Our work on supporting industry computing researchers in assessing, articulating, and addressing the potential negative societal impact of their work (with @wesleydeng.bsky.social and @s010n.bsky.social) is featured in this edition of Research Focus.
๐จ New CHI 2026 Workshop ๐จ
PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy
I'm an even bigger fan of you!!
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Best Paper Honorable Mention (Top 3% Submissions)
๐ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
๐ Wed, 22 Oct | 9:00 AM, CET: Toward More Ethical and Transparent Systems and Environments
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๐ Best Paper Awards (Top 1% Submissions)
๐ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
๐ Mon, 20 Oct | 2:30 PM, CET: Online & AI Harms
I am beyond trilled to present two ๐ award-winning papers ๐ @acm-cscw.bsky.social this year CSCW in beautiful Bergen, Norway!! Broadly, I'm excited to chat about responsible AI, AI auditing and red-teaming, and human-AI interaction. Say hi if we run into each other!
The deadline for proposing a social for #FAccT2025 has been extended! Get your proposals in by Wednesday, May 21.
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.
Our call for #FAccT2025 socials is live!
If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an inโperson or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identitiesโจ
The ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 Conference is coming up. Dive into "Diverse Intelligence" & explore collective problem-solving across disciplines. Time to prepare your submission for opportunities due on May 1st: Doctoral Colloquium, CrowdCamp, Demos or Posters
ci.acm.org/2025/submit/
#ci25
Congratulations to the three 2025 recipients of the @cmu.edu K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship: HCII PhD students Wesley Deng @wesleydeng.bsky.social and Tzu-Sheng Kuo @tskuo.bsky.social and CMU Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Veronica Muriga.
๐: www.cmu.edu/ethics-ai/ne...
A screenshot of the first page of an academic figure with a list of authors and a high-level schematic figure describing Cocoa, an interactive system for co-planning and co-execution with AI agents.
๐คGiving complex tasks to AI agents is easyโgetting them to do exactly what you want isnโt. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents?
๐ซIntroducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. ๐งต
I think I know which one lol
I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com
A poster advertising the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance with a description of the workshop's core themes and faces of the organizers.
๐ข๐ข Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHIโ25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies.
๐ Website: chi-staig.github.io
๐๏ธ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025
๐ฃ New paper
Privacy harms can seem small in isolation. Viewed in aggregate, however, we realize how creepy surveillance capitalism can be. Unfortunately, these harms go unreported, blurring aggregate impacts.
Our #CSCW paper explores how to fix that: sauvikdas.com/papers/56/se...
#AcademicSky
Joining us for the second HEAL workshop at CHI 2025!! โจ๐
heal-workshop.github.io
In a paper weโre workshopping this week at #NeurIPS2024, Ned Cooper, @wesleydeng.bsky.social, and Ben Hutchinson and I ask: what is the model of societal impacts reflected in efforts to evaluate GenAI systems?
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22985
Workshop: evaleval.github.io
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Wrapped up the first offering of a new course @cmuhcii.bsky.social this week: Augmenting Intelligence coaugmentation.com
This was *such* a blast to teach! At our course exhibition on Wednesday, students presented posters, interactive demos, and art pieces around cognitive augmentation for...
We've been developing TAIGA (Tool for Auditing Images Generated by AI), it lets you generate images based on a prompt, compare against the images of other prompts, and discuss your findings.
Let us know if you're interested in using TAIGA for your classes or AI literacy!
taiga.weaudit.org
I work on supporting AI fairness in practice through conducting empirical study and building interactive tools!
I know! I just start switching to this app from twitter and realized where all the hot takes are