🔊Smart home devices don’t just track their owners-- they also collect data on guests, tenants, and workers. A new TOCHI paper reviews how research defines “bystanders,” what concerns they face, and which solutions might protect their privacy. doi.org/10.1145/3731...

🎮✨When the game is both digital and physical, how do players adapt? A new TOCHI study on Shared AR gameplay (Urban Legends) shows players start off confused, leaning on verbal cues, but soon evolve dynamic movement, role strategies, and smoother teamwork doi.org/10.1145/3749...

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

✨ New from #TOCHI ✨ 📄 The Three Steps to Trans Death: Introducing Trans Cyber-Necropolitics in Digital Media by @shanoliang.bsky.social, Michelle V. Cormier, @snapdragoness.itch.io , & @rose-bohrer.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1145/3745... (1/2)

New in #TOCHI: "Practitioner Motives to Use Different Hyperparameter Optimization Methods" Interviews and surveys reveal performance goals, model understanding, org context, and tool limits shape HPO choices, explaining manual tuning’s lasting appeal. 🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... #ML#HPO (1/2)

🤖🏳️‍⚧️ Can chatbots be trans-affirming, or do they just sound that way? New TOCHI paper finds that LLMs often respond “positively” to trans questions, but with subtle, hard-to-detect transphobia lurking beneath. 📄 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

🌍 When disasters hit, thousands map. But a few experts keep it from falling apart. New TOCHI study of 746 HOT projects reveals how collective intelligence drives disaster response—and how to make it smarter, more connected, and useful 🧠 📄 Read: doi.org/10.1145/3733...

🎨🧠 How do creatives really capture ideas on the fly? New TOCHI paper finds idea capture for creative practitioners is fast, messy, and wildly different across creative domains. ⚡Yet all prioritize capturing ideas quickly, even if it disrupts order. 📄 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3727...

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