My research interests

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Project 1: Rehabilitative AI Conversations

• Can conversations with chatbots can help problematic users?
• ~10 large subreddits, large field experiment
• Tracking users before and after the intervention

Project 2: Simulating Participation Decisions

• Participation in online communities follows weird patterns
  • Power law distributions of participation per community, and per user
• Do our theretical models of participation produce these patterns?
• Using agent-based models to simulate users deciding whether and where to participate

Getting students involved

• I like to collaborate with a student on a project that they lead
• A few projects have come out of Intro to Programming course projects
  • Comparing how different subreddits perceive risk
  • Looking for parasocial relationships in YouTube comments
  • Using AI to interview trolls
  • Experiments testing how aspects of AI influence privacy perceptions