Krzysztof Gajos3 of my federal grants got terminated. While others bring up the impact on science and society, I want to highlight that a vast portion of grant money goes to pay for PhD students so grant terminations can disrupt their lives. My focus, therefore, is on them. With emergency savings and students offering to teach more (which will partly cover their costs), my group has about 1 year buffer. The university also prioritizes students so the current students should be safe until they graduate.
Zana Buçinca
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PhD Candidate @Harvard; Human-AI Interaction
@zbucinca's latest #chi2025 paper shows that people who receive AI decision recommendations supported by contrastive explanations (choose A instead of B because..) help people grow their skills. But this only happens if the alternative (the B in the contrastive explanations) is something that people would plausibly consider. This important because earlier work showed that people do not learn when AI provides conventional explanations (reasons for/against a decision).
https://iis.seas.harvard.edu/papers/bucinca2025contrastive.pdf
Congratulations to (soon to be) Dr. Zana Buçinca (@zbucinca) for defending her dissertation yesterday!
In her PhD, Zana demonstrated that human cognitive engagement moderates the effectiveness of AI support in human decision making, she introduced cognitive forcing functions, and has launched the new sub-field of worker-centric AI.
Her upcoming #CHI2025 paper on Contrastive Explanations That Anticipate Human Misconceptions exemplifies this latest direction in her work.
https://iis.seas.harvard.edu/papers/bucinca2025contrastive.pdf
Ben Waber@zbucinca - value-aligned human-AI decision making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8YljAwvVaU
Aaron Mueller - evaluating and improving LLM generalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCFyx1e8eqc (12/14) #AI #HCI
Aaron Mueller - evaluating and improving LLM generalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCFyx1e8eqc (12/14) #AI #HCI
Designing Value-Aligned Human-AI Interaction
NLP researchers be like “old school” work and cite a 2023 paper.
jonathan zong 🍊🥄 PHDinterested in accessibility, visualization, and data ethics? i'm recruiting phd students to join the Data & Design Group at CU Boulder.
we're building a collaborative and inclusive space for people to grow into interdisciplinary researchers of technology and society.
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ChanceyFleetAs a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστOn deskilling, we always knew; it's the AI hypers who want us to forget: "This experience has demonstrated that it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system, and sooner or later people face the necessity to act after equipment fails." — Valentina Ponomareva
Ryan LiuRecruiting Survey Participants!
We are running a study on whether Mastodon feeds show us posts that align with our goals of using social media 🙂
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 🤔
Click here: https://experiments.braids.social/
