🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026there needs to be a wide-ranging investigation into the role of highly-paid consultants siphoning off vast quantities of cash from UK universities, and their role as silent partners in the radical reshaping of UK institutions that is taking place right now 194
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026our paper "Handling troubles with discretion: Transforming informings into announcements in a control room behind a mixed-reality performance" (w/Christian Greiffenhagen) is finally online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1152
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 06/07/2026apropo this thread, a reminder of Eisenmann et al. (2024) on Garfinkel's early research on ELIZA and LYRIC, and the importance of studies that respecify phenomena that are now simply taken for granted in the AI discourse link.springer.com/article/10.1... 050
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 10/06/2026another procurement "success story" www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting... www.infosys.com/services/ora... www.infosys.com/newsroom/pre... 020
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 21/04/2026maybe we need a new name for social scientists using "silicon samples", perhaps "mirror researchers" 010
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 13/03/2026wait, they called it "Gabbo"? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 062
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 14/01/2026📜 new paper to appear @hri-conference.bsky.social #HRI2026 "On Being Guided: How People Follow a Robot-Guided Tour" it's about how people follow robots that are 'leading' them about - with lessons for social robot navigation and legible motion PDF: people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszsr/files/... 161
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 19/12/2025the AISI UK "Frontier AI Trends Report" uncritically spouts claims about AGI, treats benchmarks without much credulity, and misunderstands what actual expertise is who cares though? well, the AISI is a UK "government organisation" 🫣 www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-... 030
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 16/12/2025why is the ACM stabbing authors in the back with generative AI text effluent? 151
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 04/12/2025if you have to explicitly say "This is not AI writing your thesis for you", it probably is what you mean actually 250
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 02/12/2025the Guardian series quickly shaping up as yet another paean to 'absurdist AI' - i.e., IINO - intelligence in name only 000
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 11/11/2025our #CSCW2025 paper on human-robot collaboration argued against this idea medium.com/acm-cscw/ope... 040
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 20/10/2025entering a terrifying subterranean session #cscw2025 040
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I'm reminded of a recent pearl I found in Newcastle 100
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Mike 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... 150
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 27/05/2025"mainlin[ing] AI into the veins of this enterprising nation" (aka the UK) www.thetimes.com/article/d27e... 020
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 24/04/2025looking 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 151
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 22/04/2025we'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/... 1243
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I can only interpret this as an elaborate April Fool 010
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 17/03/2025can'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 270
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 12/03/2025conditions have conspired to make me stick this banner up on my door 020
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 16/02/2025this story is a gift that just keeps on giving www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 130
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 08/02/2025have always thought this was one of the best actually 010
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 07/01/2025we (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... 0121
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 02/01/2025actually not a still from a computer game 030
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 01/01/2025trying to imagine what it was like seeing this in the mid 1960s 050
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 28/12/2024I 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... 110
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 28/12/2024I guess some parts of London are okay actually 080
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 25/12/2024my predictions for 2025: Talkie Toaster will finally be a reality thanks to the billions invested in LLMs 032
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 23/12/2024it's over 10 years since the two series Utopia (2013-14) and yet it barely gets a mention despite its increasing relevance (it looks and sounds good too but that's just the icing on the cake) 010
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 21/12/2024noticed an uptick in astroturfing / bots on this site 030
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 15/12/2024the emerging popular discourse around "humanoid robots" is bizarre and hyperbolic, completely disconnected with what bodies actually do (and how they do it) (reading Jürgen Streeck's description of hands' physicality as foundationally social) 040
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 15/12/2024sorry there's only one thing I'm looking at in that picture 110
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I don't really get this - other than as a free ad for Kudu (AI slop generator) seems the USP is umm auto generating a textbook? described as a win for the academics but in reality comes across an absolute L (shamelessly stolen from @martinflintham.bsky.social) newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp... 100
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 05/12/2024🔥 Livingston in excoriating form in "Ethnomethodology’s Broken Promise" #EMCA link.springer.com/article/10.1... 7183
🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 18/11/2024it's this level of impact that I crave for all my work @murraygoulden.bsky.social digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcont... 050