@inproceedings{f55570cdd42348c3a27c9a5149c992be,
title = "PaperPing: A Socially-aware AI Agent that Recommends Academic Papers to Research Group Chats with Contextualized Explanations",
abstract = "AI agents are entering group spaces to facilitate or contribute to conversations. However, without an understanding of group context, these contributions can be irrelevant or even intrusive. In this demo, we introduce a socially-aware AI agent that proactively contributes to research group chats by posting context-aware messages that contain paper recommendations and contextualized explanations. To achieve this, PaperPing instantiates Social-RAG [14]. It retrieves relevant interactions in the group context, builds a social knowledge base, and extracts social signals to contextualize the generated messages. PaperPing has been deployed in 18 channels as part of a user study for at least 3 months, reaching 500+ researchers. As part of the demo, we will demonstrate PaperPing in a Slack workspace open to all CSCW attendees during and after the conference, allowing researchers to explore the interactions in real settings with the side benefits of fostering collaborative learning within the community.",
keywords = "AI agent, group communication, large language models, recommender systems, retrieval augmented generation",
author = "Ruotong Wang and Chang, \{Joseph Chee\} and Xinyi Zhou and Jonathan Bragg and Lin Qiu and Zhang, \{Amy X.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2025 ; Conference date: 18-10-2025 Through 22-10-2025",
year = "2025",
month = oct,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1145/3715070.3757230",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "532--535",
editor = "\{Pinatti de Carvalho\}, \{Aparecido Fabiano\} and Jessica Vitak and Xiaojuan Ma and Xinru Page and Chiara Rossitto and Su, \{Norman Makoto\} and Louise Barkhuus and Louise Barkhuus and Monica Divitini and Hughes, \{Amanda Lee\} and Jina Huh-Yoo and Claudia Ignat and Ryan Kelly and Kurt Luther and Scott McCrickard and David McDonald and Jessica Pater and Hilda Tellioglu and Adriana Vivacqua and Hao-Chuan Wang and Jie Cai and Maia Jacobs and Stigberg, \{Susanne Koch\}",
booktitle = "CSCW Companion 2025 - Companion of the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
address = "United States",
}