Excited to be co-organizing the #CHI2026 Workshop on Data Literacy for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Visualization, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education. Submissions are due Feb 10, 2026 (AoE). More info: data-literacy-workshop.github.io/CHI26/

In which an elderly puggle, quick change artist, does an impersonation of an alligator 🎃💀🐊 Happy Halloween!

If you want to implement an AI tutor, you need to study it’s performance in naturalistic settings with the kinds of context windows that student learners will provide. You can’t begin with a well formulated question about a single topic. Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.

Still unpacking Thomas Pynchon’s V in my free time 😄 new episode out featuring exciting discussion of the NYC sewer system, alligator hunting, a rat church, and more.

Exercising my literary analysis muscles on a new podcast! To start, we are reading & discussing Thomas Pynchon’s V. a few chapters at a time.

New post: I played the demo for Erenshor -- the single-player MMO --recorded it, and wrote about it!

📢 #CSCW is experimenting with a new format: rolling submissions 🎉 Submit your work when it’s ready! ✔️ PACM publication + CSCW presentation ✔️ Healthier work-life balance ✔️ Faster reviews and more opportunities for revisions More info: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc... #HCI

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation... New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!

New post about Red Rooms and We're All Going to the World's Fair. Two movies about the abyss of the Internet and, oddly enough, the balding weirdo on the other side of the screen. www.patf.io/into-the-scr...

New newsletter up today about my recent one-page outlaw country RPG, THE HIGHWAYMEN, and the 16 year old World of Warcraft machinima music video that ultimately inspired it.

Inspired by the absolute banger and winner of the 1985 Grammy for Best Country Song that is "Highwayman" by The Highwaymen, I finally put together an idea I've been kicking around for years as my submission for the One-Page RPG Jam! Give it a look, or better, a play with some friends.

I started a newsletter! It's called "Critical Theorycraft," and I'll be writing broadly about games, literature, and media every two weeks or so. The first post is up today, and it's about how cool it was to play Nintendo 64 in a hotel room. Toss me your email and you shall be rewarded with posts!

What if–instead of the current paradigm of individual prompting–GenAI afforded communal creative processes? Join us in speculating alt AI futures at #DIS2025, where Lauren Lin is presenting our paper "Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI." dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Two new papers out this week from our research on AI use in college essay writing. We find that 1) students are using AI for ideation and revision when writing essays and 2) AI tends to generate struggle narratives for marginalized gender identities. This may impact how adolescents view themselves.

Come chat with me by a poster at #CHI2025! During the Wednesday AM break I will be with @shallotly.bsky.social discussing journalists' practices surrounding AI (tinyurl.com/y6jmd85k) and during the PM break I will be with Maalvika Bhat talking hands-on AI literacy activities (tinyurl.com/yc2bnenh)

Excited to be at #CHI2025 in Yokohama! Stop by our late-breaking work posters - led by amazing students Maalvika Bhat, Hasti Darabi Pourshiraz, and Charlotte Li @shallotly.bsky.social - on Wednesday to chat (more info in thread)

Excited for my student Richard Zhang to present our paper “Beyond Content: Leaning on the Poetics of Defamiliarization in Design Fictions” this week at GROUP 2025. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

A starter pack of faculty in my department (about 1/4 of us seem to be here so far). go.bsky.app/Bd13T6w

pinned post for new followers - our recent ACM DIS paper on designing interpretable interfaces that facilitate playful learning-by-doing about AI dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

👋🏻 trying to transition to a new platform in light of recent events. Follow for musings and research updates related to creativity, learning, and human-centered AI.