Or maybe their chasing it because it's a highly relevant topic that might impact lots of people around the world, you know, a kind of human-computer interaction.
Just the response I would expect from an academic.
Just the response I would expect from an academic. Universities are charity-businesses with an educational interest.
Sadly I think this is a significant part of it. It is so very hard to convince anyone in CS to fund unsexy projects. I think the majority of innovation on the unsexy things happens internally at the large tech companies.