Writing is a lot like weight training. You won't be able to lift a lot at first. You start small. Short session, light weights. Day by day though you get just a *little* stronger. Eventually your sessions get longer, the bars get heavier, and everyone says "I could never do that." Just like you did.
Posts by James Spann
Google scholar link with the title of the paper and a "1" indicating another paper has cited it
My first first-author paper got cited last week!๐๐
I want to bike this loop!
I wrote a blog about how we engaged with Senior Highschool students giving them an HCI crash course.
Details in the image and in the link below
๐๐ป jrdndj.medium.com/hci-in-seven...
Looking closer at the US DOT table in the first section, NYS owns about 16% of the roads which handle 49% of the traffic! I wouldnโt have guessed that!
A new article about the work we're doing to support hearing caregivers and their Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children! Super proud of what we've been working on and thankful for the people I work on this with!
Help with CHI Late Breaking Work program! We are looking for associate chairs (ACs). Not only is the LBW an excellent track for our community to show new work at CHI, but it is also an important step to train new ACs in our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #hci #CHI2025
Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities.
For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship).
Good luck!
Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Leaves covering the quad on a school campus
Colorful leaves in front of a long green quad
Autumn on the Rochester campus!
#roc #nature #sky #photography
Join here!
You can do it through Bluesky (they partner with Namecheap) and then make it your username. Outside of that I use porkbun for my other domains
Last night I threw together a script to record my Bluesky follower count and save it to a file. I'm using it with cron so I can build a trend line later
Link is below if you want to use it yourself (the username and password fields are left blank)
gist.github.com/jspann/2a1b9...
One for HCI
Just setting up my blusky