2026

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    From Words to Widgets for Controllable LLM Generation
    Chao Zhang, Yiren Liu, Lunyiu Nie, and 3 more authors
    In Arxiv, 2026
    arXiv PDF
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    Learning User Preferences Through Interaction for Long-Term Collaboration
    Shuhaib Mehri, Priyanka Kargupta, Tal August, and 1 more author
    In ArXiv, 2026
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  3. Huang2025Termsight.png
    TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable
    Ziheng Huang, Tal August, and Hari Sundaram
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
    arXiv PDF
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    Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading
    Tal August, Andrew Head, Alexa Siu, and 5 more authors
    In , 2026
    CHI 2026 Workshop
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  5. Yu2025VOICE.png
    VOiCE: Verbalized Confidence Improves Reasoning in Open-Ended Embodied Environments
    Tianjiao Yu, Vedant Shah, Muntasir Wahed, and 4 more authors
    In Arxiv, 2026
    arXiv PDF
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    SocialVeil: Probing Social Intelligence of Language Agents under Communication Barriers
    Keyang Xuan, Pengda Wang, Chongrui Ye, and 3 more authors
    In Arxiv, 2026
    arXiv PDF
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    Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements
    Ziheng Huang, Hari Sundaram, and Tal August
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
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    Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency
    Michelle Huang, Violeta J. Rodríguez, Koustuv Saha, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
    🏆 Honorable Mention (top 5%)
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    ParseJargon: Personalized Real-time Jargon Support in Online Meetings
    Yifan Song, Wing Yee Au, Hon Yung Wong, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Demo track (ACL Demo), 2026
    arXiv PDF
  10. Liu2025Perspectra.png
    Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation
    Yiren Liu, Viraj Shah, Sangho Suh, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
    🏆 Honorable Mention (top 5%)
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    Who Plays Which Role When? Communication Role Dynamics for Peer Recognition and Team Performance Prediction
    Yifan Song, Wenxuan Wendy Shi, Brian P Bailey, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026
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    Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents
    Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
    🏆 Best Paper (top 1%)
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    From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy
    Yijun Liu, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
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2025

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    Automatic Detection of Research Values from Scientific Abstracts Across Computer Science Subfields
    Hang Jiang, Tal August, Luca Soldaini, and 2 more authors
    In Arxiv, 2025
    arXiv PDF
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    On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance
    Kevin Feng, Tae Soo Kim, Rock Yuren Pang, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Regulatable ML at NeurIPS, 2025
    🏆 Contributed talk
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    Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures
    Shaily Bhatt, Tal August, and Maria Antoniak
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
    arXiv PDF
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    Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis
    Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Tal August, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
    arXiv PDF
  5. Liu2025Crafting.png
    From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy
    Yijun Liu, and Tal August
    In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing), 2025
    🏆 Best Paper
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2024

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    Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula
    Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings), 2024
    arXiv PDF
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    Qlarify: Bridging scholarly abstracts and papers with recursively expandable summaries
    Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August, and 2 more authors
    In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2024
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    Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling
    Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024
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    Know Your Audience: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Generating Plain Language Summaries Beyond the "General" Audience
    Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
    arXiv PDF
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    Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication
    Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak, and 4 more authors
    In In Proceedings of Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024
    arXiv PDF
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    A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
    Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, and 33 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
    arXiv PDF
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    The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
    Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head, and 52 more authors
    In Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2024
    arXiv PDF
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    APPLS: A Meta-evaluation Testbed for Plain Language Summarization
    Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024
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2023

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    Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing
    Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg, and 3 more authors
    In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2023
    arXiv PDF
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    How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance
    Jackson Stokes, Tal August, Robert A Marver, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023
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    Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks
    Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing), 2023
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2022

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    Generating Scientific Definitions with Controllable Complexity
    Tal August, Katharina Reinecke, and Noah A. Smith
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022
    arXiv PDF
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    Detecting Urgency in Multilingual Medical SMS in Kenya
    Narshion Ngao, Zeyu Wang, Lawrence Nderu, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Association for the Asia Chapter of the Computational Linguistics (AACL), Student Research Workshop, 2022
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2021

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    The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations
    David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li, and 1 more author
    In The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2021
    🏆 Outstanding Study Design, selected
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    Do Cross-Cultural Differences in Visual Attention Patterns Affect Search Efficiency on Websites?
    Amanda Baughan, Nigini Oliveira, Tal August, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021
    🏆 Honorable Mention (top 5%)
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    All That’s ‘Human’ Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text
    Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021
    🏆 Outstanding Paper
    arXiv PDF

2020

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    Explain Like I am a Scientist: The Linguistic Barriers of Entry to r/science
    Tal August, Dallas Card, Gary Hsieh, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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    Characterizing the Mobile Microtask Writing Process
    Tal August, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Michael Gamon, and 1 more author
    In MobileHCI, 2020
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    Keep it Simple: How Visual Complexity and Preferences Impact Search Efficiency on Websites
    Amanda Baughan, Tal August, Naomi Yamashita, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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    Exploring the Effect of Author and Reader Identity in Online Story Writing: the StoriesInTheWild Corpus
    Tal August, Maarten Sap, Elizabeth Clark, and 2 more authors
    In First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE), 2020
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    Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis
    Tal August, Lauren Kim, Katharina Reinecke, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
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2019

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    Pay Attention, Please: Formal Language Improves Attention in Volunteer and Paid Online Experiments
    Tal August, and Katharina Reinecke
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019
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    An Implicit Dialogue Injection System for Interruption Management
    Tomoki Shibata, Alena Borisenko, Anzu Hakone, and 6 more authors
    In Augmented Human (AH), 2019
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2018

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    Framing Effects: Choice of Slogans Used to Advertise Online Experiments can Boost Recruitment and Lead to Sample Biases
    Tal August, Nigini Oliveira, Chenhao Tan, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2018
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    A Case for Design Localization: Diversity of Website Aesthetics in 44 countries
    Manuel Nordhoff, Tal August, Nigini A Oliveira, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
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