Michael Bernstein
Professor of Computer Science and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Studies social computing and crowdsourcing, including generative agents that simulate human behavior.
Michael Bernstein's lab at Stanford works on social computing & responsible AI. 43 papers since 2023, 19 at top venues, mostly CHI and UIST. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 44%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage and DBLP, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 6
- 12 papers2024 · T1 3
- 11 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, UIST, ACL, EMNLP, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Social computing & responsible AI15 papers
- human behavior2 papers
- social computing1 paper
- crowdsourcing0 papers
- studies social0 papers
Paper list
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20268 papers
- CHI (T1)Comparing Design Metaphors and User-Driven Metaphors for Interaction Design (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Just-In-Time Objectives: A General Approach for Specialized AI Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Mapping the Spiral of Silence: Surveying Unspoken Opinions in Online Communities (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.People Can Accurately Predict Behavior of Complex Algorithms That Are Available, Compact, and Aligned CSCW031 (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Soc. Comput.Reranking Social Media Feeds: A Practical Guide for Field Experiments (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Social Media Feed Elicitation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intell. Syst.Social Skill Training With Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms (opens in a new tab)
202512 papers
- ICLR (T1)Aligning Language Models with Demonstrated Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- ICWSMBalancing Producer Fairness and Efficiency via Prior-Weighted Rating System Design (opens in a new tab)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONBurst: Collaborative Curation in Connected Social Media Communities (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Creating General User Models from Computer Use (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Finetuning LLMs for Human Behavior Prediction in Social Science Experiments (opens in a new tab)
- CHI Extended AbstractsForging an HCI Research Agenda with Artists Impacted by Generative AI (opens in a new tab)
- CHI Extended AbstractsHuman Subjects Research in the Age of Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges of Applying LLM-Simulated Data to HCI Studies (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Knoll: Creating a Knowledge Ecosystem for Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- IUIMore than Marketing? On the Information Value of AI Benchmarks for Practitioners (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Position: LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method (opens in a new tab)
- UIST AdjunctRefractor: Steerable Live Clustering for Speaker-Audience Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- Science (T1)Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization. (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONChillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Clarify: Improving Model Robustness With Natural Language Corrections (opens in a new tab)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONCommit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW CompanionCommunity-Driven Models for Research on Social Platforms (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts Using LLooM (opens in a new tab)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONConstructing a Classification Scheme-and its Consequences A Field Study of Learning to Label Data for Computer Vision in a Hospital Intensive Care Unit (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems (opens in a new tab)
- SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETYInternal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW CompanionIs Human-AI Interaction CSCW? (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Rehearsal: Simulating Conflict to Teach Conflict Resolution (opens in a new tab)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONThe Algorithm and the Org Chart: How Algorithms Can Conflict with Organizational Structures (opens in a new tab)
202311 papers
- UIST (T1)Architecting Novel Interactions With Generative AI Models (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower: A Large-scale Analysis of Patent Citations to HCI Research (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific dataCOVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions: data annotation for rapidly changing local policy information. (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.Cura: Curation at Social Media Scale (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW CompanionDesigning for AI-Powered Social Computing Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.Evaluating Human-Language Model Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Model Sketching: Centering Concepts in Early-Stage Machine Learning Model Design (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)On Second Thought, Let′s Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific dataSocial and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. (opens in a new tab)
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