Journal Articles
Gómez-Zará, D., Kam, V., Chiang, C., Xia, K., Voraprukpisut, P., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2026). Shaping collaborations with algorithms: How agency and diversity criteria influence team formation and outcomes. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 10(CSCW149), 36 pages. [Paper]
Sayadi, N., Co, S., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2026). “Feeling that I was collaborating with them:” A 20-year scoping review of social virtual reality leveraging collaboration. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 10(CSCW017), 35 pages. [Paper]
Fernández-Espinosa, M., Gonzalez-Bejar, M., Wiesner, J., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). When technologies are not enough: Understanding how domestic workers employ (and avoid) online technologies in their work practices. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(CSCW342), 34 pages. [Paper]
Garg, K., Gómez-Zará, D., Gerber, E., Gergle, D., Contractor, N., & Massimi, M. (2025). What remotely matters? Understanding individual, team, and organizational factors in remote work at scale. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(CSCW257), 47 pages. [Paper]
Montero-Liberona, C., Campbell, D., Lammers, J., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2024). Cross-disciplinary communication in a translational medicine center: An analysis of networks and logics. International Journal of Communication, 18, 23 pages. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Liu, Y., Neves, L., Shah, N., & Bos, M. (2024). Unpacking the exploration–exploitation tradeoff on Snapchat: The relationships between users’ exploration-exploitation interests and server log data. Computers in Human Behavior, 150, 108014. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Schiffer, P., & Wang, D. (2023). The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1237–1240. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Das, A., Pawlow, B., & Contractor, N. (2022). In search of diverse and connected teams: A computational approach to assemble diverse teams based on members’ social networks. PLoS ONE, 17(11), e0276061. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., & Diakopoulos, N. (2020). Characterizing communication patterns between audiences and newsbots. Digital Journalism, 8(9), 1093–1113. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2020). A taxonomy of team-assembly systems: Understanding how people use technologies to form teams. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW2), Article 181, 35 pages. [Paper]
Harris, A. M., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Joining together online: The trajectory of CSCW scholarship on group formation. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3(CSCW), Article 148, 27 pages. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Andreoli, S., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Discovering collaborators online: Assembling interdisciplinary teams online at an Argentinian university. Cuadernos.info, 44, 21–41. [Paper]
Parra, D., Trattner, C., Gómez-Zará, D., Hurtado, M., Wen, X., & Lin, Y. R. (2016). Twitter in academic events: A study of temporal usage, communication, sentimental and topical patterns in 16 computer science conferences. Computer Communications, 73, 301–314. [Paper]
Conference Proceedings
Chiang, C., Gebreegziabher, S., Szymanski, A., Yang, Y., Do, H., Ashktorab, Z., Geyer, W., Li, T., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2026). MultEval: Supporting collaborative alignment for LLM-as-a-judge evaluation criteria. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK ’26). ACM. [Paper]
Chiang, C., Gebreegziabher, S., Szymanski, A., Yang, Y., Do, H., Ashktorab, Z., Geyer, W., Li, T., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2026). MultEval: Collaboratively creating criteria for LLM-as-a-judge systems. In Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion ’26). ACM. [Paper]
Gebreegziabher, S., Yang, Y., Chiang, C., Yoo, H., Chen, C., Do, H., Ashktorab, Z., Geyer, W., Gómez-Zará, D., & Li, T. (2026). The behavioral fabric of LLM-powered GUI agents: Human values and interaction outcomes. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’26). ACM. [Paper]
Yang, Y., Gebreegziabher, S., Yoo, H., Chiang, C., Chen, C., Szymanski, A., Do, H., Ashktorab, Z., Geyer, W., Gómez-Zará, D., & Li, T. (2026). EvalAgent: Interactive comparative evaluation of computer-using GUI agents. In Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion ’26). ACM. [Paper]
Almutairi, M., Chiang, C., Guo, H., Belcher, M., Banerjee, N., Milkowski, M., Volkova, S., Nguyen, D., Weninger, T., Yankoski, M., Ford, T., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). VirT-Lab: An AI-powered system for flexible, customizable, and large-scale team simulations. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings (UIST Adjunct ’25). ACM. [Paper]
Almutairi, M., Chiang, C., Bai, Y., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). tAIfa: Enhancing team effectiveness and cohesion with AI-generated automated feedback. In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK ’25). ACM. [Paper]
Gebreegziabher, S., Chiang, C., Wang, Z., Ashktorab, Z., Brachman, M., Geyer, W., Li, T. J., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). MetricMate: An interactive tool for generating evaluation criteria for LLM-as-a-judge workflow. In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK ’25). ACM. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Pérez-Arredondo, C., & Parra, D. (2025). The role of organizations in networked mobilization: Examining the 2011 Chilean student movement through the logic of connective action. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci ’25). ACM. [Paper]
Fernandez-Espinosa, M., Clouse, K., Sellars, D., Tong, D., Bsales, M., Alcindor, S., Hubbard, T., Villano, M., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). Breaking the familiarity bias: Employing virtual reality environments to enhance team formation and inclusion. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). ACM. [Paper]
Chin, A., Leicht, K., Yu, P., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). Ephemeral social networking: Connecting people from offline to online. In HCI International 2025 Posters. Springer. [Paper]
Volkova, S., Nguyen, D., Penafiel, L., Kao, H., Cohen, M., Engberson, G., Cassani, L., Almutairi, M., Chiang, C., Banerjee, N., Belcher, M., Ford, T., Yankoski, M., Weninger, T., Gómez-Zará, D., & Rebensky, S. (2025). VirTLab: Augmented intelligence for modeling and evaluating human-AI teaming through agent interactions. In Adaptive Instructional Systems. Springer. [Paper]
Xing, Y., Ban, J., Hubbard, T., Villano, M., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). Immersed in my ideas: Using virtual reality and LLMs to visualize users’ ideas and thoughts. In Companion Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion ’25). ACM. [Paper]
Xing, Y., Liu, Q., Wang, J., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). sMoRe: Enhancing object manipulation and organization in mixed reality spaces with LLMs and generative AI. In Companion Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion ’25). ACM. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D. (2024). Assigning or recommending you a team? The algorithmic effects on team formation and performance. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2024, No. 1, p. 12540). Academy of Management. [Paper]
Balsara, D., & Gómez-Zará, D. (2024). Virtual Threads: A systematic literature review of 10 years of VR/AR/MR adoption in fashion design. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). ACM, 486–489. [Paper]
Huang, E. J., Garg, K., Gómez-Zará, D., Hui, J., Kulkarni, C., Massimi, M., Churchill, E., & Gerber, E. (2023). Supporting workers in developing effective collaboration skills for complex work. In Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’23). ACM, 486–489. [Paper]
Das, A., Gómez-Zará, D., & Contractor, N. (2020). Forming diverse teams based on members’ social networks: A genetic algorithm approach. In Complex Networks and Their Applications IX. Springer, 346–357. [Paper]
Kaven, E., Kaven, I., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2020). Assessing how team task influences team assembly through network analysis. In Complex Networks and Their Applications IX. Springer, 322–334. [Paper]
Tyagi, A., Gómez-Zará, D., & Contractor, N. S. (2020). Friendship, advice, and teams in graduate student social networks. In 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). IEEE. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Guo, M., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2020). The impact of displaying diversity information on the formation of self-assembling teams. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). ACM. Best Paper Honorable Mention. [Paper]
Alvarado García, A., Badillo-Urquiola, K., Barrera Machuca, M. D., Cibrian, F. L., Ciolfi Felice, M., Gaytán-Lugo, L. S., Gómez-Zará, D., Griggio, C. F., Silva-Prietch, S., Tejada, C., & Wong-Villacres, M. F. (2020). Fostering HCI research in, by, and for Latin America. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20). ACM. [Paper]
Ichhaporia, R., Gómez-Zará, D., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2020). A network approach to the formation of self-assembled teams. In Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. Springer, 969–981. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Chiuminatto, P., & Nussbaum, M. (2019). Using multimodal and hyperlinked representations of knowledge as academic writing aids. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ’19). ACM. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Paras, M., Twyman, M., Ng, J., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2019). Who would you like to work with? Use of individual characteristics and social networks in team formation systems. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). ACM. [Paper]
Gómez-Zará, D., Boon, M., & Birnbaum, L. (2018). Who is the hero, the villain, and the victim? Detection of roles in news articles using natural language techniques. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’18). ACM, 311–315. [Paper]
Gavilanes, R., Gómez-Zará, D., Parra Santander, D., Trattner, C., Kaltenbrunner, A., & Graells, E. (2015). Language, Twitter and academic conferences. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media (HT ’15). ACM, 159–163. [Paper]
Essays, Reports, and Public Scholarship
Gómez-Zará, D. (2025). Can AI truly be a collaborator? ACM Interactions. [Article]
McInnes, L. C., Arnold, D., Balaprakash, P., Bernhardt, M., Cerny, B., Dubey, A., Giles, R., Hood, D. W., Leung, M. A., Lopez-Marrero, V., Messina, P., Newton, O. B., Oehmen, C., Wild, S. M., Willenbring, J., Woodley, L., Baylis, T., Bernholdt, D. E., Camano, C., …, Wu, L. (2025). Report of the 2025 workshop on next-generation ecosystems for scientific computing: Harnessing community, software, and AI for cross-disciplinary team science. arXiv. [Report]
Book Chapters
Gómez-Zará, D., & Julio, P. (2015). Work Key development: An interdisciplinary work. In S. Pellegrini (Ed.), Ordering Chaos: Management and Process Modeling on Communications Industry. Ediciones UC. ISBN 978-956-14-1707-6.