Hi all, I attended this several times. This is a wonderful community. If
you have anything, please consider submitting here.
Many thanks,
Rifat
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From: Vikram Kamath <kmarkiv(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:35 AM
Subject: Call for Participation: CHI Workshop: Decolonizing HCI Across
Borders
To: <rifat(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Hi Rifat,
Happy new year my friend! I hope you are doing well.
If possible, forward the call to relevant groups in your university and
your circles.
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CHI 2021 Workshop: Decolonizing HCI Across Borders
Important Dates
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February 12: Position papers due.
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March 1: Position paper notifications sent.
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March 31: Camera-ready versions due.
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April 15th: Participation call (300 word abstract) / Video / Art
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May 8th: Online Workshop at CHI 2021
Submissions
Position paper (2-4 pages, single column, 1.5 line spacing, Times New
Roman, size 12 font, PDF format)
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One-page curriculum vitae
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Submissions on hcixb2021.hotcrp.com
<http://bit.ly/hcixb_2021_submissions>
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Intent to participate ( Art: Videos, Poems, Stories or Pictorials)
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Creative submission reflecting your interest to participate in this
event such as a 1 min video, 300-word abstract, a poster, artwork, or any
creative artifact.
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https://hcixb.org/art-submissions/
About HCI Across Borders (http://www.hcixb.org <http://bit.ly/hcixb>)
The HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) symposium at CHI (initially held as the
Development Consortium at CHI 2016, then as a symposium 2017-2019) has
evolved into a critical collaborative effort to bring together researchers
working in and across under-represented contexts around the world. Our
mission has been to foster community across geographies, backgrounds,
methodologies, and other borders. To achieve this, we have explored
building bridges with the larger HCI community and creating concrete
mentorship opportunities for supporting HCIxB researchers in publishing at
impactful venues such as CHI.
Theme for 2020: Decoloniality
For 2021, we expect to regroup to reflect on `decolonial’ thinking in our
research and education across borders. Through our discussions, we hope to
recognize the borders that coloniality has created in computing, design,
and education. Our focus on decoloniality draws on our endeavors to sustain
this tradition of supporting collaborations in HCI across borders and
reflecting on new ways to adapt HCI to broader audiences to create
pluriversal knowledge. We expect our workshop session at CHI 2021 to branch
into a series of virtual workshops that will continue conversations on
decoloniality and other themes that are relevant to borders in HCI, from
the perspectives of students, practitioners, educators, early career
researchers, etc. through the year.
Inspiring Work on Decoloniality:
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Video: Webinar BR-CHI 17/07/2020 - Reflections from the Classroom and
Beyond (By Adriana, Marisol, Javier)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3PXBPcI6P8>
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Papers:
https://sites.google.com/view/decolonizinglearningspaces/inspiring-work?aut…
Submissions
Submission can include
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(A) Presenter:
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Paper: 2-4 pages position paper which will be entitled to be a
presenter and get your position paper published in HCIxB web and
other open
platforms (e.g., CEUR-WS platform <http://ceur-ws.org/>)
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(B) Attendee:
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a 300 word abstract or any other creative artifact that provides an
opportunity to engage in discussion, learn from experiences, and
describes
their perspectives.
Example submissions might include, but are not limited to, the topics below
(from previous years):
• Education technology use by Latino immigrant parents in the United States
• Creation of e-mentorship opportunities to bridge the rural-urban divide
in the United States
• Digitization of informal savings in Pakistan
• Introduction of medical chatbots to improve health-care delivery in Kenya
• Media reconstruction and archiving on Cambodian Facebook
• Community-led video education for digital financial services in India
Here are some questions applicants may want to consider answering in their
submissions:
• Who are you? Please tell us about your department, year of study,
institution, etc.
• What context are you working in? What are the social, political, or
cultural conditions there?
• What problems (w.r.t Decoloniality) are you addressing? What solutions,
if any, are you expecting to deliver?
• How do you think attending HCIxB 2021 will be beneficial to your work?
In addition, please include a 1-page curriculum vitae. If you need support
for funding, please email admin(a)hcixb.org with evidence that your
submission was accepted.
For examples of accepted submissions in previous years, please see:
2020: https://hcixb.org/past_events/chi2020/submissions-2020/
2019: http://www.hcixb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/hcixb19-examples.zip
<https://hcixb.org/chi2019/accepted-papers/>
2018: https://hcixb.org/chi2018/participants/
2017: <http://www.hcixb.org/past-events/2017-2/accepted-papers-authors/>
https://hcixb.org/2017-2/accepted-papers-authors/
2016: https://hci4dacrossborders.wordpress.com/
All submissions will be reviewed by our program committee, and their
acceptance will be conditional on their potential to contribute to the
HCIxB community and to foster discussion and growth among participants.
Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to bring poster versions of
their submissions at CHI. We will invite seasoned HCI researchers in
relevant areas to provide rich feedback to workshop participants. A
selection of accepted submissions will be invited to make short oral
presentations.
Please note that accepted submissions will not be indexed in the ACM DL but
will be listed on the HCIxB website for participants to read before
attending CHI. Accepted papers could also be published via open source
platforms like CEUR-WS platform <http://ceur-ws.org/>. Through March and
April, we will publish submissions as blog posts (on
https://medium.com/hccxb). Please check http://www.hcixb.org
<http://bit.ly/hcixb> for relevant information, and email admin(a)hcixb.org with
questions.
Schedule
HCIxB will take place on Saturday, as a one-day Workshop. Our tentative
schedule is below, though it is subject to change, and will be finalized
after we have reviewed the submissions. All updates will be indicated on
our website (http://www.hcixb.org <http://bit.ly/hcixb>).
09:00 - 09:15: Welcome from the organizing committee
09:15 - 10:15: Introduction and Position Paper
presentations
10:30 - 11:00: Panel/Keynote
11:00 - 11:45: Clustering and Discussion
12:00 - 13:00: Next Steps and Closing Remarks
Organizers
(in alphabetical order)
Dilrukshi Gamage, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,
Christian Sturm, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Lippstadt,
Germany,
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Namibia University of Science and Technology,
Windhoek, Namibia,
Juan Fernando Maestre, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA, USA,
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden
Naveena Karusala, University of Washington
Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Oscar Lemus, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Contact
For updates, please check the workshop website: http://www.hcixb.org
<http://bit.ly/hcixb>
Email us your questions to admin(a)hcixb.org
Regards
Vikram
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PhD student, HCII, CMU
Résumé <http://bit.ly/kmarkiv_web> : Blog <http://bit.ly/kmarkiv_blog> ;
Twitter <http://bit.ly/kmarkiv_twitter>
Regards
Vikram
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PhD student, HCII, CMU
Résumé <http://bit.ly/kmarkiv_web> : Blog <http://bit.ly/kmarkiv_blog> ;
Twitter <http://bit.ly/kmarkiv_twitter>
--
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/
FYI
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute <https://www.torontosri.ca/>
University of Toronto, ON, CA
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
My Availability: Google Calendar Link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>
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From: ILONA POSNER <ilona(a)acm.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Fwd: WUD Speaker Series 2021
To: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Happy New Year, Ishtiaque, to you and your family.
I wonder if this might be of interest to you or some of your students.
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In case anyone's interested (and sorry if this was spam for you, I used a
clear subject line so hopefully you can just ignore it if it is!), below my
signature are details for this talk I'm giving:
Tomorrow at 11 am EST (Fri 22, Jan): Joseph will be giving a Vector Talk on
Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User
Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery.
Click this link to add to Google Calendar
<https://www.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&text=Vector%20Instit…>
with
zoom link and abstract.
Or email angelina.liu(a)mail.utoronto.ca and cc williams(a)cs.toronto.edu for a
copy of the recording.
Here our lab's "HCI talk"
http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/prospectivestudents#TOC-HCI-Human-Computer…
But the talk will be pretty accessible with zero background in
statistics/machine learning. The key ideas are: If you run randomized
experiments in the real world, how can you make them adaptive experiments?
By using machine learning to rapidly use data to give people the better
interventions, while also enabling reliable statistical analysis of the
data?
Actually, it will be great to get feedback on this talk from HCI people,
like whether we are convincing you to actually use these methods for
randomized experiments you would run.
Anyone from my lab (or DGP) who joins the talk, please let me know if you
are willing to use the zoom 'thumbs up' emoticon and just flash that EVERY
TWO MINUTES! Even if you think my speed is fine, flash it :D. That will
greatly increase the audience's comprehension and user experience!
Joseph
*INFORMATION ON TALK:*
Subject Line: Fri 22 Jan 11 am: Vector Talk on Adapting Real-World
Experimentation to Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with
Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery
Joseph Jay Wiliams <http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/> is giving a talk in
the Vector Institute for AI seminar this Friday: Jan 22nd at 11am EST. (Click
to add to Calendar
<https://www.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&text=Vector%20Instit…>).
To
request a recording & slides, email angelina.liu(a)mail.utoronto.ca and cc
williams(a)cs.toronto.edu.
Link to register
<https://vectorinstitute.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qde2uqjwoGdEcu1GeiqDS3a…>
Meeting ID: 997 2464 7235
Password: 123456
Zoom Meeting Link
<https://vectorinstitute.zoom.us/w/99724647235?tk=ljUeWXxozZn8COEiN82E9F0TnJ…>
Short Title:Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of
User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery
Long Title:Perpetually Enhancing User Interfaces in Tandem with Advancing
Scientific Research in Education & Mental Health: Enabling Reliable
Statistical Analysis of the Data Collected by Algorithms that Trade Off
Exploration & Exploitation
How can we transform the everyday technology people use into intelligent,
self-improving systems? For example, how can we perpetually enhance text
messages for managing stress, or personalize explanations in online
courses? Our work explores the use of randomizedadaptiveexperiments that
test alternative actions (e.g. text messages, explanations), aiming to gain
greater statistical confidence about the value of actions, in tandem with
rapidly using this data to give better actions to future users.
To help characterize the problems that arise in statistical analysis of
data collected while trading off exploration and exploitation, we present a
real-world case study of applying the multi-armed bandit algorithm TS
(Thompson Sampling) to adaptive experiments. TS aims to assign people to
actions in proportion to the probability those actions are optimal. We
present empirical results on how the reliability of statistical analysis is
impacted by Thompson Sampling, compared to a traditional experiment using
uniform random assignment. This helps characterize a substantial problem to
be solved – using a reward maximizing algorithm can cause substantial
issues in statistical analysis of the data. More precisely, an adaptive
algorithm can increase both false positives (believing actions have
different effects when they do not) and false negatives (failing to detect
differences between actions). We show how statistical analyses can be
modified to take into account properties of the algorithm, but that these
do not fully address the problem raised.
We therefore introduce an algorithm which assigns a proportion of
participants uniformly randomly and the remaining participants via Thompson
sampling. The probability that a participant is assigned using Uniform
Random (UR) allocation is set to the posterior probability that the
difference between two arms is 'small' (below a certain threshold),
allowing for more UR exploration when there is little or no reward to be
gained by exploiting. The resulting data can enable more accurate
statistical inferences from hypothesis testing by detecting small effects
when they exist (reducing false negatives) and reducing false positives.
The work we present aims to surface the underappreciated complexity of
using adaptive experimentation to both enable scientific/statistical
discovery and help real-world users. The current work takes a first step
towards computationally characterizing some of the problems that arise, and
what potential solutions might look like, in order to inform and invite
multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers in machine learning,
statistics, and the social-behavioral sciences.
Bio:Joseph Jay Williams is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science (and
a Vector Institute Faculty Affiliate, with courtesy appointments in
Statistics & Psychology) at the University of Toronto, leading the
Intelligent Adaptive Interventions research group. He was previously an
Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore's School of
Computing in the department of Information Systems & Analytics, a Research
Fellow at Harvard's Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning,
and a member of the Intelligent Interactive Systems Group in Computer
Science. He completed a postdoc at Stanford University in Summer 2014,
working with the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning and the
Open Learning Initiative. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in
Computational Cognitive Science (with Tom Griffiths and Tania Lombrozo),
where he applied Bayesian statistics and machine learning to model how
people learn and reason. He received his B.Sc. from University of Toronto
in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, and is
originally from Trinidad and Tobago. More information about the Intelligent
Adaptive Intervention group's research and papers is at
www.josephjaywilliams.com <http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/>.
Joseph
Joseph Jay Williams
www.josephjaywilliams.com
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Intelligent Adaptive Interventions (IAI) research group
Dear All,
We are happy to announce the next seminar of our Critical Computing seminar
series. This month (January), we are reading the book, "Designing Publics
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/designing-publics>" by Christopher A. Le
Dantec <https://ledantec.net/>, and we will discuss the book with him
on* Friday,
Feb 5, 2021* from* 2-3:30 PM EST *over a Zoom meeting. We invite you all to
join the seminar. Please check this link
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/Christopher%20Le%20D…>
to find more details about the seminar and register for the seminar here
<http://www.bit.ly/ccs05>. A flyer is also attached to this email and I
have appended the seminar details at the bottom of this email. You can find
more information about this seminar series and upcoming speakers by
following this link
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/index.html>. You
can also subscribe to our mailing list
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/criticalcomputing-thir…>
to
receive regular updates about the future speakers of this seminar.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to *anyone* *interested* (*within
and outside UofT*). If you have access to the UofT online library, you will
be able to download and read this book for free at this link
<https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/book/7845164>.
We look forward to seeing you all at the seminar!
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque Ahmed and Robert Soden
Critical Computing Seminar Team
<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/people.html>
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Seminar Details:
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DISCUSSION WITH CHRISTOPHER A. LE DANTEC
BOOK: DESIGNING PUBLICS
5 FEBRUARY, 2021 AT 2-3.30 PM, EST
The registration link: here <http://www.bit.ly/ccs05>
Find the e-book link: here
<https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/book/7845164>
*Christopher A. Le Dantec*, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of
Technology
Bio: Chris Le Dantec is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of
Technology, jointly appointed in the School of Interactive Computing and
the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He teaches in the
Digital Media, HCI, and Human-Centered Computing programs. Through the
Participatory Publics Lab (PPL) at Georgia Tech, he works with students and
community members to build sociotechnical systems that support collective
action through community and civic engagement by practicing participatory
design, co-creating new artifacts and technical forms with community
members to assert identity, to contend with local issues, and to respect
community emotions, beliefs, and desires. His research touches a number of
different domains, including: Human-Computer Interaction,
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Social Computing, Urban Informatics,
Science and Technology Studies, Participatory Design, Design Research.
*Book Abstract*: Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly
embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life -- conducting commerce,
maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing political
movements all occur through a growing collection of devices and services
designed to keep and hold our attention. Yet what happens when our
attention needs to be more local, collective, and focused on our immediate
communities? Perhaps more important, how can we imagine and create new
technologies with local communities? In Designing Publics, Christopher Le
Dantec explores these questions by designing technologies with the urban
homeless. Drawing on a case study of the design of a computational
infrastructure in a shelter for homeless women and their children, Le
Dantec theorizes an alternate vision of design in community contexts.
Focusing on collective action through design, Le Dantec investigates the
way design can draw people together on social issues and create and sustain
a public. By "designing publics" he refers both to the way publics arise
out of design intervention and to the generative action publics take -- how
they "do design" as they mobilize and act in the world. This double lens
offers a new view of how design and a diverse set of design practices
circulate in sites of collective action rather than commercial production.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute <https://www.torontosri.ca/>
University of Toronto, ON, CA
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
My Availability: Google Calendar Link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>