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♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ assistant professor at tufts computer science. hci, accessibility, diy tech, ar/vr, a billion other stuff | she/her

boston, ma
Joined March 2012
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The Human-AI Lab at University of Michigan is at #CHI2026! I am not there at CHI myself, please say hi to our lab folks, and hope to see many of you at #UIST2026! Also check out the many contributions by UMich CSE, School of Information, and beyond: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/…
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I love this summary of "what to learn in a PhD." What Jack points out seems like a simple principle, but living through the intellectual uncertainty and chaos of being lost in your research for a long time—it's emotionally much harder learn to do it than it sounds.
the most satisfying takeaway from a phd is that you can solve problems far beyond your capabilities if you're willing to throw yourself at them again and again, over a long period, while staying open to new ideas it's not really about being smart. just curious & persistent
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🎉So proud of PhD student @jayhersk Jaylin Herskovitz for receiving the @umichgradschool Susan Lipschutz Award! Congrats!👏 It recognizes her outstanding achievements, the interest in social responsibility, & a commitment to supporting women in academia. cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/…
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A nice article @EllieSeehorn and @jayhersk wrote about our lab, appearing in the Fall Crossroads magazine @XRDS_ACM: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3…
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We had a great trip to #UIST2024!
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What if paper abstracts weren’t just static summaries? In our #UIST2024 paper, we present Qlarify, a mixed-initiative system built on a lightweight interaction technique that expands abstracts with details from the full text—empowering scholars to dive deeper, faster.
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I refuse to do any more work today!
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Our lab will be showcasing our work on AI-powered visual assistive technologies at tomorrow's VISIONS event hosted by the Ann Arbor District Library! Excited to share our work, and engage with the local communities! @aadl #VISIONS2024 aadl.org/visions
Join us at VISIONS 2024 for a showcase of the latest in assistive technology & services for the blind, visually impaired, & physically disabled. Wednesday, June 5 from 11 am-4 pm at the Downtown Library Visit aadl.org/visions for a list of presentations, vendors, & more!
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jaylin herskovitz retweeted
CDC changing covid isolation guidelines because 'most people' have immunity. This will be a surprise to the near 10,000 people who died of covid in January and the tens of thousands more that will die in the coming months. Nothing more than eugenics for capitalism
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gpt this gpt that what about gptalk to women like normal people – at Toronto, Ontario
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jaylin herskovitz retweeted
Proud to announce two #a11y apps our lab developed are publicly available on the iOS App Store! VizLens (@VizLens) that assists blind people to access everyday appliances vizlens.org & ImageExplorer (@Image_Explorer_) for image understanding imageexplorer.org
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This study is led by PhD student @jayhersk, in collaboration with Andi Xu and @rmalharb. Paper available at: guoanhong.com/papers/CHI23-D… Video: youtu.be/RsiZw46CV_A #CHI2023 #Accessibility #a11y #DIY
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jaylin herskovitz retweeted
#OmniScribe is a step towards making 360° videos accessible. We focused on techniques for making ADs more immersive, and making them easier to author. Future work may further explore techniques for BVI users to consume them. #UIST2022 Also welcome @RueiChe as a new PhD student!
Excited to share our #UIST2022 work #OmniScribe towards making 360° videos accessible to blind or visually impaired people! Huge thanks to my advisors @AnhongGuo and Bing-Yu Chen, and collaborators in NTU! (1/7) Paper: bit.ly/3wuMz1h Video: bit.ly/3AN8XFF
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jaylin herskovitz retweeted
Excited to announce that I’ll be joining University of Michigan CSE as an Assistant Professor starting Fall this year @UMich @UMichCSE
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Are you someone who works with datasets and ML models in their day-to-day work? If you're a ML practitioner or data scientist, please help us by completing a brief exploratory data science task. Link: umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form… Please RT and share with folks who might be interested!
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Hey all! I’ll be presenting this paper later today as part of the “Captioning Images, Videos, and Applications” session! Check it out from 4:15pm - 5:30pm! :)) See you there~
Super excited to present our work titled “ImageExplorer: Multi-Layered Touch Exploration to Encourage Skepticism Towards Imperfect AI-Generated Image Captions” at #CHI2022! Looks like my first in-person conference will have to wait… 🥲 but I’d be happy to chat with everyone :))
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I am presenting this work later in the session “More Accessible, More Inclusive”! Come by if you’re interested or want to chat after the session :) #CHI2022
Replying to @AnhongGuo
In #CollabAlly, we developed a system that makes #collaboration awareness in #document editing accessible to blind users via easy-to-access dialog box, #Earcons, #VoiceFonts, and #SpatialAudio. Work led by @PhipsonLee @ZhuohaoZhang @jayhersk & a fantastic collab w/ @seo_jooyoung
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📃 New paper! The first paper of my PhD and my first in the #a11y space, "Understanding How People with Limited Mobility Use Multi-Modal Input", has been accepted to #CHI2022! 🎉 Quick summary and preprint here: johannwentzel.ca/projects/ms… TL;DR explanation 🧵:
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In #ImageExplorer, we developed a touch-based multi-layered image exploration system for blind users that encourages skepticism towards imperfect #AI-generated #captions, and compared with the techniques by #FacebookAAT and #SeeingAI. Work led by @jaewook_jae @jayhersk & @yolohao
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