Many thanks @luiciolfi.bsky.social for delivering this year’s annual HCI@UCD Christmas Lecture on the topic of our increasingly digitally-entangled worklives. Is hybrid really the ideal “new normal”? Food for thought as we enter the winter break! Wishing you a lovely holiday from all at HCI@UCD!

Welcome all! We’re excited to bring you here shortly our coverage of the Irish Human-Computer Interaction Symposium 2025 taking place right here at University College Dublin today #iHCI25

Registration for the Irish Human-Computer Interaction Symposium (iHCI) 2025 - taking place at University College Dublin on November 7th - is now open at the following link; hci.ucd.ie/ihci-2025 !

A reminder that our call for submissions to both the Papers and Posters tracks of this year’s Irish HCI Symposium will close next Tuesday, September 30th. See hci.ucd.ie/ihci-2025 for further details, and hope to see you there!

This year’s annual iHCI symposium will take place at University College Dublin on November 7th! hci.ucd.ie/ihci-2025/ Our Posters and Papers tracks are now open for submissions (deadline September 30th), and we hope to see as many among you there as can make it!

Congrats Kayley! Delighted to share this work, recounting findings from an expert mental health professional analysis of therapeutic #chatbots — highlighting how systemic fragmentation creates opportunities for digital tools while designing for #therapeutic relationships still yet invites risks.

Are you an individual, company, clinician, charity or organisation interested in the potential of digital technology for good? We are now inviting expressions of interest from partners for this summer’s HCI Design Projects @ucddublin.bsky.social Apply at bit.ly/hcidesignpro... by February 14th!

In the interests of a first post, we just recently wrote a few words on the case for #care by #design in the context of imagining better AI-enabled #healthcare futures 🦾🤝 arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02067