Inbal Horev & Smadar Bar Yochai

Helping users use AI-based products: UX for research

Inbal Horev
Smadar Bar Yochai

Inbal Horev & Smadar Bar Yochai

Helping users use AI-based products: UX for research

Inbal Horev
Smadar Bar Yochai

Bio

Inbal is an NLP team leader at Gong, where she leads a wide range of projects in conversational and written NLP. Before joining Gong, she received the MEXT scholarship to perform machine learning research at Tokyo University. Inbal holds an M.Sc in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science and a B.Sc in physics & electrical engineering from the Technion. She focused on computer vision and high-dimensional statistics.

Smadar is a data-oriented product designer with 7+ years of experience in B2B and B2C digital products. She holds a B.Des in visual communication from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.

 

Bio

Inbal is an NLP team leader at Gong, where she leads a wide range of projects in conversational and written NLP. Before joining Gong, she received the MEXT scholarship to perform machine learning research at Tokyo University. Inbal holds an M.Sc in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science and a B.Sc in physics & electrical engineering from the Technion. She focused on computer vision and high-dimensional statistics.

Smadar is a data-oriented product designer with 7+ years of experience in B2B and B2C digital products. She holds a B.Des in visual communication from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.

Abstract

An indispensable but often overlooked part of creating an AI-based product is its UX design. So, we built a complex model that runs at scale on a massive cluster of GPUs serving thousands of users in real-time. But how do we make it usable for our customers to interact with? Let’s take a simple example. At Gong, we sometimes allow our users to give feedback on model predictions: mark false positives and surface false negatives that are then integrated back into the model. This can be both powerful and terrifying to the user. What happens if I make a mistake? How will it affect the model? When will I see the changes? Can I change my mind? These questions lie at the intersection of research and UX. And indeed, we find that they can best be answered when the two teams work together. It’s important to create tools that allow the users to engage with our models while setting expectations and mitigating the fear of making mistakes. This joint talk will present some real-life challenges we tackled and how we solved them with clever UX backed by research-based benchmarks.

Abstract

An indispensable but often overlooked part of creating an AI-based product is its UX design. So, we built a complex model that runs at scale on a massive cluster of GPUs serving thousands of users in real-time. But how do we make it usable for our customers to interact with? Let’s take a simple example. At Gong, we sometimes allow our users to give feedback on model predictions: mark false positives and surface false negatives that are then integrated back into the model. This can be both powerful and terrifying to the user. What happens if I make a mistake? How will it affect the model? When will I see the changes? Can I change my mind? These questions lie at the intersection of research and UX. And indeed, we find that they can best be answered when the two teams work together. It’s important to create tools that allow the users to engage with our models while setting expectations and mitigating the fear of making mistakes. This joint talk will present some real-life challenges we tackled and how we solved them with clever UX backed by research-based benchmarks.

Discussion Points

  • Data scientist role definitions – full stack data scientists vs. specialisations
  • Pure data science teams vs embedded teams
  • Data science reporting lines
  • Professional and personal development in embedded teams

Discussion Points

  • Data scientist role definitions – full stack data scientists vs. specialisations
  • Pure data science teams vs embedded teams
  • Data science reporting lines
  • Professional and personal development in embedded teams

Planned Agenda

8:45 Reception
9:30 Opening words by WiDS TLV ambassadors Or Basson and Noah Eyal Altman
9:40 Dr. Kira Radinski - Learning to predict the future of healthcare
10:10 Prof. Yonina Eldar - Model-Based Deep Learning: Applications to Imaging and Communications
10:40 Break
10:50 Lightning talks
12:20 Lunch & Poster session
13:20 Roundtable session & Poster session
14:05 Roundtable closure
14:20 Break
14:30 Dr. Anna Levant - 3D Metrology: Seeing the Unseen
15:00 Aviv Ben-Arie - Counterfactual Explanations: The Future of Explainable AI?
15:30 Closing remarks
15:40 End