Kristen Vaccaro
Associate Professor
Designs social computing systems such as feed curation and content moderation so that algorithmic decisions are understandable and contestable, including AI auditing.
Kristen Vaccaro's lab at UCSD works on social computing & responsible AI. 14 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly CHI and CSCW. 3 PhD students. 9 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 57%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 9
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 3
- 1 papers2024 · T1 1
- 5 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, CSCW, FAccT, WWW
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Social computing & responsible AI3 papers
- auditing1 paper
- moderation1 paper
- content moderation1 paper
- social computing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- CHI (T1)Deception at Scale: Deceptive Designs in 1K LLM-Generated Ecommerce Components (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)Long Story Short: Auditing U.S. Political Polarization in Recommendations for Long- vs. Short-form Videos on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Taking the Control Back: An Autoethnography of Developing Personalized Content Moderation (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- CSCW (T1)Balancing Act of Social Audio Facilitators: When Self-Promotion Overshadows Community Care (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Designing for Microaggressions (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Placebo Effect of Control Settings in Feeds Are Not Always Strong (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE S&P Special IssueThe Double Burden of Moderators: Safeguarding Communities While Facing Identity-Based Harassment (opens in a new tab)
- FAccTThe Double-Edged Sword of Behavioral Responses in Strategic Classification: Theory and User Studies (opens in a new tab)
20241 paper
20235 papers
- CHI (T1)Challenges of Moderating Social Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- RESPECTComparing Student Social Networks and Academic Experiences in Computing and Biology Courses (opens in a new tab)
- ICEREngagement and Anonymity In Online Computer Science Course Forums (opens in a new tab)
- SOUPS Privacy Threat Modeling WorkshopMisalignments Between User and Developer Privacy Threat Models (opens in a new tab)
- ASEETaking the Next Course: Facilitators and Barriers Reported by Computer Science Majors (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went9 listed
Apply to UCSDFall 2027
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