Oh that is rough. That’s on the paper chair for not seeing the problem.

My god, the band broke up when I was 4! This was mandatory listening for the weird punk set I ran with in high school. Rancid, Op Ivy, were gateway bands into the 80s punk (e.g. Bad Religion, NOFX) we gravitated towards.

I spend a good chunk of my HRI class dunking on unkept promises of humanoid robotics. Love the thoughtful and well documented suppport of that position

I'd love some commiseration or ideas from the BlueSky void if you have them. Will also report back what came out of my class chat.

After tamping down my initial rage, I realize what I'm trying to do is incompatible with how students engage. So, I'll be going hat in hand to class tomorrow to invite an open discussion of how to proceed.

So, it feels like communicating with writing is dead. I'm banging my head on how to have students think and communicate for classes now but I don't have an answer. Class discussion, yes, but that runs in series, so can't work for a class of 20, and how do I get them to think outside of class?

I've had such great collaborators, Sarah Sebo and Lauren Wright at UChicago, and Bilge Mutlu at UW-Madison, for this work. Lauren in particular pulled off an incredible study and report that I'm thrilled to see published. Feel free to reach out for author's copies if you are paywalled by AAAS

The second explores an intuition I've had for some time - kids often tell us the robot didn't judge them. Lauren Wright's article, "Robotic reading companions can mitigate oral reading anxiety in children" demonstrates the actual impact of that feeling on reading anxiety.