10 papers
Compass: Continuously Aligning Social Media Feeds via In-Situ Reflections
Aadit Barua, Leijie Wang, Amy X. Zhang
Social media recommendation feeds often optimize for users' immediate impulses rather than preferences they would hold after deeper reflection. Some systems address this misalignme…
How Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences
Galen Weld, Carl Pearson, Bradley Spahn +3
Sense of Community (SOC) is vital to individual and collective well-being. Although social interactions have moved increasingly online, still little is known about the specific rel…
Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents
K. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke +6
As AI agents take on increasingly long-running tasks involving sophisticated planning and execution, there is a corresponding need for novel interaction designs that enable deeper…
Correcting misinformation on social media with a large language model
Xinyi Zhou, Ashish Sharma, Amy X. Zhang +1
Real-world information, often multimodal, can be misinformed or potentially misleading due to factual errors, outdated claims, missing context, misinterpretation, and more. Such "m…
Semantic and Expressive Variation in Image Captions Across Languages
Andre Ye, Sebastin Santy, Jena D. Hwang +2
Computer vision often treats human perception as homogeneous: an implicit assumption that visual stimuli are perceived similarly by everyone. This assumption is reflected in the wa…
Reddit Rules and Rulers: Quantifying the Link Between Rules and Perceptions of Governance across Thousands of Communities
Leon Leibmann, Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang +1
Rules are a critical component of the functioning of nearly every online community, yet it is challenging for community moderators to make data-driven decisions about what rules to…