Associate Prof. of Emerging Technologies @UFJSchool｜Directors of METL & PAI Lab ｜HRI; HCI; presence｜formerly @TUKleincollege | ❤️SH ❤️Philly
Gainesville, FL
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Glad to see this piece is finally out. academic.oup.com/jcmc/advanc…
Job alert: My department @UFMPMT in the college @UFJSchool is recruiting two tenure track positions (one at the assistant level & one at the assistant/associate level) in the broad areas of media technology or media management. DM if you have questions! explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…
Congratulations!!
Very honored to receive my first-ever Top Paper Award as a faculty! 🥰 Huge shout-out to my amazing co-author @lyou_pr 🙋🏻♀️ for teaming up to build our virtual influencer advocacy research pipeline and seeing it spark real-world conversations!
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Reminder that our 3rd annual International Meet the Lab Event is happening this Friday!!
March 7th 2pm (GMT)
Register here: ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register…
Join our annual Meet the Lab event and learn what HMC scholars are currently working on in the field of HMC/HRI/AI!
👋 HMC IG invites you to join our 3rd annual International Meet the Lab Event! Dr. Selma Šabanović, Dr. Jingwen Zhang, and Dr. Nicole Krämer will introduce us to their labs and current research. March 7th 2pm (GMT) Register here: ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register…
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[Recruiting Study Participants📢] Anyone interested in participating in a study on #LongCovid?
Hi, I am a doctoral candidate studying health communication at the University of Southern California. I invite you to be part of my dissertation research, by sharing with me how you utilize social media platforms for seeking and providing social support for Long COVID.
You may be eligible to participate in this study if you meet the following criteria:
1. You have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and have been experiencing long-term effects of it (known as Long COVID or long-haul COVID),
2. You have been seeking social support on either of the two social media platforms: Twitter (now X) or Reddit,
3. You reside in the United States, and
4. You are over 18 years old.
If you meet the criteria above, you may be eligible to participate in an interview for this study. The interview process will take approximately 60-90 minutes, and you will be compensated $30 for participation in this study. If you are interested, please click on the following link: usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/S…
If you have any questions about this study, please feel free to contact me ([email protected]).
Job alert: My department @UFMPMT in the College of Journalism and Communications @UFJSchool is recruiting two tenure track positions. One focuses on emerging media: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…; the other focuses on media management: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…. DM if you have questions
Excited to see work with @DrJJolieShi1 published in Communication Theory. We argued for integration between explainable AI (XAI) and the communication scholarship for understanding both "how AI can be communicative" and "how AI can be communicated". Link: academic.oup.com/ct/advance-…
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📢 Looking to get more involved in the HMC Interest Group? Apply for a leadership position!
We're looking for a Secretary, International Liaison, and Student & Early Career Rep
Each is a two-year position starting after the 2025 ICA Convention in Denver, CO, USA. 🧵1/2
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Our UF STCC is looking for a faculty member to join us in Spring or Autumn 2025. The position is an assistant professor in science, environmental, risk, or technology communication.
careers.icahdq.org/job/ast-p…
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Our @UFSTEMTCC is growing! Looking for an assistant prof in science, environmental, risk, or technology communication. Reduced teaching and incredible interdisciplinary possibilities. Review starts Aug 9 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j… Please share, apply, or dm with q’s 🧪🌳🦠🐊
On one hand, users might have more understanding and tolerance for communication breakdowns. On the other hand, realizing that robots' working mechanism involves speech and facial recognition might intrude on users’ sense of security and thus undermine their trust.
Happy to see our team's lab work on human-robot interaction published! Many thanks to my graduate student coauthors @Xiaobei98933791 and @liu_fanjue and my colleague Dr. Luling Huang. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…
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We are still receiving applications for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at the UF partner site! sicss.io/2024/florida/ A local theme is social media data and text analysis. Apply by May 30. Free 2-week workshop at @UFJSchool
Join us this Friday at the 2nd Meet the Lab event! You may access more information and the registration link here: humanmachinecommunication.or…
‼️ #hmc community, join us at "the International Meet the Lab" event this Friday (March 1). We have four amazing presenters: Dr. James Cummings, Dr. Tony Liao @ShreddAR01, Dr. Sunny Liu, and Dr. Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten. Thanks for organizing this event Dr. Xu @bigben219
We invited four esteemed scholars from different labs and centers to share their lab work! Those include labs at Stanford, Boston U, RWTH Aachen U, and U of Houston. Come join us at this annual Meet the Lab event on March 1!
📣 Mark your calendars!
📆Our online 'International Meet the Lab' event is back on March 1, 2024 (9 am, EST).
Exciting guest speakers and rich discussions await.
You find the registration link and more information at humanmachinecommunication.or…
#HMCommunity #HMCMeetTheLab
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[#CFP Reminder] Only two weeks left until the abstract submission deadline - just an abstract!:) Please consider contributing to this meaningful special issue, co-edited by @davidjeong , @Doc_Chock, and me!
*See CFP here: shorturl.at/jmsW7
*Deadline: Jan 29, 2024