{"633726":{"#nid":"633726","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Paper Co-Authored by Ph.D. Student Duri Long Receives Honorable Mention at CHI Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA paper authored primarily by Duri Long, Ph.D. candidate in human-centered computing, received an honorable mention award, placing among the top four percent of papers accepted for the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, one of the top conferences in the field of human-computer interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-authored with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/magerko\u0022\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, the paper, titled \u0026quot;What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations,\u0026quot; synthesizes research in the field to create a \u0026quot;set of core competencies\u0026quot; to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI)\u0026nbsp;programs and influence future development in the field. It is part of Long\u0026#39;s doctoral dissertation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I think the award reflects the timeliness and value of this paper to those in the HCI, AI, and learning science research communities,\u0026quot; Long said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;There is a lot of interest in\u0026nbsp;designing engaging AI-related learning experiences, but there is a lack of guiding frameworks that\u0026nbsp;synthesize current findings into practical guidelines for design.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;If anything, it feels like a validation from respected colleagues of the research direction we have gone in, which links creative practice to the design of human-computer experiences,\u0026quot; Magerko said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;That, and that my Ph.D. student is a total rockstar.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis paper is just the most recent part of an ongoing effort by Long and Magerko to promote awareness and literacy of AI technology. They published research at the Association for Computing Machinery\u0026#39;s 2019 Creativity \u0026amp; Cognition Conference and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/624291\u0022\u003Ehave put on a number of public installations of AI technology\u003C\/a\u003E. The next steps of Long and Magerko\u0026#39;s work include applying their list of competencies to museum installations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;AI is becoming increasingly integrated into our everyday lives, but there are still a lot of misunderstandings about what AI does and how it works,\u0026quot; Long said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Our previous work designing AI-related\u0026nbsp;installations has shown us that public spaces can be a particularly valuable\u0026nbsp;venue for broadening AI literacy.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe full paper can be read \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/53c69580e4b08011fc2337bf\/t\/5e2893e4a9d342214836e832\/1579717605435\/CHI+2020+AI+Literacy+Paper-Camera+Ready.pdf\u0022\u003Eat this link\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECo-authored with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/magerko\u0022\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, the paper, titled \u0026quot;What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations,\u0026quot; synthesizes research in the field to create a \u0026quot;set of core competencies\u0026quot; to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI)\u0026nbsp;programs and influence future development in the field. It is part of Long\u0026#39;s doctoral dissertation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The paper, titled \u0022What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations,\u0022 synthesizes research in the field to create a \u0022set of core competencies\u0022 to evaluate AI programs and influence future development in the field."}],"uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-03-23 18:27:25","changed_gmt":"2020-04-01 15:58:40","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633979":{"id":"633979","type":"image","title":"Duri Long and Brian Magerko","body":null,"created":"1585756439","gmt_created":"2020-04-01 15:53:59","changed":"1585756439","gmt_changed":"2020-04-01 15:53:59","alt":"Co-authors Duri Long and Brian Magerko","file":{"fid":"241234","name":"brian and duri.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brian%20and%20duri.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brian%20and%20duri.png","mime":"image\/png","size":70434,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/brian%20and%20duri.png?itok=1yZ9pgM5"}}},"media_ids":["633979"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}