Giving a vision talk today at #uist2025 titled "What of the I in HCI stands for Integration?" ... Hope to see you all soon at @acmuist.bsky.social (Will post slides later at lab.plopes.org)

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections. Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do? New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/ www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Playing at @dotolim.bsky.social tonight! If you are in Seoul come by for one turntable but multiple needles kind of footwork.

UChicago CS' presence at #UIST2025, with six papers (from text visualization to brain stimulation!) and many more activities (two workshops etc)! If you are at @acmuist.bsky.social come say hi. Many of us will be there including myself, Yudai Tanaka , Ken Nakagaki's team, Sam, etc!

Stelarc being stellar!

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 #SpeakerSpotlight 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗩𝗥𝗦𝟮𝟱! ✨ We are honored to present: Michael Wiesing — University of Barcelona (UB) Nitesh Bhatia — UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Sylvia Xueni Pan — Goldsmiths, University of London 📅 𝗩𝗥 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 — Oct 20–21, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 • Rotunde Bochum 👉 vrs.rub.de #VRresearch

Our #UIST2025 workshop "Toward Everyday Perceptual and Physiological Augmentation" packs a day of fun activities, which you can read in detail here: everyday-augmentation.github.io if that's not enough to convince you... then check out our keynote by Thad Starner ! see you at @acmuist.bsky.social

Today is the last day to help make your voice heard for protection of our wilderness, places where we need to get away from the trauma of being human. Places of solitude. Please speak up for roadless rule. It’s easy and it only takes a few minutes at this link. earthjustice.org/action/prote...

A quick update. We received a phenomenal 115 talk proposals and 89 doctoral consortium applications. This has led to some notification delays. On a personal note, having to send out rejection notices, even to people I know and respect, really sucks. Registration and attendance info is forthcoming

In case I haven't said enough thanks to the @chi.acm.org paper chairs (Vera, Alessandro, Thomas and Xiaojuan): a huge thanks, they are doing so much incredible work in the backstage of #CHI2026 on literally a record number of submissions and they are doing it beautifully! @acm-sigchi.bsky.social

Now that we're past the #CHI2026 deadline, if you've ever been interested in having a session with KidsTeam UW (www.kidsteam.ischool.uw.edu), we still have some open spots for collaborations in the fall. Get in touch with me and we can discuss requirements and parameters.

The CHI video 🎥 deadline is Sept 18th. To help, check out our lab's "How to Video" guide: docs.google.com/presentation... We'd love to feature more videos, especially 30 sec previews. Don't be shy in promoting your own work! 🍿

Hoping that the #VRresearch folks in the VR academic sky also enjoy this one!

🚨 New paper at #UIST2025! 🚨 We studied something not commonly talked about in #VR research: the side effects of VR that can persist even after you remove the VR headset. 👉 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJt... 👉 Paper: lab.plopes.org/published/20... 👇 a more on depth-thread below 🧵1/5

Join our #UIST2025 workshop! Computing devices (e.g., smart glasses, earbuds, wristbands) are increasingly coupled with our senses, enabling dynamic mediation of perceptual and physiological processes. We will explore opportunities these systems unlock! everyday-augmentation.github.io

@acmuist.bsky.social #uist2025 program is out: programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr... ... lots of interesting papers to look forward to, see you there

pca.st/episode/872c... excellent discussion on what the roles of a reviewer are/aren't. A useful reminder as we approach the #chi2026 review season for a record number of papers (yes, more than last year's 5k, details soon). Personal opinion, not as CHI26 technical paper co-chair 1/3

How to propose good reviewers for your upcoming CHI paper submission: hci.ac/proposing-reviewers. #CHI2026 #HCI @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org

Our next #SpeakerSpotlight for VR Summit 2025! ✨ Featuring: Gavin Buckingham (Univ. of Exeter) Jason Friedman (Tel Aviv Univ.) Jeroen Smeets (VU Amsterdam) 📅 Summit Oct 20–21 • Rotunde Bochum Register/submit: vrs.rub.de #VRSummit #XR #VR #HCI #Neuroscience #VRresearch #VRcademicSky

Stomach–brain synchronisation is associated with poorer mental health www.cell.com/trends/neuro... insightful TINS commentary by @dalmaijer.bsky.social

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Incredible work by Jan, whom I u learned so much by reading his papers and now I get to watch this too! Go check out as you finish your lovely #chi2026 full papers (submission closing sharply at September 11th AoE)

I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

We’re thrilled to announce that ACM #TOCHI 's impact factor rose from 4.8 → 6.6 in the latest JCR (Clarivate)! 🎉 📊 Top-ranked: • 4/31 in Cybernetics • 25/258 in CS: Info Systems Know more about the JCR impact preview in the August Blue Diamond newsletter: www.acm.org/articles/pub... #ACMTOCHI #HCI

This is what Chicago is like

For the first time in an UploadVR article, if you're reading in a VR headset, you can watch some of the embedded videos in 3D:

Policy and planning can change human behavior! Paris is SO much more pleasant now than it was 15-20 years ago.

Science confirms it. Would you go against the science?

And now… #chi2026 will be in Barcelona! Nuria and Ayman will be the general chairs. CHI2026 will be the start of a massivley shaken up new way that CHI will create more space for engagement chi2026.acm.org - including a new student mentoring programme to support more students in the future.

(link fixed) New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Chicago folks: Worth filling out this questionnaire from the city if you bike or walk around and have thoughts on safety! blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/20/h...

Jimmy Wales is into the idea of AI for Wikipedia. Thankfully the governance structure of the site he started is resilient enough to call him out on this bullshit and resist it: www.404media.co/jimmy-wales-...

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

🔥New member thread!🔥 Welcome to the #CSCW2025 Starter Pack (go.bsky.app/SPumuMT) : @wenzikai.bsky.social ai.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social n.bsky.social @ameliadogan.bsky.social @kgajos.bsky.social s.bsky.social‬ @pragyasingh.bsky.social asingh.bsky.social 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

I have had the incredible privilege to spend my sabbatical at Google Research. What have I been up to? Attempting to make Street View accessible to all! 🌍✨ StreetViewAI is a new, accessible street view prototype using context-aware, real-time AI & voice interaction. youtu.be/wY_2vfDikkQ

Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness bigthink.com/neuropsych/u... "Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work" #neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social

I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026. Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐 Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.

Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026 tinyurl.com/ccn26committee And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form! tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...

A reflection about our lab's participation at @chi.acm.org : lab.plopes.org/essays/chi2025 It was a really special conference, with new PhD students presenting and some graduating! P.s.: Yeah, I was a bit behind (we're closer to #CHI2026 deadline than #CHI2025 itself) but never too late?

#uist2025 workshop on everyday-augmentation.github.io 📢 Registration via UIST website + Fill out the Attendee Interest Form on our website. Co-organized with Yujie Tao, Tan Gemicioglu, Sam Chin, Bingjian Huang, Jas Brooks, Sean Follmer and @SurangaN JOIN US #hci #design #tech

"internet and the artificial neural networks that enable generative AI arose out of basic research at U.S. universities. So did the most fundamental discoveries in molecular biology, (..) potential cures for painful genetic diseases such as sickle cell." And I'd add, so so much more! Save science!

How States Could Throw University Science a Lifeline www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

CHI 2026 Submission Site Is Open The CHI 2026 submission site is now open! Submit your work via PrecisionConference: new.precisionconference.com 👉The abstract submission is due on September 4th AoE and full papers are due September 11th AoE. #acmchi #chi2026

Revised desk reject process for #CHI2026 to improve review quality, handle growth and keep our community thriving (rather than just depleted), you can read more at the @chi.acm.org website: chi2026.acm.org/2025/08/08/r... (huge thanks to our paper chairs!). Submit and join us in Barcelona!

New study shows that reducing body ownership through a perceptual illusion leads to fragmentation in self-concept. This link between the bodily and conceptual self may shed light on dissociative experiences and mental health. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...