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 _____________________________ 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@wvwc.edu, or contact the chairperson of the IRB, Dr. Meleesa Wohleber at wohleber.m@wvwc.edu. If you would like to participate in this study, please contact Alexis de Coning at deconing.a@wvwc.edu. -- Assistant Professor of Communication Legal Studies Minor Coordinator