Tom Williams

@williamstome@hci.social
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Human-Robot Interaction researcher.
Director of the MIRRORLab at Colorado School of Mines.

On Bluesky at @tomwilliams.phd.

Lab Websitemirrorlab.mines.edu
Tom WilliamsNov 3, 2023
Dave HowcroftNov 3, 2023

Looking forward to seeing @williamstome present at #UniversityOfEdinburgh this afternoon: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/powerplay-dismantling-the-white-patriarchal-origins-of-robotics-tickets-736403401397

"Dismantling the White Patriarchal Origins of Robotics"

Powerplay: Dismantling the White Patriarchal origins of robotics.

Join AI Ethics & Society for an guest talk about the patriarchal/white origins and legacies in robotics!

Eventbrite
Tom WilliamsOct 7, 2023
ACM CSCWOct 3, 2023
Teleoperated robots are currently used in therapy with children. Learn more about the needs of the people behind these robots in 'Beyond the Session' a new #CSCW2023 paper: https://tinyurl.com/robot-therapy-cscw2023
Tom WilliamsOct 7, 2023
ACM CSCWOct 5, 2023
The health blogging platform CaringBridge expanded its reactions from one 💓 option to a set of four choices: 💓🙏😃😢. How did patient & caregiver users perceive this [contentious!] update?! See new #CSCW2023 work by @estellesmith Hannah Miller-Hillberg and @zwlevonian: https://tinyurl.com/thoughts-prayers-cscw2023
Tom WilliamsAug 29, 2023
Submissions are officially open on PCS for HRI 2024! 😱
Tom WilliamsAug 22, 2023
Jon GilbertAug 5, 2023
Tom WilliamsAug 5, 2023
Heading to Bristol for four months! ✈️
Seeya later USA!
#WritingRetreat
#Sabbatical
Tom WilliamsJul 31, 2023
Clive ThompsonJul 30, 2023

Every time someone talks to ChatGPT for 20 exchanges or so ...

... Microsoft's servers use a half-liter of freshwater to cool down

AI is *thirsty*

My essay on some implications of this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-is-thirsty-37f99f24a26e

A "friend" link, in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-is-thirsty-37f99f24a26e?sk=f5b2ea10c649a34236577139fecfd86a

Tom WilliamsJul 28, 2023
In a bizarre turn of events, we ran into MIRRORLab undergrad Annie Huang on the streets of Sydney while at #CogSci2023! Annie is about to begin a semester studying abroad in Sydney.
Tom WilliamsJul 27, 2023

Now out: a perspectives piece in Communications of the ACM from myself, Cynthia Matuszek, Kristiina Jokinen, Raj Korpan, James Pustejovsky, and Brian Scassellati!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3604632

We discuss the most critical ethical concerns surrounding language capable robots: Issues of Identity, Persuasion, and Privacy.

Check it out and consider sharing with students as a primer on this topic!

Voice in the Machine: Ethical Considerations for Language-Capable Robots | Communications of the ACM

Parsing the promise of language-capable robots.

Communications of the ACM
Tom WilliamsJul 19, 2023
New addition to my office door.