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Michael Bernstein
@msbernst
@stanford Professor of Computer Science, @simile_ai co-founder, nationally bestselling author. I build interactive, social, and societal tech.
Stanford, CA
hci.stanford.edu/msb
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Jul 7, 2025
    Thank you to everyone for your energy and enthusiasm in joining this adventure with me so far!
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Sep 19, 2023
    I've been wrestling with the gap between HCI curricula, which tend to focus on the design process, and the big theories and ideas that animate us in HCI. Here's a model that has starting working well at @StanfordHCI:
    Slides including programmable objects, reactive environments, and activity recognition examples from CHI, UIST, CSCW
    Teaching HCI Foundations and Frontiers
    From medium.com
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Dec 14, 2022
    Despite the promise of AIs improving human decision making, a frustratingly resilient research result has found that people with AI decision-making aids are no better than people alone or AIs alone. Why? Overreliance: we take the AI's recommendations even when we shouldn't.
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Apr 9, 2024
    It was this, or teaching evaluations.
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Oct 30, 2023
    Thank you to my amazing students and collaborators!!!
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    Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group
    @StanfordHCI
    Oct 30, 2023
    Our very own @msbernst won a best paper award in all CHI, CSCW, and UIST this year! Congratulations!!!
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Oct 20, 2023
    Congratulations to @joon_s_pk and team on the #UIST2023 Best Paper Award for Generative Agents! Happily, we already know that the agents can throw a party in celebration.
    Image of a 2D pixel game world from the "Generative Agents" paper. In the paper, the agents are having a Valentine's Day party in a cafe.
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    Sean Follmer
    @dSeanMustard
    Oct 20, 2023
    The #UIST2023 best paper awards and honorable mentions have been announced: programs.sigchi.org/uist/2023/awar… Congrats to all the authors and thanks to Andy Wilson, who served as Awards Chair. Excited to see these papers and more next week - last chance to register at Standard Rate!
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Feb 21, 2024
    What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @amyxzh, myself, @karger, and @answergarden that will appear at #cscw2024 arxiv.org/abs/2402.05388
    The Form-From model describes social media designs along two main dimensions: (1)~The \textit{form} or shape that the content takes, either flat as in a chatroom or threaded as in individual posts with linked comments, and (2)~\textit{from} where a user receives content, as from spaces such as channels, from networks such as a friend graph, or from a platform-wide commons such as an algorithmic For You page. For simplicity, examples in this figure are coded as of their design at their initial launch.
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Oct 11, 2022
    Wow. Wowowow. Only three other faculty in my department have ever won this, and they're all amazing. news.stanford.edu/report/2022/10…
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Jul 12, 2022
    They kept saying that I looked like an “older, retired Tom Holland”. And now my PhD students have celebrated my birthday with the most on-brand custom bobblehead possible.
    A custom bobblehead toy with my face and Spider-Man’s body.
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Feb 28, 2023
    Fully 80% of papers at UIST from 1990-2010 have been cited by US patents. 20% overall at CHI+CSCW+ Ubicomp+UIST; 13% of papers at all @sigchi sponsored venues. AAAI/IJCAI are 5%, ACL/EMNLP/NAACL are 11%, CVPR/ICCV/ECCV are 25%.
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    Hancheng Cao
    @CaoHancheng
    Feb 28, 2023
    What’s the industrial impact of human-computer interaction (#HCI) research? Does HCI research contribute to technological inventions and products? Or are most of its insights ignored by the industry? Our #CHI2023 paper provides new evidence for these long-standing questions.
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Jan 11, 2024
    If you're interested in AI and social media, apply for this postdoc position at @Stanford: hci.stanford.edu/postdoc.php
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Nov 15, 2024
    Congratulations to @lindsaypopowski on winning the Google PhD Fellowship!
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Oct 16, 2023
    People using explainable AIs are empirically no better at decision making than people working alone. @HelenasResearch, an Honorable Mention at #CSCW2023, demonstrates that this failure is because AI explanations typically require lots of cognitive effort to verify.
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    Michael Bernstein
    @msbernst
    Nov 3, 2024
    Best Paper award winner AND an Impact Recognition for the same paper at #cscw2024! Amazing—congratulations @JiaChenyan and @michelle123lam!
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    Michelle Lam
    @michelle123lam
    Dec 8, 2023
    Today's social media AIs encode values—can we mitigate societal harms by making these values explicit and tuneable? Excited to share our #CSCW24 paper introducing societal objective functions, which translate social science constructs into algorithmic objectives for social media!
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