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most citedBuildup of Speaking Skills in an Online Learning Community: A Network-Analytic Exploration

13 citations · 33 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

Anchorless Diversification for Parallel LLM Ideation

Fares Nabil Ibrahim, Nafis Saami Azad, Raiyan Abdul Baten

LLMs are increasingly used to generate candidate-idea pools for creative tasks where broad exploration is valuable. Parallel inference can be attractive in this setting when it bro…

cs.AI2026

Ex Ante Evaluation of AI-Induced Idea Diversity Collapse

Nafis Saami Azad, Raiyan Abdul Baten

Creative AI systems are typically evaluated at the level of individual utility, yet creative outputs are consumed in populations: an idea loses value when many others produce simil…

cs.HC2026

General Intellectual Humility Is Malleable Through AI-Mediated Reflective Dialogue

Mohammad Ratul Mahjabin, Raiyan Abdul Baten

General intellectual humility (GIH) -- the recognition that one's beliefs may be fallible and revisable -- is associated with improved reasoning, learning, and social discourse, ye…

cs.HC2026

Strategic Adaptation Under Contextual Change: Insights from a Dyadic Negotiation Testbed for AI Coaching Technologies

Mobasshira Akter Urmi, Raiyan Abdul Baten

Strategic adaptation -- the ability to adjust interaction behavior in response to changing constraints and leverage -- is a central goal of negotiation training and an emerging tar…

cs.SI2026

From semantic memory to collective creativity: A generative cognitive foundation for social creativity models

Mirza Nayeem Ahmed, Raiyan Abdul Baten

Simulation-based theory development has yielded powerful insights into collective performance by linking social structure to emergent outcomes, yet it has struggled to extend to co…

cs.DL2025

Beginner's Charm: Beginner-Heavy Teams Are Associated With High Scientific Disruption

Mahdee Mushfique Kamal, Raiyan Abdul Baten

Teams now drive most scientific advances, yet the impact of absolute beginners -- authors with no prior publications -- remains understudied. Analyzing over 29 million articles pub…

cs.CL2025

MuseScorer: Idea Originality Scoring At Scale

Ali Sarosh Bangash, Krish Veera, Ishfat Abrar Islam +1

An objective, face-valid method for scoring idea originality is to measure each idea's statistical infrequency within a population -- an approach long used in creativity research.…

cs.SI2025

The Wisdom of Intellectually Humble Networks

Mohammad Ratul Mahjabin, Raiyan Abdul Baten

People's collectively shared beliefs can have significant social implications, including on democratic processes and policies. Unfortunately, as people interact with peers to form…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

AI Can Enhance Creativity in Social Networks

Raiyan Abdul Baten, Ali Sarosh Bangash, Krish Veera +2

Can peer recommendation engines elevate people's creative performances in self-organizing social networks? Answering this question requires resolving challenges in data collection…

cs.SI2024

Exploring the Role of Randomization on Belief Rigidity in Online Social Networks

Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, Raiyan Abdul Baten +4

People often stick to their existing beliefs, ignoring contradicting evidence or only interacting with those who reinforce their views. Social media platforms often facilitate such…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Context-Aware Prediction of User Engagement on Online Social Platforms

Heinrich Peters, Yozen Liu, Francesco Barbieri +3

The success of online social platforms hinges on their ability to predict and understand user behavior at scale. Here, we present data suggesting that context-aware modeling approa…

cs.DL2023★ 2 cited

Don't follow the leader: Independent thinkers create scientific innovation

Sean Kelty, Raiyan Abdul Baten, Adiba Mahbub Proma +3

Academic success is distributed unequally; a few top scientists receive the bulk of attention, citations, and resources. However, do these ``superstars" foster leadership in scient…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

NADBenchmarks -- a compilation of Benchmark Datasets for Machine Learning Tasks related to Natural Disasters

Adiba Mahbub Proma, Md Saiful Islam, Stela Ciko +2

Climate change has increased the intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather events and natural disasters across the world. While the increased data on natural disasters…

cs.SI2021

Creativity in social networks is enhanced by 'Goldilocks' dispersal of ideators' visibility

Raiyan Abdul Baten, Richard N. Aslin, Gourab Ghoshal +1

Recent works suggest that striking a balance between maximizing idea stimulation and minimizing idea redundancy can elevate creativity in self-organizing social networks. We explor…

cs.DB2021★ 1 cited

DBATES: DataBase of Audio features, Text, and visual Expressions in competitive debate Speeches

Taylan K. Sen, Gazi Naven, Luke Gerstner +11

In this work, we present a database of multimodal communication features extracted from debate speeches in the 2019 North American Universities Debate Championships (NAUDC). Featur…

cs.HC2020

Technology-driven Alteration of Nonverbal Cues and its Effects on Negotiation

Raiyan Abdul Baten, Ehsan Hoque

A person's appearance, identity, and other nonverbal cues can substantially influence how one is perceived by a negotiation counterpart, potentially impacting the outcome of the ne…

cs.SI2020

Cues to gender and racial identity reduce creativity in diverse social networks

Raiyan Abdul Baten, Richard Aslin, Gourab Ghoshal +1

The characteristics of social partners have long been hypothesized as influential in guiding group interactions. Understanding how demographic cues impact networks of creative coll…

cs.SI2019★ 10 cited

Creativity in temporal social networks: How divergent thinking is impacted by one's choice of peers

Raiyan Abdul Baten, Daryl Bagley, Ashely Tenesaca +4

Creativity is viewed as one of the most important skills in the context of future-of-work. In this paper, we explore how the dynamic (self-organizing) nature of social networks imp…

cs.SI2017★ 13 cited

Buildup of Speaking Skills in an Online Learning Community: A Network-Analytic Exploration

Rasoul Shafipour, Raiyan Abdul Baten, Md Kamrul Hasan +3

In this study, we explore peer-interaction effects in online networks on speaking skill development. In particular, we present an evidence for gradual buildup of skills in a small-…