Megan French

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AI-Mediated Communication: How the Perception that Profile Text was Written by AI Affects Trustworthiness

We are entering an era of AI-Mediated Communication (AI-MC) where interpersonal communication is not only mediated by technology, but is optimized, augmented, or generated by artificial intelligence. Our study takes a first look at the potential impact of AI-MC on online self-presentation. In three experiments we test…

CHI '183rd AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +1

The Algorithm and the User: How Can HCI Use Lay Understandings of Algorithmic Systems?

In studying the increasing role that opaque, algorithmically-driven systems, such as social media feeds, play in society and people’s everyday lives, user folk theories are emerging as one powerful lens with which to examine the relationship between user and algorithmic system. Folk theories allow researchers to bette…

CSCW '182nd AuthorPanel: Without a Trace: How Studying Invisible Interactions Can Help Us Understand Social Media

Panel: Without a Trace: How Studying Invisible Interactions Can Help Us Understand Social Media

Scholars studying social media have embraced the opportunities afforded by behavioral data captured by online tools to explore the implications of platform use for outcomes such as well-being, relationship maintenance, and perceptions of social capital. However, the prevalence of these methods demand that we cons…

CHI '184th AuthorContent Moderation & Platform Governance +1

How People Form Folk Theories of Social Media Feeds and What it Means for How We Study Self-Presentation

Self-presentation is a process that is significantly complicated by the rise of algorithmic social media feeds, which obscure information about one’s audience and environment. User understandings of these systems, and therefore user ability to adapt to them, are limited, and have recently been explored through the len…

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