Becky Xiangyu Peng Here are some of Becky's greatest hits... Story Shaping: teaching RL agents preferences for playing open-ended games (D&D) by telling them exemplar stories. Can also be used for value alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2301.10107

[#LetsAItogether] This Wednesday at 1PM EST we have Lisa Feldman Barrett giving a seminar on emotions and AI. Do not miss it! Register here: ai.northeastern.edu/ai-events/emot…

some of the #chi2024 papers i was a coauthor on were accepted, and some were rejected. i can honestly say i would not have predicted which ones fell into which categories correctly, which is probably a problem.

🇬🇧 You are invited to submit your short papers for MuC 2024. The deadline is 11th June 2024 (AoE). For information about the process, please visit lnkd.in/e_RPJXB4. We are excited about your submissions! #shortpaper #muc24 #karlsruhe

[#ResponsibleAI] My talk on the Shades of AI at Future Congress last week in Chile. I got an spontaneous middle applause thanks to ChapGPT killing me in 2022 and resuscitating me with more (fake) accomplishments in 3/2023. See it here: youtube.com/watch?v=gMnbWB… (🙏 to Daniel Vak)

I probably forgot to mention that together with Ricardo Baeza-Yates we're the General Chairs of #KDD2024 to be held next August in beautiful Barcelona! Really excited to be organizing such a great event and looking forward to meeting you all in Barcelona kdd2024.kdd.org

are you doing accessibility research? let me know if you'd like to speak at our CMU Accessibility Lunch!

In today's class, we have Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social Zoom visit us to talk about AI supply chains, trust, and ethics!

[#ResponsibleAI] With more than 70 countries having an election this year, where we will see increased political use of deepfakes, we are already seeing the amplification of known uses (e.g., Taylor Swift naked images) plus new sophisticated uses ⬇️

Another exciting #UCAI meetup is just around the corner 🥳 This time with talks by D. Engelhardt and T. Grosse-Puppendahl from the #automotive #industry, and Philipp Wintersberger, focusing on #AI-based #adaptivity, #multitasking, and #LLMs. More details➡️ucai-sig.org/meetups/

AH! I am so excited to be collaborating with Noor on this project. The whole space of accessibility and streaming is really exciting. (And anyone who knows me also knows that I am deeply passionate about games too.) So please pass this post around so the right folks find it!

📢📢More opportunities on our team at #MicrosoftResearch! 📢📢 Now hiring for Senior and Principal level Researchers and Software Engineers. If you want to advance the Frontiers of #AI to empower people and AI agents to solve real-world problems, apply below! 👇 Please RT

Don't miss this latest episode of #ACMByteCast – where Jacki O’Neill, Director of the Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) in Nairobi, Kenya, discusses why the #tech we create should bring positive change to society🎙bit.ly/3SIBSSZ #TechForGood #SocialImpact

🟣22@breakfast - The challenges and issues of data 🗣️"@ETIC_UPF researcher, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, will expose the main ethical challenges posed by data and artificial intelligence" ℹ️ cutt.ly/VwB6TpDM

I was so close to being there - being currently in Barcelona - very sad I had to cancel and miss the opportunity to hear your talk Ricardo Baeza-Yates ! Hope there are some slides or recordings!!!

Japanese infrastructure firm Kandenko blends science and art to make miniature scenes light up using smart-X conductive threads creating this story called "connecting thoughts" a visualisation of how we are all connected x.com/Xudong1966/sta…

🎉 Thrilled to announce our new publication accepted at CHI '24: "The Trick is to Stay Behind?: Defining & Exploring the Design Space of Player Balancing Mechanics". Check the thread for highlights and a link to the preprint! #chi2024 #chiplay2024 #gamedesign #gameresearch 🎮1/n

🇬🇧 As there are a few submission deadlines approaching, we'd like to send out a short reminder: Short Paper: 11th June Tutorials: 11th June Demos: 9th July Please note that we will not have any extensions this year! Have a nice weekend 🎉 #cfp #muc2024

We are recruiting - 2 post-docs, one on digital health and one on assistive robotics! Meet me, João Guerreiro, or @andprodrigues at #chi2024 (or DM) if you're interested. Will also have 2 tenure-track assistant professor positions on human-centered AI.

If you find me at #chi2024 (picture below if you don't know me), work in accessible computing (or in intersection), and have a idea for a ACM TACCESS (ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)) special issue, don't be shy!!!! We are always interested for relevant, current, wicked topics!