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Ten Thousand Worlds Feb 2, 2024

The next time “your characters meet at a tavern”, kindly raise your cups to honor the memory of Lady Jennell Allyn Jaquays, recently fallen in battle to the dread dragon Guillain–Barré, but whose contributions to D&D will live on forever. 🐲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

https://dallasvoice.com/obituaries-02-02-24-candis-candy-cave-jennell-allyn-jaquays/

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Obituaries • 02-02-24 • Candis “Candy” Cave • Jennell Allyn Jaquays - Dallas Voice

Candis “Candy” Cave, a long-time DJ and club manager in Dallas’ LGBTQ community died on Thursday, Jan. 25, at the age of 68, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital following a years-long battle with cancer. She passed with her wife, Connie Mclain, at her side. Candy worked for many years at several […]

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Peter van der Putten Feb 16, 2023

Why do we bond with 'others'? Could one of the factors be simply a matter of sharing space, time and experiences? Check out our in-the-wild study with couch-surfing robots, and also learn how it relates to the 'intentional stance'. Lead researcher Joost Mollen (Leiden University, now at TU Delft), joint work with Kate Darling (MIT Media Lab). #robot #hri #thri #liacs https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563702

Bonding with a Couchsurfing Robot: The Impact of Common Locus on Human-Robot Bonding In-the-Wild | ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

Due to an increased presence of robots in human-inhabited environments, we observe a growing body of examples in which humans show behavior that is indicative of strong social engagement towards robots that do not possess any life-like realism in ...

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction