In this reading group session Dunni Adenuga presents an interesting paper about users with high domain expertise interacting with predictive models. The paper is Benefits of Human-AI Interaction for Expert Users Interacting with Prediction Models: a Study on Marathon...
Please join us in belatedly congratulating PLAINTEXT’s first graduate from August 2023, Sujay Koujalgi, M.S. Apologies to Sujay for the late announcement, I noticed that I had not posted this when updating graduation information for other students
Please join us in congratulating three students who graduated in summer 2024: Dr. Iyadunni Adenuga, the first Ph.D. student to graduate from PLAINTEXT. Mitch Hoesing, M.S. Arisha Rao, M.S. P.S., belated congratulations to PLAINTEXT’s first graduate, Sujay...
The PLAINTEXT Lab is now part of the DARPA Intrinsic Cognitive Security (ICS) program’s VeriPro project. This project is a collaborative initiative incorporating researchers from George Washington University, Northeastern University, University of Southern...
Jeff Schulman recently participated in a discussion in an Active Inference Institute livestream, examining how The Expanse serves as a narrative framework for understanding individual and group agency and shared purpose. The series, set in a complex sci-fi universe,...
Jeff Schulman was awarded a NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for the 2024-2025 school year. This $5,000 fellowship will support his ongoing research in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Security, Explainable AI, and Active Inference, in line...
In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Dodge presents AiCommentator: A Multimodal Conversational Agent for Embedded Visualization in Football Viewing, by Andrews et al. In it, the authors demonstrate a method to do the necessary domain modeling, computer vision,...
In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Dodge presents Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning, by Bakhtin et al. In it, the authors work on a domain in which both planning and communication with other players are...
In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Dodge presents his own work How Do People Rank Multiple Mutant Agents?. In it, we work on the MNK-games domain, introducing an agent and explanations, as well as a task for evaluating explanations (Ranking Task) and an operator for...
In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Dodge presents SenseMate: An Accessible and Beginner-Friendly Human-AI Platform for Qualitative Data Analysis, by Overney et al. In it, the authors demonstrate UI to assist with human-AI collaboration for qualitative coding....
