Anhong Guo

Have you ever wanted to learn the Rubik’s Cube but felt overwhelmed by complex solution guides or fast-paced video tutorials?
If so, our work—Rubikon, an augmented reality intelligent tutoring system, might be what you need! #DIS2025

I really dislike this sentiment re: AI impacts on education: If an assignment can be completed by AI then it is clearly just busy work; educators need to create better assignments.

Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.

A table showing 75% cuts to senior researchers, postpone, graduate students, undergraduates, teachers, and youth.

The administration’s vision of science in America is that we do 75% less of it. That means more death, less progress, more ignorance, fewer experts, fewer educated people, all to make billionaires wealthier.

If you want to see the planned impact on science with the proposed National Science Foundation cuts, this table in particular demonstrates it most devastatingly. Going from 330,000 people to 90,000 people involved in NSF activities. #SaveNSF

From: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

screenshot from the NSF budget request to congress showing that the number of people involved in NSF activities will drop from 330,100 to 90,000.

The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.

This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

A Letter to the Computing Research Community from Greg Hager Last week, CRA shared the news that Greg Hager would be stepping down as NSF Assistant Director for the CISE Directorate. As a follow-up to that announcement, we are sharing the following letter fr…

🧪 The head of NSF's computer science directorate, Greg Hager, just resigned.

"My ability to carry out my vision, to provide a voice for computing research, and to provide authentic leadership to the community are diminished to the point that I can have more impact outside NSF than within it."

This ‘quintessential college town’ charms visitors with big-time sports and a bustling cultural scene | CNN Ann Arbor is best known as home to the University of Michigan, where 115,000 fans pack the largest football stadium in the country on game days. But the city has many other attractions to offer visito...

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/t...

Happy Birthday, #NSF. Thank you for all you’ve done for promoting science and innovation for the betterment of society. #SaveNSF

Uggghh… more harmful and destructive shenanigans going down at #NSF

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

Congrats to Ruei-Che Chang for receiving the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship!! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks Apple for the support!

Specifically in the AI for Accessibility category, previous awardees include: Zhuohao Zhang, Venkatesh Potluri, and Rachel Franz.

Announcing the 2025 Apple Scholars in AIML Apple is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship.

Apple Scholars in AIML -- check out Ruei-Che Chang (PhD student at Michigan CSE working with @anhongguo.bsky.social

from his bio, "developing agents capable of understanding and describing real-world surroundings for individuals who are blind…"

machinelearning.apple.com/updates/appl...

Amidst a lot of uncertainty these days, @shaunkane.bsky.social and I re-affirm our commitment to diversity and community for ASSETS 2025. With that in mind, accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, regardless of presentation/attendance modality. Please see our blog post for more.

New talk: "Personal Assistive Technology"

I described our vision towards empowering people with disabilities to leverage their domain expertise and creativity to create and customize assistive technologies for themselves.

Please check it out! youtu.be/-gxy0_z5oYA

Thanks, Ben! We had a lot of fun hacking the autoclickers for the BrushLens project.

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

Relatedly: I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Accessibility Is Taking a Hit Across the Sciences (Gift Article) Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.

There’s much talk about how early career researchers are getting shafted. Researchers with disabilities and those who are working hard to maintain mentoring pipelines: hold my beer.

Accessibility has always needed to be part of DEIA, and we shouldn’t change that now Disability and other identities are intrinsically linked together…. It is critical to recognize that, in the words of Audrey Lorde, “We do not live single issue lives” and commit …

I spent a few days putting this together--the labor of trying to document, and counter, problematic narratives is what I could give, since I have had very high symptoms last few days. make4all.org/2025/02/18/a...

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.

This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

How Disruptive Is DeepSeek? Stanford HAI Faculty Discuss China’s New Model Experts weigh in on the implications of DeepSeek’s open-source model and its impact on technology, geopolitics, the arts, and more.

In this collection of perspectives, @stanfordhai.bsky.social senior fellows offer a multidisciplinary discussion of what #DeepSeek means for AI and society at large. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-dis...

@chrmanning.bsky.social @jlanday.bsky.social @yejinchoinka.bsky.social @amyzegart.bsky.social

As this platform grows, I thought I'd share a starter pack of #XR + #HCI researchers I've come across! This includes individuals exploring augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and related areas.

Let me know if you would like to be added or have any recommendations!

#VR #AR #MR

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

Photo of Pedro Lopes and the title of the talk. Time is at 11.45 on Monday @ Beyster 3725.

Visiting @umichigan.bsky.social on Monday and giving a talk about my lab's work on Human-Computer "Integration" (lab.plopes.org). If you are around and have time to meet, please DM; looking forward to my 1st time in Ann Arbor. Thanks @anhongguo.bsky.social & Michael Nebeling for inviting & hosting!