@infinimatt 🏆

🏳️‍🌈🎨💻📢 Happy to share our study of queer artists’ experiences engaging with and contesting GenAI

Looking forward to presenting this work at #FAccT2025

You can read a pre-print here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09805

🧶The intelligent soft wearables workshop is returning at #UbiComp2025 this October in Finland!

We are calling for:
- interactive demos,
- experience/reflection reports, and
- Work in Progress (WiP)/position papers.

**deadline: 6/26/25**

More: softwearables.github.io

Carpets of #CHI2025

(Also, please remember that I am somewhat faceblind; if you say hi and I don’t recognize you, please remind me / let me see your badge. 😅)

I’m at #CHI2025! Let’s hang out, especially if you are interested in outdoors meals.

Also on Core77! https://www.core77.com/posts/136545/Excellent-Industrial-Design-Student-Work-Sapna-Tayals-Quilted-Furniture

Proud of my colleague Sapna, who will be presenting her first-author work next week at CHI — it’s about using our biggest CNC sewing machine to make furniture-scale flat-to-shape items. Here’s an article with gifs: https://www.designboom.com/design/flat-fabric-deployable-3d-furniture-cords-magnets-sewing-machine-sapna-tayal-04-24-2025/

Was in the act of prepping a lecture/activity on “deliberately bad UI/UX” as an approach to game design (as a bit of end-of-semester levity for my class), when lo and behold a new paper by Cormier et al will be presented next week at CHI on this very topic: https://exertiongameslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/sux_chi2025.pdf

@FRiaK I’ve been so hype about this since I saw it in the CHI program!

It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..

Any help spreading the word across all the strange pattern-obsessed communities much appreciated!

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Algorithmic Pattern is a new festival and conference for people curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making, across algorithmic music, arts and craft. The first edition will take place both in Sheffield UK and online, during September 2025.
The call for talks/papers is now open, deadline 2nd June - please see our website for details: https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/
#textiles #weaving #algorave #livecoding #algorithmicart #cfp #conference #patterns #pattern #craft #juggling #siteswap #origami #geometry #ethnomathmatics #choreography

@yaxu @v so many wonderful looms in the world ✨

@yaxu @v (oh ugh the other reply to the earlier post just loaded [mastodon!] so I think I see what you mean! Very cool and I have no idea what it’s called)

@v @yaxu Dobby? (Like, an original dobby with an actual drawboy, not electronic and before the nice handles.)

@yaxu Indeed, and I think often a conference’s own CFP can be wrong about, apparently, what the conference will be about. (I’m remembering sending a paper somewhere with a CFP that was *surprisingly* closely aligned to the paper — to the point that I changed plans to submit there instead of where I had originally intended — and getting rejected with “not on-topic.” 🤷)

@yaxu I attended ISWC (International Symposium on Wearable Computers) 2007, when I was an undergrad architecture student with like a tiny handful of arduino skills but mostly interested in the design/fashion side of things and, tbh in retrospect, also very out of practice at sitting still for lectures. I recall it being almost entirely about technical prereqs for wearability (sensing, wireless comms, battery power) and very little about visual/conceptual design or even usability.

@regehr @infinimatt consider that the interior looks like this: https://flickr.com/photos/matthewpaulson/4548758338 / https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/croick/interior_of_the_cathedral_of_learning_pittsburgh/?rdt=45109

HCII Professor Scott Hudson is now an ACM Fellow! He was recognized for contributions in user interface software, interactive devices & computational fabrication applied to human-computer interaction (HCI). Congratulations, Scott.

🔗 https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/hudson-named-2024-acm-fellow