Amy Zhang

Our DUB REU summer internship program for undergraduates is open again for applications! It's ~9 week paid, paired with a DUB faculty member and hosted at UW to work on HCI research, broadly construed.

Deadline 1/31.

Please share with your students! https://dub.uw.edu/reu.html

Leijie Wang giving a great talk (with a live demo!) of his no-code authoring system Pika, including grammar, compiler, component library, and form-based UI, for communities to create and carry out a wide range of governance online! #chi2024 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642012

@andresmh@hci.social @LiTweeture@hci.social David came up with it :)

Congrats to Nouran Soliman on a fantastic talk on her best paper awarded work on meronimity (mitigating barriers to engaging in public conversations with partial, self-selected, and verified identity signals)! 👏👏 We also deployed a system for it right here in Mastodon at @LiTweeture@hci.social a while back 😌 Read the paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642241 #chi2024

And Emelia Hughes giving her awesome talk! Good questions about novelty effects and possibility of reduced impact of citations or correction interventions over time in relation to systems like Community Notes #chi2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17218

@kjfeng@hci.social and Lawrence gave a great talk at #chi2024! Also some really interesting questions from the audience the work brought up - questions of ease and simplicity vs agency tradeoffs, dealing with as-of-yet unknown or revealed preferences, implications for content moderation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14000

It seems obvious that we should prioritize addressing misinformation that is more harmful. But what makes something more likely to be harmful? Can we can reason about it before the harm has occurred?

📣 In an upcoming #CSCW2024 paper, we present a taxonomy of *Misinformation as a Harm* ➡️

Some photos of talks from @socialfutureslab@hci.social to close out #CSCW2023! First up is @shagun@hci.social's talk on Monday where he presented on personal content moderation tools. More in this blog post https://medium.com/acm-cscw/personalizing-content-moderation-on-social-media-sites-f2543e62d2fb

Excited to announce a lineup of activities and initiatives at #CSCW2023 related to diversity, equity, and inclusion along with my co-chair @dgomezara@hci.social! For details, we've just published a page on the website: https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/

New paper #hcomp2023 led by an ugrad in my lab, Andre Ye and
@cqz@hci.social! We look at how to represent uncertainty in 2D annotations for computer vision models. In this case, we focus on medical image segmentation, where uncertainty is important for experts to interpret. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07528

New paper from our lab on reporting systems! https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10478 Have you ever tried to report something on social media? What do you think gets shared and who do you think sees the report? We seek to understand what ppl *think actually happens* when they report something. 1/n

My dept at UW made a short video of the class I taught this spring on social computing with @kjfeng@hci.social https://youtu.be/9AWkEKRuDZg My students blew me away with their projects and insightful discussion! If curious, our syllabus: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse481p/23sp/

Congrats to @cqz@hci.social for graduating with his PhD from UW CSE!! Jim is the first PhD graduate from @socialfutureslab@hci.social and also my first PhD student! His dissertation was on "Understanding and Addressing Uncertainty of the Crowd", and you can read it here! ➡️ https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~cqz/dissertation.pdf

Hey #FAccT2023! Please check out Teanna Barrett’s talk tomorrow on her paper:

"Skin Deep: Investigating Subjectivity in Skin Tone Annotations for Computer Vision Benchmark Datasets"
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09072
🗣️ Tuesday (7/13) @ 2:15pm CT in room W196A
📺 Talk video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pn-q3xZjMNN4fLinb7DyGVCb1VtWZL3M/view

Teanna was an REU intern (!!) with us last summer, mentored by @cqz@hci.social (also attending!) and will be starting grad school next fall! If you’re at the conference, go talk with them both!

Some new work from our lab relevant to those thinking about AI harms in the here and now! If you're worried about manipulated or synthetic image/video media spreading misinformation on social media, one approach that may get us out of the losing battle of detection is provenance. See thread: @kjfeng@hci.social

Check out this article by @nickmvincent@hci.social and @hanlin@hci.social in Wired on ChatGPT and data theft: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-generative-artificial-intelligence-regulation/

Please boost! We’re excited to invite applications for DUB summer REUs for US-based undergrads.

Interns will be matched with a
UW DUB faculty mentor, who will hire & lead the intern on an HCI research project. ~9 weeks, paid, on UW campus.

Deadline is 1/27: https://dub.washington.edu/posts/2023/dubreu.html

#HCI #CHI2023

Whoo, my research lab @socialfutureslab@hci.social is on Mastodon finally! We decided to take the leap though our Twitter account is still up and will be updating as well for now. Follow for updates on research conducted in our lab at UW CSE on reimagining social and collaborative systems to empower people and improve society.

I'm curious if folks here actually pay attention at all to the "trending now" or "#explore" tab (where you can see trending posts and links according to the folks on your instance)? One of the things we do as mods at hci.social is approve these on a semi-daily basis so I'm wondering if folks find them interesting/useful (or even know about them!).

For #cscw2022 attendees (and anyone else), we've added some additional papers to https://papeo.app/ from this CSCW! Check out this paper+talk hybrid format as an alternative to just watching the talks or just browsing through papers.

Now that #cscw2022 has begun, please check out a system that we're deploying at CSCW that showcases a new way to experience papers and talk videos in tandem! We call it a "papeo" (paper+video 😄). You can see some papeos of CSCW papers here ➡️ https://papeo.app

Apparently people are asking - so yes, I am looking for PhD students for this year at UW CSE! Probably not more than 1 or 2 people since our lab has grown but I'm always interested in folks who are excited by the idea of designing and building new kinds of social computing systems! Especially in this day and age *gestures around*, there's SO MUCH to do! Learn more about our lab at https://social.cs.washington.edu/

#chi2023 #uist2022 #cscw2022 #hci #socialcomputing #phd