Yifan Butsik Feng
@yifanfeng.bsky.social
PhD-ing & RA in HCI/d at UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) & UCL Knowledge Lab - IOE & UAL Creative Computing Institute | Social, Play, Learning, Wellbeing, Inclusion | he/they 🏳️🌈❣️🏳️⚧️
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Chatbots are not neutral. Whomever provides the system prompt sets its agenda. This is on top of whatever biases it picks up from its training data
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
At best this is a misguided idea. At the worst, it perpetuates corruption while making it harder to detect.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
At best this is a misguided idea. At the worst, it perpetuates corruption while making it harder to detect.
Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement
Edi Rama, PM, says digital assistant Diella will make Albania ‘a country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Chatbots are not neutral. Whomever provides the system prompt sets its agenda. This is on top of whatever biases it picks up from its training data
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
At best this is a misguided idea. At the worst, it perpetuates corruption while making it harder to detect.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
At best this is a misguided idea. At the worst, it perpetuates corruption while making it harder to detect.
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📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
August 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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🎓 PhD Studentship Alert 💰
Want to do a fully funded PhD in serious games? 🕹️
We have a studentship open at Imperial on using service design to create games for undergraduate science curricula.
Apply by August 17, UK home students only.
Full details 👉 bit.ly/games-phd-25
@ & DM open, pls share!
Want to do a fully funded PhD in serious games? 🕹️
We have a studentship open at Imperial on using service design to create games for undergraduate science curricula.
Apply by August 17, UK home students only.
Full details 👉 bit.ly/games-phd-25
@ & DM open, pls share!
Designing applied games for deep conceptual learning in undergraduate science curricula – a service design perspective at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Designing applied games for deep conceptual learning in undergraduate science curricula – a service design perspective at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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August 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🎓 PhD Studentship Alert 💰
Want to do a fully funded PhD in serious games? 🕹️
We have a studentship open at Imperial on using service design to create games for undergraduate science curricula.
Apply by August 17, UK home students only.
Full details 👉 bit.ly/games-phd-25
@ & DM open, pls share!
Want to do a fully funded PhD in serious games? 🕹️
We have a studentship open at Imperial on using service design to create games for undergraduate science curricula.
Apply by August 17, UK home students only.
Full details 👉 bit.ly/games-phd-25
@ & DM open, pls share!
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Back when I was teaching HCI and design I used to reject student project pitches if the only benefit they could articulate for their software was "increased convenience" for the user.
The things we lose in the name of "convenience" are often intangible at first. We only feel their loss over time.
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The things we lose in the name of "convenience" are often intangible at first. We only feel their loss over time.
🧵
August 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Back when I was teaching HCI and design I used to reject student project pitches if the only benefit they could articulate for their software was "increased convenience" for the user.
The things we lose in the name of "convenience" are often intangible at first. We only feel their loss over time.
🧵
The things we lose in the name of "convenience" are often intangible at first. We only feel their loss over time.
🧵
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Also the more conferences I go to with more than 500 attendees, the stronger my belief becomes that you should never go to a conference with more than 500 attendees.
April 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Also the more conferences I go to with more than 500 attendees, the stronger my belief becomes that you should never go to a conference with more than 500 attendees.
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If you're in/near Ann Arbor & queer, trans, nonbinary, &/or questioning, please join us for a user feedback workshop for a new face filter app! Receive free pizza + other fun surprises + spend time w/ community + influence future trans tech
Sat. April 12, 5-7pm
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April 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you're in/near Ann Arbor & queer, trans, nonbinary, &/or questioning, please join us for a user feedback workshop for a new face filter app! Receive free pizza + other fun surprises + spend time w/ community + influence future trans tech
Sat. April 12, 5-7pm
RSVP link: forms.gle/anvfm7hp15Hq...
Sat. April 12, 5-7pm
RSVP link: forms.gle/anvfm7hp15Hq...
