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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 5d

@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🫠

Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 8d

Flag flown at Cubs home games when they win. Large blue W on a white background.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 23d

🤖 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

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.

doi.org

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 13d

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 · 16d

Bear stress

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 21d

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?

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 21d

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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Dr. Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 23d

🚀 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 · 23d

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!

Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · Aug 27

Brandeis is hiring for this unique interdisciplinary 2-year postdoc/lecturer position in AI and Society. 1 course/semester + collaborative research and mentoring. Great prep for TT positions! Deadline 10/1. Details in the ad. #PsychJobs #HigherEdJobs
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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 28d

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.

METR @metr.org · Jul 10

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 28d

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

Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 28d

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.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 28d

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 · 29d

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.

Alicia Guo @aliciaguo.com · 29d

earlier this summer I published my first paper of my phd! ✨ a qualitative study on how creative writers are using AI in their writing and what their strategies were in order to align with their personal writing values

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · Sep 4

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 · Aug 27

Send it when you have it ready! What's the topic? We can start speculating about what you might say and see if we get it right.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · Aug 27

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 · Aug 7

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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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · Aug 2

Nearly Dr. Logan, you’re not wrong.

Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is a Hop Butcher for the World appreciation skeet 🍻

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · Jul 25

Really exciting results! Incredible work here, thanks for sharing.

Sara De Felice @saradefelice.bsky.social · Jul 23

How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time?

We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others.

It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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ILSSA Committee @islsilssa.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣 We are officially looking for nominations to join the ILSSA Board! 📣

Interested in supporting a global network of LS junior scholars? Want to get a 'behind the scenes' peek into ISLS operations?

Full call/form for nominations (due June 24th): mailchi.mp/3cb58f5d38c9...

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · May 16

Hear me out. MVPCA? #Cubs