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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"Is Reporting Worth the Sacrifice of Revealing What I Have Sent?": Privacy Considerations When Reporting on End-to-End Encrypted Platforms
Leijie Wang, Ruotong Wang, Sterling Williams-Ceci +2
User reporting is an essential component of content moderation on many online platforms -- in particular, on end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging platforms where platform operator…
Personalizing Content Moderation on Social Media: User Perspectives on Moderation Choices, Interface Design, and Labor
Shagun Jhaver, Alice Qian Zhang, Quanze Chen +3
Social media platforms moderate content for each user by incorporating the outputs of both platform-wide content moderation systems and, in some cases, user-configured personal mod…
Judgment Sieve: Reducing Uncertainty in Group Judgments through Interventions Targeting Ambiguity versus Disagreement
Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang
When groups of people are tasked with making a judgment, the issue of uncertainty often arises. Existing methods to reduce uncertainty typically focus on iteratively improving spec…
The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head +52
Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However, research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature…
Examining the Impact of Provenance-Enabled Media on Trust and Accuracy Perceptions
K. J. Kevin Feng, Nick Ritchie, Pia Blumenthal +2
In recent years, industry leaders and researchers have proposed to use technical provenance standards to address visual misinformation spread through digitally altered media. By ad…
Understanding Collaborative Practices and Tools of Professional UX Practitioners in Software Organizations
K. J. Kevin Feng, Tony W. Li, Amy X. Zhang
User experience (UX) has undergone a revolution in collaborative practices, due to tools that enable quick feedback and continuous collaboration with a varied team across a design'…
CiteSee: Augmenting Citations in Scientific Papers with Persistent and Personalized Historical Context
Joseph Chee Chang, Amy X. Zhang, Jonathan Bragg +4
When reading a scholarly article, inline citations help researchers contextualize the current article and discover relevant prior work. However, it can be challenging to prioritize…
Relatedly: Scaffolding Literature Reviews with Existing Related Work Sections
Srishti Palani, Aakanksha Naik, Doug Downey +3
Scholars who want to research a scientific topic must take time to read, extract meaning, and identify connections across many papers. As scientific literature grows, this becomes…