Harmanpreet Kaur
@harmankkaur
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Assistant professor @UMNComputerSci . Human-centered AI, interpretable ML, hybrid intelligence systems.
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I'm beyond excited and thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2023!!!
@UMNComputerSci
@grouplens
Looking forward to this next big step... but first, time to finish up that dissertation. 😊
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Excited and honored to receive a
@GoogleAI
PhD Fellowship this year. As a PhD student, I sometimes find it hard to believe in my own research. Luckily, I have the most amazing advisors, mentors, and friends... really the best cheerleaders ever! This is all thanks to them.
Continuing our tradition of supporting outstanding graduate students in their pursuit of research in computer science and related fields, we congratulate our 13th annual PhD Fellowship Program recipients! See the list of 2021 Fellowship recipients below:
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I'm on the job market!
I design, build, and evaluate human-AI systems with a focus on human-centered criteria such as understandability, effectiveness, & reliability.
I'm interested in both industry and academic positions. Please reach out if you know of relevant opportunities!
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I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 to join me (and
@grouplens
) at
@UMNComputerSci
! If you're interested in human-centered AI, explainability, or hybrid intelligence systems, please consider applying here
Please RT or DM me if you know of folks!
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Walter Lasecki is a predator. Read this. Read his "apology" email. If you still don't think that this has been a part of his strategy and manipulation all along, if you can still find it in yourself to give him the benefit of the doubt, then you are a part of the problem.
I reported the event in detail to AAAI in 2017 via a video call. Unexpectedly, Walter also emailed me an apology. I sent an email confirming both my interview and his apology to AAAI. I hoped he was contrite. I moved on with my life.
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Always great to see posts about all the new awesome work accepted for publication! As a grad student, it can also be terrifying and dejecting to not have similar good news. So, in the interest of normalizing that for anybody else also feeling that way, 4/4 rejections at
#cscw2019
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Are you suggesting that the previous allegations weren't serious and urgent concerns?
You condemn harassment, and yet 2 known predators continue to be CSE faculty.
Is their privacy more important than our safety?
Climate surveys won't fix this. Do your job. Protect students.
We are also concerned about the new information emerging in online conversations that we were not aware of. These new allegations raise serious and urgent concerns, and must be investigated.
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Yesterday was a very normal, average day. 🙃
Can’t believe it’s actually done! Incredibly lucky to have been advised by
@eegilbert
and
@clifflampe
! Thank you, also, to my absolutely amazing dissertation committee
@iqbal_st
@jennwvaughan
@eytanadar
@answergarden
!
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Beyond excited to share our
#FAccT2022
paper "Sensible AI: Re-imagining Interpretability and Explainability using Sensemaking Theory"
Building on incredible recent work in this space, this paper is about *who* interpretability and XAI are intended for. 🧵
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Super excited that our
#CHI2020
paper on evaluating interpretability tools using human-centric methods received an Honorable Mention!
So thankful for my amazing mentors
@jennwvaughan
@hannawallach
Rich Caruana + team at Microsoft Research!
Paper here:
Our paper on evaluating interpretability tools via user studies with data scientists was conditionally accepted to
#CHI2020
! In short: these tools are often misinterpreted by users given their seemingly clear outputs.
Huge thanks to
@jennwvaughan
@hannawallach
Rich Caruana + team
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I wanted to say something about this all day but I didn’t. Why? Because I was worried about how saying something against this decision might impact my upcoming visa renewal application. We shouldn’t have to think about these things. It should not have been a consideration.
JUST IN: President Trump plans to sign an executive order extending to January a pause on issuing “green cards” to new immigrants -- and will also halt temporary work visas for skilled workers, managers and au pairs in the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1 and J categories.
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Affective computing applications increasingly use emotion recognition tech. Can emotion recognition be used reliably? Should it be used at all? Our
#chi2022
paper studies emotion labels from this tech and compares them to self-reported affect from people.
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Our paper on evaluating interpretability tools via user studies with data scientists was conditionally accepted to
#CHI2020
! In short: these tools are often misinterpreted by users given their seemingly clear outputs.
Huge thanks to
@jennwvaughan
@hannawallach
Rich Caruana + team
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Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone
THAT'S RIGHT.
Now do the rest of them, and the system.
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As if the uncertainty of the ongoing COVID-19 situation wasn’t bad enough on its own, as international students, we also have this shit to worry about. We contribute to this country and its economy in so many ways and yet we are not welcome here. It’s a fucked up world we live in
This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.
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ABD!!
@eegilbert
and
@clifflampe
told me to think of the proposal defense as a fun conversation; I 🙄 and said they've forgotten their student days. Turns out, they were right as usual! Helps that I have an incredible committee!
@jennwvaughan
@eytanadar
@iqbal_st
@answergarden
😊
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This happened. This has happened before. This will continue to happen unless we make some radical changes. We're all talking about making our community inclusive and safe. These sentiments aren't new or sudden (1/8).
“My experience was a part of a pattern of behavior”
The Daily’s first issue of a two part investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against CSE professor Walter Lasecki.
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Excited to share our
#UIST2022
paper introducing FeedLens, a novel system that repurposes people’s research paper feeds on Semantic Scholar as lenses. Without any additional training, these lenses show relevance for all types of related entities, like authors and institutions. 🧵
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Not only do advisors have too much power in these relationships, but also that, as incoming PhD students, most of us have no clue how to evaluate whether an advisor is making reasonable demands or not. We make the most important decision of our PhD (picking an advisor) too soon.
An uncomfortable truth. I posted this to CHI Meta on Facebook yesterday. What now?
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Quick reminder that I’m recruiting PhD students
@UMNComputerSci
for Fall 2024, and the deadline for early applications is Dec 15. Join us!
I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 to join me (and
@grouplens
) at
@UMNComputerSci
! If you're interested in human-centered AI, explainability, or hybrid intelligence systems, please consider applying here
Please RT or DM me if you know of folks!
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Excited to attend
#CHI2022
in person next week. If you like talking about human-centered AI, explainability, or human cognition in AI-assisted decision making, please say hi! Or we can talk about other things…or silently stand together to not feel overwhelmed. Here for it all :)
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Looking at undergrad résumés for UROP, I’m thinking… jfc these freshmen (who have been in college for A WEEK) have done more than what I probably did in my 4 years of undergrad. I mean, wow, all of them are incredible! But also, yikes, I think we’re setting insane expectations.
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Some good news in these uncertain times: our
#IUI2020
paper "Using Affordances to Improve AI Support of Social Media Posting Decisions" received an Honorable Mention Award! Thankful for the guidance and support of my incredible mentors and peers!
Paper:
Excited to share our
#IUI2020
paper "Using Affordances to Improve AI Support of Social Media Posting Decisions"! We operationalized a set of social media affordances to test their efficacy in predicting cross-site posting decisions. Huge thanks to
@clifflampe
for his guidance!
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Another case of power structures making it impossible for students to report. If they do, they face negative consequences and are often left with no choice but to leave if they want any semblance of normality in their lives. Consequences for the offenders: none. Doing great, CSE.
Inside Clinc, the AI startup facing troubling allegations of sexual harassment
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Do you work with Machine Learning models? If so, we invite you to participate in
@MSFTResearch
's survey about ML interpretability. Help us design better interpretability tools and get a $20 gift-card (plus a chance to win Surface headphones)! More details:
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Was working from my couch instead of desk for a little bit. Kept having scrolling issues or random text appear while typing. After many debugging attempts and fear of having broken my laptop, I realized that the wireless keyboard on my desk was still connected. Culprit:
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It’s disheartening to see people criticize
@linguangst
. Are people really that insecure that they cannot handle being told that we fucked up as a community? To come after someone who has shown nothing but unwavering support for the survivors... shame on you.
if you claim to be outraged by this situation but criticize me for my anger, consider that you might be part of the problem
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Instead of blaming us for smearing their name, maybe
@UMichCSE
can start listening to survivors, their stories, their experiences, their struggles, anything…and go about making some changes. Sounds like a dream, but we’ll keep at it. Don’t worry, Mike. We’re not going anywhere.
Seriously, fuck productivity. The world needs more empathy. And CS sure as hell needs more empathy.
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Two undergrads on the bus: Discussion sections are hard...
Me, thinking about that Discussion section I'm supposed to write but currently avoiding: Mhm, yes.
Undergrads: ...like, why do they have to be at 8am?!
Me, realizing I've been a grad student for many, many years: Ah.
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Excited to be back in Keller Hall giving a talk instead of finishing (undergrad) homework. 😊
Colloquium continues this week with
@harmankkaur
from
@UMichCSE
. The talk on Friday titled "Leveraging Social Theories to Enhance Human-AI Interaction" will be held in Keller Hall 3-180.
Full abstract:
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This. I haven't been home in 3 years and it's starting to get to me, especially now with the holiday season and everyone else making plans to see family. With the pandemic, we're seeing all the ways in which this process is clearly very broken. I doubt things will change.
Thread:
I live in the US on a work visa. I’m among thousands of Indians unable to see their families because US consulates in India haven’t fully functioned through the pandemic. If I leave the US to see my parents, I won’t be able to return unless I get a consular appointment.
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Folks working in HCI and/or ML *MUST* read this. I imagine this will become one of those "Distance Matters" or "Beyond Being There" types of papers that we continue to reference for its insights for a very long time. Kudos to
@snchancellor
for doing this amazing work!
My
@CACMmag
Contributed Article, "Toward Practices for Human-Centered Machine Learning" is now live! With a video summary! Quick 🧵about its contributions below...
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Excited to share the presentations for my
#CHI2020
papers!
If you're interested in learning about the use of interpretability tools () or about optimizing both happiness and productivity at work (), please check these out.
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Y'all I gave my first talk as a PhD student! 🙃🤓
Combining active and passive tasks for continuous crowd work
@harmankkaur
@wslasecki
Akshay Rao
#HCOMP2018
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If you are a part of our community and are silent right now, you are complicit. You let this happen by choosing to be blind to WL's behavior all these years. If you want to support survivors, I hope you can show even 1% of courage that they have shown and SPEAK UP AGAINST HIM.
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Are you someone who works with datasets and ML models in their day-to-day work? If you're a ML practitioner or data scientist, please help us by completing a brief exploratory data science task. Link:
Please RT and share with folks who might be interested!
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Today, I'm extremely thankful for latex table generators. IYKYK.
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Excited to share our
#IUI2020
paper "Using Affordances to Improve AI Support of Social Media Posting Decisions"! We operationalized a set of social media affordances to test their efficacy in predicting cross-site posting decisions. Huge thanks to
@clifflampe
for his guidance!
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My feed desperately needed a cleanse. Some of you can probably relate. So here are some beautiful peonies. If you’re in Ann Arbor, GO TO THE ARB!!!
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Trauma is more commonly associated with big T trauma experiences such as war, sexual violence. But there are also little T trauma experiences which have an adverse emotional impact, such as emotional abuse, harassment, or loss of a close relationship. Let's talk about the latter.
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Workplace studies often tackle a conflict between improving happiness vs. productivity. Our conditionally accepted
#CHI2020
paper optimizes both! We built a break and transition recommender based on this joint optimization.
#DreamTeam
@iqbal_st
@acwio
@jteevan
@marycz
@danmcduff
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Having been one of
@snchancellor
's unofficial advisees throughout my ongoing PhD, all I can say is: you'll be missing out if you don't jump at this opportunity. Add
@grouplens
to that = perfection++! If there was ever a perfect RT = endorsement moment, this would be it for me.
I'm recruiting a PhD student this year to join me (and
@grouplens
) at UMN 🥳 Interested in human-centered ML, mental health, and how we can do better for AI tools for marginalized groups online. More details here - . Please RT or DM me if you know of folks!
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Watch my awesome mentor
@jennwvaughan
talk about why it’s important to include people in the ML lifecycle. Her views on human-centered approaches and evaluation of interpretability are exactly how this field should move forward!
People play central roles in the ML life cycle, so ensuring they have an understanding of how these systems work is critical. In this on-demand webinar,
@jennwvaughan
explores how a human-centric approach can contribute to trustworthy AI. Watch now:
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This. For anyone claiming that they are an ally but nobody has directly told them about any issues...if survivors did not feel comfortable talking to you, if you did not intervene when you saw something, if you’re clueless enough to think there are no issues: you’re not an ally.
the question isn't whether you know predators & harassers in our community. the question is whether the survivors felt safe telling you.
so sure, say you had no idea, that nobody told you. that you never heard about it. but then take a minute and think about why nobody told you.
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As usual, no good numbers here for women in computing, and specifically, AI. What's worse is the lack of numbers entirely for trans people or other gender minorities. By not including these groups, we are inherently introducing bias in how computing or AI is studied and practiced
The gender imbalance in AI is greater than in CS overall, and that’s a big problem
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My boxing workouts are 10x more effective when I think about
@UMichCSE
or anything to do with Title IX policies during the sequences. I guess that’s one thing to be thankful for wrt the last 19 months or so? 🤷🏻♀️
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Probably the best panel on intersectionality I have ever attended, here at
#FAccT2022
. Learning about how and why it is complicated to define & what we can do to address it in socio-technical systems. Insightful comments from the panelists and amazingly moderated by
@alicexiang
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Want a future where you don't have to wonder what to do to resolve collaborator comments on your docs? Our latest
#CSCW2018
paper helps collaborators leave action plans for you to follow, with no extra burden on them
cc
@jteevan
@acwio
@wslasecki
@annersde
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Title IX at
@UMich
: . The university should be ashamed that they promoted a predator to the position of a dean and a provost, even after *knowing* about the multiple harassment complaints against him. OIE at UM continues to fail its students and staff.
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Weekly reminder for
@UMichCSE
(and academia): there's no 50-50, neutrality, or not TAKEing-a-SIDE in a situation with power differential. By staying neutral, you're automatically supporting the person in power because guess who actually needs support: the students involved.
just last week, after dozens of sexual misconduct allegations against several
@umichCSE
faculty members, chair michael wellman likened calls for accountability to "mccarthyism," invoking the tulsa massacre to justify his department's inaction:
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Gee, thanks Mike. This is exactly what we needed.
"I have said a lot here, and I hope you understand this crisis has taken a toll on me as well as everyone. So I’ll be stepping out from the stage for a short while on this matter." Lol. Yes, please do. Forever. For all our sakes
i'm still reading the 19-page diatribe current
@UMichCSE
chair michael wellman just circulated, in which he likens ongoing criticism of CSE—and its protection of several serial predators, including walter lasecki—to mccarthyism.
more soon. too angry.
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Then there’s also the fact that these folks actually had the right opportunities and access. They followed through, which is commendable. But these opportunities are not available to everyone. Perhaps the applications I’m not seeing are the ones I should be thinking about.
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Excited to present this paper in-person at
#FAccT22
! I'll share our translation of sensemaking theory from org studies for envisioning new ways to think about interpretability and explainability.
Join in Thursday @ 1pm KST, Room 209, Session 9D
#FAccT2022
Beyond excited to share our
#FAccT2022
paper "Sensible AI: Re-imagining Interpretability and Explainability using Sensemaking Theory"
Building on incredible recent work in this space, this paper is about *who* interpretability and XAI are intended for. 🧵
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I would love to work on my
#UIST2021
rebuttal so if
@UMichCSE
can stop being a clusterfuck for even a day that’d be great. Like, whatever happened to “normal” grad school stress? I want it back.
@barik
@clegoues
@cfiesler
@linguangst
@UMichCSE
This is by far the most transparent anyone in leadership has been about the situation in public, and there are several specific admissions in there that are welcome, but yeah, this was another unforced error overall. Those comparisons are just not appropriate.
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It’s kinda impossible to find a better mentor than
@jennwvaughan
, so everyone should take advantage of this opportunity! Can assistant professors apply? 😊
It's that time of year again! The FATE group at
@MSFTResearch
NYC is accepting applications for 2024 interns. 🥳🎉
We'll begin reviewing applications in early December. Cover letter required; see the posting for details.
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My phone now autocorrects “such” to “Suchman.” This is it. I’ve peaked as a researcher.
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🔥
#CHI2022
! But my question is: where’s the tux
@clifflampe
? Or the Hagrid costume? Promises were made…
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Early start to
#chi2019
with participating in the sauturday workshop on bridging the gap between AI and HCI (). Excited about
@jennwvaughan
’s keynote and talking to the other people attending, but let’s see where the jetlagged brains lead us! 😴😴😴
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This is pretty much *exactly* what happened at the CSE grad town hall ~3 weeks ago. Seems like
@UMich
is training its department heads on how to protect their own, no matter the cost to students. It’s pretty obvious that they actively work against students in these cases.
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See, Mike? It doesn't take 19 pages or comparisons to the Tulsa massacre and McCarthyism to say/do the right thing.
Over 100 senior academics (tenure and up; or industry equivalent) wrote a letter denouncing sexual misconduct in our community, and the alleged behavior by Walter Lasecki in particular.
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My view on this is shaped by signals from my wonderful advisors
@eegilbert
and
@clifflampe
. Quality over quantity. I don’t recall us ever having a conversation about deadlines. It’s always about the research and whether we’re ready to share our ideas with other scholars.
While this is not a problem any individual (pre-tenure) faculty can fix, one small thing my lab is trying:
Full, submittable drafts one week before the deadline. Hard deadline. All data in, all analyses done, all references in, all sections with text.
Else, we don't submit.
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Thank you for everything that you’ve done and continue to do,
@linguangst
. We’re all indebted to you for educating us. You’re incredible. <3
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How do people keep track of their research/project ideas, especially those that might not be directly relevant to their dissertation topic? I have a doc but it’s quickly becoming unsuitable for longer term needs because of organization costs.
#AcademicTwitter
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Really appreciated this honest opinion of a CSE student. 🙄 Couldn't help responding line-by-line because I didn't want to miss anything they said. Enjoy.
another anonymous missive sent to one of the now 26 known survivors of former
@UMichCSE
professor walter lasecki.
i hope you're happy, michael. you've empowered these cretins. they're on your side; not ours.
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1) Stop thinking of chi as a party. Stop complaining about paying for alcohol. 2) tell everyone what happened re: harassment at CHI over the past few years. 3) educate people, require training before registration. Even when it’s unintentional, this kind of behavior is not ok.
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How does a ML model’s stated accuracy impact people’s trust in the model before/after they observe its accuracy in practice? Ming Yin,
@jennwvaughan
and
@hannawallach
’s
#chi2019
paper finds that people adjust their trust for a model based on observed acc, regardless of stated acc
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Besides hiking in the beautiful Skamania region and attending awesome talks, one more reason to attend
#HCOMP2019
is our Human-AI collaboration-themed hackathon, CrowdCamp! Interested in exploring HCI and AI topics in interdisciplinary teams? See info here
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Lol, what a mess. 5 years later...he has an interesting way of showing his appreciation for international students.
When foreigners attend our great colleges & want to stay in the U.S., they should not be thrown out of our country.
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So it's been a little stressful recently. So I've been on an increasing number of times daily (it helps, okay!). So I might even get another cat. Who knows. These are all acceptable life choices imo.
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Weird but also exciting to present in-person. The audience was amazing! Shoutout to my advisors
@clifflampe
@eegilbert
for helping with the technical issues with hybrid model and my wonderful friends for showing up to support! Y’all I’m getting emotional about this
#CHI2022
vibe!
Go go
@harmankkaur
! Talking about her great work on the reliability of automatic emotion recognition tech!
#chi2022
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Received a meeting invite for Nov 1... realized it's almost Nov 1 *2021*... as in, it's almost no longer 2021... while I've still been messing up between 2020 and 2021 when I think of what date it is... brb hyperventilating.
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If you want to learn about intelligibility in the
#MachineLearning
lifecycle, there’s no one who can explain it better than
@jennwvaughan
! So excited for this talk on Nov 12 @ noon EST
Thursday, Nov. 12, at noon EST -- don't miss
@Microsoft
Senior Principal Researcher
@jennwvaughan
discuss the role of intelligibility in the
#MachineLearning
lifecycle as part of our ongoing Data Science/Computational Social Science seminar series. ➡️
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Agree. I don’t understand why we’re hiding behind organizational slowness and committee work (which is important, but like
@snchancellor
said, reactionary) instead of increasing awareness of when/how harm was caused and the steps that were/can be taken as a result. Let me explain
Having mixed feelings about misconduct and SIGCHI. CARES is awesome but is reactionary to events after the fact (I'm on CARES!). There are things we can do NOW - no free alcohol, setting conduct expectations thru the event, and training opportunities for bystanders
#CHI2022
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We can help people write more effectively by scaffolding the effort and feedback of their collaborators. It was great to share this work at
#cscw2018
and answer some awesome questions! Missed
@jteevan
and
@iqbal_st
being here.
#DreamTeam
!!
Harman (
@harmankkaur
) presenting our work on creating action plans for writing tasks from our first summer at Microsoft Research:
@wslasecki
@jteevan
@iqbal_st
@annersde
#CSCW2018
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I’ve started drinking tea to manage my coffee intake. Like, 3 teabags worth of tea in one cup. Progress?
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Meanwhile this is in line with CSE's "core values"
Did the law also require you to have your Chair call my advisor last week and argue with him that you stand by the process—implying that I must have lied about where Walter Lasecki touched me?
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Excited to present this work at
#CSCW2018
next week!
A written action plan for your tasks can take you far. Michigan AI's
@wslasecki
&
@harmankkaur
and their collaborators from Microsoft Research & U. of Waterloo focus on creating better action plans for writing tasks via vocabulary-based planning
@ACM_CSCW
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I've always maintained---in my extremely unbiased opinion 🙃---that Minnesota is the best! Looks like it's only getting better!! Congrats,
@snchancellor
! So happy for you! ♥️
🎉🎉🎉Good news comes at the strangest times. Thrilled that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Minnesota in
@UMNComputerSci
in Fall 2021! I'm so excited to be part of the
@grouplens
and
@UMNews
family!!
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Time to start planning those
#HCOMP2020
papers! Sound & Vision near Amsterdam is going to be an awesome venue!!
#HCOMP2019
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I want each one of us, as individuals, to take responsibility for these incidents. Every single one of us should be able to recall instances where something felt off. By now, you should know you've already been a bystander. I know I have. (2/8)
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Lol are you for real? Did you actually manage to miss the entire point of this and all the other threads?
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Two awesome conferences + one BEST city = what more could you ask for?! Excited to have this excuse to be in
#minneapolis
again!
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TFW when you find a participant quote that is so good you want to cry and hug them and say "you are my favorite person in the whole wide world, and I wish all my participants were clones of you!"
#chi2019
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One of my favorite things about reviewing is all the new references I come across that I might have missed in my own search. Great way to collect more things to read! 🤓🤓🤓
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She didn’t look quite this attentive by the end of the meeting. 😂 By which, I mean she was all sprawled out like she could’ve stayed there forever. Traitor, this one. 🙄
Today
@harmankkaur
brought 7mo Saaya with her, and I had my first research meeting with a kitten in my office.
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@roydanroy
@ani_nenkova
@rmalharb
In most cases, this information (unfortunately) is restricted to whisper networks. Rarely do students feel like they have enough support to bring this kind of information to light. Does ignorance on the matter relieve the committee or department of all responsibility?
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Watching planet earth is like therapy! And it’s definitely narrated like a romcom-drama mix. If these penguins can survive going 80kms away every day in search of food for their family, I can survive grad school!
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I want to second
@elena_agapie
's ask for one concrete thing that you'd change as an individual. Again, recall instances where something felt off. How could you have helped? Note it somewhere. Hold yourself accountable. Hold others accountable. (5/8)
This is unacceptable. But I wish everyone who shares this article would post about one thing they would do differently in the future, to notice and act when inappropriate behaviors occur at our academic conferences. It's not enough to just be appalled by the situation!
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The uncertainty around work permits and visas for international students keeps rising. This is unfortunate. I’ve spent 7 years in the US education system and will be here another 3 before graduating. None of that leads to any certainty for jobs with potential policies like these.
The OPT program is crucial for retaining talented international students in the US. I relied on the OPT myself for summer internships during college and for full-time work after graduation.
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We've tried to work around it with whisper networks and buddy systems at conference events. It's simply not enough. We need everyone in the community to come together and for every single one of us to be willing to do something about it. Are you? (7/8)
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We can either come together and brainstorm answers to
@syardi
's "What now?" or admit that the academic community does not care about students and is happy to have this power imbalance because it benefits faculty.
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"I hope you know that you are having a significant negative effect on our mental health."
LOL. I can't even... YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. LOL.
"Just please stop."
No, (not) sorry can't do.
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