4 papers
Linguistic Similarity Within Centralized FLOSS Development
Matthew Gaughan, Aaron Shaw, Darren Gergle
When free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) stewards centralize project development, they potentially undermine project sustainability and impact how contributors talk to each…
The Agony of Opacity: Foundations for Reflective Interpretability in AI-Mediated Mental Health Support
Sachin R. Pendse, Darren Gergle, Rachel Kornfield +6
Throughout history, a prevailing paradigm in mental healthcare has been one in which distressed people may receive treatment with little understanding around how their experience i…
"It's trained by non-disabled people": Evaluating How Image Quality Affects Product Captioning with Vision-Language Models
Kapil Garg, Xinru Tang, Jimin Heo +4
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used by blind and low-vision (BLV) people to identify and understand products in their everyday lives, such as food, personal care it…
When Testing AI Tests Us: Safeguarding Mental Health on the Digital Frontlines
Sachin R. Pendse, Darren Gergle, Rachel Kornfield +6
Red-teaming is a core part of the infrastructure that ensures that AI models do not produce harmful content. Unlike past technologies, the black box nature of generative AI systems…