I'll try to ride the #CHI2025 coattails to boost the message that I'm hiring a Post Doc to join me in Boston this fall. Come help build a a new initiative in Digital Civics at Northeastern!
#CHI2025
"The vast majority I met, however, just seemed fully captured by the capitalist LLM hype machine, trying to build their academic reputations around validating LLM applications that might promise jobs and continued funding, in the exact same way industry seems to be desperately betting on a techno-utopian deus ex machina to our global unrest about diversity and climate."
from @amyjko 's trip report from #CHI2025 - the largest conference on human-computer interaction.
https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/chi-2025-frayed-edges-4c38ea98069d
"there is a strong sense of losing my country, my right to be in public, my ability to do research... while being crushed by the weight of leadership chaos & the decay of pedagogy has LLM erodes interpersonal communication"
"While pockets of community at #CHI2025 faced similar challenges, the majority of people I met, whether outside the U.S. or in it, just seemed to be in a kind of denial about the instability of the world & the precarity of the status quo"
- @amyjko
https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/chi-2025-frayed-edges-4c38ea98069d
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
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THERE’S AN HONORABLE MENTION RESEARCH PAPER ON DARK SOULS
#CHI2025 #FromSoftware
My co-authors Nihar Sabnis and Donald Degraen will present our paper “CollabJam: Studying Collaborative Haptic Experience Design for On-Body Vibrotactile Patterns” at #CHI2025. In this work, we investigated the design process and communication of haptic designers in remote collaborative scenarios using the CollabJam suite. The paper received an Honorable mention 🏅 (top 5%).
🗓 Thursday, May 1
🕘 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (JST)
📍 Room G316+G317
🎦 Session: Vibration Vibes
If you're curios about how reVISit can help you run your user studies, join us for a meetup at #CHI2025 tomorrow from 9:00-10:30 in Room G218!
“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!
If you are on part of the CHISky here, and at #chi2025, feel free to connect to @travislloydphd.bsky.social , @kkado.bsky.social or @mariannealq.bsky.social who are there (I can help you find them). /fin
Last but not least, @andyzhao.bsky.social presents a cool paper using a natural experiment to understand the effects (and non-effects) of social sanctions from user jury-based content moderation decisions on Weibo (the Chinese Twitter). #chi2025 /11
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
The Effects and Non-Effects of...
Large Language Models in Qualitative Research: Uses, Tensions, and Intentions, led by @mariannealq.bsky.social and @hopeschroeder.bsky.social , is a qualitative study to understand how qualitative researchers use LLMs as part of their practice! Fun stuff + interesting takeaways #chi2025 10/
Large Language Models in Quali...
Finally, two students from my lab are showing great work at #chi2025 that I had absolutely nothing to do with (always fun when that happens -- ok let's file this under "mixed feelings"): 9/
In one late-breaking work, Ben Silver and @sterlingwc.bsky.social nicely show that AI is perceived as less trustworthy and less effective when using emotional arguments to moderate misinfo in private groups like WhatsApp -- remember when preventing misinfo was a good thing? 8/ #chi2025
AI is Perceived as Less Trustw...
. @travislloydphd.bsky.social ran a large quantitative study of AI impact on our information ecosystem and online communities by analyzing subreddit rules for 300,000 subreddits, showing the prevalence of AI rules and what kind of communities enact diff such rules 7/ #chi2025
I was lucky to contribute to a #chi2025 paper w/ Dhruv Agrawal and @imadityav.bsky.social on cultural bias embedded in AI. This online experiment shows that when Indians and Americans used an AI writing assistant their writing became more similar, mainly at the expense of Indian writing styles... 5/
... but we also show that the suspicion of AI used varies based on the demographics of the person writing! People were more suspicious of men (over women) and people with foreign names. #chi2025 3/
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Generative AI and Perceptual H...
A paper by @kkado.bsky.social (with @metaxa.net ) introduces a new concept: the perceptual harms of using AI. It's when you *think* someone is using AI -- and penalize them as a result. Using an online experiment, we show that AI suspicion has huge impact on interpersonal evals... 2/ #chi2025
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