Computing platforms shape our interactions with other people: how we collaborate, how we socialize, and even how we govern. By changing these computing platforms, we change human behavior: as Winston Churchill said, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” How do we design these computing systems effectively and responsibly? My research in human-computer interaction advances systems, designs, and models for social computing systems. In doing so, I aim to shed light on long-standing research questions: How do we cross the gap between social scientific knowledge and concrete system designs that manifest this knowledge into pro-social interactions? How can we model human attitudes and behavior to help us craft technology and social policy? How should we design our computational tools if we want them to be successfully embedded into society?

Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments

Lindsay Popowski, Yutong Zhang, Michael Bernstein

CSCW 2024honorable mention

Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel

Joseph Seering, Manas Khadka, Nava Haghighi, Tanya Yang, Zachary Xi, Michael Bernstein

CSCW 2024honorable mention

The Algorithm and the Org Chart: How Algorithms Can Conflict with Organizational Structures

Melissa A. Valentine, Amanda L. Pratt, Rebecca Hinds, Michael S. Bernstein

CSCW 2024

Constructing a Classification Scheme - and Its Consequences: A Field Study of Learning to Label Data for Computer Vision in a Hospital Intensive Care Unit

Melissa A. Valentine, Roger E. Bohn, Amanda L. Pratt, Prachee Jain, Sara J. Singer, Michael Bernstein

CSCW 2024

Clarify: Improving Model Robustness With Natural Language Corrections

Yoonho Lee, Michelle Lam, Helena Vasconcelos, Michael Bernstein, Chelsea Finn

UIST 2024

Internal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms

Angèle Christin, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Chenyan Jia, Marijn N. Mado, Jeanne L. Tsai, and Chunchen Xu

SM+S 2024

Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts Using LLooM

Michelle S. Lam, Janice Teoh, James Landay, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bernstein

CHI 2024

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Rehearsal: Simulating Conflict to Teach Conflict Resolution

Omar Shaikh, Valentino Chai, Michele Gelfand, Diyi Yang, and Michael Bernstein

CHI 2024

Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems

Amy X. Zhang, Michael Bernstein, David Karger, and Mark Ackerman

CSCW 2024

Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions

Chenyan Jia*, Michelle S. Lam*, Minh Chau Mai, Jeff Hancock, Michael S. Bernstein

CSCW 2024best paper

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

Joon Sung Park, Joseph O'Brien, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael Bernstein

UIST 2023best paper

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Cura: Curation at Social Media Scale

Wanrong He, Mitchell L. Gordon, Lindsay Popowski, Michael Bernstein

CSCW 2023best paper

Commentary: Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms

Michael Bernstein, Angèle Christin, Jeffrey Hancock, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Chenyan Jia, Michelle S. Lam, Nicole Meister, Nathaniel Persily, Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Jeanne Tsai, Johan Ugander, Chunchen Xu

JOTS 2023

On Second Thought, Let’s Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning

Omar Shaikh, Hongxin Zhang, William Held, Michael Bernstein, and Diyi Yang

ACL 2023

Model Sketching: Centering Concepts in Early-Stage Machine Learning Model Design

Michelle S. Lam, Zixian Ma, Anne Li, Izequiel Freitas, Dakuo Wang, James A. Landay, Michael S. Bernstein

CHI 2023

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Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower: A Large-scale Analysis of Patent Citations to HCI Research

Hancheng Cao, Yujie Lu, Yuting Deng, Daniel McFarland, Michael Bernstein

CHI 2023best paper

Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making

Helena Vasconcelos, Matthew Jörke, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Tobias Gerstenberg, Michael Bernstein, Ranjay Krishna

CSCW 2023honorable mention

ELIGN: Expectation Alignment as a Multi-Agent Intrinsic Reward

Zixian Ma, Rose Wang, Li Fei-Fei, Michael Bernstein, Ranjay Krishna

NeurIPS 2022

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End-User Audits: A System Empowering Communities to Lead Large-Scale Investigations of Harmful Algorithmic Behavior

Michelle S. Lam, Mitchell L. Gordon, Danaë Metaxa, Jeffrey T. Hancock, James A. Landay, Michael S. Bernstein

CSCW 2022

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Measuring the Prevalence of Anti-Social Behavior in Online Communities

Joon Sung Park, Joseph Seering, Michael S. Bernstein

CSCW 2022

Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems

Joon Sung Park, Lindsay Popowski, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernstein

UIST 2022

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Socially Situated Artificial Intelligence Enables Learning From Human Interaction

Ranjay Krishna, Donsuk Li, Li Fei-Fei, Michael S. Bernstein

PNAS 2022

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Jury Learning: Integrating Dissenting Voices into Machine Learning Models

Mitchell L. Gordon, Michelle S. Lam, Joon Sung Park, Kayur Patel, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Michael S. Bernstein

CHI 2022Best Paper

A Web-Scale Analysis of the Community Origins of Image Memes

Durim Morina, Michael S. Bernstein

CSCW 2022

Comparing the Perceived Legitimacy of Content Moderation Processes: Contractors, Algorithms, Expert Panels, and Digital Juries

Christina A. Pan, Sahil Yakhmi, Tara P. Iyer, Evan Strasnick, Amy X. Zhang, Michael S. Bernstein

CSCW 2022

A "Distance Matters" Paradox: Facilitating Intra-Team Collaboration Can Harm Inter-Team Collaboration

Xinlan Emily Hu, Rebecca Hinds, Melissa A. Valentine, Michael S. Bernstein

CSCW 2022

Pride and Professionalization in Volunteer Moderation: Lessons for Effective Platform–User Collaboration

Joseph Seering, Brianna Dym, Geoff Kaufman, Michael Bernstein

JOTS 2022