After going down a rabbit hole re: U.S. TikTok's new privacy policy, I couldn't stop thinking about how even if some of the alarm was based on misleading information, it's not surprising that everyone assumes the worst. Anyway, I wrote about this: theconversation.com/fears-about-...
A search for factors for algorithm understanding results in multiple terms displayed as documents, including available, compact, and aligned. These are shown to be necessary and sufficient. Other, similar terms are shown in the background faded, like intuitive, rule-based, grounded, modular, linear, decomposable, accurate, symbolic, causal, and personalized.
Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no.
People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966
I'm hoping to share where I stand now (slides still in progress). Come ask questions and share your thoughts so I can get an even more evolved take on this. Let's chat! :)
Thanks to my collaborators
@robertwolfe
@soobincho
@jishnunair
@alexishiniker.bsky.social
I'll be sort of presenting our CSCW paper on teen social media privacy this Tuesday at 2:30pm @Bekken. "Sort of" because I wrote it quite a while ago and my views have shifted since. #CSCW2025 #teen #privacy #socialmedia #anxiety #fear
workshop happening soon!
(+will be presenting a paper on teen social media privacy on Tuesday @2pm)
#cscw2025 😊
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oh wow looks super interesting i would love to attend
with our amazing @popowski.bsky.social @lizzyjiayingliu.bsky.social @cassidypyle.bsky.social @ahmerarif @gillianrh.bsky.social @alexishiniker.bsky.social @wendyju.bsky.social @florianfloydmueller @huashen.bsky.social @sowmyasomanath.bsky.social @cfiesler.bsky.social @yasminekotturi
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Following up on last year’s Positech workshop, thrilled to announce our workshop @acm-cscw.bsky.social 2025 on how design might help us cultivate deliberate hope in the face of complex societal challenges, whether in our everyday or broader aspirations 🌱
cfp 👉 positech-cscw-2025.github.io
Omg congrats Kaitlyn!!! So we’ll deserved 🥹🥹🥹