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| 3 Apr | Ian Bogost Think Inside the Box: Lessons for Design from Play, Creativity, and Materials |
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| 10 Apr | Tracy Fullerton Reading Games Well: A New Lens on Interpretive Play |
| 17 Apr | Elizabeth Goodman / Mike Kuniavsky Observing the User Experience in 2026: UX research in the era of AI, shifting organizational power, and remote work |
| 24 Apr | Cheryl Platz The Modern Motivators of Play |
| 1 May | Patrick LeMieux / Stephanie Boluk Hands Free: A History of Accessible Alt Ctrls |
| 8 May | Peter Washington HCI and Human-Centered AI for Digital Health |
| 15 May | Nava Haghighi Toward Ontological Multiplicity in AI and Computing |
| 22 May | Michelle Lam Just-in-Time Objectives for Specialized AI Interactions |
| 29 May | Matthew Jörke Promoting Agency in Human-AI Interaction: Insights from AI Health Coaching |
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| ICWSM 2026 | |
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Whose Values? Measuring the (Subjective) Expression of Basic Human Values in Social Media Ziv Epstein, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Tiziano Piccardi, Isabel Gallegos, Dora Zhao, Johan Ugander, Michael Bernstein |
| CHI 2026 | |
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Comparing Design Metaphors and User-Driven Metaphors for Interaction Design |
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Just-In-Time Objectives: A General Approach for Specialized AI Interactions Michelle Lam, Omar Shaikh, Hallie Xu, Alice Guo, Diyi Yang, Jeffrey Heer, James Landay, Michael Bernstein Honorable Mention |
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Mapping the Spiral of Silence: Surveying Unspoken Opinions in Online Communities Dora Zhao, Diyi Yang, Michael Bernstein |
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Social Media Feed Elicitation Lindsay Popowski, Xiyuan Wu, Charlotte Zhu, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael Bernstein Honorable Mention |
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Through a Live Elections Dashboard, Darkly: Managing Expectations and Trust in Progressive Vote Counting During the 2024 U.S. Election Mandi Cai, Grace Wang, Chloe R. Mortenson, Fumeng Yang, Erik C. Nisbet, Matthew Kay |
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Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi, Zachary Robertson, Ziv Epstein, Sanmi Koyejo, Michael Bernstein |
| CSCW 2026 | |
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People Can Accurately Predict Behavior of Complex Algorithms That Are Available, Compact, and Aligned Lindsay Popowski, Helena Vasconcelos, Ignacio Javier Fernandez, Chijioke Chinaza Mgbahurike, Ralf Herbrich, Jeffrey Hancock, Michael Bernstein |
| ICWSM 2026 | |
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Alexandria: A Library of Pluralistic Values for Realtime Re-Ranking of Social Media Feeds Akaash Kolluri*, Renn Su*, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael Bernstein |
| IMWUT 2025 | |
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Audio Augmentation of Manual Interactions to Support Mindfulness Yujie Tao, Jingjin Li, Libby Ye, Andrew Zhang, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Sean Follmer VIDEO |
| TOCHI 2025 | |
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Audio Personas: Augmenting Social Perception via Body-Anchored Audio Cues Yujie Tao, Libby Ye, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Sean Follmer |
| EMNLP 2025 | |
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Finetuning LLMs for Human Behavior Prediction in Social Science Experiments Akaaash Kolluri, Shengguang Wu, Joon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein PROJECT |
| Science 2025 | |
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Reranking Partisan Animosity in Algorithmic Social Media Feeds Alters Affective Polarization Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia, Jeffrey Hancock, Jeanne L. Tsai, and Michael Bernstein |
| CSCW 2025 | |
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Burst: Collaborative Curation in Connected Social Media Communities Yutong Zhang, Taeuk Kang, Sydney Yeh, Anavi Baddepudi, Lindsay Popowski, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael Bernstein |
| MIT Press 2025 | |
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Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work Melissa Valentine, Michael Bernstein national bestseller |
| UIST 2025 | |
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Creating General User Models from Computer Use Omar Shaikh, Shardul Sapkota, Shan Rizvi, Eric Horvitz, Joon Sung Park, Diyi Yang, Michael Bernstein PROJECT best paper honorable mention |
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Knoll: Creating a Knowledge Ecosystem for Large Language Models Dora Zhao, Diyi Yang, Michael Bernstein |
| ICLR 2025 | |
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Aligning Language Models with Demonstrated Feedback Omar Shaikh, Michelle Lam, Joey Hejna, Yijia Shao, Justin Cho, Michael Bernstein, and Diyi Yang |
| ICML Position Papers 2025 | |
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LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method Jacy Reese Anthis, Ryan Liu, Sean M. Richardson, Austin C. Kozlowski, Bernard Koch, James Evans, Erik Brynjolfsson, Michael Bernstein |
| ICWSM 2025 | |
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Balancing Producer Fairness and Efficiency via Prior-Weighted Rating System Design Thomas Ma, Michael Bernstein, Ramesh Johari, and Nikhil Garg. |
| CHI 2025 | |
| GPTCoach: Towards LLM-Based Physical Activity Coaching Matthew J�rke, Shardul Sapkota, Lyndsea Warkenthien, Niklas Vainio, Paul Schmiedmayer, Emma Brunskill, James A Landay | |
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Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a Tree Reveals Possibilites and Assumptions in Large Language Models Nava Haghighi, Sunny Yu, James Landay, Daniela Rosner |
| IUI 2025 | |
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More than Marketing? On the Information Value of AI Benchmarks for Practitioners Amelia Hardy, Anka Reuel, Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Lisa Soder, Allie Griffith, Dylan M. Asmar, Sanmi Koyejo, Michael Bernstein, Mykel J. Kochenderfer |
| CSCW 2024 | |
| "They Make Us Old Before We're Old": Designing Ethical Health Technology with and for Older Adults Jianna So, Samantha Estrada, Matthew J�rke, Eva Bianchi, Maria Wang, Nava Haghighi, Kristen L. Fessele, James A. Landay, Andrea Cuadra Honorable Mention | |
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Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel Joseph Seering, Manas Khadka, Nava Haghighi, Tanya Yang, Zachary Xi, Michael Bernstein best paper honorable mention |
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Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments Lindsay Popowski, Yutong Zhang, Michael Bernstein best paper honorable mention |
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Constructing a Classification Scheme - and Its Consequences: A Field Study of Learning to Label Data for Computer Vision in a Hospital Intensive Care Unit Melissa A. Valentine, Roger E. Bohn, Amanda L. Pratt, Prachee Jain, Sara J. Singer, Michael Bernstein |
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The Algorithm and the Org Chart: How Algorithms Can Conflict with Organizational Structures Melissa A. Valentine, Amanda L. Pratt, Rebecca Hinds, Michael S. Bernstein |
| UIST 2024 | |
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Clarify: Improving Model Robustness With Natural Language Corrections Yoonho Lee, Michelle Lam, Helena Vasconcelos, Michael Bernstein, Chelsea Finn |
| SM+S 2024 | |
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Internal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms Ang�le Christin, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Chenyan Jia, Marijn N. Mado, Jeanne L. Tsai, and Chunchen Xu |
| Stanford 2024 | |
| Evaluating and Designing Computing Systems for the Future of Work Hancheng Cao | |
| CHI 2024 | |
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Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts Using LLooM Michelle S. Lam, Janice Teoh, James Landay, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bernstein PROJECT |
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Rehearsal: Simulating Conflict to Teach Conflict Resolution Omar Shaikh, Valentino Chai, Michele Gelfand, Diyi Yang, and Michael Bernstein |
| CSCW 2024 | |
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Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions Chenyan Jia*, Michelle S. Lam*, Minh Chau Mai, Jeff Hancock, Michael S. Bernstein best paper |
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Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems Amy X. Zhang, Michael Bernstein, David Karger, and Mark Ackerman |
| UIST 2023 | |
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Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior Joon Sung Park, Joseph O'Brien, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael Bernstein TRY IT! PROJECT best paper |
| CSCW 2023 | |
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Cura: Curation at Social Media Scale Wanrong He, Mitchell L. Gordon, Lindsay Popowski, Michael Bernstein best paper |
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Sociotechnical Audits: Broadening the Algorithm Auditing Lens to Investigate Targeted Advertising Michelle S. Lam, Ayush Pandit, Colin Kalicki, Rachit Gupta, Poonam Sahoo, Dana� Metaxa best paper honorable mention |
| IEEE VIS 2023 | |
| Are We Closing the Loop Yet? Gaps in the Generalizability of VIS4ML Research Hariharan Subramonyam, Jessica Hullman | |
| UIST 2023 | |
| Spellburst: A Node-based Interface for Exploratory Creative Coding with Natural Language Prompts Tyler Angert, Miroslav Ivan Suzara, Jenny Han, Christopher Lawrence Pondoc, Hariharan Subramonyam | |
| JOTS 2023 | |
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Commentary: Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms Michael Bernstein, Ang�le Christin, Jeffrey Hancock, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Chenyan Jia, Michelle S. Lam, Nicole Meister, Nathaniel Persily, Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Jeanne Tsai, Johan Ugander, Chunchen Xu |
| ACL 2023 | |
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On Second Thought, Let�s Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning Omar Shaikh, Hongxin Zhang, William Held, Michael Bernstein, and Diyi Yang |
| DIS 2023 | |
| A Workshop-Based Method for Navigating Value Tensions in Collectively Speculated Worlds Nava Haghighi*, Matthew J�rke*, Yousif Mohsen, Andrea Cuadra, James A. Landay PROJECT | |
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