Looking for new funders. BlueJ, Greenfoot and Strype were funded for a long time by Oracle. This has ended, and we are looking for new funding. If you work at a company that wants to do something good, we would love to talk to you. Please repost. bluej.org greenfoot.org strype.org

Analysis of 1702 accepted #CHI2026 papers: tdjneate.github.io/chi_stats/2026 Country rank – 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇦🇰🇷🇦🇺🇯🇵🇳🇱🇩🇰 Curious titles – 32 papers start w/ "beyond", 72 follow a "from X to Y" pattern, and ~77% include ":" @kingshcc.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social #CHI2026: kingshcc.org/blog/chi2026...

I’m at #ASSETS2025 in Denver to present our paper on the impacts of using generative AI to scaffold just-in-time (JIT) configuration of visual scene displays (VSDs) by novice communication partners! You can catch my presentation in Session 5B on Tuesday at 11:15 MDT. Here are some highlights👇

I was awarded a ~£2M UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship! 🥳 This will fund human-centred work on communication accessibility, exploring emerging AI & embodied form factors. I'm hiring 2 HCI postdocs, an SLT researcher & a PhD student: tdjneate.github.io/flf/flf_anno...

Our amazing @carlota-vzgz.bsky.social was featured in the ACM Scholar Spotlight series! Find out more about her and her research here: acmweurope.acm.org/acm-scholar-...

Some nice news :) I got a Future Leaders Fellowship

KCL Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences@kingsnmes.bsky.social · last yr.

Wonderful to see Informatics' @quiteneate.bsky.social selected for UK Research and Innovation's Future Leaders Fellowship! He aims to create a range of wearable technologies to help aid those with communication difficulties communicate functionally and with confidence! Learn more👇

Aphasia and Voice Technology. Read more about the project here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #BSkySpeechies #Aphasia #A11y

Improving access to Amazon’s Alexa for people with aphasia | City St George's, University of London

Four videos share the experience of people with the language disability aphasia when interacting with Alexa voice technology

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I did not present at #chi2025, but my amazing postdoc, PhD student and collaborators at @hcid.city did present work I was involved in. All open access here: tdjneate.github.io/publications... My crowning #chi2025 achievement was 'Cupybara Noodles', created at the Cupnoodle museum in #yokohama.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/scienti... Great work on audio accessibility in #stroke #aphasia work led by @quiteneate.bsky.social at KCL ca11yproject.github.io

Scientists use ChatGPT to make nation's favourite podcasts more accessible

The work breaks new ground on audio media accessibility for people with complex communication needs.

kcl.ac.uk

Folks at #chi25 #chi2025, this talk is happening in about 20 minutes!

King's HCC Group@kingshcc.bsky.social · last yr.

First up we have @carlota-vzgz.bsky.social et al speaking about non-verbal communication tracking in videoconferencing. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro.... This paper received an Honorable Mention! #chi25 🕰️ 2:58pm 📍 G401 Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbJB...

ASSETS 2025 technical paper submissions are now open on PCS. Navigate to submissions on PCS, under society, choose ASSETS, then ASSETS 2025 for conference/journal, and then Technical Papers. Technical papers are due April 16, 2025, at 11:59 P.M. anywhere on Earth (UTC -12:00).

A new blog post from the ASSETS 2025 general chairs on indicating presentation modality in PCS assets25.sigaccess.org/updates.html

Come be my boss: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/111365-...

Head of Department of Informatics

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#cockneychai25 was yes! Amira giving a super talk about micro-narratives

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.

Don't know who needs to know this, but we came across really good, open source, free app for qualitative coding that works in the browser. app.taguette.org It is basically NVivo, but free, and good. Collaboration seems pretty effortless, akin to Overleaf of GDocs

#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

Our paper, "𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠", is accepted to 𝐀𝐂𝐌 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓! ⛩️ With @quiteneate.bsky.social & 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨, we explored nonverbal communication tracking in videocalls. Excited to present at #CHI2025 (April26-May1)🔗 shorturl.at/VSUMX

📄 Take a look at our new paper about aphasia & internet search: strategies and challenges. With Vasiliki Kladouchou, Stephann Makri, Sylvia Frankowska-Takhari, @quiteneate.bsky.social, Andrew Macfarlane & @stephwilsoncity.bsky.social #CHI2025 #Aphasia #Search openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/34...

an elderly woman says you can google it

Alt: an elderly woman says you can google it and gestures typing on a keyboard

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@katerinahilari.bsky.social @niamhdevane.bsky.social @carlamagdalani.bsky.social @stephwilsoncity.bsky.social @quiteneate.bsky.social @aphasialibrary.bsky.social @hcid.city @briellestark.bsky.social @loiscameron.bsky.social @lingeborgsophie.bsky.social might you share and re-post the below please?

Dr Abi Roper@abracabadger.com · 2y ago

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open! Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here: blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm... • Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK • Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025 • Conference: 18-20 August 2025 #aphasia

Announcing ASSETS 2025 Call for Papers and Mentoring. Technical papers are due April 16, experience reports are due June 11, posters and demos are due June 25, and the DC is due June 25. If you are new to ASSETS, you can also receive mentorship. Details at assets25.sigaccess.org Pls share.