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Attending an academic conference soon?
Going by reports and polls on Twitter, you probably have a 10-20% chance of getting #COVID19 there.
Here's a small thread with some evidence and some suggestions. 1/
Going by reports and polls on Twitter, you probably have a 10-20% chance of getting #COVID19 there.
Here's a small thread with some evidence and some suggestions. 1/
2/ ACM #SIGGRAPH, a major conference and trade fair with up to 20,000 attendees, will take place in Vancouver next month, right in time for the peak of a COVID wave.
That means that probably 2000 people will return home infected with COVID.
That means that probably 2000 people will return home infected with COVID.
3/ Of these 2000 people with COVID, a few hundred people will be knocked out for a few days or weeks.
About 1% might suffer from *debilitating* #LongCOVID effects - i.e. 20 attendees will suffer from a major illness for weeks or months or more.
nature.com/articles/s4146…
About 1% might suffer from *debilitating* #LongCOVID effects - i.e. 20 attendees will suffer from a major illness for weeks or months or more.
nature.com/articles/s4146…
For the next three months, I plan to post a slide-a-day from the @MSFTResearch #NewFutureofWork report, calling out interesting tidbits and providing links to learn more. Find the complete report at: aka.ms/nfw2022 
An amazing amount of work went into producing the #NewFutureofWork report. I created a list so that you can follow all of the report authors on Twitter: twitter.com/i/lists/152121…
#Slide17: Priorities have shifted towards tighter integration of work and personal needs. E.g., the #WTI (microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/…) shows that many are more like to put family, personal life over work than before the pandemic. #Flexibility #NewFutureofWork aka.ms/nfw2022
Did you ever think that PERHAPS many of us from the global South don't feel like the mainstream has to "include" us, and that many of us want to end with that power imbalance where there is an actual mainstream deciding who to include or to exclude? #chi2022
Did you ever think that the global South is not a monolithic entity and that diversity is HUGE across countries, cultures, social classes, just as there is in the global North. Inequalities are everywhere on Earth, look closer within your own privileged communities. #chi2022
People in the global South, just like people in the global North, don't have just the 2 reductionist options consisting in a) hiding from surveillance capitalism or b) hiding from your family/close community. Life everywhere is so freaking nuanced and privacy is complex! #chi2022
Today, Niall Docherty and I presented our #CHI2022 paper (Re)Politicizing Digital Well-Being: Beyond User Engagements dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… We examine discourses equating digital well-being with user engagement, combining HCI, IR #SIGIR, and critical theory #FAccT perspectives
Through a comparison with a digital addiction framework, we demonstrate the limitations of purely behaviourist metrics of user engagement in capturing well-being. 2/n
Most digital addiction dimensions are unlikely to be reflected in these measurements as they relate to a person's life outside the platform. 3/n
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but when you’re at #chi2022 and someone looks you up and down, lingering at your name tag only to then not even bother saying ‘hello’ to you because you’re a student and/or at a non-prestigious university: those people are not worth your time!
Especially if you’re early career, my advice for #chi2022 would be to spend more time making friends with people in a similar point in their career to yourself (yes, making friends, not networking!) than trying to get noticed by senior ‘superstar’ folks
Maybe just in general for #chi2022: spend time with folks you feel comfortable around, that are fun, those you can have exciting conversations with, who ask you questions about your work! Doesn’t matter the career stage or ‘where’ they work! Make genuine connections!
🚨Paper alert!🚨Birds of a Feather Don't Fact-check Each Other #CHI2022
On Twitters crowdsourced factcheck program @birdwatch, partisanship is king: users mostly flag counterpartisans' tweets as misleading & rate their notes as unhelpful
psyarxiv.com/57e3q
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On Twitters crowdsourced factcheck program @birdwatch, partisanship is king: users mostly flag counterpartisans' tweets as misleading & rate their notes as unhelpful
psyarxiv.com/57e3q
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Some background: in Jan 2021, Twitter announced a new crowdsourced fact-checking project, @birdwatch, and invited users to apply to become ~official~ keyboard warriors and fight misinfo on the platform
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Accepted users could participate in 2 ways:
1. Notes - users flag tweets as misleading or not and write a summary explaining why
2. Ratings - users upvote or downvote other birdwatchers notes' as helpful or not
More ex. found here: twitter.com/i/birdwatch
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1. Notes - users flag tweets as misleading or not and write a summary explaining why
2. Ratings - users upvote or downvote other birdwatchers notes' as helpful or not
More ex. found here: twitter.com/i/birdwatch
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What’s wrong with “explainable A.I.”
(Making the rounds again.)
1. Most XAI algorithms were not designed with humans in mind or consideration of what doctors really need help with
2. I still believe in the power of XAI, but research is still nascent ...
fortune.com/2022/03/22/ai-…
(Making the rounds again.)
1. Most XAI algorithms were not designed with humans in mind or consideration of what doctors really need help with
2. I still believe in the power of XAI, but research is still nascent ...
fortune.com/2022/03/22/ai-…
3. Verification, which is advocated, serves a different purpose than explanation. Verification tells us whether a system is compliant with regulations. Explanation can tell us on an instance-by-instance timescale whether to trust the system.
4. It’s not one-or-the-other, do both
4. It’s not one-or-the-other, do both
5. But first, we need to be farther along with human-centered XAI so we don’t develop the wrong thing. Or worse, deploy a system that accidentally engenders inappropriate trust.
6. We would never want to prematurely deploy AI, right? … Right?
*Padme/Anakin meme image here*
6. We would never want to prematurely deploy AI, right? … Right?
*Padme/Anakin meme image here*
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Can signatures in user movement inform us about experience & behaviour?
... about engagement, fluidity, and distribution of attention?
Our #CHI2022 preprint takes an empirical approach to these questions, grounded in phenomenology & fractal geometry!
psyarxiv.com/729xw
Can signatures in user movement inform us about experience & behaviour?
... about engagement, fluidity, and distribution of attention?
Our #CHI2022 preprint takes an empirical approach to these questions, grounded in phenomenology & fractal geometry!
psyarxiv.com/729xw
The idea of "readiness to hand", from philosophical phenomenology, has long been influential in HCI.
The story goes like this:
When using a well-functioning tool, skillfully, you stop being aware of the tool as a distinct object. You perceive through it, to the task.
The story goes like this:
When using a well-functioning tool, skillfully, you stop being aware of the tool as a distinct object. You perceive through it, to the task.
But this situation can break down - for instance if you are unskilled, or the tool malfunctions.
Then the tool becomes an object of conscious awareness; you detach from the task; your attitude becomes more reflective and less tied to the original task context
Then the tool becomes an object of conscious awareness; you detach from the task; your attitude becomes more reflective and less tied to the original task context
With the guidance of my supervisor and my mentor, I have decided to push my #chi2022 papers publications back. It was a hard decision after many days working really late to try and make the deadline.
I know that if I pushed hard, I could have a paper ready, but I am not certain I'd be proud of the result. This paper hopefully will setup the structure for my dissertation.
Although it fell on my lap as a result of a collaboration with an industry partner, it fit like a glove with my interests and I thought it deserved better than me making this arbitrary deadline.
