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I'll be at #ICML2026 on July 10-11 in Seoul to speak at the Workshop on Culture x AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology. The workshop is currently accepting submissions, with humanities, ML, HCI, and social/cognitive sciences all welcome. Submit papers by May 1! Join us in Seoul! 🇰🇷

Doing AI Differently | Culture × AI Workshop

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Working on pluralistic alignment? Our newest Substack post dives into Jeff Basoah’s research on whether and how AI should culturally adapt. globeai.substack.com/p/how-cultur...

How Cultural Adaptation of LLMs Can Backfire

The surprising insights that made me rethink the goal of pluralistic alignment

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Thank you!!!

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join us in congratulating @katharinareinecke.bsky.social, whose book Digital Culture Shock has been longlisted for the 2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards in the Innovation & Creativity category! The winner will be announced on Jan 28th, 2026. Check out her incredible work here: hubs.ly/Q03YptMx0

This was a super fun project to be part of and one that really benefitted from the cross-disciplinary insights of our Center for Globally Beneficial AI. More to come soon!

Allen School@uwcse.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Let them cook: To explore if #AI agents can adapt to different cultures, #UWAllen researchers fed them data from a kitchen simulation game and found the AI learned cultural values from observing human behavior—like children do. @plosone.org #HCI #AIforGood www.washington.edu/news/2025/12...

It’s #AlzheimersAwareness Month! #UWAllen prof @katharinareinecke.bsky.social and @labinthewild.bsky.social are part of the Open Measures Network Initiative for #Alzheimers Disease and Related #Dementia Research and Prevention creating digital tools for early detection: www.psu.edu/news/health-...

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A new research network co-led by researchers at Penn State seeks to detect the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias years before symptoms emerge so that brain-protecting treatme...

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Ever wonder why the technology your using feels foreign? Maybe it was built in a different country. Join @katharinareinecke.bsky.social and me on @breakingmath.bsky.social as we discuss "Digital Culture Shock" and the power dynamics in #technology #math #engineer Listen Here: youtu.be/bCCMS2tKNh8

Intelligent Systems: Digital Culture Shock

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Thanks again to co-authors of the 2019 paper: Younghoon Kim who was first author of the paper (yhoonkim.github.io), Gabriella Silva Gorsky, and Jeff Heer homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/, and to @labinthewild.bsky.social and @katharinareinecke.bsky.social for helping with and hosting the survey!

If you’re interested in hearing more on this topic, @katharinareinecke.bsky.social will be at Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe in Seattle TONIGHT (Tuesday, September 23), 6-7:30 pm: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0... #AI #HCI #BookSky #BookTour #BookRecommendations #EngineeringResearchMatters 2/2

AUTHOR TALK: Digital Culture Shock with Katharina Reinecke

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I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩‍💻

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please join Ada's Technical Books & Cafe in welcoming @katharinareinecke.bsky.social to discuss her book, Digital Culture Shock, tomorrow (September 23rd) at 6:00 pm PDT. Learn more about this free, in-person event here: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0....

So excited to kick of my book tour! Hope to see lots of you there 📖☕👩‍💻

Allen School@uwcse.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you’re fascinated by the intersection of technology & culture, #UWAllen professor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social will talk about her new book, “Digital Culture Shock,” at Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe in Seattle on Tue., Sept. 23: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0... #AI #HCI @princetonupress.bsky.social

🚀 We turned LabintheWild into a book! 📖 Digital Culture Shock = global insights + LabintheWild tests so you can explore your cultural background. How does culture shape tech—cars, apps, websites, ChatGPT? 👉 Can’t wait to hear what you think!

Digital Culture Shock

How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design

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Honored to see my article, 'Wikipedia Has a Language Problem. Here’s How To Fix It,' cited in Digital Culture Shock by @katharinareinecke.bsky.social ecke.bsky.social The book explores how culture shapes technology and why one-size-fits-all approaches don’t work.

What happens when a robotaxi from California tries to drive in Cairo? Is that website colorful or chaotic? And when did chatbots get so rude? In a new book, #UW prof @katharinareinecke.bsky.social explores how culture shapes tech use and design. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #HCI #AI #BookSky

Digital Culture Shock

How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design

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@libraryjournal.bsky.social calls Digital Culture Shock by @katharinareinecke.bsky.social an "essential" book on the development of technology. Check out the review:

Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters

Archives & Preservation

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Excited to spend three days at Cornell to discuss what AI future we want to live in (if any!) globalai.ai.cornell.edu/thought-summ...

The University of Washington's "Viewpoint" magazine celebrated its 20th anniversary by highlighting 20 extraordinary alumni. Who's Number One? #UWAllen's Yaw Anokwa #yanokwa!

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction is looking for outreach editors, i.e., junior researchers who wants to rethink and implement how the journal engages online with readers and authors. Deadline for applications is Dec 11. Call at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... or ask me for more info.

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Dear HCI community (please share, forward) We are seeking two Outreach Editors for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). The Outreach Editor…

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I'm on Amazon! My book will be out in June and until then...I swear I'm going to go crazy if anyone changes the name of social networking sites, or invents a new one, one more time.

Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters

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