3 papers
cs.CY2026
AI usage patterns are shaped by perceived gains in human agency
Ian Beacock, Rachel Xu, Laura Murray +6
As conversational AI systems become more deeply integrated into daily life, the implications for human agency are increasingly urgent to understand. AI's potential to amplify capab…
cs.CY2024
AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares
Beth Goldberg, Diana Acosta-Navas, Michiel Bakker +24
Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first with the advent of the internet and second with the recent introduction of large lan…
cs.HC2023
Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information
Amelia Hassoun, Ian Beacock, Sunny Consolvo +3
Assessing the trustworthiness of information online is complicated. Literacy-based paradigms are both widely used to help and widely critiqued. We conducted a study with 35 Gen Zer…