The primary organizers for this workshop include Duri Long (Northwestern University), Jessica Roberts (Georgia Tech), and Brian Magerko (Georgia Tech). We have additionally recruited discussants to lead panels related to their expertise during the workshop and foster conversation between workshop participants. We have engaged discussants to ensure we have a range of expertise represented in a leadership capacity at the workshop, especially since it is intended to bring together folks working on different research topics within CHI. Discussants’ primary role will be to prepare questions based on the papers in their panel and their own expertise to lead the panel and foster discussion between the panel participants and the audience. Discussants may also participate in the juried paper selection for their panel. Discussants were selected based on their relevant expertise for the panels they are leading. The discussants include Ken Holstein (Carnegie Mellon University), Upol Ehsan (Georgia Tech), Daniella DiPaola (MIT), and Fred Martin (University of Massachusetts Lowell).
Biographies and roles for each of the workshop organizers and discussants are included below.
Organizers
- Duri Long, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Dr. Duri Long is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is a human-centered AI researcher interested in issues surrounding AI literacy and human-AI interaction. Duri’s research looks at how humans interact and learn as a way of informing the design of public AI literacy interventions as well as the development of AI that can interact naturally and improvise creatively with people in complex social environments. She employs a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks in her research, drawing on the learning sciences, design research, and cognitive science. She has experience working with artists and museums around the country to develop co-creative, embodied exhibits and art installations involving AI and technology. Duri holds a PhD in Human Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and degrees in Computer Science and Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Long will be the primary point of contact for workshop organization and will serve as one of the primary organizers in charge of running the website, disseminating the call for papers, selecting papers, communicating with participants, and planning the workshop structure and activities.
2. Jessica Roberts, Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Dr. Jessica Roberts is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing where she runs the Technology-Integrated Learning Environments (TILEs) Lab. She holds a PhD in Learning Sciences from the University of Illinois-Chicago with a concentration in geospatial analysis and visualization and a B.S. from Northwestern University with a concentration in theatre design. Her research examines how people learn through, with, and about data in out-of-school environments such as museums and citizen science activities and how interactive technologies mediate social, informal learning experiences. Her work on the design of interactive learning technologies has been exhibited at venues including the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the New York Hall of Science. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Roberts conducted postdoctoral research at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the Tidal Lab at Northwestern University.
Dr. Roberts will serve as one of the primary organizers in charge of running the website, disseminating the call for papers, selecting papers, communicating with participants, and planning the workshop structure and activities.
3. Brian Magerko, Professor, Digital Media, Georgia Tech
Dr. Brian Magerko is a Professor of Digital Media, Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, & head of the Expressive Machinery Lab at Georgia Tech. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon (1999) and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (2001, 2006). His research explores how studying human and machine cognition can inform the creation of new human/computer creative experiences. Dr. Magerko has been research lead on over $18 million of federally-funded research; has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles related to computational media, cognition, and learning; has had his work shown at galleries and museums internationally; and co-founded a music-based learning environment for computer science – called EarSketch – that has been used by over 1 million learners worldwide. Dr. Magerko and his lab’s work have been shown in the New Yorker, Washington Post, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, USA Today, CNN, Yahoo! Finance, NPR, and other global and regional outlets.
Dr. Magerko will serve as one of the primary organizers in charge of running the website, disseminating the call for papers, selecting papers, communicating with participants, and planning the workshop structure and activities.
Discussants
- Ken Holstein, Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Ken Holstein is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. In his research, he studies how AI systems are being designed and used to augment worker practices today, across a range of real-world contexts. Drawing upon approaches from HCI, AI, design, statistics, and the learning sciences, he explores the development of new methods and tools to support more responsible AI design and deployment in practice.
Dr. Holstein will serve as a discussant for the panel on Designing AI Literacy Learning Experiences & Tools.
2. Upol Ehsan, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Upol Ehsan is a doctoral candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Existing at the intersection of AI and HCI, his work focuses on explainability of AI systems, especially for non-AI experts, and emerging AI Ethics issues in the Global South. He is also an affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute. His work received multiple awards at ACM CHI and HCII. His work has pioneered the notion of Rationale Generation in XAI and also charted the vision for Human-centered XAI. Along with serving in multiple program committees in HCI and AI conferences (e.g., DIS, IUI, NeurIPS), he was the lead organizer for the 2021 and 2022 CHI workshops on Human-centered XAI.
Upol Ehsan will serve as a discussant for the panel on Explainable AI
3. Daniella DiPaola, Ph.D. student, MIT Media Lab
Daniella DiPaola is a Ph.D. student in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, where her research intersects artificial intelligence, education, and public policy. She conducts long-term interaction studies to understand children’s perceptions of AI and designs tools that aim to give K-12 students more knowledge and agency in their use of AI technologies, including curricula addressing the social and legal implications of AI.
Daniella DiPaola will serve as a discussant for the panel on AI, Ethics, and Public Policy
4. Fred Martin, Professor, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Dr. Fred Martin is professor of computer science and associate dean for teaching, learning, and undergraduate studies for the Kennedy College of Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Martin’s research group, the Engaging Computing Group, develops and studies novel computational design environments for learners, empowering them to create meaningful, personally satisfying projects. Martin was a recipient of the 2022 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award for his contributions to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) for K-12 Initiative (aik12.org). Martin is a past chair of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and served on the panel which produced the 2016 Digital Literacy and Computer Science (DLCS) K-12 standards for Massachusetts.
Dr. Martin will serve as a discussant for the panel on AI in K-12 Education.