Can people oversee AI when they can’t verify it? 🧠🤖 New TOCHI paper: Resarchers find that telling people where an AI tends to go wrong helps them catch mistakes for tasks of moderate difficulty. Too easy, people spot errors anyway. Too hard, they defer. doi.org/10.1145/3817...

AI Error Difficulty Modulates the Effectiveness of Explainability in Decision Support Systems | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

In AI decision support, explainability (e.g., disclosing system weaknesses) should help users spot erroneous recommendations, but its efficacy may depend on task difficulty. We ran three experiments in a simulated medical visual detection task. In ...

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AI is not just a tool, it reshapes how people think, communicate, & connect. New in #TOCHI: “Cognitive Spillover in Human-AI Teams” shows that AI use changes shared language & team cohesion. Read: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... Authors: @criedl.bsky.social, Saiph Savage, Josie Zvelebilova

Cognitive Spillover in Human-AI Teams | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

AI is not only a neutral tool in team settings; it influence the social and cognitive fabric of collaboration. Across two randomized experiments, we demonstrate that AI exposure produces causal spillo...

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What you see in #VR can change how warm or cold you feel. New #TOCHI paper shows that color, temp., and visual thermal cues each shape thermal sensation in VR. Virtual environments are more than visual: they are embodied. Read more: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... #ACMTOCHI #HCI

Investigating Subjective and Physiological Effects of Color Temperature and Visual Thermal Cues in Virtual Reality | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Virtual reality enables immersion in any environment. According to the hue-heat hypothesis, an environment's color temperature influences thermal perception and regulation, factors important for produ...

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📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights on the change of forms, causes, and consequences of political violence. In @acmtochi.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Christian Reuter (@peasec.de) analyze how activists cope with technology-facilitated violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Think AI only affects the person using it? Our experiments show AI reshapes shared language, collective attention, mental models, AND social cohesion among human teammates. AI reshapes the cognitive ecology of teamwork dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @acmtochi.bsky.social

This will be presented at @chi.acm.org on Monday 13th April at 4:30pm, In Barcelona. Come along if you are at CHI! programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/pro...

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New in #TOCHI: Active Inference and #HCI by @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social , @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social , and @ssteinresearch.bsky.social reviews how Active Inference can be applied to model the HCI loop for both research & design. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Project: difai-project.org

1/3 How should LLMs support the people who keep online communities healthy? A new paper by Domingo et al., Care, Wisdom, and Civics, explores how LLMs can assist volunteer moderators on Reddit and where today’s models still fall short. Moderation is not just filtering content. It is civic labor.

Is a simple "I'm sorry" enough when an AI fails? 🤖💬 A new TOCHI paper, Zahra Ashktorab et al. find that trust repair is not one-size-fits-all. Users prefer explanatory apologies for general technical errors, while empathic apologies are more effective for addressing AI bias.

We are excited to welcome five new Associate Editors to the editorial board of #TOCHI: Drs. Anna Cox, Eduardo Velloso, Kaisa Väänänen, Vera Liao, & Wanda Pratt. Each brings strong leadership and valuable perspectives in #HCI to TOCHI. Please join us in welcoming them!

New in #TOCHI: Active Inference and #HCI by @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social , @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social , and @ssteinresearch.bsky.social reviews how Active Inference can be applied to model the HCI loop for both research & design. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Project: difai-project.org

Active Inference and Human–Computer Interaction | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Active Inference is a closed-loop computational theoretical basis for understanding behaviour, based on agents with internal probabilistic generative models that encode their beliefs about how hidden ...

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Emotions are invisible;so how can we regulate them? In TouchEmotion,authors (Chen Ji, Corina Sas, Katherine Isbister) present #AR prototypes that use metaphorical emotional trajectories to support regulation. A thoughtful shift from "fixing" emotions to co-existing. dx.doi.org/10.1145/3777... #TOCHI

TouchEmotion: Augmented Reality Interfaces Leveraging Metaphorical Emotional Trajectories for Emotion Regulation | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Emotion regulation skills are crucial for wellbeing, yet mastering them is not trivial. Because of wearability, private passthrough display, and ability to keep users connected to their surroundings, ...

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🖐️ How do people actually point when there is no cursor? As spatial interaction becomes more common in AR, VR, and smart environments, freehand pointing is often treated as a single, idealized gesture. In reality, people point in many different ways depending on context.

🤝 What makes digital collaboration feel good at work? In a new TOCHI paper, Pinar Simsek Caglar and colleagues move beyond usability to examine how tools like Miro shape everyday experiences in remote teamwork.

New in #TOCHI FairFare (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11273) a crowdsourced data tool co-designed with a Colorado rideshare union to audit platform take rates from 76k+ rideshare trips. Authors: Dana Calacci, Varun Rao, Samantha Dalal, Kok-Wei Pua, Andrew Schwartz, Danny Spitzberg, Andrés Monroy-Hernández

ACM #TOCHI is inviting self-nominations for its Distinguished Reviewer Board! Seeking researchers who can review 5 papers/year, return reviews within 30 days, and have prior reviewing + a strong HCI publication record. Apply here: forms.gle/ggUy5DvbjFQV... Please re-share!

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✨ 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

🔊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)

The Three Steps to Trans Death: Introducing Trans Cyber-Necropolitics in Digital Media | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Many trans people experience marginalization and violence in cyberspace. This violence is characterized by intricate dynamics surrounding voice, identities, bodies, and social interactions. To compreh...

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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)

Practitioner Motives to Use Different Hyperparameter Optimization Methods | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Programmatic hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods, such as Bayesian optimization and evolutionary algorithms, are known for their sample efficiency in identifying optimal configurations for machi...

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🤖🏳️‍⚧️ 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...

Collective Intelligence in Humanitarian Voluntary Geographic Information: The Case of the HOT Tasking Manager | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Voluntary Geographic Information initiatives are transforming the disaster response landscape. Our research provides insights into how the concept of collective intelligence is accomplished in humanit...

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🎨🧠 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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