At #UIST2023, I will be presenting a poster on preliminary work of my internship project at Adobe this summer with Zoya Bylinskii Tianyuan Cai on mixed-initiative adaptations for reading under situation impairments like walking: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35….

I'm on my first ever work sabbatical. After the last 2 crazy years working in #GenAI, it is exactly what I need. My mind is resting. I have decided to spend some time writing, I'm back on X, and will be sharing some thoughts here. My current view:

While I get my writing juices flowing again, I dug up a #scifi short story (1-pager) I wrote back in 2015 which is more relevant than ever to today's discussions about the future of humanity in the context of the #GenAI world: web.mit.edu/zoya/www/TheEx… I continue to believe our

Noodling on progressions, i.e., what is next for us? Here's my first attempt to conceptually organize the evolution of information flow over the course of human existence (feedback welcome)

Sharing a short excerpt from my developing scifi story: "50 miles per hour. 45 was the previous limit on similar mountain roads, but Elena’s Operations division had completed successful trials of a new olfactory signal that bypassed certain brain pathways and decreased time to

I have taken a (potentially permanent) hiatus from academic research 2 years ago to lead GenAI Evaluation for Adobe's Firefly. This is a space ripe for innovation and interdisciplinary skill sets. Day-to-day includes anything from designing perceptual human studies, running

I've been wanting to add a blog to my personal webpage for a while, but didn't have time to fiddle with javascript formatting and html refactoring. Cursor to the rescue! A few hours of "chatting" and #vibing about UI features and formatting options I have a fully functioning

I started working on GenAI Evaluation in early 2023. This was a stark pivot from research. The last two years have been a blitz, probably the most intense I've experienced. I'm taking some time to step back and reflect on the learnings from this time. At that time I started some

Friends, from the comfort of my hammock on my sabbatical in Hawaii, I've finished my scifi short story ✍️ about the human jobs in the age of autonomous machinery and am excited to share it with you: zoyathinks.com/blog/operators… #scifi #AI #future #AutonomousVehicles #selfdriving

Many are still scared and averse to the use of AI for creative writing. For instance, one top magazine for scifi stories clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/ has a strongly worded statement about banning authors who are in any way assisted by such tools, because there is currently no easy way

I've completed another short #AI #scifi story: zoyathinks.com/blog/longestar… imagining a world decades from now where all text once written by humans has been digitized, #LLMs have rewritten all this text countless times over, and the original content is unrecoverable. A hunt for "the

The irony! Was reading "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman on the plane, only to get off and end up helping a visually impaired young woman navigate the ladies room at SFO. Near-missing multiple walls (we had to turn 5 corners!), garbage bins, stools (?!), and people