Day archives: May 25th, 2026

AI interviewers can’t connect with people the way human researchers can – they can produce only data, not meaning

Kelley Cotter, Ankolika De and Priya C. Kumar are researchers who specialize in qualitative research on digital technologies. Collectively, they have decades of experience developing, conducting and publishing interview studies, and they teach qualitative research methods to undergraduate and graduate students. While AI tools can support social science research, they also have significant limitations. Not taking these limitations into account risks undermining the unique value of research that relies on human connection.

Subjects: AI, Communications, Education, Internet Trends, KM, Legal Research, Technology Trends

Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? It depends on the screen.

Erik D Reichle, Professor of cognitive psychology, Macquarie University and Lili Yu, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, Macquarie University ask us to acknowledge the critical fact that reading might appear to be an easy task, but this impression is false. Reading is arguably the most difficult task one must learn – one that requires years of formal education and practice to master. In contrast to spoken language, it is a skill we are not biologically predisposed to learn. As digital reading has overtaken reading print books and journals, this research dovetails with increasing dominance of AI in education and the work place.

Subjects: Education