I think of designers and how the notion that everyone can prototype and design UI has created new workload for them.
Not only that, but everyone is creating the same type of UIs.
Boston’s Blizzard check in 🌨️
We are yet to unlock the embodied interaction powered by AI.
Are you attending the @chi.acm.org in Barcelona?
We invite you to join our workshop on LLMs as collaborators in data work, where we explore how humans and AI can coordinate effectively, build trust, and work toward shared outcomes in data-intensive workflows.
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Thank you Johanna :)
Grateful to my co-authors @michaelmuller.bsky.social and Claudia Flores-Saviaga, PhD, and to my advisor Dr. Saiph Savage, for their collaboration that shaped this work. ❤️
Your paper has been very helpful in shaping and developing my idea on participatory design.
Thank you, Nicolai 😊
Looking forward to our conversation if you are attending CHI this year.
By using generative AI, such as DALL·E, as design probes, we found that participants could move beyond critique and articulate concrete alternative designs for the very technologies they were questioning.
Methodologically, this paper also contributes to co-design practice. A common challenge in co-design is that people struggle to imagine alternatives beyond the tools they already know.
We also argue for AI systems that explicitly protect attribution and creative identity in AI-mediated collaboration, where blurred authorship can undermine trust, professional identity, and the value of collaborative work.
We argue for auxiliary AI, tools that support collaboration without dominating it. A key idea is introducing productive friction by intentionally slowing or shaping AI suggestions to encourage reflection, discussion, and human judgment.
Here’s the preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05299
When ideas, styles, or partial contributions are mediated through AI, authorship becomes harder to trace, weakening creative identity, trust among collaborators, and the value of shared work.
Our findings show that generative AI tools used in collaborative settings often reproduce a logic of technological rationality, flattening context and blurring attribution in collaborative work.
In our work, we explored this through a co-design study with platform-based freelancers, including developers, designers, writers, project managers, and virtual assistants.
What would generative AI look like if it were designed to support collaboration while preserving creative agency, attribution, and collective decision-making?
📣New paper !
Designing collaborative generative AI is difficult precisely because most generative AI systems are built around efficiency, speed, and individual productivity.
In our conditionally accepted #CHI26 paper, we ask: what happens when those assumptions break down?
Upcoming #BostonCHI talk (Feb 10): Bringing Digital Empathy to Conversational AI Agents with Javier Hernandez (Microsoft Research).
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Wonderful evening at the #BostonCHI November 2025 Talk with Katelyn Morrison from the @hcii.cmu.edu , on Expanding the Design Space for Explainable AI in Human AI Interactions.
Grateful to the Center for Design at CAMD, for hosting us, and to the team for leading an inspiring BostonCHI session.
Yes, I have noticed many of my young friends watch these video podcasts. These podcasts are usually about deep tech and politics.
Maybe videos and tweets (reactive thoughts) are the most obvious forms of emergent communication and our brain quickly processes it.
Has anyone else noticed people increasingly prefer long-form video podcasts (3+ hours) these days over other form of media?
How long it take to finally settle in after moving into a new apartment?
It’s been two months and we are still playing lego! 😁
I got the AI writing homies together to launch SAIL (readsail on socials): A team bundle to get access to the best content in AI all in one subscription. Otherwise, nothing in my mission is changing. Get the best content written to inform the public and shape the trajectory of AI.
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Happening today 👀
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Excited to host Philipp Wintersberger at BostonCHI for a hybrid talk.
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Please RSVP to join his talk.
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If you're in the Bay Area and interested in human-centered AI/Agentic AI, I'd love to connect over coffee and good conversation! 😇
I am happy to be spending this summer at the @stanfordhai.bsky.social I'm hosted by @subramonyam.bsky.social and will be working on developing AI agents that collaborate with designers to streamline design-to-code workflows.
Excited to share that I'll be presenting at Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences in their Spring 2025 Seminar Series!
I'll be discussing my research on "Reimagining Workflows: How Large Language Models Elevate Collaboration and Accessibility"
Thank you, Herman 😇❤️
