Tegan Roberts-Morgan investigated sensory-emotion correspondences in children and how this can inform design for cross-generational communication. She used a story-based experimental method to study how children form, articulate and communicate associations between touch, scent & emotion.
In brief: @elaineczech.bsky.social's paper investigates how participatory design processes can support user agency and positive interdependence, through the lens of Wenger's Communities of Practice framework. An analysis of community-based participatory design with people living with dementia
V nice to find out this morning that we have two #CHI2026 best papers. First authors @elaineczech.bsky.social and Tegan Roberts-Morgan, plus a host of other great folks from @bristolhci.bsky.social at @compscibristol.bsky.social
Preprints forthcoming!
a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
Yes in practice I think the conciliatory position they go on to articulate in the rest of the paper *is* something that is expect all of the above to disagree with.
inclusive "and" there: the first scoping of anti representationalism understood as entailing rejection of dispositions etc..
because as you say, the sense of "representation"-use being sketched doesn't require computation or sub-personal representations.
Broadly I like the paper but there's some motte-and-bailey re meaning of representation.
Ah sorry, I was being v imprecise. I would expect you all to hold that PAC doesn't entail computation. I mean to point to the two "scopings". I don't think many people (including you?) fit the first of these and reject the "conciliatory position" as characterised?
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exactly. Put better than I was able.
sorry you're right - I misread that block of references in the middle as a line break.
Also I'm being slow: PAC?
Burnham was the only plausible path out of this imo: balancing coherence of Lab self image with acceptance of room to manoeuvre on their left. I think they're now a walking corpse and will be for a decade. Like tories. And as shit as both already were, the undeath will be worse.
Admitting Reform voters are real does not compromise Labour's ability to continue with their model of themselves as a broadly progressive force. Admitting Green voters are real is an existential threat and requires ideological adjustment nobody in the party is capable of, without splitting.
If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.
But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
(I like this paper quite a bit btw. @mjdramstead.bsky.social et al. Cultural Affordances 2016. No shade intended. Also 10 yrs old and I get the impression positions have nuanced in the meantime)
We then assess the tensions between our proposed framework, and radical enactivist and embodied approaches, which are typically committed to forms of non- (or even anti-) representationalism. On these views, perception, cognition, and action need not involve computational or representational resources. The scope of this claim varies. For some, this entails a rejection of computational or representational models and metaphors in the study of the mind-a staunch commitment to anti-representationalism (Varela et al., 1991; and Gallagher, 2001, 2008; Thompson, 2007; Chemero, 2009). More conciliatory positions instead suggest that basic cognitive processes are without content, but accommodate a place for and contentful cognition. They claim that certain typically human ared forms of cognition involve representations, in the sense that human agents have the dispositions (mechanisms, behavioral over repertoires, etc.) that are required to immersively engage with sociocultural content (e.g., patterned symbolic practices, by linguistic constructions, storytelling and narration).
i am not sure that *anyone* holds the position described in the first paragraph (maybe Hutto but...) and I think the people cited there are better represented (sic) by the second. Lack of citations in 2nd is telling imo. Or am I way off? (e.g., @tonychemero.bsky.social ?)
I'm really glad you liked it. I agree - that's such a big and incisive observation. I have to think harder about his comments on the asymmetry between purpose and purposelessness, but I'm really attracted to the idea.
I don't know much Latour, but I'll definitely take a look at that one - thanks.
(I am also open to "no it was not cool 20 years ago, you were just 20 years younger and more attracted to edginess)
The Puppet and the Dwarf was kind of cool 20 years ago, poking at the dull 4 horsemen atheism of the 2000s. I'm not sure who needs to care about Zizek's "does he mean it" revolutionary Christian atheism in 2026.
Whereas I am v much here for a take on how local purpose arises within purposelessness.
Brook Ziporyn wrote a book that traces a line through Zhuangzi, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bataille. This is exactly what I want to read at the moment.
Ignore the clickbait title and skip the discussion of Zizek to about 18 mins. The rest is a discussion of that book.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a09z...
@sethcooke.bsky.social - relevant to your interests
"Switzerlandβs military has terminated its contract with Palantirβ¦ following a security auditβ¦ concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense dataβ¦ significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...
#R4Today
This weird tape of virtuoso sheng noise performance is great but I haven't seen it yet any props.
More generally Dusty Ballz is a great label with a great name.
dustyballz.bandcamp.com/album/noisin...
Lionel Richie
Lionel Messi (born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team.
I definitely agree. Some activities bring this stuff to the fore (yoga, gaming, skilled performance in general). I also think these things are more or less conscious rather than on/off, though
We do often find ourselves saying things like "yeah, that just felt (wrong/great) as I was doing it", etc., even if at that moment we can't articulate precisely why. And then we may go on to pull it apart.
I personally think all of this stuff is somewhere in that bracket. That's one reason I find the aesthetic feelings (where they do arise) interesting. They feel like a conscious window or marker onto complex processes that we manage better without too much burden of conscious control.
Maybe the whole mindful eating thing is this and this is just something we don't have names for. Maybe other cultures attend to the aesthetics of mastication.
I can't think of aesthetic sensations wrt your own action here though. Maybe tough guys get a feeling of power from their clean technique in biting through a thicc steak tho? Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough.
Otherwise, mouth feel & texture? Tho more about the (external, moments ago) morsel.
