We're asking crowd workers to do a longish task where they differentiate between items (say articles). We're worried that fatigue might inhibit differentiation. We want to introduce a break where they do sth lightweight and fun. Has anyone tried this? What activities did you use?

@andresmh @soya Thank you Andrés! 😊

Got my hood!

My work was featured in the MIT News today!

Read more on empowering users to assess the accuracy of content and see assessments from their trusted sources everywhere on the web:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/new-tool-trustnet-empowers-users-to-fight-online-misinformation-0516

What’s more, people encounter (mis)information anywhere on the web, not just on social platforms. It is unrealistic to expect that every website on the web, some the very perpetrators of misinformation, offer misinformation moderation and in a fair and rigorous way. And here’s where our CHI'24 paper comes to the rescue.

I’ve been advocating for decentralizing the power to moderate misinformation. We had a paper at #CSCW22 (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3555637) where we showed how a platform can do that. There, I built a social media platform that resembles any other, except for 2 major differences: It gives any user the power to assess content accuracy & specify whose assessment they trust. Of course platforms are unlikely to change their design so drastically, not w/o push from the outside.

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨
We show how enabling users to moderate misinformation can be deployed everywhere on the web, in a platform-agnostic manner and without support from the social platforms or individual web sites.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.11485.pdf
#CHI24
with @karger

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You can take a look at some of the work I've done here https://people.csail.mit.edu/farnazj/
The topics will not be limited to these, but they can give you an idea of the type of research we’ll do.

Remember to apply by December 15!
https://cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/graduate/admissions/

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students for fall 2024 to join my new research lab at the University of Michigan CSE!

Interested in social computing systems that empower people? Consider applying!

Please spread the word 📣

@andresmh @eglassman @msbernst Thank you! 😊

2 (rather overdue but still very exciting) announcements: I’ll be joining the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in fall 2024! And this year, I’ll be a postdoc at
Stanford HAI working with @msbernst and Sanmi Koyejo!

Beyond thrilled for these next steps 😊

@andresmh @karger @arvind Thank you Andrés! 😊

PhD Defense ✅
Incredibly lucky and grateful to have been advised by @karger and to have had
@arvind and
Adam Berinsky on my dissertation committee!

@gvelez17 Hi Golda, sure, let's meet. What time works for you?

@axz I feel it has gotten worse recently and more sophisticated. Going through the responses trying to sieve out the impersonators of the user population you're targeting is not easy.

Here's a recent thread on this: https://twitter.com/SarahJTracy/status/1649151747368292352

2. rephrasing of other responses with conspicuously similar words in their response to every question except for demographics.

The survey start times for these datapoints are within a few seconds of each other. The IP addresses are different. I figured if the demographics info for these submissions is not valid, the same is true of the other responses so I discarded them all.

Has anyone encountered similar issues when administrating surveys? How do you deal with them?

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I recently posted a survey on certain subreddits to capture the perspectives of a certain user population that I could only reach on Reddit. Participants would be entered in a raffle for gift cards. When going through the responses, I identified *89%* of the entries as spams.

Some of the submissions actually looked legit. But the giveaway was that they were 1. either *verbatim* the same as multiple other submissions, or

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By a show of hands, who is going to #CHI2023? 🙋‍♀️ Looking forward to meeting new friends and catching up with old ones!

@jschmittwdc @epi Being grossly ignorant about labor laws, the rolled back bills seem to me as rather *prohibiting* child labor in some capacity, not *protecting* it. But if (clandestine) child labor is a sad reality of the society today, wouldn't it do more harm for it to be illegal than acknowledged so that the labor force can actually be granted protections?

@gvelez17 Sure, sounds interesting! Can you send me an email to set a time? farnazj@mit.edu