda, C., Hogan, A., & López, C. (2019). RDF Explorer: A Visual SPARQL Query Builder. In ISWC (pp. 647-663)
  7. Gutierrez, F. J., Magallanes, Y., Gaytán-Lugo, L. S., López, C., & de Souza, C. R. (2019). Academic viewpoints and concerns on CSCW education and training in Latin America. In CLIHC (pp. 1-4)
  8. Lopez, C., Lugo, L. S. G., Valderrama, E., de Souza, C. R., & Gutierrez, F. J. (2019, September). 1st CSCW@ LatAm research catalyst workshop. In Proceedings of the IX Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 1-2).
  9. López, C., de Souza, C., Gaytán, S., & Gutierrez, F. J. (2019). CSCW research@ Latin America. interactions26(5), 6-7.
  10. González, F., Yu, Y., Figueroa, A., López, C., & Aragon, C. (2019). Global reactions to the Cambridge Analytica scandal: A cross-language social media study. In Companion of The Web Conference (pp. 799-806)
  11. Fierro, S. L., Montenegro, G., & López, C. (2019). Towards a conceptual framework to measure the impact of computational thinking on college students’ mathematics learning. RISTI, 619-631.
  12. Vargas, H., Aranda, C. B., & Hogan, A. (2019, January). RDF Explorer: A Visual Query Builder for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs. In ISWC Satellites (pp. 229-232).
  13. González, F., López, C., & Castro, C. (2018). Development of Computational Thinking in High School Students: A Case Study in Chile. In SCCC (pp. 1-8)
  14. Gómez, J., & López, C. (2018). Improving User Stories: A Case Study in the Chilean Banking Industry. In CLEI (pp. 90-99)
  15. Farzan, R., & López, C. (2018). Assessing Competition for Social Media Attention Among Non-profits. In Social Informatics (pp. 196-211) (lncs)
  16. López, C., & Farzan, R. (2017). Designing for Digital Inclusion: A Post-Hoc Evaluation of a Civic Technology. In Social Informatics (pp. 572-588) (lncs)
  17. López, C., Farzan, R., & Lin, Y. R. (2017). Engaging Neighbors: The Double-Edged Sword of Mobilization Messaging in Hyper-Local Online Forums. In Hypertext (pp. 255-264) (acm)
  18. Lu, D., Farzan, R., & Lopez, C. (2017). To Go or not to Go! What Influences Newcomers of Hybrid Communities to Participate Offline. In Communities and Technologies (pp. 159-168) (acm)
  19. Wen, X., Lu, D., Lin, Y. R., & López, C. (2016). The roles of information seeking dynamics in sustaining the community participation. In CIC (pp. 357-362) (ieee)
  20. Domínguez, G., López, C., & Astudillo, H. (2016). Assessing scope and cohesion of nonprofits audiences in social media: A case study. In SCCC (pp. 1-7) (ieee)
  21. Hsiao, I. H., & López, C. (2016). Lessons Learned from Students’ Cheat Sheets: Generic Models for Designing Programming Study Guides. In ICALT (pp. 209-211) (ieee)
  22. Aggarwal, A., López, C., & Hsiao, I. H. (2016). The Role of Comments’ Controversy in Large-Scale Online Discussion Forums. In Hypertext (pp. 179-182)
  23. López, C., & Farzan, R. (2015). Lend me sugar, I am your neighbor! A content analysis of online forums for local communities. In Communities and Technologies (pp. 59-67) (acm)
  24. López, C., & Farzan, R. (2015). Exploring the mechanisms behind the assessment of usefulness of restaurant reviews. In Communities and Technologies (pp. 19-27) (acm)
  25. López, C., & Farzan, R. (2015). From community networks to hyper-local social media. In Companion of CSCW (pp. 239-242) (acm)
  26. López, C., Lin, Y. R., & Farzan, R. (2015). What makes hyper-local online discussion forums sustainable?. In HICSS (pp. 2445-2454) (ieee)
  27. López, C., & Farzan, R. (2014). Analysis of local online review systems as digital word-of-mouth. In Web Science Track – WWW (pp. 457-462).(acm)
  28. López, C., & Farzan, R. (2014). Designing for neighborhoods: lessons learned from paper-based bulletin boards. In CHI’14 Extended Abstracts (pp. 1963-1968) (acm)
  29. López, C. A., & Butler, B. S. (2013). Consequences of content diversity for online public spaces for local communities. In CSCW (pp. 673-682). (acm)
  30. Nov, O., Arazy, O., López, C., & Brusilovsky, P. (2013). Exploring personality-targeted UI design in online social participation systems. In CHI (pp. 361-370). (acm)
  31. López, C., Farzan, R., Sahebi, S., & Brusilovsky, P. (2013). What influences the decision to participate in audience-bounded online communities? (pdf)
  32. López, C., Farzan, R., & Brusilovsky, P. (2012). Personalized incremental users’ engagement: driving contributions one step forward. In GROUP (pp. 189-198) (acm)
  33. Parra, D., Jeng, W., Brusilovsky, P., López, C., & Sahebi, S. (2012). Conference Navigator 3: An online social conference support system. In UMAP workshops (pp. 1-4) (pdf)
  34. Valdés, G., Astudillo, H., Visconti, M., & López, C. (2010). The Tutelkan SPI Framework for small settings: A methodology transfer vehicle. In ECSPI (pp. 142-152) (doi)

Workshop organization and doctoral consortiums

  1. Lopez, C., Lugo, L. S. G., Valderrama, E., de Souza, C. R., & Gutierrez, F. J. (2019). 1st CSCW@ LatAm research catalyst workshop. In CLIHC (pp. 1-2)
  2. de Souza, C. R., López, C., Gutierrez, F. J., Gaytán-Lugo, L. S., Borges, M. R., & Aragon, C. (2018). Latin America as a Place for CSCW Research. In Companion of CSCW (pp. 401-407) (acm)
  3. Daly, E., Erete, S., Farzan, R., Hsieh, G., Lampe, C., Lopez, C., … & Voida, A. (2015). Supporting cities, neighborhoods, and local communities with information and communication technologies. In Companion of CSCW (pp. 277-281) (acm)
  4. López, C. (2014). “Investigating local information ecosystems and the adoption of local online communities.” OCIS Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management.
  5. López, C. (2014). Investigating the adoption of local online communities. In CHI’14 Extended Abstracts (pp. 319-322). CHI Doctoral Consortium. (acm)
  6. López, C. (2014). “Investigating local information ecosystems and the adoption of local online communities.” iConference Doctoral Colloquium.

Peer-reviewed LNCS

  1. C. López, P. Brusilovsky. “Towards adaptive recruitment and engagement mechanisms in social systems.” LNCS, vol. 7138, Advances in user modeling, 382-396, 2012. (doi)
  2. C. López, H. Astudillo, L. M. Cysneiros: “Semantic-aided interactive identification of reusable NFR knowledge fragments.” 7th International workshop on system/software architectures (IWSA), Monterrey, Mexico. LNCS, vol. 5333/2008, 324-333, 2008. (doi)
  3. H. Astudillo, J. Pereira, C. López: “Identifying ‘interesting’ component assemblies for NFRs using imperfect information.” European workshop on software architecture (EWSA). LNCS, vol. 4344/2006, 204-211, 2006. (doi)
  4. H. Astudillo, J. Pereira, C. López: “Evaluating alternative COTS assemblies from imperfect component information.” Second international conference on the quality of software architectures (QoSA), LNCS, vol. 4214/2006, 27-42, 2006. (doi)
  5. C. López, H. Astudillo: “Multidimensional catalogs for systematic exploration of component-based design spaces.” 1st International workshop on advanced software engineering (IWASE), Santiago, Chile. IFIP, vol. 219/2006, 32-46, 2006. (doi)
  6. C. López, H. Astudillo: “Architectural policies to implement NFRs through MDA and COTS.” Workshop on models for non-functional aspects of component-based software, Montego Bay, Jamaica. LNCS, vol. 3844, 227 – 236, 2006. (doi)

Workshop Papers

  1. C. López, P. Brusilovsky. “Designing adaptive engagement approaches for audience-bounded online communities.” Workshop on design, influence and social technologies (DIST), Seattle, US, 2012. (pdf)
  2. C. López, P. Brusilovsky. “Adapting engagement e-mails to users’ characteristics.” Workshop on user models for motivational systems: The affective and the rational routes to persuasion (UMMS), Girona, Spain, 2011. (pdf)
  3. N. Baracaldo, C. López, M. Anwar, M. Lewis. “Simulating the effect of privacy concerns in online social networks.” Workshop in the 2011 IEEE international conference on information reuse and integration (IRI), 519-524,2011. (pdf)
  4. H. Astudillo, P. Inostroza, C. López: “Contexta/SR: A multi-institutional semantic integration platform.” Proceedings of museums and the web, Montreal, Canada, 2008. (html)
  5. C. López, L. M. Cysneiros, H. Astudillo. “NDR ontology: Sharing and reusing NFR and design rationale knowledge.” 1st International workshop on managing requirements knowledge (MARK), Barcelona, Spain, 1-10, 2008. (ieee)
  6. C. López, H. Astudillo, J. Pereira: “Towards robustness analysis of component-based systems built on imperfect information.” International workshop on living with uncertainties (IWLA), 2007. (pdf)
  7. C. López, H. Astudillo: “Use case- and scenario-based approach to represent NFRs and architectural policies.” Workshop models for non-functional aspects of component-based software, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2005. (pdf)

Doctoral dissertation

  1. Lopez, C. (2016). Modeling sustainability of participatory information systems for urban communities: A mixed-method approach (Doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh). (pdf)