👀 🙏 Reviewers needed! This year, we received an unexpectedly high number of submissions for VINCI (lnkd.in/exA3bSDd). Especially the art track. We are therefore urgently looking for program committee members who can help us with the review of submissions.

📢 Due to popular demand we have extended the submission deadline for VINCI '25 by two weeks to June 27, 2025: vinci2025.games.cg.jku.at/call-for-pap... #visualization #conference

📣 Are your research in the field of #visualization? The #VINCI CfP is out: vinci2025.games.cg.jku.at/call-for-pap... Deadline: 13 June 2025 👀 We also have an #Art track as a link between arts, design, technology, and science for creative views and artistic applications! #cfp #conference

We are very excited that we have three contributions related to our @aspbelong.bsky.social project at @chi.acm.org 🤩 #PhD #mentor #presentation #project #AR #XR #playful #CHI2025 1/6

📣 Are your research in the field of #visualization? The #VINCI CfP is out: vinci2025.games.cg.jku.at/call-for-pap... Deadline: 13 June 2025 👀 We also have an #Art track as a link between arts, design, technology, and science for creative views and artistic applications! #cfp #conference

One of my student looking for participants for her survey.. it is about GenAI and your experience with that :) it is very short questionnaire, but necessary for her requirement analysis, thank you : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for speakers - It is the last round (deadline 31 March 2025). We need more speakers with focus on #UX and #GUR :) but also academics who would like to share their research with the game industry. #game #industry #conference #speaker

🤩 Happy in the latest ACM's Interactions our article about the findings that we identified from our one-day MUM'23 workshop "Making a Real Connection: Pro-Social Collaborative Play in Extended Realities—Trends, Challenges and Potentials" is out: interactions.acm.org/archive/view... #XR #VR #AR

Hi, one of my students looking for participants for her survey.. it is about reading books and to take notes. It is very short questionnaire, but necessary for her requirement analysis for her master thesis. If you have time, we are happy for each participant 🙂 : forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Call for speakers - It is the last round (deadline 31 March 2025). We need more speakers with focus on #UX and #GUR :) but also academics who would like to share their research with the game industry. #game #industry #conference #speaker

CfP for our #workshop, "Empowerment, Autonomy, and Social Connections in XR Serious Games," (April 15, 2025, during #FDG in Vienna). Deadline Jan 23. The workshop focuses on #ethical questions in serious #games. More info: xrsocialinteraction.wordpress.com/workshop2025/ #interdisplinary #XR #AR #VR

Are you a student with an exciting game with a focus on Innovative Interfaces or Transformative & Transgressive Play that you would like to present? @jfrommel.bsky.social and me are looking forward to your submissions! Deadline: 23rd Jan. 2025 More info: buff.ly/4fHdkTO #CHI2025 @chi.acm.org

We wish you a happy holiday season and a great year 2025!!! 🦝🎇 Photo by Barry Plott

🎙️ Its out! This one (w/ Aakash Johry, Marnix van Wijland, Regina Bernhaupt, @skriglstein.bsky.social) took a while but happy to report that the pre-print is now online. Right in time for the festive season🎄, in case you're looking for a jolly-good read ;) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Call for speakers with relevant #game industry experience is open at Game Access conference (game-access.com/conference/c...). I would like especially encourage speakers with a focus on #UX and #GUR but also academics who would like to share their research with the game industry.

.. and the paper is now also online available 🙂: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

As more and more of our favorite #HCI venues join Bluesky, I created a starter pack with the ones I found @chi.acm.org @acm-dis.bsky.social @chiwork.bsky.social @mobilehci.bsky.social @ieeevis.bsky.social @acm.org @acm-cscw.bsky.social @ozchi-conf.bsky.social #CHI2025 go.bsky.app/GN935Hq

In this paper we used our VR reading prototype Bookwander to deeply investigate the differences between being absorbed by a narrative and by a virtual environment, and what are the effects of VR visuals on imagining. #VR #MUM #reading

Nikola Kunzova presents our paper "Stories with Style: Narrative, Virtual, and Imaginary Spaces of Reading Fiction in Virtual Reality"(w/Adam Štěpánek, Daniel Echeverri, @langloisdk.bsky.social and @skriglstein.bsky.social ) at MUM www.mum-conf.org/2024/ on 2nd Dec. If you also there, happy to chat

Simone and I are organising the doctoral consortium at the #FDG Foundations of Digital Games conference in Austria next year. Apply on the website, or send us a message if you'd like to learn more! #videogames #research #phd #doctoralconsortium #gameresearch

🎮Are you a PhD student with focus on game/play? Would you like to discuss your research with other students and senior researchers? Apply to #FDG 2025 doctoral consortium. @svencharleer.bsky.social and me are looking forward to your submissions, Deadline: 23 Jan - fdg2025.org/authorinform...

Added about 25 names, and I'll add more every few days! go.bsky.app/VbvmLfK

🧠🤖I just put together a starter pack for CogSci & human-centered AI researchers. Looking to add more folks here— let me know! go.bsky.app/NTjjUwG #cogsci #ai #hci

It's been great to connect with so many people through starter packs. I couldn't find one for researchers working across HCI and health, so I've created one! Many are missing, please let me know if you would like to be added/removed or if you have any recommendations. #HCI #Health

HCI + work go.bsky.app/ABedduL

HCI + methods go.bsky.app/NRNhWZK

Our EU project is now also on Bluesky 🎉 #game #xr #AR #mentalhealth #interdisciplinary

📢 Call for Submissions Join us at "Empowerment, Autonomy, and Social Connections in XR Serious Games" at #FDG25 in Vienna! 🌍 🗓️ Workshop: April 15, 2025 📝 Submission deadline: Jan 23, 2025 🎮 Focus: Ethical questions in serious games Details: xrsocialinteraction.wordpress.com/workshop2025/

Our #HCI lab is now also on Bluesky 😊🦝

CfP for our #workshop, "Empowerment, Autonomy, and Social Connections in XR Serious Games," (April 15, 2025, during #FDG in Vienna). Deadline Jan 23. The workshop focuses on #ethical questions in serious #games. More info: xrsocialinteraction.wordpress.com/workshop2025/ #interdisplinary #XR #AR #VR

#HCI Starter Packs: HCI Researchers: go.bsky.app/p3TLwt HCI + Games: go.bsky.app/CTm8Qea HCI + Accessibility Researchers: go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP XR + HCI Research: go.bsky.app/8Tdtocp

HCI researchers starter pack. Lets you follow a bunch of HCI people at once (which the HCI list didn't let you do). Again, ask to be added if I missed you. go.bsky.app/p3TLwt

Accessibility folks—upcoming game jam for blind/low vision-accessible games! Cc: @stevesaylor.social

I did the thing again!! If you’re a woman or other marginalized gender actively working in the boardgame/tabletop industry—let me know to add you! 🎲✂️

Reposting this, now with more HCI & games folks here: What papers do you know that articulate what HCI can learn from (some aspect of) games and play???? Also, check out the paper by @snapdragoness.bsky.social and colleagues below. It's a beautiful example imo.

There are so many great starter packs to help newcomers to find the community. I just created one for HCI + Games, hope this can be helpful to find us also here on Bluesky. Many are missing, so please let me know if you like to be added. go.bsky.app/CTm8Qea

🦋 Looking for some great accounts to follow? May we suggest all of the #Gaconf speakers we've managed to track down so far? A great mix of game devs, accessibility advocates and disabled gamers all in one place! #gamedev #a11y go.bsky.app/JCwPeM3

Missing some people and many aren't on BlueSky but it's a start! (Please let me know who I'm missing and/or if someone made a better starter pack and I should just use that one.) #TTRPG

For all the new folks arriving, both #indiegame developers and players alike, I've got some starter packs below you might find useful 👍 🔸 Indie Game Studios - go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d 🔸 Solo Indie Devs - go.bsky.app/46HSs4C 🔸 Indie Game Publishers - go.bsky.app/DAoKtHj

HCI + Design Researchers starter pack. Ask to be added if I missed you. go.bsky.app/EC3bYhx

There are so many great starter packs to help newcomers to find the community. I just created one for HCI + Games, hope this can be helpful to find us also here on Bluesky. Many are missing, so please let me know if you like to be added. go.bsky.app/CTm8Qea

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

I created a starter pack for human-AI collaboration in case that this would be helpful for some newcomers, which overlaps with several existing starter packs. Let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/MRV1Wa1