About to set out for Day 5, the last day. Five miles from Aberaeron to Llanarchaeron and back, but only a mile of that needed to reach 65 miles! Set to be heatwave today, but will be finished well before the heat of the day sets in.
www.justgiving.com/page/alan-di...
Excited to present our paper "Accidental Spreaders: How Different Roles Interact During Misinformation Discussions" at #ECSCW at @newcastleuni.bsky.social in July. Written with @docwarner.bsky.social, Lynne Coventry and @martacecchinato.bsky.social - read it here: dl.eusset.eu/items/9e3b2c...
Submit to the 👥 Doctoral Consortium 📚 for #CSCW2025!
📆 Deadline: May 9th, 23:59 AOE.
📍 The DC will on October 19th in Bergen, Norway.
The DC provides a forum for promising PhD students to present and develop their dissertation research.
More details at the link below ⤵️
cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
Watch my recent talk at Cambridge, "Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities," here: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/sec...
Consider submitting a paper to the 15th Int. Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST)
Affiliated with EuroS&P (stast.uni.lu).
Deadline 13 March 2025 (AoE).
STAST intends to stimulate an exchange of ideas on systems that are secure in the world where they interact with users.
After many requests, we have extended abstract/paper submission deadlines by a few days ! Abstract by March 3 and full papers by March 6.
Full information here:
worma.gitlab.io/2025/
(w/ @simone-aonzo.bsky.social and Vera Rimmer)
Reminder: STAST EuroS&P workshop submission deadline is 13 March 2025.
Consider submitting a paper to the 15th Int. Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST)
Affiliated with EuroS&P (stast.uni.lu).
Deadline 13 March 2025 (AoE).
STAST intends to stimulate an exchange of ideas on systems that are secure in the world where they interact with users.
📣Our paper: “‘Edit: I’m sorry for being offensive, this is getting downvoted and i feel terrible’: Implicit Social Norms as Governance in Identity-Based Communities” just got accepted to #CSCW2025 @acm-cscw.bsky.social @docwarner.bsky.social!
Pre-print here: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
I'm not a robot, just a human giving free labour at significant environmental cost
"512 billion reCAPTCHAv2 sessions ... translates into at least $6.1 billion USD in free wages, [consuming] about 7.5 million kWhs ... corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO2" arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911
Purple text with paw prints that says "PUPS practical usable privacy and security @UAlberta"
I am recruiting 2 PhD students and 2-3 masters students to join my group at UAlberta in Fall 2025!
PhD: I'm looking for people who are either,
(1) Background in HCI and interest in privacy research
(2) Background in cryptography or systems security
Application FAQ bkacsmar.github.io//advising/
@puddlelogic.bsky.social see, guilt!
It's nearing the end of the semester, and here is an easy teaching exercise related to technology ethics that I think makes a fun wrap-up. This document has the "assignment" version, but often I just do this whole thing as an in-class activity. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Our research group just landed on Bluesky!
interesting freak out going on here
spending all this time building sandcastles then thinking the sea was just a flaw in the experimental procedures
h/t @murraygoulden.bsky.social
www.slate.com/articles/hea...
Ohh, is this an accessibility issue then! Should we advise authors to turn this off?
Check out our new article in ACM interactions:
Scent and Space: Navigating Smell Interactions in 🏙️Public, 🏠Private, and 🥽Virtual Spaces
doi.org/10.1145/3696...
Insights:
→ Scent's ability to evoke memories and emotions
offers opportunities to deepen connections
🧵(1/2)
Our #HCI lab is now also on Bluesky 😊🦝
Very excited to hear Ding discuss her work on #responsibleAI today at Bristol Interaction Group's online HCI seminar BIG TALK. All welcome at 2pm GMT, see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1060412194...
Hi all! For those who don’t know me, I’m a digital health and care CDT student at the university of bristol looking at sexual reproductive health in cystic fibrosis taking an HCI approach to my research. I’m currently a year and a bit in ☺️
I hope there’s a CSCW/social media/internet researcher doing a study on Bluesky’s “Starter Pack” feature!
(Social network analysis? Its affordances? How people rhetorically talk about them? So many directions!)
Could I be added too! HCI researcher (online privacy and safety) at UCL, UK
A circular network visualisation showing Bluesky interactions. The visualisation contains multiple cluster formations (about 6-7 visible clusters) arranged within a circular boundary. Each cluster shows a central node with many direct connections radiating outward, representing starter pack follows.
More starter pack follows 💙
Casey’s videos are an incredible resource to anyone applying for PhDs (esp #HCI ones)!
Idk if I would be in a PhD program without them
Increased NI hike consequences: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2473192... People will lose jobs, and it isn't likely to be those at the top!
Group picture of 20 members of the 2025 CSCW organizing committee, standing in front of a large painting at the San Jose (Costa Rica) convention center.
I'm excited to be co-chairing CSCW 2025 (@acm-cscw.bsky.social) with Fabiano Pinatti. Please follow CSCW here on Bluesky and/or on Mastodon (hci.social/@cscw), as we will no longer post to Twitter. #cscw2025
Here's a pic of some of the amazing 2025 organizing committee!
🔴 Fully funded studentship for (UK or international) PhD students to join my research team at Oxford. AI fairness, HCI, privacy, policy.
We study the impact of data-centric technologies on society, and independently evaluate algorithms and human-AI interactions.
Please kindly repost and share!
Bluesky Social as the #1 free app in the App Store rankings
Bluesky stuns in new App Store ranking
Finally getting on 🦋 for #CSCW2024! If you’re working on online communities, collective action, or TikTok, I would love to chat!
I’ll be presenting a poster on Tuesday morning on media narratives of youth online safety.
