Here's a thread of my best tweet shaders (>280 chars):

Socialising at #CHI2024, #XR style 🥷 holokit.io

Want a chance to win a £50 voucher by playing video games after work? Then take part in Jon Mella's study exploring how gaming can influences our ability to unwind! You will be contributing to games research & provided with advice about gaming. Sign-up: sites.google.com/view/stressque…

Pre-print’s finally out: SDT and HCI Games Research: Unfulfilled Promises and Unquestioned Paradigms I hope you find the paper thought-provoking. Collab with april April Tyack. I miss her every day arxiv.org/abs/2405.12639

💥 Remember the viral Climball game? Now, get ready for 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬! 🏆🧗 Dynamic gameplay, fixed duration, perfect for competitions, and repeat play. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02yd1xx0 #ValoMotion #ValoClimb #ClimballLegends

GN! Exhibition Week (28th May - 6th June 2024) is showcasing 6 games from our 2 game jams of this academic year! Join us at Kumma Gallery, Kankurinkatu 5, Helsinki! Open for public daily 15:00-20:00, last day of gameplay on 6th June!

We are looking for new colleagues at my department, including in #HCI (of any topic and kind). Please repost and get in touch if you want to know more…

Happy to play a minor part in this VR user simulation paper. Most of the work done by Florian Fischer and Aleksi Ikkala (neither of which seems to be active on this dying platform…)

A useful prompt engineering course implemented as Python notebooks github.com/anthropics/cou…

Come work with us! aalto.fi/en/open-positi…

I’ve been developing and publishing AI-based game testing tools, but I’m not super excited about the topic anymore. Game testing is a common way into the games industry and I’d rather not contribute to the collapse of the talent pipeline

Cards against humanity’s website explaining why they’re suing Elon is pretty fucking good

🚨I'm hiring!🚨 Join me in my new ERC-funded research project on the geopolitics of cloud computing, and get to live in the happiest country on Earth :) Now hiring a postdoc with computational data collection skills: diesl.eu/open-position-… #GEOCLOUD #DIESL

Moving to BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/perttu…

Outrageous! I’m not following JD Vance but I still get bloody push notifications about his random posts. The same happened before with Elon’s posts, until I blocked him. And the X premium pushing is plain desperate. Good riddance X, the vibe is so much better on BlueSky.

If you know anyone interested in learning about writing for games, I'm running another course at the Irish Writers Centre after my last one sold out! The next one will be across 4 evenings, starting mid-January 🙏 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writin…

New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind

Can AI really predict how engaged you are while gaming? We put #GPT and #LLaVA to the test with 80 minutes of FPS gameplay and 2,400+ experiments! Did they match human intuition or miss the mark? Watch our 1-min breakdown to find out! #AI #GameResearch #AffectiveComputing

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