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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

☀️ For the 2nd year in a row, I had the honor of serving as Student Volunteer Co-Chair, leading an incredible team of over 200 SVs at @chi.acm.org My heartfelt thanks go out to our SVs, the true MVPs who work tirelessly behind the scenes. We hope all attendees had a wonderful conference!

A group photo of 200 student volunteers standing beneath the huge CHI 26 sign.

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Finally, we also had a paper with collaborator @tskuo.bsky.social at CMU on enabling collective design of community bots via a system that surfaces provocative hypothetical cases as a way to stress-test and iterate on bot policy: arxiv.org/abs/2509.25492

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Botender: Supporting Communities in Collaboratively Designing AI Agents through Case-Based Provocations

AI agents, or bots, serve important roles in online communities. However, they are often designed by outsiders or a few tech-savvy members, leading to bots that may not align with the broader communit...

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🔮 How can we empower online communities to design AI agents tailored to their unique needs and norms? In our #CHI2026 paper, we introduce #Botender, a system that enables collaborative design of AI agents through 🔥case-based provocation🔥

Botender helps communities iteratively align their AI agents with their collective intents through case-based provocations.

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Crystal Lee @handle.invalid · 04/12/2025

This is such a beautiful piece by @liao.shen-yi.org abt media portrayals of Taiwan + how Taiwan is constructed in political / intellectual discourse. Pocketing it to periodically send to people, esp those who want to talk to me about Thailand :) liao.shen-yi.org/posts/stop-m...

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Stop the Epistemic Marginalization of Taiwan

Media coverage of Taiwan marginalizes it, politically and epistemically

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

CSCW folks, I wanted to highlight how excited and proud I am to see work from our community (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/..., CSCW '24 best paper winner led by @jiachenyan.bsky.social and @mlam.bsky.social) grow and expand ambition into this Science paper. CSCW has a ton to offer the world.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Really excited about this 🔔new paper🔔 where we had a chance to leverage Change.org 's staggered rollout of a "write with AI" tool to causally (aka "once and for all") measure the impact of such tools on global platform outcomes. Summary: with AI, petition length ⬆️, homogeneity ⬆️, Outcomes ⬇️. More:

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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

X turned on account location, and immediately turned it off again--because it showed that your "farmer in Michigan" is really a paid troll in Bangladesh. We need a social network that shows where content is from. asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco... With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social

asbruckman.medium.com

X added account location — and turned it off hours later.

A window onto what is most broken about the internet.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

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Vinay Koshy @vinaykoshy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Just arrived in Bergen for CSCW, where I'll present Venire! Venire is a Reddit moderation tool that uses an ML model trained on mod decision histories to identify controversial cases. It preempts inconsistent decision-making by flagging these cases for multi-mod review dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm excited to serve as an SV co-chair for #CHI2026! Interested in joining us? Apply now to become an SV! It's a fantastic opportunity to make new friends and help create an unforgettable @chi.acm.org experience. Check out the application link below:

Call for Enrollment
CHI 2026
Student Volunteer
Application Period
Oct 15 2025 - Jan 23 2026

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Theia Henderson @theias.place · 27/09/2025

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications" @karger.bsky.social and David Clark doi.org/10.1145/3746...

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Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Michelle Lam @mlam.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

LLM safety work often reasons over high-level policies (be helpful & polite), but must tackle on-the-ground cases (unsolicited money advice when stocks are mentioned). This can feel like driving on an unfamiliar road guided by a generic driver’s manual instead of a map. We introduce: Policy Maps 🗺️

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🌟 If you’re applying to CMU SCS PhD programs, and come from a background that would bring additional dimensions to the CMU community, our PhD students are here to help! Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program by Oct 13 to receive feedback on your application materials:

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Graduate Application Support Program. Apply by October 13, 2025.

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use. In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement. arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

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Sanjay Kairam @skairam.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Crunching away on a paper for #CHI2026 about online communities, moderation, or sociolinguistics? You may be want to check out recent work led by @galenweld.bsky.social on predicting SOVC within subreddits based on the style and structure of conversations. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08596

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How Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences

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 relationships between t...

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Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The @acm-cscw.bsky.social Starter Pack is growing ahead of #CSCW2025 ! (go.bsky.app/SPumuMT) 🔥 A warm welcome to all of our new members 🔥: @imanm02.bsky.social @jesanovi.bsky.social @shadinz.bsky.social @jaytee-ess.bsky.social @jaewonk.bsky.social @sypark9.bsky.social New member thread 1/x

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Hanlin Li @hanlinliii.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We are organizing a workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action at NeurIPS this year. As AI continues to concentrate power, we will meet in San Diego (Dec 6 or 7) for critical conversations on user coordination, labor, data protection, and community advocacy. Submissions due August 22. #NeurIPS2025

The image is titled Workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action. On the left are speakers, Tijana Zrnic, Incoming Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Seda Gürses, Associate Professor, TU Delft, lorian Tramèr, Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Joanna Redden, Associate Professor, Western University, and Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University.

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The study of “collective action” has a long history in Economics and Sociology as a way for groups of people to impact markets and the political arena (Olson 1965; Marwell and Oliver 1993). Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA) is the study of such coordination strategies in algorithmically-mediated sociotechnical systems. Our workshop offers a platform to discuss new ideas and help define the foundational research directions for the emerging topic through interdisciplinary discussions between ML researchers, scholars from the social sciences, community stakeholders and advocates.

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other! We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters! Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for... Join us in room 2.31!

WikiNLP workshop program with keynotes, dataset panel, poster session, discussions with Wikipedia editors and more.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

My team is organizing a workshop on information disorder at the CSCW conference (Oct 18, Bergen, Norway). We aim to convene scholars committed to understanding mis & disinfo, scams, online hate, etc. Applicants should submit 2-6 page position papers by Aug 1: cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

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CSCW 2025 Information Disorder Workshop

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chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Prompting is our most successful tool for exploring LLMs, but the term evokes eye-rolls and grimaces from scientists. Why? Because prompting as scientific inquiry has become conflated with prompt engineering. This is holding us back. 🧵and new paper with @ari-holtzman.bsky.social .

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS! I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...

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Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

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Wiki Workshop 2025 @wikiworkshop.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🚀 Curious about research on @wikipedia.org and @wikimediafoundation.org projects? Join us at #WikiWorkshop2025, May 21–22 (virtual)! 🔹 46 research talks 🔹 Live Q&A + networking Free registration: pretix.eu/wikimedia/wi...

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Wiki Workshop 2025

May 21st – 22nd, 2025

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Somewhat oddly, the Trump regime's initial moves to cut science funding went very broad. This is catalyzing solidarity & advocacy around the value of science (see comms featuring cancer cures & tech innovation). But their next move may be to try to drive a wedge b/w "good science" & "bad science".

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · 06/05/2025

Groups use processes to make decisions. But normal people with no training will usually run a bad process. When you just perform how you think meetings are supposed to work, without training, your meetings will be boring or bad. AND, big secret: when everyone's trained, meetings feel good.

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Serving as the Student Volunteer Co-Chair at #CHI2025 @chi.acm.org has been an incredible experience! A huge thank you to the 200 student volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help make the conference a success. Looking forward to seeing you all next year in Barcelona!

A group photo of student volunteers at CHI 2025. PC: Hiroki Kaimoto

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

☀️ Our amazing team of student volunteers is all set and excited for the conference kickoff! #CHI2025

opening ceremony featuring a slide for SVs

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance! #CHI2025

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NLP for Wikipedia workshop (at ACL 2025) @wikinlp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📢📢📢 Second for Contributions! Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees, and have both archival and non-archival tracks! 🗓️ deadline: April 30 Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I would love to never see the phrase "little is known about" in a paper ever again. (1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be. (2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 15/04/2025

Do you make custom feeds on Bluesky? We'd love to hear about your experiences as part of a research project at @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social ! Come chat with us for 45 mins and get $20 gift card. Express your interest here: forms.gle/CtoZTwCovTv8....

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

AI research often aims to generate Wikipedia-like content, but Wikipedia’s success lies in the underlying processes and infrastructures that enable human collaboration. Rather than just mimicking content, we should use AI to support human collaboration. Our Wikibench paper is one such example:

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Wikibench: Community-Driven Data Curation for AI Evaluation on Wikipedia | Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Check out our latest work on steerable alignment! We improve on a typical in-context learning approach with semantic retrieval by proposing metrics that instead select examples that best exemplify a group's shared values, enabling inference-time alignment to a particular group. ➡️

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Quan Ze Chen @cqz.name · 17/03/2025

In-context learning can be an effective way to conduct value alignment of LLMs through examples, but when there are multiple pluralistic groups, are the best examples for one group also the ones for another? We explore this in our paper 🌟SPICA🌟 (🧵1/9)

Screenshot of the first page of the paper SPICA: Retrieving Scenarios for Pluralistic In-Context Alignment

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

How can we help communities collaboratively shape policies that impact them? In our #CHI2025 paper, we present PolicyCraft, a system that supports ✨collaborative policy design✨ through case-grounded deliberation. (🧵/11)

ACM CHI 2025
PolicyCraft: Supporting Collaborative and Participatory Policy Design through Case-Grounded Deliberation
Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang, Jane Hsieh, Haiyi Zhu, Kenneth Holstein

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!

Book cover of the Flash Teams book. "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-enhanced, on-demand work". A lightning bolt image made out of square pixels.

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m honored to receive the Presidential Fellowship from @carnegiemellon.bsky.social's K&L Gates Initiative and to speak at next week's GenAI conference! I'll share how we build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes.

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Kimi @kimiwenzel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Deadline for the 🎙️Speech AI For All workshop💬 extended to Feb 28. Time to get your submissions in! #CHI2025 Paper submissions are recommended, but optional. Don't let that stop you from applying :) Application: forms.gle/sJ93X9oZm3Tr... Info: speechai4all.org

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Amy has been my academic role model and inspiration! Huge congrats! 🥳

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Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee @hankhplee.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨Trapped by infinite scroll & autoplay on social media? Our TOCHI paper introduces a system that reduces distraction by 4x by suppressing these and other dark patterns. Purpose Mode: Reducing Distraction through Toggling ACDPs on Social Media Web Sites 📝 hankhplee.com/papers/purpo...

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@wikipedia.org is vital for #NLP, yet little research contributes back to the Wikimedia community. To bridge this gap, we are organizing #WikiNLP to advance both. w/ Isaac Johnson (@wikimediafoundation.org) @akhilarora.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social @indiiigo.bsky.social

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rlongjohn.bsky.social @rlongjohn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

📣Announcing MLDPR 2025, an @iclr-conf.bsky.social workshop on data and benchmarking practices in ML! 🔗 mldpr2025.com 📭accepting submissions related to: ▫️data curation ▫️FAIR datasets ▫️ML data repositories ▫️reproducibility ▫️holistic benchmarking

Flyer for the ICLR 2025 workshop entitled The Future of Machine Learning Data Practices and Repositories. The date of the workshop if to be determined but will be one of the two workshop dates (April 27 or 28) for ICLR 2025 in Singapore. The submission deadline is February 3, 2025 anywhere on earth, and the review deadline is March 5, 2025 anywhere on earth. Call for papers and more information is available at the website https://mldpr2025.com/. Reach out to mldpr2025@gmail.com for questions! The workshop is organized by Markelle Kelly, Rachel Longjohn, Meera Desai, Shivani Kapania, Maria Antoniak, Padhraic Smyth, Joaquin Vanschoren, Sameer Singh, Daniel S. Katz, and Amy Winecoff.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/02/2025

In Taiwan, years back, some civic hackers created the Gov0 campaign (or g0v) in which they got the domain name g0v.tw (it's a zero in the middle) and created alternatives to every gov website of what they would do if they were in charge. Anyone could see the plans by replacing the o with the 0.

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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 23/01/2025

Today we’re confirming a few things about #ATmosphereConf * we’re going to be holding the first #atproto conference in Seattle * join us March 22nd & March 23rd Read on for some more updates.

atprotocol.dev

ATmosphereConf: Confirming Seattle, Organizers, & first sponsor

We're confirming that ATmosphereConf will be in Seattle, on March 22nd & 23rd, as well as announcing our organizers and initial sponsor

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Somehow only just became aware of LlooM, a toolkit that uses a combination of clustering and prompts to extract concepts and describe custom datasets — similar to a topic model. Looks nice, with lots of documentation and open colab notebooks! Has anyone used it? stanfordhci.github.io/lloom/about/

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What is LLooM? | LLooM

Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 16/01/2025

🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents? 🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

A screenshot of the first page of an academic figure with a list of authors and a high-level schematic figure describing Cocoa, an interactive system for co-planning and co-execution with AI agents.

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Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Incredibly amped to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on the future of news and HCI 📰📺🌐 Join us in exploring how HCI can support the production, verification and dissemination of trustworthy news in a changing world! 🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut... ⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)

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News Futures @ CHI 2025

Welcome to the News Futures Workshop @ CHI 2025! The ways in which news is produced and consumed is constantly reshaped by technological change—today, this takes the form of AI integration in newsroom...

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Hari Subramonyan @subramonyam.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Excited to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on Tools for Thought! 🎉 Join us in exploring how Generative AI can understand, protect, and augment human cognition. Submit your work to help shape this critical conversation! 🔗 Details & Submission: aka.ms/toolsforthou... ⏳ Deadline: Feb 13, 2025 (AoE)

Poster with details on the workshop: Workshop Themes:
The workshop invites a multidisciplinary community to explore questions related to Generative AI (GenAI) and human cognition:

Relevant theories and perspectives for understanding, protecting, and augmenting human thinking with GenAI.
Opportunities and challenges for designing GenAI systems that protect and augment human cognition.
Methods to study and measure the impact of current and novel GenAI systems.
The impact of GenAI on human skills and workflows.
Principles and guidelines for designing GenAI systems to protect and augment cognition.
Organizers:
The workshop is organized by a group of researchers from institutions like Microsoft Research, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, Tableau Research, University of Toronto, IBM Research, University College London, and Stanford University. Notable names include:

Lev Tanklevitch (Microsoft Research)
Elena Glassman (Harvard University)
Hari Subramonyam (Stanford University)
Goals:
To build a community and develop research frameworks, theories, principles, and systems for understanding and designing tools that use GenAI to augment or protect human cognition.

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