No matter how long you have been part of it, academic life is characterized by rejection.

Please share: I’ll be building a team of three PhD students and a postdoc. So let’s get in touch if you're interested in pioneering research on Mixed Reality collaboration! 🔗 Read more about the BRIDGE project on this website: blendedrealities.jensemil.dk/erc-grant/

📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Our 20yr old daughter is off to study for 3 years to the Netherlands, where we first moved to 23 years ago, almost to the day (18/8/2002). As she hugged me goodbye she said “dad, thanks for all the help ❤️” 🥹

It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola. In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses: ✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process ✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs ✅ Open access (!)

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference #dis2025 are now online! dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... @acm-dis.bsky.social

👑 @blumineck.bsky.social

Wonderful talk by @qveraliao.bsky.social on bridging the socio-technical gap in AI.

DL just around the corner! Apply by May 15 if you're interested in advancing research on theory translation and games

Our ever smiling boy was born 🎂 on #MothersDay. Seventeen years later, both celebrations fall once again on the same day. Congratulations to both and to all mothers out there! ❤️

Sayōnara Yokohama! Safe travels back from #chi2025 everyone!

Ok, so apparently CHInosaur was active on the other site during #chi2025. For a while, I thought CHInosaur had evolved into @chiyote.bsky.social. Perhaps not? 🤔

I hope I can be half as awesome as the #chi2025 keynote speaker, Wakamiyu Masako, when I grow up. She’s a technology legend at 90!

Masako Wakamiya’s #chi2025 closing keynote ‘Designing Beyond Age: Rethinking Inclusion and Interaction in a 100-Year Life’: “elderly people will eventually find it difficult to go out […] and may think this is impossible to escape [but] with digital technologies, it’s no longer impossible.”

The sun rises over Yokohama for the last day of #chi2025!

Concept artist @kortizart.bsky.social (Marvel, Dr. Strange) at the #chi2025 panel on “Forging an HCI Research Agenda with Artists Impacted by Generative AI”: “Consider concept artists’ hard labor that is taken for free. […] It’s really disrespectful.”

After lunch, please come see @notsarahsong.bsky.social’s #chi2025 talk: “Walking in My Shoes: An Autoethnography of Techno-Spiritual Practices” Spirituality and Legacies session in room G304.

This morning in room G414+G415 at 9:00, I'll be chairing a very special #CHI2025 session: More than Human 2. Forests, wood, lemurs, cats, creeks, ecologies and aesthetics. What's not to like? Please join us!

@mutalenkonde.bsky.social’s #CHI2025 opening keynote: “Internet culture was pioneered by the far right. […] Those of us who think about the #sociotechnical would’ve been able to advise our computer science colleagues that Nazi-ism is common in Internet culture and we need to design around it.”

#CHI2025 had 5020 submissions—1,249 accepted papers—for a 24,9% acceptance rate!

Indeed, where is #CHInosaur? #NomNom #chi2025

If you are at #chi2025 you should go to an altchi session. It’s the last time altchi will ever run and your last opportunity to see its joy, creativity, and alterity. There is nothing like it dont worry about fomo for not catching the hot LLM session, there will be more of those I promise

Please note that the walk from Minatorimai station (1), to Pacifico Yokohama North (2) to pick up your #chi2025 badge, and the National Convention Hall (3) for the opening plenary is easily a 15-25 minute walk.

A serene walk in the rain. #Ginza #chi2025

#chi2025 registration ✅ No line for registration, long line due to DIY ribbons

Koji Yatani kicks off the pre-chi event at IIS Lab. #chi2025

Hello jet lag, my old friend 🎤 I’m wide awake, it’s 3am 🥱 #chi2025

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems #chi2025 are now online! dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

#ProTip: Before you travel to #chi2025, fill in Immigration Clearance+Customs Declaration forms online and get a single QR code for both steps. It will save you the hassle of handling and filling in by hand 2 paper forms. Thanks to @notsarahsong.bsky.social services.digital.go.jp/en/visit-jap...

On our way to #chi2025 in Yokohama with Joel Fischer and @notsarahsong.bsky.social! Safe travels everyone! 👋✈️🌸

📣 It's that time of the year! Next week I’ll be at #CHI2025🌸 hoping to see old pals and meet new ones! Happy to chat if you’re into: 🎨 creativity 🧘🏻 spirituality 🧪 first-person research Also: 🕹️#SquadBusters 📺 #KDrama ⚽️ football

About to start #WhenLifeGivesYouTangerines for the 4th time. First time alone, second with partner, third with 19-year-old daughter, and now with 16-year-old son. A beautiful and highly recommended drama! 🍊🌊📝

Annual Helsinki PreCHI event opening by @oulasvirta.bsky.social. First up, Rungjun Ma presents “Privacy Perceptions of Custom GPTs by Users and Creators.” #chi2025

First portfolio redesign in 10 years. #UX #IxD #HCI users.aalto.fi/~luceroa1/in...

The #CHI2025 program is now available! programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Are LLMs useful when generating novel and useful ideas? Our #CHI2025 paper shows that LLMs do not help generate more novel or useful perspectives in solving problems. - Project page: joongishin.github.io/problemRefra... - Page: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01631 (1/8)

Are we still doing starter packs? I haven’t seen so many of them around lately. But if you’re interested in following interesting people who do design research, research through design, or any other flavour of research and design, this starter pack is for you! go.bsky.app/VM55QQL

Porting from the other site: fave #DeepCuts in music. Exploring a performer's discography by: 🎧 Listening to each studio album for 1-2 weeks. 📚 Reading a book telling the stories behind every song. 🎤 Occasionally attending a concert. * denotes a B-side.

Just finished #MrQueen, perhaps my favorite #KDrama! It has it all: Joseon dynasty setting, body-swapping time travel, queer romance. Mr. Queen is leaving @netflix.com on February 14.

Porting from the other site: my academic #rejections. Tips on dealing with academic rejection by @eegilbert.org: eegilbert.org/posts/reject... Compassion as a cure to academic rejection by @pankisseskafka.bsky.social: www.chronicle.com/article/why-... #academia #reviewer2 #phdlife #phdchat

Sadly, yet another "cultural generalization" (ahem!, #racism) against Chinese scholars. Context: x.com/xwang_lk/sta...

First-Person Methods in HCI starter pack: go.bsky.app/LsqTGX4

I joined #Mastodon 2 years ago. I #tooted (and tweeted) during #CHI2023, but follower numbers stalled at around 200. I joined #Bluesky 1 year ago. My first #skeet was barely a week ago at #CSCW2024, with follower numbers at 500 and counting. Promising start!

My 500th follower is no other than the wonderful carilall.bsky.social. Welcome to #Bluesky!

Surely I can’t be the only one going “ooh, #Banksy followed me!” almost daily when they get a bsky.social notification?

Will “et al.” become “et AI”? 🤔 #AcademicWriting

Will #_CHINOSAUR also join @bsky.app? 🤔

#Creativity Starter Packs: Human-AI Collaboration: go.bsky.app/MRV1Wa1 As we may think: go.bsky.app/jSgrE5 Makerspace Collective: go.bsky.app/AxW7R1x HCI + Design Research: go.bsky.app/p3TLwt

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