Rejected paper for #CHI this year, always a bummer. However this was work I was really keen to get some perspective on and the reviews were very helpful, so I’m happy to have some direction to move forward with. Also means no R&R grind which ain’t so bad 😉

P.S. It’s probably also a good time to finally fill divorce my personal posting from this literal far right owned platform. I’ll post my research updates here but I’ll do that and be myself on bksy.

Our RO-MAN 2025 paper 'Soothing Sensations: Enhancing Interactions with a Socially Assistive Robot through Vibrotactile Heartbeats' led by Jacqueline Borgstedt (she/her), is up! Watching horror films alongside Paro w. added heartbeat vibration helps regulate emotion 🦭💓 doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN…

Attending #CENSIS24 Tech Summit today and talking to anybody who will listen about our ARTIFY Spatialised Semantic Prototyping system 😎

Presented our work on the ‘ARTIFY augmented reality framework for spatial flowcharting’ to a delegation of academics and engineers from South Africa 🇿🇦 today, very good fun! Wrapping up this project soon and hope to share more about what we made in the best future! #AR #XR

After one month of the AZRAM project its exciting to share this demo video showing how we can use augmented reality to make zoomorphic robots more emotionally interactive and responsive. Its so cute! 🥹🥺 #AR #HRI #HCI youtu.be/sEQHhW7Jk14

We want to know what YOU think regarding your impressions and emotional experiences of pets and robots 🐕🤖🐈 Take our new survey! uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1F… It takes ~20 mins, has a £50 voucher prize draw, and anybody 18+ can take part. GIST - Glasgow Interactive Systems UofG Computing Science #pet #Robot

My #CHI presentation of my TOCHI is today! 🌸 Come find out about my on the participatory prototyping of haptic comfort objects with socially anxious users 🌸 G301 16:20 :)