Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI

 

This is the title of the summer school that will take place this coming monsoon season in New Delhi, India, from July 24 to July 27. The venue will be the glorious India Habitat Centre in the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi. Read more about our goals and motivations here.

The summer school will consist of four modules, each lasting one entire day. The information below will be updated as more speakers confirm and the topics take shape. For now, this is our tentative schedule:

Day 1: AI Systems & Design
The focus of this day will be on articulating the scope within which HCI researchers, practitioners, educators, and entrepreneurs might play a role towards improved understanding, design, use, and evaluation of AI-based technologies and technology interactions. Presenters include Rosa Arriaga (Georgia Tech, USA), Naveen Bagalkot (Srishti School of Design & Technology, Bangalore), Mohit Jain (University of Washington & IBM Research, Bangalore), and Danish Contractor (IBM Research, New Delhi). The schedule is as follows:

Moderator: Rosa Arriaga
Room: Magnolia
0900-0930: Introductions (Neha Kumar)
0930-1045: Session 1 (Rosa Arriaga)
1045-1115: Tea/Coffee
1115-1230: Session 2 (Naveen Bagalkot)
1230-1300: Madness
1300-1400: Lunch
1400-1515: Session 3 (Danish Contractor)
1515-1545: Tea/Coffee
1545-1700: Session 4 (Mohit Jain)
1700-1730: Concluding Remarks for Day 1 (Rosa Arriaga)
1800-2000: Happy Hour at Perch Coffee/Wine Bar

Day 2: Human-Centered Machine Learning
The focus of this day will be on human-centered machine learning (ML). In a world where ML brings us to rethink and consider new possibilities for our everyday contexts, we will learn how ML can stay grounded in human needs to make an impact in problem areas that it is well-positioned to address. Presenters include Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech, USA), Amit Sharma (Microsoft Research, Bangalore), and Kalika Bali (Microsoft Research, Bangalore). We will conclude the day with a design session with volunteers from MakerGhat (a non-profit makerspace in Mumbai) on “Empowering the Next Generation with AI”.

Moderator: Munmun De Choudhury
Room: Juniper
0900-0915: Recap (Rosa Arriaga)
0915-0930: Introductions (Munmun De Choudhury)
0930-1045: Session 1 (Munmun De Choudhury)
1045-1115: Tea/Coffee
1115-1230: Session 2 (Amit Sharma)
1230-1300: Madness
1300-1400: Lunch
1400-1515: Session 3 (Kalika Bali)
1515-1545: Tea/Coffee
1545-1700: Session 4 (MakerGhat)
1700-1730: Concluding Remarks for Day 2 (Munmun De Choudhury)
1800-2000: Walk through Lodi Gardens and rolls at Khan Chacha

Day 3: AI & Social Good
There is a growing focus on seeing AI make its way into application areas of social good, such as those defined by the UN’s sustainable development goals. We will discuss what novelty AI brings to these domains and examine how it is currently being used in some. Presenters include Jerome White (Wadhwani Institute for AI, Mumbai), Aaditeshwar Seth (IIT Delhi and Gram Vaani), and Jacki O’Neill (Microsoft Research, Bangalore). We will conclude the day with a design session with volunteers from Haiyya (a women’s advocacy group in New Delhi) on “What makes a safe space?”.

Moderator: Naveen Bagalkot
Room: Juniper
0900-0930: Recap/Introductions (Naveen Bagalkot)
0930-1045: Session 1 (Jerome White)
1045-1115: Tea/Coffee
1115-1230: Session 2 (Aaditeshwar Seth)
1230-1300: Madness
1300-1400: Lunch
1400-1515: Session 3 (Jacki O’Neill)
1515-1545: Tea/Coffee
1545-1700: Session 4 (Haiyya)
1700-1730: Concluding Remarks for Day 3 (Naveen Bagalkot)
1930-2300: Banquet at IIC Lotus Lounge

Day 4: Critical Perspectives on HCAI
Our last day will focus on cultivating critical perspectives on human-centered AI. With challenges around fairness, bias, and ethical implications of AI surfacing on an almost daily basis, we will learn ways in which we can start to critically question the world that we see unfolding around us. Presenters include Tapan Parikh (Cornell University), Janaki Srinivasan (International Institute for Information Technology, Bangalore), Urvashi Aneja (Tandem Research), and Divy Thakkar (Google, India).

Moderator: Jacki O’Neill
Room: Juniper
0900-0930: Recap/Introductions (Jacki O’Neill)
0930-1045: Session 1 (Tapan Parikh)
1045-1115: Tea/Coffee
1115-1230: Session 2 (Janaki Srinivasan)
1230-1300: Madness
1300-1400: Lunch
1400-1515: Session 3 (Urvashi Aneja)
1515-1545: Tea/Coffee
1545-1700: Session 4 (Divy Thakkar)
1700-1730: Concluding Remarks for Day 4 (Jacki O’Neill)
1730-1800: Thank Yous & Goodbyes

This is an HCI Across Borders event sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and in cooperation with the ACM Future of Computing Academy. It is hosted by Georgia Tech and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi. We are thankful for the support received from Google and Microsoft Research. The organizers are Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech) and Pushpendra Singh (IIIT-Delhi).