#CHI2028 cape town!

The ACM CHI 2026 paper program is live on the ACM Digital Library, so please enjoy all the new 1702 pieces of science that #CHI2026 has for you: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... (cc @acm_chi ). p.s.: You can read our welcome message at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Like every year around PhD decision time, here is a PhD syllabus I wrote to demystify and clarify what to expect from the PhD for students in my lab. It may be helpful for others making their decisions: it's not the same everywhere, but can tell you what q's to ask. s.tech.cornell.edu/phd-syllabus/

How do social media platforms govern AI-generated content? In our new CHI paper, we outline 6 strategies. TLDR, most use existing rules to cover AI but concepts like attribution, ownership, and monetization of AI-generated content is not well covered - Read more: cs.uchicago.edu/news/mapping...

Interested in privacy, law, policy, and technology? Consider submitting to our annual symposium on Contextual Integrity - deadline is Feb 13!

📢 CSCW is piloting a rolling submissions experiment. 🔸 More flexibility for authors 🔸 Emphasis on paper quality over deadline pressure 🧪 Important: Only a small number of papers will be invited to participate, and authors can nominate their work for possible selection. cscw.acm.org/2026/rolling...

Excited that our paper with @thelior.bsky.social @mbkugler.bsky.social , “Can Consumers Protect Themselves Against Privacy Dark Patterns?” is a winner of the (@futureofprivacy’s or @futureofprivacy.bsky.social’s) 16th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award! Read more: fpf.org/press-releas...

🌍 Big news! #CHI2028 for the 1st time in #Africa, South Africa! 🎉 🙌 Interested in serving (or nominating someone) as a General Chair or Technical Program Chair? 🔗 Apply here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJCWP57 ⏰ by Feb 16 2026 🤝 We strongly encourage leaders with Global South & SA experience to apply!

The amazing people behind this effort are Alessandro Bozzon, Vera Liao, Thomas Kosch, and Xiaojuan Ma (and their assistants: chi2026.acm.org/organizing-c... ) and of course all the SC and ACs at all sub committees (chi2026.acm.org/authors/pape... ) and all of you who reviewed papers for CHI!

How does generative #AI shape youth risk and agency? We invite short papers, design proposals & ideas for our CHI 2026 workshop! Join HCI researchers & designers to map out ways for responsible youth-AI engagement that empowers young people. Learn more: yamanyume.github.io/youthsafety/ #AIandYouth

Summary: a (rather simple) AI bot can not only successfully evade survey-level protections, it can also mimic personas accurately across questions, parse photos/videos, and infer the researcher’s hypotheses to produce data that confirms them. The official paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nice summary of our work, led by Lan Gao, on what AI content moderation rules appear in popular genAI tools www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

With #cscw2025 revisions due tomorrow and #chi2025 coming up fast, did you get reviewer critiques of your qualitative methods that you struggled to respond to or that reflected a lack of understanding of qual methods? If so, add them to this crowdsourced document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Final acceptance rates at #chi2025 now up chi2025.acm.org/chi-2025-pap... @acm_chi

Does autoplay make you watch more? Our study on Netflix suggests it does! Here's more on the balance between adding moments for you to decide to watch more and letting the platform keep streaming on. cs.uchicago.edu/news/the-hid... #attentioncapture #darkpatterns #netflix

Cuts to NSF funding "undermine American innovation and technological leadership and decrease our competitiveness and national security while delivering negligible cost savings." cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-... #savescience

Call for papers for the 7th annual PrivaCI Symposium, to be held on May 19 and 20, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium, is now open. The symposium is hosted by imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Brussels Privacy Hub. Notice this is back-to-back with CPDP! More info: privaci.info/symposium/20...

Our new research paper just posted! It asks whether dark patterns (manipulative online interfaces) can thwart users who are trying to make privacy-protective choices on a video streaming site. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... We find that dark patterns are very potent even when users have that goal.

So if you're interested in privacy or dark patterns / deceptive design, or just annoyed by the choice architecture you regularly encounter on apps and websites, check out this new research, by @mbkugler.bsky.social, @ineffablicious.bsky.social, Chirag Mahapatra, and me.

Interested in #CHI2025 submission numbers and Round 1 results? See summary statistics here: chi2025.acm.org/chi-2025-pap...

Reposting from @acm-sigchi.bsky.social : 📢 We’re thrilled to announce that registration for #CHI2025 is officially OPEN! 🎉 🌍 Early registration ends March 31, 2025 (EOD AOE) – don’t miss out! 💻 In-person & virtual participation options are available. 🔗 Register now: buff.ly/4gh539Y