[Upcoming] ResWORK Seminar - Me, Myself, and the Machine: Three Tiers of Human-AI Workflows in Creative Labor
About the talk
GenAI is increasingly utilized in tasks beyond support of everyday work tasks, and into embedding into communities where they interact with fundamentally human domains like memory, creativity, and emotional engagement. AI's role as supporter or assistant may be insufficient to address needs in these human domains, because humans increasingly expect technology to have their own autonomy, to inspire us with their own ideas and behaviors, and to challenge us into novel paradigms beyond our own human limitations. In this talk, we provide contrasting examples of how GenAI applied to human domains like information recall, conversational listening, creative writing, humor, and other resilient forms of future work are challenging canonical paradigms in human-computer interaction, and creating new visions for incorporating that which "we are not used to" into human workflows of the future. Research referenced: https://recfro.github.io/pubs/
This seminar is suitable for academics, creatives, technologists, and students curious about how GenAI transforms memory, creativity, humour, and human-computer interaction, and anyone eager to explore AI as a collaborator and challenger in shaping future work and culture.
About the Speaker
Ray LC (PhD UCLA, MFA Parsons School of Design) is Assistant Professor of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. RAY's practices examine how human creative expression is altered by technology, applying the paradigms of art-design interventions to explore how humans adapt to novel environments of interaction. RAY's publications fall into social computing, huma-machine collaboration, games for social purpose, and performance technology. He takes insights from his research in neuroscience (Nature Communications, Frontiers in Psychology) and human-computer interaction (CHI, CSCW, DIS, HRI) into his artistic practice, with exhibitions both international (New York Hall of Scinece, Kyoto Design Lab, Ars Electronica, Science Gallery MSU, National Asia Cultural Center Gwangju, G.MAP, NeurIPS, CVPR, SIGGRAPH) and local (PMQ, Hong Kong Arts Centre, JCCAC, Goethe Institute, Tai Kwun Contemporary). RAY has been awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Davis Peace Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. RAY founded the Studio for Narrative Spaces: https://recfro.github.io/https://www.instagram.com/studiofornarrativespaces/