I’m going to be at #ACL2026 starting Sunday! We have one main paper on team roles (Session 3, 14:00 - 15:30, July 5) and a demo on personalizing remote meetings (Session 8, 9:00 - 10:30, July 6)
Tal August
@tal_august
Assistant professor @IllinoisCS, prev @allen_ai and @uwcse. HCI + NLP. Designing language for different people.
Joined August 2016
- Such a fun project to work on with Lechen and Jiarui! TLDR: personalization is harder than most benchmarks indicate, mostly because people are people and models are not people. Check out Lechen's post and paper for more!1/ When chatbots remember something about you in “personalized” answers, does it ever feel uncomfortable, offensive, or just unnecessary? 🚨 Our paper argues these misalignments reflects a deeper issue in personalization: over-reliance on synthetic users and LLM judges. 🧵👇
- The STAR workshop at #CHI2026 is just over a week away! Due to increased interest, we're capping open-door attendance at 100. To make sure everyone interested has a spot, please sign up below. 📝Register: forms.gle/YCnP7QnWeuvZNv… 🌐 Details: chi-star-workshop.github.io
- Deadline for submission in just under 10 days! Reach out if you have any questions.What is future of reading? 📗 Announcing the 1st Science & Technology of Augmented Reading (STAR) workshop at #CHI2026! We want your takes on: 🤖 AI & Agents for reading 👁️ Visual Interactions 🗺️ Domains (Code, Law, Ed, etc.) 👇 Submit a 2-4 pg paper: chi-star-workshop.github.io
- What is future of reading? 📗 Announcing the 1st Science & Technology of Augmented Reading (STAR) workshop at #CHI2026! We want your takes on: 🤖 AI & Agents for reading 👁️ Visual Interactions 🗺️ Domains (Code, Law, Ed, etc.) 👇 Submit a 2-4 pg paper: chi-star-workshop.github.io
