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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

12/ During a field deployment across six Discord communities, Botender supported community members in tailoring bot behavior to their specific needs, showcasing the usefulness of case-based provocations in facilitating collaborative bot design.

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

11/ Our validation study found these provocations more useful than standard test cases for revealing improvement opportunities and surfacing disagreements.

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10/ Botender presents case-based provocations to community members throughout the bot design process. This helps them collaboratively iterate on the bot’s prompts, review its behavior in specific cases based on these changes, and decide whether to deploy the proposed change.

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

9/ Botender generates these provocations to surface opportunities for prompt improvement, based on common issues in novice-authored prompts. In turn, these cases are also useful in surfacing differing viewpoints about desirable bot behavior within a community.

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

8/ To support this collaborative design process, we introduce 🔥case-based provocations🔥: Concrete interaction scenarios that are algorithmically generated to spark collective reflection and discussion about desirable bot behavior, rather than simply validating expected outcomes.

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

7/ To address these challenges, we present Botender, a system that supports communities in collaboratively designing LLM-powered bots that reflect their specific needs. With Botender, community members can directly propose, iterate on, and deploy custom bot behaviors on their community platform.

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

6/ Second, without a coordinated process, differing opinions among community members on how bots should behave can lead to difficulties in achieving consensus and effective collaboration.

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

5/ First, non-AI experts often focus narrowly on editing LLM prompts for a single interaction scenario, failing to account for unintended bot behavior in other relevant scenarios.

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

4/ Recently, LLMs have lowered the technical barriers to designing AI agents, allowing communities to shape the behavior of LLM-powered bots using natural language, without relying on external developers. However, several challenges exist:

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

3/ This misalignment occurs because third-party bots typically offer limited customization options. Meanwhile, developers lack the community-specific knowledge and capacity to address tailored requests over time.

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

2/ AI agents, or bots, play diverse and important roles in community governance across online platforms. However, many communities rely on third-party bots developed by outsiders that misalign with their specific needs.

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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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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

That’s so exciting! Congrats, Joel!! 🥳

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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

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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 · 04/05/2025

Thanks so much, Pedro! Looking forward to working together on CHI 26!

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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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