Viktoria Pammer-Schindler

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." (Samuel Johson - an English writer).

Thanks to Jimmy Ho Man Lee (https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~jlee/), for listing this quote on your page!

I am obviously posting this quote due to its direct relevance in these times, specifically also but not only thinking of #genAI and #AISlop

As a proud MT supervisor: Congratulations Tamara David for finalising your master thesis! On the picture congratulations to the candidate (2nd from right) by the examination committee Prof. E. Lex, myself, Prof. D. Kalkofen (from left to right).

Tamara's master thesis work was the basis for our recent ACM CHI publication on genAI-supported creativity, in which we asked: How does generative AI affect collaborative creative work and humans’ capability to carry it out?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713886

How to evolve master theses in a world with LLMs that can write quite well? In an AI&Society opinion article, researchers and educators Biele & Kowalsky (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03050-5) argue that a master thesis "was never primarily about the text. The text was a proxy—an externally verifiable trace of an internal process: months of reading, arguing with a supervisor, hitting dead ends, restructuring an argument at eleven at night because a seminar colleague had pointed out a fatal flaw...."

#postdoc #hiring - I have a 1-year opening, to be started early next year, for a postdoc in #hci and #edtech in the E+ project L2BGreen. The ideal candidate will be interested in investigating interaction design patterns for #conversationalAgents, especially mixing textual/visual/voice-based communication. Contact me for questions, applications must be via the job portal: https://lnkd.in/dmAa_nAa

Conversational and tangible Human-AI Interaction - recently, students from Prof. Pengcheng An's research group at the Southern University of Science and Technology , Shenzhen, China; and from my own research group at the Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, met online to share their latest research in #HCI and #AI, focussed on #conversational and #tangible Human-AI interaction, for human productivity, learning and well-being.

https://anpengcheng.cn/

https://www.staff.tugraz.at/viktoria.pammer-schindler/

!!! PhD position(s) !!!

* in HCI and EdTech in the exciting field of agentic AI, specifically on Human-AI synergetic task performance.

* in HCI and AI-explainability in the same project, co-supervised together with Prof. Dominik Kowald, on tracing and visually explaining decisions in multi-agent human-AI environments.

Employment will be at the Know Center + doctorates will be at the Technische Universität Graz.

https://www.know-center.at/en/career/researcher-phd-candidate/

hashtag#AI hashtag#agenticAI hashtag#humanCentricAI