<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Motahhare Eslami</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class="">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br class=""></i></span><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></span></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><b class=""><font class="" size="4">Monday, April 1, 2019 at 3:30 pm<br class="">Crerar 390</font></b><br class=""></span></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class=""><b class="" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Title: </b></span></font><font color="#212121" class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 15px;">Natural Language Understanding for Events and Participants in Text</span></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Abstract:</font></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Algorithms play a vital role in
curating online information in socio-technical systems, however, they are
usually housed in black-boxes that limit users’ understanding of how an
algorithmic decision is made. While this opacity partly stems from protecting
intellectual property and preventing malicious users from gaming the system, it
is also designed to provide users with seamless, effortless system
interactions. However, this opacity can result in misinformed behavior among
users, particularly when there is no clear feedback mechanism for users to
understand the effects of their own actions on an algorithmic system. The
increasing prevalence and power of these opaque algorithms coupled with their
sometimes biased and discriminatory decisions raise questions about how
knowledgeable users are and should be about the existence, operation and
possible impacts of these algorithms. In this talk, I will address these
questions by exploring ways to investigate users’ behavior around opaque
algorithmic systems. I will then present new design techniques that communicate
opaque algorithmic processes to users and provide them with a more informed,
satisfying, and engaging interaction. In doing so, I will add new angles to the
old idea of understanding the interaction between users and automation by
designing around algorithm sensemaking and transparency.</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font class=""><span class=""><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-bf351367-7fff-5067-8c8e-0130cc54a81c" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class=""><span class="">
<!--EndFragment--><br class=""></span></span></div></span></span><b class="" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Bio:</b></font></div></div></span></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#222222" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15px;" class=""><i class="">Motahhare Eslami is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is advised by Karrie Karahalios. Motahhare’s research develops new communication techniques between users and opaque algorithmic socio-technical systems to provide users a more informed, satisfying, and engaging interaction. Her work has been recognized with a Google PhD Fellowship, Best Paper Award at ACM CHI, and has been covered in mainstream media such as Time, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, the BBC, Fortune, and Quartz. Motahhare is also a Facebook and Adobe PhD fellowship finalist, and a recipient of C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Saburo Muroga Endowed Fellowship, Feng Chen Memorial Award, Young Researcher in Heidelberg Laureate Forum and Rising Stars in EECS.</i></span></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#222222" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><i class=""><br class=""></i></span></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#222222" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><i class=""><b class="">Host: Blase Ur</b></i></span></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#222222" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class=""><br class=""></i></span></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#222222" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></i></span></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#222222" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class=""><b class="">PDF:</b></i></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>