Fraser Allison

Researcher of games, memorial technologies and voice interfaces.
No longer using Twitter beyond the odd news update.
Possibly at @[email protected]

[Wayward Strand @WaywardStrand]

Thursday, 2:30pm – 3:30pm in the ‘Auditorium – JMC Academy’ (Level 2, 561 Harris St) #SXSWSydney
With @marcusdcarter @madmacsfuryroad @heresathought and @sodapop_exe 🖤💀

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

I'm speaking at @SXSWsydney next week about death and games, alongside @marcusdcarter, @madmacsfuryroad and Susan Dang from @ghostpattern.
https://t.co/oGOCuLI1sX
(I'm no longer using Twitter besides the odd news update, see my profile for other ways to keep in touch.)

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@madmacsfuryroad Oh, that's what I meant to use! Copy-paste error. 🤕 I'll delete and re-post

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

Guess I have to remove this from my profile

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

We've entered the Berlin Wall stage of Emu's free speech utopia

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@OlufemiOTaiwo Fall Of Civilisations is very good

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@binarythis No, definitely not. Not unless there was something contextual reason to connect them.

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@binarythis I'm happy to be part of it 🙋

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@khornbaek Huh, I've never thought of that possessive connotation. To my mind "our approach" doesn't usually mean "the approach that's ours", but simply "the approach we took" (hah, the possessive language is hard to escape!)

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@DilishaBP My playlist has been a single two-minute track of soothing white noise on infinite repeat 🙉🎧 https://t.co/EUaolYPAvg

[Ben Rubinstein @bipr]

📢 We're hiring continuing (equiv. tenure track) 4x at @cis_unimelb @engunimelb @UniMelb in ML, TCS, fairness, IS. Looking for ppl passionate about research, teaching, engagement to come to beautiful Melbourne 🇦🇺 for great 🧑‍💻🐨☕️. Pls RT 🙏 1/5

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@zornsllama @Xavier_Ho I'm searching for the "dislike" button for this one 😫

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@acagamic Listening to the How To Write CHI Papers podcast and wincing every time someone gives the advice to get it done early

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@pryno @MattCowgill Even if rates only go down, that seems like better news for the 16% interest rate loan than for the 4% interest rate loan. Point is that comparing initial repayments doesn't tell the whole story either. But I'm not an economist, maybe I'm missing something.

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@pryno @MattCowgill This chart tracks *initial* repayments on a new mortgage, right? So what happens to those repayments over a 25-year loan term? As interest rates regress to the mean, presumably the initially-higher-interest loans get cheaper and the initially-lower-interest loans more expensive?

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@DanaChatter It's a bit like one of these lost in cross-cultural translation things. (By the same token we should also make sure our praise is clear and direct!) https://t.co/0d2HMgkWZL

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

What British people say and what they really mean...

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

I wonder about this when marking university essays. Since students come from a range of communication cultures, the indirectness of the feedback sandwich seems like a real hurdle to their understanding.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Kill the feedback “sandwich” 🥪!

The sandwich (start with something positive, then the negative, then something positive) is bad: it backfires - not changing incorrect behavior while also upsetting the recipient.

Don’t manipulate, here are feedback tips: https://t.co/pXLp870ZM3

[Fraser Allison @heresathought]

@DanaChatter I agree we should remember to point out good work and not only bad. But burying criticism in praise back-to-back can obfuscate it, I think. I see some int'l students look confused and miss the message when someone's making a long diplomatic point rather than a short direct one