What is Human-Centred Machine Learning

This sunday we are running a workshop at ACM CHI 2016 called "Human Centered Machine Learning". I thought I would write an article to explain the general idea (though the workshop itself is a way of better understanding the idea). Statistical Machine Learning is one of the most successful set of techniques to come out of Computer Science in the last decades, and one that a lot of people are thinking about at the moment. It's often presented as quite an impersonal process: machines that learn for themselves, even AI that risk taking over the world. But, in fact, there is a lot of human work that goes into machine learning and not enough people have been talking about that.