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Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making
Cassandra Overney, Hang Jiang, Urooj Haider +6
Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creat…
Voice to Vision: Enhancing Civic Decision-Making through Co-Designed Data Infrastructure
Maggie Hughes, Cassandra Overney, Ashima Kamra +4
Trust and transparency in civic decision-making processes, like neighborhood planning, are eroding as community members frequently report sending feedback "into a void" without und…
Designing for Constructive Civic Communication: A Framework for Human-AI Collaboration in Community Engagement Processes
Cassandra Overney
Community engagement processes form a critical foundation of democratic governance, yet frequently struggle with resource constraints, sensemaking challenges, and barriers to inclu…
BoundarEase: Fostering Constructive Community Engagement to Inform More Equitable Student Assignment Policies
Cassandra Overney, Cassandra Moe, Alvin Chang +1
School districts across the United States (US) play a pivotal role in shaping access to quality education through their student assignment policies -- most prominently, school atte…
On the Relationship between Truth and Political Bias in Language Models
Suyash Fulay, William Brannon, Shrestha Mohanty +4
Language model alignment research often attempts to ensure that models are not only helpful and harmless, but also truthful and unbiased. However, optimizing these objectives simul…
All a-board: sharing educational data science research with school districts
Nabeel Gillani, Doug Beeferman, Cassandra Overney +2
Educational data scientists often conduct research with the hopes of translating findings into lasting change through policy, civil society, or other channels. However, the bridge…
Redrawing attendance boundaries to promote racial and ethnic diversity in elementary schools
Nabeel Gillani, Doug Beeferman, Christine Vega-Pourheydarian +3
Most US school districts draw "attendance boundaries" to define catchment areas that assign students to schools near their homes, often recapitulating neighborhood demographic segr…
Estimating Censored Spatial-Temporal Demand with Applications to Shared Micromobility
Alice Paul, Kyran Flynn, Cassandra Overney
In shared micromobility networks, such as bike-share and scooter-share networks, using trip data to accurately estimate demand in docked and dockless systems is critical to analyzi…