Skip to main content Link Expand (external link) Document Search Copy Copied Aug 24 Slides Intro, Syllabus and FAQs Aug 26 Slides Sociolinguistic Style Lecture Language style as audience design . Language in Society. ONLY Sections 1 and 3. Communication Accommodation Theory Aug 31 Slides Interactive Text Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta. 1992. Beyond being there . In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘92). Communicating with Interactive Articles . Distill.Sep 2 Slides NLP Applications - Health Rahul K. Arora, et al. 2025. HealthBench: Evaluating Large Language Models Towards Improved Human Health . Arxiv. Artificial Intelligence–Generated Draft Replies to Patient Inbox Messages . JAMA Network Open.Sep 7 No Class – Labor Day (all-campus holiday) Sep 9 NLP Applications - Science Juraj Gottweis, et al. 2026. Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist . Nature. ScienceAgentBench: Toward Rigorous Assessment of Language Agents for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery . ICLR 2025.Sep 14 NLP Applications - Law Neel Guha, et al. 2023. LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models . In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ‘23), Datasets and Benchmarks Track. Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools . Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Sep 16 Project Pitches Project Pitches Due Before Class Sep 21 Project Pitches Sep 23 Multilingual Doreen Osmelak, Yang Xu, Michael Hahn, and Kate McCurdy. 2026. Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication . ACL 2026. Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages . Arxiv.Sep 28 Audio In-class Assignment “Sorry, I Didn’t Catch That”: How Speech Models Miss What Matters Most . Arxiv. Challenges in Automatic Speech Recognition for Adults with Cognitive Impairment . In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘26). Sep 30 Reading Ziwei Gu, Ian Arawjo, Kenneth Li, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, and Elena L. Glassman. 2024. An AI-Resilient Text Rendering Technique for Reading and Skimming Documents . In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘24). The semantic reader project: Augmenting scholarly documents through ai-powered interactive reading interfaces . CACM.Oct 5 Writing 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). Can Good Writing Be Generative? Expert-Level AI Writing Emerges through Fine-Tuning on High Quality Books . In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘26).Oct 7 Talking Martin Porcheron, Joel E. Fischer, Stuart Reeves, and Sarah Sharples. 2018. Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life . In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘18). Toyteller: AI-powered Visual Storytelling Through Toy-Playing with Character Symbols . In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25).Oct 12 Malleable Interfaces Bryan Min, Allen Chen, Yining Cao, and Haijun Xia. 2025. Malleable Overview-Detail Interfaces . In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25). Triangulating on Possible Futures: Conducting User Studies on Several Futures Instead of Only One . In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25).Oct 14 Adaptive UI Eric Horvitz. 1999. Principles of mixed-initiative user interfaces . In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘99). Direct manipulation vs. interface agents . Interactions.Oct 19 Project Check-in Class dedicated to project work.Oct 21 Gen UI In-class Assignment Generative UI: LLMs are Effective UI Generators . Arxiv. SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ‘04). Oct 26 Project Proposals Project Proposals Due Oct 28 Project Proposals Nov 2 Grounding Herbert H. Clark and Susan E. Brennan. 1991. Grounding in Communication . In Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition. Navigating Rifts in Human-LLM Grounding: Study and Benchmark . ACL 2025.Nov 4 Computer Mediated Communication 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). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks . PNAS.Nov 9 AI-Mediated Communication Jeffrey T Hancock, Mor Naaman, and Karen Levy. 2020. AI-Mediated Communication: Definition, Research Agenda, and Ethical Considerations . Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships . Scientific Reports.Nov 11 Simulations Joon Sung Park, Joseph C. O’Brien, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, and Michael S. Bernstein. 2023. Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior . In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ‘23). Simulacrum of Stories: Examining Large Language Models as Qualitative Research Participants . In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25).Nov 16 Social Agents In-class Assignment SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents . ICLR 2024. AgentSense: Benchmarking Social Intelligence of Language Agents through Interactive Scenarios . In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025).Nov 18 Sycophancy Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim, and Dan Jurafsky. 2026. ELEPHANT: Measuring and Understanding Social Sycophancy in LLMs . ICLR 2026. Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models . ICLR 2024.Nov 23 No Class – Fall Break Nov 25 No Class – Fall Break Nov 30 Project Check-in Class dedicated to project work. Dec 2 Final Presentations Dec 7 Final Presentations Dec 9 Final Presentations Final Project Papers Due