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OpenCourier: an Open Protocol for Building a Decentralized Ecosystem of Community-owned Delivery Platforms
Yuhan Liu, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Sohyeon Hwang +2
In this vision paper, we outline a blueprint for a decentralized network for the delivery industry, powered by an open protocol. By presenting the network's key components and laye…
GPTFootprint: Increasing Consumer Awareness of the Environmental Impacts of LLMs
Nora Graves, Vitus Larrieu, Yingyue Trace Zhang +4
With the growth of AI, researchers are studying how to mitigate its environmental impact, primarily by proposing policy changes and increasing awareness among developers. However,…
Redefining Research Crowdsourcing: Incorporating Human Feedback with LLM-Powered Digital Twins
Amanda Chan, Catherine Di, Joseph Rupertus +4
Crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific are vital for research, yet workers' growing use of generative AI tools poses challenges. Researchers face compromised…
PolicyPulse: LLM-Synthesis Tool for Policy Researchers
Maggie Wang, Ella Colby, Jennifer Okwara +3
Public opinion shapes policy, yet capturing it effectively to surface diverse perspectives remains challenging. This paper introduces PolicyPulse, an LLM-powered interactive system…
FareShare: A Tool for Labor Organizers to Estimate Lost Wages and Contest Arbitrary AI and Algorithmic Deactivations
Varun Nagaraj Rao, Samantha Dalal, Andrew Schwartz +3
What happens when a rideshare driver is suddenly locked out of the platform connecting them to riders, wages, and daily work? Deactivation-the abrupt removal of gig workers' platfo…
Construction and Preliminary Validation of a Dynamic Programming Concept Inventory
Matthew Ferland, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Arushi Arora +7
Concept inventories are standardized assessments that evaluate student understanding of key concepts within academic disciplines. While prevalent across STEM fields, their developm…
Rideshare Transparency: Translating Gig Worker Insights on AI Platform Design to Policy
Varun Nagaraj Rao, Samantha Dalal, Eesha Agarwal +2
Rideshare platforms exert significant control over workers through algorithmic systems that can result in financial, emotional, and physical harm. What steps can platforms, designe…
Discrimination through Image Selection by Job Advertisers on Facebook
Varun Nagaraj Rao, Aleksandra Korolova
Targeted advertising platforms are widely used by job advertisers to reach potential employees; thus issues of discrimination due to targeting that have surfaced have received wide…