Congratulations to #UWAllen Ph.D. grads Ashish Sharma and @sewonm.bsky.social, 2024 @acm.org Doctoral Dissertation Award honorees! Sharma won for #AI tools for mental health; Min received honorable mention for efficient, flexible language models. #ThisIsUW news.cs.washington.edu/2025/06/04/a...
@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance!
#CHI2025
Excited to kick off the first workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at #chi2025 (STAIG@CHI'25) with a morning poster session in a full house! Looking forward to more posters, discussions, and our keynote in the afternoon. Follow our schedule at chi-staig.github.io!
Super excited about this panel discussion!! #chi2025
The poster for STAIG@CHI'25. The title of the poster is "Keynote: Algorithmic Harm And Safety Are Sociotechnical, But Are Our Interventions?" April 27, 2025 | PACIFICO Yokohama & Online. 16:00-16:45 Japan Standard Time. The poster also includes a headshot of Roel Dobbe and his bio. "Roel Dobbe is an Assistant Professor in Technology, Policy & Management at Delft University of Technology focusing on Sociotechnical AI Systems. He received a MSc in Systems & Control from Delft (2010) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley (2018), where he received the Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award. He was an inaugural postdoc at the AI Now Institute and New York University. His research addresses the integration and implications of algorithmic technologies in societal infrastructure and democratic institutions, focusing on issues related to safety, sustainability and justice. His projects are situated in various domains, including energy systems, public administration, and healthcare. Roel’s system-theoretic lens enables addressing the sociotechnical and political nature of algorithmic and artificial intelligence systems across analysis, engineering design and governance, with an aim to empower domain experts and affected communities. His results have informed various policy initiatives, including environmental assessments in the European AI Act as well as the development of the algorithm watchdog in The Netherlands."
📢 The First Workshop on Sociotechnical #AI Governance at #CHI2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! 🤩 We are super excited to invite Roel Dobbe from TU Delft for our keynote "Algorithmic Harm and Safety Are Sociotechnical, But Are Our Interventions?" Join us in Yokohama or online!!
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
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Thank you!!! Looking forward to seeing you at CHI!
I'm honored and humbled to receive the #IBM PhD fellowship! Thank you to my advisor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social, all my friends, mentors and collaborators at and outside #UW for the support and inspiration that push me to grow!! Congrats @shangbinfeng.bsky.social for the fellowship too!! #UWAllen
#UWAllen’s @shangbinfeng.bsky.social champions multi #LLM collaboration; fellow student @rockpang.bsky.social uncovers unintended consequences of #AI and other emerging tech. Both were recently honored with #IBM Ph.D. Fellowships: news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/27/a... #ThisIsUW #MondayMotivation
⏰ DEADLINE TODAY for STAIG @ #CHI2025 workshop ⏰ Submit a position or short research papers of up to *four* pages today!! Please check out our website for more sample topics around AI Governance: chi-staig.github.io
#AI #AIGovernance #CHI #HCI #LLM #AISafety
🚨We’ve extended the STAIG #CHI2025 paper deadline to **March 3**🚨We are accepting a wide range of submission!! Come join us in Japan to discuss how you envision the future of #AIGovernance!! #AI #HCI #GenAI
See our website: chi-staig.github.io
🚨ATTN: Are you submitting an LLM-powered contribution to CHI?🚨 Consider these questions from our review of LLM-related papers before you submit camera-ready! 👇 (New paper!)
😍 Please see details in the paper. It was so fun to work on this project with my amazing co-authors @hopeschroeder.bsky.social Kynnedy Simone Smith @s010n.bsky.social @ziangxiao.bsky.social @emtseng.bsky.social Danielle Bragg
📎Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12557
🐙Github: github.com/rrrrrrockpan...
‼️ Finally, given serious concerns around validity, reproducibility, risks, and consequences, we conclude with a practical list of 💡guiding questions💡 to prompt researchers’ reflection on the validity and appropriateness of their LLM-related work.
🌟 We found common consequences that authors have discussed, incl. economic harms, malicious use, etc. We hope this framework can help authors *anticipate* the consequences of their research more easily, something that I've been thinking about for a while: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....
😮 A bit worrisome: of the 153 papers, 130 (84.98%) used or studied a variation of the closed GPT-family models; 59 conducted some form of systems or studies that prompted LLMs but did not release the prompts. This trend adds urgency to calls for examining reproducibility in HCI.
🎭 We identified five different roles that LLMs play: LLMs as system engines, LLMs as research tools, LLMs as participants & users, LLMs as objects of study, and Users’ Perceptions of LLMs. 🌟 We hope to help authors to identify how and when to use LLMs in their next project. 🌟
🌟 However, we found less diversity in the contribution types pursued. Sampled papers predominantly center on empirical (98.7%) and artifact (61.44%) contributions, but we see a need for theoretical and methodological contributions, as well as literature review and opinion pieces.
🌟 Our study shows that researchers study LLMs across a wide range of application domains, incl. Communication & Writing, Augmenting Capabilities, etc. We hope this can help researchers identify where their interests might fit, and how to develop these areas as LLMs proliferate.
🔎 We systematically reviewed 153 LLM-related papers from CHI 2020-24. We identified 10 diverse domains where LLMs have been applied, categorized 5 distinct roles in HCI research projects, and 22 key limitations and concerns raised by authors.
🤔 Interested in how #HCI thinks about using #LLMs, or looking to understand best practices for human-LLM interaction?
🚨🚨New paper: Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review 🧵
A poster advertising the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance with a description of the workshop's core themes and faces of the organizers.
📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies.
🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io
🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025
🚨🚨 Excited to share that we're organizing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI'25 (STAIG@CHI'25)!! Join us if you're interested in exploring actionable strategies for AI governance through a sociotechnical lens! #HCI #CHI2025 #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #AI #techpolicy
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