講者：加州大學戴維斯分校 王浩全教授

時間：6/24 (二) 10:10

地點：EC329

 

Title: Toward Re-Structuring Group Communication with Active and Agentic Mediations

Abstract:
Communication gaps and collaboration failures in social collectives, ranging from small working groups to offline and online communities of different sizes, are long-lasting issues and challenges to researchers and designers of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Two sources of systematic variations can possibly account for such challenges: compositional differences of team members in a team, and mediating conditions that could further magnify or mitigate such compositional difference effects. Designing communication media with computational models that enable active intervention and agentic participation in communication has the potential to transform how groups communicate and collaborate. In this talk, I will outline my lab's ongoing research agenda around active and agentic mediated communication design, and exemplify with recent projects, including understanding and designing active intervention mechanisms to promote fair work division in teamwork, intercultural team formation in global teams, and human-AI accommodation in human-AI teaming.

Bio:
Prof. Hao-Chuan Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the design and understanding of collaborative systems for supporting team diversity, non-verbal and verbal interactions, peer production and collective intelligence at the global scale. He also studied extensively how these tools can be shaped to address large-scale societal issues, such as bridging cultural and language gaps between global co-workers, and support expert-novice knowledge transfer for online education and work. Before joining UC Davis in 2018, he was an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Information Systems and Applications, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (NTHU). In recent years, he was also a visiting professor of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Osaka University, Japan. He was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGCHI, now serving as the VP Finance for the largest and most influential scholarly community on the research, practice and education of Human-Computer Interaction.