Pamela Wisniewski
@pamwis
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HCI and Youth online safety researcher at Vanderbilt University. Director of the @STIRLab
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Excited to announce that I will be joining
@Vanderbilt_CS
in the Fall! Thankful to
@UCFCECS
for seven productive years that prepared me well for this next adventure.
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"We should not expect women in computing to have to be individually ‘strong’ and resilient in the face of adversity to thrive in our field. Computing could greatly benefit from more gentleness, empathy, vulnerability, and support." Read my story here:
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
@VanderbiltU
computer scientist and leading scholar in human-computer interaction and adolescent online safety,
@pamwis
shares her inspiring journey in the new book "Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W." 🎉📚✨Read more:
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Don't let rejection define your value. I didn't know the hidden rules of
#academia
and was rejected from ALL the
#HCI
Ph.D. programs that I applied to (e.g., CMU, GT, UW, UC Boulder, etc.) EXCEPT
@unccharlotte
. Rejection can motivate you to work harder to prove that you belong.
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Happy to announce that our
#CHI2022
paper on understanding the digital lives of youth received a Best Paper Honorable Mention!
@gianluca_string
,
@munmun10
,
@shizzaaali
,
@Afsaneh_Razi
, and team.
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Woot! The
@StirLab
at
@Vanderbilt_CS
will be in full force at
#CHI2024
with 5 full papers (2 with honorable mentions), 1 invited panel, 2 late breaking works, and a case study! Stay tuned for posts showcasing the work of my amazing students!!
#SIGCHI
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A huge congrats goes to Dr.
@zainabagha_
who successfully defended her dissertation today on real-time nudge-based interventions for adolescent
#onlinesafety
at
@VUEngineering
@Vanderbilt_CS
!! So proud of her!!
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Congrats to my PhD student
@zainabagha_
for being named as a finalist in
@Meta
's Research Fellowship! Hopefully, her work will get the recognition it deserves next time.
#OnlineSafety
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To all the Ph.D. students out there licking their wounds after the
#CHI2024
decisions, just remember that rejection means that you are putting yourself out there and trying. Rejection is a standard part of being a successful academic. Don't lose heart.
CHI paper rejection after R&R—disappointing, but for fellow grad students feeling discouraged: remember your hard work got it this far. A little more polish will make it shine even brighter. Keep rocking those revisions!
#CHI2024
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It isn't every day that an academic like me gets to hang out with important people, like
@Surgeon_General
, to have an engaging conversation on how to protect youth online. It was a great panel hosted by
@WHOSTP
,
@NTIAgov
,
@samhsagov
, and others who are prioritizing youth.
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I am so freaking proud of these
@StirLab
ladies who ALL landed tenure track jobs this cycle!
@AshSoo
,
@jinkyung_katie
,
@AkterMamtaj
, &
@zainabagha_
@VUEngineering
@Vanderbilt_CS
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A big congrats to Dr.
@AkterMamtaj
@VUEngineering
@Vanderbilt_CS
on successfully defending her dissertation on community-based approaches for mobile privacy and security!
#SIGCHI
has another rockstar tenure-track Assistant Professor joining our ranks!!!
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So excited for
@kbadillou
and
@Afsaneh_Razi
on their job offers and on-site interviews...A bit sad for myself because it means they will be leaving the nest soon! Proud
#AcademicMom
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Both a little teary eyed and elated to officially say these three are officially Ph.inisheD. Congrats, Drs!
@kbadillou
@Afsaneh_Razi
#SIGCHI
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My daughter's red carpet debut of the short film she starred in called, "What Scares a Dinosaur." So proud of her!
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Excited to announce our new
#NSF
#SaTC
grant on developing an educational program that leverages conversational agents to teach youth how to be more resilient to
#cybergrooming
attacks. With my awesome collaborators at
@VT_CS
!
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Congrats to my Ph.D. student Leena on her first first author CHI paper! She has earned her mug. :-) Congrats to her co-authors
@AkterMamtaj
for her help.
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Y'all, I am going to be gushing over my Ph.D. students for the next few weeks. Congrats to
@Afsaneh_Razi
on her successful dissertation defense today. More good news to come...
Congratulations to Dr.
@Afsaneh_Razi
for successfully defending her dissertation!
@pamwis
@StirLab
@UCF
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Honored to receive this recognition :-)
Congratulations to CS Prof. Pam Wisniewski who has been named Flowers Family Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow in Engineering. Pam is an expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents.
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I am honored to serve tomorrow on a White House panel to provide input on the health, safety, and privacy of minors online. Hosted by
@WHOSTP
,
@NTIAgov
,
@samhsagov
@WhiteHouseGPC
, et al. Here is my research on these topics:
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Super excited for the
@StirLab
and our collaborators
@munmun10
,
@gianluca_string
,
@GuhaShion
,
@dev7saxena
,
@HeidiHannele
,
@Reza_G_Anaraky
,
@JessKropczynski
to present 7 full papers, a workshop, and a poster at
#CSCW2021
this month. Come check us out!
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Join us for our
#SIGCHI
#CHI2022
Virtual Panel on Participatory Design and
#AI
Systems. May 3rd @ 11 AM Central. Let's co-create! With
@DZytko
,
@EricPSB
,
@GuhaShion
, and
@minlee_hci
.
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So proud of my PhD student
@AkterMamtaj
who earned her first author first dissertation paper STIR Lab mug from
@ScienceGrit
. :-)
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I am so proud of Dr.
@AshSoo
for her outstanding accomplishments as a formidable
#HCI
scholar, as well as her strength and resilience completing her Ph.D. as a mother of two young children. I am thankful I could be part of her journey.
#SIGCHI
@VUEngineering
@Vanderbilt_CS
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Hmmm. Try being a woman in
#HCI
within a CS Dept in Engineering. :-)
This shows frequency of the word "unqualified" in teaching reviews. Women in orange, men in blue.
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The first meeting STIR Lab meeting at Vanderbilt is down in the books!
Three brand new Ph.D. students, Naima, Abdul, and Sarvech joined our
@StirLab
@Vanderbilt_CS
family.
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Excited to be selected as a
@CenDemTech
Fellow! Awesome to see
@DearPriya
on this list too. :-) And looking forward to meeting everyone else.
CDT welcomes our 2024-26 cohort of nonresident fellows. We are excited to work with you all to advance civil liberties in the digital age!
*
@PaulGowder
* Chinmayi Sharma
*
@jhereia
*
@pamwis
*
@umangsbhatt
Sabine Witting
Priya Kumar
*
@Jenny_L_Davis
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I'm excited about this new opportunity to serve my community and nation! 1/2
🎉 Congratulations to
@pamwis
a
@VanderbiltU
associate professor of computer science, who has been appointed to the
@DARPA
Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group beginning in August 2024! 🖥🔗 Read more:
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I love our
@StirLab
family. Congrats again to the grads!
@kbadillou
,
@Afsaneh_Razi
, Kevin, Josh, and Denielle!
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Super excited to congratulate my
@StirLab
@Vanderbilt_CS
@VUEngineering
Post Doc Katie Park on her new tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Clemson University's School of Computing in Human-Centered Computing!!
#HCC
@ClemsonUniv
@socclemson
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For aspiring Ph.D. students, don't just randomly select one paper to mention by name in your email to show your interest in working with a professor. Look at their body of work and the bigger picture of how your interests align with their overarching research trajectory.
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Congrats to Dr. Xavier Caddle from
@StirLab
@UCFComputerSci
@UCFCECS
for successfully defending his dissertation today on building an open innovation community for youth online safety. It's been a winding journey, but we made it! Super proud of him!!
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Please encourage early career women in computing to apply. Feel free to email me if you have questions about the application process!
The ACM-W Rising Star Award recognizes a woman (trans- or cis-woman) or non-binary person whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the computing discipline. We encourage self-nominations. Deadline November 30, 2022. Learn more here:
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Honored to participate in a panel today on
#DemocraticAI
hosted by the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (
@WHOSTP
) and
@mozilla
. Check it out:
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A triumphant end to a challenging semester. Congrats to
@zainabagha_
for defending her proposal today! All three of my strong ladies
@AkterMamtaj
and
@AshSoo
passed this important milestone together. proud beyond words. Whew!
@VUEngineering
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Excited to bring more Human-Centered Computing to
@VUEngineering
!
This fall, we welcome seven new faculty members to the School of Engineering. These faculty members bring with them a range of research and teaching activities ranging from artificial intelligence and cyber security to medical devices and clean energy.
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Thanks to
@ScienceGrit
we have a new tradition in the
@StirLab
. Celebratory mugs for first first author dissertation papers! For
@AkterMamtaj
and Kevin.
#AcademicTwitter
:-)
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There are some bleak days in academia, but the continual bright spots in my life are my amazing former and current Ph.D. students and Post Docs!
@kbadillou
@Afsaneh_Razi
@AshSoo
@zainabagha_
@AkterMamtaj
@iamarupghosh
@Cero0o
@QadirSarvech
@HeidiHannele
@amotherofajob
et al.
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So proud of
@kbadillou
. Onward and upward!
🎉LIFE UPDATE🎉 I'm extremely excited to share that I have accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
@NotreDame
starting Fall 2022. GO IRISH! 💚🍀 (Latina style 😜)
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Writing this paper was on my passion project list, and I am thankful with the help of a team of amazing co-authors we made it happen. I dedicate this paper to the
#LGBTQ
youth who shared their stories with us and those who live these stories everyday.
Excited to announce that our
#CHI2024
paper on the lived online risk experiences of LGBTQ+ youth got an
***honorable mention***!
Our paper presentation will be on May 13 at 2:30 pm HST (1/8).
🌈
#LGBTQYouth
#OnlineSafety
🏳️🌈
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Thanks to all who attended the
#CSCW2021
Workshop for
#MOSafely
. We are building a village to protect youth online! Stay tuned.
@munmun10
,
@gianluca_string
,
@DZytko
,
@dev7saxena
,
@Afsaneh_Razi
,
@difrad
,
@ShirinNilizadeh
and others.
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As always, so proud of my students. Make sure to go see them present at
#CSCW2022
!
Mamtaj Akter, Ashwaq Alsoubai, and Zainab Agha, Computer Science Ph.D. students working under Dr. Pamela Wisniewski, are going to present their research work at CSCW in November. This year, the STIR Lab got two full papers, one poster, and three demos accepted at the CSCW. 1/2
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Thankful to be honored during Women's History Month.
#WomeninSTEM
#HCI
🌟It's Women's History Month!🌟
Dr. Pamela Wisniewski is a female leader in the male-dominated field of computer science. She instills confidence & knowledge in her
@UCF
students to
#ChargeOn
past adversity. 💻🌞🚀
@UCFCECS
@TheOfficialACM
➡️Learn more:
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I may not be as flowery and eloquent as an LLM, but I say what I mean. ;-)
.
@CenDemTech
Non-Resident Fellow Pamela Wisniewski (
@pamwis
) in
@ITDFuture
, discussing the struggle with trying to rein in
#AI
before clearly defining its boundaries, allowing room for human discretion and struggle in relation to AI, + more:
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Woo hoo!
@zainabagha_
officially earned her STIR Lab mug. So proud of her!
@ScienceGrit
.
Congrats to STIR lab PhD candidate Zainab Agha for receiving her lab mug gift after successfully publishing her first dissertation study! You're almost there
@zainabagha_
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I was humbled to be on a privacy panel with these rock star women at
#CHI2023
. No manels here!
Congrats to
@pamwis
for being a panelist at the
#CHI2023
workshop for Privacy Interventions and Education with
@jvitak
,
@DearPriya
,
@XinruP
, Liz Keneski, Jen Romano! This workshop was co-organized by STIR Lab student
@zainabagha_
with
@sdga92
@KirstenChap1
@astrojanet
.
#PIE2023
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Look at
@kbadillou
all grown up! 😭🤩
Welcome! Meet our 9 new
@NotreDame
scholars, teachers, and advisors
#engineerabetterworldforall
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Thanks,
@jvitak
! "Dear Diary" also gives a more honest (less fear mongering) account of how real teens experience and cope with online risks:
#OnlineSafety
. Can't wait to read your
#CSCW2021
paper!
If you want to read more on teen safety and why Blumenthal's framing is problematic, see work by Pam Wisniewski (
@pamwis
). I suggest starting with this:
Parental Control vs. Teen Self-Regulation: Is there a middle ground for mobile online safety?
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I'm not able to attend
#CSCW2023
this year, but faculty friends, please look out for my Ph.D. students
@zainabagha_
and
@AkterMamtaj
who also happen to be on the job market this year. They are awesome!
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So proud of
@StirLab
undergrads presenting their work at the
@VanderbiltU
@Vanderbilt_CS
@VUEngineering
Research Fair! Also proud of
@zainabagha_
the Ph.D. student who helped advise this work.
Congratulations to our undergraduate students Yiwei Wang, Enya Bullard, and Abbie Chen on presenting their research poster titled “Designing a Social Media Simulation to Evaluate Online Safety Nudges” at the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair today. Well done👏!
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That's a wrap! Thankful for my Intro to HCI Research Methods grad students. I was SO proud of how much I saw them grow as researchers in one semester!
@VUEngineering
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Count them, THREE new
@StirLab
Ph.D. Candidates in
@VUEngineering
. Look out world, here these amazing ladies come!
@zainabagha_
@AkterMamtaj
@AshSoo
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@StirLab
at
#CHI2024
. These people are the heart of why I love my job.
@Afsaneh_Razi
@AkterMamtaj
@AshSoo
@zainabagha_
@alinai98
@QadirSarvech
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I was honored to serve on this White House sponsored KOHS panel. Adolescent online safety has been the main focus on my research for the last decade. Glad the issue is gaining national attention.
Happening Soon: Biden-Harris Administration Task Force on Kids Online Health & Safety to hold a listening session with advocates and experts.
Tune in at 3PM ET to learn more about ongoing efforts to keep young people safe online⤵️
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If I have to work on the weekends, this is just how I want to spend my time. :-) Engaging with youth and researchers on AI from the perspective of Gen Z.
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Excited to serve on the CRA's CCC Council!
Welcome to
@compcomcon
🥳🎉🎊:
Randal Burns,
@JohnsHopkins
David Jensen,
@UMassAmherst
@radamihalcea
,
@UMich
Raj Rajaraman,
@Northeastern
@Matthew_Turk
,
@TTIC_Connect
@pamwis
,
@UCF
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Posting just because Twitter needs a little bit of Christmas right now. :-)
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It was amazing attending the
#CRA
Leadership Academy in Chicago. And super cool to see my long time friend and collaborator
@JessKropczynski
!
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#VU2024
@VanderbiltU
@Vanderbilt_CS
@VUEngineering
Another top Ph.D. grad whose dissertation work leverages Human-Centered machine learning for real-time risk detection to protect youth online.
#OnlineSafety
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Excited to have
@AkterMamtaj
present our team's work at
#CSCW2021
on how people provide tech caregiving for the ones they love.
@JessKropczynski
@HeatherRLipford
@Reza_G_Anaraky
Do you want to know about how people provide tech care for privacy and security to their loved ones? Then read our paper
#CSCW
:
@pamwis
#privacy
#security
#community
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At
#CHI2024
, we unpack the real life private conversations that
#youth
have with peers on
#Instagram
regarding
#suicide
and
#selfharm
. The spoil alert is that they aren't all bad. Let's stop the
#fearmongering
and work towards evidence-based strategies to keep
#teens
safe online.
Excited to share that I’ll be presenting our
#CHI2024
paper next week on how youth discuss suicide and self-harm in private conversations on social media”, on Thursday, May 16th at 9:30 AM (HST)!
@pamwis
@QadirSarvech
@AshSoo
@munmun10
@Afsaneh_Razi
(1/9)
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She makes my heart so proud! Congratulations on a strong dissertation proposal defense! ABD, baby!
Congratulations to
@AshSoo
on passing her Qualifying Exam
@Vanderbilt_CS
! She is now a Ph.D. candidate! We wish her the best as she continues on the next milestone - her dissertation defense! 🙌🥳
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Thankful to be part of the
#YABInitiative
from the
@SMAHRTeam
with all of the other high impact youth engaged projects! Way to go
@Cero0o
for representing
#Teenovate
for the
@StirLab
.
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So proud of
@AshSoo
! She just earned herself a STIR Lab collectable mug for her first first author publication from her dissertation! ;-)
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And here we come for
#CSCW2023
. Looka like I am handing out mugs left and right this year,
@zainabagha_
. ;-)
Congratulations to
@zainabagha_
on having her first authored paper "Strike at the Root: Co-designing Real-Time Social Media Interventions for Adolescent Online Risk Prevention" with
@kbadillou
and
@pamwis
accepted at
#CSCW2023
!
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An appropriate quotation for our times: "How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it."
--Judy Blume (author of "Forever," an often censored book on teen sexuality).
#onlinesafety
A school district near Nashville is suing Snapchat, TikTok & others because it says social media is harming teens. But our own CS Prof. Pam Wisniewski says that social media is not all bad and we need to be careful to not use social media as our scapegoat
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The most dangerous thing about
#socialmedia
is that it has become the scapegoat for all of our societal problems, effectively shouldering all of the social responsibility when we should be doing more.
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Please share!
We are conducting an online focus group study where teen participants would discuss, evaluate, and re-design adolescent online safety features with other teens and some researchers to improve ideas from a previous study.
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Kudos to
@VUEngineering
for highlighting the importance of student mental health in their first faculty meeting of the semester.
#AcademicTwitter
#MentalHealthMatters
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Congrats to
@VanderbiltU
,
@UF
(my alma mater), and
@NotreDame
(who hired my former Ph.D. student
@kbadillou
) for making this prestigious list!
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Open Ph.D. position...Resharing. :-)
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Had an amazing discussion this evening with a group of CRA
@CIFellows
. I was honored to be included in this mentoring event.
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How is this work when I get to sit around and just chat with some of my favorite
#SIGCHI
researchers for an hour?
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Great fireside 🔥 chat by
@patrickgage
and
@Amanda_Lenhart
... Youth panel happening now!
#CSCW2023
#AIGenZ
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