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5tuartreeves.bsky.social
😶 stuart reeves 😶
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@UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL +
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❑ RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)
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sorry

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss warns 'no company is going to be immune' if AI bubble bursts Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an "extraordinary moment", there was some "irrationality" in the current AI boom. hotdog car guy from I think you should leave TV show - saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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our #CSCW2025 paper on human-robot collaboration argued against this idea

medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...
Should CSCW allow papers that involve collaboration between one human and AI agents, rather than just between 2+ humans? Jessica: This is a topic the steering and executive committees are thinking about. No answers now but they will keep the community updated. For now, the scope statement included in the call for papers is the best place to find guidance on this topic.
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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👋 ULRIKEN

#CSCW2025
Photo from summit of Ulriken, looking westwards (ish) IIRC
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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entering a terrifying subterranean session #cscw2025
Entering some kind of demonic hell pit, dark fire red, black curtains
October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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I'm reminded of a recent pearl I found in Newcastle
September 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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learning how to be a border guard
absolute garbage online course about how to "support immigration compliance as an academic member of staff" - you really don't want to know what is written on this page, honestly.
September 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Mike Lynch gets to the essential rub for ethnomethodology in responding to Eric Livingston's "Ethnomethodology's Broken Promise"

for some, doing 'true EM' means dissolving into the doing entirely - this response to the essential problems of 'doing EM'

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It may be true that Garfinkel never seems to get into the details of dirty (or clean) laundry and instead draws upon his favored phenomenologists for resonant conceptual and methodological themes (including “detail” itself). He proposes to respecify such ‘classic’ themes as locally organized embodied work. Livingston dismisses Garfinkel’s theorizing and philosophizing as idle glossing in search of professional legitimacy, and Garfinkel sometimes apolo- gizes for merely theorizing about what he proposes to respecify. However, at the same time, he uses ‘classic themes’ of fact, reason, method, scientific discovery, and so on, as touchstones that provide connections and hooks to long-standing abstract issues, concerns, and preoccupations. In the absence of these resonant touchstones, “respecification” would have no point of departure and return, and we would be left with doing laundry in all of its marvelous detail. Livingston indicts Garfinkel along with some
August 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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This is fine dog in room on fire
July 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I ♥️ caulk
July 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"mainlin[ing] AI into the veins of this enterprising nation" (aka the UK)

www.thetimes.com/article/d27e...
Government’s AI peatland map ridiculed for confusing bog with rock Farmers and residents across the country were quick to spot inaccuracies in Defra’s map — and worry that policy decisions will be erroneous
May 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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looking at human-robot collaboration led to investigating the wider discussion in #CSCW about human-AI 'collaboration'

in the end technology is just something caught in the net of the social world, it cannot be a 'collaborator' in any normally meaningful sense of that word
And it seems fair to draw the conclusion from our analyses that there are some significant conceptual problems to unreservedly appropriating this notion of ‘collaboration’ from CSCW and blandly applying it to such human-robot encounters on the streets (concurring with conclusions from Johansen et al. who argue that such mappings between HRC and CSCW may be problematic at times). It also seems likely that this is indicative of a wider problem facing CSCW itself, in which we see arguments for ceding of ground from people to machines, as in a related but broader discussion developing on “human-AI collaboration” [57]. This move could well be a significant mistake for CSCW that misunderstands collaborative action.
April 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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we've got new #EMCA paper out

"Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration" by me, Hannah Pelikan and @marinanc.bsky.social - 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/...
the first page of the paper linked to in the main post
April 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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I can only interpret this as an elaborate April Fool
A new Meta AI button has been added to WhatsApp. You didn't ask for it, but they gave it to you anyways Ok so let's ask the "assistant" how to disable or remove the button. Here I'm asking this question which is met with a bizarre mangled response claiming that by deleting the chat with meta AI you can also remove the button. Except this is just a canned response which has been mangled with a spurious addition that has nothing to do with the question Let's look at our chat settings as instructed elsewhere Oh dear, looks like there's literally no option to disable this garbage from WhatsApp.
April 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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can't quite understand* why (some) HCI research is now uncritically reproducing 'artificial intelligence' (sic) and 'artificial general intelligence' (sic) ideology (scattered with little frowny-frowny very serious 'AGI challenges for HCI' bits)

[*] actually I can but it's not repeatable here
cover of ACM interactions magazine with a cover depicting a brain with what looks like a chip on it with wires out to various parts of the brain, and a hand with a pinching gesture to its left. all in all, a pretty bizarre cover, which I suppose lays bare the resilience of the belief in some HCI circles that the brain is 'where the action is' in the picture I have circled the phrase "Tapping into AI - why HCI is critical" and the article listed under labelled "HCI for AGI".
March 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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conditions have conspired to make me stick this banner up on my door
Still from the film Office Space (1999) with a banner saying "is this good for the company?". In the shot is Lumberg and one of The Bobs giving a speech to onlooking staff, worried about their jobs
March 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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this story is a gift that just keeps on giving

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mr Howells told BBC News he was pleased with the work his legal team had done in the High Court trial, but that he would now be representing himself in a case filed with the Court of Appeal – using an "artificial intelligence agent" to assist his claim. He described AI as "an absolutely amazing technology" that had helped him better understand court processes and the law, and that he believed he had about seven "solid grounds in law" for his case, which he hopes to be able to present in-person to the Court of Appeal.
February 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
5tuartreeves.bsky.social
have always thought this was one of the best actually
cover of autechre, ep7 with weird spiraly type design
February 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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we (Hannah Pelikan, Bilge Mutlu and me) have a new paper out for #HRI2025 called "Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design"

The main contrib is a framework for thinking about public places + robots

(An RAi UK funded project, see robotsinpublic.org)

PDF: www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszsr/files...
Paper abstract: If robots are to be deployed in public places, we need to understand what factors their design should consider. Informed by sociological studies of urban settings, particularly the work of William H. Whyte and the Street Life Project, we describe four characteristics of public places that affect and are affected by robot design: (1) localism—how robot design aligns with the identity, culture, and character of the place(s) they reside within; (2) environments—the physical characteristics of the environment in which public robots operate; (3) activities— consideration for the various daily, occasional, and situational activities that are tied to place(s) robots inhabit; and (4) sociability— how people collectively and individually relate to, interact with, and make sense of robots deployed in public places. Throughout, we illustrate these characteristics with examples drawn from empirical studies of public robots. We discuss how these key characteristics of public places can inform HRI design framework image - for actual description please refer to the paper which has textual descriptions for all quadrants / sections of this framework
January 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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busy worshipping the sea god with tea
Photo of a mug with a mosaic from Verulamium museum depicting the sea god Oceanus
January 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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actually not a still from a computer game
Stained glass window in Norwich cathedral
January 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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trying to imagine what it was like seeing this in the mid 1960s
University of east Anglia ziggurats with teaching block behind University of east Anglia teaching block / wall
January 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I missed this recent story about about the Alan Turing Institute

ATI was initially set up as a kind of membership club - so it's hardly surprising others in the UK research landscape have felt "disenfranchised"

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...
Governance The panel recognised that there is evidence of the Institute playing a national role in the AI ecosystem. The Institute engages with academia, industry, and other bodies, advises into some government departments, and hosts the UK AI Standards Hub. However, some UK research stakeholders feel disenfranchised. The potential of the Institute to act on behalf of the whole ecosystem has not yet been achieved, a key part of the national institute role. The Institute should aim to represent all actors in the UK ecosystem on an international stage, and enable research that is additive to, not duplicative of, that carried out in other institutions. “The scientific leadership we have had has too often been left rudderless; left behind as both the community and the cutting-edge has moved ahead without us, whilst we are publicly and privately criticised for being behind the curve,” they added.
December 28, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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I guess some parts of London are okay actually
Trees in a misty thin forest
December 28, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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my predictions for 2025: Talkie Toaster will finally be a reality thanks to the billions invested in LLMs
One particular item in this collection was a talking toaster, which he'd bought in a souvenir shop on the Uranian moon of Miranda for the princely sum of $£1 9.99 plus tax. Talkie Toaster(patent applied for), was made of deep red plastic, and, according to the blurb on the packaging, could engage its owner in a number of pre-programmed stimulating breakfast conversations. Moreover, it had a degree of Artificial Intelligence, so, in time, it could learn to assess your mood and tailor its conversation accordingly. I you woke up feeling bright and bubbly, the Toaster would respond with chirpy repartee. If you rose in a darker mood, the Toaster's Artificial Intelligence could sense this, and provide your breakfast muffins in suitably reverent silence.
December 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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December 23, 2024 at 10:01 PM