We’re launching Ignite: Grassroots initiatives in the #HCI community to uplift and empower researchers around the world who are experiencing challenges to networking, fundraising, and travel opportunities.

You can help!
You can apply for help!
Spread the word.

http://ignite-us.team #igniteus

How proactive should an AI agent be when brainstorming with a group of humans? How do humans want to promote or constrain the AI's spontaneous contributions? Please come to our IUI 2025 talk on 27 March 10:20am. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17258

GenAICHI 2025 - Generative AI at #CHI 2025

Call for Participation

This workshop applies human centered themes to a new and powerful technology,
generative artificial intelligence. Unlike AI systems that produce decisions
or descriptions, generative AI produces new instances of diverse types of data.

Submission site:: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/GenAICHI2025
Submission deadline: 2025-02-13 midnight AOE (Anywhere On Earth)

Questions: michael_muller@us.ibm.com

The impostor syndrome label “implies that women are suffering from a crisis of self-confidence and fails to recognize the real obstacles facing professional women, especially women of color — essentially, [it] reframes systemic inequality as an individual pathology… ‘Imposter syndrome directs our view toward fixing women at work instead of fixing the places where women work.’” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-dubious-rise-of-impostor-syndrome

I have heard it said
that we are unprepared
woefully unprepared
for the next pandemic
but look around you
we are not prepared
for the current pandemic either.

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A compendium of the hundred-and-fifty-second week of plague poems…

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/plague-poems-the-hundred-and-fifty-second-week/

Xlnt exhibition of political and subjective feminist maps by Latin American artists at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art — featuring a beautiful free exhibition guide

The bigger problem with this language is that the term "hallucination" refers to pathology. In medicine, a hallucination arises a consequence of a malfunction in an organism's sensory and cognitive architecture. The "hallucinations" of LLMs are anything but pathology. Rather they are an immediate consequence of the design philosophy and design decisions that go into the creation of such AIs.

ChatGPT is not behaving pathologically when it claims that the population of Mars is 2.5 billion people—it's behaving exactly as it was designed to, making up linguistically plausible responses to dialogue, in the absence of any underlying knowledge model, and guessing when its training set offers nothing more specific.

"My language, which likes
to prove I am not

alone, wants
to talk to me again
today."

--Magdalena Zurawski
Poem: [Dog Is a Way of Thinking] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/magazine/poem-dog-is-a-way-of-thinking.html?smid=tw-share

#poetry

Responding to requests, we have extended the deadline for the workshop on Generative AI at CHI to 23 February. We are eager to learn about your work!

Workshop website: https://github.com/GenerativeAIandHCI/GenerativeAIandHCI.github.io
Submissions (up to 4 pages, ACM Conference template): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/GenAICHI2023

Responsible AI isn't akin to buy something new for the kitchen.

It's the design of the kitchen that can save you from burning down the house.

#AIethics #ResponsibleAI #AI #ML

1/ Presenting our second keynote speaker of C&C 2023:

Creative entrepreneur Martijn van de Wiel! @designsketching
Title: "Unlock Creativity – Educational Experiments in Training of Design Sketching Skills".

Martijn van de Wiel is an independent Dutch creative entrepreneur and design teacher with a background in Industrial and Spatial Design. Operating from his studio in The Hague, he teaches courses and runs workshops in the field of Design Sketching.

We look forward to see your Papers, Pictorials, Artworks, Workshops & Tutorials submissions! 🤩

Deadlines (mostly) this month:
📄🖼️ Papers, Pictorials & Artworks: Abstract & title January 23, full submissions January 30

🛠️ Workshops & Tutorials: February 10

All the info: https://cc.acm.org/2023/

The 2023 CFP is out for our second annual meeting. Join us in Oldenburg, or online, June 13-14: https://www.chiwork.org/2023-chiwork-annual-meeting-call-for-papers/

Join us January 19, 11 AM New York, 4 PM Nottingham, 5 PM Hamburg, 9:30 PM Mumbai, when @toby Li will host @hanlin Li to discuss "Data Labor and the Labor Force behind AI." Details with Zoom info: https://www.chiwork.org/uncategorized/data-labor-and-the-labor-force-behind-ai-a-conversation-1-19-23/

Submission is now open for ECSCW 2023 #ECSCW #ECSCW2023 #EUSSET

https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2023/submission-pages-are-open/

Gary Marsden Travel Awards committee added Februcary 9 deadline that fits the submission/notification process for #CHI2023 LBW, Student Competitions, Interactivity, and workshops!

Anyone can apply for a fund to attend #CHI2023, even before or without a paper!

To apply, go to https://sigchi.submittable.com/submit

Updated Call for Participation - GenAICHI - Generative AI workshop at CHI 2023

We announce our submission website at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/GenAICHI2023

For more about HCI & Generative AI, please see the workshop website, https://generativeaiandhci.github.io/

We are excited to learn about your work!

reading "Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology" by Harding (1992), and finding heaps of parallels between her ideas and today (e.g., Steven O. Roberts' preprint on racism at perspectives). one excerpt: "Standpoint epistemology sets the relationship between knowledge and politics at the center... empiricism tries to purify science of all such bad politics".

Our lives are inextricably political and to deny 'bias' in science is dangerous.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23739232

#metascience #feminism #psychology

@drmaxlwilson Maybe you or we could do some bag-of-words analysis via thematic dictionaries - like for the 8 affects in the Russell-Plutchik model (using e,g., affect dictionaries by Saif Mohammad or LIWC)