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HCI for ML
CS598RK      SPRING 2021 UIUC      TUESDAY AND THURSDAY      12-1.15PM CST      ONLINE
DISCUSSION GUIDELINES
During the semester, each student will (co-)lead one class. Meet with Ranjitha at the end of the previous class to discuss your planned group activities based on the readings. Aim for a 20-minute slide-based introduction and a 20-minute group Mural activity. On your discussion day, email your slides to ranjitha@illinois.edu.
Your discussion should weave a narrative that presents 3-4 key ideas from the readings that you would like the students to understand deeply, and structure your activities around that. Your slides should accomplish the following:
  • Briefly summarize the papers, pointing out important contributions and/or flaws. Sometimes a paper has significance for asking the right question, sometimes for modeling a problem in a novel way, and sometimes for both. As part of this class, your goal is to learn how to evaluate papers in this domain along these different axes.
  • Cover both high- and low-level parts of the readings. Many times it might be necessary to explain low-level technical details in order to explain the approach. For example, it is appropriate to have equations from the papers on a slide, but the goal here should be to explain the idea behind the equations and not the symbols contained within them.
  • Situate the papers in the context of design processes, prior readings, and the papers' most relevant computer science field (HCI, machine learning, computer vision, etc.) To do a good job, this might require you to do extra reading on topics presented in the papers.