Going to be at @acm-dis.bsky.social in the next week? Have an amazing thing to share that was rejected from the main conference? Do this: chrisspeed.wixsite.com/piratedis2025 I'll be presenting this river delta, which was not appreciated by peer reviewers! CC @chrisspeed.bsky.social

Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...

A workshop at DIS25 on Saturday the 5th of July exploring the temporalities of speculation. Submissions open now! See here: www.sixdegreesworkshop.com

New paper discussing the idea of “holistic prompt craft” … it’s about strategies for designing interfaces for genAI that are more intuitive. Based on lots of learning from our Shadowplay project. See what you think! designresearch.works/blog/towards...

Have a look at these portraits created using a voice-driven version of our PromptTank system and in collaboration with a group of people living with dementia and their families/carers. Lots more to come on this, for now, see what you think: designresearch.works/blog/portrai...

In April I will be visiting Australia to continue my quest to understand design, research, practice and knowledge production (see film here: designresearch.works/permission-t...) Who should I speak to while I'm there? Suggestions gratefully received. Will be based on Melbourne, but can travel. PlsRT

It's not everyday that you get to speak to expert in Quantum Technologies... this time next week, I will be! Anyone can sign up, so, if you fancy it... then please do! 💫✨

We have two fully-funded (fees and stipend) PhD positions being advertised over here at Imagination. Themes include sustainability and regenerative systems, robotics and AI, biomaterials, digital worlds and world-building. Is this you? Say hi! imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/update/funde...

Get your heat suits out 🔥

Here is a preprint of "From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft" - reflecting the last year of prompt hacking for the Shadowplay project (see designresearch.works/tags/?tag=sh...) and its related Cardshark project. Get it here: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... It will be presented here: tei.acm.org/2025/

Hello @mlucel.bsky.social ! 🤖 Here is a link to a directory of 'starter packs', these are packs of people you can follow in a single click to build your network. There's lots of HCI, AI, and Robot centric groups you might enjoy, e.g., blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

@kris.art thanks for the great starter packs! Have been doing some (I think!) interesting stuff with real-time stable diffusion in various exhibition and performance contexts.. a couple of papers coming out about it soon. Wonder if it'd be interest to you? see designresearch.works/blog/shadowp...

@satnam6502.bsky.social Sam's brother Joe here... I dunno if I qualify as a computing person (does HCI count?!) but if so add me to your pack. Trying to make friends on bsky. Doing lots of playing with physical/realtime interfaces to stable diffusion at the moment: vimeo.com/1029418459

Has anyone “tasted the future” ? (the tag line for this brand of “ai curated” wine) … I don’t want to prejudge, but I have. Struggling to imagine what problem this is solving, apart from possibly how to flog this particular blend of wine for a couple of quid more than usual. Taste test?

Been doing quite a lot of this recently: vimeo.com/1029418459 Got various collaborations with artists, universities, bands and festivals in the works— got any bright ideas… say hi! Build on #streamdiffusion and #touchdesigner

Loving the AI shadowplay that @joegalen.bsky.social and Roger have created!

NIGHT SCIENCE... you should know what it is. See Chapter 6 of Permission to Muck About: vimeo.com/892308873

Currently at #ACMDIS2024 ... where this work was recently presented (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...) which.. coincidentally appears in the second half of chapter 5, which features an amazing snapshot of Design Research projects captured from 2021-2022 - vimeo.com/904212581?sh...

Chapter 5 of Permission to Muck About is split into two parts... this is the first of them and includes reflections from people involved in running the Research through Design conference. Side question - how are we going to bring RtD back to life? vimeo.com/874804494?sh...

"The way you make an omelette reveals your character" - Anthony Bordain The second chapter of our film is concerned with 'Making and Eggs'. Design Research *always* relates to some kind of tacit knowledge and that knowledge is acquired through practice. vimeo.com/867163880

Throughout the film we have little 'behind the scenes' snippets. While Dave (the filmmaker) isn't usually 'in' the film as such, in these parts we actually Dave's personal perspectives in his voice - they're super intimate. vimeo.com/884439689?sh...

Introducing CHAPTER 1 of Permission to Muck About!!!!! vimeo.com/867161637 Super super proud of this and excited to see how it’ll help empower #designresearch The product of over 3 years hard work and a monumental effort from Dave Green (dpgreen.co.uk)

Over at designresearch.works we made a film about Design Research... It just dropped.. Seeking viewers. Here's the prologue: vimeo.com/864797716?sh...

Hello! Two invitations.. both relating to design, knowledge, and research: 1. A film you can watch now on Vimeo 2. An event you could attend in Stirling next month (supported by travel and childcare bursaries if needed) More info here: buttondown.email/designresear...

Really enjoyed working on this piece for The Conversation with @entoptic.media … exploring how the way we think about #genAI models arguably has some resonance with with free speech theconversation.com/ai-a-way-to-... … which in turn is a great argument for responsible #AI licenses www.licenses.ai

The moments when Twitter is nice.. I feel a wam reminiscent glow. But things have changed. I need to remember to use Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/joeg...) I got this little cross posting app working, uses Bluesky as the driver and posts to X and Mastodon. Not sure about threads. Or LinkedIn. Oh god! 🙃

@graydesign.bsky.social my first follow..! And my first message. Hello Colin :-)