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most citedModeling Assumptions Clash with the Real World: Transparency, Equity, and Community Challenges for Student Assignment Algorithms

57 citations · 169 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.HC2025

SnuggleSense: Empowering Online Harm Survivors Through a Structured Sensemaking Process

Sijia Xiao, Haodi Zou, Amy Mathews +3

Online interpersonal harm, such as cyberbullying and sexual harassment, remains a pervasive issue on social media platforms. Traditional approaches, primarily content moderation, o…

cs.HC2025★ 22 cited

Generative AI in Knowledge Work: Design Implications for Data Navigation and Decision-Making

Bhada Yun, Dana Feng, Ace S. Chen +2

Our study of 20 knowledge workers revealed a common challenge: the difficulty of synthesizing unstructured information scattered across multiple platforms to make informed decision…

cs.HC2025

Sustaining Human Agency, Attending to Its Cost: An Investigation into Generative AI Design for Non-Native Speakers' Language Use

Yimin Xiao, Cartor Hancock, Sweta Agrawal +4

AI systems and tools today can generate human-like expressions on behalf of people. It raises the crucial question about how to sustain human agency in AI-mediated communication. W…

cs.CY2024★ 9 cited

(Beyond) Reasonable Doubt: Challenges that Public Defenders Face in Scrutinizing AI in Court

Angela Jin, Niloufar Salehi

Accountable use of AI systems in high-stakes settings relies on making systems contestable. In this paper we study efforts to contest AI systems in practice by studying how public…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Physician Detection of Clinical Harm in Machine Translation: Quality Estimation Aids in Reliance and Backtranslation Identifies Critical Errors

Nikita Mehandru, Sweta Agrawal, Yimin Xiao +4

A major challenge in the practical use of Machine Translation (MT) is that users lack guidance to make informed decisions about when to rely on outputs. Progress in quality estimat…

cs.HC2022★ 2 cited

Addressing interpersonal harm in online gaming communities: the opportunities and challenges for a restorative justice approach

Sijia Xiao, Shagun Jhaver, Niloufar Salehi

Most social media platforms implement content moderation to address interpersonal harms such as harassment. Content moderation relies on offender-centered, punitive approaches, e.g…

cs.HC2022★ 1 cited

Beyond General Purpose Machine Translation: The Need for Context-specific Empirical Research to Design for Appropriate User Trust

Wesley Hanwen Deng, Nikita Mehandru, Samantha Robertson +1

Machine Translation (MT) has the potential to help people overcome language barriers and is widely used in high-stakes scenarios, such as in hospitals. However, in order to use MT…

cs.HC2022★ 30 cited

The Distressing Ads That Persist: Uncovering The Harms of Targeted Weight-Loss Ads Among Users with Histories of Disordered Eating

Liza Gak, Seyi Olojo, Niloufar Salehi

Targeted advertising can harm vulnerable groups when it targets individuals' personal and psychological vulnerabilities. We focus on how targeted weight-loss advertisements harm pe…

cs.HC2022★ 2 cited

Not Another School Resource Map: Meeting Underserved Families' Information Needs Requires Trusting Relationships and Personalized Care

Samantha Robertson, Tonya Nguyen, Niloufar Salehi

Public school districts across the United States have implemented school choice systems that have the potential to improve underserved students' access to educational opportunities…

cs.HC2021

Bridging Action Frames: Instagram Infographics in U.S.Ethnic Movements

Darya Kaviani, Niloufar Salehi

Instagram infographics are a digital activism tool that have redefined action frames for technology-facilitated social movements. From the 1960s through the 1980s, United States et…

cs.HC2021★ 57 cited

Modeling Assumptions Clash with the Real World: Transparency, Equity, and Community Challenges for Student Assignment Algorithms

Samantha Robertson, Tonya Nguyen, Niloufar Salehi

Across the United States, a growing number of school districts are turning to matching algorithms to assign students to public schools. The designers of these algorithms aimed to p…

cs.HC2021★ 2 cited

Whither AutoML? Understanding the Role of Automation in Machine Learning Workflows

Doris Xin, Eva Yiwei Wu, Doris Jung-Lin Lee +2

Efforts to make machine learning more widely accessible have led to a rapid increase in Auto-ML tools that aim to automate the process of training and deploying machine learning. T…

cs.CY2020★ 9 cited

What If I Don't Like Any Of The Choices? The Limits of Preference Elicitation for Participatory Algorithm Design

Samantha Robertson, Niloufar Salehi

Emerging methods for participatory algorithm design have proposed collecting and aggregating individual stakeholder preferences to create algorithmic systems that account for those…

cs.HC2016★ 9 cited

Huddler: Convening Stable and Familiar Crowd Teams Despite Unpredictable Availability

Niloufar Salehi, Andrew McCabe, Melissa Valentine +1

Distributed, parallel crowd workers can accomplish simple tasks through workflows, but teams of collaborating crowd workers are necessary for complex goals. Unfortunately, a fundam…

cs.HC2016★ 25 cited

Atelier: Repurposing Expert Crowdsourcing Tasks as Micro-internships

Ryo Suzuki, Niloufar Salehi, Michelle S. Lam +2

Expert crowdsourcing marketplaces have untapped potential to empower workers' career and skill development. Currently, many workers cannot afford to invest the time and sacrifice t…