Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffbigham Twitter profile

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

8 years

despite all my rage, I am still just a statistically probable sequence of observable online behaviors

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

The 2nd day of the month is my favorite day because it’s when I get a $9.95 bill from AWS for something I can’t figure out how to shut down.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

with @zoom_us 's new video background feature, i can stay engaged and nodding thoughtfully, even when i'm not even in the room -- this is the kind of innovation we need!

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

once I yelled to a man in the road, “hey man, watch out for that bus, it’s gonna hit you!” he moved out of the way, and the bus drove on by. a bit later he was like, “wow, man, you sure were wrong about that bus.”

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@propublica

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Why were experts wrong when they said U.S. hospitals would be overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients? Doctors and hospital officials share their perspectives.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

6 years

I'm helping to start an Accessibility+ML Research group at Apple, and we're hiring! We're looking for full-time PhDs & engineers, and interns, looking to innovate in Machine Learning solutions to really hard, interesting, and impactful #a11y problems! Contact me & RT! thx :)

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

some things that seem worth writing down… - all data are biased - all algorithms are biased - things can exist that we don't know how to measure - important things can exist that we don't know we need to measure - (add your own as a reply)

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

life announcement via image diff (w/ alt text, if course)

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

I have created an AI that can predict from a single photo whether someone has COVID-19 … looking for investors, please DM.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

@Redistrict One of many things I hate about election season is the constant reminder that both our democracy and our perception of what democracy is about is constant quantization errors and arbitrary lines on a map.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

our interfaces make us all liars

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

4 years

Anytime we click “I have read and agree to these terms and conditions” we are lying. Someone needs to look out for what is happening to our data. @ddpforall #prop24 @caprivacyorg

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

everyone should study HCI, if for no other reason than you'll have both the vocabulary and underlying theory to explain why that mistake you made using a computer was actually the computer's fault.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

2 years

“There is a myth that non-disabled people are independent and disabled people are dependent. We are all interdependent. Many of you like drinking coffee, very few of you grow your own beans” … from a great opening keynote at #assets2022 by @HabenGirma

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

6 years

check out this picture from an @Airbnb I recently stayed at in Seattle -- notice anything concerning? if you manage to spot it, that's great, because Airbnb considers this photo to be proper disclosure… 1/n

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

@ellievhall i find this basically only as weird as evangelical stuff, which is also pretty weird, but commonplace in politics.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

16 years ago I applied for @SCSatCMU grad school (denied) 10 years ago I applied for faculty at @SCSatCMU (denied) 6 years ago they reached out to me, interviewed, (accepted!) NOW THEY'RE STUCK WITH ME :)

Rada Mihalcea

@radamihalcea

5 years

To those of you who applied for but did not get the academic positions that you wanted—this is not a failure, it’s only a step on your path to success. 17 yrs ago I applied to Michigan & got turned down. 9 yrs later, Michigan recruited me. Just remember the value is in _you_

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

3 years

is anyone else surprised that anything at all works?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

8 years

whoa.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

I wrote this thing up about what I'm calling the "AI Autumn," where the hype fades away, and people with ML + HCI skills become vital for reaping the huge harvest left in its wake …

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

best case scenario

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

6 years

@eegilbert @bkeegan i think he's referring to: "the two hardest problems in computer science are: (i) people, and (ii) convincing computer scientists that the hardest problem in computer science is people."

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

on the one hand, it's great that the #aws social media team reached out to me with detailed instructions on how to end these services. on the other hand, it's like 40 steps.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

3 years

@KGdrama @PeterMGratton @AriannaRebolini Also, i am happy to be associated with retired persons. Seems legit to me!

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

6 years

read more in my new blog post: "A Camera is Watching You in Your AirBnB: And, you consented to it" … It's about my super weird, privacy-invading experience in an @Airbnb last week, & how Airbnb fails to understand disclosure :: 2/n

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

3 years

my oven’s not automatically updating clock is my only reliable anchor to reality

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

my new Zoom virtual background

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

I am demanding a hand recount of my #chi2021 reviews. 2s will be 5s, just wait and see.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

incredibly proud of my wife, for winning the eugene marathon in a blazing fast 2:41! (I ran the half in 1:20)

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

people are very confused about me being a non-strict vegetarian. i prefer not to eat meat, but will do so if necessary or if the vegetarian option is bad. cutting 90% of meat out of my diet is way easier, and nearly as good… why do people find it strange?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

Amazing that it is known that ~6 million more people want Biden to win instead of Trump, and here I am doomscrolling to learn the preferences of a few thousand remaining people in Arizona.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

for all y'all paying attention to PA and GA tonight, we've got some amazing Computer Science programs … @SCSatCMU (of course), but also Georgia Tech, Penn State, UPenn, … the battle is being won here.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

last week i was told my Google Maps reviews had been seen by 100,000 people… today, they offered me a free pair of "local guides" socks… making it all worth it.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

lowly HCI person here -- can't you like figure out a way to use the results of the AI to help the person do better than both? … or, does this trolley not run that way?

Geoffrey Hinton

@geoffreyhinton

5 years

Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do you want the AI surgeon to be illegal?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

I have now become that old advisor person whose primary contribution to papers is adding in super old references (from like, 2006…and occasionally, THE 90s) #chi2021

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

I WON BEST PAPER AT #UIST2020 !

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

I WON THE ELECTION!

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

10 months

what HCI does to a man

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@jeffbigham

5 years

desk rejected from respected computing education journal: "We have very very few reviewers with the expertise in special education"… so get some! amazing that accessibility is seen as "on the margins", this was about dyslexia, which is >10% of the population

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

"TikTok, now login with Skype." "Powerpoint 2021: Easily Embed Your TikToks" "Enterprise TikTok, Host Your TikToks on Our Cloud" "I see you're trying to record a TikTok…"

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

6 years

a block away from my house. FUCK easy access to guns, and FUCK casual tolerance of hate

MEGHAN SCHILLER

@MeghanKDKA

6 years

#BREAKING : Suspect has surrendered. He is injured. Here is the scene just a few blocks away from the synagogue. At least 8 people killed @KDKA

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@jeffbigham

4 years

nearly half of twitter accounts discussing "reopening america" are likely bots…

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@jeffbigham

5 years

@davidbrunelle I don’t even get it, I’m a white dude, and this just seems creepy as hell... he can’t help himself? so weird

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@jeffbigham

5 years

if you can code it, don't use ML; if an SVM works, don't use DL; if DL works, it probably will do some really dumb stuff that is hard to predict so design w/ that in mind ok?

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@jeffbigham

5 years

it's faculty job hunting season! i wrote up the advice i give my students and others as they start interviewing. tips are mostly relevant to HCI/CS interviews ::

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@jeffbigham

5 years

@nils_gilman @r_a_mckinney one thing that i still don't understand is how in my hometown in rural ohio, people have confederate flags. ohio was part of the north…the union. wtf…

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

i think i'm going to wait until GPT-4 to upgrade. seems like a mid-cycle release. trillion parameters or bust.

Mark Riedl

@mark_riedl

4 years

GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, trained on 300 billion tokens

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@jeffbigham

4 years

i wish i controlled something to ban trump from. trump is banned from taco night at bigham home.

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@jeffbigham

6 years

@GroverNorquist wow, that's incredibly gross. what an awful person you are.

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@jeffbigham

6 years

research is all about not knowing how to do anything, but being able to figure out how to do everything

Dr Joby Hollis 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@Jobium

6 years

Hello my name is Joby, I have a PhD in Physics and I work for NASA and I just had to look up the equation for the volume of a sphere

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

6 years

I'll end with this hilarious (maybe scary) message my host sent me when he discovered I had unplugged his spy cameras… you'll have to read the article to find out what we were actually doing on New Year's Eve! n/n

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

I hate (and @zeynep has pointed out) that the forecasts influence the outcome; they're an active participant rather than a passive predictor.

Pete Maniloff

@PeteManiloff

4 years

It’s nominally about the election, but this @zeynep column is also a great explanation of problems in statistics and modeling. It covers what probabilities mean, the value of structural models (🤮), endogeneity, and correlated unobservables.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

the level of jubilant horn honking in Pittsburgh right now is a bit out of control, haha

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

yesterday, i ran 35 miles. it was part of a virtual race put on by my Pittsburgh running group; rules were each mile needed to be at least 5 seconds than the last, no mile slower than 20 minutes, scored on number of miles and delta between first/last.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

HCI is an interesting bridge discipline; never really accepted by CS as being a part of it, and yet never quite completely trusted by the core disciplines we bridge to… bridges are super important, but as a discipline destined to wander unanchored?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

2 years

it must be confusing to be an HCI researcher in Chicago

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

3 years

i have a visceral reaction to "human in the loop", which i'm trying to get over. i think the reason is that it means something very specific to me, but I see it used mostly by ML people to mean ~"HCI"… but, in the general case humans are always in the loop… somewhere…

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

I was once assigned to review my own CHI 2008 paper; I did not, b/c of course that was a mistake. It was rejected. But, it ended up being one of my most important papers from my PhD. The reviewers didn't get it. I would have gotten it. Maybe I *was* the right reviewer… #chi2020

Greg d'Eon

@gregdeon_

5 years

Current #chi2020 status: "Who wrote this crap? ...oh, I did."

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

8 years

oh, sure, i'm the family member you call when your internet doesn't work; but feel free to make up your own minds about hillary's emails

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@jeffbigham

4 years

it’s finally happened, I’m a 40-year-old millennial

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@jeffbigham

4 years

my top cited paper has now been cited 666 times! 👿

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@jeffbigham

2 years

what are ML researcher's spherical cows? … Moo!

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@jeffbigham

4 years

the world is divided into those who always use their own time zone for times, and those who always use your time zone for times

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@jeffbigham

6 years

haha, HCI joke involving parents, babies, and animal butts. it's got everything.

Nina Alli

@headinthebooth

6 years

Sometimes we forget who our user is

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@jeffbigham

4 years

just got an email from @CarnegieMellon , and kind of freaked out for a moment…

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@jeffbigham

3 years

@g_k_swamy sometimes the hardest human to understand is yourself :)

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@jeffbigham

5 years

just hooded this guy, congrats dr. @windx0303 !!!

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@jeffbigham

5 years

slack is so much better than email. it's like email, but you have 20 teams, and 400 channels. so you get to check email all day long.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

2 years

~1.5 years ago, i bought the #1 recommended air purifier for my home. when it arrived, i plugged it in. had been a long time for the filter, but i forgot about it. the little warning light never came on. checked yesterday and the filter was wrapped in plastic the whole time…

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

I had a #chi2021 paper quick rejected months ago… so, you know, your paper that almost made it did a lot better than mine! hang in there :)

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

2 years

our HCI team in AI/Ml at Apple isn't huge, but it's amazing to work w/ these folks… as recent external evidence, we have 3 papers at #chi2022 , 2 Best Paper Awards and 1 Nomination… and @fredhohman just won the dissertation award -- interested in joining?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

Ten years ago, i had just moved to Rochester from Boston (where I had been visiting MIT, working with the crowd-powered systems cabal) … my wife was 8 months pregnant. I was preparing to teach my first class (Web Programming). I looked like this.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

3 years

Technically, the two hardest problems in computer science are (i) people, (ii) convincing computer scientists that people are the hardest problem, and (iii) off by one errors... but this seems like a corollary of (i) (and maybe (ii)?), so I’ll allow it.

Shreyas Doshi

@shreyas

4 years

1/ Collaboration Tax Getting two or more product groups at a megacorp to collaborate on creating a seamless end user experience is the hardest problem in computer science. (I am not joking)

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@jeffbigham

4 years

attempting to set my kids' computers for online schooling is a great illustration of why a computer science phd does not mean i am good at using computers.

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@jeffbigham

5 years

as an AI skeptic (aka, realist), first thing you ask is what kind of maintenance this machine requires.

Rich DeMuro

@richontech

5 years

This AI powered pizza robot from a Seattle startup named Picnic can assemble 300 perfect pizzas an hour #CES2020

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@jeffbigham

5 years

@BarbaraBoxer @stevefaulkner you forgot the part where they secretly do something to benefit Trump personally in exchange…

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@jeffbigham

6 years

hey 1995, you'll never believe this but shockwave, java applets, real audio are all gone. animated GIFs, Javascript, and PDFs are the winners.

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@jeffbigham

6 years

@TheMuslimGuy @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @keithellison @lsarsour @DMogahed @omarsuleiman504 @imraansiddiqi @mehdirhasan I mean that's not even a dog whistle...

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@jeffbigham

2 years

promised update -- I ran 1:15:43 (which is ~5:46 mile pace), which is the fastest I've done at least 8 years. I was 30th overall and 3rd masters runner! Jen ran 2:48 and was 7th overall and 2nd masters runner. We both won 10 pound bags of krusteaz pancake mix.

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@jeffbigham

4 years

GPT3 just produced all the papers I used to get tenure!!

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

2 years

. @jasonwu posted “Reflow: Automatically Improving Touch Interactions in Mobile Applications though Pixel-based Refinements”, which introduces an end-to-end way to achieve Ability-Based Design from pixels… let's unpack what it does & why it's powerful 1/

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@jeffbigham

10 months

bad news is a 10 pound sculpted piece of metal and glass(?) looks suspicious to TSA (agent said he thought it was human ashes??); good news is I got to tell a random TSA agent about our #uist2023 lasting impact award

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@jeffbigham

5 years

I was 3/3 with honorable mentions at #chi2020 , still haven’t managed the elusive best paper award :) Awesome to work with such amazing colleagues.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

3 years

Many great Apple Accessibility announcements for #gaad , including lots w/ AI/ML -- Assistive Touch for Watch (use the watch w/ one arm), Sound Actions for non-speech mouth sounds, Image Exploration, Eye-Tracking on iPad, and a lot more!

Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities

Apple today announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

generally, an important underexplored area of most design spaces

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@wolfsothern

4 years

I designed a mask for people who want to stay safe but still look like they're a fucking idiot

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buzzwords unite!

IBM Developer

@IBMDeveloper

6 years

We're calling on the tech industry to join us in applying #AI , #blockchain , #IoT and #cloud to address the world's most pressing disaster relief challenges. Together, let's unite in the #CallforCode .

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hosted @YueJiang_nj at @cmuhcii past few months -- she is great, at research (see her computational interaction/UI Understanding work: ) & also gets things done (at #chi2024 she did the DC, led a workshop, presented a paper, and was #a11y cochair) many wow.

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@jeffbigham

5 years

when a professor doesn’t email you back, think of this: i really do try to email/tweet people back, but every second spent emailing random people back is a second spent not with my kids, students, co-workers, or on my work.

anildash.com

@anildash

5 years

Sometimes people ask, “What’s it like having lots of followers on Twitter?” Sometimes, it’s great. And other times it’s waking up on a Saturday morning to some guy having DMed you this at 3am. (For what it’s worth, I have no record of ever getting an email from him.)

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@KDKA @ShelbyCassesse how many times are the Republicans going to try to rob me of my legally cast vote? shameful.

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@jeffbigham

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. @shaunkane , @wobbrockjo , and I won the @sigaccess Impact Award at #assets2019 for our 2008 paper on SlideRule, which introduced generalizable interaction techniques useful for making touchscreen systems (like the iPhone) accessible :: (1/x)

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

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some of the #chi2024 papers i was a coauthor on were accepted, and some were rejected. i can honestly say i would not have predicted which ones fell into which categories correctly, which is probably a problem.

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@jeffbigham

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And, she won! 34:00 for a 10k, not a bad race, maybe even a great race at @GreatRacePGH

Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

5 years

my wife is a bit famous, excited to be running the @GreatRacePGH tomorrow,

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"why do you have to do meetings anyway? you could just text them on your computer." my 4-year-old just --that meeting should have been an email--'d me…

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4 years

the human effort going into making GPT-3 look smart is unreal

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@jeffbigham

6 years

what's it like being the only HCI person in a CS dpt? i get asked this every year around this time when people are considering job offers since I did that for a while at @UofR Computer Science. this year i decided to write some stuff down about it ::

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

given how ravenous ML people get upon the suggestion that you might have a new dataset, i can only assume everyone agrees that data is the hardest problem, and thus those of us who collect new datasets are the bestest ML people.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

congratulations @AnhongGuo on a successful dissertation defense! really great work!

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

4 years

a new meme template for your consideration

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

8 months

Apple's Accessibility commercial titled "The Greatest" won an Emmy! It's an amazing tour through accessibility features, and also just super amazingly well produced. If you haven't seen it, give it a watch!

Apple - The Greatest

This is "Apple - The Greatest" by Kim Gehrig on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

vimeo.com

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@jeffbigham

5 years

@helenhousandi @wslasecki Wow, I’m currently hiring for a 10x engineer who can throw shit with high precision

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@jeffbigham

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uh oh, apparently my tweets made it onto some slides shown at #NeurIPS2019 … i'm definitely putting twitter on my CV now… you should check out @jeffrey_heer 's full talk, it's excellent!

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

6 years

Twitter is a hell of a place...

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

@jeffbigham

3 years

humans are always in the loop.

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