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Sam Goree

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Currently into alternative forms of evaluation in computer vision and NLP. Assistant professor of computer science at Stonehill College. Former data scientist, former NSF graduate research fellow, former music major.

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Joined November 06, 2022

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https://samgoree.github.io/

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Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@csgordon I seriously think the reason some of my students use LLMs to code is because they feel like they know what to write but typing it out with two fingers is too much work. They're also very used to spellcheck and struggle to type correctly without it. Idk if they had computer class, but they definitely didn't master typing before college.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 7mo ago

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If you ever wonder if your research idea is too simple or obvious to get published, submit it anyway. Worst case they reject it. Best case, everyone who walks by your poster instantly understands what you were doing and why.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@csgordon yeah, a lot of that kind of knowledge just requires experience using lots of text editors, but it'd be neat if we could teach them some of it.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 7mo ago

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Here's the link if you want to read our poster proposal https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3770761.3777233

dl.acm.org

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 9mo ago

Have any of you ever taught game design (broadly construed) as part of a first course in human-computer interaction?

I'm exploring an idea for a project assignment and looking for examples.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 29mo ago

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It's been a few months since I've posted on my blog! I have a bunch of half-written posts these days and very little time to edit them, I hope to post more this summer.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 7mo ago

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If it's not, and the government is being earnest, they just handed Anthropic the best marketing they could have asked for, especially in their attempt to win over anti-AI liberals.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 7mo ago

Is the whole openclaw thing going to kill the datacenter boom? I can't imagine many individuals would pay for AI when they can run it for free on their own computers

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 7mo ago

Oh yeah I'm at SIGCSE! If you follow me here and want to meet up, let me know.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 5mo ago

I've had several conversations recently with people asking "why should anyone bother studying computer science now that we have AI?"

I decided to write out my full response to that question in a blog post: https://samgoree.github.io/2026/04/06/why_cs.html

samgoree.github.io

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 6mo ago

It's funny to see users of AI coding agents adopt the deep learning grad student workflow, where most of the thinking is automated, but you are called into action whenever the code finishes running to review the results and set up the next experiment.

This is a really unpleasant way to work, if only because it gives you "free time" but you have no control over when it begins or ends.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 9mo ago

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@jazz@vis.social Thanks! I love Gillian's CS1 design. And I should share this second reference with my friend who uses Twine for his actual psychology research. The course I'm working on is an upper-level undergrad computer science class that's mostly about interaction design. I need a new project for a unit about designing for emotion, and I was thinking about doing something game design-related, but I haven't done anything games-related in over a decade and certainly haven't taught it before.

Sam Goree @samgoree@hci.social

· 9mo ago

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@jazz@vis.social Oh that sounds absolutely perfect. Her book came up in my googling. Thank you!