Joel Wester

PhD Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction @CompSciAAU.

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

How should LLMs react if they can’t or don’t want to give you a proper answer? We find that diverting the conversation works surprisingly well for avoiding interaction breakdowns.

#CHI2024 @TimSchrills @henningpohl @nielsvberkel

Preprint: https://t.co/lrDRKm9pPC

[Sander de Jong @sdjnl]

Thanks to my co-authors for the great collaboration! @slashrune @C_JoelWester @SenuriW @jorgeandreg @nielsvberkel

📄 Paper: https://t.co/rK9OePZNrT
#FAccT25 #LLMs #ResponsibleAI #HCI #SocialConformity

[Minha Lee @minhappylee]

The submission deadline is TODAY to join our @ACM_CUI workshop on Theory of Mind in Human-CUI Interaction!
@qiaosi_wang, @C_JoelWester, Marvin Pafla, Justin Weisz, & Mei Si
https://t.co/KzQc2TnqzG

[Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang @qiaosi_wang]

🚀 We’re back! Join us for the Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction in-person workshop at CUI 2025 in Waterloo, ON, Canada on July 8! 🤖💡

Let's explore the role of ToM in human-CUI interaction. Submit your work by May 16!

🔗 Details: https://t.co/z7VpjNlovs

[Sander de Jong @sdjnl]

Our paper "Assessing Cognitive and Social Awareness among Group Members in AI-assisted Collaboration" was presented at #MUM24 earlier this month. In collaboration with @C_JoelWester @TimSchrills @carlagriggio @nielsvberkel

https://t.co/WDKZGfEHxR

[ACM CSCW @ACM_CSCW]

What do people think about LLM-powered social robots mediating health information between family members? @c_joelwester explored four designs of LLM-powered robots in such contexts in a new #CSCW24 paper: https://t.co/uNM7mPnrBE

[Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang @qiaosi_wang]

✨That’s a wrap for our first workshop on Theory of Mind in Human AI Interaction at #chi2024

💕Despite all the technical difficulties everyone was so patient, supportive, and engaged throughout the paper talks, group activities, and invited panel.

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

I had a great experience presenting our work to a packed room at #CHI2024. Take a look at our paper, which also received an honorable mention!

@TimSchrills @henningpohl @nielsvberkel @CompSciAAU

https://t.co/aHIS7KcV85

[Minha Lee @minhappylee]

Just presented our work on moral transparency https://t.co/sKyRBUbUCj All credit goes to @C_JoelWester & @nielsvberkel; thanks for this wonderful collab! We got Qs like should CUIs be confrontational? Could users & designers work together for shared moral transparency? #CUI2023

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

Happy to share that our (@minhappylee, @nielsvberkel) provocation paper will be presented at CUI’23 next week.

https://t.co/nQYxqpS7TA

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

You can find the paper here: https://t.co/TEdddCWGta

Feel free to send me a message. I’ll be in Hamburg for the full week.

Hope to see you at the conference!

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

Next stop: Hamburg and #CHI23

@sdjnl and I are currently enjoying that sweet train ride between Aalborg-Hamburg.

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

Participating in the workshop “Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design”, where I’ll share our position paper (“On Moral Manifestations in Large Language Models”) on why LLMs (such as ChatGPT) should be considered as social agents manifesting morality.

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

Together with @EikeSchneiders and @nielsvberkel, we hope our paper will generate some interesting discussions on how people make sense of social robots as they progressively grows more complex.

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

On my way to Stockholm where I’ll have the full conference experience at HRI’23 and present a short position paper at the Moral Agency workshop. Paper: https://t.co/ztRZ7yAXmf

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

More specifically, we call attention to what role subjective sense-making might have in more critical settings (such as mental health or social companionship).

[Joel Wester @C_JoelWester]

Good news! Really looking forward to do state of the art research as a PhD Fellow in the field of HCI and HCAI, with @nielsvberkel as supervisor, in the Human-Centered Computing research group at @aalborg_uni!

https://t.co/A5UmrA7h81