Mianhong 'Cherie' Chen

Designing User Interface Elements to Improve the Quality and Civility of Discourse in Online Commenting Behaviors

Ensuring high-quality, civil social interactions remains a vexing challenge in many online spaces. In the present work, we introduce a novel approach to address this problem: using psychologically "embedded'' CAPTCHAs containing stimuli intended to prime positive emotions and mindsets. An exploratory randomized experi…