Michael Bernstein @msbernst Twitter profile

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

8 months

I've been wrestling with the gap between HCI curricula, which tend to focus on the design process, and the big theories and ideas that animate us in HCI. Here's a model that has starting working well at @StanfordHCI :

Teaching HCI Foundations and Frontiers

When there’s a vast library of theories, visions, architectures, and critiques, not every design idea has to start from the drawing board.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Despite the promise of AIs improving human decision making, a frustratingly resilient research result has found that people with AI decision-making aids are no better than people alone or AIs alone. Why? Overreliance: we take the AI's recommendations even when we shouldn't.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 month

It was this, or teaching evaluations.

Abhi Desai

@abhidesa1

1 month

They're making me tip my professor wtf @stanford 😭

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

6 months

Thank you to my amazing students and collaborators!!!

Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group

@StanfordHCI

6 months

Our very own @msbernst won a best paper award in all CHI, CSCW, and UIST this year! Congratulations!!!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

7 months

Congratulations to @joon_s_pk and team on the #UIST2023 Best Paper Award for Generative Agents! Happily, we already know that the agents can throw a party in celebration.

Sean Follmer

@dSeanMustard

7 months

The #UIST2023 best paper awards and honorable mentions have been announced: Congrats to all the authors and thanks to Andy Wilson, who served as Awards Chair. Excited to see these papers and more next week - last chance to register at Standard Rate!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Wow. Wowowow. Only three other faculty in my department have ever won this, and they're all amazing.

Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education

The program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

They kept saying that I looked like an “older, retired Tom Holland”. And now my PhD students have celebrated my birthday with the most on-brand custom bobblehead possible.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Fully 80% of papers at UIST from 1990-2010 have been cited by US patents. 20% overall at CHI+CSCW+ Ubicomp+UIST; 13% of papers at all @sigchi sponsored venues. AAAI/IJCAI are 5%, ACL/EMNLP/NAACL are 11%, CVPR/ICCV/ECCV are 25%.

Hancheng Cao (on the job market!)

@CaoHancheng

1 year

What’s the industrial impact of human-computer interaction ( #HCI ) research? Does HCI research contribute to technological inventions and products? Or are most of its insights ignored by the industry? Our #CHI2023 paper provides new evidence for these long-standing questions.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

4 months

If you're interested in AI and social media, apply for this postdoc position at @Stanford :

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @amyxzh , myself, @karger , and @answergarden that will appear at #cscw2024

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

7 months

People using explainable AIs are empirically no better at decision making than people working alone. @HelenasResearch , an Honorable Mention at #CSCW2023 , demonstrates that this failure is because AI explanations typically require lots of cognitive effort to verify.

Helena Vasconcelos' Research

@HelenasResearch

7 months

I'm presenting tomorrow (Monday, October 15th) from 11am-11:20am at #CSCW2023 during the XAI session in the Regency Room. I will be presenting our paper "Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making", which has won best paper honorable mention🤠.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

And even when explainable AIs make clear when the AI is wrong! Helena Vasconcelos's new #cscw2023 paper finally—finally!—demonstrates that explanations can reduce overreliance and increase decision-making performance even without forcing functions:

Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making

Prior work has identified a resilient phenomenon that threatens the performance of human-AI decision-making teams: overreliance, when people agree with an AI, even when it is incorrect....

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 months

@StanfordHCI 's own @landay wins a SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, the highest career award in HCI. Congratulations, James!!!

ACM SIGCHI

@sigchi

2 months

🥳👏👏Congratulations to the 2024 ACM #SIGCHI awardees! We recognize 13 SIGCHI members receiving lifetime research and practice, societal impact, and outstanding dissertation awards, as well as 10 being inducted into the SIGCHI Academy! 1/6🧵

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

6 months

Spotlight talk slides from the #uist2023 workshop on interaction with generative AI are now online:

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

I agree with the challenges facing centralized online platforms, but jumping to decentralized as the solution strikes me as a misdirection around the core design question at stake: governance.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

Join us at the upcoming #UIST2023 workshop, Architecting Novel Interactions with Generative AI Models. Featuring a keynote by Will Wright (creator of The Sims and Simcity) and Lauren Elliot (Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego)!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

7 months

Curation modeling, @WanrongHe ’s Best Paper winner at CSCW, demonstrates a method for social media to better maintain norms by naming curators and using community upvotes to estimate whether those curators would want each piece of content in the community.

Wanrong He

@WanrongHe

7 months

🎉So excited that my first HCI paper "Cura: Curation at Social Media Scale" has won Best Paper Award at CSCW! I want to give a huge thank you to my collaborators @msbernst @mitchellgordon @lindsaypopowski ! I'll be presenting this work at the conference. See you soon! #cscw2023

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

Generative agents now has an open-source repo and will appear at #UIST2023 :

Joon Sung Park

@joon_s_pk

9 months

How might we craft an artificial society that reflects human behavior? My paper, which introduced “generative agents,” will be presented at #UIST2023 and now has an open-source repo! w/ @joseph_c_obrien @carriejcai @merrierm @percyliang @msbernst 🧵

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

7 months

Stanford Engineering just launched an open-rank faculty search for researchers studying ethics and society in engineering: The search can appoint faculty in any department in engineering, including Computer Science.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Instead of centralized vs. decentralized platforms, we need to start with: what's the governance we want? Let the infrastructure fall out from that decision. Otherwise it feels like we're yelling about vim vs. emacs instead of what we ought to actually build.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

We do so many social media analyses of single platforms like Twitter. But any single platform is only a small part of the online cultural ecosystem. What are we missing by focusing on single platforms? Upcoming #cscw2022 paper: . Web-wide meme science!

A Web-Scale Analysis of the Community Origins of Image Memes | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Co...

Where do the most popular online cultural artifacts such as image memes originate? Media narratives suggest that cultural innovations often originate in peripheral communities and then diffuse to the...

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Huge congratulations to Dr. @mitchellgordon , who defended his thesis today and will soon be starting at @MITEECS as an Assistant Professor!

James Landay

@landay

1 year

So proud of @mitchellgordon and his brilliant PhD defense talk on “Human-AI Interaction Under Societal Disagreement”. Great lead advising by @msbernst ! Excellent example of human-centered AI research for @StanfordHAI . On to his faculty position @MITEECS ! Congrats!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 months

Too often, we train only skills that are easy to practice and measure. By creating a conflict simulation environment with an agent for feedback and practice, @oshaikh13 opened the door to new skills—observing that people double their use of effective conflict strategies! #chi2024

Omar Shaikh

@oshaikh13

2 months

Before taking it out on your roommate for leaving dirty dishes out, you probably want to practice your conflict resolution skills first. Expert conflict resolution trainers, however, are EXPENSIVE. What if we practiced with an angry LLM instead? 😈 #CHI24

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

23 days

CSCW AC, 2011, when I was in grad school: “I see little in this paper that I would call research. […] if it was any good it should be a commercial system by now.

The PhD Place

@ThePhDPlace

26 days

What’s the most memorable feedback you’ve received on your work?

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

A bunch of cool people (and then also me) are excited to dig into this project! Thank you for the support!

Stanford HAI

@StanfordHAI

2 years

Distressed by how social media algorithms can amplify antisocial behavior? Experts from computer science, communications, psychology, and law seek to develop an approach that encodes societal values into social media AI. (2/7)

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

8 months

Looking forward to this visit to @michigan_AI !

MichiganAI

@michigan_AI

8 months

Thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for our Michigan AI 2023 Symposium, Michael Bernstein @msbernst (Stanford) & Alexei Efros (UC Berkeley)! Thanks to our sponsors: LG AI Research (silver) and Jane Street, KLA, @Voxel51 (bronze). Free registration:

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Very cool work by @tatsu_hashimoto and colleagues: ask LLMs questions from Pew Surveys in order to measure whose opinions the model's outputs most closely reflects.

Tatsunori Hashimoto

@tatsu_hashimoto

1 year

We know that language models (LMs) reflect opinions - from internet pre-training, to developers and crowdworkers, and even user feedback. But whose opinions actually appear in the outputs? We make LMs answer public opinion polls to find out:

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

When 5% of Reddit comments ought not to be there by the subreddits' own moderation strategies—e.g., misogyny, extreme vulgarity, bigotry, personal attacks— prosocial norms fall apart. This is why I see more hope for platform design shifts than for deus ex content removal.

Joon Sung Park

@joon_s_pk

2 years

Our new research estimates that *one in twenty* comments on Reddit are violations of its norms: anti-social behaviors that most subreddits try to moderate. But almost none are moderated. 🧵 on my upcoming #cscw2022 paper w/ @josephseering and @msbernst :

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2 years

Social media designs fail when we mis-imagine how they'll behave at scale. But LLMs have learned social behaviors both good and bad—enabling us to create social simulacra that populate a prototype with thousands of accounts. High and low effort posts, trolls, rulebreaking, ...

Joon Sung Park

@joon_s_pk

2 years

How might an online community look after many people join? My paper w/ @lindsaypopowski @Carryveggies @merrierm @percyliang @msbernst introduces "social simulacra": a method of generating compelling social behaviors to prototype social designs 🧵 #uist2022

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Michael Bernstein

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1 year

I think that this leaves us with a challenge: we don't have many explainability techniques that are substantially less work to verify than completing the task manually.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 months

@michelle123lam and @AvidMldb worked together to launch a public version of her end-user audits system—congrats, all!

Michelle Lam

@michelle123lam

2 months

It's been great working with the folks from @AvidMldb to launch a public version of IndieLabel, our prototype end-user auditing system (from our CSCW22 paper)! We hope this demo can seed further discussion and future work on user-driven AI audits ✨

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Postdoc position: How should people and communities articulate how AIs should navigate difficult tradeoffs? Prof. @sanmikoyejo and I have a jointly mentored postdoctoral scholar position open at @Stanford CS starting in the fall. Information here:

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

5 months

Many objectives that have historically been out of reach for feed ranking algorithms may now be possible. As an example, @JiaChenyan and @michelle123lam demonstrated that social science constructs around democracy attitudes can be well modeled in ranking!

Chenyan Jia

@JiaChenyan

5 months

Can we design AI systems to consider democratic values as their objective functions? Our new #CSCW24 paper w/ @michelle123lam , Minh Chau Mai, @jeffhancock , @msbernst introduces a method for translating social science constructs into social media AIs (1/12)

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Congratulations, Professor @josephseering ! Can't wait to see you take flight as faculty!

Joseph Seering

@josephseering

1 year

I'm thrilled to announce that I will be joining KAIST in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Our hunch was that many of the null results fell into a valley where the cognitive costs of verifying the AI's explanation were roughly the same as the costs of doing the task yourself. When they're both nontrivially costly, people ignore the explanations and just rely on the AI.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Welcome, @Diyi_Yang ! We’re thrilled that you’re joining us!

Diyi Yang

@Diyi_Yang

2 years

Thrilled to share that I have accepted an offer to join the CS department @Stanford as an assistant professor, starting this Sept. We will continue to work on socially aware and positive #NLP . Very excited to explore new opportunities and collaborations at Stanford 😀

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

5 months

A chance to help launch @mitchellgordon 's AI+HCI group at @MITEECS !

Mitchell Gordon

@mitchellgordon

5 months

I’m recruiting PhD students and there are still a few days left to apply! If you’re excited about working at the intersection of HCI and AI, come join my new group @MITEECS . Please submit at by 12/15!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

In a governance metaphor, centralized platforms ain't democracies: by @margaretlevi @henryfarrell @timoreilly But decentralized platforms are essentially anarchic, and there are good reasons governance doesn't work that way either:

How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem

Mastodon is figuring out how to address Gab joining its platform

www.theverge.com

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

25 days

Welcome to @StanfordHCI , Carolyn! I’m thrilled that you’re coming!

carolyn zou

@cqzou

25 days

super excited to share that I'll soon be starting a PhD in computer science at @Stanford , supported by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship and @NSF fellowship!!

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1 year

Helena demonstrated through a series of five studies that if we manipulate the difficulty of the task and explanation, people do a cost-benefit tradeoff: they reduce overreliance and increase accuracy when explanations save significant effort.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

4 months

Thank you for the invite to join the SIGCHI Winter School in Colombo! I had a great time!

Dilrukshi Gamage

@Dilrukshi_LK

4 months

We, the @Colombo_SIGCHI incredibly honored to host @msbernst in #SriLanka , at the Winterschool supported by @sigchi @Google and @UCSC_LK #HCI #HCI4SoutAsia @HCI4SouthAsia

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Model sketching lets you rapidly iterate over the concepts that you want your model to capture, rather than the details of the prompt or the learning rate. Upcoming work at #chi2023 by @michelle123lam !

Michelle Lam

@michelle123lam

1 year

When building ML models, we often get pulled into technical implementation details rather than deliberating over critical normative questions. What if we could directly articulate the high-level ideas that models ought to reason over? #CHI2023 🧵

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1 year

A policy brief conveying some of the lessons of our survey experiment comparing the perceived legitimacy of different content moderation strategies. I'm not sure any of the student leads are on Twitter, so instead I'll just take this moment to remind you that @amyxzh is great.

Stanford HAI

@StanfordHAI

1 year

NEW POLICY BRIEF: Policymakers play an important role in shaping the future of online speech and content moderation. Our latest brief seeks to understand people’s perceptions of content moderation legitimacy, providing a pathway for better online platforms.

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9 months

Welcome to @StanfordHCI and @StanfordHAI ! We’re excited that you’ll be with us!

Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@[email protected])

@FarnazJ_

9 months

2 (rather overdue but still very exciting) announcements: I’ll be joining @UMichCSE as an assistant professor in fall 2024! And this year, I’ll be a postdoc at @StanfordHAI working with @sanmikoyejo and @msbernst ! Beyond thrilled for these next steps 😊

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

PhD students interested in HCOMP and Collective Intelligence: there are travel scholarships! Apply here.

Yasmine Kotturi, Ph.D.

@yasminekotturi

9 months

Student scholarships are available for HCOMP/CI @hcomp_conf 2023! Deadline to apply is Sept 10, 2023: please share to spread the word!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

"Let's think step by step" increases the bias of large language models. Avoid if your task involves social inferences! Work led by @oshaikh13 :

Omar Shaikh

@oshaikh13

1 year

Chain of Thought reasoning prompts—like "Let's think step by step"—make large language models more performant. Including, it turns out, at spewing out toxic and biased content. In our preprint, we evaluate zero-shot CoT on harmful questions & stereotypes:

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

6 months

"How might HCI engage with easy access to unintuitive statistical likelihoods of things?" by @jeffbigham

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@msbernst

1 year

This is how the internet gets a screenshot of me writing "2+2=5" on a whiteboard. Check out the video about @HelenasResearch ! Her project on XAI overreliance will appear at CSCW 2023.

Helena Vasconcelos' Research

@HelenasResearch

1 year

Do you want to learn about how explanations can help reduce overreliance on AIs? Watch this fantastic, out-of-this-world, one-of-a-kind, spectacular, etc. short video explaining our work! We put a lot of ❤️ into it and would appreciate the views.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

23 days

I’ve been using LLooM to analyze themes in student reading responses, live text feedback during talks, and course reviews. Try out the CoLab notebook!

Michelle Lam

@michelle123lam

23 days

“Can we get a new text analysis tool?” “No—we have Topic Model at home” Topic Model at home: outputs vague keywords; needs constant parameter fiddling🫠 Is there a better way? We introduce LLooM, a concept induction tool to explore text data in terms of interpretable concepts🧵

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

6 months

Congratulations on the launch, Fei-Fei!

Fei-Fei Li

@drfeifei

6 months

After 3+ years, today is the day that my book “The Worlds I See” gets to see the world itself. It is a science memoir of the intertwining histories of me becoming an #AI scientist, and the making of the modern AI itself. All versions are now on Amazon 1/

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Helena led this work, with collaborators @jorke Matthew Jörke, @MadeleineGrunde , @tobigerstenberg , me, and @RanjayKrishna . Go Helena!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

4 months

Work with faculty including @AngeleChristin (Communication), Jeanne Tsai (Psych), @jeffhancock (Communication), @jugander (MS&E), myself, Nate Persily (Law), @RobbWiller (Sociology, Psychology, Business), and @tatsu_hashimoto . Postdocs get joint mentorship by a pair of faculty.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@JessicaHullman While I’ll never be as cool as @cfiesler , once there were over 400k views on this TikTok it was clear that the correct response was for me to just own the Holland vibes

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Congratulations, @joon_s_pk !

Joon Sung Park

@joon_s_pk

2 years

I am honored to be named a 2022 Microsoft Research PhD Fellow! Thank you so much to my advisers, @msbernst and @percyliang , as well as @merrierm , @kkarahal , and everyone who shaped me as a researcher. I'm really excited to continue exploring the intersection of HCI and AI!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

Stanford's @stanfordsymsys program is hiring its first lecturer! Symbolic Systems was my undergraduate major, focused on combining minds and machines: its foci include AI, cognitive science, NLP, neuroscience, and HCI. Information and application here:

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Mass rejections have been a thorn in Mechanical Turk workers' side for a decade. In the meantime, other marketplaces have developed more mature mechanisms for handling complaints, appeals, and bad actors, which @amazon could draw on and implement. Let's make this happen.

turkopticon

@turkopticon

2 years

In February we delivered a petition to Amazon #MTurk with over 2000 signatures calling on them to amend their mass rejection policies (see ) 1/2

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

7 months

@IanArawjo The methodological pluralism of HCI, which is one source of its strength, also makes it challenging to learn the individual methodological traditions well. It’s like we come in and try to play jazz, pop rock, classical, and podcasting all in a year or two.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Thank you @jordantroutboy @joon_s_pk @lindsaypopowski @michelle123lam @mitchellgordon @beleiciabullock @josephseering !

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

@AnhongGuo @CaoHancheng @joon_s_pk It’s at !

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

4 months

We're looking for a broad set of scholars, ranging across qualitative and critical studies, quantitative data science or experimental research, policy, social computing platform design and deployment, and AI. Apply by February 20.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

Unlike typical SIGCHI workshops, UIST workshops will be open enrollment — limited spaces, first-come, first-served. There is no position paper. Just make sure to register early before it fills up. Co-organizers: @joon_s_pk @merrierm @SaleemaAmershi @LydiaChilton @mitchellgordon

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

I'm giving a remote talk at @TorontoSRI 's seminar on Wednesday:

SRI Seminar Series: Michael Bernstein, “Designing artificial intelligence to navigate societal...

Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Michael Bernstein, an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he is a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Group. In this...

srinstitute.utoronto.ca

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Methodologically, hooray on getting a paper with bootstrap estimation into #cscw2022 ! It's interesting to consider this approach as empowering audits beyond algorithms, e.g., of larger sociotechnical processes that require complicated sampling strategies.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

Research takes unpredictable turns. Joon and I were inspired by work that @unignorant began 9 years ago (!) Here's a screenshot from our original rejected paper in 2014. That rejected research later evolved into Augur (). Something something persistence?

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

@hcomp_conf and @ci_acm are integrating more deeply this year, with a joint CFP and two program subcommittees. CI adds archival publication, and HCOMP adds a non-archival option. Abstracts due 6/2.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

In blind comparisons, participants were rarely able to distinguish social simulacra from real content. In evaluation with social computing designers, @joon_s_pk and @lindsaypopowski saw designers use social simulacra to refine communities' goals, rules, and moderation responses.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

I've been interested in the recession of simulation/modeling as a method in HCI over the last 2+ decades. Since it bears repeating, don't use models instead of talking to actual people: that's A Bad Idea. But I do think that LLMs offer a fascinating lens onto human behavior.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

6 months

"Expanding the Design Space of Generative AI-Powered Applications" by @bjo3rn

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 month

@malaybhatta (It’s a joke from one of the students in my class, not real)

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

10 months

@tzushengkuo @ACMUIST Whoa, blast from the past! Thanks for sharing this.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

6 months

"Designing Generative AI for Iteration" by @magrawala

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Michael Bernstein

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2 years

@mynkgoel "Michael, you gesticulate too much while giving talks."

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

One of my favorite little investigations was coding the designs of the systems listed in a Wikipedia social media timeline () as of their launch date using Form-From. The pattern weaves back and forth between flat systems and threaded systems over time.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

7 months

Our JOTS commentary () is now a Medium post!

Tuning Our Algorithmic Amplifiers: Encoding Societal Values into Social Media AIs

by Michael S. Bernstein, Angèle Christin, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Chenyan Jia, Michelle Lam, Nicole Meister, Nathaniel…

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Asterisk 3: Collecting a dataset of lots of memes does not, it turns out, make one cool. But they can't stop me.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

@munmun10 @IanArawjo I’m a moderator on arxiv for the cs.HC category. There’s one set of (typically brief) holds where the system worries the paper may not compile correctly or be a real paper. Staff clear those pretty quickly I think.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

So just what is this thing? It's been a long time since CSCW introduced Johansen's Time-Space matrix, and at this point a vast majority of social media would fall into the different time - different place quadrant, making it not very productive as a design or theory tool.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@natematias @CASBSStanford Welcome to Stanford! It's the the tree so nice, they made it their logo.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Congratulations, @AngeleChristin !

Angèle Christin

@AngeleChristin

2 years

Emerging from maternity leave to learn this wonderful news — especially bc Viviana Zelizer has been a mentor and advocate since the first day I arrived in the US as an international student!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 month

@foil You can alternately subscribe to my Twitch channel

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

End-user audits, led by @michelle123lam , caught the attention of folks here at Stanford!

Stanford HAI

@StanfordHAI

1 year

How can we enable a broader review of algorithms’ impacts? Stanford researchers created a tool to put algorithmic auditing in the hands of impacted communities.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@JessicaHullman I feel like this is opening up new income opportunities for me. Love it!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

If you don't like our 2x3 space, there's also a full 62-dimension treatment in the appendix from our inductive process, as well as a set of 11 categories those fall into. They're more useful for fine-grained distinctions.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

9 months

@joon_s_pk quietly put the paper on arXiv back in April after the paper deadline and then planned to take a long-overdue vacation. Some folks found the paper, and the attention it got was incredible. We are so thankful for the enthusiasm. Joon did eventually take that vacation.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

@munmun10 @IanArawjo There’s another set of holds where arXiv’s category classifier disagrees with what the authors selected, and they have to wait for the primary category mod to come in, review it as complete and relevant, and mark it as good to go. That can be slower.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

Form-From asks two questions: (1) What is the principal shape, or form, of the content: either threaded or flat? (2) From where or from whom one might receive content, ranging from spaces to networks to the commons?

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

10 months

@eunicemjun @_xiang_chen_ @yanghci As the kid of two UCLA alums, I'm thrilled to see HCI taking root there!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@im__jane Do they all need to be run simultaneously? I often suggest onboarding in waves, so that you can deal with issues without getting 100 simultaneous confused issues.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@CASBSStanford @margaretlevi @chrismichel @FordFoundation @theNASEM @ssrc_org @TheAAPSS @americanacad @AmPhilSociety @APSAtweets @Hewlett_Found @SloanFoundation @RockefellerFdn Thank you, @margaretlevi , for inviting me into the @CASBSStanford orbit!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

7 months

@naz_andalibi @KatRoemmich @shanleycorvite @cassidy_pyle @nicole_ellison Congratulations!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 month

@TobyJLi @joon_s_pk Please subscribe to my Patreon for extra advising meetings

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

11 months

@mcxfrank I flinched.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

So who is originating all the image memes that get shared? It's not the periphery: internet meme production has become incredibly centralized. The more central the community to the overall web, the more diffusion events its memes originated. In our dataset, Reddit was #1 .

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@katestarbird Sending lots of support to your team! Your work is incredible!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

Congratulations, Tulsee!

Tulsee Doshi

@tulseedoshi

2 years

Thank you to @Profile_ExecMag for sharing my journey alongside so many incredible women in tech! #CodeBreakers

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

8 months

@FILWD @arvindsatya1 @StanfordHCI Yes! Check out the syllabus at

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

3 months

@jasminezroberts @StanfordHAI @landay Thank you for joining us! It was great to learn from you!

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@garrett_wollman @henryfarrell @margaretlevi @timoreilly @hrheingold Whoa, fascinating. I just went spelunking in rec.arts.sf and it's cool to see that there's still substantial activity! Reminds me of Metafilter in terms of an online group that's aged up together.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

2 years

@ishtiaqueSIA Reaching consensus on an online governance design feels like a stretch to me. But I think there are several interesting and viable governance alternatives, as @EthanZ discusses, that at least to me feel like a great start.

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Michael Bernstein

@msbernst

1 year

@harmankkaur @UMNComputerSci @grouplens Congratulations!!! Woohoo!!!!!

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