The high level idea was to marshall emotional and knowledge support for project teams trying to make progress on sometimes ill-defined and often frustrating pieces of problems. The end of Monday social support and intervention session was good fun Emily Harburg’s talk on their CheerOn system/paper was especially nice for me. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3(CSCW), 144. How Computers See Gender: An Evaluation of Gender Classification in Commercial Facial Analysis Services. I think there’s also a much broader space for thinking about the social construction of category boundaries and definitions the talk reminded me a little of Sen et al.’s CSCW paper on cultural communities and algorithmic gold standards and Feinberg et al.’s CHI paper around critical design and database taxonomies. The presentation of this in the motivating case of gender was thoughtful and the main presented design recommendation (maybe object recognizers should focus on recognizing objects rather than inferring gender) made sense to me. In particular, it made me think about what classification algorithms and systems that use them should do when categories are blurry, evolving, contested. I got to most of the Gender, Identity, and Sexuality session for me, Morgan Klaus Scheuerman’s talk on face-based gender classification was pretty interesting. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3(CSCW), 174. Crossmod: A Cross-Community Learning-based System to Assist Reddit Moderators. It looks like it would do a nice job of helping people balance of global and local norms in a collection of subcommunities, as well as picking exemplars of the local norms they’d like to have.Ĭhandrasekharan, E., Gandhi, C., Mustelier, M. My high level takeaway was that it gives moderators tools to get decisions/suggestions that align with specific representative communities (e.g., our community is like this one, so let’s learn from their moderation decisions), and/or broad consensus moderation across a number of communities. There were several good talks in the Moderation I Monday session, but I particularly liked Eshwar Chanraskharan’s talk about their Crossmod paper. I’ll go in roughly chronological order, and sorry if I list a first author instead of a speaker (I didn’t note speaker names, usually).
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This is not a full trip report and I saw plenty of fun people and stuff, but I wanted to call out a few things that I particularly liked and that you might like too, if you are kind of like me. With the semester winding down and a little time in my pocket, I thought it would be a good time to write up some of my favorite talks from CSCW 2019 this year it’s always nice to give a little love around the holidays.