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@inproceedings{Murgia2016CHI,
author = {Alessandro Murgia and Daan Janssens and Serge Demeyer and
Bogdan Vasilescu},
booktitle = {Proceedings {CHI2016} (the 2016 International
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) --
Late Breaking Work},
note = {Acceptance ratio: 281/647 = 43\%},
pages = {1272 -- 1279},
publisher = {ACM},
title = {Among the Machines: Human-Bot Interaction on Social
{Q}\&{A} Websites},
year = {2016},
abstract = {With the rise of social media and advancements in AI
technology, human-bot interaction will soon be
commonplace. In this paper we explore human-bot
interaction in STACK OVERFLOW, a question and answer
website for developers. For this purpose, we built a
bot emulating an ordinary user answering questions
concerning the resolution of git error messages. In a
first run this bot impersonated a human, while in a
second run the same bot revealed its machine
identity. Despite being functionally identical, the
two bot variants elicited quite different reactions.},
annote = {internationalconference},
top = {A* in CORE2014},
doi = {10.1145/2851581.2892311},
}