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🦁️💙 CS PhD @ColumbiaHCI • human-computer interaction researcher • creativity ✨ • ugrad @cornellcis @cornellucomm • 🧑🏻💻 intern @autodesk
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some notes with this milestone:
last year at this time, i was battling imposter syndrome and considering quitting PhD: i thought it’s a FAULT to go to a phd straight from undergrad without doing any postbacc RA or work experiences. i felt like i was nothing but my degrees… (1/n)
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Two great news✨ 1) I just finished my undergrad at
@CornellCIS
and
@CornellUCOMM
! 2) I am so exited to join
@ColumbiaCompSci
as a PhD student working in human-computer interaction with Dr. Lydia Chilton! Yay!
@AcademicChatter
@PhDVoice
#AcademicTwitter
@CUSEAS
@Columbia
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ever struggled to explain your research to your family? trying to make them understand and care about it?
lol it's def a HARD science communication task: contextualize technical concepts to concrete, everyday examples.
✨our
@iccc_conf
paper helps: (1/n)
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hi
@Autodesk
, i’m so over the moon to join as a research intern this summer!! i’m now working with the amazing
@jozilla
@justinmatejka
&
@kendrwannamaker
🌁🇩🇰 catch me in SF, NYC, copenhagen… & happy to hang out & drink coffee
📸🧩 some collage from my first day:
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look at what I've joined! so grateful to be selected for the 2023b cohort of
@Google
CS Research Mentorship Program (CSRMP)✨ Looking forward to learning more about (industry) research as a junior PhD :)
#GoogleResearch
#CSRMP
#PhDLife
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📖✍️⏳🫠 A writer sits in front of the desk for hours and then opens an AI writing tool 💻👀🙋♂️Feeling related? Ever wondered WHY??
See our
#CHI2023
paper on the Social Dynamics of AI Support! How do writers perceive these tools? What leads to their usage?
After years of building writing support tools, I've always wondered why some people loved them (even when they're bad!) & others disliked them no matter what.
That's why I ran this study which is out with
#CHI2023
:
"Social Dynamics of AI Support in Creative Writing"
🧵
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#CSCW2023
💎 that’s a wrap 🌯! i love minneapolis! it’s so fun to see all of you from Twitter are actually REAL people :)
and so many first times: as an in-person SV, day captain, organizing queer socials, making pins, presenting my thesis, runway, and caught my first COVID..🤒
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🧚🏻♂️🌖💕So over the moon to have
#HCIC
be my 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 ever HCI conference in person!!
🤡🎖️A huge shout-out to all the fantastic attendees: thanks for roasting my phone rings and giving me awards for it🫡 … but i’m also aware of my immense privilege of being able to join, so… 1/
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One thing I found useful is to spend 15 minutes every day writing diaries. I usually write what my day is like and what thoughts I have that day. it allows for REFLECTION: focusing on myself, confronting my emotions & breakdowns, and documenting happiness & accomplishments :)🌷🌷
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i’m indeed so proud of my first undergrad mentee 🌷✨
📣 I’m excited to announce that I’ll be starting my Ph.D in Computer Science at
@UChicago
this fall with the
@UChicagoCI
group. I’ll be working with Prof.
@MinaLee__
exploring human-AI collaboration in the writing and education space.
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#CHI2024
Queers... Please, please, please block your 05/13 Monday morning!!! let's have a breakfast celebration before the opening keynote!!! Go Honolulu!!! old friends + new friends, see you all there!!! 🏄🏖️🌊🌺🍹🐬🌋🏳️🌈
🔗 details & sign-up:
🏳️🌈 Queers at
#CHI2024
! Join us for a breakfast social at Cream Pot on Monday, May 13th! 🍜 Let's start the conference with great food and company.
Sign up here:
See you there! 🦹
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➜ Follow
@ColumbiaHCI
for the latest updates on our group! We're still in the early stages of our initiative, so please help spread the word :)
🦁💙🎉It's
#FDOC
!!! Introducing the Columbia Human-Computer Interaction Group!
@ColumbiaHCI
debuts as a group with 5 labs delving into Design, GenAI Tools, Accessibility, 3D UI, VR/AR, Ubiquitous/Mobile Computing, and Biomedical Informatics... See more: 🧵
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#CHI2024
💸💸 don’t let the PhD application fees bother you! check out this amazing resource on fee waivers:
Are you a student having hardship paying application fees for PhD programs?
Feeling difficult to find fee waiver information, I created a list of application fee waivers from different schools!👇
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TikTok is now my primary news source, ik..😅 but they are just too informative & entertaining! so its hard to make them :(
Introducing 𝕽𝖊𝖊𝖑𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖗, an interactive co-creation system integrates the magic of
#GenerativeAI
into this novel news form
📰🎥📈 Can AI help make news into TikTok videos? Introducing ReelFramer: co-creating “news reels” with GPT and DALL-E!
Arxiv:
Preview:
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Please follow
@Tweetorial_Lab
🐦⬛
we are a group of students working with
@lydiachilton
at
@columbiahci
trying to talk about 🧪science & technology 💻 thru your life experiences! 🧬🔭🔬👩🔬 fun & engaging!
⬇️🛒🛍️ see how we talk about your amazon impulsive buying experience :)
Ever gone on an impromptu Amazon shopping spree? I just wanted to buy candles for my friend’s birthday and ended up with a crateful of party supplies I’ll probably never need 🪅👗😭 But I would argue that may not be *entirely* my fault… hear me out 1/
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🚨📢 LAST CALL: **Nov 10th, 2023**
Applying to Columbia CS PhD program this year? Consider signing up for our PAR program to get feedback on your application :)
🌍🔗 PROGRAM INFO (w/ signup form link):
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🌅 left was taken on 08/27/2023
🏞️ right was taken on 08/25/2022
It’s orientation day again! So now, i call myself a 💕second-year✨ PhD student with good vibes!!
@columbia
@cuseas
@columbiacompsci
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PhD is not a competition over numbers. I now really agree with this: “The biggest things you can learn from a PhD is not something u can write down on your CV” Even tho I have many troubles right now (visas, paper rejections, procrastination...) but I now enjoy this process (9/n)
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VRoxy! an amazing project that i contributed during my undergrad! so glad to see this at
#UIST2023
🍾💚
We will present our
#UIST2023
paper, VRoxy, designed to support large-area collaboration from a much smaller office using a VR-driven robotic proxy, accommodating asymmetric remote collaboration 🤖
paper:
full video:
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🐄🧀✨HCIC ** is a fantastic annual gathering of PhD students, postdocs, faculty, and industry researchers (~30 orgs/institutes) dedicated to HCI research!! if u want, I'm thrilled to share my own experience, don’t hesitate to reach out! let’s chat :) 2/
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**welcome to the new era**
🪄🦹🥂🪩💃🧑🎤🕺🎵 🎭 🔮
it’s 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨 time! a brand new
#text2video
system for music visualization and you! great work w/
@viv_lavida
@_nateraw
@lydiachilton
More info? please check our paper and video :)
Generative Disco: Text-to-Video Generation for Music Visualization
abs:
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Then, I realized, is feeling confused a good sign? It means that you are exploring and learning stuff. you arent set on anything but giving everything a critical thought? And later on, I learned more about my strengths: I am good at doing user studies, and I love doing them (7/n)
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They all tried to understand my tiny bit of worry from their own experiences and then used their examples to tell me: "YOU ARE DOING WELL ALREADY." this line seems cliche, but it really helps. People say “it’s totally fine for u to feel confused” since everyone else does (5/n)
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thanks
@QueerinAI
🏳️🌈 for making the breakfast social happen! gonna try to bring it to
#UIST2023
next week (lmk if u wanna help
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It just felt like a massive leap and an “unwise” choice. I have no solid publication record compared to ppl with masters and crazily publishing undergrads & pre-docs. also, I need to take many technical CS classes as someone from an InfoSci background. I felt so left behind (2/n)
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plus, I'm unsure how I and my research can possibly fit within the broader context of the industry. Thus, I almost taking the week off due to such feelings. After that, I tried to reach out for help. I talked to my advisor about this - who is really supportive and amazing (3/n)
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@katyilonka
From this, we see LLMs can help transform technical info into a relatable & engaging medium.
But at the same time, LLMs are far from perfect… we need user interaction to produce successful hooks… so a HUMAN-AI WORKFLOW
again, details here :)
(12/n)
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@Kim_Munyeong
1/ put Education right after the Research Interest section. 2/ rewrite the Club Experience section into something more “project/technical experience” 3/ Research: bring more keywords like how you explored/analyzed (what tools & technology) 4/ use a CV template that’s more clear
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i also met with my labmates & friends. I talk to them not only about such syndrome but also to distract myself and seek social stimuli. During these conversations, I was firstly feeling awkward and weird, but it turned out everyone was so supportive, like therapy sessions (4/n)
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Once, during a CRA-IDEALS panel, one host asked whoever in this room had felt imposter syndrome in the past week or something. Almost everyone raised their hands. including all the panelists - department chairs, NSF funding heads, senior professors on the stage. SHOCKED (6/n)
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context: Many researchers now explain their work on Twitter threads, Tweetorials – what you're reading rn. Tweetorials make science accessible to a broader audience.
The key of a Tweetorial is its “HOOK”, the first tweet. because it motivates people to keep reading… (2/n)
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get featured^^ pls apply by 11/07/22⏰!!
When 1st-year PhD student Tao Long (
@taolongg
) was applying to our program, he signed up for the Pre-Submission Application Review program. He got helpful feedback that helped him tailor his application to Columbia. Find out about his experience -
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And I found out -- I know something that other people don’t know, and I am good at something that other people are not (thanks to my labmates and my advisor, they did a great job of telling me about this — validation matters) i now understand why PhD is called a process (8/n)
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*randomly showing off my TA offers*
I really ENJOY my teaching (more like co-learning) experiences with my peer students. As I articulated in my PhD applications, this passion for teaching strongly contributes to my decision to pursue a graduate degree and academic career. (1/2)
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@katyilonka
Step 1# Generate everyday examples.
users input their topic, and the system generates 5 concrete everyday examples of that topic. like here are examples of “AJAX” from web programming, and the user can pick one that is factually correct and relatable to move forward. (6/n)
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@katyilonka
Similarly, Steps 3# 4# and 5# focus on turning such concrete, everyday examples and experiences into ANECDOTES – so we can make them more personal, detailed, narrative-driven, and interesting:
“Yesterday, I was up until 3 am scrolling Facebook. How did I not notice… ” (8/n)
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@katyilonka
Interestingly, users also made a lot of edits throughout the process, for 2 major reasons:
1. for the tweetorial requirements
(jargon-free, more relatable, more concrete, more narrative-driven, more curiosity sparkling)
2. for personal style
(personal writing style and
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working as a barista at the campus store café for the first day of in-person classes is just too much.
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@katyilonka
ofc, during the process, users can always regenerate, make edits, or use their own examples…
Step 2# Generate common experiences about the selected everyday example.
here, for the example of “loading new posts… without refreshing”, readers may have shared experiences: (7/n)
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@katyilonka
a lot of challenges we see… can be addressed by a brainstorming and writing support tool.
LLMs can help overcome fixation, and users can collaborate with the AI and easily write high-quality social media posts about their technical topics. However, we found… (4/n)
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@katyilonka
Finally, integrating all the previous anecdotes, examples, and experiences, we have the final Step
#6
Generate a Sample Hook &
#7
Final Hook writing, where the user co-create a complete and engaging hook.
More details can be found in the paper: (9/n)
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@katyilonka
We also ran a user study (n=10) to see if the workflow helps. All users were asked to write 6 hooks, 3 with the system and 3 without. And, we found that our workflow
significantly lowers
** mental demand
** effort
* frustration
while significantly improves
** perfomence
(10/n)
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@Kim_Munyeong
for jobs application / grad school application CV, 2pages is fine. mine is usually at the longer end (i had 4/5 pages lol
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however, prev studies by
@katyilonka
found hook writing is a challenge for STEM experts. We are trained to write long-a** papers for other experts, not these informal, short social media posts. also, brainstorming layman’s terms sometimes take forever, and all brain cells! (3/n)
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@katyilonka
LLMs can't automate the hook writing task well — their responses contain errors. or they give examples that a non-technical audience would not relate to.
so WE NEED A HUMAN-LLM WORKFLOW: scaffold the process into multi steps, and users interact with the system to co-create (5/n)
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Amazing
@nprandchill
@anamatics
, and I worked on this event with
@QueerinAI
and
@ACM_CSCW
. Please let us know if there are any questions! You can find all the details on this event site:
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@katyilonka
okie okie, that's all. shout out to the amazing collaborators
@tweetorial_lab
:)
Dorothy Zhang,
@another_graceli
, Batool Taraif,
@samia_mnn
, Kynnedy Simone Smith,
@sitong0926
,
@katyilonka
,
@lydiachilton
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@NishatLea
same here! i want to use my example to tell those ppl who didnt publish any papers before grad school - you can do well!!!! i'm sure you can do well. trust me, trust the process, trust the people, and trust yourself!!!
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@yoon0u0
@gionnievelim
@MinaLee__
@TobyJLi
@si_chen_edu
@dilarakkl
@HeesooJang2
@lee_lee_o
yay queen!!! you nailed it💅
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@CornellInfoSci
@CornellCIS
@ColumbiaCompSci
Thank you so much for sending this! I am so proud to be a graduate from
@CornellInfoSci
! So flattered🥰
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@donghoon_io
@CornellCIS
@CornellUCOMM
@ColumbiaCompSci
@AcademicChatter
@PhDVoice
@CUSEAS
@Columbia
Thankssssss!
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@donghoon_io
@hcdeUW
@garyhsieh
@smunson
haha yeah! let’s do it together and see each other in future conferences :)
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@Tanusree_Sharma
miss u already! so nice to have u in WI :)))) we should hang out in future conferences!
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@jeffbigham
@mint
@creditkarma
creditkarma is weird indeed. i switched to
@RocketMoneyApp
! they used to have free premium membership for ex- Mint users :) i recommend it! I now pay 4$ per month for its premium! worth it!!!
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@cyanjd
@CornellCIS
@CornellUCOMM
@ColumbiaCompSci
@AcademicChatter
@PhDVoice
@CUSEAS
@Columbia
Thank youuuu!
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@Tanusree_Sharma
@ISTatPENNSTATE
@socrates1024
@scyrusk
@YunHuang_HCI
@dawnsongtweets
OMGGGGGGGG CONGRATSSSSSS!!!! You are amazing!!!!
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