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Course pages 2020–21

Interaction with Machine Learning

Moodle Link

Note that we do not expect to place any of the course content in Moodle. This link will be used for submission of assignment work, and for registered students to access the Zoom link for seminars. Moodle course: Interaction with Machine Learning 2020-21

Introductory Lecture

Zoom link from Moodle

Lecture 1: Alan Blackwell and Advait Sarkar - structure of course, overview of HCI, major themes in IUI/TIIS, HCI research methods, planning your study (Presentation slides)

Thematic Lectures

Publication format

Your reports can follow formatting instructions given in the call for papers for the IUI 2021 conference.

Readings

Annotated reading list of relevant publications:

Scanning recent publications at ACM IUI and TIIS will give a useful overview of methods currently used in the field. Archives of both are available on the ACM digital library:

Recent research overviews

  • Dudley, J. J., & Kristensson, P. O. (2018). A Review of User Interface Design for Interactive Machine Learning. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 8(2), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3185517
  • Abdul, A., Vermeulen, J., Wang, D., Lim, B. Y., & Kankanhalli, M. (2018). Trends and Trajectories for Explainable, Accountable and Intelligible Systems. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’18, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174156

Background reading, in which senior figures in HCI reflect on the overall themes addressed by this course.

Candidate replication studies (Part II only)

The following papers address themes that are relevant to the course, and use research methods that are appropriate to the practical component. In most cases, a Part II student would not have access to all the resources (e.g. large sample sizes, large datasets, significant custom software development) to allow full replication of one of these research projects. We therefore expect you to select one part of a study, a reduced number of conditions and/or measurements, and substantially smaller sample sizes. Your research question submission should explain what adaptations you plan to make.

Background in HCI

Teaching materials (including video lectures in 2021) for the research-oriented Cambridge undergraduate course in HCI can be found here:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2021/FHCI/

Conduct of research

Before starting your study with human participants, you must make an application to the Computer Lab ethics committee, describing what you plan to do and how you will remove or mitigate any risks.

Online review form
(Note that access to this form requires login to department VPN. Undergraduates please prepare answers using the read-only version, then ask one of the lecturers to submit on your behalf.)

As described on the form, you should also consult the Cambridge Guidance on technology research with human participants, paying particular attention to the type of study you will be conducting, the risks associated with that kind of study, and how you will address them.

Material from previous years

Much of the content this year will follow the format used for MPhil/Part III module P230 in previous years. Readers wishing to see any of this in advance are welcome to refer to material from previous years.