7 papers
FaciliTrain: Practicing Facilitation Skills through AI-Simulated Group Dialogue
Hang Jiang, Yuanxin Zhu, Diyi Yang +3
Skilled facilitation supports inclusive small-group dialogue, but deliberate practice is hard to scale: it depends on expert coaches, live practice partners, and iterative feedback…
Agora: Teaching the Skill of Consensus-Finding with AI Personas Grounded in Human Voice
Prerna Ravi, Om Gokhale, Suyash Fulay +3
Deliberative democratic theory suggests that civic competence: the capacity to navigate disagreement, weigh competing values, and arrive at collective decisions is not innate but d…
LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users
Elinor Poole-Dayan, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara
While state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on many tasks, there has been extensive research on undesirable model behavior such as halluci…
Computational Analysis of Conversation Dynamics through Participant Responsivity
Margaret Hughes, Brandon Roy, Elinor Poole-Dayan +2
Growing literature explores toxicity and polarization in discourse, with comparatively less work on characterizing what makes dialogue prosocial and constructive. We explore conver…
An AI-Powered Framework for Analyzing Collective Idea Evolution in Deliberative Assemblies
Elinor Poole-Dayan, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara
In an era of increasing societal fragmentation, political polarization, and erosion of public trust in institutions, representative deliberative assemblies are emerging as a promis…
Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks
Hope Schroeder, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara
LLM use in annotation is becoming widespread, and given LLMs' overall promising performance and speed, simply "reviewing" LLM annotations in interpretive tasks can be tempting. In…