Daniel Buschek

@dbuschek.bsky.social

Prof at Uni Bayreuth, Germany. Human-computer interaction, interactive AI. Building future tools for creative people, while critically evaluating the impact of AI on users, workflows, and outcomes.

This reminds me of a recurring question around AI: Who values process vs outcome, when? Do you jam to try sth new, to practice your skills? Or do you race to produce the most finished-looking game? Jams might be framed more explicitly around one of these to help attract those they hope to reach.

Game Maker's Toolkit@gamemakerstoolkit.com · 2w ago

Also a friendly reminder that we do NOT allow the use of generative AI for art and audio assets. And that includes your itch․io thumbnail. Don't worry, we'll know. Because it looks like complete shit.

This is a unique project in several ways: Specialists working with an actual AI writing tool product (not the latest chatbot or own prototype) as part of their actual job, in an important yet overlooked writing domain (German "easy and plain language" for accessibility).

Hendrik Heuer@hheuer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our new paper: Writing Support Tools for Making Text Understandable” (i-com), with Sven Goller & @dbuschek.bsky.social. We studied how language specialists revise texts for people with cognitive impairments and identify gaps for AI writing: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Have we lost peer appreciation? Not just at #CHI2026 I notice many review-to-reject. All studies have tradeoffs, all papers have limited scope. Sure, reviewing is fast, even with "passing knowledge", if we list what isn't there and conclude it's lacking. But we should review what *has* been done.

Well, guess what happened? Despite appreciating the changes, it is difficult to envision what the revised paper would look like, so a fresh round of reviewing is required. 👉 I think we should get rid of rebuttals without resubmissions. #UIST2025

Daniel Buschek@dbuschek.bsky.social · last yr.

For #CHI we can submit a revised version after initial reviews. In contrast, it now feels bad to write a #UIST rebuttal without being able to directly show changes. I wonder if reviewers will feel the same way and if that reduces the chances of seriously engaging with rebuttals. 🤔

Do you find yourself coding similar stuff again & again to "just run this quick user study"? Florian has invested a lot of time and effort into engineering reusable components for (online) studies in #HCI. We've used & tested it across several recent projects. Now you can, too!👇 #EICS2025

Florian Lehmann@florianlehmann.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share StudyAlign, our new open-source project for conducting web-based user studies. I'll be presenting our work at #EICS2025 today. StudyAlign supports HCI researchers to streamline study setup and execution. Find our paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13046

For #CHI we can submit a revised version after initial reviews. In contrast, it now feels bad to write a #UIST rebuttal without being able to directly show changes. I wonder if reviewers will feel the same way and if that reduces the chances of seriously engaging with rebuttals. 🤔

🔍I'm looking for recommendations on recommendation systems work from an HCI perspective! (for a lecture) E.g. on aspects related to the UI/interaction design of recommendations, user control, explanations, ... Thank you for any pointers! 😄