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	UIST 2026
	Generative Experiences for Digital Mental Health Interventions: Evidence from a Randomized Study Ananya Bhattacharjee, Michael Liut, Matthew Jörke, Diyi Yang, Emma Brunskill
	CoLM 2026
	Learning Next Action Predictors from Human-Computer Interaction Omar Shaikh, Valentin Teutschbein, Kanishk Ghandi, Yikun Chi, Nick Haber, Thomas Robinson, Nilam Ram, Byron Reeves, Sherry Yang, Michael Bernstein, and Diyi Yang
	CSCW 2026
	Reading the Room: Steerable Live Comment Clustering to Improve Speaker-Audience Understanding Poonam Sahoo, Michelle Lam, Michael Bernstein
	Nature Human Behaviour 2026
	Interaction with AI companions and psychological well-being Yutong Zhang, Dora Zhao, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Robert E. Kraut, Diyi Yang
	PNAS 2026
	Value misalignment in X’s feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement Ziv Epstein, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Tiziano Piccardi, Axel Peytavin, Isabel Gallegos, Shardul Sapkota, Dora Zhao, Johan Ugander, Michael Bernstein
	C&C 2026
	Art Card Game (ACG): Embedding Illustration in Gameplay to Mitigate Artist Self-Criticism Catherine Mullings, Michael Bernstein
	ICWSM 2026
	Whose Values? Measuring the (Subjective) Expression of Basic Human Values in Social Media Ziv Epstein, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Tiziano Piccardi, Isabel Gallegos, Dora Zhao, Johan Ugander, Michael Bernstein
	CHI 2026
	Comparing Design Metaphors and User-Driven Metaphors for Interaction Design Beleicia Bullock, James A. Landay, Michael Bernstein
	Just-In-Time Objectives: A General Approach for Specialized AI Interactions Michelle Lam, Omar Shaikh, Hallie Xu, Alice Guo, Diyi Yang, Jeffrey Heer, James Landay, Michael Bernstein   Honorable Mention
	Mapping the Spiral of Silence: Surveying Unspoken Opinions in Online Communities Dora Zhao, Diyi Yang, Michael Bernstein
	Multiplicity in Practice: Glitching the Human In/Through Personal Sensing Nava Haghighi, Colette Do, Katie Liu, Yanav Lall, James A. Landay
	Social Media Feed Elicitation Lindsay Popowski, Xiyuan Wu, Charlotte Zhu, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael Bernstein   Honorable Mention
	Through a Live Elections Dashboard, Darkly: Managing Expectations and Trust in Progressive Vote Counting During the 2024 U.S. Election Mandi Cai, Grace Wang, Chloe R. Mortenson, Fumeng Yang, Erik C. Nisbet, Matthew Kay
	Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi, Zachary Robertson, Ziv Epstein, Sanmi Koyejo, Michael Bernstein
	TSC 2026
	Reranking Social Media Feeds: A Practical Guide for Field Experiments Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia, Jeff Hancock, Jeanne Tsai, Michael Bernstein   TSC Distinguished Paper Award
	CSCW 2026
	People Can Accurately Predict Behavior of Complex Algorithms That Are Available, Compact, and Aligned Lindsay Popowski, Helena Vasconcelos, Ignacio Javier Fernandez, Chijioke Chinaza Mgbahurike, Ralf Herbrich, Jeffrey Hancock, Michael Bernstein
	ICWSM 2026
	Alexandria: A Library of Pluralistic Values for Realtime Re-Ranking of Social Media Feeds Akaash Kolluri*, Renn Su*, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael Bernstein
	IMWUT 2025
	Audio Augmentation of Manual Interactions to Support Mindfulness Yujie Tao, Jingjin Li, Libby Ye, Andrew Zhang, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Sean Follmer   VIDEO
	TOCHI 2025
	Audio Personas: Augmenting Social Perception via Body-Anchored Audio Cues Yujie Tao, Libby Ye, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Sean Follmer
	EMNLP 2025
	Finetuning LLMs for Human Behavior Prediction in Social Science Experiments Akaaash Kolluri, Shengguang Wu, Joon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein   PROJECT
	Science 2025
	Reranking Partisan Animosity in Algorithmic Social Media Feeds Alters Affective Polarization Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia, Jeffrey Hancock, Jeanne L. Tsai, and Michael Bernstein
	CSCW 2025
	Burst: Collaborative Curation in Connected Social Media Communities Yutong Zhang, Taeuk Kang, Sydney Yeh, Anavi Baddepudi, Lindsay Popowski, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael Bernstein
	MIT Press 2025
	Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work Melissa Valentine, Michael Bernstein   national bestseller
	UIST 2025
	Creating General User Models from Computer Use Omar Shaikh, Shardul Sapkota, Shan Rizvi, Eric Horvitz, Joon Sung Park, Diyi Yang, Michael Bernstein   PROJECT  best paper honorable mention
	Knoll: Creating a Knowledge Ecosystem for Large Language Models Dora Zhao, Diyi Yang, Michael Bernstein
	ICLR 2025
	Aligning Language Models with Demonstrated Feedback Omar Shaikh, Michelle Lam, Joey Hejna, Yijia Shao, Justin Cho, Michael Bernstein, and Diyi Yang
	ICML Position Papers 2025
	LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method Jacy Reese Anthis, Ryan Liu, Sean M. Richardson, Austin C. Kozlowski, Bernard Koch, James Evans, Erik Brynjolfsson, Michael Bernstein
	ICWSM 2025
	Balancing Producer Fairness and Efficiency via Prior-Weighted Rating System Design Thomas Ma, Michael Bernstein, Ramesh Johari, and Nikhil Garg.
	CHI 2025
	GPTCoach: Towards LLM-Based Physical Activity Coaching Matthew Jörke, Shardul Sapkota, Lyndsea Warkenthien, Niklas Vainio, Paul Schmiedmayer, Emma Brunskill, James A Landay
	Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a Tree Reveals Possibilites and Assumptions in Large Language Models Nava Haghighi, Sunny Yu, James Landay, Daniela Rosner
	IUI 2025
	More than Marketing? On the Information Value of AI Benchmarks for Practitioners Amelia Hardy, Anka Reuel, Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Lisa Soder, Allie Griffith, Dylan M. Asmar, Sanmi Koyejo, Michael Bernstein, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
	CSCW 2024
	"They Make Us Old Before We're Old": Designing Ethical Health Technology with and for Older Adults Jianna So, Samantha Estrada, Matthew Jörke, Eva Bianchi, Maria Wang, Nava Haghighi, Kristen L. Fessele, James A. Landay, Andrea Cuadra   Honorable Mention
	Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel Joseph Seering, Manas Khadka, Nava Haghighi, Tanya Yang, Zachary Xi, Michael Bernstein   best paper honorable mention
	Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments Lindsay Popowski, Yutong Zhang, Michael Bernstein   best paper honorable mention
	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
	The Algorithm and the Org Chart: How Algorithms Can Conflict with Organizational Structures Melissa A. Valentine, Amanda L. Pratt, Rebecca Hinds, Michael S. Bernstein
	UIST 2024
	Clarify: Improving Model Robustness With Natural Language Corrections Yoonho Lee, Michelle Lam, Helena Vasconcelos, Michael Bernstein, Chelsea Finn
	SM+S 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
	Stanford 2024
	Evaluating and Designing Computing Systems for the Future of Work Hancheng Cao
	CHI 2024
	Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts Using LLooM Michelle S. Lam, Janice Teoh, James Landay, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bernstein   PROJECT
	Rehearsal: Simulating Conflict to Teach Conflict Resolution Omar Shaikh, Valentino Chai, Michele Gelfand, Diyi Yang, and Michael Bernstein
	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   best paper
	Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems Amy X. Zhang, Michael Bernstein, David Karger, and Mark Ackerman
	UIST 2023
	Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior Joon Sung Park, Joseph O'Brien, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael Bernstein    TRY IT!   PROJECT  best paper
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