🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

If we prompt LLM with our convergent thinking habit, we're not leveraging AI's full potential. Latest work from my team explored using LLM to *prompt & probe the problem space* co-led by Sangho Suh Meng Chen, strong support from @BryanDMin, fantastic collab with Toby J. Li😺 (he/him)

NSF CISE has a mentoring/fellowship call for folks with bachelors' degrees and CISE skills who have been out in the world and who are looking to come back for a CISE-discipline PhD. See nsf.gov/pubs/2024/nsf2… ; please share to folks in your orbit.

Please RT! HCI and Design folks! UC San Diego Cognitive Science has an open position for Assistant Teaching Professor in HCI and Design. Apply by January 18 if interested! Details apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03855

AI is reshaping our world, but simply making AI apps isn't enough. Like past industrial revolutions, a paradigm shift of the underlying information space is key to unlock AI's potential. I gave a talk at MIT CSAIL about our work on this topic. Talk: creativity.ucsd.edu/foundation

Please RT! We've developed an AI-assisted tool for planning and making videos, and we're looking for expert video creators to try it out and provide feedback. We're especially looking for creators experienced in making explainer vidoes. Sign up here! tinyurl.com/8s7b5xtx

Organizing the Design@Large Talk Series this quarter with my colleague Jim Hollan . We have an amazing group of speakers lined up. James Landay Arvind Satyanarayan Dr. Gloria Mark Andy Matuschak Rubaiat Habib and Dan Russell. The first one is tomorrow with James Landay 4-5pm!

New work from the lab! A prompt is a blind probe of a single point in the vast problem/solution/design space. #Luminate illuminates the space you are in, and facilitates problem understanding and creative exploration. Check out the paper, videos, & system!

I’m giving a new talk at the UCSD Design Lab next Wednesday. Details and description in link below. It’s open to the public if you’re local. It’ll be recorded; will share when it’s up.

Want to reimagine how we interact with computers in the age of AI? And excited about ... 🪜 #abstraction_ladder, 🌊 #dynamic_medium, 🔣 #notations, and 🔀 #diagrams? 🌴 Join us for Monday (05/13) lunch at #CHI2024! shorturl.at/noxU1 🚀 Learn more: dynamicabstractions.github.io

Thanks for visiting and sharing your thoughts, Andy Matuschak ! Thoroughly enjoyed our conversation and the numerous wonderful stories of wonderful people!

Dev is going to present at Rm 324, in the session of Supporting Programmers and Learners A this morning after the keynote. A glimpse of how graphics can be integrated with programs. 🏅 #CHI2024

Come check out a new form of augmented presentation, done by my student Rima (Rima (Yining) Cao) and wonderful colleagues at Adobe!

"Insight Nugget" is absolutely spot on. More so as I just get one after sitting down for 3 hours sketching-reading-battling with distractions. Miss the good old days when I can almost do this on a daily basis.

💼 I'm on the job market for tenure-track faculty positions or industry research scientist roles, focusing on HCI, Human-AI interaction, Creativity Support, and Educational Technology. Please reach out if hiring or aware of relevant opportunities! RT appreciated! 🧵 (1/n)

I am on the job market, seeking tenure-track or industry research positions starting in 2025. My research combines human-computer interaction and robotics—please visit karthikmahadevan.ca for updated publications and CV. Feel free to reach out if interested. RT appreciated!

📢CHI'25 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI 🌐aka.ms/toolsforthough… 🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE

A step towards Generative, Malleable, and Personal user interface led by my student @BryanDMin !

Web Browsing Reimagined. We propose 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 with #Orca. Orca supercharges your web browsing with AI. View, navigate, and operate as many tabs as you want, all at the same time. More at hci.ucsd.edu/orca

Please RT! We're seeking data analysts using AI in their workflows. We would love to observe your process and learn what has been exciting or challenging. Your insights will help us build better tools. If you are willing to sit down with us (on zoom) for a couple of hours