For those in HCI and adjacent areas, we plan to grow Penn HCI as a home for HCI scholarship, from interactive systems to socially-conscious computing and beyond. Follow along, connect with us, and send us a message if you would be interested in working with us!

📢 Call for PhD Students - please RT! I'm starting an HCI lab @TempleCIS in Philly. We’re focusing on democratizing expert processes like design and data science so that everyone can participate. Learning Sciences/Co-Design/NLP/Info Viz/CSCW Info at stevemacn.github.io

Temple, UPenn, and Princeton are all currently starting new HCI labs and recruiting PhD students. What an exciting time to be in the Philadelphia region!

My soon-to-be research group at Penn Computer and Information Science has received its first funding! Ai2 has provided a generous gift to support the design of intelligent interfaces for scholarly reading. Are you interested in this area? Applying to Ph.D. programs this fall? Get in touch!

Join GRASP Laboratory and incoming CIS Assistant Professor dmk placeholder for “Studying Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems” November 3, 2021 3-4pm Levine 307 + Zoom grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-20…

Next year is Penn HCI's inaugural year! Still two more weeks to submit applications to be a part of our first cohort of Ph.D. students. Join us to build Penn HCI! Applications due December 15: cis.upenn.edu/graduate/how-t…

Next week at #CHI2022, see our talk, "Math Augmentation: How Authors Enhance the Readability of Formulas using Novel Visual Design Practices" May 3, 9:15am, Room 283 Or watch the talk from home: youtu.be/KH8z1IbXelk Or read the paper: bit.ly/math-augmentat…

Delighted to announce Penn Computer and Information Science is recruiting new faculty (tenured, tenure-track, teaching-track). Join our vibrant, collegial, growing department (10 new hires arriving 7/2022 thru 7/2023). cis.upenn.edu/open-faculty-p… and highlights.cis.upenn.edu

Hiya! I'm a #CIFellow postdoc at UPenn, and I'm on the faculty job market this year! I do human-centered #AI with a focus on language technologies/#NLProc. I've worked on automated story generation (think AI #DnD dungeon master), speech processing, and improving #AAC apps.

Douglas Oliver [opossum] and I went on several visit days and are super excited to start my PhD with @DrMetaxa Penn Computer and Information Science 🥳🤗🤗🥳🤠🐀 yaaay

Tomorrow at #UIST2023, Zed Wu will present FFL, a CSS-like language for adding explanatory labels, colors, and styles to math formulas in web articles. Catch the talk at 9am in the Gold Room! Paper: bit.ly/ffl-paper Try it out: bit.ly/try-ffl

Just in time for graduate school applications, we created gradschool.chat an experimental LLM-powered assistant to learn about topics of interest to potential advisors, find your fit & "brainstorm" ideas. Would love to hear how you use it, and of course your feedback!

Alyssa Hwang, a Ph.D. candidate in Penn Engineering, developed a new framework for evaluating the performance of large language models’ ability to analyze images. Hwang utilized the tool to run a battery of tests on the new ChatGPT-Vision. bit.ly/3R3R4KK

Excited to share our latest work, "Ivie: Lightweight, Anchored Explanations of Just-Generated Code." We developed a tool that pairs with Copilot to provide timely, concise explanations of code suggestions. Read our #CHI2024 paper on arXiv: bit.ly/ivie-chi24 #Copilot

So proud!!

We love this profile of Ro E, who coincidentally is one of our NSF GRFP awardees this year! Proud of you, Ro!