4 papers
Detecting and Enhancing Intellectual Humility in Online Political Discourse
Samantha D'Alonzo, Rachel Chen, Weidong Zhang +7
Intellectual humility (IH)-a recognition of one's own intellectual limitations-can reduce polarization and foster more understanding across lines of difference. Yet little work exp…
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…
A community-driven optimization framework for redrawing school attendance boundaries
Hongzhao Guan, Paul Riggins, Tyler Simko +8
The vast majority of US public school districts use school attendance boundaries to determine which student addresses are assigned to which schools. Existing work shows how redrawi…
Contextual Stochastic Optimization for School Desegregation Policymaking
Hongzhao Guan, Nabeel Gillani, Tyler Simko +2
Most US school districts draw geographic "attendance zones" to assign children to schools based on their home address, a process that can replicate existing neighborhood racial/eth…