A few tips for Ph.D. students at CSCW/UIST interested in industry internships based on some questions I ask directly or indirectly and the rationale behind them. Some things might generalize to other research labs:https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">
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Q1. If you have to pick, would you prefer to focus on building systems or studying how people use them?
Some people tend to do everything, but I& #39;m mainly trying to map your interests/skills to our existing projects/quadrants when asking this.
See: https://twitter.com/andresmh/status/1311809318656913410">https://twitter.com/andresmh/...
Q2. What do you want to get out of the internship?
Mainly trying to figure out how we can help you with your long-term career goals. Examples: publication, explore new area/method, work on existing products, build new product/prototype, gain engineering experience, etc.
Q3. What are two or three projects you& #39;d be interested in working on in the ~3 months you& #39;ll be with our team?
This is like coming up with the abstract/title of a project. Mainly see how you think about research and understand how you see your work intersecting with ours.
The challenge with the last question is that previous publications don& #39;t map perfectly to ongoing/future work due to the delay in publication cycles.
Here are the 3 research initiatives our team is focused on for 2021 (papers about might come out at CHI & #39;21, pending R2& #39;s moodhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤞🏽" title="Crossed fingers (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Crossed fingers (mittlerer Hautton)">)
A. Co-located AR: how do we create technologies that foster, rather than detract from, in-person interactions? Special interest in strong ties + playfulness.
Recent interns who worked on this: @elldagan @sycynliu @anamcard.
Building on @AnhongGuo& #39;s https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3351241">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.11...
B. Glasses-first AR interactions: what new forms of social interactions are enabled through AR when people are apart? @rajan_vaish and @BrianHCI are leading this effort and recently hosted interns to work on this, including @kyungjun_l @HemantSurale @FakePaperclips @tarynnitupp
C. Sociable biosignals: how to enable more intimate and authentic interactions among dyads leveraging wearable sensors? @fanniefliu is leading this, and we do have a paper about an early version of these ideas https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3314405">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.11... Recent intern: http://cjpark.xyz"> http://cjpark.xyz 
Overall, the HCI team focuses on supporting social presence, both in-person and remote—special interest in playful and creative interactions among strong ties.
We also have a computational social science research group (emphasis on the computational part) that often takes interns from the HCI community. For example, @nickmvincent, @kous2v, and @dgzara worked/are working with @mbos on an exciting behavioral science project.
(Correction: Maarten& #39;s handle is @maartenwbos)
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