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Department of Computer Science

Workshop on Societal Effects of AI in Mobile Social Media

Start: End: Location: Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the MobileHCI in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

Social media platforms constitute an essential part of many people’s mobile device usage. Their contents have adapted to the mobile form factor, e.g., through an increase of short-form video and content recommendation instead of navigation and active selection. Social media systems thereby have a strong influence on individuals and society, for example, concerning public discourse and opinion-making. The rise of AI-generated content and LLM-backed autonomous agents even pushes such developments.This workshop discusses social media’s recent developments and yielding positive and negative effects on our society. Participants will share their perspectives of HCI research on social media systems and the research aims they are pursuing. In this workshop, we outline opportunities in joining insights from social sciences with the potential of recent developments in Human-Computer Interaction approaches. Interface design ideas will be explored and discussed with the research community, synthesizing collective challenges, promising future directions, and strategies for research that mitigate the negative effects of AI in social media systems on our society.

Websitehttps://www.hcilab.org/aiandsociety25/

Organizers:
Florian Bemmann - LMU Munich
Matthias Schmidmaier - LMU Munich
Viktorija Paneva - LMU Munich
Doruntina Murtezaj - LMU Munich
Alexander Wiethoff - LMU Munich
Sven Mayer - TU Dortmund University