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PhD, MSc. HCI interested in #digitalhealth and #HCI, currently deep-diving into developing tools for #SharedDecisionMaking #online for #EndofLifeCare
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Workshops at #CUI2025 bring conversations to life! ๐Ÿ’ฌ Propose a half or full-day session on any topic related to Conversational User Interfaces. Weโ€™re excited to see your ideas! โœจ

Submission deadline: 4 February 2025

More info: https://cui.acm.org/2025/submit/workshops/

#CUI #HCI

Workshops - CUI 2025

CUI 2025 will feature a dedicated workshops track, allowing attendees to organise focused activities co-located at the conference. We are now open to workshops proposals.

Desk. Rejected. Dejected. #chi2025

The CHI conference Steering Committee is seeking feedback on potential future CHI locations, to guide the decision for where #chi2028 or #chi2029 might be outside of the normal rotation, e.g. in the global south.

This post has more details https://chi.acm.org/chi-steering-committee-site-selection-consultation/ with links to further details on site selection and the survey itself which closes Nov 15th.

CHI Steering Committee, Site Selection Consultation โ€“ CHI Steering Committee

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Recruiting Survey Participants!

We are running a study on whether Mastodon feeds show us posts that align with our goals of using social media ๐Ÿ™‚

Estimated time: 10 mins
Participate for $5 compensation! (currently US only)

We'll try to build a tool to filter Mastodon posts to help us fulfill our goals of using social media. We will experiment with many methods (rule-based, topic models, large language models) to see if they can achieve this ๐Ÿค”

Click here: https://experiments.braids.social/

๐Ÿ“ข Recruiting for a paid study about large language models (LLMs)

We're looking for US-based adult participants for a 1 hour study on Zoom (payment: $15 Amazon gift card). Open to diverse range of knowledge/experience with LLMs.

If interested, please fill out ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://forms.gle/6aGfJNrfhpuQzmz59

RT appreciated!

Recruiting participants for a study with LLMs

Hello! We are conducting research on understanding how people interact with large language models (LLMs) and looking for participants with a diverse range of knowledge and experience with LLMs. In this study, we will ask participants to complete a few tasks using an LLM-based system (e.g., ChatGPT). The study will be conducted on Zoom and last around an hour. Participants will be compensated with a $15 Amazon gift card. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form. Thank you! If you have any questions, please contact us at sunniesuhyoung@princeton.edu.

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Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals - 9to5Mac

Update: Adobe has now clarified the meaning and intent. A change to Adobe terms & conditions for apps like Photoshop...

9to5Mac

This sounds -- not good.

"Almost four out of every 10 #journalists covering the #climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research.

Despite the breadth and magnitude of the problems, 39% of journalists surveyed reported having #SelfCensored โ€“ mostly due to fear of repercussions from โ€œthose undertaking illegal activitiesโ€ or the government."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/05/climate-crisis-journalists

Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work

Groundbreaking new research also reports that 11% of surveyed have faced physical violence in their reporting

The Guardian

Are you also attending @acm_chi and need a map to help you navigate the thousands of papers?

๐Ÿ“ฃ I made a #chi2024 paper explorer for you!
Search by topic, drag to select regions and much more!

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ https://johnguerra.co/viz/chi2024Papers/ ๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿผ

CHI2024 Papers

"Oh #digitalhealth is old school, the research is all about #AI now!" Me: Errrrr .... the separation is a tad meaningless....
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Recruiting Survey Participants!

We are running a study on whether Mastodon feeds show us posts that align with our goals of using social media ๐Ÿ™‚

Estimated time: 10 mins
Participate for $5 compensation! (currently US only)

We'll try to build a tool to filter Mastodon posts to help us fulfill our goals of using social media. We will experiment with many methods (rule-based, topic models, large language models) to see if they can achieve this ๐Ÿค”

Click here: https://experiments.braids.social/

@ryanliu The attraction of Mastodon for me is that it does not have these kinds of features (some opaque algorithm deciding which posts I see, and any use of an LLM will produce an opaque algorithm). But I wouldn't care if there were a robot that uses an algorithm to boost posts, because people would be free to follow the robot or not. That would seem more in keeping with the way things are done here.
@not2b That's a good idea! This is definitely a direction we could go in -- thank you for the kind suggestion.
@ryanliu hey, this is awesome! Just a heads up that if someone tries to consent to the terms on their phone, they may not be able to because the left arrow overlays the consent radio buttons.

@alisynthesis Hi Alison, thank you for the kind reminder! We will try to fix this asap ๐Ÿ™‚ Really appreciate it!

If you're willing, could you provide the phone/browser that you were using? ๐Ÿค

@ryanliu absolutely! Latest Firefox on Android.
@ryanliu I get a "are you blocking cookies?" (No?) trying to login into mastodon.social.
Near impossible to use on a phone in general btw. Tonight the instance three times was painful.
But what I want is 1) option to not see retweets of things I've already seen, and 2) user-level controls (mute, mute for X days) to carry over to retweets.

@kathleenthelaw Hi Kathleen, sorry that you experienced this!! Thanks for trying to complete our survey despite the difficulties. We really appreciate it ๐Ÿ™‚

These are good suggestions --- we will keep these in mind. To clarify, were issues 1) and 2) specific to our study, or with mastodon in general?

Thanks!!!

@ryanliu the form being difficult to fill out (including it being difficult to type out a full instance name character by character) was the study UI not being mobile friendly. The login error appears to be Mastodon social's problem, but seems like your study would ideally enable login via the app the user is already logged into (switching to mobile web is hard on a phone, and necessitates re-logging in).
@ryanliu just puts me in an endless loop of 2 of previous toots after a minute or two โ€“ can't finish study.

@funkylab Hi Marcus, really sorry to hear that you experienced this, that's so weird!

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will try our best to figure out what's wrong and fix it.

If you're able and willing to provide any additional details, we would really appreciate it!

@ryanliu Hi Ryan, no worries! Cool that you're doing this. There's really not much to tell you here: went through the first few pages of the survey including the agreement, then came to the point where I was greeted with a toot and an arrow button, clicked on that arrow button, got a different toot, did that a few times, and things started to repeat, at some point it was the same two toots alternating. No way to escape that. Hope that helps!

@funkylab
Hi Marcus! The bugs have been fixed -- thank you so much! ๐Ÿ™‚

If you still have some time available, we would really appreciate if you could try filling out the survey again! ๐Ÿคฉ

@ryanliu we're working on something similar. I'd love to chat more about this