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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生

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PhD student @ CMU HCII I build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes. https://tskuo.github.io

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · Mar 10

How can we help communities collaboratively shape policies that impact them?

In our #CHI2025 paper, we present PolicyCraft, a system that supports ✨collaborative policy design✨ through case-grounded deliberation.

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ACM CHI 2025
PolicyCraft: Supporting Collaborative and Participatory Policy Design through Case-Grounded Deliberation
Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Quan Ze Chen, Amy X. Zhang, Jane Hsieh, Haiyi Zhu, Kenneth Holstein

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Theia Henderson @theias.place · 11d

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications"
@karger.bsky.social and David Clark
doi.org/10.1145/3746...

Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

doi.org

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Michelle Lam @mlam.bsky.social · 9d

LLM safety work often reasons over high-level policies (be helpful & polite), but must tackle on-the-ground cases (unsolicited money advice when stocks are mentioned). This can feel like driving on an unfamiliar road guided by a generic driver’s manual instead of a map. We introduce: Policy Maps 🗺️

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 14d

more info: www.cs.cmu.edu/~gasp

Graduate Application Support Program

www.cs.cmu.edu

Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 14d

🌟 If you’re applying to CMU SCS PhD programs, and come from a background that would bring additional dimensions to the CMU community, our PhD students are here to help!

Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program by Oct 13 to receive feedback on your application materials:

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Graduate Application Support Program. Apply by October 13, 2025.

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 22d

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use.

In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

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Sanjay Kairam @skairam.bsky.social · Sep 8

Crunching away on a paper for #CHI2026 about online communities, moderation, or sociolinguistics?

You may be want to check out recent work led by
@galenweld.bsky.social on predicting SOVC within subreddits based on the style and structure of conversations.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.08596

How Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences

Sense of Community (SOC) is vital to individual and collective well-being. Although social interactions have moved increasingly online, still little is known about the specific relationships between t...

arxiv.org

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Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social · Aug 19

The @acm-cscw.bsky.social Starter Pack is growing ahead of #CSCW2025 ! (go.bsky.app/SPumuMT) 🔥 A warm welcome to all of our new members 🔥: @imanm02.bsky.social
@jesanovi.bsky.social @shadinz.bsky.social @jaytee-ess.bsky.social @jaewonk.bsky.social @sypark9.bsky.social
New member thread 1/x

ACM-CSCW

Join the conversation

go.bsky.app

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Hanlin Li @hanlinliii.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are organizing a workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action at NeurIPS this year. As AI continues to concentrate power, we will meet in San Diego (Dec 6 or 7) for critical conversations on user coordination, labor, data protection, and community advocacy.
Submissions due August 22.
#NeurIPS2025

The image is titled Workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action. On the left are speakers, Tijana Zrnic, Incoming Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Seda Gürses, Associate Professor, TU Delft, lorian Tramèr, Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Joanna Redden, Associate Professor, Western University, and Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University.

The abstract reads:

The study of “collective action” has a long history in Economics and Sociology as a way for groups of people to impact markets and the political arena (Olson 1965; Marwell and Oliver 1993). Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA) is the study of such coordination strategies in algorithmically-mediated sociotechnical systems. Our workshop offers a platform to discuss new ideas and help define the foundational research directions for the emerging topic through interdisciplinary discussions between ML researchers, scholars from the social sciences, community stakeholders and advocates.

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other!

We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!

Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

Join us in room 2.31!

WikiNLP workshop program with keynotes, dataset panel, poster session, discussions with Wikipedia editors and more.

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yes! Please!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Jul 11

My team is organizing a workshop on information disorder at the CSCW conference (Oct 18, Bergen, Norway). We aim to convene scholars committed to understanding mis & disinfo, scams, online hate, etc. Applicants should submit 2-6 page position papers by Aug 1: cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

CSCW 2025 Information Disorder Workshop

cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

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chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Prompting is our most successful tool for exploring LLMs, but the term evokes eye-rolls and grimaces from scientists. Why? Because prompting as scientific inquiry has become conflated with prompt engineering.

This is holding us back. 🧵and new paper with @ari-holtzman.bsky.social .

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · May 31

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS!

I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · May 21

Another week, another research ethics controversy.

TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.

But let's unpack this one... 🧵

www.404media.co/researchers-...

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

www.404media.co

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Wiki Workshop 2025 @wikiworkshop.bsky.social · May 12

🚀 Curious about research on @wikipedia.org and @wikimediafoundation.org projects?

Join us at #WikiWorkshop2025, May 21–22 (virtual)!
🔹 46 research talks
🔹 Live Q&A + networking

Free registration: pretix.eu/wikimedia/wi...

Wiki Workshop 2025

May 21st – 22nd, 2025

pretix.eu

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · May 15

Somewhat oddly, the Trump regime's initial moves to cut science funding went very broad. This is catalyzing solidarity & advocacy around the value of science (see comms featuring cancer cures & tech innovation). But their next move may be to try to drive a wedge b/w "good science" & "bad science".

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Seth Frey @enfascination.com · May 6

Groups use processes to make decisions. But normal people with no training will usually run a bad process. When you just perform how you think meetings are supposed to work, without training, your meetings will be boring or bad.

AND, big secret: when everyone's trained, meetings feel good.

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · May 4

Thanks so much, Pedro! Looking forward to working together on CHI 26!

Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · May 1

Serving as the Student Volunteer Co-Chair at #CHI2025 @chi.acm.org has been an incredible experience!

A huge thank you to the 200 student volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help make the conference a success.

Looking forward to seeing you all next year in Barcelona!

A group photo of student volunteers at CHI 2025. PC: Hiroki Kaimoto

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · Apr 28

☀️ Our amazing team of student volunteers is all set and excited for the conference kickoff!

#CHI2025

opening ceremony featuring a slide for SVs

Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · Apr 27

@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance!

#CHI2025

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NLP for Wikipedia workshop (at ACL 2025) @wikinlp.bsky.social · Apr 17

📢📢📢 Second for Contributions!
Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees, and have both archival and non-archival tracks!

🗓️ deadline: April 30
Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

https://w.wiki/CumQ

t.co

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Apr 15

I would love to never see the phrase "little is known about" in a paper ever again.
(1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be.
(2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · Apr 15

Do you make custom feeds on Bluesky? We'd love to hear about your experiences as part of a research project at @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social ! Come chat with us for 45 mins and get $20 gift card. Express your interest here: forms.gle/CtoZTwCovTv8....

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · Mar 27

AI research often aims to generate Wikipedia-like content, but Wikipedia’s success lies in the underlying processes and infrastructures that enable human collaboration.

Rather than just mimicking content, we should use AI to support human collaboration. Our Wikibench paper is one such example: