Will McCarthy @wp_mccarthy

AI Researcher @ Autodesk. Previously Cognitive Science PhD at UC San Diego 2024. wpmccarthy.github.io New York Joined March 2009

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ACM UIST @ACMUIST

2 years ago

Our #UIST2023 Closing keynote will be @StanfordPsych Prof. Judy Fan (@judyefan) who will discuss “Cognitive Tools for Uncovering Useful Abstractions" programs.sigchi.org/uist/2023/prog…

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Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social) @TheCharleyWu

2 years ago

@judyefan presenting one of my favorite recent papers looking at how concept libraries inform how we use language #cosmos2023 arxiv.org/abs/2205.05666

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Cognitive scientists! You don’t want to miss our #CogSci2023 Workshop: “How does the mind discover useful abstractions?” cogsci-abstractions-workshop.github.io Co-organized w/ the peerless @wkvong + Lio Wong + @marcelomattar!

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Judy Fan @judyefan

2 years ago

Job alert!🚨🧠🛠️ We @cogtoolslab @Stanford @StanfordPsych are recruiting a full-time lab manager to join our team Summer/Fall 2023. More information available here: cogtoolslab.github.io/prospective.ht…. Please share widely! 🙏

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Judy Fan @judyefan

3 years ago

Job alert!🚨 We @cogtoolslab @UCSD are recruiting a full-stack web applications engineer to build engaging online games that will advance understanding of human cognition and guide development of more human-like AI.

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Erik Brockbank @ErikBrockbank

3 years ago

Folks @#CogSci2022, I’ll be giving a talk on work w/ @wang_haoliang @justintheyang @suvir_m @ebiyik_ @DorsaSadigh & @judyefan exploring how people incorporate advice from artificial agents when making physical judgments (paper arxiv.org/abs/2205.11613 repo tinyurl.com/2ca426z6)

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman

3 years ago

When people are asked to draw devices, they include more causal parts, more symbols, less structural information, and more spatial distortions if their goal is to explain the device rather than depict it. Research by @hollyahuey et al. at #SPP2022

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Judy Fan @judyefan

4 years ago

Day 3: Supercool papers by @hollyahuey & Sebastian Holt investigating how people use graphical representations to communicate about abstract concepts like causality & number. And fascinating study led by @wp_mccarthy exploring links btw perceptual & procedural abstractions.