When did technology last spark JOY for you? Not efficiency, delight? Our new forum "Delightful Encounters" explores play as a radical design ethos. Read & contribute: doi.org/10.1145/3780... #HCI #playfuldesign @dalya.dev @laurenscottdev.bsky.social @pat-piedade.bsky.social

If you have a quick 10 minutes before the end of the year we would really appreciate you using it to fill in our playful survey! Wearing Christmassy attire and singing throughout is advised 😀🎄

Staff involved in teaching and learning: share your experience with #playfullearning! Whether you use these methods, are curious about them, or sceptical – we want to hear from YOU. Help shape the future of university #HigherEd teaching 👇 nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #HCI #Design

@re--play.bsky.social Wrapped just dropped! Final meeting of the year = full festive mode ✨ 32 Fellows ✓ 7 R's Framework ✓ 6 universities ✓ Questionable knitwear ✓✓✓ Happy holidays from the team! #PlayfulLearning #ChristmasJumperDay research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/thats...

Proud to say that all the @re--play.bsky.social co-investigators dutily wore their hats to our monthly catch up. Caught up on all we are finding out, with our partners, students and Fellows about activity, perceptions, and experiments in playful learning in Higher Education. Playfully serious 😜

🎲 @re--play.bsky.social Winter 2025 Newsletter just dropped! 32 Fellows starting their redesign journey, the RE:PLAY Framework unveiled, and surveys rolling out nationwide. It's all happening! Check it out👇 research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla... #PlayfulLearning #HigherEd #HCI

Right #highereducation colleagues and students! 🤩 If you are interested in #playfullearning come connect to RE:PLAY. It’s a wildly collaborative doing-and-learning #ESRC funded UK study on playful learning in HE. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/ @re--play.bsky.social

Excited to share: I've joining @nicwhitton.bsky.social and team as a Research Fellow on the RE:Play Project @re--play.bsky.social! Really looking forward to exploring how creative research can challenge assumptions and open new spaces for connection. Here's to the next playful experience. ✨

Delighted to welcome 32 RE:PLAY Fellows to the RE:PLAY project. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla... They will be working with our learning design fellows over the next year to redevelop their modules and evidence the impacts. Watch this space.

Excited to present our paper "Accidental Spreaders: How Different Roles Interact During Misinformation Discussions" at #ECSCW at @newcastleuni.bsky.social in July. Written with @docwarner.bsky.social, Lynne Coventry and @martacecchinato.bsky.social - read it here: dl.eusset.eu/items/9e3b2c...

Come find #karaokai at the demo space at #ecscw where you can sing any of the papers presented at this years conference. Was great to see @annarlcarter.bsky.social and @agbebakun.bsky.social singing to our accidental spreader #misinformation paper. #karaokescience

Join us at #DIS2025 in Madeira for a hands-on workshop reimagining peer support in academia! Let’s co-create more caring, sustainable academic communities together. More info & submissions 👉 beasev.github.io/DesigningFor... @beatrizseveres.bsky.social #PeerSupport #HCI #AcademicWellbeing

Today is my last day at Cardiff Met.   I won't be idle; "Introduction to AI" is due out in June and other books in the way, but a change of pace and focus. To mark this and turning 65 I will run 65 miles in a week in July in aid of Cancer Research UK.  alandix.com/blog/2025/05...

🔈 Registrations are now open for the DCitizens Summer School 2025! This event will include a 1-day Doctoral Consortium (14th July 2025) and a 4-day Summer School (15th-18th July 2025). Summer School: dcitizens.eu/lisbon-docto... DC: dcitizens.eu/lisbon-docto... #HCI #DigitalCivics #summerschool

@uxp2lab.bsky.social’s Ritika Gairola rocking her first #chi2025 poster on public policy and HCI! She attracted a crowd quickly and is rocking it 🎉. Read more here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

The Geordie crew & our honorary Geordies at #CHI2025! Great talks, deep chats, joyful singing, catching up with old friends & making new ones. @kylemontague.bsky.social @pamogranite.bsky.social @shaunlawson.bsky.social @katherinej.bsky.social @altoombs.bsky.social @graydesign.bsky.social

Karaokai won the Popular Vote Award at #CHI2025! Big love to everyone who sang, asked, smiled & danced with us and our dino. You made it magic. @dalya.dev @kylemontague.bsky.social @laurenscottdev.bsky.social @pat-piedade.bsky.social #Karaokai #karaokescience #hci #northumbriauni

Thank you for the music 🎶 🎉 Couldn't be prouder of the brilliant team that brought this mad idea to life 🥳

Ana Henriques presenting our work on Feminist Care Ethics at #chi2025! Such cool work with a the outcome of a toolkit which we hope will be useful to relationally engage in complex research contexts. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Oh my goodness, so honoured!! Thank you to everyone who sang, enjoyed and voted over the past week ❤️ Cant wait to sing with you all again soon 🎤

Congratulations to the team who made the KaraokAI interactivity exhibit for winning the popular vote!!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @annarlcarter.bsky.social #chi2025 #interactivity

In case you need an excuse to sing at #CHI2025, come find our KaraokAI interactivity booth, where you'll meet the wonderful @annarlcarter.bsky.social and the rest of the brilliant team. Highly recommend both the singing and the company.

Austin’s Unofficial Rules for Not Dying (or Being Boring) at Conferences, particularly #chi2025 A short thread of practical survival tips for the conference grind:

We demoed KaraokAI: turning papers into karaoke songs at @chi.acm.org today. Over 100 people sang, danced and chatted with us! We’re so grateful for the energy you brought. Excited to meet and sing with more of you over the next few days. #KaraokAI #HCI #KaraokeScience #CHI2025

Thanks to The Royal Society, I’m at Indiana University Bloomington this week! Excited to team up with @altoombs.bsky.social to explore how digital tech keeps communities connected in changing cities. Let’s go! 🚀 #DigitalCivics #UrbanRegeneration #Indiana #HCI

It was a pleasure to deliver a talk on equity, heritage, and multi-sensory technology in public spaces yesterday—and how we can do better to shift power dynamics back to the communities these spaces serve. #Equity #Heritage #UrbanTech #PublicSpaces #CommunityLedDesign #NUIdeas #HCI

✨ I'm looking forward to talking at the Lit & Phil tomorrow evening on Creating Equitable and Inclusive Public Spaces through Community Collaboration. If you're in Newcastle feel free to drop by! www.litandphil.org.uk/event/nu-ide... #HCI #DigitalCivics #DCitizens #CommunityEngagement

Wanted to submit but didn't get a change? Good news! We've extended the deadline to March 17th ✨ Come discuss the future of accessible prototyping at hashtag #CHI2025! More info: dcitizens.eu/access-incon...

We have a workshop at #CHI2025 Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Join us in Japan or online in April! More details and submissions of interest check out dcitizens.eu/access-incon... #digitalcivics #accessibility #HCI

The Conference & Exploratory papers deadline for #ECSCW has been extended to February 25 (23:59 AoE)! Find out more here ➡️https://lnkd.in/gt95WrvR @newcastleuni.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social #ECSCW2025#EUSSET#CSCW#CooperativeTechnologies

It was my pleasure to engage the @northumbriauni.bsky.social HCI group as part of the #dcitizens Seminar Series. It was a fun talk that ended with AI research abstract karaoke sung to the tune of "Last Christmas"! 🎤 Thanks for organizing and showing me around Newcastle, @annarlcarter.bsky.social

It was great to have @tknearem.bsky.social here at Northumbria to give a talk for the DCitizens project Some great discussions on AI how communities understand and use it and how we can help moving forward! #digitalcivics #hci #invitedspeaker

📢The DCitizens Seminar Series is delighted to be hosting Dani K Raju for an online talk on: 'Co-designing voice-based interaction use cases for unwritten languages in India'! 📷January 28th 11am BST Register: forms.office.com/e/heHHZnjDiU @europeanunion #DigitalCivics #HCI

🚀 Calling HCI Researchers: @ECSCW 2025 🌍 📍 Newcastle & Northumbria University, UK 🇬🇧 📅 June 30–July 4, 2025 🗓Key Deadlines: Journal Papers: April 1, 2025 Conference/Exploratory Papers: Feb 18, 2025 Others: March 4, 2025 👉 Learn more: ecscw.eusset.eu/2025/

We have a workshop at #CHI2025: Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Join us in Japan or online in April! More details and for submissions of interest check out: dcitizens.eu/access-incon...

We have a workshop at #CHI2025 Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Join us in Japan or online in April! More details and submissions of interest check out dcitizens.eu/access-incon... #digitalcivics #accessibility #HCI

📢 If you are in Glasgow for ACI2024 today, don't forget to come along to join @samgowlanddev.bsky.social and I at today's Workshop: more-than-human digital civics. We will be in the Advanced Research Center, Room 237 A&B, from 14:00-17:30 #aci2024 #digitalcivics

For those interested in #DigitalCivics, #HCI, #Animals and #AnimalComputerInteraction we are running a workshop in Glasgow co-located with this year's ACM Animal Computer Interaction conference. It will be on 2nd December 14:00-17:30 Find out more here: sites.google.com/view/more-th...

Check out our new article in ACM interactions: Scent and Space: Navigating Smell Interactions in 🏙️Public, 🏠Private, and 🥽Virtual Spaces doi.org/10.1145/3696... Insights: → Scent's ability to evoke memories and emotions offers opportunities to deepen connections 🧵(1/2)