The International Conference on Human and Social Analytics (HUSO) is an annual event dedicated to advancing research at the intersection of human behavior, social dynamics, and computational analytics. Bringing together scholars and professionals from diverse disciplines, the conference serves as a platform for discussing innovations in sentiment analysis, human-computer interaction, social computing, and digital heritage analytics. From March 9 to 13, 2025, the 11th HUSO conference was held at Lisbon, Portugal.

This year COSMOS presented the paper “Resilience and Node Impact Assessment in YouTube Commenter Networks Leveraging Focal Structure Analysis” at the conference, which won the conference’s Best Paper award. Their paper examined network resilience in YouTube networks using Focal Structure Analysis (FSA). The study identified key structures in commenters and video recommendation networks that lead to the emergence of content traps feeding into the AI and algorithmic bias. Researchers evaluated their study across 35 YouTube channels discussing Indo-Pacific topics. By analyzing 308,890 videos with over 1.5 million comments, they identified several focal structures, whose removal could significantly mitigate the effects of AI bias and influence tactics. FSA identified more impactful structures than state of the art methods.