Hello! I'm Alicia DeVrio.

I'm a PhD student advised by Ken Holstein at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. My work explores the power of everyday people to resist and work toward remediation of harmful algorithmic systems and their impacts.

I like to run & read for fun, but not simultaneously. My free time is spent watching musicals, eating ice cream, & visiting libraries. My favorite color is red, my favorite weaving technique is deflected doubleweave, & my favorite punctuation marks are the en dash & the interrobang.

PUBLICATIONS:

Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, & Su Lin Blodgett. A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies. To appear at CHI, 2025.
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Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Su Lin Blodgett, & Alexandra Olteanu. "I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF": Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI. To appear at ICLR Blogposts Track, 2025.
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Cella M. Sum & Alicia DeVrio. Shifting Power Through Resistance: Social justice in practice. XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students (XRDS Vol. 30, Issue 4), Summer 2024.
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Alicia DeVrio, Motahhare Eslami, & Kenneth Holstein. Building, Shifting, & Employing Power: A Taxonomy of Responses From Below to Algorithmic Harm. FAccT, 2024.
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Wesley Hanwen Deng, Bill Boyuan Guo, Alicia DeVrio, Hong Shen, Motahhare Eslami, & Kenneth Holstein. Understanding Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for User-Driven Algorithm Auditing in Industry Practice. CHI, 2023.
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Alicia DeVos, Aditi Dhabalia, Hong Shen, Kenneth Holstein, & Motahhare Eslami. Toward User-Driven Algorithm Auditing: Investigating users' strategies for uncovering harmful algorithmic behavior. CHI, 2022.
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Hong Shen*, Alicia DeVos*, Motahhare Eslami, & Kenneth Holstein. Everyday Algorithm Auditing: Understanding the power of everyday users in surfacing harmful algorithmic behaviors. CSCW, 2021.
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