Readings

Note: The schedule and readings below are tentative and subject to revision as the course progresses. Please check frequently for updates.


January 22Week 1

Welcome

Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri. 2019. Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. Introduction and Chapter 1. [Read blog posts]


January 29Week 2

Crowdsourcing

Aniket Kittur, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Michael Bernstein, Elizabeth Gerber, Aaron Shaw, John Zimmerman, Matt Lease, and John Horton. 2013. The Future of Crowd Work. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ’13), 1301–1318. [Read blog posts]

Donna Vakharia and Matthew Lease. 2015. Beyond Mechanical Turk: An Analysis of Paid Crowd Work Platforms. In iConference, 17. [Read blog posts]

Human computation

Alexander J. Quinn and Benjamin B. Bederson. 2011. Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’11), 1403–1412. [Read blog posts]

R. Jordon Crouser and Remco Chang. 2012. An Affordance-Based Framework for Human Computation and Human-Computer Collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18, 12: 2859–2868. [Read blog posts]


February 5Week 3

Humans and ML

Saleema Amershi, Maya Cakmak, William Bradley Knox, and Todd Kulesza. 2014. Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning. AI Magazine 35, 4: 105–120. [Read blog posts]

Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. 2018. Making Better Use of the Crowd: How Crowdsourcing Can Advance Machine Learning Research. Journal of Machine Learning Research 18, 193: 1–46. [Read blog posts]

Interaction guidelines

Eric Horvitz. 1999. Principles of Mixed-initiative User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’99), 159–166. [Read blog posts]

Saleema Amershi, Dan Weld, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Adam Fourney, Besmira Nushi, Penny Collisson, Jina Suh, Shamsi Iqbal, Paul N. Bennett, Kori Inkpen, Jaime Teevan, Ruth Kikin-Gil, and Eric Horvitz. 2019. Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19), 1–13. [Read blog posts]


February 12 – Week 4

Initial presentations (pitches)


February 19Week 5

Human-AI teams

Sharon Zhou, Melissa Valentine, and Michael S. Bernstein. 2018. In Search of the Dream Team: Temporally Constrained Multi-Armed Bandits for Identifying Effective Team Structures. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18), 1–13. [Read blog posts]

Gagan Bansal, Besmira Nushi, Ece Kamar, Daniel S. Weld, Walter S. Lasecki, and Eric Horvitz. 2019. Updates in Human-AI Teams: Understanding and Addressing the Performance/Compatibility Tradeoff. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 33, 01: 2429–2437. [Read blog posts]

Bots

R. Stuart Geiger and David Ribes. 2010. The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 117–126. [Read blog posts]

Shagun Jhaver, Iris Birman, Eric Gilbert, and Amy Bruckman. 2019. Human-Machine Collaboration for Content Regulation: The Case of Reddit Automoderator. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 26, 5: 31:1–31:35. [Read blog posts]


February 26Week 6

Explainable AI

Rafal Kocielnik, Saleema Amershi, and Paul N. Bennett. 2019. Will You Accept an Imperfect AI? Exploring Designs for Adjusting End-user Expectations of AI Systems. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19), 1–14. [Read blog posts]

Jonathan Dodge, Q. Vera Liao, Yunfeng Zhang, Rachel K. E. Bellamy, and Casey Dugan. 2019. Explaining models: an empirical study of how explanations impact fairness judgment. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’19), 275–285. [Read blog posts]

Harmanpreet Kaur, Harsha Nori, Samuel Jenkins, Rich Caruana, Hanna Wallach, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. 2020. Interpreting Interpretability: Understanding Data Scientists’ Use of Interpretability Tools for Machine Learning. In CHI 2020, 13. [Read blog posts]


March 4Week 7

Images and sound

Kotaro Hara, Vicki Le, and Jon Froehlich. 2013. Combining crowdsourcing and google street view to identify street-level accessibility problems. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13), 631–640. [Read blog posts]

Danna Gurari, Suyog Jain, Margrit Betke, and Kristen Grauman. 2016. Pull the Plug? Predicting If Computers or Humans Should Segment Images. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016, 382–391. [Read blog posts]

Elliot Salisbury, Ece Kamar, and Meredith Ringel Morris. 2017. Toward Scalable Social Alt Text: Conversational Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Refining Vision-to-Language Technology for the Blind. In Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. [Read blog posts]

Walter Lasecki, Christopher Miller, Adam Sadilek, Andrew Abumoussa, Donato Borrello, Raja Kushalnagar, and Jeffrey Bigham. 2012. Real-time captioning by groups of non-experts. In Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST ’12), 23–34. [Read blog posts]


March 11 – Week 8

Spring Break (no class)


March 18 – Week 9

Spring Break, continued (no class)


March 25Week 10

Conversation

Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Deshraj Yadav, Viraj Prabhu, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Abhishek Das, Stefan Lee, Dhruv Batra, and Devi Parikh. 2017. Evaluating Visual Conversational Agents via Cooperative Human-AI Games. In Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. [Read blog posts]

Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, Joseph Chee Chang, and Jeffrey P. Bigham. 2018. Evorus: A Crowd-powered Conversational Assistant Built to Automate Itself Over Time. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18), 1–13. [Read blog posts]

Q. Vera Liao, Muhammed Mas-ud Hussain, Praveen Chandar, Matthew Davis, Yasaman Khazaeni, Marco Patricio Crasso, Dakuo Wang, Michael Muller, N. Sadat Shami, and Werner Geyer. 2018. All Work and No Play? Conversations with a Question-and-Answer Chatbot in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18), 1–13. [Read blog posts]

Ewa Luger and Abigail Sellen. 2016. “Like Having a Really Bad PA”: The Gulf between User Expectation and Experience of Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 5286–5297. [Read blog posts]


April 1 – Week 11

Midpoint presentations


April 8Week 12

Visualization

Jeffrey Rzeszotarski and Aniket Kittur. 2012. CrowdScape: interactively visualizing user behavior and output. In Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST ’12), 55–62. [Read blog posts]

A. Endert, W. Ribarsky, C. Turkay, B. L. William Wong, I. Nabney, I. Díaz Blanco, and F. Rossi. 2017. The State of the Art in Integrating Machine Learning into Visual Analytics. Computer Graphics Forum 36, 8: 458–486. [Read blog posts]

Jeffrey Heer. 2019. Agency plus automation: Designing artificial intelligence into interactive systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 6: 1844–1850. [Read blog posts]


April 15Week 13

Truth and trust

Nicholas Diakopoulos. 2015. Algorithmic Accountability. Digital Journalism 3, 3: 398–415. [Read blog posts]

An T. Nguyen, Aditya Kharosekar, Saumyaa Krishnan, Siddhesh Krishnan, Elizabeth Tate, Byron C. Wallace, and Matthew Lease. 2018. Believe it or not: Designing a Human-AI Partnership for Mixed-Initiative Fact-Checking. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’18), 189–199. [Read blog posts]

Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, and Tom Wilson. 2019. Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operations. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3, CSCW: 127:1–127:26. [Read blog posts]

Michael Warren Skirpan, Tom Yeh, and Casey Fiesler. 2018. What’s at Stake: Characterizing Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 70, 1–12. [Read blog posts]


April 22Week 14

Text analysis

Nathan Hahn, Joseph Chang, Ji Eun Kim, and Aniket Kittur. 2016. The Knowledge Accelerator: Big Picture Thinking in Small Pieces. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16), 2258–2270. [Read blog posts]

Joel Chan, Joseph Chee Chang, Tom Hope, Dafna Shahaf, and Aniket Kittur. 2018. SOLVENT: A Mixed Initiative System for Finding Analogies Between Research Papers. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 2, CSCW: 31:1–31:21. [Read blog posts]

Soya Park, Amy X. Zhang, Luke S. Murray, and David R. Karger. 2019. Opportunities for Automating Email Processing: A Need-Finding Study. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19), 1–12. [Read blog posts]


April 29Week 15

Creativity

C. Ailie Fraser, Mira Dontcheva, Holger Winnemöller, Sheryl Ehrlich, and Scott Klemmer. 2016. DiscoverySpace: Suggesting Actions in Complex Software. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’16), 1221–1232. [Read blog posts]

Pao Siangliulue, Joel Chan, Steven P. Dow, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos. 2016. IdeaHound: Improving Large-scale Collaborative Ideation with Crowd-Powered Real-time Semantic Modeling. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’16), 609–624. [Read blog posts]

Tom Hope, Joel Chan, Aniket Kittur, and Dafna Shahaf. 2017. Accelerating Innovation Through Analogy Mining. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’17), 235–243. [Read blog posts]

Lydia B. Chilton, Savvas Petridis, and Maneesh Agrawala. 2019. VisiBlends: A Flexible Workflow for Visual Blends. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19), 1–14. [Read blog posts]


May 6 – Week 16

Final presentations