🎉 We published on "The Importance of Accounting for Equity in Disaster Risk Models" in Nature Portfolio Communications Earth & Environment. TLDR: standard risk assessments obscure inequities in distribution of disaster risk, and we demonstrate how to do better.🚨 Full paper at: nature.com/articles/s4324…

Valuable information on the disproportionate impacts of natural hazards on vulnerable populations is only captured when equity is considered in disaster risk models @rsoden_ Lallemant Disaster Analytics for Society Lab @ NTU U of T Department of Computer Science U of T Environment nature.com/articles/s4324…

The Importance of Accounting for Equity in Disaster Risk Models - a blog about our recent paper. earthenvironmentcommunity.nature.com/posts/the-impo… with @rsoden_ Sophia Jit manveer kalirai Asian School Of The Environment Earth Observatory SG U of T Department of Computer Science U of T Environment

Celebrate Leap Day by reading the brand new 2024 edition of Informed magazine ischool.utoronto.ca/wp-content/upl… The cover story features Prof Anastasia Kuzminykh and students from her Human/AI Interaction lab

elated to be in greenville SC for #IUI2024 ! i'll be presenting our paper (Anastasia Kuzminykh & Alex Williams) - toward faceted skill recommendation in intelligent personal assistants - tomorrow @ 11:25 ET as part of the AI in personalization, recommendation and search track. see you there !

Manveer Kalirai (manveer kalirai), a PhD student with the COoKIE Group, will be presenting her recent paper with Anastasia Kuzminykh & Alex Williams, ‘Toward Faceted Skill Recommendation in Intelligent Personal Assistants’, tomorrow at #IUI2024. So proud of Manveer and this work!

Our first session is focused on AI in Personalization, Recommendation, and Search. Currently happening!

COoKIE Group (University of Toronto) has two open Postdoc positions to work on Human Communication with Artificial Agents. One position is AI/HCI focused, another one is focused on interpersonal and/or group communication. More information here: cookie.group/positions-cont…

In collaboration with InterAccess, Coach House Books, and UKAI, we’re offering $400 to Toronto literary writers and digital media artists to come together and create art that explores alternative metaphors for ChatGPT. App Deadline: Nov11 aimetaphorsworkshop.com

📢The PhD Mentorship Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information is providing mentorship for prospective PhD students from marginalized backgrounds! 📄 Details and registration link: forms.gle/BxXQnedvqRFwYz… 📅Submissions accepted until November 10

Do you use #AI systems with long-term #memory (e.g., #ChatGPT, #Claude, #NotebookLM) on a regular basis? If so, we'd like to interview you! 📍: Online/Zoom ⏱️: 1 hour 💵: $20 CAD (gift card or cash) If you're interested, please complete this survey: forms.gle/JoHVWnHy5u3tCi….

If you are going to Graphics Interface 2025, please join us for our workshop: 🤖The Role of AI-Empowered Machine Subjectivity in HCI Tasks 🕑 9am-12pm on Monday, May 26 | FIPKE 204, UBCO Please RSVP below - no paper submissions necessary. #GI2025 forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Does subjectivity play a role in your work? How should we approach HCI research in a landscape that's increasingly affected by AI-empowered machine subjectivity? See more information on our website: sites.google.com/view/gi-subjec…

Hope to see you next Monday in Kelowna!

📣 CFP: 2025 ACM COMPASS Workshop 📣 This one-day workshop invites position contributions that explore how to ground agentic AI systems in social & organizational contexts by examining how social perspectives shape their design, use & evaluation. sites.google.com/view/social-ag…