Belgium not international enough? Fine. Our third and final keynote is none other than @katta.bsky.social from TU Wien 🇦🇹! Their work on Critical Access in Embodied Computing inspires #design and #engineering, ensuring that #technology reflects and supports #diversity - a perfect fit for #GITT2026!

@sagaftra.org legend @frandrescher.bsky.social is in town. 😍

Save the date: @katta.bsky.social and me are organizing the Austrian Computer Science Day #ACSD on June 1, 2026 at TU Wien with the motto CS in Modern Society: a Sign of the Times! More info and program coming soon here: informatics.tuwien.ac.at/acsd (CC) @tuwien.at & @informatics.tuwien.ac.at

Thanks to @katta.bsky.social who virtually joined us at UCC to speak on Global Ethics Day...Plenty of food for thought, and brilliant reading suggestions, including this article by Hanne De Jaegher, "Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Warum Technologien, die für Menschen mit Behinderungen entwickelt wurden, oft an den Bedürfnissen Betroffener vorbeigehen und worauf es eigentlich ankommt, 👉 beschreibt @katta.bsky.social im Standard-Blog. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...

Das wundervolle @andererseits.org Magazin hat einen Schwerpunkt zu Gehörlosigkeit. <3 Teil 1: Audismus www.andererseits.org/als-die-welt... Teil 2: Wahrnehmung www.andererseits.org/zwischen-uns/ Teil 3: Pride www.andererseits.org/was-macht-di...

In my recent paper "DeafinAI", I discussed the slippery slope of language and access rights in the age of AI. What starts as using AI in low-stakes situations can quickly expand into high-stakes areas such as healthcare. That slope seems even slipperier than I thought. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Do you have Opinions™ on what it means to "represent" things and people with data? Then submit 1-2 pages by May 28th and join us in Århus 🇩🇰 this summer to discuss representation and representativeness with synthetic data!

And yes, that’s a subskeet of sorts. If you are a hearing professor working with a signing deaf student, and haven’t learned to sign, please assess honestly why not.

Oliver Suchanek and @katta.bsky.social at #CHI2025. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.

Every head of department explaining his justification for why he hasn’t hired more women: #CHI2025

I made a site to show all the trans/queer content at #CHI2025. There are 13 papers on Monday alone! padlet.com/haimson/chi

Our #CHI2025 paper „Speculating Deaf Tech: Reimagining Technologies Centering Deaf People“ with @katta.bsky.social and @mdemeulder.bsky.social is finally out! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 🚀 See you on the Eyeth?!

Sometimes you receive an email that gives you that cozy feeling of a really good hug.

It is with such... immense pride for the ACCESSTECH team, seeing how we already had the privilege to create such impactful work early on, that I present to you now our contributions to the CHI 2025 programme. #chi2025  www.experiencing-access.eu/2025/04/22/a...

For those who will be at #CHI2025, hope you can join us for the CHI Queers Meetup! It will be on Monday 4/28 at a space near the conference. RSVP: tinyurl.com/chiqueers

I just quoted before but let me also add with everything bad going on in the world seeing how @robinxtech.bsky.social just keeps on excelling over and over again amazes me to no end.

Our paper won a Best Paper Award at #chi2025 ! It challenges the idea that Deaf tech should only be assistive. It presents alternative narratives that center deaf lives and show why we need Deaf-centred design in tech. @robinxtech.bsky.social @katta.bsky.social programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Over 275 responses from deaf ChatGPT users in Europe already. It is still possible to respond to the survey! Some preliminary results in the comments. @robinxtech.bsky.social @katta.bsky.social @ninakt.bsky.social tuwien193.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I just said no to conference service. Would have loved to serve in that role and am fond of the conference. But it’ll be held in the US and I can’t feasibly exploit myself to contribute to events I am banned from joining. (Affects all trans/nb folks) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm running a paid ($80 per participant) research study for disabled and neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ romantic partners! Sign up here: forms.gle/8U7HeYNSnWfw... #LGBTQ #Disability #Neurodivergent #Relationships #AccessibilityResearch

@robinxtech.bsky.social @katta.bsky.social @ninakt.bsky.social and I are investigating the experiences of deaf users in Europe interacting with ChatGPT. If you’re deaf, live in Europe, and are using ChatGPT, please fill in our survey, and share! 🙏🏻 tuwien193.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Here is a cute article that we just got published about how fat people create solidarity in online spaces hostile towards them. Maybe something to learn from in these times. 🧡 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Surviving Whiteness In Games Co-edited by @mahliann.bsky.social, @sabha.bsky.social, @cheeflo.bsky.social, @amaani.bsky.social, @katta.bsky.social, @outi.bsky.social, Rilla Khaled, Cale Passmore & Kishonna L. Gray 14 essay collection examining whiteness in games gamescriticism.org/volume-5-bon...

Did this interview a while ago and I really appreciated how they foregrounded the need for care and solidarity in tech research before we can even start thinking about developing new things. 🤗

Das Adjektiv „weiblich“ ist medizinisch maximal unpräzise

Sechs Jahre und eine Datenschutzbeschwerde später und meine Uni kann endlich den Titel den sie mir verliehen haben im System abbilden. Die TU hat sich übrigens gewundert, warum ich zur Beschwerde “eskaliert” habe.

Ein kleiner Auszug aus der gestrigen Diskussionssendung #ImZentrum - weil ich schon eher kurios finde, dass manchmal Personen über die Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit sprechen, die gerade mitten in einer reichweitenstarken Sendung ihre Meinung kundtun können

Eine Gruppe Jugendlicher hat grad minutenlang lauthals ein*e Autofahrer*in geshamed, weil mit dem Fahrverhalten mehrere Straßenbahnen blockiert wurden… 😍😍

Got scolded by a reviewer once more that I really need to cite the works by Spiel et al. some more. Bit awkward.

I was plagiarised apparently and while, sure, that’s rude. But also kind of flattering to know the work is so good it got published twice?

Free Disabled Radicals zine by the Disability Action Research Kollective : files.libcom.org/files/2024-0...

Looking at travelling through five countries in less than 48 hours all by train. Only in Europe. 😅

You can love a thing (like night trains) and still acknowledge the sleep deprivation it can bring along when the window blinds don’t fully close. 😵‍💫

Am 6. Dezember um 14 Uhr gibts eine Demo für persönliche Assistenz beim Wiener Rathaus! www.behindertenrat.at/2024/11/demo... #PersoenlicheAssistenz

So, I didn’t post here in a while and suddenly I have several hundred followers in a few days? What happened?

Ich war grad jemandes erster follower und irgendwie finde ich das ist ne ganz besondere Verbindung.

Das Heft zu Behinderungen am Arbeitsmarkt von Dossier und andererseits ist übrigens extrem empfehlenswert.

Bissi ironisch, dass #LichtInsDunkel dieses Jahr auch wieder die Schiene der unangekündigten Stroboskop Lichter fährt. 🤦🏻

Die heute show stellt fest, dass Winfried Kretschmar Politik gegen Geflüchtete macht, aber tut so als wäre das neu. Ich bin deswegen vor knapp 10 Jahren bei den Grünen ausgetreten. Das ist also nix neues.

Man kann nicht einfach behaupten, dass man #Seenotrettung nicht kriminalisieren will, während man Rechtsverschärfungen durchpeitschen will, die klar dem UN-Protokoll widersprechen und praktisch nur zur Kriminalisierung genutzt werden. taz.de/Strafen-fuer...

Montag halte ich übrigens einen Vortrag über Neurodivergenz und Spiele vor Lehrpersonen. Hoffe dann, dass sie lernen dass Spiele auch mal nur Spaß machen dürfen, das aber nicht tun, wenn sie immer nur zweckgebunden angeboten werden.

Ich werde morgen in Bern eine kleinen feinen Vortrag über Cyborg Solidarity und Crip Technologies halten und freu mich schon voll.

FDG 2024 submission deadline has been extended to November 30. Abstracts due November 20. We'll update the website soon to reflect this change fdg2024.org/for-authors (For all the academic games people here)

I took the evening off and then I did laundry and I think I'm heading to my 40ies cause that was fulfilling.

Liebesg’schichten laufen und es ist die Episode mit den Paaren und ich bin nach fünf Minuten schon am Heulen. 😭

Every time I'm in the US, I learn more about how insidious racism is. And how it operates with slightly different, sometimes nastier modes in Europe.

Der 8jährige freut sich jetzt schon auf sein Klimaticket wenn er dann mal 18 ist. Frage ist ob ich dann auch endlich mal eins haben kann (ohne mich misgendern lassen zu müssen).

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen. www.wired.com/story/x-isra...