Michael Muller (he/him)

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#hci #CriticalComputing, #Feminisms, #Indigeneity, #human-AI #cocreativity, #SocialJustice: senior research scientist at IBM Research, on stolen lands of the Wampanoag & Massachusett peoples #landback.
Member: #Fempower.tech, #AccessSIGCHI. Co-chair: SIGCHI #CARES.

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Michael Muller (he/him)Apr 27, 2025
Katie SeabornApr 27, 2025

We’re launching Ignite: Grassroots initiatives in the #HCI community to uplift and empower researchers around the world who are experiencing challenges to networking, fundraising, and travel opportunities.

You can help!
You can apply for help!
Spread the word.

http://ignite-us.team #igniteus

We are Ignited

Michael Muller (he/him)Mar 24, 2025
How proactive should an AI agent be when brainstorming with a group of humans? How do humans want to promote or constrain the AI's spontaneous contributions? Please come to our IUI 2025 talk on 27 March 10:20am. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17258
Michael Muller (he/him)Jan 22, 2025

GenAICHI 2025 - Generative AI at #CHI 2025

Call for Participation

This workshop applies human centered themes to a new and powerful technology,
generative artificial intelligence. Unlike AI systems that produce decisions
or descriptions, generative AI produces new instances of diverse types of data.

Submission site:: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/GenAICHI2025
Submission deadline: 2025-02-13 midnight AOE (Anywhere On Earth)

Questions: [email protected]

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Michael Muller (he/him)Feb 18, 2023
Shannon MatternFeb 17, 2023
The impostor syndrome label “implies that women are suffering from a crisis of self-confidence and fails to recognize the real obstacles facing professional women, especially women of color — essentially, [it] reframes systemic inequality as an individual pathology… ‘Imposter syndrome directs our view toward fixing women at work instead of fixing the places where women work.’” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-dubious-rise-of-impostor-syndrome
Michael Muller (he/him)Feb 18, 2023
Plague PoemsFeb 17, 2023

I have heard it said
that we are unprepared
woefully unprepared
for the next pandemic
but look around you
we are not prepared
for the current pandemic either.

*

A compendium of the hundred-and-fifty-second week of plague poems…

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/plague-poems-the-hundred-and-fifty-second-week/

Michael Muller (he/him)Feb 18, 2023
Shannon MatternFeb 17, 2023
Xlnt exhibition of political and subjective feminist maps by Latin American artists at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art — featuring a beautiful free exhibition guide
Michael Muller (he/him)Feb 18, 2023
Show threadCarl T. BergstromFeb 17, 2023
The bigger problem with this language is that the term "hallucination" refers to pathology. In medicine, a hallucination arises a consequence of a malfunction in an organism's sensory and cognitive architecture. The "hallucinations" of LLMs are anything but pathology. Rather they are an immediate consequence of the design philosophy and design decisions that go into the creation of such AIs.
Michael Muller (he/him)Feb 18, 2023
Show threadCarl T. BergstromFeb 17, 2023
ChatGPT is not behaving pathologically when it claims that the population of Mars is 2.5 billion people—it's behaving exactly as it was designed to, making up linguistically plausible responses to dialogue, in the absence of any underlying knowledge model, and guessing when its training set offers nothing more specific.
Michael Muller (he/him)Feb 18, 2023

"My language, which likes
to prove I am not

alone, wants
to talk to me again
today."

--Magdalena Zurawski
Poem: [Dog Is a Way of Thinking] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/magazine/poem-dog-is-a-way-of-thinking.html?smid=tw-share

#poetry

Poem: [Dog Is a Way of Thinking]

Dogs are experts at living in the moment. This poem, through its subtle formal play, allows us to experience the immediacy of language itself.

Michael Muller (he/him)Feb 10, 2023

Responding to requests, we have extended the deadline for the workshop on Generative AI at CHI to 23 February. We are eager to learn about your work!

Workshop website: https://github.com/GenerativeAIandHCI/GenerativeAIandHCI.github.io
Submissions (up to 4 pages, ACM Conference template): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/GenAICHI2023

GitHub - GenerativeAIandHCI/GenerativeAIandHCI.github.io: Website for CHI2022 workshop on Generative AI and HCI

Website for CHI2022 workshop on Generative AI and HCI - GitHub - GenerativeAIandHCI/GenerativeAIandHCI.github.io: Website for CHI2022 workshop on Generative AI and HCI

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