The deadline for proposing a social for #FAccT2025 has been extended! Get your proposals in by Wednesday, May 21.

facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.

Our call for #FAccT2025 socials is live!

If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!

facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨

The ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 Conference is coming up. Dive into "Diverse Intelligence" & explore collective problem-solving across disciplines. Time to prepare your submission for opportunities due on May 1st: Doctoral Colloquium, CrowdCamp, Demos or Posters
ci.acm.org/2025/submit/
#ci25

Congratulations to the three 2025 recipients of the @cmu.edu K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship: HCII PhD students Wesley Deng @wesleydeng.bsky.social and Tzu-Sheng Kuo @tskuo.bsky.social and CMU Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Veronica Muriga.

🔗: www.cmu.edu/ethics-ai/ne...

🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents?

🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

I think I know which one lol

I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies.

🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io
🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025

📣 New paper

Privacy harms can seem small in isolation. Viewed in aggregate, however, we realize how creepy surveillance capitalism can be. Unfortunately, these harms go unreported, blurring aggregate impacts.

Our #CSCW paper explores how to fix that: sauvikdas.com/papers/56/se...

#AcademicSky

Joining us for the second HEAL workshop at CHI 2025!! ✨🙌

heal-workshop.github.io

In a paper we’re workshopping this week at #NeurIPS2024, Ned Cooper, @wesleydeng.bsky.social, and Ben Hutchinson and I ask: what is the model of societal impacts reflected in efforts to evaluate GenAI systems?

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22985
Workshop: evaleval.github.io
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Wrapped up the first offering of a new course @cmuhcii.bsky.social this week: Augmenting Intelligence coaugmentation.com

This was *such* a blast to teach! At our course exhibition on Wednesday, students presented posters, interactive demos, and art pieces around cognitive augmentation for...

We've been developing TAIGA (Tool for Auditing Images Generated by AI), it lets you generate images based on a prompt, compare against the images of other prompts, and discuss your findings.

Let us know if you're interested in using TAIGA for your classes or AI literacy!

taiga.weaudit.org

I work on supporting AI fairness in practice through conducting empirical study and building interactive tools!

I know! I just start switching to this app from twitter and realized where all the hot takes are