Dan Bennett

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Lecturer in Multisensory Human Computer Interaction, Bristol University
Human autonomy & agency, psychology, enactivism

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Lecturer in Multisensory HCI at Bristol University

Prev: Post-doc w @elisamekler at IT University of Copenhagen

"Really bad media can exorcise your semiotic ghosts" William Gibson - The Gernsback Continuum

Websitedanbennettdev.github.io
A comic about desire paths

Published today, the 2nd issue of the @tekhne_collab journal edited by Yann Leguay & Marie Lechner, who asked me to write a short article on audio technologies and extractivism which evolved into a meditation on planetary and media-technical magnetisms.

Thanks to Yann and Marie for putting together such an engaging issue and inviting me to be part of it!

https://tekhne.website/journal/issue-2/bluetooth-extractions-geomagnetism-metallurgy.html

tekhnē [Bluetooth Extractions: Geomagnetism & Metallurgy]

The new issue of @ACM ToCHI is now out.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3689044

It includes the paper of mine I'm most proud of to date: Beyond Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Autonomous Motivation in User Experience

We try to push beyond measures of immediate experience to make good on the promise of SDT to address more eudaimonic, life-embedded aspects of motivation.

Thread here
https://hci.social/@dan_bennett/112976685216171961

Beyond Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Autonomous Motivation in User Experience | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Motivation and autonomy are fundamental concepts in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), yet in User Experience (UX) research they have remained surprisingly peripheral. We draw on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to analyse autonomous and non-autonomous ...

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

The new issue of @ACM ToCHI is now out.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3689044

It includes the paper of mine I'm most proud of to date: Beyond Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Autonomous Motivation in User Experience

We try to push beyond measures of immediate experience to make good on the promise of SDT to address more eudaimonic, life-embedded aspects of motivation.

Thread here
https://hci.social/@dan_bennett/112976685216171961

Beyond Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Autonomous Motivation in User Experience | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Motivation and autonomy are fundamental concepts in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), yet in User Experience (UX) research they have remained surprisingly peripheral. We draw on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to analyse autonomous and non-autonomous ...

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

still amazes me how beautifully our cumulative iconicity measure pulls apart distributions & predicts where words fall in both iconicity ratings and guessability experiments — we thought it had to work like this theoretically, but it's another thing to see it work out so neatly

 paper https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00162
blog: https://ideophone.org/anatomy-of-iconicity/

Elisabeth Camp's response to Nguyen's book on agency and games. Consider this an endorsement I guess.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367472465_Agency_Stability_and_Permeability_in_Games

Print-purchasing indulgence today in the amazingly curated www.rovaeditions.co.uk
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