Thank you to everyone for your energy and enthusiasm in joining this adventure with me so far!
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Michael Bernstein
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Michael Bernstein
@msbernst
@stanford Professor of Computer Science, @simile_ai co-founder, nationally bestselling author. I build interactive, social, and societal tech.
- I've been wrestling with the gap between HCI curricula, which tend to focus on the design process, and the big theories and ideas that animate us in HCI. Here's a model that has starting working well at @StanfordHCI:
- Despite the promise of AIs improving human decision making, a frustratingly resilient research result has found that people with AI decision-making aids are no better than people alone or AIs alone. Why? Overreliance: we take the AI's recommendations even when we shouldn't.
- It was this, or teaching evaluations.
- Thank you to my amazing students and collaborators!!!Our very own @msbernst won a best paper award in all CHI, CSCW, and UIST this year! Congratulations!!!
- Congratulations to @joon_s_pk and team on the #UIST2023 Best Paper Award for Generative Agents! Happily, we already know that the agents can throw a party in celebration.
The #UIST2023 best paper awards and honorable mentions have been announced: programs.sigchi.org/uist/2023/awar… Congrats to all the authors and thanks to Andy Wilson, who served as Awards Chair. Excited to see these papers and more next week - last chance to register at Standard Rate! - What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @amyxzh, myself, @karger, and @answergarden that will appear at #cscw2024 arxiv.org/abs/2402.05388
- Wow. Wowowow. Only three other faculty in my department have ever won this, and they're all amazing. news.stanford.edu/report/2022/10…
- They kept saying that I looked like an “older, retired Tom Holland”. And now my PhD students have celebrated my birthday with the most on-brand custom bobblehead possible.
- Fully 80% of papers at UIST from 1990-2010 have been cited by US patents. 20% overall at CHI+CSCW+ Ubicomp+UIST; 13% of papers at all @sigchi sponsored venues. AAAI/IJCAI are 5%, ACL/EMNLP/NAACL are 11%, CVPR/ICCV/ECCV are 25%.
- If you're interested in AI and social media, apply for this postdoc position at @Stanford: hci.stanford.edu/postdoc.php
- People using explainable AIs are empirically no better at decision making than people working alone. @HelenasResearch, an Honorable Mention at #CSCW2023, demonstrates that this failure is because AI explanations typically require lots of cognitive effort to verify.
- Best Paper award winner AND an Impact Recognition for the same paper at #cscw2024! Amazing—congratulations @JiaChenyan and @michelle123lam!Today's social media AIs encode values—can we mitigate societal harms by making these values explicit and tuneable? Excited to share our #CSCW24 paper introducing societal objective functions, which translate social science constructs into algorithmic objectives for social media!
