[CHI’24] A Way for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People to Enjoy Music by Exploring and Customizing Cross-modal Music Concepts 

[CHI’24] FoodCensor: Promoting Mindful Digital Food Content Consumption for People with Eating Disorders

[UbiComp’24] PRECYSE: Predicting Cybersickness using Transformer for Multimodal Time-Series Sensor Data

[CHI’24] Quantifying Wrist-Aiming Habits with A Dual-Sensor Mouse: Implications for Player Performance and Workload

[UIST’24] Effects of Computer Mouse Lift-off Distance Settings in Mouse Lifting Action

[CSCW’24] Why I Choose This Sticker When Chatting with You: Exploring Design Considerations for Sticker Recommendation Services in Mobile Instant Messengers

[CHI’24] Open Sesame? Open Salami! Personalizing Vocabulary Assessment-Intervention for Children via Pervasive Profiling and Bespoke Storybook Generation

[CHI’24] The Impact of Sketch-guided vs. Prompt-guided 3D Generative AIs on the Design Exploration Process

[CHI’24] Find the Bot!: Gamifying Facial Emotion Recognition for Both Human Training and Machine Learning Data Collection

[CHI’24] Enhancing Auto-Generated Baseball Highlights via Win Probability and Bias Injection Method

[UIST’24] GradualReality: Enhancing Physical Object Interaction in Virtual Reality via Interaction State-Aware Blending

[UIST’24] Flip-Pelt: Motor-Driven Peltier Elements for Rapid Thermal Stimulation and Congruent Pressure Feedback in Virtual Reality

[CHI’24] Augmenting Perceived Length of Handheld Controllers: Effects of Object Handle Properties

[CHI’24] Big or Small, It’s All in Your Head: Visuo-Haptic Illusion of Size-Change Using Finger-Repositioning

[CHI’24] The Effects of False but Stable Heart Rate Feedback on Cybersickness and User Experience in Virtual Reality

• Title: Participatory AI 

• Abstract: As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to impact every aspect of our lives, it is crucial to ensure that its development aligns with the priorities and values of diverse communities and users. In this talk, I will present several case studies in which our research team explores different methods to i) understand the priorities and preferences of stakeholders such as gig workers, community members, and policymakers and ii) incorporate these insights into the design of AI systems, ranging from labor platforms to urban air mobility infrastructure. Drawing from these case studies, I will share reflections on the opportunities and challenges of participatory AI.

• Bio: Min Kyung Lee is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been a director of a Human-AI Interaction Lab since 2016. She is affiliated with UT Austin Machine Learning Lab—one of the first NSF funded national AI research institutes, Good Systems—a UT Austin 8-year Grand Challenge to design responsible AI technologies, and Texas Robotics. Previously, she was a research scientist in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Lee has conducted some of the first studies that empirically examine the social implications of algorithms’ emerging roles in management and governance in society. She has extensive expertise in developing theories, methods and tools for human-centered AI and deploying them in practice through collaboration with real-world stakeholders and organizations. She developed a participatory framework that empowers community members to design matching algorithms that govern their own communities. Her current research is inspired by and complements her previous work on social robots for long-term interaction, seamless human-robot handovers, and telepresence robots. Dr. Lee is a Siebel Scholar and has received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, research grants from NSF and Uptake, and eight best paper awards and honorable mentions and two demo/video awards in venues such as CHI, CSCW, DIS, HRI and MobiSys. She is an Associate Editor of Human-Computer Interaction and served as a Senior Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction from 2017-2023. Her work has been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, New Scientist, Washington Post, MIT Technology Review and CBS. She received a PhD and a MS in Human-Computer Interaction and an MDes in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS from KAIST. Dr. Lee is an aspiring explorer. She hiked in 25 national parks in 5 countries, and skied in the U.S., Canada, Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan, and Korea.