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when it comes to faces, proportions matter.
the baby schema (aka 'Kindchenschema') proportions include a big head, big eyes, chubby cheeks and a small mouth.
one research study tried 729 eye/mouth combinations and found utilizing baby schema proportions in the avatar improved facial credibility for participants.
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research limitations: this study targeted older adults in the homecare industry, and focused only on adjustments to the upper and lower face.
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.18047
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when I was coming off anaesthesia dr*gs earlier this year, I dreamed up an app that translates your aesthetic preferences into bubbles that you release into the 'sky' and connects you to others with related interests 😅
still kinda want to vibe code this haha
I got ear surgery today and ofc my instinct is to make a motion graphic explaining how anaesthesia works (should I?)
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the uber-cute, friendly avatar that's all soft curves (and large-eyed in many cases) is definitely no accident.
from a psychology standpoint, those design choices increase the perceived trustworthiness of the avatar, as well as seeming more approachable and harmless.
all things companies want to tap into when they are trying to get customer buy-in for their product.
pretty interesting that the category is converging on the same visual grammar almost comically fast too.
you’ve got a blob, a face, some “eyes”, you gotta give it some soft geometry, add in some emotions via animations, & of course a very friendly affect.
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but wield your cuteness with care!
there are trade-offs. the visual cues of super cute, baby-faced avatars can decrease perceptions of dominance and strength, and even 'intellectual astuteness'.
in a brand context, that could result in being perceived as less competent or having reduced authority.
you need to know your brand voice and goals, both overall and per product, and design your avatar in alignment.
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further reading:
"Impressions of Baby-Faced Adults" by Leslie Zebrowitz McArthur and Karen Apatow
guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf…
"Trust in AI Agent: A Systematic Review of Facial Anthropomorphic Trustworthiness for Social Robot Design" by Yao Song and Yan Luximon
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
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This is so awesome. 👏
I've attempted to map everything in oncology in a public website and open source repo for all.
The site is trying to get all cancers, products, technologies, bottlenecks, people, startup opportunities with 1000+ ideas for upgrading the field.
If you have a loved one with cancer and you are technical or can engineer, go take a look, file improvement requests or bugs or help with the open repo and make this the best open and free info resource for individuals, researchers and educational use.
This should save people time, aid AI oncology projects and generate positive action. If you are not technical just complain in this thread about broken or annoying or things you want and I'll fix them live.
Some of the interesting pages:
Treatments: onco.cc/drugs
A gallery of the molecules being used onco.cc/molecules/
And targets: onco.cc/targets/
The technologies in oncology: onco.cc/technologies/
1100 ideas for helping oncology: onco.cc/ideas/
Bottlenecks on oncology: onco.cc/bottlenecks/
Open questions (LETS GO RESEARCH PEOPLE) onco.cc/open-questions/
Startup requests (LETS GO STARTUP PEOPLE) onco.cc/startup-requests/
Mechanics of cancer: onco.cc/mechanics
Battlefronts: onco.cc/fronts/
Isotope supply: onco.cc/isotopes
Key papers: onco.cc/key-papers
Pipeline funnels: onco.cc/pipeline
Cancer by type: onco.cc/cancers/
Institutional rankings: onco.cc/institutions/
The startups: onco.cc/startups/
Heros and heroines : onco.cc/heroes/
Key medical people: onco.cc/people/
Here is the project roadmap: onco.cc/roadmap/
Models and data sets: onco.cc/models/
There are other views as well, take a browse.
Try making a PR if you have an upgrade to this on the repo here: github.com/judegomila/OnCo
If you are biologically/medically minded and something is wrong, file a bug as well or say on the thread and we will get it fixed live.
If this is a useful project star the repo and help get it calibrated.
I've tried to add some other languages but I cannot speak them so tell me if that doesnt work well.
I believe we will crack oncology and having total information dominance is key to the problem.
Let the feedback flow!
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altering the frame around an object, an image, a space (or when translated beyond the visual, into the written or oral framing of a concept) can completely change one’s understanding and mental model of the original piece.
the context also influences the feeling imparted. different framing devices can leave the viewer with a different mood for the piece, or of the piece (or space, or idea).
i recently read brian o’doherty’s "inside the white cube: the ideology of the gallery space" and the idea that the frame and context around something can completely change how we see it.
reframing information and images through interfaces isn’t new, but it’s never been this easy to build your own ways of looking at things: reorganizing what’s already there, displaying it in ways you actually want to see it, making different connections visible, and creating new relationships between things that are meaningful to you.
my brother, who works in fashion, was making fun of me for spending so much time on codex, so i built a site in a few minutes around something he cared about just to show him what i meant. then i passed on the disease, hooked him up with github and everything, and now he’s making his own portfolio website.
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“Ephemeral agents then appear from backstage and shape shift to act out their role and then exit when their scene (i.e. task) is finished.”
I think the animation side of avatars will continue to grow more important and valuable. Shape-shifting and states will be essential areas for communicating information, but i think also areas for personality and play!
The current trend of presenting agents as employees with jobs feels like it's the wrong grouping to use at the user-facing layer. I get the temptation to represent agents this way because it feels more accessible to the lay person but it misrepresents how the system actually works.
If we think of agents as generic compute inside a constrained system then a better abstraction could be around the task definition itself.
For example, what if we imagined the UI layer like a stage performance with the director (aka user) handing off a task packet that defines the scene and how it should be performed (i.e. tool access, effort budget, prompt instructions, etc.). Ephemeral agents then appear from backstage and shape shift to act out their role and then exit when their scene (i.e. task) is finished.
This would shift the interaction layer’s grouping from personas to tasks and could give users a better mental model of what’s actually happening.
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as agent swarms grow more popular, I’ve been thinking about how agent avatars will adapt to match.
I think gestalt psychology will continue to be important. this is when our brains create relationships, groupings and overall meaning based on principles like proximity, similarity, closure (filling in a missing gap to complete the thing), figure-ground (object vs background), simplicity, etc.
gestalt can also work against you though if you’re not intentional. Like I see a lot of designs that chunks content haphazardly and create visual groupings that inhibit understanding or worse, create false meaning.
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Kim retweeted
The government isn't going to let incumbents weaponize ancient copyright rules against a nationally critical technology.
LLMs are just picking up where the internet left off. Life +70 terms and massive statutory damages per work don't fit the digital age so we'll have to wait and see how far courts are willing to stretch fair use or if congress will have to get involved.
🇺🇸 US government just backed OpenAI :
- The DOJ told a federal court that training LLMs on copyrighted works can qualify as fair use, siding with OpenAI in its copyright fight with The New York Times.
- The government argues LLM training is “extraordinarily transformative” because the models learn generalized language and reasoning capabilities rather than simply reproducing the training material.
- It also made the stakes much bigger than copyright, restricting AI training could hurt US scientific progress, economic growth and national security.
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as a kid, I loved rearranging my room because it always felt like I got a brand new room at the end of it. is the designer version of this refreshing your website? 😅
I used Grok 4.6 in Cursor to update my studio website yesterday and it was smooth! Occasionally had a few hiccups, but debugging was much quicker than in the past.
new site + work + offerings 👇
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