Joel Chan
joelchan86.bsky.social
Joel Chan
@joelchan86.bsky.social
Professing #hci #cognitivescience #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience at UMD iSchool and HCIL

#firstgen #immigrant (to USA from Malaysia) academic

Also following #scicomm #openscience #sts #histsci #histtech

Also on Mastodon: [email protected]
Curious how this experiment fares by the criteria laid out here: users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jhullman/in...
October 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#TIL you can "peek" at the full citation for an inline citation in a PDF in Zotero!
September 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
September 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We share a systematic analysis of scholarly information objects and properties, with special attention to "less sense-able" properties like evocativeness and quality, and explore how design patterns from modern art might inspire new interaction design ideas for immersive sensemaking environments!
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Second, tomorrow Siyi Zhu will share an imaginative pictorial exploration of how we can make scholarly sensemaking like literature reviewing more... sense-able! (by which we mean, more tangible and embodied)

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
First, Jason Ding will share an exploration of how to structure human-AI collaboration in open-ended data analyses.

We show how a carefully designed node-link diagram can act as creative "guardrails" that enable analysts to balance breadth and depth of exploration.

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
recommend starting with this paper and citation / author / concept tracing to the present for the LIS thread: www.researchgate.net/profile/Carr...

another seed to trace from is James Evans' investigations from a computational metascience perspective, e.g., www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
May 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
was just thinking about early-stage mess again today, too!
November 19, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Yes, CoPilot, the encoding is indeed terrible.
February 13, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Pondering this while reading: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 26, 2023 at 8:29 PM