3 papers
cs.HC2026
The New Shape of Search: How Conversational AI Recomposes Information Seeking
Michael Iannelli, Alan Ai
The familiar search journey begins with a query and moves outward into documents, and conversational AI is commonly imagined at its mouth: ask first, then click out. Linking captur…
cs.HC2026
Event-Time Confounding Under Bursty Human Dynamics
Michael Iannelli, Alan Ai
Studies of digital behavior often align users at moments they choose, such as opening an AI assistant, clicking a recommendation, or visiting a product page, and interpret higher a…
cs.CY2026
From Prompt to Purchase: How AI Brand Recommendations Move Consumers on the Open Web
Michael Iannelli, Alan Ai
When a conversational assistant recommends a brand to a user with no recent observed engagement, that user's same-name Google search rises percentage points (pp) [, $5.…