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Nov 13, 2025

The State Machine Professor

Memory Management for Your Mentor

The State Machine Professor

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Feb 9, 2018

A Punch Is Just A Punch: Generating vs. Editing Text

I talked about my love of writing in another post, and how this has been a great help in my own career as an academic where so many…

A Punch Is Just A Punch: Generating vs. Editing Text

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Jun 22

Design Fixation with LLMs

On settling too soon, and on a machine’s idea

Design Fixation with LLMs

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Jun 16

How to AI

A Guide for HCI Researchers

How to AI

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Jun 9

The Tyranny of the Rejected Paper

Don’t let a single “no” hold your whole research program hostage

The Tyranny of the Rejected Paper

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Jun 2

Spinning Plates (and the Professors who Spin Them)

The secret to managing your time is to keep moving.

Spinning Plates (and the Professors who Spin Them)

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May 29

The Right Model for the Job

On sharp knives, sledgehammers, and cheese shops

The Right Model for the Job

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May 20

Conversations with Claude

Voice as an epistemic tool for thinking

Conversations with Claude

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Apr 20

Fighting Procrastination

The dark beast that stalks all academics

Fighting Procrastination

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Apr 17

The Second Best Time to Plant a Tree

Reflections on my twenty years of the CHI conference

The Second Best Time to Plant a Tree

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Villum Investigator, Fellow of the ACM and IEEE, and Professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University.

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