The Computer Science Department at Columbia, ColumbiaCompSci, has multiple tenure track (and lecturer) positions open. Please apply and join us in a fast-growing department in the best city in the world! cs.columbia.edu/open-positions/

Prof Eugene Wu (wu) is looking for #PhD students who are excited to push forward how humans interact with data. To learn more about him - cs.columbia.edu/~ewu/. For info on our #computerscience PhD program bit.ly/CSPhDprogram. The deadline to apply is December 15.

grateful my first-author paper “Help Supporters: Exploring the Design Space of Assistive Technologies to Support Face-to-Face Help Between Blind and Sighted Strangers” is accepted to #CHI2024 💛 Using research through design to articulate people’s social communication differences

🤔As an English second-language learner, I usually have trouble replacing a word, that I frequently used in my essays, with substitutes that show better language proficiency. ✍️Introducing ProLex: a benchmark for language proficiency-oriented lexical substitution 🧵(1/n)

Defended my thesis yesterday :) Its been a fantastic ride at Columbia NLP and I am grateful to my advisor Smaranda Muresan for believing in my work. Special thanks to Violet Peng who introduced me to Creative NLG which made a lot of the work in my thesis possible

✨ Excited to introduce our #CHI24 work - *ReelFramer*: a system that transforms traditional news articles into engaging, narrative-driven IG Reels/TikToks - both fun and informative! How does ReelFramer tackle this content retargeting challenge? 📰🔄🎥

I will be at ACM CHI Conference #CHI2024 and presenting my paper on fine grained long form creativity evaluation. Looking forward to meeting folks working at the intersection of NLP and HCI and chat about AI and Creativity. This is my first #HCI conference and I am super excited. #NLProc

#CHI2024 😇Have you ever wondered how blind people get help from nearby strangers? Or, as a sighted individual, have you hesitated about when and how to assist a blind stranger? In a public environment with mixed abilities, social and communication barriers exist for both (1/8)

LogoMotion Visually Grounded Code Generation for Content-Aware Animation Animated logos are a compelling and ubiquitous way individuals and brands represent themselves online. Manually authoring these logos can require significant artistic skill and effort. To help novice

AK Thank you AK for the feature again this year! 🌷 Here is a paper video as well for people to watch the animations youtu.be/Jo9opkMH7iY?fe… :)

#CHI2024🏄🌺 MY FIRST CHI (surprised?) WAS FUN! A shoutout to all the amazing human beings and the 80 degrees in Honolulu :) hope to see you all in Yokohama #CHI2025!! please let me know if u ever stop by Columbia / NYC🗽 📸🧩 some collages from this trip (IG handle: @tao1ong)

GREAT NEWS: we have the amazing Tiffany Tseng 🍡 joining soon :) so excited!!! now Columbia Human-Computer Interaction Group is becoming bigger and bigger for sure ✨

🌟 Delighted to introduce our #DIS24 work: PodReels - an AI-powered Premiere Pro extension that supports video teaser creation. Check out how PodReels helps tackle this creative task 🎙️🎞️ and the insights we gained from developing AI-powered extensions! 🤖🔌

another great mind joining! we are so so so excited :) now, we have HCI x AI for health! — Orson is also looking for PhDs and Postdocs in the coming cycle! Please apply and join @ColumbiaHCI 🦁💙

Hello English second-language learners, have you ever struggled with writing coherent English essays in your language exams? ✨Introducing DECOR: Improving Coherence in L2 English Writing with a Novel Benchmark for Incoherence Detection, Reasoning, and Rewriting 🧵(1/n)

Please follow @Tweetorial_Lab🐦‍⬛ we are a group of students working with @lydiachilton at Columbia Human-Computer Interaction Group trying to talk about 🧪science & technology 💻 thru your life experiences! 🧬🔭🔬👩‍🔬 fun & engaging! ⬇️🛒🛍️ see how we talk about your amazon impulsive buying experience :)

🎏#CHI2025 authors! looking for longitudinal evidence for your AI tool? our #DIS2024 work show AI tools remain (& become more!!) useful over time. plus, we explore novelty effect, learning curve, performance, customization & appropriation in 3 week doi.org/10.1145/364383… (1/n)

Small distraction from the #CHI2025 deadline with Columbia Human-Computer Interaction Group friends at Din Tai Fung

New paper on human-AI interaction. We hire 18 writers to edit quirks in AI writing & see if #AI can mimic this process to improve its own writing Verdict: Writer-edited > AI-edited > AI-generated In other words:🚨Edits enhance alignment in writing🚨 🔗arxiv.org/pdf/2409.14509