Andrew Head
@drewmikehead
Assistant professor @Penn CS. HCI. Computers as comprehension aids. Interactions for reading code, formulas, medical jargon, and mechanized proofs.
Do you do research in HCI? Help our group improve tools for reading research papers in a 1-hour Zoom study 📖✨. You'll get a chance to use a new reading tool, and a $30 prepaid debit card as bonus! Let us know if you want to participate at bit.ly/pennhci-readin…
Are you a Ph.D. applicant interested in HCI? Consider applying to @PennHCI! This year, my group will have openings that could be great for those interested in HCI/Programming Languages or AI-augmented documents. DMs are welcome!
At #UIST2024 and rained out of a leisurely lunch 🌧️? Stay dry with us at the industry career session instead! Grab a quick bite and then join us at 1pm in Allegheny 3, where UIST'ers from Meta, Google, and Adobe will talk about internships and industry positions.
Interested in internships and industry positions in HCI? Pencil into your calendar the #UIST2024 industry career information session on Wednesday 1-2pm in Allegheny 3! Meta, Google, and Adobe will be coming to speak about positions and answer your questions.
One of the coolest parts of my job is I get to teach classes like this one---my new research seminar on Interactive Reading 📖✨ Open to students at @CIS_Penn and the university broadly. Check out the teaser for info!
Have you ever written Java code professionally or open source? If so, you can help us make better tools for answering hard questions about code by taking part in @litao_yan's (paid) study.
Are you a professional Java developer? We at @PennHCI are running a study on how devs answer tricky questions about their code. Join us for a 1-hour Zoom session and earn a $75 gift card! Interested? Sign up here: bit.ly/3W8r0PV
Congratulations @hgoldstein95 on passing his Ph.D. defense with flying colors with an impressive body of work from PL, HCI, and software engineering. The rainbow colors are from my camera, though they might have well been there, because the presentation really was that dazzling.
Excited to (finally) be presenting our TOCHI paper at #CHI2024 this week: Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing w/ @lucyluwang @turingmusician @MartiHearst @drewmikehead @kylelostat 1/9
Oh, and I almost forgot @tal_august's Paper Plain paper, which has been published in TOCHI and is *finally* getting presented for the first time at CHI, on Tuesday at 12pm in 316A!
@PennHCI is coming to #CHI2024! With not one but two talks about augmented reading 📖✨ Look out for these faces — Hita, @litao_yan, and I will be there and excited to catch up with you all :-)
I'd also like to commend @zhuexe for getting the NSF's GRFP! The folks at Penn are on 🔥fire🔥!
@PennHCI is coming to #CHI2024! With not one but two talks about augmented reading 📖✨ Look out for these faces — Hita, @litao_yan, and I will be there and excited to catch up with you all :-)
Help us improve the readability of health records by participating in @_hitakam's paid, remote study!
Hey! I’m running a user study and could really use your help. Anyone who's visited a doctor in the US and can access their patient portal is welcome to participate. The study will take about an hour, and we'll pay you $35. You can sign up here: forms.gle/KN6jaaPZFnuEjc…
Help us make better interactive software tools by doing Harry's paid online study, anywhere, anytime (well, within the next week at least 😊!)
Hey! I’m running a user study and could really use your help. Anyone who's visited a doctor in the US and can access their patient portal is welcome to participate. The study will take about an hour, and we'll pay you $35. You can sign up here: forms.gle/KN6jaaPZFnuEjc…
What might smart code comprehension tools look like in the age of GitHub Copilot? Check out our vision in our lab's upcoming #chi2024 paper led by @litao_yan!
Excited to share our latest work, "Ivie: Lightweight, Anchored Explanations of Just-Generated Code." We developed a tool that pairs with Copilot to provide timely, concise explanations of code suggestions. Read our #CHI2024 paper on arXiv: bit.ly/ivie-chi24 #Copilot
Learn about the cool things my colleague @DrMetaxa and I are doing to grow and develop @PennHCI in this month's @PennEngineers magazine. And enjoy the epic picture of our our stoic battle faces.
Penn Engineering's Human-Computer Interaction Lab, led by Professors Danaë Metaxa and Andrew Head, is transforming how we interact with computers, in fields as varied as targeted advertising and health: bit.ly/47Urg9b @CIS_Penn
Do you work on automated testing? Read our upcoming #ICSE2024 paper on "Property-Based Testing in Practice." We document PBT's deep use at @JaneStreetGroup, and how PL+HCI research can improve PBT. Read it here: bit.ly/pbt-icse24 (Thanks @kc_srk for the shout-out!)
Property-based Testing in Practice harrisongoldste.in/papers/icse24-… > We address these questions using data from 30 in-depth interviews with experienced users of PBT at Jane Street, a financial technology company making heavy and sophisticated use of PBT.
If you use property-based software testing tools (and in particular, Hypothesis), reach out to @hgoldstein95! Harry is envisioning how to evolve these tools to help people test better, and we can use your input.
Property-based Testing in Practice harrisongoldste.in/papers/icse24-… > We address these questions using data from 30 in-depth interviews with experienced users of PBT at Jane Street, a financial technology company making heavy and sophisticated use of PBT.