mastodon 4.7.3Assistant Professor 🏳️🌈 in HCI @ UCD
Interested in #BehaviourChange technology, #CognitiveScience related to #Motivation, and #Agency.
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An interesting study from CHI 2023 showed that people are significantly affected by the opinions of bots like ChatGPT. People were more likely to agree with the opinion of a chatbot model (e.g. social media is good for society) after interacting with it.
#chatGPT #AI #HCI
Source: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3544548.3581196
Is Butter Back?
Systematic Review finds that consuming butter has no connection to increased mortality, cardiovascular events, and diabetes.
Just got an email that started with "hi doc" 😏
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Your phone is eating your brain's RAM even when it's completely turned off. In Ep 5 of Antisocial Scientists, we tackle the "brain drain" effect, how your phone pushes you into lazy System 1 thinking , and why a smartwatch is basically "the vape of the smoking world".
Listen here: https://batcamp.org/podcast/incel-lular-attention/
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@justinedwards@hci.social and I talk about the infamous "your brain on chatgpt" paper. Then we explain how the game The Sims can teach us about motivation and decision making.
Congratulations to @phil@hci.social and all the other authors on publishing a fantastic paper on the Partner Modelling Questionnaire.
Being mostly off social media I forgot to congratulate the team on the published paper this year:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3613904.3642542
Congrats @ThomasMildner@hci.social, Orla Cooney, Anna-Maria Meck, Marion Bartl, Gian-Luca Savino, Philip R Doyle, Diego Garaialde, Leigh Clark, John Sloan, Nina Wenig, Rainer Malaka, Jasmin Niess
In 2005, John P. A. Ioannidis published a paper ooutlining how certain biases in our publishing infastructure mean that the majority of research findings are likely false. Do you think that's still the case?
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124&type=printable
23&me was hacked which is exactly why I've never used these services
Black market now selling thousands of profiles, sometimes categorised by race which is real worrying...
@brembs@mastodon.social what's the package called? "raincloudplots"?