Andrew Head

Andrew Head

@andrewhead.bsky.social

Assistant prof at Penn. Designing interactions to make code, formulas, medical notes, and mechanized proofs more readable. Read about my group's work at https://andrewhead.info

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Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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

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Jiayin Zhi
@jiayinzhi.bsky.social

๐‘ช๐’‚๐’ ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ ๐’‰๐’†๐’๐’‘ ๐’–๐’” ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’• ๐’„๐’–๐’๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’†? In our new #CHI2026 paper, we studied how AI assistance affects close reading poems โ€” not just how well people interpret poems, but also the pleasure derived from close reading. closereading-ai.app #AI #HCI #closereading #humanities #culture #poetry (1/13)

closereading-ai.app[AI and Close Reading] Can AI help us interpret culture?AI is already becoming part of how people read cultural texts online. What does AI do for cultural interpretation? We explored this question in a randomized experiment investigating the impact of AI a...
Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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.

Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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

Marcelo Rinesi@marcelorinesi.bsky.social

Notations/languages/etc (natural/constructed/formal/etc) sit at the intersection of a lot of my interests from information theory & statistics to Borgesian literature & group/individual cognitive ergonomics. Self-recommending. by @zamfi.bsky.social @damienhci.bsky.social @ianarawjo.bsky.social et al

arxiv.orgHow Notations Evolve: A Historical Analysis with Implications for Supporting User-Defined AbstractionsTraditional human-computer interaction takes place through formally-specified systems like structured UIs and programming languages. Recent AI systems promise a new set of informal interactions with c...

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Jonathan K. Kummerfeld
@jkkummerfeld.bsky.social

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

Andrew Head@andrewhead.bsky.social

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

Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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.

Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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?

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Harry Goldstein
@harrisongoldste.in

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

Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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 ๐Ÿ“–โœจ. 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...

bit.lyHelp us improve tools for reading papersHello! 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...

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Hita Kambhamettu
@hitakam.bsky.social

I'm at #CHI2025! ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต ๐ŸŒธ 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. ๐Ÿ•ฅ April 30 at 10:30a & 3:40p ๐Ÿ“North 1F Interested in text augmentation or improving source transparency? Drop by!

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L.D. Burnett
@ldburnett.bsky.social

for pityโ€™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

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

I think some people hear โ€œgrantsโ€ 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. โ€œPausingโ€ grants means people donโ€™t eat.

washingtonpost.comWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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!

Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social

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!

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