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Benjamin Cowan boosted:

I published a glossary of HCAI terms. Feedback is appreciated!

https://open.substack.com/pub/niloufars/p/the-glossary-of-human-centered-ai?r=av0ew&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

People at #CHI2023 we are hiring a full time assistant professor in HCI at @ucddublin! If you're interested in joining the HCI@UCD group in Dublin come find us and have a chat!

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If you are at #CHI2023 in Hamburg, consider joining us at the "Transparent Research Lunch" on Monday, April 24: http://tiny.cc/t-lunch-chi23.

Both supporters and skeptics of transparent research are welcome!

#OpenScience

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Ready for #EduCHI2023 at #CHI2023?

Join our fourth free Master Class on April 18 at 12:00 – 13:00 UTC, with Lilian G. Motti Ader, Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor, Cristiano Storni, and Lesley-Ann Noel discussing positionality in #EduCHI!

For details:
https://educhi2023.hcilivingcurriculum.org/teaching-learning-positionality-in-hci-education/

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Please share widely and remember that these Master Classes are free and open to all! (And all are welcome to register for the symposium.)
https://educhi2023.hcilivingcurriculum.org/teaching-learning-positionality-in-hci-education/

#EduCHI2023 #EduCHI #CHI2023

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A photo of a person. Instructor:
Dr Lilian G. Motti Ader is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Limerick, Ireland, affiliated to Lero – Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and the Interaction Design Centre (IDC). She holds a Bachelor of Image and Sound, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil, a Masters in Arts and Digital Media, University of Paris, France, and a PhD in HCI at the University of Toulouse, France. She has experience on interdisciplinary research in technologies for aging, digital health, and more recently 3D interaction for Augmented and Virtual Reality.

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Dr Cristiano Storni is lecturer and senior researcher in Interaction Design at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is a core member of the IDC in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems. He is a trained ethnographer and his research lies at the intersection of design and social sciences. He has been teaching for many years in the areas of HCI and Interaction Design, participatory design, Science and Technology studies and Qualitative social research. He is author of 85+ papers in a number of areas including: heath, care and self-care, social innovation, design practices, education, and sustainability.

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Dr Lesley-Ann Noel was trained as an Industrial Designer at the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Design from North Carolina State University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of the West Indies. She is an Assistant Professor at the College of Design at North Carolina State University. She is co-Chair of the Pluriversal Design Special Interest Group of the Design Research Society. She is one of the co-editors of The Black Experience in Design for Allworth (2022) and has created several design tools for critical reflection such as The Designer’s Critical Alphabet and the Positionality Wheel.

Class details:
UX designers and practitioners acknowledge users’ different skills and try to address their needs to design better products and experiences. As HCI educators, we searched for tools to help our students to recognize that they might have different perspectives from the users they will be designing for, generating bias and assumptions in the design process. Positionality refers to the personal and social constructs that define our identity, shaping how we see and interpret the world around us, as well as the way the world sees and interprets us. Practicing positionality in HCI education is a meaningful way to reflect on our teaching approaches, our measures and expectations of students’ performance and engagement. For the students, learning about positionality and reflexivity can have an impact on their design work and research, raising awareness on relationships of power and subjectivity. [Full description on website.]

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

🎯 What happens when a philosopher, a psychologist, and a computer scientist walk into a bubble tea bar to talk about Explainable AI?

Only one way to find out!

🎉 Join us at the *MAIN EVENT* for the #HCXAI workshop at #CHI2023 with our invited speakers Andrés Páez, Tania Lombrozo, and Tim Miller

✨ We're so excited for this crossover episode of the XAI multiverse!

w/ @Riedl @hal @jweisz

#AI #ML #XAI #ExplainbleAI #AIethics #ResponsibleAI #HCI #UX #academicchatter #academia

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This is an advertisement for the Main Event at the Human-centered Explainable AI (HCXAI) workshop at CHI 2023.

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

launched a website for the Special Interest Group on Creativity and Cultures in Computing:
https://chci.pages.dev/chi2023

If you will be at #CHI2023 and are interested in the future of creativity support research, please register and drop by:

📅 16:35, Apr 24 (Mon)
🏢 Room Y09 / Zoom
👥 @junkato, Jonas Frich, @luzhc, @jsquare, Kumiyo Nakakoji, @clatulip

Please refer to the official CHI program to add the SIG to your schedule:
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2023/program/content/99306

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

GM’s decision to ditch Apple CarPlay, Android Auto sparks backlash

Link: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2023/04/14/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-ford/70100598007/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573345

#apple #android

@aquigley @jbigham that coke can with sunglasses is a blast from the past! Definitely had one of those!

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

#CHI2023 is coming to Hamburg. If you do as well, feel free to join our open Slack to maximize your networking and conference experience >> https://join.slack.com/t/chi2023hamburg/shared_invite/zt-1t1amy2vq-ZgpAi~jB00IJPVOxsQ1hww

#uxevents @uxHH

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

🤖 📢 The wait is over!
The program for the #HMC preconference at #ICA23 is available now! 🎉 Get ready for an exciting mix of presentations and interactive sessions exploring authenticity in HMC.

👩🏻‍💻🧑🏾‍💻👨🏼‍💻Check out the schedule at https://humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-conference-2023/

🤖 💬 👤 Ready to join the #HMC preconference?

REGISTER NOW AT 👇🏾👇🏼👇
https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23-HumanMachine

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:
When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"
If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!
But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.
It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

CHItaly 2023 goes to Turin!
Stay tuned!
#italy #hci #ai #sigchi #sigchiitaly #chitaly #acmchi #crossinghciandai #turin #unito #polito #piedmont #torino #piemonte #interactiondesign #ux #userexperience #uxresearch #userinterface #torino #chitaly2023

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

I wrote something on why I think the stochastic parrot metaphor should be put to rest

it identifies ways in which I suspect it is now misleading and confusing people and focusses our discourse on the wrong issues

https://write.as/ulrikehahn/stochastic-parrot-is-a-misleading-metaphor-for-llms

#LLMs @philosophy @cogsci @communicationscholars

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

LLMs etc are really exciting. Along with the excitement can come anxiety, esp for folks working in the many areas that are potentially impacted by LLMs.

Computing has seen big changes before, but the real-time visibility and scope of potential change here feels different.

Everyone sees everyone doing things, so they do things, and immediately share once they have a 30-second video.

Keep two things in mind at once -- this is exciting!, but there will still be plenty of problems to work on

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

First was a fantastic presentation by @dongng on #NLP and language variation at the #CMU Language Technologies Institute. Viewing language variation as an opportunity is essential, and the work presented here, which brings in #linguistics, is going to be an important tool in understanding societal changes. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r8UegwNyaQ (2/6) #LLMs

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

Yes, we need regulation. But as we said:

"It is indeed time to act: but the focus of our concern should not be imaginary "powerful digital minds." Instead, we should focus on the very real and very present exploitative practices of the companies claiming to build them, who are rapidly centralizing power and increasing social inequities."

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

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Benjamin Cowan boosted:

BREAKING NEWS: Guy who has a massive financial stake in technology says worrying about technology is silly. Details at 11.

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

📢📢 I’m recruiting for 2 research scientist interns to work with me on #audio #UX research for #AR / #VR in 2023 at Reality Labs Research.
Must be a current #PhD student working in areas like #speech communication, #auditory attention, or social connection. More info in the job ad.
🔗 https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/791934005223513/
 #job #internship #uxr #psychology #psycholinguistics #cognition #speech #hci @psycholinguistics @audsci @cogsci

Benjamin Cowan boosted:

@bcowanhci it’s good to know the rules and the expectations on the hosts before applying especially if you are trying to stitch together a “tour” for a speaker.

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