Publications & related shenanigans
Last updated September 2024. Jump to: Theses · Talks · Patents
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DOI: 10.1145/3649404
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AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
Advait Sarkar
Communications of the ACM (CACM 2024)
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Intention Is All You Need
Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024)
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Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024)
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When Copilot Becomes Autopilot: Generative AI's Critical Risk to Knowledge Work and a Critical Solution
Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Neil Toronto, Ian Drosos, Christian Poelitz
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG 2024)
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arXiv:2405.04382
Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
Advait Sarkar
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024)
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Diversity in Study Participants and a Critique of the "Representative Sample" in Human-Computer Interaction Research
Advait Sarkar
2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) Workshop on Addressing Challenges in Recruiting Participants for Human-Centric Computing Research Studies
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DOI: 10.1145/3663384.3663389
"It's like a rubber duck that talks back": Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2024)
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DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642902
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arXiv:2312.10893
The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)
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arXiv:2407.02651
Details forthcoming Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024)
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arXiv:2408.08068
The Paradox of Spreadsheet Self-Efficacy: Social Incentives for Informal Knowledge Sharing in End-User Programming
Qing (Nancy) Xia, Advait Sarkar, Duncan Brumby, Anna Cox
2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
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CMU KiltHub
DOI: 10.1184/R1/25587552.v1
arXiv:2310.01297
Co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content
Andrew D. Gordon, Carina Negreanu, José Cambronero, Rasika Chakravarthy, Ian Drosos, Hao Fang, Bhaskar Mitra, Hannah Richardson, Advait Sarkar, Stephanie Simmons, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
Proceedings of the 14th annual workshop on the intersection of HCI and PL (PLATEAU 2024)
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ACL Anthology
arXiv:2402.11734
Solving Data-centric Tasks using Large Language Models
Shraddha Barke, Christian Poelitz, Carina Suzana Negreanu, Benjamin Zorn, José Cambronero, Andrew D. Gordon, Vu Le, Elnaz Nouri, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Brian Slininger, Neil Toronto, Jack Williams
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024)
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DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3650762
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Creating an authoring tool for K-12 teachers to design ML-supported scientific inquiry learning
Xiaofei Zhou, Jingwan Tang, Hanjia Lyu, Xinyi Liu, Zhenhao Zhang, Lichen Qin, Fiona Au, Advait Sarkar, Zhen Bai
Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2024)
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DOI: 10.1145/3596671.3597650
Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023)
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DOI: 10.1145/3622758.3622882
arXiv:2311.00382 Will code remain a relevant user interface for end-user programming with generative AI models?
Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2023)
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arXiv:2312.16633
Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Rob Deline, Andrew D. Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023)
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DOI: 10.1109/VL-HCC57772.2023.00017
Microsoft Research blog ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andrew D. Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Benjamin Zorn
2023 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
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DOI: 10.1145/3596671.3598569
Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity
Tianna Xu, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023)
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DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3582735
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Blog post Enough With "Human-AI Collaboration"
Advait Sarkar
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2023)
Featured by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute
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DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3582741
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arXiv:2306.01643 Should Computers Be Easy To Use? Questioning the Doctrine of Simplicity in User Interface Design
Advait Sarkar
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2023)
"Really thought-provoking" — Elena Glassman, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
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DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580817
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"What It Wants Me To Say": Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models
Michael Xieyang Liu, Advait Sarkar, Carina Negreanu, Benjamin Zorn, Jack Williams, Neil Toronto, Andrew D. Gordon
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023)
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DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.07926
arXiv:2304.07926
User Perceptions of Automatic Fake News Detection: Can Algorithms Fight Online Misinformation?
Bruno Tafur, Advait Sarkar
arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07926
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Springer Nature SharedIt (open access)
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-022-09451-6 Meeting (the) Pandemic: Videoconferencing Fatigue and Evolving Tensions of Sociality in Enterprise Video Meetings During COVID-19
Rachel Bergmann, Sean Rintel, Nancy Baym, Advait Sarkar, Damian Borowiec, Priscilla Wong, Abigail Sellen
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2022)
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arXiv:2208.06213 What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?
Advait Sarkar, Andrew D. Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Christian Poelitz, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ben Zorn
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2022)
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Is explainable AI a race against model complexity?
Advait Sarkar
Workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TExSS 2022), at the 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2022)
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10.1109/VL/HCC53370.2022.9833131
Summary blog post End-user encounters with lambda abstraction in spreadsheets: Apollo's bow or Achilles' heel?
Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Jack Williams, Andrew D. Gordon
2022 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
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DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3501833
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"It's Freedom to Put Things Where My Mind Wants": Understanding and Improving the User Experience of Structuring Data in Spreadsheets
George Chalhoub, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022)
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DOI: 10.1145/3533406.3533417
Video (8 min) Making Space for Social Time: Supporting Conversational Transitions Before, During, and After Video Meetings
Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, John Tang, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2022)
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DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445634
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Summary blog post Spreadsheet Comprehension: Guesswork, Giving Up and Going Back to the Author
Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Advait Sarkar, Andrew D. Gordon
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)
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DOI: 10.1145/3411763.3451793
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Microsoft Research blog
The promise and peril of parallel chat in video meetings for work
Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Damian Borowiec, Rachel Bergmann, Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Abigail Sellen
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts)
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DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445265
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TweakIt: Supporting End-User Programmers Who Transmogrify Code
Samuel Lau, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ken Milne, Titus Barik, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)
Results from Sam's internship with me at MSR in 2020.
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AoIR archives
DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12113
Managing boundaries while working from home, 1960-present
Hannah Zeavin, Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Devon Powers, Sierra Bray, Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes, Andrea Alarcon
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
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DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12113
Video on/off: managing visibility in remote videoconferencing
Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Sean Rintel, Advait Sarkar, Damian Borowiec, Abigail Sellen
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
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10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127254
Understanding and Inferring Units in Spreadsheets
Jack Williams, Carina Negreanu, Andrew D. Gordon, Advait Sarkar
2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
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Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core Share (open access)
DOI: 10.1017/S0956796820000234
ICFP presentation video
Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays
Matt McCutchen, Judith Borghouts, Andrew D. Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Advait Sarkar
Journal of Functional Programming (JFP) (Volume 30, pp. e26)
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Methodology and Participation for 2020 Diary Study of Microsoft Employees Experiences in Remote Meetings During COVID-19
Sean Rintel, Priscilla Wong, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen
Technical Report 2020-10-FOW-SIM1, Microsoft Research
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DOI: 10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127258
Correspondence-based analogies for choosing problem representations in mathematics and computing education
Aaron Stockdill, Daniel Raggi, Mateja Jamnik, Grecia Garcia Garcia, Holly Sutherland, Peter Cheng, Advait Sarkar
2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
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Springer Nature SharedIt (open access)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44914-8_27 Higher-Order Spreadsheets with Spilled Arrays
Jack Williams, Nima Joharizadeh, Andrew D. Gordon, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2020)
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Project on GitHub Excello: exploring spreadsheets for music composition
Henry Mattinson, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020)
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DOI: 10.1145/3334480.3382806
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Gridlets: Reusing Spreadsheet Grids
Nima Joharizadeh, Advait Sarkar, Andrew D. Gordon, Jack Williams
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2020)
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DOI: 10.1145/3334480.3382807
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Spreadsheet Use and Programming Experience: an Exploratory Survey
Advait Sarkar, Judith Willemijn Borghouts, Anusha Iyer, Sneha Khullar, Christian Canton, Felienne Hermans, Andrew D. Gordon, Jack Williams
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2020)
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Cross-domain Correspondences for Explainable Recommendations
Aaron Stockdill, Daniel Raggi, Mateja Jamnik, Grecia Garcia Garcia, Holly Sutherland, Peter Cheng, Advait Sarkar
Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems for Algorithmic Transparency in Emerging Technologies (ExSS-ATEC 2020), held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2020)
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DOI: 10.1145/3301275.3302268
Summary blog post Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019)
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DOI: 10.1145/3290607.3312975
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Also presented as a poster
Summary blog post Do We Need Natural Language? Exploring Restricted Language Interfaces for Complex Domains
Jesse Mu, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2019)
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DOI: 10.1145/3290607.3313072
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Summary blog post Perceptions of Chatbots in Therapy
Samuel Bell, Clara Wood, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2019)
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Usability of Probabilistic Programming Languages
Alan Blackwell, Luke Church, Martin Erwig, James Geddes, Andy Gordon, Maria Gorinova, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Bradley Gram-Hansen, Tobias Kohn, Neil Lawrence, Vikash Mansinghka, Brooks Paige, Tomas Petricek, Diana Robinson, Advait Sarkar, Oliver Strickson
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2019)
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Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_1 End-User Probabilistic Programming
Judith Borghouts, Advait Sarkar, Andrew D. Gordon, Neil Toronto
International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2019) (pp. 3–24)
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ACL Web
DOI: 10.18653/v1/W19-4024
Summary blog post Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity
Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar, Advait Sarkar, Alan Blackwell
Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII) (pp. 208–214), co-located with ACL 2019
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DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1905.13072
arXiv:1905.13072
Somewhere Around That Number: An Interview Study of How Spreadsheet Users Manage Uncertainty
Judith Borghouts, Andrew D. Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Kenton P. O'Hara, Neil Toronto
arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.13072
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Summary blog post Evaluating Rule-based Programming and Reinforcement Learning for Personalising an Intelligent System
Ruixue Liu, Advait Sarkar, Erin Solovey, Sebastian Tschiatschek
2nd Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems (ExSS 2019), held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019)
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Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2018.1563832
PubMed
Summary blog post Setwise comparison: efficient fine-grained rating of movement videos using algorithmic support - a proof of concept study
Saskia Steinheimer, Jonas F. Dorn, Cecily Morrison, Advait Sarkar, Marcus D'Souza, Jacques Boisvert, Rishi Bedi, Jessica Burggraaff, Peter Kontschieder, Frank Dahlke, Abigail Sellen, Bernard M. J. Uitdehaag, Ludwig Kappos, Christian P. Kamm
Disability and Rehabilitation, 2019
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DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506584
Calculation View: multiple-representation editing in spreadsheets
Advait Sarkar, Andrew D. Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Neil Toronto
2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (pp. 85–93)
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Full proceedings How do people learn to use spreadsheets? (Work in progress)
Advait Sarkar, Andrew D. Gordon
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2018) (pp. 28–35)
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Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_47
Visualising latent semantic spaces for sense-making of natural language text
Ana Šemrov, Alan F. Blackwell, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, 2018 (DIAGRAMS 2018) (pp. 517–525)
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IEEE Xplore
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2016.7739668
System on GitHub Visual discovery and model-driven explanation of time series patterns
Advait Sarkar, Martin Spott, Alan F. Blackwell, Mateja Jamnik
2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (pp. 78–86)
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ACM Digital Library
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858199
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Microsoft project showcase
Summary blog post Setwise Comparison: Consistent, Scalable, Continuum Labels for Machine Learning
Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, Jonas F. Dorn, Rishi Bedi, Saskia Steinheimer, Jacques Boisvert, Jessica Burggraaff, Marcus D'Souza, Peter Kontschieder, Samuel Rota Bulò, Lorcan Walsh, Christian P. Kamm, Yordan Zaykov, Abigail Sellen, Siân E. Lindley
Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016) (pp. 261–271)
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Eurographics DL
DOI: 10.2312/eurovisshort.20161173
Summary blog post Clarifying hypotheses by sketching data
Mariana Mărășoiu, Alan F. Blackwell, Advait Sarkar, Martin Spott
18th Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Conference on Visualization, 2016 (EuroVis 2016)
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ACM Digital Library
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858221
CHI presentation video
Video abstract · Slides [PDF] A Live, Multiple-Representation Probabilistic Programming Environment for Novices
Maria I. Gorinova, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell, Don Syme
Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016) (pp. 2533–2537)
This paper summarises Maria's undergraduate dissertation.
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ACM Digital Library
DOI: 10.1145/2851581.2892547
Also presented as a poster Constructivist Design for Interactive Machine Learning
Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2016) (pp. 1467–1475)
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Full proceedings Towards spreadsheet tools for end-user music programming
Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2016) (pp. 228–231)
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Summary blog post A gaze-directed lens for touchless analytics
Abhishek Chander, Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2016) (pp. 232–241)
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IEEE Xplore
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2016.7739694 Transforming Spreadsheets with Data Noodles
Maria I. Gorinova, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell, Karl Prince
2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (pp. 236–237)
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DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2015.7357211 Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets
Advait Sarkar, Mateja Jamnik, Alan F. Blackwell, Martin Spott
2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (pp. 159–163)
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IEEE Xplore
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2015.7357228
Also presented as a poster Spreadsheet interfaces for usable machine learning
Advait Sarkar
2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (pp. 283–284)
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Full proceedings Confidence, command, complexity: metamodels for structured interaction with machine intelligence
Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2015) (pp. 23–36)
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Full proceedings The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension
Advait Sarkar
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2015) (pp. 49–58)
Writeup of my project for Alan Blackwell's "Usability of Programming" MPhil course. · Blog post on IProgrammer · Hacker News discussion -
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Eurographics DL
DOI: 10.2312/eurovisshort.20151138
Summary blog post Interaction with uncertainty in visualisations
Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell, Mateja Jamnik, Martin Spott
17th Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Conference on Visualization, 2015 (EuroVis 2015)
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Springer
Springer Nature SharedIt (open access)
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-015-9599-9 Comparing cities' cycling patterns using online shared bicycle maps
Advait Sarkar, Neal Lathia, Cecilia Mascolo
Transportation, 2015 (Volume 42, Issue 4, pp. 541–559. Special Issue: Emerging, Passively Generated Datasets for Travel Behavior and Policy Analysis)
This article summarises much of my master's thesis.
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Visual analytics as end-user programming
Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell, Mateja Jamnik, Martin Spott
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IEEE Xplore
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2014.6883022 Teach and Try: A simple interaction technique for exploratory data modelling by end users
Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell, Mateja Jamnik, Martin Spott
2014 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (pp. 53–56)
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Full graduate symposium proceedings Hunches and Sketches: rapid interactive exploration of large datasets through approximate visualisations
Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell, Mateja Jamnik, Martin Spott
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Graduate Symposium, 2014 (DIAGRAMS 2014) (pp. 18–22)
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Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report
Interactive analytical modelling
Advait Sarkar
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2016
If you would like to cite my PhD (thank you!), kindly cite it as 2016 (rather than the 2018 tech report). - Pulse of the world's bicycles: towards data-driven methods for the design and administration of bicycle sharing systems
Advait Sarkar
Master's thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013 - An inductive logic programming system implemented in Haskell
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Undergraduate dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2012
Invited talks
- Panel discussion: How does AI change creative work processes and creative industries?
Advait Sarkar
The Future of Creative Work Conference 2024, Imperial Business Design Studio, Imperial College London, 16-17 September 2024
- When Copilot Becomes Autopilot: Generative AI's Critical Risk to Knowledge Work and a Critical Solution
Advait Sarkar
Glasgow Interactive Systems (GIST) Seminar, University of Glasgow, 13 June 2024
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) award reception, University of Cambridge, 19 June 2024
Invited keynote at the 2024 Annual Conference of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group, London, 4 July 2024 - Does Code Still Matter? What Programming with AI is Really Like
Advait Sarkar
SAP Inspiration Sessions, 26 February 2024 - The Impact of Generative AI on the Creativity and Practice of Knowledge Work
Advait Sarkar
Invited lecture, Interaction Sciences (module for UCLIC Human-Computer Interaction MSc.), 4 December 2023
UCL Interaction Centre, University College London - Cogito, =SUM: The Hidden History of Spreadsheets and How They Transform the World
[UCLIC talk listing]
Advait Sarkar
UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) Research Seminar Series, University College London, 1 March 2023
- Creativity on a schedule? How hybrid work affects collaborative research
Advait Sarkar and Tianna Xu
Symposium on Flexible Work: Hybrid Work and the 4-Day Workweek, 9 March 2022
University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS) and the Chartered Institute Of Personnel And Development (CIPD) - Artificial intelligence: let's lose the hype and think practically
[Video on YouTube]
Advait Sarkar
TEDx Cambridge University, March 2018
- After sight
Advait Sarkar and Alex Taylor
Ways of Machine Seeing, June 2017
Cambridge Digital Humanities Network, Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute, and Cambridge Big Data
A discussion of how assistive tools for the blind, driven by computer vision, can offer alternative perspectives on sight, and their ethical implications. - Design uncertain: how might we present, compute, and interact with uncertainty?
Advait Sarkar
Invited lecture, BA Design Live project module on Designing Decisions, 24 February 2017
Goldsmiths, University of London - Mining bicycle sharing system data to uncover the pulse of the world's cities
Advait Sarkar
Workshop on Data Science for Smart Infrastructure, 31 May 2016
Cambridge Big Data Strategic Research Initiative - When artificial stupidity takes over the world
Advait Sarkar
A beautiful brAIn, Pint of Science UK, May 2016
Press coverage: Cambridge TV interview - Exploratory modelling tools for visual analytics
Advait Sarkar
Workshop on Visual and Cognitive Analytics
The 35th Annual International Conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI), December 2015 (AI-2015) - Darwin and the Search for the Master Algorithm
[talks.cam]
Advait Sarkar
Cambridge University Charles Darwin Society, 18 November 2015 - Improving the Usability of Analytics
[Digital Service blog]
Advait Sarkar
Data Science Show and Tell, UK Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office, 11 December 2014 - Applied Probabilistic Algorithms for Big Data Analysis
[PDF slides]
Advait Sarkar
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Research Students' Lecture Series, 3 November 2015 [talks.cam]
Queens' College Wednesday Computer Science Talks, 13 May 2015 [Queens' compsci blog]
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Research Students' Lecture Series, 28 October 2014 [talks.cam]
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Research Students' Lecture Series, 1 May 2014 [talks.cam] - Usability Issues in Mixed-Initative Visual Analytics
[PDF slides]
Alan F. Blackwell and Advait Sarkar
Workshop on Visual Analytics — Present and Future of Human-Computer Interaction in Data Analytics
The 33rd Annual International Conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI), December 2013 (AI-2013)
Patents
- Generation of multi-dimensional array of intermediate values in multiple code executions, 2023
- Generation of interactive utterances of code tasks, 2023
- Model capability extraction, 2023
- Responding to task prompt on declarative code using language model, 2023
- Table column operations for spreadsheets (2), 2023
- Multi-endpoint mixed-reality meetings (3), 2022
- Multi-endpoint mixed-reality meetings (2), 2022
- Table column operations for spreadsheets, 2022
- Spreadsheet with reuse functionality, 2021
- System and method for generation and execution of elastic sheet-defined functions and arrays, 2019
- Spreadsheet cell calculation view providing multiple-representation editing, 2019
- Multi-endpoint mixed-reality meetings, 2019
- Natively handling approximate values in spreadsheet applications, 2019
- Managing electronic documents (2), 2017
- Managing electronic documents, 2017
- Managing electronic slide decks, 2017