Andrew Head

Bluesky friends, do you know any frameworks of needs and affordances for XAI that feel relevant today? I'm working on a new project with explainability aspects and am looking to catch up on the best ideas of the literature.

@ianarawjo.bsky.social and team, this looks amazing. What a cool idea and beautiful paper.

This is an exciting new workshop at CHI that I will be at! Deadline for submissions is one week away.

The #CHI2026 workshop on augmented reading interfaces is accepting submissions for one more week. We hope you consider formulating your perspective and sending it in! Can't wait to see y'all Barcelona to talk about enriching experiences with written information.

chi-star-workshop.github.io

This workshop follows the new CHI format — it's a 90-minute event on one of the days of the main conference. It should be a burst of fun at a convenient time in great company. We hope you'll submit!

See the workshop details at chi-star-workshop.github.io. The submission deadline is Feb. 5.

Many of us are working to augment texts — in education, programming, scientific communication, accessibility, AR, and interactions with LLMs. This workshop is a forum for folks to share exciting ideas they are working on and new ideas on reading affordances, theory, evaluation, and applications.

Y'all, I'm super excited to announce that a workshop we've been planning is finally slated to happen at this year's CHI. The topic is the Science and Technology of Augmenting Reading (STAR) 📖 💫 chi-star-workshop.github.io

For those of you who enjoyed the work, Litao Yan is the lead author. He was not able to make it to Busan to present it, though I know he would be delighted to connect with anyone who resonated with or had thoughts about the work.

Today at #uist2025 my student Jeffrey Tao presented our new paper "Answering Developer Questions with Annotated Agent-Discovered Program Traces" While it is too late to catch the talk, you can still find Jeff! I'm happy to make connections over email.

Paper: andrewhead.info/assets/pdf/t...

Academic friends, what is the advice for rebutting a fatally low review from a PC member that only points to a few minor (fixable) writing issues? Would you message a PC lead about the review? Does a polite rebuttal stand a chance of changing this reviewer's mind?

How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me. A catalog of impacts thus far from this administration’s horrors.

How's fascism going for you? medium.com/bits-and-beh...

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I've accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo!

The PL/SE group at UB is already really impressive, and I am honored to be part of its continued growth

Help us improve tools for reading papers Hello! We are researchers from the human-computer interaction group at the University of Pennsylvania. We are conducting a study of how new tools might improve the experience of reading research paper...

Do you do research in HCI? Help our group improve the tooling for reading research papers by participating in a 1-hour paid Zoom study 📖✨. You'll get a chance to use a new reading tool, and get a $30 prepaid debit card as bonus! Let us know if you want to participate at bit.ly/pennhci-pape...

Augmenting Intelligence Augmenting Intelligence @ CMU HCII

this course website on Augmenting Intelligence by @kenholstein.bsky.social is amazing --
coaugmentation.com

I'm at #CHI2025! 🇯🇵 🌸
Presenting our LBW "Traceable Texts and Their Effects".
We studied how phrase-level links from AI summaries to their sources influence the reading of complex texts.
🕥 April 30 at 10:30a & 3:40p 📍North 1F
Interested in text augmentation or improving source transparency? Drop by!

Here are links to their papers:

Jeff's paper on Freeform, a projectional editor for augmenting math formulas: bit.ly/freeform-chi-25

@hitakam.bsky.social's late-breaking work on a study of augmented AI-generated texts: bit.ly/traceable-texts-chi-25

At #chi2025 this year, see our group's latest: a projectional editor for augmenting math formulas, and a study of augmented AI-generated texts.

Look out for these faces! Jeff, @hitakam.bsky.social, and I are excited to reconnect with old friends and make new ones.

This is awful @metaxa.net. Any news on how quickly the termination takes effect? What's the situation of the students supported by the project?

We are also getting some of this as well. For us, it's not flaking as much as cancellations. I tell students to prepare for ~1/5 no-shows or cancellations, though I think our ratio is currently higher than that.

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Thank you so much for your kind repost, Pedro!

Oh, and for anyone looking for the application page for our department (the department of computer and information science), here it is: www.cis.upenn.edu/graduate/how...

Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania (Pre-pandemic image) Photo by Eric Sucar, Office of University Communications

Photo credit goes to the Office of University of Communications, which apparently has a ton of photos of this cool campus. www.flickr.com/photos/unive...

Locust Walk, our campus's main 6-block-long promenade under a leafy canopy. This could be the path you walk to the office every day!

It's great to come on to Bluesky and see so many old friends here. A good first post may be to remind everyone that Penn's PhD application deadline this is Dec. 16. We at Penn HCI are recruiting this year! Myself in the areas of HCI/PL and augmented reading. We welcome your application!

Excited to share our latest work, "Explainable Notes: Examining How to Unlock Meaning in Medical Notes with Interactivity and Artificial Intelligence" which we will be presenting at #CHI2024! Read our paper here: hita-k.github.io/chi24-678.pdf