Strong Representation At CSCW Shows Brown CS Impact In Social Computing And Human-Computer Interaction
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on Oct. 16, 2026
The twenty-ninth ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2026), held this week from October 10-14 in Salt Lake City, is widely considered a premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. This year, Brown CS community members are returning from the event with five accepted papers, and the work spans research areas ranging from activism to data maintenance to AI and mental health.
For the following, Brown CS faculty, students, and alums are shown in bold:
Papers
“The Activist’s Guide to the Decentralized Social Universe: A Framework for Exploring How Decentralized Social Networks Can Support Collective Action”
- Sybille Légitime (Brown CS PhD student advised by Harini Suresh)
- Harini Suresh (Brown CS faculty member)
“Attract & Engage Visitors for Tabular Data Maintenance: a Longitudinal Naturalistic Field Study”
- Shaun Wallace (Brown CS PhD alum advised by Jeff Huang, currently at University of Rhode Island)
- Na Kyoung Lee (Brown CS undergraduate alum, now at Meta)
- Zhengyi Peng (Brown CS undergraduate student)
- Talie Massachi (Brown CS PhD alum advised by Jeff Huang, currently at University of Pennsylvania)
- Long Do (Brown CS undergraduate alum, now at Meta)
- Surbhi Rathore (University of Rhode Island)
- Sarah M. Brown (University of Rhode Island)
- Jeff Huang (Brown CS faculty member)
“Therapy as an NLP Task: Comparing LLMs and Human Peers’ Behaviors in CBT Sessions”
- Zainab Iftikhar (Brown CS PhD student)
- Sean Ransom (Louisiana State University)
- Amy Wei Xiao (Brown University undergraduate alum, now at University of Washington)
- Nicole Nugent (Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School)
- Jeff Huang (Brown CS faculty member)
“Family-Centered AI: Building and Sustaining Connections in Multi-Generational Contexts”
- Alyssa Lanter (Brown CS PhD student advised by Diana Freed)
- Yuyuan Huang (Brown CS undergraduate student)
- Diana Freed (Brown CS faculty member)
“Rethinking How We Evaluate Postpartum AI”
- Diana Freed (Brown CS faculty member)
- Maja Mishevska (Brown CS undergraduate student)
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