Andrew Miller

@andrewmiller@hci.social
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Associate Professor & Chair, Human-Centered Computing Department at IU Indianapolis — puns & miniatures a speciality
websitehttps://www.andrewmiller.net
Any faculty on here use Interfolio or Sympletic to do annual review? IU is considering both as replacements for our previous dumpster fire ("Activity Insight") and I'd like to know if there's even a chance that one of these is good.

Apps come and go, but the files you create should last.

Our new open source plugin makes it easy to convert your Evernote data to plain text Markdown files that you own.

https://obsidian.md/blog/free-your-notes/

Free your notes

Our new open source Obsidian plugin, Importer, makes it easy to convert your notes from Evernote to durable Markdown files that you own and can use with any app that supports plain text files.

Gratefully accepting advice/suggestions/ideas for world domination
Proud to announce that as of this week I'm the new Chair for the Human-Centered Computing Department here at IU Indianapolis. Lots of great things happening here and I can't wait to support our students, faculty, and staff!

Next time you read a paper about the allegedly-magical capabilities of machine learning, it’s helpful to remember that pigeons can diagnose mammograms with 85% accuracy with sufficient training

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651348/

Pigeons (Columba livia) as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images

Pathologists and radiologists spend years acquiring and refining their medically essential visual skills, so it is of considerable interest to understand how this process actually unfolds and what image features and properties are critical for accurate ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Really enjoyed this article from Allison Parrish about the challenges of transcription and the implications for text-based ML: "Nothing survives transcription, nothing doesn’t survive transcription" https://posts.decontextualize.com/nothing-survives-transcription/
Nothing survives transcription, nothing doesn’t survive transcription

In a sense, the very goal of making a transcription is to make an argument about what cannot be transcribed

Allison Posts

I won't be at #CHI2023 this year, we have a new baby!

Sad to miss WISH, a big thanks to @andrewmiller and @aislingokane. https://sites.uci.edu/wish2023/

Collaborators are also presenting three excellent papers:
- Deploying a conversational LLM for public health (best paper! 🏆): https://depstein.net/assets/pubs/ejo_chi23.pdf
- Intervening in families with kids with ADHD: https://depstein.net/assets/pubs/lsilva_chi23.pdf
- Understanding the diversity of watchfaces people use: https://depstein.net/assets/pubs/rgouveia_chi23.pdf

Can't wait to bring Ansel to #CHI2024!

WISH @ CHI 2023

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