Eastern Mennonite University

Towards More Nuanced Research Designs to Study AI Adoptions: An Illustration from the Field of Music

To illustrate the importance and complexity of considering “task–technology fit”, as well as users’ roles and purposes, when studying AI adoption within any occupation, we present findings from a 2023-25 mixed-method study about professional musicians’ uses and perceptions of AI...

How Far Can Multilingual Text Embeddings Be Trained From Scratch? A Compute-Efficient Study of Arabic, English, and Urdu

We investigate how much useful multilingual embedding capability can be obtained when the student encoder starts from random initialization, under a strict single-GPU compute budget. We present the mentee-embed series — three controlled experiments (v1–v3) using a 41M-parameter T...