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Asterism: Exploring and Synthesizing Scattered Observations into Literature-Grounded Hypotheses and Theories
Joseph Chee Chang, Michael D'Arcy, Amy X. Zhang +15
A theory draws many independent observations into one framework with novel hypotheses. A researcher building such a theory must synthesize observations scattered across many papers…
Compass: Continuously Aligning Social Media Feeds via In-Situ Reflections
Aadit Barua, Leijie Wang, Amy X. Zhang
Social media recommendation feeds often optimize for users' immediate impulses rather than preferences they would hold after deeper reflection. Some systems address this misalignme…
How Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences
Galen Weld, Carl Pearson, Bradley Spahn +3
Sense of Community (SOC) is vital to individual and collective well-being. Although social interactions have moved increasingly online, still little is known about the specific rel…
Reddit Rules and Rulers: Quantifying the Link Between Rules and Perceptions of Governance across Thousands of Communities
Leon Leibmann, Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang +1
Rules are a critical component of the functioning of nearly every online community, yet it is challenging for community moderators to make data-driven decisions about what rules to…
Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents
K. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke +6
As AI agents take on increasingly long-running tasks involving sophisticated planning and execution, there is a corresponding need for novel interaction designs that enable deeper…
Who Puts the "Social" in "Social Computing"?: Using A Neurodiversity Framing to Review Social Computing Research
Philip Baillargeon, Jina Yoon, Amy Zhang
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) have a longstanding tradition of interrogating the values that underlie systems in order to create…
PolicyCraft: Supporting Collaborative and Participatory Policy Design through Case-Grounded Deliberation
Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang +3
Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can result in policies that are…
Policy Prototyping for LLMs: Pluralistic Alignment via Interactive and Collaborative Policymaking
K. J. Kevin Feng, Inyoung Cheong, Quan Ze Chen +1
Emerging efforts in AI alignment seek to broaden participation in shaping model behavior by eliciting and integrating collective input into a policy for model finetuning. While plu…
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
Leijie Wang, Kathryn Yurechko, Pranati Dani +2
Existing tools for laypeople to create personal classifiers often assume a motivated user working uninterrupted in a single, lengthy session. However, users tend to engage with soc…
Private Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging
Armin Namavari, Barry Wang, Sanketh Menda +5
The increasing harms caused by hate, harassment, and other forms of abuse online have motivated major platforms to explore hierarchical governance. The idea is to allow communities…
Language Models as Critical Thinking Tools: A Case Study of Philosophers
Andre Ye, Jared Moore, Rose Novick +1
Current work in language models (LMs) helps us speed up or even skip thinking by accelerating and automating cognitive work. But can LMs help us with critical thinking -- thinking…
Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems
Amy X. Zhang, Michael S. Bernstein, David R. Karger +1
Social media systems are as varied as they are pervasive. They have been almost universally adopted for a broad range of purposes including work, entertainment, activism, and decis…
Customized large language models can outperform Community Notes in correcting misinformation
Xinyi Zhou, Ashish Sharma, Amy X. Zhang +1
Addressing misinformation in real-world settings is challenging: content is often multimodal; factuality judgments are nuanced and context-dependent; new events emerge rapidly acro…
Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication
Nouran Soliman, Hyeonsu B Kang, Matthew Latzke +4
In communities with social hierarchies, fear of judgment can discourage communication. While anonymity may alleviate some social pressure, fully anonymous spaces enable toxic behav…
Viblio: Introducing Credibility Signals and Citations to Video-Sharing Platforms
Emelia Hughes, Renee Wang, Prerna Juneja +3
As more users turn to video-sharing platforms like YouTube as an information source, they may consume misinformation despite their best efforts. In this work, we investigate ways t…
Meeting Bridges: Designing Information Artifacts that Bridge from Synchronous Meetings to Asynchronous Collaboration
Ruotong Wang, Lin Qiu, Justin Cranshaw +1
A recent surge in remote meetings has led to complaints of ``Zoom fatigue'' and ``collaboration overload,'' negatively impacting worker productivity and well-being. One way to alle…
(A)I Am Not a Lawyer, But...: Engaging Legal Experts towards Responsible LLM Policies for Legal Advice
Inyoung Cheong, King Xia, K. J. Kevin Feng +2
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of providing users with advice in a wide range of professional domains, including legal advice. However, relying on LLMs for l…
Mapping the Design Space of Teachable Social Media Feed Experiences
K. J. Kevin Feng, Xander Koo, Lawrence Tan +3
Social media feeds are deeply personal spaces that reflect individual values and preferences. However, top-down, platform-wide content algorithms can reduce users' sense of agency…
Perceptions of Moderators as a Large-Scale Measure of Online Community Governance
Galen Weld, Leon Leibmann, Amy X. Zhang +1
Millions of online communities are governed by volunteer moderators, who shape their communities by setting and enforcing rules, recruiting additional moderators, and participating…
Misinformation as a harm: structured approaches for fact-checking prioritization
Connie Moon Sehat, Ryan Li, Peipei Nie +2
In this work, we examine how fact-checkers prioritize which claims to fact-check and what tools may assist them in their efforts. Through a series of interviews with 23 professiona…
Semantic and Expressive Variation in Image Captions Across Languages
Andre Ye, Sebastin Santy, Jena D. Hwang +2
Computer vision often treats human perception as homogeneous: an implicit assumption that visual stimuli are perceived similarly by everyone. This assumption is reflected in the wa…
Qlarify: Recursively Expandable Abstracts for Directed Information Retrieval over Scientific Papers
Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August +2
Navigating the vast scientific literature often starts with browsing a paper's abstract. However, when a reader seeks additional information, not present in the abstract, they face…
Pika: Empowering Non-Programmers to Author Executable Governance Policies in Online Communities
Leijie Wang, Nicolas Vincent, Julija Rukanskaitė +1
Internet users have formed a wide array of online communities with nuanced and diverse community goals and norms. However, most online platforms only offer a limited set of governa…
Papeos: Augmenting Research Papers with Talk Videos
Tae Soo Kim, Matt Latzke, Jonathan Bragg +2
Research consumption has been traditionally limited to the reading of academic papers-a static, dense, and formally written format. Alternatively, pre-recorded conference presentat…