Andrew Head
andrewhead.bsky.social
Andrew Head
@andrewhead.bsky.social
Assistant prof at Penn. Designing interactions to make code, formulas, medical notes, and mechanized proofs more readable.

Read about my group's work at https://andrewhead.info
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At #chi2025 this year, see our group's latest: a projectional editor for augmenting math formulas, and a study of augmented AI-generated texts.

Look out for these faces! Jeff, @hitakam.bsky.social, and I are excited to reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
Today at #uist2025 my student Jeffrey Tao presented our new paper "Answering Developer Questions with Annotated Agent-Discovered Program Traces" While it is too late to catch the talk, you can still find Jeff! I'm happy to make connections over email.

Paper: andrewhead.info/assets/pdf/t...
September 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Academic friends, what is the advice for rebutting a fatally low review from a PC member that only points to a few minor (fixable) writing issues? Would you message a PC lead about the review? Does a polite rebuttal stand a chance of changing this reviewer's mind?
June 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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How's fascism going for you? medium.com/bits-and-beh...
How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me.
A catalog of impacts thus far from this administration’s horrors.
medium.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I'm incredibly excited to announce that I've accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo!

The PL/SE group at UB is already really impressive, and I am honored to be part of its continued growth
May 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Do you do research in HCI? Help our group improve the tooling for reading research papers by participating in a 1-hour paid Zoom study 📖✨. You'll get a chance to use a new reading tool, and get a $30 prepaid debit card as bonus! Let us know if you want to participate at bit.ly/pennhci-pape...
Help us improve tools for reading papers
Hello! We are researchers from the human-computer interaction group at the University of Pennsylvania. We are conducting a study of how new tools might improve the experience of reading research paper...
bit.ly
May 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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this course website on Augmenting Intelligence by @kenholstein.bsky.social is amazing --
coaugmentation.com
Augmenting Intelligence
Augmenting Intelligence @ CMU HCII
coaugmentation.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I'm at #CHI2025! 🇯🇵 🌸
Presenting our LBW "Traceable Texts and Their Effects".
We studied how phrase-level links from AI summaries to their sources influence the reading of complex texts.
🕥 April 30 at 10:30a & 3:40p 📍North 1F
Interested in text augmentation or improving source transparency? Drop by!
April 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
At #chi2025 this year, see our group's latest: a projectional editor for augmenting math formulas, and a study of augmented AI-generated texts.

Look out for these faces! Jeff, @hitakam.bsky.social, and I are excited to reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
April 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It's great to come on to Bluesky and see so many old friends here. A good first post may be to remind everyone that Penn's PhD application deadline this is Dec. 16. We at Penn HCI are recruiting this year! Myself in the areas of HCI/PL and augmented reading. We welcome your application!
December 13, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Excited to share our latest work, "Explainable Notes: Examining How to Unlock Meaning in Medical Notes with Interactivity and Artificial Intelligence" which we will be presenting at #CHI2024! Read our paper here: hita-k.github.io/chi24-678.pdf
hita-k.github.io
April 8, 2024 at 8:49 PM