I enjoyed this 2021 CHI paper: "Are Current Voice Interfaces Designed to Support Children’s Language Development?" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445271 Basic point: most system's conversational scaffolding is rigid and bad, it's probably not even fair to call them "conversations"!
17.2.2025 17:38I enjoyed this 2021 CHI paper: "Are Current Voice Interfaces Designed to Support Children’s Language Development?"...I've spent the last two years trying to understand how LLMs might improve middle-school math education. I just published an article in the Journal of Educational Data Mining describing some of that work: "Designing Safe and Relevant Generative Chats for Math Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems" https://jedm.educationaldatamining.org/index.php/JEDM/article/view/840
30.1.2025 23:42I've spent the last two years trying to understand how LLMs might improve middle-school math education. I just published an article in...Can recommendation systems help people find peer support online? I'll be presenting "Peer Recommendation Interventions for Health-related Social Support: a Feasibility Assessment" at #CSCW2025! I first submitted this work in July 2022, so I'm happy to finally share this. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04973
29.1.2025 00:09Can recommendation systems help people find peer support online? I'll be presenting "Peer Recommendation Interventions for..."Baltic Subsea Cables: A Story of Resilience Rather Than Fear" https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/baltic-subsea-cables-a-story-of-resilience-than-fear
25.11.2024 16:52"Baltic Subsea Cables: A Story of Resilience Rather Than Fear"...I'm still holding out hope for Mastodon, but if you're an HCI or ML researcher here I'll mention that the Bluesky migration has blown up in the last week. A lot more activity there: https://bsky.app/profile/zwlevonian.bsky.social
18.11.2024 02:18I'm still holding out hope for Mastodon, but if you're an HCI or ML researcher here I'll mention that the Bluesky migration has...Just learning about vote swapping, which I had no idea was legal in the US. Interesting idea! https://www.swapyourvote.org/
2.11.2024 20:47Just learning about vote swapping, which I had no idea was legal in the US. Interesting idea! https://www.swapyourvote.org/"Self-reports are better measurement
instruments than implicit measures" https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-024-00376-z
Wrote about some Wikipedia drama: Which academic journals should have articles on Wikipedia? https://levon003.github.io/2024/10/15/wikipedia-journals.html
16.10.2024 00:26Wrote about some Wikipedia drama: Which academic journals should have articles on Wikipedia?...Wrote some notes on monkey-patching Python modules for monitoring function calls, the approach used by Langfuse. https://levon003.github.io/2024/10/07/python-wrapping.html
8.10.2024 17:01Wrote some notes on monkey-patching Python modules for monitoring function calls, the approach used by Langfuse....I was spared CHI review requests this year, so I'll share publicly (on this low-visibility platform...) that I would accept a CHI review if anyone is desperate. Education, health, or quant modeling all fine.
3.10.2024 17:47I was spared CHI review requests this year, so I'll share publicly (on this low-visibility platform...) that I would accept a CHI review...CSCW 2025 will be in Bergen, Norway!
2.10.2024 16:31CSCW 2025 will be in Bergen, Norway!https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
1.9.2024 14:54https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-storyhttps://jacobin.com/2024/08/climate-change-renewables-nuclear-energy
20.8.2024 23:26https://jacobin.com/2024/08/climate-change-renewables-nuclear-energy“The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevator-construction-regulation-labor-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B04.7-tP.4rsG3H7wW2uK
10.8.2024 13:38“The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed”...Zotero 7 released, looks like some nice new features. Not sure I like the less-compact interface default though. https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/
9.8.2024 15:51Zotero 7 released, looks like some nice new features. Not sure I like the less-compact interface default though....New blog post reproducing some figures in the 2019 paper "Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle". The argument: US liberals show more moral concern toward nonhuman (relative to human) entities than US conservatives do.
https://levon003.github.io/2024/07/27/moral-circles.html
Can you write a for loop in every programming language listed on your resume? Based on a HackerNews comment, I apparently should remove some languages from my resume...
https://levon003.github.io/2024/07/18/for-loop-interview.html
Okay, this is fun https://www.whatbeatsrock.com/
15.7.2024 20:14Okay, this is fun https://www.whatbeatsrock.com/What qualities does useful feedback have? Nice taxonomy from Chengyuan Liu et al. at EDM 2024.
https://educationaldatamining.org/edm2024/proceedings/2024.EDM-short-papers.39/2024.EDM-short-papers.39.pdf
What if you tried to print Wikipedia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgBYohJ7mIk
9.7.2024 16:51What if you tried to print Wikipedia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgBYohJ7mIk