enjoying the twitter vs bluesky discourse

interesting freak out going on here spending all this time building sandcastles then thinking the sea was just a flaw in the experimental procedures h/t Murray Goulden slate.com/articles/healt…

My last announcement on this corrupted platform. My obituary for Agnes Flues - written jointly with Aoife Nolan (but the Guardian insists on single authorship, and Aoife graciously insisted that was me). You are so missed Agnes theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

we (Dr. Hannah Pelikan💙💛, Bilge Mutlu and me) have a new paper out for #HRI2025: "Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design" main contrib is a framework for thinking about public places+robots (an RAi UK funded project, see robotsinpublic.org) PDF: cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszsr/files/p…

we've got new #EMCA paper out "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration" by me, Dr. Hannah Pelikan💙💛 and Dr. Marina Cantarutti (she/her/ella) - to appear in #CSCW2025 much is being said about how robots might 'collaborate' with people - our purpose is to put that to the test PDF: people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszsr/files/re…

IMO HCI should centre people (and non-human relations eg. animals) + resist the fantasy of AI agency but there's a programme to agentify tech - AGI, agentic AI & it could be infecting HCI #CHI2025 but agentification is just a ruse - is simply about giving power to other people