Renwen Alice Zhang
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Assistant Professor @NUSingapore @CNMnus | PhD @NorthwesternU | technology & wellbeing; interpersonal comm; human-computer interaction
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Excited to share that our paper about human-AI social interactions and their emotional implications has been officially published at
@ica_jcmc
!
Our latest JCMC paper explores the emotional implications of AI companionship by analyzing 35,000+ posts from r/replika. We uncover seven types of human-AI interactions and their links to user emotions, revealing the bittersweet "paradox of emotional connection with AI". 🤖❤️
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Got hacked by scammers and bots in a recent online survey after recruiting from Reddit. Over 4,000 responses became just 200 valid ones after a major data clean-up. These digital tricksters were craftier than anticipated. It's a new era of online scams (1/9).
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Proud supervisor moment with my first PhD graduate! 🎉 Congrats to
@zichengstephy
for excelling in her PhD journey. Now a postdoc at
@NUSComputing
, she continues studying digital well-being. Big thanks to co-advisor
@lexaaylexaay
and
@CNMnus
for invaluable support and guidance!
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Congrats to the team! Our
#CHI2024
paper analyzed nearly 1M posts on Twitter and Weibo to explore public discussions of conversational AI across cultures. The results highlight the importance of designing AI chatbots with cultural sensitivity. Preprint👉
🌟New
#CHI2024
Paper.
Thrilled to announce our new research on cross-cultural differences in public perceptions of AI conversational agents between the US and China (w/ Zihan Liu,
@AnfanChen
,
@renwenzhang
, Yi-Chieh Lee). More in this thread 🧵
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Preprint Alert🤖 Our latest review
@Nature_NPJ
shows that AI chatbots significantly reduce distress, especially in multimodal, generative AI chatbots & in clinical and elderly groups. Key to success? Quality human-AI interactions and engaging content:
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Our latest JCMC paper explores the emotional implications of AI companionship by analyzing 35,000+ posts from r/replika. We uncover seven types of human-AI interactions and their links to user emotions, revealing the bittersweet "paradox of emotional connection with AI". 🤖❤️
🚀Preprint alert! Excited to share our latest paper (with
@renwenzhang
) accepted by
@ica_jcmc
. By analyzed 35k+ screenshots and posts from Replika users, we uncovered 7 types of daily human-AI interactions and the paradox of emotional connection with AI.
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Thrilled to reveal our stellar lineup of speakers for SICSS Singapore:
@noshir
,
@he_tianyu
,
@YingdanL_kk
,
@jiaxin_pei
,
@kous2v
,
@joejps84
,
@chrischaosu2021
,
@Diyi_Yang
,
@ChaoYuVincent
,
@alvinyxz
, Prasanta Bhattacharya & Liang Ze Wong. Apply by April 15 - it’s free and fun. See👇
Computational Summer Institute is back in Singapore! If you are passionate about computational methods in social sciences, don’t miss out - apply by March 31! Stay tuned for speaker updates. More info 👉
#SICSSSingapore2024
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I passed my dissertation defense today! A huge thanks to my fantastic committee (Madhu Reddy,
@DavidCMohr
,
@nataliebazarova
,
@dagwood
), and to my mentors, colleagues, and friends for their intellectual and emotional support throughout and well beyond graduate school!
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New paper with my PhD student
@zichengstephy
and our CNM graduate Dr. Yuren Qin is out in JCMC! In this paper, we examine factors predicting toxicity and prosocial behavior in online gaming environments, highlighting the pivotal role of interdependence among game players. (1/2)
We’re happy to announce a new
#jcmc
publication titled “Toxicity and Prosocial Behaviors in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: The Role of Mutual Dependence, Power, and Passion” by
@zichengstephy
,
@renwenzhang
, and Yuren Qin! Read the article here: [] 1/4
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Computational Summer Institute is back in Singapore! If you are passionate about computational methods in social sciences, don’t miss out - apply by March 31! Stay tuned for speaker updates. More info 👉
#SICSSSingapore2024
🚨SICSS Singapore returns for the third year running! 🚨
Grad students, postdocs, and early career faculty - if you're interested in computational methods in the social sciences, apply by March 31!
Speakers to be confirmed soon - more details 👇
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#SICSSSingapore
Day 5:
@YingdanL_kk
captivated us with her fascinating research on political visual analysis and multimodal computational research. Her talk highlights the immense potential of large multimodal models (LMM) for social science research.
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Congrats to Dr.
@zichengstephy
on her successful PhD defense! 🎓 So proud and excited for your future successes!
@CNMnus
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Excited to share our latest research on AI-mediated communication and human-AI communication at
#ICA24
!
Do you know who's in the house? 🏡🔥 It's
@renwenzhang
! 📖🤩 Don’t miss the opportunity to catch her presentations at
#ICA24
and walk away with greater insights than before. 🌟
#CNM
#NUSResearch
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New pub alert🚩 We surveyed 1131 Wuhan residents, including essential workers, about their social media use during Covid. We found that passive social media is related to both healthy and unhealthy social comparisons, depending on social context (ie, quarantine status).
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Excited to share our new paper in JCMC. In this article,
@iPhiloSophia1
and I examined Facebook users’ privacy management strategies in times of stress. We found that people disclosed more on Facebook despite privacy concerns when they were highly stressed.
“Privacy Management and Self-Disclosure on Social Network Sites: The Moderating Effects of Stress and Gender” by Renwen Zhang and Jiawei Sophia Fu, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication,
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We concluded with a compelling talk by
@alvinyxz
on computational storytelling. He highlighted various projects, each starting with data, method, and question. Key message is that great computational research finds a perfect balance between these three elements. 🌟
#SICSSSingapore
Day 6: An enlightening session with
@Diyi_Yang
on leveraging LLMs in computational social science! Key insights:
1️⃣ Prioritize open-source LLMs for classification.
2️⃣ Conduct thorough cost-benefit analyses.
3️⃣ Stay vigilant about biases and potential harms.
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What an incredible week! Thanks everyone for being part of this amazing journey! Excited to see where all this energy and inspiration will lead us🚀
Just wrapped up an incredible learning experience at
#SICSS2023
in
#Singapore
! Met wonderful participants from all over the world and made lasting connections. Huge thanks to the awesome organizers at
@CNMnus
and
@NUSingapore
for making it happen.
#ComputationalSocialScience
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Had a blast at Human-centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models (HEAL) workshop
#CHI2024
. A big shout-out to the wonderful organizers!
@HonoluluCoffee
@MaunaLoaMacNut
@tongshuangwu
Great HEAL posters, including:
@sh_reya
@jdzamfi
@IanArawjo
"validate the validators" (EvalGen);
@RenwenZhang
@HanLi21152418
document ways AI companions harm users;
Katherine-Marie Robinson et al. test bias by having ChatGPT adopt a (non-)Hispanic (fe)male persona.
#CHI2024
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#SICSSSingapore
Day 1 -
@ChaoYu24
delivered an informative and engaging workshop on text sentiment analysis. The participants had a great learning experience!
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Happy to share our
#chi2021
paper co-authored with
@liltove
@DavidCMohr
, Madhu Reddy & Melina Pann: We talk about how mental health technologies can better integrate system-initiated suggestions and user-initiated customization without overburdening users.
Currently in the Mental Health (A) session! I'm in on the author side of this platform and wow it's a whole other experience. But yay
@renwenzhang
presenting our paper on designing for emotional well-being!
#CHI2021
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#1
Many survey platforms (eg, Qualtrics) offer fraud detection functions, and they are handy! ALWAYS activate IP address screening and bot detection features like CAPTCHA to block repeat offenders and bots (3/9).
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We’ll be hosting SICSS again in Singapore this summer! If you’re interested in computational methods. don’t miss out this exciting opportunity. Registration link below:
Super excited to announce that SICSS Singapore is running again this year! Grad students, postdocs, and early career faculty - if you're interested in computational methods in the social sciences, apply by March 6, 2023!
More details here:
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A big shout out to my wonderful students and collaborators
@zichengstephy
@lexaaylexaay
Xinyuan, and Chris! Catch the incredible
@zichengstephy
for her two presentations about Tiktok health comm & problematic gaming today and tomorrow!
#ica23
: "How many papers do you want to present?"
@renwenzhang
: "Yes."
Catch Renwen over FIVE DAYS of ICA as she offers her expertise on social media, health communication, and well-being! 🤳👩⚕️🏋️
#NUSResearch
#CNM
@ICA_CAT
@ICA_HMC
@ICAHealthcomm
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In our
#CHI2021
paper co-authored with
@nataliebazarova
and Madhu Reddy, we examined the factors that influence online disclosures of COVID-related distress, highlighting the pivotal roles of perceived affordances and relational closeness to the audience.
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Super excited to be included in this Handbook of Digital Inequality edited by
@eszter
, along with many stellar scholars!
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Thought the cleaning was over? Think again. Odd patterns in regression diagnostics and low reliability scores in established scales raised red flags 🚩. Turns out, data wrangling isn't just about skills, it's about vigilance.
#ResearchEthics
(9/9)
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Excited to share a preprint of our
#DIS2022
paper on designing for digital wellbeing and technology non-use. Super proud of my student
@zichengstephy
!
How can people build a healthy, intentional relationship with technology? CNM PhD candidate Zicheng Zhu, along with
@lexaaylexaay
and
@renwenzhang
, explored this question in the game context in their new paper accepted by
#DIS2022
(1/4)
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In our new study
@ijhcs_journal
, we found that AI face-editing techs encode gender biases, reinforcing a "programmed masculinity" & "gender panopticon" that monitors and restricts gender expressions.
#DesignEquity
#InclusiveTech
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#2
Eliminate near-duplicate responses. While not carbon copies, these entries show high similarity—often 80-90% identical across certain sections—suggesting duplication (4/9).
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In the afternoon,
@he_tianyu
shared her latest research on AI-assisted theory building and experimental studies. Exploring AI’s role in advancing scientific knowledge and innovation is crucial and promising.
#SICSSSingapore
Day 2 -
@chrischaosu2021
talked about his cool projects on fact-checking co-citation networks and platform policy evolution. He shared a super useful tool for archiving and analyzing platform policy changes:
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#4
Scrutinize responses from identical latitude and longitude, as they may signal bots or fraud. But sometimes legit users have location services off. Here's a trick: check the timestamps. Loads of responses from one spot in a flash are more like a bot bash (6/9).
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Huge thanks to everyone for bringing so much energy, creativity, and enthusiasm to SICSS Singapore!
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Thanks Mora for making such an amazing podcast episode! So honored to be part of it and connect to the Spanish audience - this really motivates me to learn Spanish😆
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Looking forward to the discussion about
#opensource
#health
#hardware
#software
with
@pegx_
@Tympanorg
@wessolek
@o0karen0o
Renwen Alice Zhang
@renwenzhang
Assistant Professor
@NUSingapore
@CNMnus
will speak on the panel 'Why We Need More
#OpenSource
Hardware and Software For Health Applications' at
#FOSSASIA
Summit 2022. More details at
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#3
Remove responses that fail attention checks. Our survey had 4 attention checks and we excluded responses that missed more than one (5/9).
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#SICSSSingapore
Day 6: An enlightening session with
@Diyi_Yang
on leveraging LLMs in computational social science! Key insights:
1️⃣ Prioritize open-source LLMs for classification.
2️⃣ Conduct thorough cost-benefit analyses.
3️⃣ Stay vigilant about biases and potential harms.
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#6
Exclude 'speeder' responses, defined as those completed in under half the median time—likely too quick to ensure careful attention (8/9).
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In the afternoon session, Dr. Prasanta Bhattacharya captivated us with an engaging lecture on social network analysis, bringing the concepts, methods, and applications to life with vivid examples. It was an inspiring session that left us with plenty of food for thought!
#SICSSSingapore
Day 3: Data annotation is essential for NLP/CSS research.
@jiaxin_pei
shared valuable strategies for effective data annotation, including quality control measures, and demonstrated his customizable text annotation tool POTATO:
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Surprisingly, there are few guides on detecting survey fraud and ensuring data quality. So, I'm here to share my strategies for spotting fakes (2/9).
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#SICSSSingapore
Day 4:
@kous2v
blew us away with his research on measuring well-being using social media and multimodal data! He tackled big questions like causal inference, ethical issues, and mitigating harms in computational methods.
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#5
Scrutinize the content, especially open-ended answers. Are the answers varied and detailed, or do they seem generic and repetitive? That's your sign (7/9).
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#SICSSSingapore
Day 2 -
@chrischaosu2021
talked about his cool projects on fact-checking co-citation networks and platform policy evolution. He shared a super useful tool for archiving and analyzing platform policy changes:
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Our
@CHI2020
Workshop on mental health technology ecosystems (w/
@Ellie_HCI
@SindhuErnala
@steveschueller
@munmun10
@draguilera
et al.) will be held on April 25/26 in Hawaii: . We are calling for 2-4 page position papers due on February 11th 2020.
Happy to announce our CHI 2020 Workshop, Technology Ecosystems: Rethinking Resources for Mental Health, is now open for submissions. Papers are due Feb 11th. Come join us in Hawai'i!
#CHI2020
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More tips on fraud prevention and detection in online research.
2 years ago, I posted an online survey that got 981 responses in just 4 hrs. *spoiler alert* almost all of them were from bots 🤖
Sound familiar? Check out our case study paper on fraud prevention techniques, coming to
#chi2024
!
pre-print:
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Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!
The deadline extended to June 7! Come and join our
#ICA24
preconference on computational message science on June 19 at QUT💡Check out our fantastic speakers lineup of speakers, and register here:
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#SICSSSingapore
Day 3: Data annotation is essential for NLP/CSS research.
@jiaxin_pei
shared valuable strategies for effective data annotation, including quality control measures, and demonstrated his customizable text annotation tool POTATO:
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Thrilled to have
@noshir
(
@SonicNU
) as our keynote speaker to kick off the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) in Singapore! 🚀
#SICSS2024
#ComputationalSocialScience
Our opening keynote on Monday (June 3) is by
@noshir
(
@NorthwesternU
) who will talk about "Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace"
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CFP📢 We're editing a special issue for Frontiers in Computer Science/Psychology on the topic of "Responsible AI in Healthcare". The submission deadline is 15 August 2022. See more details here: DM me if you're interested or have any questions.
📢 I’m co-editing a special issue for Frontier on the topic of
#HumanCenteredAI
and
#Healthcare
. Let me know if you are interested in submitting or reviewing papers.
Responsible AI in Healthcare: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices
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This is the most efficient and painless submission experience I've ever had, taking less than 6 months from the initial submission to final acceptance. Big shout out to JCMC editors
@nicole_ellison
@cuihua
, editorial assistant Brenna Davidson and the anonymous reviewers!
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Check out this amazing work by
@yixwang
@ndiakopoulos
on journalists' sourcing needs and practices using user-generated content and the design of a UGC sourcing tool for journalists
#CHI2021
Please check out our video presentation if you missed our live session. Looking forward to your comments/thoughts/questions
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Really enjoyed writing up the article about online communities and mental health with
@chengchengQu
for this new issue of
@XRDS_ACM
on "Is Computing Toxic? Thank
@Orson_Xu
for the invitation and the amazing XRDS team! Online copy available here:
Guest editor
@Orson_Xu
along with lead editor
@xjasminelu
knocked it out of the park with this Fall's XRDS issue on "Is Computing Toxic?". Online copy available here:
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A wonderful collaborative journey🥳
So grateful to my fellow co-organizers
@renwenzhang
@jacklqiu
for helping make it happen, and
@chris_bail
@msalganik
for the vision! It's truly incredible how SICSS has spread around the world since its inception back in 2017. We'll be back next year! 🖖
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Fabulous keynote speech by
@sgonzalezbailon
! Excited to kick off SICSS-Singapore with a group of stellar researchers:
Kicking off the first ever SICSS-Singapore with
@sgonzalezbailon
introducing the field of Computational Social Science and her personal trajectory in the field to a full room of participants (for an 8:30 am session)!
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Thank you
@naz_andalibi
for guest lecturing in my class and facilitating the great discussion of sensitive disclosure on social media!
Enjoyed talking to
@renwenzhang
's social media seminar class at
@NorthwesternU
and
@pitch_lab
today -- always lovely to see what questions my work raises for people.
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Fascinating presentation and insightful findings 🥳
I will present our paper on contextual factors for digital mental health tools at
#CHI2023
later today at 5:45 pm German time!
#digitalmentalhealth
#mentalhealth
#Context
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Our paper on the integration of patient-generated data into clinical care is out.
@JustinStarren
@15Burgess
@AMIAinformatics
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We build on and extend the theory of situational privacy and self-disclosure by
@MasurPhil
, the disclosure decision-making framework by
@naz_andalibi
, personal social media ecosystems by
@DrMichaelAnn
et al., and other inspiring work on online disclosure and privacy
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Don't miss his recent work on the observer effect on social media:
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An incredible experience at
@oiioxford
#oiisdp
Can't believe we are already more than half way through the
@oiioxford
#oiisdp
2019. As ever we have an outstanding group of visiting PhD scholars conducting cutting-edge research on societal uses of digital technologies.
#internetschool
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Meanwhile, conversational AI showed no significant improvement in psychological well-being. More research is needed to explore the long-term effects of AI chatbots on mental health, the underlying mechanisms of such effects, and the safe integration of LLMs in mental health care.
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@naz_andalibi
@NorthwesternU
@pitch_lab
Thank you for facilitating the great discussion of stigmatized disclosure on social media. My students really enjoyed reading your paper and talking with you!
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@JaeJaeykim2
@J_Chris_Li
@YingdanL_kk
Thanks for your interest! Since the speaker's talk includes work-in-progress, we prefer to keep the slides internal. Feel free to check out Dr. Lu's publications, which were covered in her talk:
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@mkrawczyk23
Thank you for sharing! Such a timely and crucial paper - wish I'd come across it sooner. Fully on board with the call for early-stage fraud prevention and a systematic approach to safeguard data integrity. Could you share your Participant Validation Guide not linked here?
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@SachinPendse
@DanielNkemelu
@nomadnico
@deletedalit
@netshrink
@munmun10
@nehakumar
Congrats, Sachin! Can't wait to read the preprint!
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@liltove
Thanks so much for inviting me! Guest lecturing is so much fun and your students are amazing!
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@naz_andalibi
Thank you Naz! This totally resonates with me. It's been really difficult to read these reactions and also some news reports, while my family and friends are looking for ways to donate and support our fellow citizens who are suffering.
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Very important and inspiring work!
As
#CHI2021
is ongoing, time to introduce three CHI papers published in last three years - all from the
#onlinedeliberation
#Singapore
project.
1. a platform
2. some interface nudges
3. a simple Q&A nudge
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@feedkoko
Just trying not to trip over my own feet up there. 😄 ICA would reach a whole new level of "slayage" if you were here too!
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@liltove
@theothertuklus
@DavidBarEl44
@greenteawarrior
@hattdesigns
The pleasure is all mine! I learnt so much from you! It’s incredible that you can handle so many things within such a short timeframe - indeed a superhuman👍
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@Zihan_Liu_525
will be presenting our paper in today’s session “Algorithmic Trust and Censorship” at Kamehameha Exhibit Hall from 11-12:20pm!
#CHI2024
🌟New
#CHI2024
Paper.
Thrilled to announce our new research on cross-cultural differences in public perceptions of AI conversational agents between the US and China (w/ Zihan Liu,
@AnfanChen
,
@renwenzhang
, Yi-Chieh Lee). More in this thread 🧵
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@jdfoote
Thank you, Jeremy, for raising this issue. It's indeed tough to balance false positives and false negatives. I've tried to eliminate obvious bots (like multiple responses with similar patterns) while keeping unique responses, but it's not perfect. Any suggestions are welcome.
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@EurekaFoong
@sig_chi
Totally agree! I was wondering if there's a mobile app for the platform so we can listen to talks while on the go.
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@SindhuErnala
@munmun10
@EricPSB
@mynatt
@Diyi_Yang
@grammarnerd
Congratulations, Sindhu! Awesome news 🥳🥳
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