A good analogy for why I don’t want my students using AI to do their coursework. The purpose is to struggle with the material and receive feedback on the work that helps you reflect on your thought process. Some students think the purpose is to appear to have done the work.

📢Post Doc Researcher position now also available in our group at #MicrosoftResearch AI Frontiers. If you're interested in making #AI agents and systems usable, safe, and reliable, apply here: aka.ms/AIFrontiers-Ag…

Are you looking for #PhD student positions in data visualization, visual analytics, #HCI research? I am recruiting multiple PhD students (funded) to join my group at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HKUST HKUST Computer Science and Engineering in Fall 2025. If interested, EMAIL me! [1/2]

Coming March 13, 2025: Data Poetics at the Atlanta Science Festival! Join W.J. Lofton// IG: @mrjamespoetry and me for a night of drinks where slam poetry meets data!

Come do an internship w/ the HCI&Vis team Autodesk Research Toronto We’re looking for a grad-level research intern this summer for a project related to uncertainty vis, sustainability in the architecture, engineering, & construction industry, & AI/LLMs autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uni/job/…

There are still a few tickets left for tonight's Data Poetics event. Come join us at 7pm at Supermarket ATL! Register here (it's free!): atlantasciencefestival.org/events-2025/11…

Excited to share our upcoming IUI paper called "A Design Space of Behavior Change Interventions for Responsible Data Science" -- we look at how behavior change theories from cognitive and clinical psych can inform responsible data science. 📖Read it here: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/B…

In our upcoming ACM CHI Conference paper "Confirmation Bias: The Double-Edged Sword of Data Facts in Visual Data Communication", we look at how vis + text combine to exacerbate or, in some cases, mitigate confirmation bias! 📖Read it here: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/C…

In our upcoming ACM CHI Conference paper "A Novel Lens on Metacognition in Visualization", we introduce a model of visualization that integrates metacognition. We lay out a research agenda for the promising direction of metacognition x vis. 📖Read it here: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/M…

🎓 My students presented two papers at ACM CHI Conference last week on metacognition and confirmation bias. 📖 Read more here: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/M… and emilywall.github.io/media/papers/C…. Reach out to the first authors if you are looking for research interns 💻

Meet Lauren Klein & Tanvi Sharma from Emory University. Lauren and Tanvi will deliver the opening Keynote at #Outlier2025: “The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Modern Data Visualization” Explore the agenda: accelevents.com/e/outlier-2025… #dataviz

Congratulations to the first PhD graduate from the Cognition and Visualization Lab, Dr. Ziwei Dong! Ziwei has joined Amazon as an applied scientist working on responsible AI. #proudadvisormoment

🗓️ IEEE VIS Doctoral Colloquium submission deadline is next Friday, May 23. Submit now on PCS!

Exciting news: the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a predoctoral fellow!!! 🎉 microsoft.com/en-us/research…

VIS-SEA (VIS - South EAst) is taking place Emory University July 20-22. Please share -- all vis researchers, students welcome to attend! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…. Sign up for a project pitch and get feedback here: forms.gle/Cidbs3nR4rz7Lv….

Thanks for joining us Emory University today!

📢 AI is changing the way we create, learn, & reason. But is it augmenting human cognition, or dulling it? Please submit your ideas to our #HCI Special Issue: Generative AI in Tools for Thought. Abstract Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 → tinyurl.com/t4tcfp

🆕Paper alert: to be presented #Interact2025 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil next week! ✅Simple visual highlighting in recommendation letters can be used to exacerbate or mitigate the effects of gender bias. 📜Read it here: emilywall.github.io/media/papers/B…

Grad school season reminder: many CS departments run student-led pre-application mentorship programs for prospective PhD applicants (due Oct. You can get feedback from current PhD students! Eg - UW’s CSE PAMS: cs.washington.edu/academics/grad… - MIT EECS GAAP: eecs-gaap.mit.edu 🧵

🚨Upcoming CSCW paper -- find out how we translate behavior change theories common in digital health into the domain of responsible data science. 4-minute read on Medium, which also links to the full paper 🔗: medium.com/acm-cscw/behav… Come say hi in Bergen for my first ever #CSCW!