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Rua M. Williams
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good time for a reminder that after 2 years of promising this, DMs are not end-to-end encrypted (outside of external services like Germ)
I got the paper together in Dec 2024 with some of my friends, but now the context was AI as a tool of normalization. That paper was submitted to alt.CHI 2025 in Yokohama. Despite getting 16 reviews during the open review process, all rated 4s and 5s, the track chairs decided to reject the paper. 4/5
Finally, it has found its home as the first satire published in ACM RESPECT.
Check it out! "ProMe: Supporting the new Merit-Based Professoriate through AI-powered Robot-Assisted Professional Development" 5/5
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
This piece was written in 2024 and once got nothing but good reviews and was still rejected, but finally here's our satirical research article "ProMe: Supporting the new Merit-Based Professoriate through AI-powered, Robot-Assisted Professional Development." Huge props to @fractalecho.bsky.social.
Someone needs to make a binder with an absorbant, removable, hand washable underboob pad. Signed - Tired of having a literal rainforest in my tits every time.
Yesterday at #RESPECT2026 I presented our satire of AI-powered "professional development" suites.
The presentation was an act where I pretended to be one of the participants giving a live demonstration of the system. 1/5
I first imagined this peice while in gradschool, though the idea was that a corrective "socially assistive robot" meant for autistic children would harass the researcher during a demo until they crashed out. 3/5
The ProMe system admonished me for my ums and for playing with my hair. And for being sarcastic. The robot also evaluated my attire and refused to "pass" me until I removed my vest and tie, and brought out a string of pearls. 2/5
I am so confused why when I ask CS educators how to focus our "interventions" on the institution rather than the students flagged as "at risk" they just blink and look at me like I asked them why they don't have 3 heads.
Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.”
The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.
