Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh@hci.social

We are welcoming Amna Liaqat to @princeton HCI as our new postdoc and CITP fellow 🎉

She's joining us from the University of Toronto where she worked on building social computing systems for new immigrants.

Princeton is hiring a jr or sr faculty who researches decentralization/blockchains.

This is a position in the engineering school, which means it can be in CS or other departments. The ideal person is someone who thinks about the societal implications of technology. Hopefully an HCI person.

This is part of the new decenter.princeton.edu.

Application site: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=27201

I don't know the plans for virtual CSCW but I'm wondering if it'd be worth doing a pre or post CSCW gathering of social computing systems folks. Focused on discussion and socialization. Like what we did last year https://socialcomputingsystemscamp.wordpress.com

Would new organizers have the bandwidth for that? cc @chinmay @karger

Congratulations to Elizabeth Watkins on her new role as a research scientist at Intel ✨ We were lucky to have her as our inaugural postdoc last academic year.

Look out for her XAI work in collaboration with our computer vision colleagues. Hopefully coming out at CHI.

I hear there's some sort of deadline. What is that all about?

Today marks the end of the HCI research team at Snap.

It was an amazing 5-year experience building the team from scratch and getting to work on playful/creative technologies that bring joy to people. A much-needed research angle, in a world full of gloom and doom.

In the past year, as I joined the faculty at Princeton, my role focused on strategy and helping others lead. The team of scientists and engineers is super talented and will be looking for opportunities.

https://research.snap.com/team/category/human-computer-interaction.html

Does your university use Google/Outlook Calendar to let you reserve rooms or does it also asks you to email a person to do that?

The timing and the fact that the whistleblower spares Jack Dorsey, makes me wonder if this has something to do with the Elon lawsuit.🤔

How much of your procrastinating/multitasking is triggered by waiting for something else to complete? For example, if a web page is taking a while to load, I often switch to another tab to do something else.

Do you interpret the concept of the metaverse as a technology that must involve 3D user interfaces?

What do you think of social media platforms going offline once in a while to give people a break? 😀

The IRB is fine outsourcing transcriptions to a company, but if we want undergrads to help they need CITI training 😂