11 papers
'OpenBloom': A Stigma-Sensitive LLM Design Probe for Navigating Reproductive Well-being Conversations with Young Adults
Yang Hong, Ashley Hua, Adya Daruka +1
The growing use of large language models (LLMs) by young adults seeking sensitive health information has raised important questions in Human-AI Interaction about how these systems…
BenSyc: Benchmarking Conversational Sycophancy and Human Alignment in LLMs for Bengali Contexts
Kazi Noshin, Sajib Acharjee Dip, Ranat Das Prangon +4
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly participate in emotionally sensitive social conversations, where responses may shift from balanced support toward excessive validation or…
Evaluating LLMs' Effectiveness on Real-World Consumer Device Repair Questions
Atm Mizanur Rahman, Md Arid Hasan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +1
Consumer device repair is an important but underexplored testbed for large language models (LLMs). Repair tasks require reasoning over incomplete problem descriptions, hardware-spe…
When English Rewrites Local Knowledge: Global Narrative Dominance in Large Language Models
Md Arid Hasan, Ruwad Naswan, Farhan Samir +2
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as cross-lingual knowledge interfaces. However, culturally grounded questions often reflect globally dominant narratives rather than lo…
When Data Protection Fails to Protect: Law, Power, and Postcolonial Governance in Bangladesh
Pratyasha Saha, Anita Say Chan, Sharifa Sultana
Rapid digitization across government services, financial platforms, and telecommunications has intensified the collection and processing of large scale personal data in Bangladesh.…
Emotional Support with Conversational AI: Talking to Machines About Life
Olivia Yan Huang, Monika Stodolska, Sharifa Sultana
AI companion chatbots are increasingly used for emotional support, with prior work in the domain predominantly documenting their mixed psychosocial impacts, including both increase…