Swen E. Gaudl
@sgaudl.bsky.social
Researcher in Interaction Design, AI, Games & Robots
Measuring daily progress :)
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Measuring daily progress :)
I only skimmed the abstract but if it is true this will open up lots of interesting work.
November 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I only skimmed the abstract but if it is true this will open up lots of interesting work.
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New York pals! Don't miss this one: @fredschroeder.bsky.social and I saw the traveling exhibition at Angoulême, and hooo nelly it was great!!
New Yorkers!
"Exploring Calvin & Hobbes"--the gorgeous showing of Watterson's original art, will be showing at the Fenimore Museum (Cooperstown), Sept 13-Dec 31.
Please go, pals! You will not regret it, I promise!
fenimoreartmuseum.org/future-exhib...
"Exploring Calvin & Hobbes"--the gorgeous showing of Watterson's original art, will be showing at the Fenimore Museum (Cooperstown), Sept 13-Dec 31.
Please go, pals! You will not regret it, I promise!
fenimoreartmuseum.org/future-exhib...
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
New York pals! Don't miss this one: @fredschroeder.bsky.social and I saw the traveling exhibition at Angoulême, and hooo nelly it was great!!
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"Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its #datacentres’ water use…
#Amazon executives warned that #transparency was “a one-way door”…
“Amazon hides its #water consumption,” was one hypothetical headline"
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
#Amazon executives warned that #transparency was “a one-way door”…
“Amazon hides its #water consumption,” was one hypothetical headline"
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
www.source-material.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its #datacentres’ water use…
#Amazon executives warned that #transparency was “a one-way door”…
“Amazon hides its #water consumption,” was one hypothetical headline"
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
#Amazon executives warned that #transparency was “a one-way door”…
“Amazon hides its #water consumption,” was one hypothetical headline"
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
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Thanks to everyone who has submitted to VINCI 2025! Looking forward to great program! Registration is now live at: vinci2025.games.cg.jku.at/registration/ #infoviz
August 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thanks to everyone who has submitted to VINCI 2025! Looking forward to great program! Registration is now live at: vinci2025.games.cg.jku.at/registration/ #infoviz
On my way to an Eutopia network meeting in the city linked closest to the image from within the plane ;)
June 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On my way to an Eutopia network meeting in the city linked closest to the image from within the plane ;)
Last week we ran the 2nd in person meeting of the gametable.network cost action, the working group on procedural content generation for games met at the University of Gothenburg for exploring next directions and future work.
June 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Last week we ran the 2nd in person meeting of the gametable.network cost action, the working group on procedural content generation for games met at the University of Gothenburg for exploring next directions and future work.
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Short post by @rost.me arguing that calling LLMs "generative AI" is misleading nowadays, since generating plausible text is really only one of many things they do (he proposes the term "interpretive AI"). rost.me/2025/05/27/i...
May 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Short post by @rost.me arguing that calling LLMs "generative AI" is misleading nowadays, since generating plausible text is really only one of many things they do (he proposes the term "interpretive AI"). rost.me/2025/05/27/i...
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Science Graphic Design is hiring! 🚨
We’re looking for an experienced science graphic designer/illustrator to join us for a 3-month contract over the summer and help us through a busy and exciting season.
Apply now at www.sciencegraphicdesign.com/opportunities
🇬🇧 UK only!
We’re looking for an experienced science graphic designer/illustrator to join us for a 3-month contract over the summer and help us through a busy and exciting season.
Apply now at www.sciencegraphicdesign.com/opportunities
🇬🇧 UK only!
May 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
@jorisdormans.bsky.social Hi Joris,just saw you are in bluesky what is the best way of contacting you in a less open letter way?
April 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
@jorisdormans.bsky.social Hi Joris,just saw you are in bluesky what is the best way of contacting you in a less open letter way?
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Yesterdays painting. With everything happening right now, the best thing I can do to regulate myself and keep from going into overwhelmed shutdown is just paint. If something cool comes out of it awesome, but the act of painting to get out of this shitty brain space is what’s important. #artsky 🎨
February 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yesterdays painting. With everything happening right now, the best thing I can do to regulate myself and keep from going into overwhelmed shutdown is just paint. If something cool comes out of it awesome, but the act of painting to get out of this shitty brain space is what’s important. #artsky 🎨
As part of a European networking grant, I am visiting QMul in London. Not having been in the UK for some time feels weird but London has not changed much. The workshop is part of the www.gametable.network, if you are interested in boardgame research it might be worth looking into more.
January 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
As part of a European networking grant, I am visiting QMul in London. Not having been in the UK for some time feels weird but London has not changed much. The workshop is part of the www.gametable.network, if you are interested in boardgame research it might be worth looking into more.
Met yesterday for a colleagues project on "ai, disability and work", it is interesting to see what biases current ai gpt models have.
I also look super ready for Christmas break :)
I also look super ready for Christmas break :)
December 11, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Met yesterday for a colleagues project on "ai, disability and work", it is interesting to see what biases current ai gpt models have.
I also look super ready for Christmas break :)
I also look super ready for Christmas break :)
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I think one of the most frustrating things about announcements like this, as someone who has spent a lot of time on R&D teams in the game industry, is how many *genuinely groundbreaking* things get cast aside because they aren’t visually flashy and conversely how much money goes to stuff like this
Google has developed an AI tool that generates fully playable 3D worlds
www.eurogamer.net/google-has-d...
www.eurogamer.net/google-has-d...
December 5, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I think one of the most frustrating things about announcements like this, as someone who has spent a lot of time on R&D teams in the game industry, is how many *genuinely groundbreaking* things get cast aside because they aren’t visually flashy and conversely how much money goes to stuff like this
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“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.
December 5, 2024 at 4:39 PM
“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.
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Final testing for the Glide project in preparation for Workshop 1. I am looking forward to it 😁 . If you want to know more about game tech being used to combat Frailty check out the link: www.emergencerobotics.net/trailblazer-.... @sgaudl.bsky.social #gamedev #Frailty #ue5 #RaspberryPi
November 29, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Final testing for the Glide project in preparation for Workshop 1. I am looking forward to it 😁 . If you want to know more about game tech being used to combat Frailty check out the link: www.emergencerobotics.net/trailblazer-.... @sgaudl.bsky.social #gamedev #Frailty #ue5 #RaspberryPi
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Artists say they leaked OpenAI’s Sora video model in protest
Artists say they leaked OpenAI’s Sora video model in protest
“Artists are not your unpaid R&D.”
buff.ly
November 26, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Artists say they leaked OpenAI’s Sora video model in protest
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This is another interesting case where AI picking up bad behaviours from people can actually help highlight those bad behaviours.
www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...
www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...
ChatGPT was tasked with designing a website. The result was as manipulative as you'd expect
In a new study, researchers found that ChatGPT creates websites full of deceptive patterns.
www.fastcompany.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:50 PM
This is another interesting case where AI picking up bad behaviours from people can actually help highlight those bad behaviours.
www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...
www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...
Spending 3 days in Cergy, France as part of the EUTOPIA network and found myself in an architectural interesting hotel
November 25, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Spending 3 days in Cergy, France as part of the EUTOPIA network and found myself in an architectural interesting hotel
Nice having Mark over for the first week on exploring parametric game spaces again together but looking deeper into understanding and engaging with the design space.
Great to be in Gothenburg this week, kicking off a project with @sgaudl.bsky.social on AI game design via automated exploration of parametric design spaces.
Foraging Games: Exploring Generative AI systems to tackle high-dimensional game design spaces | Vinnova
The project will focus on initiating collaborative research on exploring tools and techniques for teaching computational thinking and design thinking through | Vinnova
www.vinnova.se
November 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Nice having Mark over for the first week on exploring parametric game spaces again together but looking deeper into understanding and engaging with the design space.
Super Happy to have gotten the funding and looking forward to the work this will enable us to do. I should also mention that if other people are interested in PCG and gen ai systems for game design, we would not be against opening up the project.
Happy to report @sgaudl.bsky.social and I received an international collaboration grant from Vinnova (a Swedish agency), which will allow me to spend 4-6 weeks visiting Gothenburg University over the next year, for a project on “Generative AI systems to tackle high-dimensional game design spaces".
September 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Super Happy to have gotten the funding and looking forward to the work this will enable us to do. I should also mention that if other people are interested in PCG and gen ai systems for game design, we would not be against opening up the project.
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I'm hosting a day of talks at King's College London again next month, about games and science! Tickets are totally free, but we've got a limited number, so grab yours ASAP - we've got Kate Compton, @aiandgames.bsky.social, researchers from King's, lots more to come!
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/next-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/next-...
September 9, 2024 at 1:13 PM
I'm hosting a day of talks at King's College London again next month, about games and science! Tickets are totally free, but we've got a limited number, so grab yours ASAP - we've got Kate Compton, @aiandgames.bsky.social, researchers from King's, lots more to come!
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/next-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/next-...
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It's out! 🎈 🎉
Ethical Games, the first special issue of ACM Games:
dl.acm.org/toc/games/20...
13 excellent articles ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the industry.
Ethical Games, the first special issue of ACM Games:
dl.acm.org/toc/games/20...
13 excellent articles ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the industry.
September 5, 2024 at 10:28 AM
It's out! 🎈 🎉
Ethical Games, the first special issue of ACM Games:
dl.acm.org/toc/games/20...
13 excellent articles ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the industry.
Ethical Games, the first special issue of ACM Games:
dl.acm.org/toc/games/20...
13 excellent articles ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the industry.
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Allen AI has released a fully open (weights, data, and code) mixture-of-experts model. It's super small (1B active parameters out of 7B total) but has good performance for its size. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02060 #machinelearning #AI 🤖 🧪
September 4, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Allen AI has released a fully open (weights, data, and code) mixture-of-experts model. It's super small (1B active parameters out of 7B total) but has good performance for its size. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02060 #machinelearning #AI 🤖 🧪