I’m hiring! Looking for a PostDoc to work on robots & the visually impaired. Open to both technical and social science candidates.

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…

Driverless cars: stopping dead seems to be a default setting when they encounter a problem — it can cause chaos on roads Barry Brown, Professor of Human Computer Interaction at @Stockholm_Uni and @UCPH_Research writes in @ConversationUK https://t.co/zZuLMF2Gtn

Growth is good, actually, and there's no real reason we'll soon hit a limit on growth, globally. This doesn't mean we don't have to prepare for major, difficult societal changes / transitions, but the solutions lie in growth, not degrowth. Degrowth is an unserious proposition.

For every 5 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this marginal tax rate schedule look more absurd.

Suchman redefines AI as algorithmic intensification - “how might algorithmic intensification be implicated not as a solution but as a contributing constituent of growing planetary problems”

One of the last things Stuart Hall wrote before he died was about the composite, constantly shifting nature of "common sense" - something that appears timeless because it denies and leaves no traces of the relatively recent history of its elements. https://t.co/zSGGZMqJuq

We @DesignInf at University of Edinburgh are on the look out for a new Professor to co-direct our wonderful, vibrant, design-led institute with me! Get in touch if you want a chat... and please share, share, share!

What does it take for food delivery platforms to work? New #CSCW2023 work by Riyaj Shaikh, @airi_ & @barbro66depict examines gig labor during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in India:

the "rich centrist who hates workers" to fascist pipeline

This @acmtochi paper by Hertzum and @khornbaek just keeps giving. It reports why people are frustrated when using their computers. A gold mine of tables and quotations. Handy when writing up the motivation of a CHI paper https://t.co/L43lmfctNG

@gene_minkov @ulkar_aghayeva Just give them the full Standard Model Lagrangian if we're sure they can decode math fully.

"No serious work ever started out with a theory" RIP Howie Becker https://t.co/O48qXxdypQ

What's science saying on the UI of the @Apple's new HMD? In 2021-22 we studied the techniques of Gaze+Pinch (#VisionPro) vs Handray (#HoloLens #MetaQuest). Result: Gaze+Pinch is faster & less physical effort if targets fit the eyetracker accuracy. More details & papers below.

Have experience with the self-driving/robo taxis in SF? Colleagues doing a project with Linköping U in Sweden want to interview folks who have interacted with or taken a ride in them (Cruise, Waymo). DM me if interested!

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Age distribution for the Manhattan Project:

OK look. Nature is one of the 2 top scientific journals on Earth. https://t.co/3oZHexWqhi This study, published in Nature, found that people who switch from smoking to exclusive vaping are as healthy as never-smokers and never-vapers. But WAIT! There's more!!! @alli_vapes 1/2

Several people have asked me about the Apple Vision Pro. Here are some thoughts about what is notable

At a Devon beach, three men had to be rescued after an inflatable waterfowl named Quackers floated off to sea. #HarpersWeekly https://t.co/xxI5qhbgVU