Sharon Ferguson
@_sharonferguson
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University of Toronto PhD studying The Future of Work, Collaboration, and DEI. Graduate Affiliate @TorontoSRI | Previously @SlackHQ
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🎉 Exciting News! 🎉
I’m thrilled to announce that I will join
@UWaterloo
as an Assistant Professor in Management Science and Engineering starting January 2025!
My lab will focus on studying the Future of Work, collaborative platforms, and supporting teamwork.
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I'm looking to recruit talented grad students (and undergraduate research assistants) starting in Fall 2025!
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It was great to chat about human-AI collaboration at our
#CHI2023
poster! We’d love to keep the conversation going
@paula_aoy
@CookieLab_UofT
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So excited to be in Hamburg for
#CHI2023
!
@paula_aoy
and I will be presenting our work investigating how GPT generated explanations influence human subjective decision making, supervised by
@AnaKuzminykh
. Come check out our poster Wednesday at 10:30!
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Thank you to everyone who supported my journey in getting here - everyone at Ready Lab,
@COoKIE_UofT
, and most importantly
@a_olechowski
❤️
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Check out the post I wrote for
@TorontoSRI
! I loved writing about such an insightful talk
💡 New on our site: In a special event hosted by SRI,
@mounialalmas
of
@SpotifyResearch
shared insights on how to design successful recommender systems to deliver personalized user experiences.
Learn more:
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I am so excited to share that my first publication is now live online! We used Slack data from student design teams and NLP methods to model convergence and divergence throughout the product design process. Available here:
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✨
#CHI2024
Late Breaking Work Preprint ✨
Excited to share my late-breaking work with
@gdvdz
and
@a_olechowski
!
In this work, we take the first step in exploring whether Psychological Safety could be measured through online data
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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining the Future of Work team at
@SlackHQ
as a Doctoral Research Intern this summer! Excited to work with a great team and contribute to innovative solutions that transform the way we work
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Presenting this work today!
📅 Wednesday, May 15th
⏰ 11:30-11:45am
📍Room 324
🔗
#CHI2024
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Happy to share that our paper investigating the remote work practices of physical product designers is now published in Research in Engineering Design! Available here:
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Are modern virtual communication platforms inclusive? In my new
#CSCW2023
paper with
@a_olechowski
, we revisit past patterns of gendered language styles and engagement in computer-mediated communication. Come see our presentation on Tuesday at 9am!
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I’ll be talking about this work tomorrow at the morning and afternoon poster sessions
#CHI2024
Come say hi!
✨
#CHI2024
Late Breaking Work Preprint ✨
Excited to share my late-breaking work with
@gdvdz
and
@a_olechowski
!
In this work, we take the first step in exploring whether Psychological Safety could be measured through online data
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Excited to share what I’ve been working on recently!
NEXT WEEK in Ethics of AI:
📍 Sharon Ferguson discusses "Increasing Diversity in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence"
📣 Info and registration:
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Does your team use Slack to collaborate? We have designed a Slack application that measures a team’s levels of shared understanding from their public channel Slack communication, and we are looking for teams to download and use the application, and participate in interviews
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So excited to be a part of the group and continue this important work!
Congratulations to
@uoftmie
PhD student
@_sharonferguson
for being awarded an Ethics of AI Graduate Research Fellowship from
@UofTEthics
! Sharon’s work will build on our lab’s past findings on the gendered persistence of engineering students in the field of AI and ML. 👩💻🎉
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So honoured to have my doctoral work supported!
From a very proud advisor: results out for the NSERC fellowships, and doctoral students
@_sharonferguson
and
@meaganflus
both won the
@NSERC_CRSNG
CGS-D to support their work; plus Liz won the CGS-M for her MASc studies! 👩💻👩🏫👩🔧Congratulations! 🥳
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Thank you
@ILeadUofT
for inviting me to talk! Definitely a new experience for me but it was great to share my research and connect with everyone!
It was a great talk by
@_sharonferguson
about her work on engineering team virtual communication 👩🏼🏫And great energy from the
@ILeadUofT
community!
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But the frequency of keyword use alone, without additional context, might not be enough to differentiate high and low levels of Psychological Safety
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In this work, we studied the Slack communication of one design team with high levels of Psychological Safety, and one design team with lower levels. We found that some elements of Slack use, such as replies, reactions, and mentions might be promising signals
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@kellymcconvey
@GuhaShion
@AnaKuzminykh
@HcdsUoft
@CookieLab_UofT
@paula_aoy
@christina_hci
@UofTInfoFaculty
10/10 presentation 🎉
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& while I think that all 39 pages are just thrilling, I've also written a 12-minute-read version on Medium for the busy folks!
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You can also access the paywall-free version and my summary on Medium
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This paper was the result of a lab-wide collaboration with Kimberly Lai, James Chen, Safa Faidi, Kevin Leonardo and
@a_olechowski
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However, we found that meetings, as frustrating as they might be, serve an important purpose: to capture the attention of those on your team. Without scheduled meetings, most people found it challenging to negotiate attention with remote teammates.
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You can also read our paper here:
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Thanks to Kathy, Georgia and David from
@009minions
, and
@a_olechowski
for all of your hard work in making this come to life!
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@a_olechowski
Each member of your team will have the opportunity to opt-in or opt-out, and this study was approved by the University of Toronto Research Ethics Board. Please fill out the following form if you would like to learn more Thank you! 🙏
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We interviewed 20 product design engineers at the beginning of the COVID-19 imposed work-from-home period and organize their challenges and strategies by Intangible Design, Tangible Design, and Communication and Project Management activities.
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We built a framework of attention negotiation for remote workers which outlines the steps in this process and the factors which affect it. We identified three tensions and three general challenges in this process that prevent effective attention negotiation.
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