If you use property-based software testing tools (and in particular, Hypothesis), reach out to @hgoldstein95! Harry is envisioning how to evolve these tools to help people test better, and we can use your input.

Do you work on automated testing? Read our upcoming #ICSE2024 paper on "Property-Based Testing in Practice." We document PBT's deep use at Jane Street, and how PL+HCI research can improve PBT. Read it here: bit.ly/pbt-icse24 (Thanks KC Sivaramakrishnan for the shout-out!)

Learn about the cool things my colleague @DrMetaxa and I are doing to grow and develop Penn HCI in this month's Penn Engineering magazine. And enjoy the epic picture of our our stoic battle faces.

What might smart code comprehension tools look like in the age of GitHub Copilot? Check out our vision in our lab's upcoming #chi2024 paper led by Litao Yan!

Help us make better interactive software tools by doing Harry's paid online study, anywhere, anytime (well, within the next week at least 😊!)

Help us improve the readability of health records by participating in Hita K's paid, remote study!

I'd also like to commend Zhu for getting the NSF's GRFP! The folks at Penn are on 🔥fire🔥!

Oh, and I almost forgot Tal August's Paper Plain paper, which has been published in TOCHI and is *finally* getting presented for the first time at CHI, on Tuesday at 12pm in 316A!

Excited to (finally) be presenting our TOCHI paper at #CHI2024 this week: Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing w/ Lucy Lu Wang Jonathan Bragg Marti Hearst Andrew Head Kyle Lo 1/9

Congratulations @hgoldstein95 on passing his Ph.D. defense with flying colors with an impressive body of work from PL, HCI, and software engineering. The rainbow colors are from my camera, though they might have well been there, because the presentation really was that dazzling.

Have you ever written Java code professionally or open source? If so, you can help us make better tools for answering hard questions about code by taking part in Litao Yan's (paid) study.

One of the coolest parts of my job is I get to teach classes like this one---my new research seminar on Interactive Reading 📖✨ Open to students at Penn Computer and Information Science and the university broadly. Check out the teaser for info!

At #UIST2024 and rained out of a leisurely lunch 🌧️? Stay dry with us at the industry career session instead! Grab a quick bite and then join us at 1pm in Allegheny 3, where UIST'ers from Meta, Google, and Adobe will talk about internships and industry positions.

Are you a Ph.D. applicant interested in HCI? Consider applying to Penn HCI! This year, my group will have openings that could be great for those interested in HCI/Programming Languages or AI-augmented documents. DMs are welcome!

Do you do research in HCI? Help our group improve tools for reading research papers in a 1-hour Zoom study 📖✨. You'll get a chance to use a new reading tool, and a $30 prepaid debit card as bonus! Let us know if you want to participate at bit.ly/pennhci-readin…