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😱😱 Look what Kevin Feng did in Princeton HCI lunch!! micro.blogs.princeton.edu/@hci/113166077…

Alicia Guo Alicia Guo is a computational artist and poet based in Seattle, currently pursuing a PhD working on creativity support tools. She joins us with a talk "Learning from Poetic Practices: Creativity Through Computational Means" 1/2

Congrats to Ruotong Wang for winning the Madrona Prize at the Allen School Research Day! She won it for her pair of projects examining team communication and collaboration in remote work 👏👏👏 geekwire.com/2024/the-winni…

Our DUB REU summer internship program for undergraduates is open again for applications! Get matched with a HCI & Design at UW faculty member for a ~9 week paid internship in the summer hosted at UW to work on HCI research. Deadline is 1/31. Please share with your students! Link below ➡️

Tomorrow at #GROUP2025, Jina Yoon will present a paper on her interviews with people who voluntarily respond to misinformation online and their membership in different communities dedicated to supporting this. Each community became its own case study on the ways to design...

🤔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 to balance human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

Huge congratulations to University of Washington UW Engineering #UWAllen professor Amy Zhang of the Social Futures Lab and Ph.D. alum Lydia Chilton of ColumbiaCompSci on their selection as 2025 Sloan Foundation #SloanFellows in computer science! #ThisIsUW sloan.org/fellowships/20… 1/2

Zhang, whose research aims to empower people to take control of their online social experiences, is one of three University of Washington faculty recognized with Sloan Fellowships this year, joined by Amy Orsborn, PhD 👩‍🔬🐵 in neuroscience and UWChemistry’s Dianne Xiao: washington.edu/news/2025/02/1… #UWdiscovers /2

Congrats to Andre Ye for being named a Hertz Fellow finalist (and only finalist from UW)! hertzfoundation.org/news/52-finali…

When it comes to social platforms, University of Washington #UWAllen professor & 2025 Sloan Foundation #SloanFellow Amy Zhang seeks to empower users and “make our online spaces as rich and varied as our offline ones.” Learn more about her work in the Social Futures Lab: news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/24/all… #UWdiscovers

Are you a YouTube content creator? Curious about a simpler way to handle your comments? Join our study to try a new tool for managing your comments! 🕒 1-hour Zoom session 💰 $20 gift card for participation 👉 Sign up here: forms.gle/RuuAWoLE6zRkHe… More details below.

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)

Can LLM prompting help social media users create and iterate on their content filters more easily? In our #CHI2025 paper, we compared in an experiment three authoring strategies: 🤖prompting LLM 🔎labeling examples for ML classifiers 📐authoring keyword rules (🧵1/N)

I am so honored and excited to be a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and work on human-AI interaction at MIT EECS! I look forward to joining the incredible community of PD Soros fellows. Huge thanks to my advisors Amy Zhang Ranjay Krishna & Rose Novick for their amazing mentorship :)

Inspired by his father’s study of neural networks, #UWAllen and UW Philosophy major Andre Ye taught himself the subject on his way to enrolling in University of Washington at age 15. He just won a PD Soros Fellowships Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT EECS in #AI. pdsoros.org/fellows/andre-… #HuskyExperience

AI agents are entering online social spaces, but often their messages feel generic or intrusive. In our #CHI25 paper, we introduce Social-RAG, a workflow that grounds AI generations in the specific group context by retrieving from the group’s interaction history. 🧵(1/9)

🤖LLMs are being integrated everywhere, but how do we ensure they're delivering meaningful user experiences? In our #chi2025 paper, we empower designers to think about this via 🎨designerly adaptation🎨 of LLMs and built a Figma widget to help! 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2401.09051 🧵👇

[FAccT 2025 paper!] 🧵 Remember the March 2024 Gemini controversy? People were upset when it generated "diverse" but historically inappropriate images—like Black Founding Fathers and female Asian Nazis. This sparked our research... 1/6

If you're at #ICWSM be sure to swing by the spotlight session after lunch to check our our work on Reddit rules with Amy Zhang, Tim Althoff and Leon Leibmann! Leon is presenting an analysis of 68k rules across 5 yrs, connecting them to important community outcomes. 🧵