Calendar

Intro

Jan 20

Jan 22: Giles, H., & Ogay, T. (2007). Communication Accommodation Theory
Bell A. 1984. Language style as audience design. Language in Society. Sections 1 and 3.
Slides

Jan 27: Mark Bernstein. 2009. On hypertext narrative. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (HT ‘09).
Hohman, Fred & Conlen, Matthew & Heer, Jeffrey & Chau, Polo. 2020. Communicating with Interactive Articles. Distil

Jan 29: Rock Yuren Pang, Sebastin Santy, René Just, and Katharina Reinecke. 2024. BLIP: Facilitating the Exploration of Undesirable Consequences of Digital Technologies In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘24)
Bruckman, A. (2020).‘Have you thought about…’ talking about ethical implications of research. Communications of the ACM, 63(9), 38-40

Feb 3: Yijia Shao, Humishka Zope, Yucheng Jiang, Jiaxin Pei, David Nguyen, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Diyi Yang. 2025. Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce Arxiv
Roy Schwartz, Jesse Dodge, Noah A. Smith, Oren Etzioni. 2019. Green AI. Arxiv

Feb 12: Jialun Aaron Jiang, Kandrea Wade, Casey Fiesler, and Jed R Brubaker. 2021. Supporting Serendipity: Opportunities and Challenges for Human-AI Collaboration in Qualitative Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ‘21).
Hari Subramonyam, Divy Thakkar, Andrew Ku, Juergen Dieber, and Anoop K. Sinha. 2025. Prototyping with Prompts: Emerging Approaches and Challenges in Generative AI Design for Collaborative Software Teams. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25).

Feb 17: Li Lucy, Suchin Gururangan, Luca Soldaini, Emma Strubell, David Bamman, Lauren Klein, and Jesse Dodge. 2024. AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters. In Proceedings of the 2024 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL ‘24).
Suchin Gururangan, Swabha Swayamdipta, Omer Levy, Roy Schwartz, Samuel Bowman, and Noah A. Smith. 2018. Annotation Artifacts in Natural Language Inference Data. In Proceedings of the 2018 Nations of th Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL ‘18). In-class assignment

Feb 19: Jeffrey Heer, Matt Conlen, Vishal Devireddy, Tu Nguyen, and Josh Horowitz 2021. Living Papers: A Language Toolkit for Augmented Scholarly Communication . In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM User Interface Software & Technology conference (UIST’ 23).
John Joon Young Chung, Melissa Roemmele, and Max Kreminski. 2025. Toyteller: AI-powered Visual Storytelling Through Toy-Playing with Character Symbols. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25)
Feb 24: Mina Lee, Percy Liang, and Qian Yang. 2022. CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset for Exploring Language Model Capabilities. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22).
Shayan Talaei, Meijin Li, Kanu Grover, James Kent Hippler, Diyi Yang, and Amin Saberi. 2025. StorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework. In The 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’25)

Feb 26: Alisa Liu, Xiaochuang Han, Yizhong Wang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Yejin Choi, and Noah A. Smith. 2024. Tuning Language Models by Proxy. In Proceedings of First Annual Conference on Language Models (COLM)
Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Li Du, Maxwell Forbes, and Yejin Choi. 2020. The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration. ICLR In-class assignment

March 24: Ashish Sharma, Kevin Rushton, Inna Lin, David Wadden, Khendra Lucas, Adam Miner, Theresa Nguyen, and Tim Althoff. 2023. Cognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction. ACL
Justine Zhang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. 2020. Balancing Objectives in Counseling Conversations: Advancing Forwards or Looking Backwards. ACL

March 26: Yujin Potter, Shiyang Lai, Junsol Kim, James Evans, and Dawn Song. 2024. Hidden Persuaders: LLMs’ Political Leaning and Their Influence on Voters, Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xiangzhe Yuan, Jiajun Wang, Qian Wan, and Siying Hu. 2025. A Day in Their Shoes: Using LLM-Based Perspective-Taking Interactive Fiction to Reduce Stigma Toward Dirty Work. In The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’25)
March 31: Justin Cheng, Michael Bernstein, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, and Jure Leskovec. 2017. Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017)
Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock 2014. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. PNAS.

April 7: Tae Soo Kim, Yoonjoo Lee, Yoonah Park, Jiho Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Juho Kim. 2025. CUPID: Evaluating Personalized and Contextualized Alignment of LLMs from Interactions, COLM 2025
Shuyue Stella Li, Avinandan Bose, Faeze Brahman, Simon Shaolei Du, Pang Wei Koh, Maryam Fazel, and Yulia Tsvetkov. 2025. Personalized Reasoning: Just-In-Time Personalization and Why LLMs Fail At It. Arxiv.
April 9: Bai, et al., 2022. Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback, Arxiv
Ivison, et al., 2024 Unpacking DPO and PPO: disentangling best practices for learning from preference feedback. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 24). In-class assignment

April 16: Ruotong Wang, Xinyi Zhou, Lin Qiu, Joseph Chee Chang, Jonathan Bragg, and Amy X. Zhang. 2025. Social-RAG: Retrieving from Group Interactions to Socially Ground AI Generation, Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 25)
Dasom Choi, SoHyun Park, Kyungah Lee, Hwajung Hong, and Young-Ho Kim. 2025. AACessTalk: Fostering Communication between Minimally Verbal Autistic Children and Parents with Contextual Guidance and Card Recommendation. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 25).
April 21: Wei-Lin Chiang, Lianmin Zheng, Ying Sheng, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Tianle Li, Dacheng Li, Banghua Zhu, Hao Zhang, Michael I. Jordan, Joseph E. Gonzalez, and Ion Stoica. 2024. Chatbot arena: an open platform for evaluating LLMs by human preference Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 24)
Rose E. Wang, Ana T. Ribeiro, Carly D. Robinson, Susanna Loeb, and Dora Demszky. 2024 Tutor CoPilot: A Human-AI Approach for Scaling Real-Time Expertise. Arxiv.