Duri Long
@duri-long.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern. HCI, Human-Centered AI, AI literacy, co-creativity. Director of Creative Interfaces Research + Design Studio. durilong.com
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Duri Long
@duri-long.bsky.social
· Jul 7
Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
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What if–instead of the current paradigm of individual prompting–GenAI afforded communal creative processes? Join us in speculating alt AI futures at #DIS2025, where Lauren Lin is presenting our paper "Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI."
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In which an elderly puggle, quick change artist, does an impersonation of an alligator 🎃💀🐊 Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In which an elderly puggle, quick change artist, does an impersonation of an alligator 🎃💀🐊 Happy Halloween!
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If you want to implement an AI tutor, you need to study it’s performance in naturalistic settings with the kinds of context windows that student learners will provide. You can’t begin with a well formulated question about a single topic.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you want to implement an AI tutor, you need to study it’s performance in naturalistic settings with the kinds of context windows that student learners will provide. You can’t begin with a well formulated question about a single topic.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
Still unpacking Thomas Pynchon’s V in my free time 😄 new episode out featuring exciting discussion of the NYC sewer system, alligator hunting, a rat church, and more.
It's live! Listen to Pynchon Pals Episode 03: In which Andrew uncovers a conspiracy and North Carolina is mentioned (V. Chs. 5-6). redcircle.com/shows/3c4720...
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Still unpacking Thomas Pynchon’s V in my free time 😄 new episode out featuring exciting discussion of the NYC sewer system, alligator hunting, a rat church, and more.
Exercising my literary analysis muscles on a new podcast! To start, we are reading & discussing Thomas Pynchon’s V. a few chapters at a time.
Pynchon Pals is live!
Seeing One Battle After Another? Pre-ordered Shadow Ticket? Had Gravity's Rainbow on your shelf for a decade? Or just a longtime fan looking to revisit your favorites? Read V. with us!
In this inaugural episode, we meet the Whole Sick Crew, who would have a podcast in 2025.
Seeing One Battle After Another? Pre-ordered Shadow Ticket? Had Gravity's Rainbow on your shelf for a decade? Or just a longtime fan looking to revisit your favorites? Read V. with us!
In this inaugural episode, we meet the Whole Sick Crew, who would have a podcast in 2025.
Pynchon Pals
Listen to Pynchon Pals on RedCircle
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September 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Exercising my literary analysis muscles on a new podcast! To start, we are reading & discussing Thomas Pynchon’s V. a few chapters at a time.
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New post: I played the demo for Erenshor -- the single-player MMO --recorded it, and wrote about it!
Impressions: ERENSHOR (Burgee Media, 2025, Early Access, Demo)
Playing video games in front of a camera and then writing about it? Why, that's almost as novel as a single-player MMO!
I log in to Erenshor with a username and password that don't actually exist. I ...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New post: I played the demo for Erenshor -- the single-player MMO --recorded it, and wrote about it!
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📢 #CSCW is experimenting with a new format: rolling submissions 🎉
Submit your work when it’s ready!
✔️ PACM publication + CSCW presentation
✔️ Healthier work-life balance
✔️ Faster reviews and more opportunities for revisions
More info: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...
#HCI
Submit your work when it’s ready!
✔️ PACM publication + CSCW presentation
✔️ Healthier work-life balance
✔️ Faster reviews and more opportunities for revisions
More info: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...
#HCI
CSCW Rolling Submissions
CSCW is experimenting with a new format: rolling submissions. You will be able to submit work to CSCW whenever it is ready (no deadlines)…
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September 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
📢 #CSCW is experimenting with a new format: rolling submissions 🎉
Submit your work when it’s ready!
✔️ PACM publication + CSCW presentation
✔️ Healthier work-life balance
✔️ Faster reviews and more opportunities for revisions
More info: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...
#HCI
Submit your work when it’s ready!
✔️ PACM publication + CSCW presentation
✔️ Healthier work-life balance
✔️ Faster reviews and more opportunities for revisions
More info: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...
#HCI
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation...
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
Makeability Lab - How to Figures
How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu
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September 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation...
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!
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New post about Red Rooms and We're All Going to the World's Fair. Two movies about the abyss of the Internet and, oddly enough, the balding weirdo on the other side of the screen. www.patf.io/into-the-scr...
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New post about Red Rooms and We're All Going to the World's Fair. Two movies about the abyss of the Internet and, oddly enough, the balding weirdo on the other side of the screen. www.patf.io/into-the-scr...
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New newsletter up today about my recent one-page outlaw country RPG, THE HIGHWAYMEN, and the 16 year old World of Warcraft machinima music video that ultimately inspired it.
Introducing, The Highwaymen
Did you know that metrics show that Tuesdays and Thursdays are the optimal days to release a newsletter? What a fool I was to publish the first one on a Saturday! At least we're all on the same page n...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New newsletter up today about my recent one-page outlaw country RPG, THE HIGHWAYMEN, and the 16 year old World of Warcraft machinima music video that ultimately inspired it.
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Inspired by the absolute banger and winner of the 1985 Grammy for Best Country Song that is "Highwayman" by The Highwaymen, I finally put together an idea I've been kicking around for years as my submission for the One-Page RPG Jam! Give it a look, or better, a play with some friends.
The Highwaymen by Patrick Fiorilli
An Outlaw country Role-Playing Game for a Dealer, a deck of 52 cards, and 1-4 Players by Patrick Fiorilli.
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August 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Inspired by the absolute banger and winner of the 1985 Grammy for Best Country Song that is "Highwayman" by The Highwaymen, I finally put together an idea I've been kicking around for years as my submission for the One-Page RPG Jam! Give it a look, or better, a play with some friends.
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I started a newsletter! It's called "Critical Theorycraft," and I'll be writing broadly about games, literature, and media every two weeks or so. The first post is up today, and it's about how cool it was to play Nintendo 64 in a hotel room. Toss me your email and you shall be rewarded with posts!
Playing (With) Video Games
According to a famous anecdote about the origins of Super Mario 64—that is, about the origins of 3D platforming—before designing any levels, enemies, or objectives, the game's designers began with mov...
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August 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I started a newsletter! It's called "Critical Theorycraft," and I'll be writing broadly about games, literature, and media every two weeks or so. The first post is up today, and it's about how cool it was to play Nintendo 64 in a hotel room. Toss me your email and you shall be rewarded with posts!
What if–instead of the current paradigm of individual prompting–GenAI afforded communal creative processes? Join us in speculating alt AI futures at #DIS2025, where Lauren Lin is presenting our paper "Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI."
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
dl.acm.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What if–instead of the current paradigm of individual prompting–GenAI afforded communal creative processes? Join us in speculating alt AI futures at #DIS2025, where Lauren Lin is presenting our paper "Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI."
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Two new papers out this week from our research on AI use in college essay writing. We find that 1) students are using AI for ideation and revision when writing essays and 2) AI tends to generate struggle narratives for marginalized gender identities. This may impact how adolescents view themselves.
June 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Two new papers out this week from our research on AI use in college essay writing. We find that 1) students are using AI for ideation and revision when writing essays and 2) AI tends to generate struggle narratives for marginalized gender identities. This may impact how adolescents view themselves.
Come chat with me by a poster at #CHI2025! During the Wednesday AM break I will be with @shallotly.bsky.social discussing journalists' practices surrounding AI (tinyurl.com/y6jmd85k) and during the PM break I will be with Maalvika Bhat talking hands-on AI literacy activities (tinyurl.com/yc2bnenh)
April 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Come chat with me by a poster at #CHI2025! During the Wednesday AM break I will be with @shallotly.bsky.social discussing journalists' practices surrounding AI (tinyurl.com/y6jmd85k) and during the PM break I will be with Maalvika Bhat talking hands-on AI literacy activities (tinyurl.com/yc2bnenh)
Excited to be at #CHI2025 in Yokohama! Stop by our late-breaking work posters - led by amazing students Maalvika Bhat, Hasti Darabi Pourshiraz, and Charlotte Li @shallotly.bsky.social - on Wednesday to chat (more info in thread)
April 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Excited to be at #CHI2025 in Yokohama! Stop by our late-breaking work posters - led by amazing students Maalvika Bhat, Hasti Darabi Pourshiraz, and Charlotte Li @shallotly.bsky.social - on Wednesday to chat (more info in thread)
Excited for my student Richard Zhang to present our paper “Beyond Content: Leaning on the Poetics of Defamiliarization in Design Fictions” this week at GROUP 2025.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Beyond Content: Leaning on the Poetics of Defamiliarization in Design Fictions | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Literary approaches to design fictions, though previously theorized to be diverse
in form and content, often fall within narrow stylistic and content boundaries such
as speculative abstracts, memos, a...
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January 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Excited for my student Richard Zhang to present our paper “Beyond Content: Leaning on the Poetics of Defamiliarization in Design Fictions” this week at GROUP 2025.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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A starter pack of faculty in my department (about 1/4 of us seem to be here so far). go.bsky.app/Bd13T6w
November 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM
A starter pack of faculty in my department (about 1/4 of us seem to be here so far). go.bsky.app/Bd13T6w
pinned post for new followers - our recent ACM DIS paper on designing interpretable interfaces that facilitate playful learning-by-doing about AI
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November 15, 2024 at 2:59 AM
pinned post for new followers - our recent ACM DIS paper on designing interpretable interfaces that facilitate playful learning-by-doing about AI
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
👋🏻 trying to transition to a new platform in light of recent events. Follow for musings and research updates related to creativity, learning, and human-centered AI.
November 15, 2024 at 2:50 AM
👋🏻 trying to transition to a new platform in light of recent events. Follow for musings and research updates related to creativity, learning, and human-centered AI.