@floe @alarith @sigchi I'll pass the suggestion along to the chairs!

@alarith @floe @sigchi there's no hearsay: it's already live in the #chi2026 page: https://chi2026.acm.org/ (also changes were announced at the closing of #chi2025 ).

Interactivity (now called demos) is its own track as usual (no changes to that track as with most tracks). Other tracks (indeed case studies is a good example) can submit either to full paper or to posters (formerly known as late breaking work, formerly known as Extended Abstracts and formerly known as posters!).

Very excited to see that Phillips has started releasing 3d models of replacement components to 3d print. The emissions savings of using recycled plastic to 3d print instead of having a component ship from China could be as high as 60%, and the emissions impact of replacing an out of production component and not buying a new razor could be >90% (plus rare earths savings)! Very happy with Phillips and hope more companies follow suit. https://www.printables.com/model/1289421-philips-fixables-oneblade-1-3mm-comb/files #3dprinting #righttorepair #solarpunk

🗣I'm offering a paid internship in Kyoto, Japan🇯🇵 Do you have a few months free this year? If you're a Master or PhD student confident in Java and R, good at data analysis, interested in simulations of evolution & want to come to Japan, send me your CV. My email address is all over the internet 📨

Yun Ho is a first year PhD student and Siya Choudhary was my high school intern (she's first author on this paper!). They've worked so hard on this incredible project and #CHI2025 demo, advised by the brilliant Romain Nith who's done so so much work behind the scenes!

Last paper from our lab at #chi2025 is Adaptive muscle stimulation where we found that adapting to users errors and performances increases muscle memory! (Learning by doing!) Really excited about this one starting at 9am at Annex F206 (Siya and Yun are presenting)
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/session/195043

“Seeing with the Hands” is the latest #CHI2025 research from our lab Shan-Yuan with Gene S-H Kim and Xuanyou (Zed) Liu. We explore a sensory substitution that enables a flexible way of seeing (vision-to-electrotactile), e.g., hover an object and feel its shape before grasping if one cannot see! Next talk (in 10m) at Annex F204!

Come on a tour of our #CHI2025 papers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8eoRA-9_Q where you can see me demonstrating our new four devices: a novel sensory substitution for the blind, an adaptive skill-acquisition with muscle stimulation, powering devices when you touch them, and PCB recycling!

Come talk to us at @sigchi / @chi and meet the team, we are around all conference.

#CHI2025 warning: our course (lead by Yudai Tanaka) on electrical stimulation (eg electrotactile, vestibular and muscle!) is sold out!
Super exciting but nothing we can do about its capacity, all hardware was hand made by these folks (https://estim.plopes.org/) and we... sadly... have no more!

(that was a LOT of soldering!)

p.s.: want some hardware for estim at some point or did not get in course? Please let us know using this form: https://estim.plopes.org/request cc @chi

Here is my #chi2025 paper explorer. Visually explore papers by similarity, search for an specific topic or even find what specific sessions to attend. Please let me know what you think! #dataviz @chi

👉🏼 https://johnguerra.co/viz/chi2025Papers/ 👈🏼

[CHI Course on Electrical Stimulation]
Join me & my PhD student Yudai Tanaka at #CHI2025 on Tue, Apr 29 for our hands-on course on "interactive electrical stimulation"—you'll learn w/ our hardware toolkit! Secure your spot via the CHI'25 registration—see you there! estim.plopes.org

Your friendly occasional reminder that, if you want to read an academic paper but it’s paywalled, you can email the author and they are allowed to send you a pdf. You can’t imagine how delighted they will generally be to think that someone actually wants to read their work.

Happy to share the release of pano.chi (https://aspirelab.io/panochi), a place to list para.chi, pre-CHI, and CHI-adjacent events like unconferences! 🌏 Feel free to submit your event! #chi #chi25 #chi2025 #panochi #parachi #prechi #HCI

@seeingwithsound thanks for sharing, quite curious to read this one

Thanks IEEE VGTC and IEEE VR for this kind
"IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Significant New Researcher" award.
Thanks #IEEEVR2025 for an incredible banquet where I got the chance to say a few words and thank everyone for this (here are my thank you slides and the words I said: https://lab.plopes.org/published/2025-VR-LopesIEEEVRAward.pdf )

"#Repair vouchers, which give people 50% off the cost of repairing broken electrical items, will be available from next month in a trial across #NorthLondon. If it is successful, advocates hope it will be rolled out nationwide...A similar scheme in Austria, initiated by the climate ministry, has had a huge impact, with 1.5m repair vouchers used at 3,000 #RepairShops since ... 2022. Experts estimate it has saved about 4,000 tonnes of #EWaste."

https://londonrepairvouchers.co.uk/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/repair-shops-broken-devices-new-lease-of-life

@pedrolopes @alexglow

There is a pretty cool one that also generates a web page automatically:

https://pad.land/

@alexglow self hosted etherpad is a lot of fun for collab Docs

periodic reminder that Barcelona has a supercomputer inside an old church and it's one of the most rad things you can see

Our entire lab is really proud of all the work Jasmine Lu has done so far in her PhD (check https://jasminelu.site/) and this @sigchi award goes to her "pioneering research in ecological HCI through novel hardware interfaces and fostering communities around sustainable computing". See awards list at https://medium.com/sigchi/announcing-the-2025-acm-sigchi-awards-17c1feaf865f wow!