Ravi Karkar

Are those ice breakers?

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But ... But ... The Sith deal in absolutes

ACM Interactive Health 2026 The ACM Interactive Health Conference (IH) is a new conference that aims to be the leading venue for presenting work at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Health. The conference ...

ACM Interactive Health ‘26 call for submissions

Short forms: February 12
Demos and Exhibitions: February 26
Workshops: January 15
Doctoral Colloquium: February 5
Early Career Workshop: April 1
See: ih.acm.org
#CSCW #IH #IH2026 #HealthInformatics
@acm-cscw.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social

Time for classes to follow the online video evolution from 10 min YouTube videos to 1 min reels and ultimately 6 second vines.

What's the procedure to "fix" a typo in an author's name post acceptance? Asking for a friend.

Another CSCW by Melissa & Wendy studied mental health challenges & tech needs evolve for Alzheimer’s (AD/ADRD) family caregivers. Care isn’t static and design shouldn’t be either.
📝https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3757555 ft. @dwyoo.bsky.social, @ravikarkar.bsky.social, and @kous2v.bsky.social

Yesterday's email from the Director sounded optimistic about prioritizing CAREERs. I'm hopeful for you and others in the same position. Let's see how it plays out in the next month or two. Good luck!

I am extremely grateful to have been awarded the NSF CAREER award. Deeply thankful to my mentors and community in helping shape its vision!

Mighty considerate of them 😅

How much are beer glasses going for these days? 🙃

Proud to celebrate Professor Emeritus Andrew Barto and alumnus Richard Sutton, who received the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for establishing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning, a cornerstone of modern AI research.

Read more: brnw.ch/21wR7jr

#UMassAmhert #UAlberta

Upcoming special issue of ACM Health on Human Centered Computing in Healthcare. Rolling initial submissions, until May.

dl.acm.org/journal/heal...

It's sad to see a cornerstone of HR taxonomy be hijacked by AI.

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Just reminded me of this master piece.

Sounds like a good independent study project. "Evaluating the feasibility of automating email communication". Add a "towards enhancing productivity" in there and you might convince some funders too. 🙃

Isnt this what the 🍎 intelligence is hoping to do but unable to accomplish?

Academic friends: CSCW is considering managing our submissions starting in 2027 on a rolling basis, using as management software either HotCRP or openreview.net (in non-open mode). Have you used either? Any recommendations?

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!

Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...