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Echoes in the Algorithm: Analyzing the Fidelity of User Preferences Against Realized Platform Reach
Emelia Hughes, Tim Weninger
What does popular content look like when platforms withhold the usual cues? On TikTok, users still form impressions about which videos are taking off even when likes and view count…
Ephemeral Feeds and Enduring Rituals: RushTok and the Formation of Event-Based Algorithmic Communities
Emelia Hughes, Tim Weninger
Each August, TikTok's For You page turns the University of Alabama's sorority recruitment into RushTok. We examine RushTok as an event-based algorithmic community: a collective ass…
Evaluating LLMs as Human Surrogates in Controlled Experiments
Adnan Hoq, Tim Weninger
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human responses in behavioral research, yet it remains unclear when LLM-generated data support the same experimental…
Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Enabling users to create their own simulations offers a powerful way to study team dynamics and performance. We introduce VirTLab, a system that allows researchers and practitioner…
VirtLab: An AI-Powered System for Flexible, Customizable, and Large-scale Team Simulations
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Simulating how team members collaborate within complex environments using Agentic AI is a promising approach to explore hypotheses grounded in social science theories and study tea…