Michael Bernstein

@msbernst@hci.social
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Stanford CS prof, human-computer interaction and social computing. Surely I will be interesting and entertaining here, even though I failed to achieve this on Twitter.
Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program is hiring a three-year lecturer position: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/29530
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Big congratulations to Helena Vasconcelos on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/
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Coming very soon: #cscw2024 panel on "Is Human-AI Interaction CSCW?" alongside @asb, @jbigham, @andresmh, and Merrie Morris!

https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2024/program/content/179232

Conference Programs

A reviewer called @lindsay's work "a rare example of a 'full stack' CSCW paper. It is an unusual system paper that feels theoretically motivated and is evaluated experimentally against a meaningful control."

Congratulations, @lindsay!

This paper argues that online spaces become ghost towns because it's too easy to lurk without contributing, and that asking people to regularly re-commit—or the incoming messages start getting muted—reverses the trend. arxiv.org/abs/2410.23267

It works! #cscw2024 paper by @lindsay

You just got asked to review another paper; your third emoji is your review.

Our argument is that design patterns largely cluster within cells of the Form-From design space. For example, threaded spaces commonly utilize upvotes, threaded networks often use resharing, and flat networks typically require posting on a "wall" rather than a central feed.

If you don't like our 2x3 space, there's also a full 62-dimension treatment in the appendix from our inductive process, as well as a set of 11 categories those fall into. They're more useful for fine-grained distinctions.

Form-From asks two questions: (1) What is the principal shape, or form, of the content: either threaded or flat? (2)~From where or from whom one might receive content, ranging from spaces to networks to the commons?
So just what is this thing? It's been a long time since CSCW introduced Johansen's Time-Space matrix, and at this point a vast majority of social media would fall into the different time - different place quadrant, making it not very productive as a design or theory tool.