Publications

People Can Accurately Predict Behavior of Complex Algorithms That Are Available, Compact, and Aligned
Lindsay Popowski, Helena Vasconcelos, Ignacio Javier Fernandez, Chijioke Chinaza Mgbahurike, Ralf Herbrich, Jeffrey Hancock, Michael S. Bernstein
Upcoming in CSCW 2026: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
arXiv

I’m In If You’re In: Action Escrows as a Design Pattern to Achieve Social Change in Online Communities
Pranav Khadpe, Lindsay Popowski, Lindy Le, Kyzyl Monteiro, Geoff Kaufman
Upcoming in CSCW 2026: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Social Media Feed Elicitation
Lindsay Popowski, Xiyuan Wu, Charlotte Zhu, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael S. Bernstein
CHI 2026: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
arXiv

Burst: Collaborative Curation in Connected Social Media Communities
Yutong Zhang, Taeuk Kang, Sydney Yeh, Anavi Baddepudi, Lindsay Popowski, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2025: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
arXiv

Commit: Online Groups with Participation Commitments
Lindsay Popowski, Yutong Zhang, and Michael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2024: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
arXiv

Cura: Curation at Social Media Scale
Wanrong He, Mitchell L. Gordon, Lindsay Popowski, and Michael S. Bernstein
CSCW 2023: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
🏆 Best Paper Award

Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems
Joon Sung Park, Lindsay Popowski, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernstein
UIST 2022: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
[Demo]

Screen2Vec: Semantic Embedding of GUI Screens and GUI Components
Toby Jia-Jun Li*, Lindsay Popowski*, Tom M. Mitchell, and Brad A. Myers
CHI 2021: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award

A Biology-based CS1: Results and reflections, ten years in
Zachary Dodds, Malia Morgan, Lindsay Popowski, Henry Coxe, Caroline Coxe, Kewei Zhou, Eliot Bush, Ran Libeskind-Hadas
SIGCSE ‘21: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Quantifying controllability in temporal networks with uncertainty
Shyan Akmal, Savana Ammons, Hemeng Li, Michael Gao, Lindsay Popowski, James C. Boerkoel Jr
AIJ: Journal of Artificial Intelligence

Dynamic Control of Probabilistic Simple Temporal Networks
Michael Gao*, Lindsay Popowski*, James C. Boerkoel Jr
AAAI 2020: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Louisa Conwill, Elizabeth Li, Meryl Ye, Jiaying Liu, Jose A. Guridi, Theia Henderson, Bingxu Han, Dennis Wang, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Susan Wyche, Yasmine Kotturi, Gillian R. Hayes, Angela D. R. Smith
CSCW 2026: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
arXiv

Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Jiaying Liu, Lindsay Popowski, Cassidy Pyle, Ahmer Arif, Gillian R. Hayes, Alexis Hiniker, Wendy Ju, Florian Mueller, Hua Shen, Sowmya Somanath, Casey Fiesler, Yasmine Kotturi
CSCW 2025: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
arXiv

Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Anna Fang, Cassidy Pyle, Guo Freeman, Ryan M. Kelly, Angela Y. Lee, Fannie Liu, Angela D. R. Smith, Alexandra To, Amy X. Zhang
CSCW 2024: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
arXiv