4 papers
Social Media Feed Elicitation
Lindsay Popowski, Xiyuan Wu, Charlotte Zhu +2
Social media users have repeatedly advocated for control over the currently opaque operations of feed algorithms. Large language models (LLMs) now offer the promise of custom-defin…
People Can Accurately Predict Behavior of Complex Algorithms That Are Available, Compact, and Aligned
Lindsay Popowski, Helena Vasconcelos, Ignacio Javier Fernandez +4
Users trust algorithms more when they can predict the algorithms' behavior. Simple algorithms trivially yield predictively accurate mental models, but modern AI algorithms have oft…
Burst: Collaborative Curation in Connected Social Media Communities
Yutong Zhang, Taeuk Kang, Sydney Yeh +4
Positive social interactions can occur in groups of many shapes and sizes, spanning from small and private to large and open. However, social media tends to binarize our experience…
Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments
Lindsay Popowski, Yutong Zhang, Michael S. Bernstein
In spite of efforts to increase participation, many online groups struggle to survive past the initial days, as members leave and activity atrophies. We argue that a main assumptio…