🎮 Do you use playful learning in your HE teaching? RE:PLAY is looking for case study participants — roleplay, gamification, simulations, etc, across any discipline. For more details check out our website: research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/call-... #PlayfulLearning #HigherEducation #REPLAYstudy

If you have a quick 10 minutes before the teaching haul starts we would really appreciate you using it to fill in our playful survey! 😀

Anna R L Carter@annarlcarter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Staff involved in teaching and learning: share your experience with #playfullearning! Whether you use these methods, are curious about them, or sceptical – we want to hear from YOU. Help shape the future of university #HigherEd teaching 👇 nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #HCI #Design

When did technology last spark JOY for you? Not efficiency, delight? Our new forum "Delightful Encounters" explores play as a radical design ethos. Read & contribute: doi.org/10.1145/3780... #HCI #playfuldesign @dalya.dev @laurenscottdev.bsky.social @pat-piedade.bsky.social

If you have a quick 10 minutes before the end of the year we would really appreciate you using it to fill in our playful survey! Wearing Christmassy attire and singing throughout is advised 😀🎄

Anna R L Carter@annarlcarter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Staff involved in teaching and learning: share your experience with #playfullearning! Whether you use these methods, are curious about them, or sceptical – we want to hear from YOU. Help shape the future of university #HigherEd teaching 👇 nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #HCI #Design

Staff involved in teaching and learning: share your experience with #playfullearning! Whether you use these methods, are curious about them, or sceptical – we want to hear from YOU. Help shape the future of university #HigherEd teaching 👇 nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #HCI #Design

@re--play.bsky.social Wrapped just dropped! Final meeting of the year = full festive mode ✨ 32 Fellows ✓ 7 R's Framework ✓ 6 universities ✓ Questionable knitwear ✓✓✓ Happy holidays from the team! #PlayfulLearning #ChristmasJumperDay research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/thats...

Proud to say that all the @re--play.bsky.social co-investigators dutily wore their hats to our monthly catch up. Caught up on all we are finding out, with our partners, students and Fellows about activity, perceptions, and experiments in playful learning in Higher Education. Playfully serious 😜

🎲 @re--play.bsky.social Winter 2025 Newsletter just dropped! 32 Fellows starting their redesign journey, the RE:PLAY Framework unveiled, and surveys rolling out nationwide. It's all happening! Check it out👇 research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla... #PlayfulLearning #HigherEd #HCI

Right #highereducation colleagues and students! 🤩 If you are interested in #playfullearning come connect to RE:PLAY. It’s a wildly collaborative doing-and-learning #ESRC funded UK study on playful learning in HE. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/ @re--play.bsky.social

Excited to share: I've joining @nicwhitton.bsky.social and team as a Research Fellow on the RE:Play Project @re--play.bsky.social! Really looking forward to exploring how creative research can challenge assumptions and open new spaces for connection. Here's to the next playful experience. ✨

Delighted to welcome 32 RE:PLAY Fellows to the RE:PLAY project. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla... They will be working with our learning design fellows over the next year to redevelop their modules and evidence the impacts. Watch this space.

Excited to present our paper "Accidental Spreaders: How Different Roles Interact During Misinformation Discussions" at #ECSCW at @newcastleuni.bsky.social in July. Written with @docwarner.bsky.social, Lynne Coventry and @martacecchinato.bsky.social - read it here: dl.eusset.eu/items/9e3b2c...

Come find #karaokai at the demo space at #ecscw where you can sing any of the papers presented at this years conference. Was great to see @annarlcarter.bsky.social and @agbebakun.bsky.social singing to our accidental spreader #misinformation paper. #karaokescience

Join us at #DIS2025 in Madeira for a hands-on workshop reimagining peer support in academia! Let’s co-create more caring, sustainable academic communities together. More info & submissions 👉 beasev.github.io/DesigningFor... @beatrizseveres.bsky.social #PeerSupport #HCI #AcademicWellbeing

Today is my last day at Cardiff Met.   I won't be idle; "Introduction to AI" is due out in June and other books in the way, but a change of pace and focus. To mark this and turning 65 I will run 65 miles in a week in July in aid of Cancer Research UK.  alandix.com/blog/2025/05...

Retiring today!

Today is my last day at Cardiff Met. I won't be idle; "Introduction to AI" is due out in June and other books in the way, but it is a change of pace and focus. To mark my retirement and turning 65 ...

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🔈 Registrations are now open for the DCitizens Summer School 2025! This event will include a 1-day Doctoral Consortium (14th July 2025) and a 4-day Summer School (15th-18th July 2025). Summer School: dcitizens.eu/lisbon-docto... DC: dcitizens.eu/lisbon-docto... #HCI #DigitalCivics #summerschool

Lisbon Summer School 2025 - DCitizens

DCitizens Summer School Attendees 2024 DCitizens is returning with a five-day training event in Lisbon, Portugal, that will explore the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to...

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@uxp2lab.bsky.social’s Ritika Gairola rocking her first #chi2025 poster on public policy and HCI! She attracted a crowd quickly and is rocking it 🎉. Read more here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

The Geordie crew & our honorary Geordies at #CHI2025! Great talks, deep chats, joyful singing, catching up with old friends & making new ones. @kylemontague.bsky.social @pamogranite.bsky.social @shaunlawson.bsky.social @katherinej.bsky.social @altoombs.bsky.social @graydesign.bsky.social

Karaokai won the Popular Vote Award at #CHI2025! Big love to everyone who sang, asked, smiled & danced with us and our dino. You made it magic. @dalya.dev @kylemontague.bsky.social @laurenscottdev.bsky.social @pat-piedade.bsky.social #Karaokai #karaokescience #hci #northumbriauni

Thank you for the music 🎶 🎉 Couldn't be prouder of the brilliant team that brought this mad idea to life 🥳

Austin Toombs@altoombs.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the team who made the KaraokAI interactivity exhibit for winning the popular vote!!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @annarlcarter.bsky.social #chi2025 #interactivity

Ana Henriques presenting our work on Feminist Care Ethics at #chi2025! Such cool work with a the outcome of a toolkit which we hope will be useful to relationally engage in complex research contexts. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Oh my goodness, so honoured!! Thank you to everyone who sang, enjoyed and voted over the past week ❤️ Cant wait to sing with you all again soon 🎤

Austin Toombs@altoombs.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the team who made the KaraokAI interactivity exhibit for winning the popular vote!!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @annarlcarter.bsky.social #chi2025 #interactivity

Congratulations to the team who made the KaraokAI interactivity exhibit for winning the popular vote!!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @annarlcarter.bsky.social #chi2025 #interactivity

In case you need an excuse to sing at #CHI2025, come find our KaraokAI interactivity booth, where you'll meet the wonderful @annarlcarter.bsky.social and the rest of the brilliant team. Highly recommend both the singing and the company.

Anna R L Carter@annarlcarter.bsky.social · last yr.

We demoed KaraokAI: turning papers into karaoke songs at @chi.acm.org today. Over 100 people sang, danced and chatted with us! We’re so grateful for the energy you brought. Excited to meet and sing with more of you over the next few days. #KaraokAI #HCI #KaraokeScience #CHI2025

Austin’s Unofficial Rules for Not Dying (or Being Boring) at Conferences, particularly #chi2025 A short thread of practical survival tips for the conference grind:

We demoed KaraokAI: turning papers into karaoke songs at @chi.acm.org today. Over 100 people sang, danced and chatted with us! We’re so grateful for the energy you brought. Excited to meet and sing with more of you over the next few days. #KaraokAI #HCI #KaraokeScience #CHI2025

Thanks to The Royal Society, I’m at Indiana University Bloomington this week! Excited to team up with @altoombs.bsky.social to explore how digital tech keeps communities connected in changing cities. Let’s go! 🚀 #DigitalCivics #UrbanRegeneration #Indiana #HCI

It was a pleasure to deliver a talk on equity, heritage, and multi-sensory technology in public spaces yesterday—and how we can do better to shift power dynamics back to the communities these spaces serve. #Equity #Heritage #UrbanTech #PublicSpaces #CommunityLedDesign #NUIdeas #HCI

✨ I'm looking forward to talking at the Lit & Phil tomorrow evening on Creating Equitable and Inclusive Public Spaces through Community Collaboration. If you're in Newcastle feel free to drop by! www.litandphil.org.uk/event/nu-ide... #HCI #DigitalCivics #DCitizens #CommunityEngagement

NU Ideas Season 3 | No.7 - The Lit & Phil

Thursday 20th March | 6pm Creating Equitable and Inclusive Public […]

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Wanted to submit but didn't get a change? Good news! We've extended the deadline to March 17th ✨ Come discuss the future of accessible prototyping at hashtag #CHI2025! More info: dcitizens.eu/access-incon...

Access InContext: Workshop CHI 2025 - DCitizens

Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods We are delighted to be hosting a workshop at international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (CHI 2025), in Yokohama, Japan i...

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Anna R L Carter@annarlcarter.bsky.social · 2y ago

We have a workshop at #CHI2025 Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Join us in Japan or online in April! More details and submissions of interest check out dcitizens.eu/access-incon... #digitalcivics #accessibility #HCI