Introducing the IDC2026 Chairs! Kate Howland is taking on the role of General Chair this year, and Seray Ibrahim joins as Chair for the Pictorials track. 🦋Follow Kate @wildwoodlander.bsky.social 🦋Follow Seray @serayibrahim.bsky.social #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren #ourchairs

IDC 2026 is calling on young creators to imagine a more sustainable world. Any idea that helps the planet or supports fairer, kinder communities, in any format (art, stories, videos, prototypes, games), is welcome. info @ idc.acm.org/2026/calls/r... #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

It feels special resurrecting (and creating manual zotero entries) for important papers from no longer active workshops and conferences (...which otherwise sounded great). Your DOIs may not be active, but I see you, brilliant papers 😍

The ISAAC Research Committee invites you to participate in an online survey on how to define AAC! 📝 All stakeholders including AAC users, families, clinicians, vendors, researchers and others interested in the field of AAC are encouraged to participate.

📢Calls for Participation to IDC26 Brighton are now live!📢 Read the full calls🔗https://idc.acm.org/2026/calls/ Follow for updates:👇 ➡️Instagram: @idc_acm ➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InteractionDesignChildrenConference ➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/acm-idc #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren

The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres. The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky https://cup.org/3IDqYNf

Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣

📣 **Exciting job opportunities** with the absolutely stellar human being @quiteneate.bsky.social. Tim is hiring 2 HCI postdocs, a SLT researcher & a PhD student to explore designing AI-enable AAC. This is gonna be a good one peeps! Check it out ⬇️ 👀

✨ New in ACM TOCHI: Uncovering Parental Struggles. This article investigates how parents encounter and respond to online parenting advice, and introduces a digital probe methodology to capture their lived experiences in everyday contexts. @serayibrahim.bsky.social #DigitalHealth #Parenting

Critically important information, wonderful to see the complete special issue is now freely available! See link in original post

The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year! We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world. If you have some spare time, come along! For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...

Just accepted! 📄 🤩 Our ToCHI paper describes our approach for developing digital methods for understanding about people’s attempts to apply online advice and change their daily social practices #chi2026 🧵👇 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

🤦🏽‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fascinated to see how this will play out 👀

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Exciting work from my colleagues @quiteneate.bsky.social and Alexandre Nevsky!

Thank you CHI2025 and all the great people within it!

One last thread for today's HCC content at CHI - more great papers by my inspiring colleagues, doing a lot of incredible work at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction.

If you’re still around at the very end of the day, come hear me talk about how we re-conceptualise EMA-type questions as an approach for helping parents tune into their child’s emotions throughout the day #CHI2025

Come check out Sruthi Viswanathan’s work on parent-chatbot interaction! The work exposes the interactional practices that parents want from a chatbot! #CHI2025

Petr Slovak and @amiraskeggs.bsky.social share the design overview and validation studies on creating a scalable story elicitation tool for research participants #chi2025

#CHI2025 attendees: SIGCHI CARES is available on-site and online as a resource if anyone experiences or witnesses any form of harassment, harassment, etc. You can use the listed email or directly approach any of us! Thank you 🌷

At 11.10am today @florencesn.bsky.social will be presenting their paper on Gameworld Archaeological Mental Models in the Games Session in G318+G319, co-authored with @mtrc.bsky.social. #chi25 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

@amiraskeggs.bsky.social and Petr Slovak will share our exciting work on the micro-narratives method; a scalable, new tool to complement existing qualitative methods #CHI2025

Also at 11.10am Sinem Görücü will be presenting their paper on analysing Machine Learning Eco-feedback Tools in the Sustainable Development session in G314+G315. #chi25 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

We're at #chi2025 this week, with lots of papers and sessions featuring our group members... here's a thread of some of the Monday sessions we're in.

Our lovely @kingshcc.bsky.social group @kingsnmes.bsky.social will be at #CHI2025 in Yokohama next week presenting a respectable 14 papers with four honourable mention awards 🥳 Here’s some of our work: kingshcc.org/publications... - find me to chat about anything child mental health or AAC related 🙇🏻‍♀️

I made this video about Black Mirror and ChatGPT before the LAST season of Black Mirror, but I think all of this still holds and is a good reminder. :)

Cockney CHAI (London pre-CHI event) Provisional Schedule is live. This year it is hosted at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. cockneychai25.github.io/pages/schedu... Event (7/4/25) is sold-out, but tickets will become available if folk pull out at the last minute.

Panel on HCI in AI Development are talking about the importance of understanding people before understanding the uses for tech! With Jonathan Lazar, Sanjay Modgill, Mackenzie Jorgensen & Yulan He #cockneychai25

Audio media supports for people with aphasia are so important but massively under researched! Filip Bircanin presents important work on envisioning future technologies. #cockneychai25

Humphrey Curtis presents key insights on supporting chronically ill people to access video calling. #cockneychai25

Very cool work by Marco Da Re and colleagues at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on a scalable screening tool for Dementia in Peru. #cockneychai25 #chi2025

Data as a starting point for thinking about experiences differently. Such engaging insights from Bill Gaver’s and Andy Boucher’s TOCHI talk on designing with data. #cockneychai25 #chi2025

Next up Adam Jenkins shares interesting work on judging phishing under uncertainty. #cockneychai2025

@amiraskeggs.bsky.social shares new work on developing a remote narrative elicitation method terms micro narratives. #cockneychai2025 #chi2025

@quiteneate.bsky.social kicking off Cockney CHI 2025! Great to host this at @kingsnmes.bsky.social this year. #chi2025

Policymakers and technologists alike are stuck in a “solutionism” trap—but particularly with AI, we need to focus on intervention, not “solutions.” New essay by moi: www.techpolicy.press/we-need-an-i...

Such a brilliant glossary. I mean, “bike shedding” in the disability and design context is REAL.

#chi2025 statistics, summarising countries, institutions, labs and people at #chi2025. Also, there are some 'reading lists' based on (my) interests. Imperfect, but hopefully useful or interesting to someone: tdjneate.github.io/chi_stats/20... @acm-sigchi.bsky.social #chi #hci

A thread of my recent work and stuff I care about 🧵⬇️ I'm interested in the ways technology helps and hinders social interaction. In the past, I've focused on communication involving people and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If the neurodivergence taskforce wants to make schools better for neurodivergent children, why aren’t the 1 million children with Developmental Language Disorder part of the conversation?😣 This is totally unacceptable! Don't you agree, Department for Education? #TheForgottenMillion

We discuss some of this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we’ve made a video for mental health practitioners about Developmental Language Disorder! #DevLangDis affects 7% of ppl, and is over represented in MH settings. We introduce DLD and have tips for making MH support more accessible. Please share! youtu.be/Ko6sFea3v0w?...

Great opinion piece on potential directions of AI for AAC by @quiteneate.bsky.social - Can AI Keep Accessible Communication in the Picture? dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Such a great round up of the US NSF freezes by @kateringland.bsky.social (also, the clearest explanation of research and what HCI folks do in a long while!)

What is known about the friendships of those who use #AAC devices? Communication is important to friendship: So, severe communication impairment may impact the establishment or maintenance of friendships in unique, important ways. on.asha.org/40eZFhe #SLPeeps @sigperspectives.bsky.social