Parastoo Abtahi
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Assistant Professor of CS @Princeton & @PrincetonHCI | Previously @RealityLabs & @MSFTResearch | PhD @Stanford | HCI, AR/VR, Spatial Computing
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We’ve started a Student-Applicant Support program for underrepresented students. If you’re considering applying to the Computer Science PhD program at Stanford, we will do our best to give you one round of feedback on your application. Apply by October 31
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I’m very excited to share that I started as an Assistant Professor at
@PrincetonCS
today! 🎉 I look forward to joining the growing
@PrincetonHCI
group and continuing my work on
#AR
and
#SpatialComputing
.
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With some delay, happy to share that I have completed my PhD and I’m visiting
@RealityLabs
as a Research Scientist this year. I already miss everyone
@Stanford
, but I’m excited to be back in Toronto and I very much look forward to working with new colleagues
@Meta
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I’m looking for HCI graduate students to join my research group for an in-person internship this summer! ☀️
More details on how to apply ⬇️
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We have multiple summer
#internship
opportunities at Meta Reality Labs Research (in Toronto). If you are a PhD student in
#HCI
and interested in AR/VR and gestural interactions, apply here:
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A year ago today, I brought my research setup home from our lab. Reflecting on the past year, I realize I didn’t pay as much attention to my wfh setup as I should have, and now my knees and back are very unhappy 🥴 But I just found this checklist through Stanford that is helpful:
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I need a chair, a tray table, and someone telling me to stay seated with my seat belt fastened, so I can finish writing my dissertation.
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Thank you so much, James! I’ve been very lucky to have had you as my PhD advisor and I feel so grateful for your support and mentorship!
Yesterday, I was proud to see the strong PhD defense of
@ParastooAbtahi
. She completed a brilliant PhD on "From Haptic Illusions to Beyond-Real Interactions in Virtual Reality". Parastoo started working with me and
@dSeanMustard
in Mechanical Engineering 6 years ago. 1/5
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I’m in New Orleans and excited to present our
#CHI2022
paper “Beyond Being Real: A Sensorimotor Control Perspective on Interactions in Virtual Reality” tomorrow at 10 AM CDT w/
@sqhough
,
@landay
, &
@dSeanMustard
Short Talk:
Paper:
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Found this photo of my mom from 1986!!! Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science
#WomenInScience
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Had a wonderful time visiting
@cmuhcii
and meeting faculty and students doing awesome work! Many thanks to
@da_lind
for being such a fantastic host!
Join us Friday! Our next
#HCIISeminarSeries
guest will be
@parastooabtahi
, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
@Princeton
.
🎙️"From Haptic Illusions to Beyond Real Interactions in Virtual Reality"
📅Fri., Jan. 26
🕜1:30pm
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗
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Thank you so much, Sean! So grateful for your mentorship and guidance during my PhD — I feel very lucky to have had you as my advisor!
Congrats to
@parastooabtahi
for presenting her thesis talk - From Haptic Illusions to Beyond-Real Interactions in VR! it was such a joy to co-advise her with
@landay
!
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If you’ve used the Year in Pixels emotion tracking technique before, we are conducting a study and looking for participants:
#QuantifiedSelf
#SelfTracking
#YearinPixels
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Super excited that Dr. Mo Kari has joined
@PrincetonCS
as a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow—a very well-deserved recognition!
Stay tuned for the amazing research
@m0k4r1
will be leading at
@PrincetonHCI
✨
The Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows program has selected 15 scholars for its 2024 cohort from disciplines spanning the humanities, engineering, the sciences and the social sciences.
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What’s your favourite example of an HCI paper that lays out a useful design space?
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Congrats,
@andresmh
! Very well-deserved. We
@PrincetonHCI
are proud! 🤩🎉
Congrats
@andresmh
, on receiving the Graduate Mentoring Award from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and
@PrincetonGrad
!
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Today I'll be presenting "Beyond The Force: Using Quadcopters to Appropriate Objects and the Environment for Haptics in Virtual Reality" at
#CHI2019
! Come join us in room Boisdale1 at 2:40 PM. For those who can't make it, here is a summary of our paper:
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I’m going to (attempt to) work exclusively in Vision Pro for a week. Any tips?
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[not complaining - just trying to understand]
Why did we switch to a one-column format for HCI conference submissions (e.g., CHI, UIST)?
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If you do any form of manual self-tracking (mood, pain, symptoms, ...) we would love to hear about your experience through a quick survey:
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Excited to participate in this year’s PhD in HCI office hour organized by
@michinebeling
. Join us next Friday!
Looking forward to hosting this year's PhD in technical HCI office hour on Friday, November 11, 10-11am ET, with Professors
@parastooabtahi
@dj_hci
@amypavel
@tisjune
! Q&A: We will discuss common questions in the office hour and answer directly in the doc.
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We conducted a survey and follow-up interviews to understand non-digital and manual self-tracking practices and the role of technology.
With Victoria Ding,
@apeelingbananna
, Tommy Bruzzese,
@alyssaromanos
, Elizabeth Murnane,
@dSeanMustard
, and
@landay
:
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“TeamLab: Continuity” at the Asian Art Museum was a magical wonderland!
Also, a fun place to observe people and their perception of causality, as everyone was trying to figure out what aspects of the exhibit were interactive and in what way.
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I’m curious… how many PhD dissertations have you read just for the content?
So excluding yours, those you read as examples when you were writing yours, your students’, and those you were asked to give feedback on (e.g., for a friend or as part of the committee).
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We hosted a virtual research lab tour for a group of ~20 high school students on SpatialChat and it worked!!! w/ Elyse, Brian,
@_ejgonz_
,
@alexafay
, and
@jingyitweets
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Oh-so grateful for my research advisors (old and new) ... words cannot describe.
Please support your students the best way you can - means more than you think!
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Welcome to
@PrincetonHCI
,
@cvachha
🎉!!
Congratulations to Cyrus Vaccha and Nicholas Jennings on two great MS exit talks this week! Cyrus will start his PhD at Princeton and Nicholas is headed to KTH for an exchange program. Details on their awesome research in due time...
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Exciting new paper on adaptive AR interfaces for cooking! 🍳
Announcing our paper on Adaptive Multimodal Assistants (AMMA) at
#IEEEVR2024
! We're presenting a new framework for guidance programs that adapts to users' needs. Join us Thursday, 8:30-9:45 AM in Ballroom H.
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I may have purchased a plant just because it looked low poly ...
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Assembling the
#turtlebot3
was oddly satisfying: a cross between assembling IKEA furniture and a layer cake!
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You can now submit to UIST 2024 Posters track by July 5th!
PCS is now accepting submissions for
#UIST2024
Posters!
🗓️ Deadline: Friday, July 5, 2024, 5 PM PT
🔗 Details:
@parastooabtahi
@koya_narumi
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I brought the aurora borealis to my bedroom, now that I can’t travel to see it! :)
The beautiful
#AugmentedReality
artwork is called Caring Northern Light from the WUNDERKAMMER collection by
@olafureliasson
. The mediocre canvases on the wall are my vision board paintings.
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Had a great time presenting at the PCI Symposium and meeting researchers from across campus!
The Princeton Catalysis Initiative challenged scientists to tell their best research stories in under 8️⃣ minutes as faculty and industry partners listened in, alert for new ideas offering future collaborations:
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Video description: Walking inside a large room. Camera panning from the floor up to the walls in front. Projection of hundreds of bright-colored pink, red, and yellow virtual flowers, streaks of light flashing across, butterflies flying around, and petals moving in the wind.
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If you’re interested in input techniques for augmented reality and technical systems building, apply here:
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If you have a paper accepted to
#UbiComp2018
, I highly recommend applying for the N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship award. You get up to $1k for travel costs and a chance to organize the
@n2women
meeting. I had a great experience last year!
@ubicomp
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If you’re interested in conducting user studies, or if you have robotics experience, apply here:
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I find documents with two columns much easier to read, but that’s just a personal preference. My question is not about one format vs. the other - I’m just curious why we use both formats at different stages (i.e., one column for reviewing, but two columns for camera-ready).
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Well-deserved!! This is a fantastic paper that proposes and validates a sensorimotor model for simulating reach redirection, while accounting for sensory uncertainty; an important step towards effective utilization of illusory interactions in VR:
🏆 Our work on sensorimotor simulation of redirected reaching received a Best Paper Award at
#CHI2023
!
With
@dSeanMustard
at
@StanfordHCI
, we explored how stochastic optimal feedback control (SOFC) can be used to broadly simulate redirection in VR.
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A fascinating talk by Dr.
@KaraCooney
, highlighting remarkable women who ruled in ancient Egypt and our perception of women in power today. I can’t stop thinking about what the state of our world would be if women had more power, especially these days...
#InternationalWomensDay
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Excited to present our work on Visuo-Haptic Illusions for Shape Displays this afternoon at
#chi2018
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@andresmh
and I had a blast working with amazing students in a new iteration of COS436
@PrincetonHCI
!
At the final project fair for the course Human-Computer Interaction, 16 student teams showed off research & tool development for interactive & social computing. The teams addressed topics in robotics, education, ethics, art, language and socialization
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Going on a month-long self-tracking journey in November. Any techniques or apps I should try?
#quantifiedself
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Happening now in session 3B!
#UIST2020
Looking forward to (virtually) presenting our work at
@ACMUIST
today! I'll be presenting our work REACH+ on expanding the capabilities of robot-mediated haptics in VR, with
@dSeanMustard
and
@parastooabtahi
.
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@dSeanMustard
@PrincetonHCI
Thanks so much,
@dSeanMustard
! I feel VERY lucky to have had you and
@landay
as my advisors, and excited to see you at UIST!
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Congratulations to my amazing advisor
@dSeanMustard
for being named a Sloan Research Fellow! Have always felt very lucky and grateful to have the opportunity to work with you and learn from you! 🎉
Congrats to Professors Anari, Druckmann, Follmer, Good, Ma, Schumer, Sorkin & Zou
@Stanford
on each being named a 2021
#sloanfellow
! We are so excited to be able to support you and your work!
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The only reason I can think of is potentially more space for line numbers, annotations, and note-taking? Do most reviewers make in-document edits/comments in their reviewing process?
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Also, what a beautiful poster by Genevieve Simms:
Announcing WiGRAPH's Rising Stars in Computer Graphics! Ph.D. students and postdocs of underrepresented genders: apply for a two-year program of mentorship and workshops co-located with SIGGRAPH 2022&2023. Travel support provided.
#WiGRAPHRisingStars
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If you prefer watching a video instead, this WSJ post had similar suggestions:
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We found that for some users, physical practices are a structured and constructive creative outlet and a form of artistic expression.
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@merrierm
I haven’t read this myself, but this was recommended to me for Grounded Theory.
6. Charmaz. 2006. Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis.
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@liang_fab_akira
@ACMUIST
@cheng_tingyu
@karthiksramani
@LuoYiyue
@_JiahaoLi
@JunyiZhuMIT
@AnhongGuo
@ZYYan20H
@jsli_21
@Zhongyi_Zhou_
@jama1017
@yunyizhu_
@HsuanlingLee
@DrustZ
It was really fun! Thanks for inviting me!
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@merrierm
Specifically for thematic analysis:
3. Braun and Clarke. 2006. Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology:
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While we highlighted ways in which digital tracking tools may support aspects of these practices, such as granting creative freedom and facilitating reflection through slow designs, we found that for some the richness of the experience is tied to the physicality of the practice.
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Also, you can catch
@m0k4r1
and
@andreas_fender
presenting their previous work OptiBasePen, which enables pen input on passive surfaces at
#UIST2024
next week!
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5 free registrations for an exciting XR+AI workshop at UIST!
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@plopesresearch
@michinebeling
@sigchi
@acm_chi
Thanks for organizing! It was so nice to meet everyone!
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What are some things you wish you could find out about a research project beyond what is presented in a constrained academic paper format?
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I hope Stanford provides Antonio with the *necessary* accommodations and also revises their policies very soon! Here is more information:
I just came across this. I don’t have any context or more information, but there seems to be a petition to help Antonio:
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@andresmh
This is close to my mental model for UIST. For CHI and UbiComp, my experience has been different — I would say, top left is dark green.
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@thesmitdesai
@e_mln_e
Not sure to what degree of success, but we used it in our work: “Understanding Physical Practices and the Role of Technology in Manual Self-Tracking.” See section 6.3 in our paper:
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@ryosuzk
Wow, amazing! I guess time for me to brush off the feeling of “no one will ever read this…” haha
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If you’re a CS graduate student
@Stanford
, consider signing up for a 2hr time slot as a mentor for HackOverflow!
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@merrierm
People have pointed me to these resources in the past, and I found them useful:
1. Miles, Hubberman, and Saldana. Introduction (Qualitative Data Analysis, Ch 1.):
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@jeffbigham
Hover Camera looks really cool (or you can pre-order the Hover 2). Fleye Helmet seems pretty safe as well! Or you can build a "safe" cage for the Parrot's Rolling Spider like I have here (using carbon fiber rods, 3D printed joints, and a polypropylene mesh)!
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If you’re interested in trying it,
@SpatialChatTeam
extended the free plan offer (25 participants, 3 rooms) until Feb 15th. Hope to see some educational pricing after that!
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