Human interfaces to AI
a13x.io
What I research
Papers
Recent work on visualization, human-computer interaction, and machine learning evaluation.
Your other Left! Vision-Language Models Fail to Identify Relative Positions in Medical Images
Daniel Wolf, Heiko Hillenhagen, Billurvan Taskin, Alex Bäuerle, Meinrad Beer, Michael Götz, Timo Ropinski
Cell Painting for cytotoxicity and mode-of-action analysis in primary human hepatocytes
Jessica D Ewald, Katherine L Titterton, Alex Bäuerle, Alex Beatson, Daniil A Boiko, Ángel A Cabrera, Jaime Cheah, Beth A Cimini, Bram Gorissen, Thouis Jones, Konrad J Karczewski, David Rouquie, Srijit Seal, Erin Weisbart, Brandon White, Anne E Carpenter, Shantanu Singh
A Survey on Quality Metrics for Text-to-Image Generation
Sebastian Hartwig, Dominik Engel, Leon Sick, Hannah Kniesel, Tristan Payer, Poonam Poonam, Michael Glöckner, Alex Bäuerle, Timo Ropinski
Humboldt: Metadata-Driven Extensible Data Discovery
Alex Bäuerle, Çağatay Demiralp, Michael Stonebraker
What I build
Systems
A small sample of things that try to make ML a bit more inspectable, usable, and fair.
Net2Vis
VIS · AI · toolAutomatically generating CNN architecture diagrams for papers.
VegaProf
VIS · systemsProfiling Vega specs to help engineers see where visualizations are slow.
Symphony
HCI · AI · CHIComposable ML interfaces for teams to inspect models together.
Zeno
eval · AI · toolA workbench for slicing, probing, and debugging ML models.
visPositions
communityJob board for VIS and HCI that is actually made for researchers.
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agents · productPlayground for treating prompt engineering as real UX, not guesswork.
What I think
Field Notes
Essays and opinionated takes from working where visualization, HCI, and AI meet.
A simple web-app for posting and finding jobs in the VIS and HCI community.
A short post about the state of the world, how I microdose myself with happiness, and why I think you should, too.
Aery brief recap of interesting HCI for AI in 2024 and my opinionated thoughts and predctions for the role of HCI for AI in 2025.