We were thrilled to have Dr. Rina R. Wehbe at our lab today! Rina is from Dalhousie University and head of the lab HCI4Good Research. Rina shared her work "Designing Persuasively using Playful Elements" where she gave examples of her various projects that explored persuasion for engagement.
Picture of the award
Congratulations to @upolehsan.bsky.social, who won the Georgia Tech College of Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. The impact of his work on human-centered explainable AI (XAI) cannot be understated.
The last chapter of Upol's dissertation also just won an Honorable Mention at CHI. #ProudAdvisor
Yes I agree.
Through your comments, I understand that I tried to do too much in a single poem. There are two different ideas there. I tried to make them work together in 17 syllables. I didn't allow either of them enough space. Thank you, Susan, for showing me how thoroughly that did not work.
"First Nations across British Columbia... Free, prior, and informed consent are not barriers to development but rather the conditions that enable it to proceed in a sustainable way over generations.”
--British Columbia Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Terry Teegee
"All human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions."
A cognitive philosopher's fascinating investigation of the power of expectations: www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/19/t...
Late afternoon sun on the Appomattox River. Seen through branches, the sun glistening on the water.
the river below
and the light
coming apart
in the branches
for a while
that was enough
I did not need
to understand it
only to be there
while the day
gave itself back
to shadow
and the water
went on
#poetry #Appomattox
"But regret is not a skill
that I can teach, but theirs to learn
like whistling, or grief."
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
In the Wild by Jennifer Bowering Delisle (@jenbdelisle.bsky.social) (2025 League of @CanadianPoets.bsky.social) poets.ca/in-the-wild-...
windows flung open
cool morning air rushes in
with birdsong
I trade this spring
for drying of my tears
Fatma Zohra Habis
#TankaThursday #tankapoem #inkMine #poetry #cool
I am sorry that you have tears,
hoping for more birdsong for you and all of us
Jilanne, I love the transmutations of air/e to seed to song
That i soooo nice, Rebecca!
planting season
I scrape last year’s mud
from the shovel
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #senryu
You remind me that corn, beans, and squash are the Three Sisters, helping each other to grow and helping us to grow, too, by feeding us so completely - thereby, we should in turn help them to grow
... and we seemed to be in an unintentional (that word again) dialogue.
Thank you, @andrewssusanm.bsky.social, I began to reflect on what we could know as we move from one state (brightness) to its supposed opposite (shadow). Then I thought of knowing as a kind of intentional act - i.e., when do we *want* to know? Then @lindajeantm.bsky.social wrote about uncertainty...
Beautiful! Is the uncertainty of the first two lines resoved by the awakening of the third line? Or do you/we continue to be uncertain?
#HaikuSaturday #haiku
delicate spring aires--
the silver sounds of
windchimes
dancing in the breeze
monoku:
spring aires the silver-bright sound of windchimes
Please add a version if you feel like it.
Thanks for your lovely haiku, Susan -
welcoming spring gong
windchimes ring to unlock hearts
whose doors spring open?
and as a kenning, maybe -
soul peal
I was once catching up with a few people whose careers I respect to get some thoughts about what to do next and one of them said
"You know, your next thing doesn't have to be bigger than your last thing."
And it remains one of the most creatively freeing things I've ever heard.
This timezone is later than most will read on #haikusaturday. I'm posting late during local Friday for your Saturday reading -
bright summer's shadow -
is not knowing a kind of
knowing how to not?
On the guileless shore
the #seafoam let fall
its salt & debris
tracing fine lines
across the pristine sand
pressing into
the grain of its cloth
Along that innocence
the waves sealed
their dissonance
rhythming the ground
with mother-of-pearl
& what is left to count
#vss365 #poem #blueskypoets
Happy international haiku day!
#haiku
scattered ideas
going in all directions
what was i thinking?
Two muted black and white pages of the book, Stillness of Crows by Gabriel Rosenstock. Artwork by Ohara Kosinski. On the left side, bats fly among the trees and moonlight. On the right: na milte haiku neamhscriofa - sciathain leathair faoi sholas gealaí thousands of unwritten haiku - bats in moonlight
#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu
Happy international haiku day!
From Stillness of Crows, by Gabriel Rosenstock. Artwork by Ohara Koson.
seafoam at my feet
the ocean keeps reminding me
to let things wash through
#vss365 #Seafoam #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets
photo taken looking up at grove of maple trees with young leaves just after dawn; blue and white sky; triple trunk to the left of the photo
morning maples
brewing coffee but
drinking the syrup
#haiku 💚 #ForestFriday
"But this house, this place of gathering,
it shines, if only for a few to see,
if only through the morning."
--Emily Bright on @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social 's @slowdownshow.org
Look thou upon the water
not as mirror
but as manuscript,
for those with eyes to see
shall find, writ in its
fathomless hand, the
signature of eternity.
#vss365
The cover of Unlearning with Translation
"At a time when translation tasks are being outsourced to AI, Bobin reminds us of all the humanness caught up in acts of translation."
On "Unlearning with Translation": lareviewofbooks.org/article/unlearning-with-...
Thank you Susan
learning the weather
through bright purple petal eyes -
who knows who knows what
I'm less confident about a kenning - maybe
shower knower
?
(I hope your technology behaves)
Very sorry
