Social Futures Lab @SocFuturesLab

We are the Social Futures Lab at @uwcse! We are reimagining social and collaborative systems to empower people and improve society. social.cs.washington.edu Seattle, WA Joined August 2020

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Quan Ze Chen @cquanze

a month ago

Online groups and communities often need to make decisions around social concepts like what content is appropriate. But how do we ensure these decisions are aligned across human decision-makers or even AI systems? We explore this in our work (CI '25): 📜 Case Law Grounding ⚖️

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng_

a month ago

📢 New paper, published by @knightcolumbia. We often talk about AI agents augmenting vs. automating work, but how exactly can different configurations of human-agent interaction look like? We introduce a 5-level framework for AI agent autonomy to unpack this. 🧵👇

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Galen Weld (@ ICWSM 2025) @galenweld

2 months ago

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

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Andre Ye @andreiskiii

3 months ago

[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

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng_

4 months ago

🤖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 🧵👇

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Ruotong Wang @RuotongWang1

5 months ago

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)

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Allen School @uwcse

5 months ago

Inspired by his father’s study of neural networks, #UWAllen and @UWPhilosophy major @andreiskiii taught himself the subject on his way to enrolling in @UW at age 15. He just won a @PDSoros Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. at @MITEECS in #AI. pdsoros.org/fellows/andre-… #HuskyExperience

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Andre Ye @andreiskiii

5 months ago

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

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Leijie Wang @leijiewang17

6 months ago

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)

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Quan Ze Chen @cquanze

6 months ago

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)

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Leijie Wang @leijiewang17

6 months ago

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.

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Allen School @uwcse

6 months ago

When it comes to social platforms, @UW #UWAllen professor & 2025 @SloanFoundation #SloanFellow @amyxzh seeks to empower users and “make our online spaces as rich and varied as our offline ones.” Learn more about her work in the @SocFuturesLab: news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/24/all… #UWdiscovers

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Amy Zhang @amyxzh

7 months ago

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

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Allen School @uwcse

7 months ago

Zhang, whose research aims to empower people to take control of their online social experiences, is one of three @UW faculty recognized with Sloan Fellowships this year, joined by @neuroamyo in neuroscience and @UWChemistry’s @thexiaolab: washington.edu/news/2025/02/1… #UWdiscovers /2

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Allen School @uwcse

7 months ago

Huge congratulations to @UW @UWengineering #UWAllen professor @amyxzh of the @SocFuturesLab and Ph.D. alum @LydiaChilton of @ColumbiaCompSci on their selection as 2025 @SloanFoundation #SloanFellows in computer science! #ThisIsUW sloan.org/fellowships/20… 1/2

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng_

8 months ago

🤔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. 🧵

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Amy Zhang @amyxzh

8 months ago

Tomorrow at #GROUP2025, @jinayoon_ 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...

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HCI & Design at UW @uwdub

9 months ago

Our DUB REU summer internship program for undergraduates is open again for applications! Get matched with a @uwdub 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 ➡️

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Simona Liao @SimonaLiao

9 months ago

Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on researcher demographics. See results & links below👇🏼

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Amy Zhang @amyxzh

10 months ago

Congrats to @RuotongWang1 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…