Dan Bennett

@comic-sans-soleil

Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Aalborg University (prev Bristol, ITU Copenhagen, Aalto) Human autonomy & agency. Humanistic Quant. Complexity methods. Behavioural Science.

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Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Jul 3

Accepted @ #chiplay2026 w @elisamekler.bsky.social & Roosa Piitulainen Can gamepad input tell you about skill-challenge balance? Our results say yes! Points to scalable methods for game adaptation & player-experience research osf.io/preprints/ps...

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Jun 20

Such a great book, I had no idea there could be so many different approaches to observing John Berger.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Jun 12

RIP Nigel Cabourn

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 23

RIP J.H. Prynne. Renowned for his difficulty and single-mindedness (I personally struggle with the last couple of decades) but that forgets how beautiful and lyrical much of his poetry is. "Love" is one of the few poems I could recite by heart

Noble in the sound which
marks the pale ease
of their dreams, they ride
the bel canto of our time: the patient en-
circlement of Narcissus &
as he pines I too
am wan with fever,
have fears which set
the vanished child above
reproach. Cry as you
will, take what you
need, the night is young
and limitless our greed.

—Jeremy Prynne, “Love,” from White Stones

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 19

Strong Summer Palace energy

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Mar 30

I think that's the thing I was dumbly gesturing at: weird era of the virtuoso punk whammy pedal power duo. Haven't spent enough time with Guttersnipe.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Mar 22

Every day at the moment I bike to the sea for at least a little while and read the Daodejing, partly to step back from the feeling of everything being overdetermined by purpose and current events. Some days the Daodejing does not cooperate.

one who assists a ruler by means of the course will not use military might to strong arm the world - such deeds to easily turn back up on their doer.

when things get too strong they begin to grow old. that is called being set off course. what is set off course soon ends

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Feb 28

i am not sure that *anyone* holds the position described in the first paragraph (maybe Hutto but...) and I think the people cited there are better represented (sic) by the second. Lack of citations in 2nd is telling imo. Or am I way off? (e.g., @tonychemero.bsky.social ?)

We then assess the tensions between our proposed framework, and radical enactivist and embodied approaches, which are typically committed to forms of non- (or even anti-) representationalism. On these views, perception, cognition, and action need not involve computational or representational resources. The scope of this claim varies. For some, this entails a rejection of computational or representational models and metaphors in the study of the mind-a staunch commitment to anti-representationalism (Varela et al., 1991; and Gallagher, 2001, 2008; Thompson, 2007; Chemero, 2009). More conciliatory positions instead suggest that basic cognitive processes are without content, but accommodate a place for and contentful cognition. They claim that certain typically human ared forms of cognition involve representations, in the sense that human agents have the dispositions (mechanisms, behavioral over repertoires, etc.) that are required to immersively engage with sociocultural content (e.g., patterned symbolic practices, by linguistic constructions, storytelling and narration).

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Jan 23

I am teaching design this semester, so I'm using that as an excuse to finally read Vilém Flusser. Here's a PDF of The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design if you're interested. memoof.me/read/589/pd For myself, I'm already in the market for two pairs of glasses and a turtleneck.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Nov 7

@sethcooke.bsky.social @clivehenry.bsky.social Dressed like his dad.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Aug 19

Hong Sang Soo - Clare's Camera I want a science reform movement built around this reply.

Kim Min Hee and Isobel Huppert at a table at night.
KMH: "Why do you take pictures"
IH: "Because the only way to change things is to look at everything again very slowly"

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Aug 12

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Aug 9

From The Kingfishers by Charles Olson "We can be precise [...] And the too strong grasping of it, when it is pressed together and condensed, loses it This very thing you are"

We can be precise. The factors are
in the animal and / or the machine the factors are
communication and / or control, both involve
the message. And what is the message? The message is
a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time

is the birth of the air, is
the birth of water, is
a state between
the origin and
the end, between
birth and the beginning of
another fetid nest

is change, presents
no more than itself

And the too strong grasping of it,
when it is pressed together and condensed,
loses it

This very thing you are

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Aug 8

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Aug 4

CHI writing trip back to ITU Copenhagen - whiteboard scrawl in my old office still untouched and evergreen in relevance.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Aug 3

Ah it's just that the ogreskull smashing synthesis is the bit I want to bear the weight. I did agree with OP's take there, but I have wildly particular view on games that nobody needs to take seriously.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Aug 3

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Jul 4

Paul Celan goes hard.

Text on page:
And the too much of my speaking:
heaped up round the little
crystal dressed in the style of your silence.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Jun 17

Me and my Bsky Bubble

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Jun 5

No Tetris pro, but I finally beat my PhD era top score.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· May 2

The situation for trans men is even worse, not that anyone ever bothers to mention them or acknowledge their existence. Many trans men present as extremely male. If they are forced to just walk into a female toilet, that may be highly disarming for many of the women inside. What will the EHRC suggest then? That trans men are barred from men's toilets and women's toilets?

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· May 1

(Most of) The @bristolhci.bsky.social crew at Yokohama this year. I think we all had a pretty great time. Thanks to the @chi.acm.org organizers, and everyone we connected with.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 30

Kevin Munger on the recent Zurich misinformation study open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...

The internet has been strip-mined of human intentionality. The people on this subreddit attempted to cultivate a little garden of shared interest, to mutually enjoy the fruits of reasonable, good-faith person-to-person communication. And these researchers used LLMs to turn them back into lab rats.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 29

Presenting my work with @elisamekler.bsky.social and @blackcorvid.bsky.social at 9:00 F203! #CHI2025

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 27

... and the culture wars they birthed

All things are like this. They begin nicely enough but in the end it gets ugly. They start out simple but end up oversized and unwieldy. Words are like winds and waves, and actions are rooted in gain and loss. Winds and waves can easily shake a man, and gain and loss can easily endanger him. So the rage comes forth for no apparent reason, the cunning words fly off on a tangent, like the panicked cries of a dying ani-

mal with no time to choose. The breath and vital energy come to a boil, and with that everyone becomes bloody-minded. As the feeling of being threatened reaches its zenith the more unlovely states of mind come with it and nobody even notices it-and if they don't realize what is happening to them, there is no saying where it will all end!

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 27

Zhuangzi on social media (ventriloquising Confucius)

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 1

We watched Poor Things the other night. Strong week for films.

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Apr 1

Watching Hong Sang-Soo's On the Beach at Night Alone again. One of my fave films. Kim Min Hee's performance goes incredibly hard. It's kinda Hong's Green Ray. It's not really doing anything differently from other HSS films, but something more basic breaks through www.criterion.com/current/post...

Dan Bennett@comic-sans-soleil· Mar 29

There's a fair bit of this in "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Being attracted to people is good and nice but theres definitely a vibe.