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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So dumb. Has anyone at Adobe studied actual UI, human work flow and cognitive processes? A pop-up is the worst of UI design, only for emergencies, and you think my potential lack of understand of what i just copied justifies this intellectual intrusion?! Grasping at straws to push integrated LLMs.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This paper needs to influence HCI in a major way. Included these findings in a teacher AI literacy workshop this summer and it is one of the lasting impressions the teachers took away. They really empathized with seeing other professionals lose skill and identity and I think it shocked them.

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Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is your periodic reminder that I'm on the job market and would love to bring my approach to your department, school, lab, or organization. carolinerpitt.phd Autumn 2026 Teaching: Moral Reasoning and Interaction Design (INFO 356) And we've got some fun papers in the works.

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Caroline Pitt’s Homepage

Check here for updates!

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Instructional technology and learning sciences @usuitls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

💡 Got an idea? Share it! Submit to ISLS 2027 🌎 📅 Deadline: Oct. 9, 2026 📍 IIT Bombay, Mumbai 💻 In-person & virtual participation 👉 ISLS 2027: www.isls.org/event/isls-a... #LearningSciences #EducationResearch #ScienceOfLearning

Calling for ISLS 2027 submissions! 📣

This is a photo from Mumbai, India, to introduce the location for ISLS 2027.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I love #AERA reviewing for SIG-LS (are we on Bsky yet?). Sure is a fire hose of ideas, but it feels like a fertile place for new views in learning sciences. Maybe it is just the relief and glow (or eye strain) of having finished a million reviews, but excited for the conference. #learningsciences

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One upside to AI slop, is you can really tell when a furniture company is also slop.

Screenshot from a furniture website that has ill-formed looking blocks, clock, plant and other objects on a desk suggesting it was made my an AI or LLM image generator.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Today is the day, folks. Let's go! I'll see you there.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Amazing work! Congrats to an incredible academic role model

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Loveable little dive bar near my office clearly made an AI generated website. It.... did not go well. Did they still, uncritically, put the AI slop website out into the world? Take a gander at the sanity (and gravity) defying images for their bev menu and judge yourself.

AI generated website image showing full glasses of beer laying on their side and a beer bottle with no top.

AI generated website image showing full glass of wine and wine bottle laying on their sides on top of a plate.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Congrats to LIT Lab PhD candidate Veronica Grosso who presented at the first Robotics Seminar Series at UIC Engineering on resisting stereotypes to show competence and warmth in #HRI. Did we need to buy tiny toys and treats for bunnies to test these collaborative activities? Yes, dear reader, we did

Photo of Veronica speaking in front of an audience with final slide of presentation in background.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Big moment for UIC LIT lab. PhD student, Verona Grosso, just presented our work on collaborating with a robot. @hri-conference.bsky.social Robots need to dynamically demonstrate competence and advocate for choices.

Title slide of HRI presentation on human-robot collaboration

Depiction of study interaction with a robot

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Michael Xu from Wisconsin CS presents work on integrating robots into family life. Happy to be a collaborator on this messy real world exploration. @hri-conference.bsky.social #HRI

Opening slide to HRI talk with presenter to the side

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Maartje de Graaf @robonarratives.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#HRI2026 @hri-conference.bsky.social is off to a fantastic start. Benjamin Rosman opened the first day with a powerful keynote on making HRI research more inclusive and truly representative of our diverse world. A timely reminder that the future we build depends on who we include in the process.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Abena Boadi-Agyemang from @cmu.edu with nuanced insights in accessibility needs for HRI. would love to see ASL inputs for more robots @hri-conference.bsky.social

Screenshot of key insights from HRI presentation

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The HRI Conference @hri-conference.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Ready, Set, Go! 🤖🚀 🏰Day 2 of HRI 2026 is starting at Edinburgh International Conference Center, EICC! 🫂Our amazing General Chairs, Lynne Baillie and Bill Smart are welcoming us! 🎙️Don’t miss the Keynote by Benjamin Rosman starting now in Auditorium.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'll see you there! Had a brief thought of suggesting a local meet up to attend, but its 8am Central, so I will certainly be enjoying this one in my PJs at home.

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Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference @acm-idc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Would you like to join the Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2026 organising committee as an Associate Chair? If you are passionate about driving high-quality research and shaping an outstanding programme, we welcome your application. Submit an EOI ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #IDC2026

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Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference @acm-idc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Introducing the IDC2026 Chairs! Violet, a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, is Web, Social Media & Communications Chair for IDC2026, and Juan Pablo is Professor at The University of Iowa's Department of Computer Science, taking on the role of Doctoral Consortium Chair. #IDC2026

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Does social media harm everyone? No. But it harms *most* adolescents. However, not all platforms are harmful. An analysis of 44,211 diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that 60% of adolescents experienced small, negative effects of social media link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

🧵 Postdoc opportunity at McGill I am recruiting a top postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at McGill through the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards Initiative. This is a rare, well-funded opportunity to build an ambitious, multimodal EdTech research program in Canada.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

What the absolute shit is this? ACM using AI summaries instead of abstracts in search results?! So, if I understand correctly, instead of the author's own summary of the work (i.e. an abstract) we are better off with some regurgitated slop version of that summary instead? @chi.acm.org

Screenshot of an ACM Digital Library search result showing an AI-generated summary where an abstract of the article would usually appear.

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Tom Williams @tomwilliams.phd · 12/12/2025

Excited to say that I'll be running more robot comedy events this spring! ROBOT RIOT brings together roboticists, ethicists, and some of Denver's funniest comedians, to inform the public about risks of AI and Robotics while making them laugh. Our first show is 2/6/26:

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For anyone who cares about rich studies that center and value children throughout the entire R&D process, this is a lovely community for your work.

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Tom Williams @tomwilliams.phd · 23/11/2025

It's unboxing day for DEGREES OF FREEDOM from @mitpress.bsky.social! :D

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Steven White @notstevenwhite.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Well, at least we didn't make online survey experiments the dominant methodological approach in major areas of the discipline

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Reviews that don’t appropriately evaluate based on the method have been killing me lately. If I had a dollar for every review of a qual paper that criticized a lack of generalizability…

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Holy crap. I thought my conference homes were broken, but the guardrail for oversubmitting set to 25… wow

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

At the "listening to Minor Threat while grant writing" stage of disillusionment, burnout and frustration with the crumbling systems of academia. Turns out teen angst and existential threat are on the same spectrum of anxiety and rage. minorthreat.bandcamp.com/album/salad-...

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Salad Days, by Minor Threat

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Nickka @nickka.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Loving this talk from @joemichaelis.bsky.social at Northwestern today—Mental models at the intersection of Human-Robot Interaction!

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

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Tomo Nagashima @tomonag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We've recently concluded a classroom study in Japan on our "Mindful Math" Tutor, an LLM-embedded ITS that uses mindful language and messages to guide students learn algebra while calming down their math anxiety. If interested in testing/using/collaborating let me know! tomonag.org/mindfulmath/

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

@hri-conference.bsky.social reviewer assignments started... I like to dig in to find reviewers who really can connect with a paper. First paper I found a group of authors writing on a very similar application... perfect, right!? So similar in fact, I think it may actually just be the same people🫠

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 16/09/2025

🤖 Robots and reading anxiety A study with 8–11 year olds found kids were less anxious reading aloud to a robot than to a person. Robots may help children build literacy skills with less stress. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scir... #SciComm 🧪 #Education #Robots #Literacy

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Robotic reading companions can mitigate oral reading anxiety in children

Children exhibit fewer physiological indicators of anxiety when reading aloud to a robot compared with reading to a person.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Well my instinct to want to be included may just swallow me whole this year. What does one do if you are already an AC for @chi.acm.org and @hri-conference.bsky.social invites you to be an AC there, too? You kiss all other responsibilities goodbye and embrace the chaos, right? #HCI #HRI

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Bear stress

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Shell shocked at how ubiquitous turning in LLM writing is. Knew it would be a lot, but literally every paper (1-2 pages) I read today was fully authored by an LLM. I thought if I made it clear I just wanted ideas, thoughts, feeling, and didn't care about grammar or structure, it would help, but nope

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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🚀 Exciting news: I’m accepting new graduate students in the McGill Faculty of Education Learning Sciences! If you’re passionate about educational technology, games, AI, and learning sciences, this is your chance to join a dynamic and interdisciplinary research program.

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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Psychologists, apply! Apparently we've mainly gotten CS applicants so far. I'd (selfishly) love to have a psychologist. Interests in AI in relation to e.g., implicit bias; cultural influences; fairness; perception; learning & memory; decision making etc. would be a good fit!

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Just cited this. We're finding that expert teachers are telling us they *want* automation, but end up using LLM-generated content infrequently when given the option. Seems that expert fluency is pretty powerful. This METR study really helps develop that idea to provide some nuanced context.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Two fresh articles out in Science Robotics www.science.org/journal/scir..., and on the website banner! First is a focus article "How can educational robots enhance family life? Through careful integration." We look at what it will take for in-home robots to actually be adopted by families. #HRI #HCI

Figure depicting four challenges of in-home educational robot. The challenges are disruption of routines, replacement of activities and human participation, unclear roles and privacy concerns. The figure shows solutions including integrating into existing routines, augmenting existing educational experiences, clearly defining roles, and using privacy-preserving data collection and use

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Just cited for a submission going in this week. Awesome work. I’m really fascinated about preservation of voice and values while using llms. This was a great glimpse into that.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This summer, LIT Lab undergrads Gaeun Lee and Hope Jo presented their poster “You Can Grow Here” at ACM SIGGRAPH. Their project explored how anxiety-management techniques can be reimagined as immersive VR experiences that feel emotionally resonant and non-clinical. doi.org/10.1145/3721....

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I'm starting my Social Robotics and HRI course this week at UIC. What are emerging topics in the field we should talk about? Have a paper you would love us to cover in our class? Please share and shamelessly plug your work! @talkingrobotics.bsky.social @hri-conference.bsky.social #HRI #SocialRobots

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/08/2025

Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point. Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.

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