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Dan Bennett

@comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Bristol University Human autonomy & agency. Squaring the circle between humanistic and computational methods.

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · Aug 17

A paper I'm very proud of just got published!
I'll do an overview thread for this soon, but for now:

It's the first meaty empirical work I've done on issues I've been thinking about since the start of my PhD. A stab at dealing with what I think are important gaps in HCI UX/Well-being research

Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social · Aug 16

One of my fav papers just got accepted to TOCHI!

Spearheaded by @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social, we investigated how UX differs as a function of motivation (as per self-determination theory). Some really neat and nuanced findings here, imo

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Beyond Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Autonomous Motivation in User Experience | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Motivation and autonomy are fundamental concepts in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), yet in User Experience (UX) research they have remained surprisingly peripheral. We draw on Self-Determination The...

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 5d

it's only cowardice that denies us this

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 6d

(me in 2005 probably)

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Half assed cashing in on the craze for mid century American avant garde. If she really meant it we'd have seen a Rie Nakajima collab.

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 6d

Gary Stevenson worried me with this recently but I thought his approach ended up being the one ok version of this I've seen. Generally it's cover for what ppl really think / "Blue Labour" / or at best respectability politics.

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frozen reeds @frozenreeds.com · 6d

Excited to release Mark Fell’s ‘Psychic Resynthesis’ today. This feels like a landmark album for Mark, a perfect realisation of his unique methods of cross-discipline collaboration, which ties up many threads of his musical history in one enigmatic statement. frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...

Psychic Resynthesis, by Mark Fell

10 track album

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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 19d

Lots of your favorite philosophers are assholes.

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Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes - Daily Nous

A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The two cases are Bradley Litt...

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 19d

@dieworkwear.bsky.social I thought you might enjoy this. I did.
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Alan Watts ~ The Importance of Clothing

YouTube video by Here & Now

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · 23d

Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Aug 2

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · Aug 2

at that point, you often see them let go of their pretensions towards being a Player and just go full Handmaiden's Tale. It's where they always were, but they deluded themselves into thinking it could be fun and frivolous

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 24d

* Active inference meets uncertainty and attentive absorption in games
* Using PCG for Metastudies (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)
* Reward cues/juicy feedback across games and gambling

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 24d

Imperial opened its President’s PhD Scholarships (first deadline Nov 3): bit.ly/3JW2xuW
Ping me to apply for a scholarship on:
* Competence/empowerment/learning progress in games: models and DDA
* The appeal of aleatoric uncertainty in games: models and tests
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President's PhD scholarships

Information about these fully-funded scholarships for PhD applicants of any nationality at Imperial.

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 25d

“不知道，不知道，不知道，不知道。。。”
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Push It Out (Remaster)

YouTube video by The Beta Band - Topic

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 26d

To some of his students, he was Uncle Mo.

Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 26d

Some might argue that eating Feldman's head was a fair response to his own "dating etiquette" transgressions.

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 26d

Loving and Knowing is one of my favourite philosophy papers of recent years. Listen to the pod then read the paper.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Love & Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · Aug 22

🎙the Core of Loving & Knowing with @participha.bsky.social
Philosopher Hanne De Jaegher discusses life experiences and how they led to her academic journey in cognitive science and the scholarship behind ‘participatory sense-making’ #psm #phil #embodied #sensemaking #varela #loveandphilosophy

The Core of Knowing is Loving with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher

Listen now | Episode #68

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27d

his smoke is horrible to inhale, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you must live in it for the time

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Bristol Interaction Group @bristolhci.bsky.social · 27d

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A large screen with an "anywhere on earth" clock, lots of packaging from sweets and a pile of pizza boxes.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27d

/8 I think there is a temptation, if you talk and write and debate for a living, to say that talking and writing and debating is inherently morally praiseworthy. I'm not sure it is. But that reflects a general philosophical split that I have with many people who talk about free speech:

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 28d

'Common diabetes drug metformin cuts long covid risk by 64 percent in UK study'

'The present study demonstrates the potential benefits of metformin in the effort to mitigate Long COVID....'

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Common diabetes drug metformin cuts long covid risk by 64 percent in UK study

A large UK-based retrospective cohort study found that initiating metformin within 90 days of COVID-19 diagnosis reduced the risk of Long COVID by 64% in overweight and obese adults. The findings sugg...

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 28d

Adam Curtis voice ...

Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wahey: last minute decision to write up work a CHI paper! How painful can it be?

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Sabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · 28d

“So long as I’m not dead, no one will be able to guarantee he truly knows me, that is, be able to give meaning to my actions, which, as linguistic moments, are therefore indecipherable.” - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Observations on the Long Take (1967)

Observations on the Long Take, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967

Man expresses himself above all through his action – not meant in a purely pragmatic way – because it is in this way that he modifies reality and leaves his spiritual imprint on it. But this action la...

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Bentley Allan @bentleyallan.bsky.social · 28d

‼️New study from my lab: proud to share not one but two Bloomberg articles covering our new report on Chinese outbound FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding investment across the global south. The results are striking:

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · Sep 5

Apart from the idiot taxis thing it's the "fallen behind" thing I object to. The concern with relative position on a path of linear progress (where the future is Trump or Xi or Musk?) is extremely stupid but insofar as it is believed by politicians, stops us having nice things and damages the planet

The Economist @economist.com · Sep 5

Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe

A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain.

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A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature

The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

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