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SUMMARY:Research-to-Practice Seminar - Collaborations with Fairfax Fire Department 
DESCRIPTION:Research Collaborations with Fairfax Fire Department  📅 Tuesday\, September 30 | 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.  📍 Hybrid (In-person: Room 6333\, Fuse at Mason Square\, Arlington\, VA  | Online: Zoom link: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/92424464450) \nSign up to let the organizers know you are joining – https://forms.office.com/r/wWXHv0cpRh \nCHAIS’ Craig Yu and Myeong Lee will lead a discussion showcasing their collaboration with the Fairfax Fire Department. They will share key research breakthroughs\, lessons learned from the partnership\, and perspectives on working with local government. Representatives from Fairfax Fire Department will also reflect on the partnership—its challenges\, impact\, and vision for the future.  \nIf you are interested in developing partnerships with local governments\, engaging in research-to-practice collaborations\, or becoming part of the ongoing partnership with Fairfax Fire Department\, we encourage you to join this event. \nAgenda: \n\n10-10:10          Introduction\,  Craig Yu\, Associate Professor\, Computer Science\, CEC \n\n\n10:10-10:20    Joel Martin\, Associate Professor\, School of Kinesiology\, CEHD \n\n\n10: 20-10:30     Meyong Lee\, Assistant Professor\, Information Science and Technology\, CEC \n10:30-10:10:35     Video demo “Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields” (by Xuesu Xiao and Madhan Balaji Rao) \n10:35-10:10:40     Video demo “Multi-Robot Video Sensemaking System” (by Ray Hong and Xuesu Xiao) \n\n\n10:40 – 11:00     George Robbins\, Battalion Chief\, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department \n\n\n11: 00 – 11:30     Moderated Discussion and Q&A \n11:30- noon        AR/VR  Lab visit (In-person attendees only) \n\nPost-event images: \nCHAIS and Mason Researchers Meeting with Fairfax Fire Department in September 2025\nChief Robbins meeting with CHAIS Co-director\, Craig Yu and Doctoral Student\nVisiting Mason Robotics Lab\nChief Robbins trying on VR training simulation
URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/research-to-practice-seminar/
LOCATION:FUSE at Mason Square\, 3401 Fairfax Dr\, Arlington\, Virginia\, 22226
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T090000
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SUMMARY:Upcoming Convening on AI and Data-Driven Decision-Making for Education Policy and Equity
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URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/upcoming-convening-on-ai-and-data-driven-decision-making-for-education-policy-and-equity/
LOCATION:Mertern Hall\, 4441 George Mason Blvd\, Fairfax\, VA 22030\, 4441 George Mason Blvd\,\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231208T123000
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SUMMARY:2023 CAHMP Social - December 8
DESCRIPTION:December 8\, Friday 12:30 – 2pm\nEvent Registration and Access: \n\nIn person participants please register here.\nOnline access on Teams – Join here. Meeting ID: 249 895 505 059 \n\n  \nConfirmed Talks:\n\n\nTitle: AI in the Humanities\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Nupoor Ranade (she/her)\, Assistant Professor\, Department of English\, George Mason University\n\n\n\nAbstract: In this presentation\, I will discuss practical ways of engaging in ethical AI development using approaches such as Human-centered design\, Human-in-the-loop for AI augmentation and AI Transparency. The humanities and AI are two fields that have traditionally been seen as separate and distinct. However\, in recent years\, there has been a growing interest in the intersection of these two fields. This is due in part to the increasing sophistication of AI systems\, which are now capable of performing tasks that were once thought to be the exclusive domain of humans such as writing and editing especially for creative purposes. Another aspect is the rising ethical concerns about AI technology and its impact on society. Humanities scholars like technical communicators can get involved in the research on AI ethics in different ways. Some of those are as follows: they can collaborate with technical experts to help breakdown complex concepts for easier interpretability\, they can use their community engagement skills for user and public advocacy\, they can use critical methods to evaluate the ethical impact of AI to check for biases\, and so on. By getting involved in this research\, humanities scholars can provide practical ways of guiding the development and operability of AI in more ethical ways that benefit the society. I discuss 5 projects (out of which 2 are in-progress) that describe such practical ways of engaging with AI technology.\n\n  \n\n\nTitle: NLP for Improved Data Utilization\, Information Accessibility\, and Information Integrity\n\n\n\n\n\n \nSpeaker: Kevin Lybarger\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Information Sciences and Technology\, College of Engineering and Computing\, GMU\n\nAbstract: In this presentation\, we explore the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enhance the utility\, accessibility\, and integrity of information across a broad information ecosystem\, including healthcare\, correctional systems\, and social and news media. Recent advancements in NLP are tied to Large Language Models (LLMs)\, like ChatGPT\, which offer an improved capacity to understand and generate human natural language. We highlight research that uses LLMs to extract information from free-text notes in Electronic Health Records and Correctional System Records. We present initial work that explores the simplification of health information using LLMs to improve information accessibility. We also discuss early and future work related to information integrity and accessibility\, focusing on tackling misinformation and understanding patient information ecosystems.\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/2023-cahmp-social-series/
LOCATION:Research Hall 440A\, 10401 York River Road\,\, Fairfax\, VA\, 22030\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T123000
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SUMMARY:CAHMP Social Nov. 17\, Friday 12:30pm-2pm
DESCRIPTION:Confirmed Talks:\n\n\nTitle: Assessing the Legitimacy and Ethics of AI-Mediated Peer Review \n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Laurie A. Schintler\, associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University\, and director of data and technology research initiatives in the Center for Regional Analysis.\n\nAbstract: Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) systems\, including large language models like ChatGPT\, offer promise and peril for scholarly peer review. On the one hand\, AI can enhance efficiency by addressing issues like long publication delays. On the other hand\, it brings ethical and social concerns that could compromise the integrity of the peer review process and outcomes. However\, human peer review systems are also fraught with related problems\, such as biases\, abuses\, and a lack of transparency\, which already diminish credibility. While there is increasing attention to the use of AI in peer review\, discussions revolve mainly around plagiarism and authorship in academic journal publishing\, ignoring the broader epistemic\, social\, cultural\, and epistemic positionality of peer review. In this talk\, I will provide an overview of the current NSF-funded project\, a collaboration between the Schar School and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University\, to assess the ethics and legitimacy of AI for peer review by gauging researchers’ perceptions about algorithmic versus human-mediated peer review. I will discuss how the project and collaboration transpired and our broader research agenda in this area. Moreover\, I will delineate ideas and plans for future research and proposals with the hope of engaging CAHMP members in these endeavors or stimulate even more ideas.\n\n\n\n\nTitle: Towards Responsible Recommender Systems\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ziwei Zhu\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Computer Science\, GMU\n\nAbstract: Modern recommender systems build upon advances in machine learning to help users access critical information and knowledge\, connect to media\, build social circles\, and shape our daily decisions. With wide and deep impacts\, these systems exert strong but often unforeseen and detrimental influence on the social processes connected to culture\, politics\, ethics\, economic well-being\, and even social justice. For example\, machine learning based recommender systems have been shown to exhibit discrimination against women and people of color; expose children to inappropriate content; and intensify political polarization. Therefore\, there is a pressing need to identify\, analyze\, and address these potential risks and harms to augment responsibility while advancing recommender systems. In this talk\, I will introduce my work on fairness and bias issues in recommender systems.\n\n\n\n\n\nTitle: Regulating Revolutionary Technologies: From the Atom to Artificial Intelligence\n\n\nSpeaker: Pete Larsen\, Ph.D. student in Public Policy\, GMU\, CAHMP AI Fellow \nAbstract: I plan to cover a case study of nuclear technology regulation in the United States\, using it as a lens to explore potential regulatory frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI). While acknowledging the concept of technological momentum\, as suggested by Thomas Hughes\, the primary focus is on the unique regulatory challenges and strategies employed in the nuclear sector. The study aims to identify key features and aspects of nuclear technology that prompted government intervention\, categorize them\, and then potentially apply these insights to the emerging field of AI regulation \n 
URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/cahmp-social-11-17/
LOCATION:Virginia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T123000
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SUMMARY:CAHMP Social Oct. 13\, Friday 12:30-2pm
DESCRIPTION:Oct 13\, Friday 12:30 – 2pm\nEvent Registration and Access: \n\nIn person participants please register here.\nOnline access on Teams – Join here. Meeting ID: 249 895 505 059 \n\nConfirmed Talks:\n\n\nTitle: “Tech Hubs and the AI Industry in Africa: What Drives?”\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Caroline Wesson\, Ph.D. Candidate Political Science\, GMU\n\nAbstract: Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is resource intensive and requires significant processing power\, data to train algorithms\, and human ingenuity and know-how to design algorithms and systems. The AI industry is incredibly resource intensive\, which motivates firms locate nearby one another and bring resources to centralized locations for easy access. Since innovation in the modern age is a social process\, one way to encourage collaboration and interaction between researchers and innovators is through the construction of tech hubs and greater economic clusters. This is especially important for the AI industry. Tech hubs are physical spaces that build an entrepreneurial ecosystem through supporting entrepreneurs\, innovators\, and researchers with workspace\, networking events\, access to financing\, and training programs. This paper identifies a set of puzzles which exist when working to comprehend the existence of several tech hubs within the African region. For reference\, in 2018 GSMA found that there were 442 African tech hubs\, and this number increased to 643 by the second half of 2019. Given this incredible growth and the relationship between number of tech hubs and number of startups within a nation it appears that tech hubs play an important role in African innovation systems and the growth of key technology industries – with AI being one of the most important and emphasized. This paper seeks to explain what factors lead to greater numbers of tech hubs within African nations. Understanding these factors will hopefully lead to a greater knowledge of what political\, social\, and economic environments result in innovation and growth in the AI industry within the region.\n\n\n\n\nTitle: Same\, Same but Digital? Working with (Artificial) Colleagues\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Eileen Roesler\, Dr. rer. nat.\, Assistant Professor for Psychology\, Human-Agent Collaboration (HAC) Lab\, Human Factors and Applied Cognition Program\, GMU\n\nAbstract: Recent technological advancements are rapidly integrating into our professional and daily lives\, offering opportunities for a symbiotic relationship between humans and decision support systems. However\, they also bring forth new challenges. These developments reshape not only how we collaborate but also how we are evaluated through automated decision-making processes. Furthermore\, their impact extends across various domains\, from finance\, where they influence loan allocation\, to medicine\, where they influence tasks like x-ray interpretation. In all of these domains\, fundamental questions arise regarding trust\, perceived responsibility\, reliability\, and the influence of these technologies on our decision-making behavior.\nIn this presentation\, we will delve into recent research aimed at addressing these critical questions. I will present compelling evidence illustrating differences in trust and perceived responsibility between human and technological support agents. Moreover\, the relevance of perspective will be addressed\, demonstrating that a shift in perspective – from being an advice-taker to being assessed by technology – results in notable differences in outcomes. Additionally\, I will shortly explore how features such as explainability in these systems can facilitate and hinder aspects of successful human-AI collaboration.\n\n\n\n\nTitle: Celebrating Diversity: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Classrooms\n\n\nSpeaker: Jung Yeon (Ellie) Park\, Ph.D.\, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Research Methods\, College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)\, GMU \nAbstract: K-12 schools have redoubled their efforts to bridge performance and engagement gaps between English Learners (ELs) and their mainstream peers in content-rich classrooms. The presence of linguistic and cultural barriers poses a significant challenge when it comes to accurately assessing the knowledge of EL students in their intended cognitive domains. This challenge results in diminished comprehension\, reduced participation\, and heightened cognitive strain for this minority group. With the advent of digitally based assessments\, a wealth of data resources has become available\, enabling the investigation of fine-grained test-taking behaviors to gain a deeper understanding of students. This approach allows for the differentiation between the language and content proficiency levels of EL students separately. To further achieve adaptive teaching that prioritizes the well-being of EL students\, innovative technological solutions capable of dynamically assessing both cognitive and emotional states within classroom contexts are required. To address this challenge\, we propose the use of a wearable smart system that not only tracks physiological measures but does so in a non-invasive and pioneering manner. \n 
URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/cahmp-social-oct-13-friday-1230-2pm/
LOCATION:Virginia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T123000
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SUMMARY:September 8 - CAHMP Social
DESCRIPTION:September 8\, Friday 12:30 – 2pm\nEvent Registration and Access: \n\nIn person participants please register here.\nOnline access on Teams – Join here. Meeting ID: 249 895 505 059 \n\nConfirmed Talks:\n\n“AI and State and Local Government Adoption and Polices“\, by Dr. Alan Shark. CAHMP member\, Dr. Shark is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Dr. Shark also serves as the executive director of Public Technology Institute (PTI) a nonprofit headquartered in Washington\, D.C.\n\n– Often cities and counties are at the forefront of innovation. Local governments are developing policies and AI guidelines that are both aspirational and impactful. This brief discussion will share the latest in both applications and policies. \n  \n\n“Civic technologies\, information access\, and risk management: Information Science Approaches to Improving Public Health and Risk” by Dr. Myeong Lee. CAHMP member\, Dr Lee is an Assistant Professor of Information Science and the Director of the Community Informatics Lab at the George Mason University.\n\n  \n\nThe “Virginia Digital Commonwealth” Project\, by Dhruv Deepak\, PhD student\, CEHD and AI and Tech Fellow 2023. To find out more about the VA Digital Commonwealth project\, please go to – https://cssr.gmu.edu/next-system-studies/virginia-digital-commonwealth.
URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/september-8-cahmp-social/
LOCATION:Virginia
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SUMMARY:The Learning Multiverse: Immersive Technologies (IM-TECH) in Training and Education
DESCRIPTION:  \nGeorge Mason University’s Division of Learning Technologies in collaboration with Mason’s Institute of Digital Innovation (IDIA)\, Leidos\, Inc.\, and C2 Technologies\, are hosting a one-day\, in-person conference on Immersive Technologies at Mason’s Arlington Campus (Van Metre Hall) Thursday\, September 7th. \nThere will be expert speakers and panelists as well as industry demos on how Immersive Technologies are being used for training and development in workforce education. CAHMP members\, Brenda Bannan and Craig Yu are among the speakers. Please join and spread the word.  \nRegistration is requested by the organizers and free. To learn more about this conference and to register\, please visit the website:\nhttps://techconnectdc.org/imtech-conference/
URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/the-learning-multiverse-immersive-technologies-im-tech-in-training-and-education/
LOCATION:Van Metre Hall\, Mason Square\, 3351 Fairfax Dr\,\, Arlington\, VA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260411T093555
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SUMMARY:CAHMP Mini Symposium - "Connecting Technology and Humans"
DESCRIPTION:Agenda: \n1:00-2:00pm.    Three talks: \nDr. Ray Hong\, Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. Topic: Alignable AIs: Bridging the gap between the Ways Human Thinks and Deep Neural Model Works through Interactive Design \n  \nDr. Sera Linardi\, Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Founding Director of the Center for Analytical Approaches to Social Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh. Topic: Building a data science for social justice ecosystem to sustain impact \n  \nDr. Gregory Stein\, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University. Topic: Explainable Interventions: Understanding and Correcting Robots that Plan Despite Missing Knowledge \n  \n2:00-2:30pm. Panel Discussion with the speakers\, moderated by Dr. Sanmay Das\, Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of CAHMP at GMU. \n  \n2:30-3:00pm: Networking (Light refreshments will be served) \n  \nOnline participation available via Zoom link: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/99427318672 (This may be limited to listening and text-chat mode only. ) \n  \nLocation: Research Hall 163\, George Mason University
URL:https://chais.gmu.edu/event/cahmp-mini-symposium-connecting-humans-and-technology/
LOCATION:Research Hall 163\, George Mason University
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