Aubrey Simonson
@aubrey.bsky.social
trans VR researcher and reluctant technoutopian - he/him/his
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HCI failure spotted in the wild-- if you call CVS while it's closed, the automated voice will no longer allow you to type numbers to answer yes/no questions. If you don't talk to the AI, it will hang up. Which means that you *have* to say the name of your prescription out loud in order to refill it.
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
HCI failure spotted in the wild-- if you call CVS while it's closed, the automated voice will no longer allow you to type numbers to answer yes/no questions. If you don't talk to the AI, it will hang up. Which means that you *have* to say the name of your prescription out loud in order to refill it.
We’re running a study on how people learn procedural tasks in virtual reality:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
VR Study Scheduling Form
We're running a study on how people learn procedural tasks in virtual reality. Participation takes about an hour and involves completing a VR training simulation. The study takes place in person at No...
docs.google.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We’re running a study on how people learn procedural tasks in virtual reality:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Massively agree with everything Jason has to say here. Animation is a medium that's meant to be expressive and deeply weird.
news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/24/p...
news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/24/p...
Pixar had its worst bomb with 'Elio.' Is the legendary animation studio doomed?
Pixar’s latest film Elio had the studio’s worst box office opening ever. A Northeastern animation expert explains what went wrong.
news.northeastern.edu
June 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Massively agree with everything Jason has to say here. Animation is a medium that's meant to be expressive and deeply weird.
news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/24/p...
news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/24/p...
Lit reviews as an academic in VR is so weird because there's just so, so much stuff that no one has bothered to look at yet. Like, either there is *no* published instance of a hint system for a VR training simulation, or I just literally cannot read.
June 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Lit reviews as an academic in VR is so weird because there's just so, so much stuff that no one has bothered to look at yet. Like, either there is *no* published instance of a hint system for a VR training simulation, or I just literally cannot read.
Genuinely impressed by this phishing campaign. All of the links on the page go back to actual official sites, and it matched their design decently well. If it weren't for the fact that I can't drive, and therefore probably don't owe unpaid tolls, this might have gotten me: mass.gov-ybu.win/pay/
mass.gov-ybu.win
April 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Genuinely impressed by this phishing campaign. All of the links on the page go back to actual official sites, and it matched their design decently well. If it weren't for the fact that I can't drive, and therefore probably don't owe unpaid tolls, this might have gotten me: mass.gov-ybu.win/pay/
Just booked the flights for CHI and the time zones are so weird that one of my flights lands an hour *before* it takes off.
The Earth being round is very complicated.
The Earth being round is very complicated.
April 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just booked the flights for CHI and the time zones are so weird that one of my flights lands an hour *before* it takes off.
The Earth being round is very complicated.
The Earth being round is very complicated.
Not one, but both of my LBW papers got accepted at CHI. Which is? How? What? More info as I get the documentation for them nice-looking enough to share OfficiallyTM but for now
a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .
ALT: a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .
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February 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Not one, but both of my LBW papers got accepted at CHI. Which is? How? What? More info as I get the documentation for them nice-looking enough to share OfficiallyTM but for now
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oblique strategy cards are tarot for designers
March 27, 2024 at 7:33 PM
oblique strategy cards are tarot for designers
When I tell people I'm a programmer but not a software engineer, this is what I mean.
July 31, 2023 at 3:25 PM
When I tell people I'm a programmer but not a software engineer, this is what I mean.
Now I am become Earring Magic Ken, destroyer of Mattel's 1993 PR team
July 20, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Now I am become Earring Magic Ken, destroyer of Mattel's 1993 PR team
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I'm going to see it 80 times before next week lfg
July 16, 2023 at 2:44 AM
I'm going to see it 80 times before next week lfg
I've started taking a sip of coffee while still wearing the headset every time I record a demo video in passthrough which, while incredibly inconvenient, feels METAL as FUCK.
July 16, 2023 at 1:42 PM
I've started taking a sip of coffee while still wearing the headset every time I record a demo video in passthrough which, while incredibly inconvenient, feels METAL as FUCK.
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I don't know how to explain it but this is what posting on this app feels like right now
April 28, 2023 at 2:42 PM
I don't know how to explain it but this is what posting on this app feels like right now
Small vent: HR734 is obviously Awful for trans women, but it also disregards the existence of trans men? If "For the purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth" should my mustache and I be competing in womens sports?
April 28, 2023 at 1:37 PM
Small vent: HR734 is obviously Awful for trans women, but it also disregards the existence of trans men? If "For the purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth" should my mustache and I be competing in womens sports?
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make sure to be gay on the computer or alan turing died for nothing
April 26, 2023 at 2:46 PM
make sure to be gay on the computer or alan turing died for nothing
Before whoever made this beautiful little easter egg is also asked to take it down, please give yourself a 404 error on the Biden campaign website: https://joebiden.com/beepboopbeep
April 26, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Before whoever made this beautiful little easter egg is also asked to take it down, please give yourself a 404 error on the Biden campaign website: https://joebiden.com/beepboopbeep
the sculpey eyes I make when I'm AnxiousTM have evolved to a new level of Man-Made HorrorsTM
April 13, 2023 at 7:31 AM
the sculpey eyes I make when I'm AnxiousTM have evolved to a new level of Man-Made HorrorsTM