Publications

(2024). Computers as Bad Social Actors: Dark and Anti-Patterns in Interfaces that Act Socially. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 8, Issue CSCW1, Article No. 202, pp 1–25.

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(2024). The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants. Google DeepMind.

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(2024). Designing for Sustained Motivation: A Review of Self-Determination Theory in Behaviour Change Technologies. Accepted for review at Interacting with Computers: Special Issue on Self-Determination Theory in HCI. arXiv:2402.00121 [cs.HC].

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(2024). What Makes for a 'Good' Social Actor? Using Respect as a Lens to Evaluate Interactions with Language Agents. Under review at Minds and Machines. arXiv:2401.09082 [cs.CL].

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(2024). I finally felt I had the tools to control these urges': Empowering Students to Achieve Their Device Use Goals With the Reduce Digital Distraction Workshop. To appear in Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA. 11-16 May 2024.

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(2022). Designing to Support Autonomy and Reduce Psychological Reactance in Digital Self-Control Tools. Paper presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Workshop: Self-Determination Theory in HCI: Shaping a Research Agenda. New Orleans, LA, USA. 29 April-5 May, 2022.

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(2020). Not Cheating on the Turing Test: Towards Grounded Language Learning in Artificial Intelligence. Master’s thesis, Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University. arXiv:2206.14672 [cs.CL].

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(2019). Meeting Them Halfway: Altering Language Conventions to Facilitate Human-Robot Interaction. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 56: 97-122.

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