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Amy Winecoff

Center for Democracy & Technology
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Users in the loop: a psychologically-informed approach to similar item retrieval

AA Winecoff, F Brasoveanu, B Casavant… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems (RS) often leverage information about the similarity between items'
features to make recommendations. Yet, many commonly used similarity functions make …

Artificial concepts of artificial intelligence: institutional compliance and resistance in AI startups

AA Winecoff, EA Watkins - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Scholars and industry practitioners have debated how to best develop interventions for
ethical artificial intelligence (AI). Such interventions recommend that companies building and …

Cognitive and neural contributors to emotion regulation in aging

A Winecoff, KS LaBar, DJ Madden… - Social cognitive and …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Older adults, compared to younger adults, focus on emotional well-being. While the lifespan
trajectory of emotional processing and its regulation has been characterized behaviorally, …

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex encodes emotional value

A Winecoff, JA Clithero, RMK Carter… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays a critical role in processing appetitive
stimuli. Recent investigations have shown that reward value signals in the vmPFC can be …

[HTML][HTML] Vicarious Reinforcement in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta)

SWC Chang, AA Winecoff, ML Platt - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
What happens to others profoundly influences our own behavior. Such other-regarding
outcomes can drive observational learning, as well as motivate cooperation, charity, empathy, …

T-RECS: A simulation tool to study the societal impact of recommender systems

E Lucherini, M Sun, A Winecoff… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Simulation has emerged as a popular method to study the long-term societal consequences
of recommender systems. This approach allows researchers to specify their theoretical …

Upvotes? Downvotes? No Votes? Understanding the relationship between reaction mechanisms and political discourse on Reddit

…, S Engelmann, A Winecoff - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A significant share of political discourse occurs online on social media platforms. Policymakers
and researchers try to understand the role of social media design in shaping the quality …

Assessing fashion recommendations: A multifaceted offline evaluation approach

…, C Shukla, R Textor, S Zhang, AA Winecoff - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Fashion is a unique domain for developing recommender systems (RS). Personalization is
critical to fashion users. As a result, highly accurate recommendations are not sufficient …

Qualitative Analysis for Human Centered AI

O Papakyriakopoulos, EA Watkins, A Winecoff… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) posits that machine learning and AI should be
developed and applied in a socially aware way. In this article, we argue that qualitative analysis …

Field-building and the epistemic culture of AI safety

S Ahmed, K Jaźwińska, A Ahlawat, A Winecoff… - First Monday, 2024 - firstmonday.org
The emerging field of “AI safety” has attracted public attention and large infusions of capital
to support its implied promise: the ability to deploy advanced artificial intelligence (AI) while …