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Ruth Stalker-Firth

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March 31, 2026 Musings

I think my husband might be a robot

Of course, I could be wrong, and my husband is not listening at all, but least he is not putting me off with thumbs up, snappy rewrites and personality changes, that AI regularly does now after the latest round of improvements.

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May 26, 2025 Musings

Phenomena (2): Making meaning in files, directories and automated messages

We would never say: I am taking child 1 to the dentist, or bike 1 to the repair shop. So why do we do this when we start organising data or code in files and directories?

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May 23, 2023 Musings

Spiderman’s eight golden rules of interface design

The first time I set a first year undergraduate exam in human-computer interaction (HCI), one of my students answered a

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April 15, 2023 Musings

Chit Chat, Chitty Chitty Chit Chat, ChatGPT

The hype is well underway, and apparently so is the funding and we are looking at a ChatGPT boom. Over

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August 3, 2021 Musings

Designing dialogue

As a computer scientist in human-computer interaction, I spend a lot of time contemplating dialogue, or the interaction between people

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