Jessica Van Brummelen

hci research scientist | mit phd | niantic labs

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Presenting our 📢 audio & haptic 📳 guidance system for 3D scanning!

Don't Look Now! Audio/Haptic Guidance for 3D Scanning of Landmarks, CHI'24
https://t.co/rOyXPuAnuo

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[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Our paper got an honorable mention 🥳 I'll be presenting it this Wednesday at #CHI2024

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Presenting our 📢 audio & haptic 📳 guidance system for 3D scanning!

Don't Look Now! Audio/Haptic Guidance for 3D Scanning of Landmarks, CHI'24
https://t.co/rOyXPuAnuo

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[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Happening later today & tomorrow 😊 If you know any students who might want to learn more about careers in tech, they can sign up here to get links to the stream:

5 Mar: https://t.co/Uh1zE1bF2I
6 Mar: https://t.co/cp056bEcBJ

[Raspberry Pi Foundation @RaspberryPi_org]

@NCWNewman @CareersWeek Thanks, Nick. We're interviewing @JessVanBrum, HCI Research Scientist at Niantic, on 5 March 2024 & Ashley Edwards, Senior Research Scientist at @GoogleDeepMind, on 6 March 2024.

Students aged 14 to 18 and their teachers might want to join. More details: https://t.co/oOvpF5NUi0

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

My hope is that—although our system isn't fully accessible—it will spark more interest in audio & haptics as guidance tools 📢📳

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[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Presenting our 📢 audio & haptic 📳 guidance system for 3D scanning!

Don't Look Now! Audio/Haptic Guidance for 3D Scanning of Landmarks, CHI'24
https://t.co/rOyXPuAnuo

(1/4)

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Compared to a visual guidance system, our audio/haptic system was more engaging/usable and produced better meshes ✨

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[MIT App Inventor @MITAppInventor]

“I realized that we can help the planet while helping ourselves as women to learn about technology.”

High school girls in Mexico developed a carbon footprint tracking app through a workshop led by the App Inventor Foundation.

https://t.co/zFUUVh6hO6

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

4/n Feel free to check out the links for preprints fellow MIT students & I wrote, + my dissertation!

Dissro: https://t.co/9KWYGaQ9x6

Preprint: Learning Affects Trust https://t.co/nZYmVhJShG

Preprint: What Do Non-WEIRD/WEIRD Agent Users Want & Perceive? https://t.co/bmR06p6ykl

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

I graduated! 🥳 and I aimed to answer a few q's like these in my PhD:

Do perceptions & trust of agents differ for those of different cultures/generations? https://t.co/bmR06p6ykl
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[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

3/n What concepts do you need to learn to understand conversational AI? https://t.co/9KWYGaQ9x6

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." ― MIT professor Harold Abelson

[MIT App Inventor @MITAppInventor]

Sign up for the new Alexa in Space curriculum. Alexa for Astronauts lets students become virtual crew members as Alexa heads to the Moon on NASA's Artemis I. Learn how to build Alexa skills in a whole new way with MIT App Inventor.
https://t.co/JlZhcr5sdT

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Also, for any non-programmers out there, learning to make a computer sort can be a surprisingly difficult thing to learn 😅

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

I'm a big fan of immersive learning— Imagine being able to learn to do surgery in VR 🤩 At @vlhcc, @artncoding, @ritavinnikov & Dr J Lee show that by "naturally walking" in VR (vs using a joystick), students learned a CS sorting concept faster & better 👏🏻 https://t.co/RUz03PNtwa

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Happy birthday to the late Katherine Johnson, the NASA scientist whose calculations helped send the first American astronauts to space: https://t.co/36nYcENpEE

(credit @NBCNews)

[Evan Patton @ewpatton]

Our team at @MITAppInventor is looking to hire a software engineer to help us build new tools for computer science and artificial intelligence education. Read more here: https://t.co/vaODFn3G02

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

John Hanke outlining some "small steps in a long journey for creating positive change in the communities where we live and play" 🎉 #arforgood

Happy GO Fest everyone! 😊

[Pokémon GO @PokemonGoApp]

With this year being both the 25th anniversary of Pokémon and the fifth anniversary of Pokémon GO, this year’s Pokémon GO Fest is sure to be a special event! #PokemonGOFest2021

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Also highly recommend checking out @Stefania_druga's paper on a similar topic! They found that, overall, children "became more skeptical of smart agents' abilities after engaging in learning activities" 😮

video: https://t.co/o3bmYb2jjv
paper: https://t.co/2VaZp0PBP0

[Jessica Van Brummelen @JessVanBrum]

Come check out how children's perceptions of Alexa changed after programming it @IDC_ACM tomorrow😊 Bring your questions & I'd love to share more!

video: https://t.co/s5J2AUFgHz
paper: https://t.co/ym0AuhuBYM