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Unfinished Business

An AI/HCI Researcher Looks Back

The AI Elder

Every researcher has a drawer full of ideas that didn't get built — projects that ran out of time, funding, or luck. This is mine. Drawn from years at FXPAL at the frontier of human-computer interaction research, these are the things I meant to do. Some of them still deserve to exist.

Two selfies of the same man, older at left and an AI-generated younger version at right, each face in a green detection box.

DaVinci Coding: NudgeCam Revisited

A camera built to coach, not command — and why, fifteen years later, the only question that outlasts every upgrade is who holds the shutter.

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A cartoon older man with silly eyes

The Light We Were Built to See

An unfinished thread on emissive vs. reflective displays — and what's worth chasing if anyone wants to pick it up.

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