Wesley Hanwen Deng

Our work on supporting industry computing researchers in assessing, articulating, and addressing the potential negative societal impact of their work (with @wesleydeng.bsky.social and @s010n.bsky.social) is featured in this edition of Research Focus.

🚨 New CHI 2026 Workshop 🚨

PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy

I'm an even bigger fan of you!!

Supporting Industry Computing Researchers in Assessing, Articulating, and Addressing the Potential Negative Societal Impact of Their Work | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Recent years have witnessed increasing calls for computing researchers to grapple with the societal impacts of their work. Tools such as impact assessments have gained prominence as a method to uncover potential impacts, and a number of publication ...

𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬
🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention (Top 3% Submissions)
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
📆 Wed, 22 Oct | 9:00 AM, CET: Toward More Ethical and Transparent Systems and Environments

WeAudit: Scaffolding User Auditors and AI Practitioners in Auditing Generative AI | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction There has been growing interest from both practitioners and researchers in engaging end users in AI auditing, to draw upon users' unique knowledge and lived experiences. However, we know little about ...

𝐖𝐞𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭: 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈
🏆 Best Paper Awards (Top 1% Submissions)
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
📆 Mon, 20 Oct | 2:30 PM, CET: Online & AI Harms

I am beyond trilled to present two 🏆 award-winning papers 🏆 @acm-cscw.bsky.social this year CSCW in beautiful Bergen, Norway!! Broadly, I'm excited to chat about responsible AI, AI auditing and red-teaming, and human-AI interaction. Say hi if we run into each other!

The deadline for proposing a social for #FAccT2025 has been extended! Get your proposals in by Wednesday, May 21.

facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.

Our call for #FAccT2025 socials is live!

If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!

facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨

Call for Participation - ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 ⏰ Submission Deadlines and Templates Collective Intelligence 2025 offers several opportunities to share your latest research and insights. All submissions should be submitted via EasyChair by the list...

The ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 Conference is coming up. Dive into "Diverse Intelligence" & explore collective problem-solving across disciplines. Time to prepare your submission for opportunities due on May 1st: Doctoral Colloquium, CrowdCamp, Demos or Posters
ci.acm.org/2025/submit/
#ci25

2025 K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship Recipients Announced - K&L Gates Initiative in Ethics and Computational Technologies - Carnegie Mellon University 2024-2025 recipients of the K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship at CMU

Congratulations to the three 2025 recipients of the @cmu.edu K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship: HCII PhD students Wesley Deng @wesleydeng.bsky.social and Tzu-Sheng Kuo @tskuo.bsky.social and CMU Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Veronica Muriga.

🔗: www.cmu.edu/ethics-ai/ne...

A screenshot of the first page of an academic figure with a list of authors and a high-level schematic figure describing Cocoa, an interactive system for co-planning and co-execution with AI agents.

🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents?

🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

I think I know which one lol

I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

A poster advertising the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance with a description of the workshop's core themes and faces of the organizers.

📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies.

🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io
🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025

📣 New paper

Privacy harms can seem small in isolation. Viewed in aggregate, however, we realize how creepy surveillance capitalism can be. Unfortunately, these harms go unreported, blurring aggregate impacts.

Our #CSCW paper explores how to fix that: sauvikdas.com/papers/56/se...

#AcademicSky

Joining us for the second HEAL workshop at CHI 2025!! ✨🙌

heal-workshop.github.io

In a paper we’re workshopping this week at #NeurIPS2024, Ned Cooper, @wesleydeng.bsky.social, and Ben Hutchinson and I ask: what is the model of societal impacts reflected in efforts to evaluate GenAI systems?

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22985
Workshop: evaleval.github.io
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Augmenting Intelligence Augmenting Intelligence @ CMU HCII

Wrapped up the first offering of a new course @cmuhcii.bsky.social this week: Augmenting Intelligence coaugmentation.com

This was *such* a blast to teach! At our course exhibition on Wednesday, students presented posters, interactive demos, and art pieces around cognitive augmentation for...

We've been developing TAIGA (Tool for Auditing Images Generated by AI), it lets you generate images based on a prompt, compare against the images of other prompts, and discuss your findings.

Let us know if you're interested in using TAIGA for your classes or AI literacy!

taiga.weaudit.org

I work on supporting AI fairness in practice through conducting empirical study and building interactive tools!

I know! I just start switching to this app from twitter and realized where all the hot takes are