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8 papers
"Always Want to Use it for Everything": Understanding Young Adults' Perceptions of AI Dependence
Ashlee Milton, Leah Ajmani, Amy Heger +3
The growing integration of general-purpose AI chatbots into people's daily lives has raised concerns about the potential for unhealthy dependence, particularly among young adults.…
Unraveling Entangled Feeds: Rethinking Social Media Design to Enhance User Well-being
Ashlee Milton, Dan Runningen, Loren Terveen +2
Social media platforms have rapidly adopted algorithmic curation with little consideration for the potential harm to users' mental well-being. We present findings from design works…
"I'm Petting the Laptop, Which Has You Inside It": Reflecting on Lived Experiences of Online Friendship
Seraphina Yong, Ashlee Milton, Evan Suma Rosenberg +2
Online(-only) friendships have become increasingly common in daily lives post-COVID despite debates around their mental health benefits and equivalence to ''real'' relationships. P…
The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing
Alice Qian Zhang, Ryland Shaw, Jacy Reese Anthis +9
Rapid progress in general-purpose AI has sparked significant interest in "red teaming," a practice of adversarial testing originating in military and cybersecurity applications. AI…
The Users Aren't Alright: Dangerous Mental Illness Behaviors and Recommendations
Ashlee Milton, Stevie Chancellor
In this paper, we argue that recommendation systems are in a unique position to propagate dangerous and cruel behaviors to people with mental illnesses.
To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines
Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Maria Soledad Pera
Research in the area of search engines for children remains in its infancy. Seminal works have studied how children use mainstream search engines, as well as how to design and eval…
Pink for Princesses, Blue for Superheroes: The Need to Examine Gender Stereotypes in Kid's Products in Search and Recommendations
Amifa Raj, Ashlee Milton, Michael D. Ekstrand
In this position paper, we argue for the need to investigate if and how gender stereotypes manifest in search and recommender systems.As a starting point, we particularly focus on…
Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems for Kids
Ashlee Milton, Maria Soledad Pera
Evaluation of information retrieval systems (IRS) is a prominent topic among information retrieval researchers--mainly directed at a general population. Children require unique IRS…