(re)presented series is pleased to announce Haozhe Zhou hosted by BBL Speaker Series, UMD on 26th of February, giving a talk titled “Towards Human Motion Sensing with Flexible IMU Placement”. You can find all the details on our Linkedin Event www.linkedin.com/events/74306...

(re)presented series is pleased to announce Maxine Perroni-Scharf hosted by BBL Speaker Series by UMD on the 26th of February, giving a talk titled “SustainaPrint: Making the Most of Eco-Friendly Filaments”. You can find all the details on our Linkedin Event www.linkedin.com/events/susta....

SW UK & De Cymru HCI community! Pre-CHI is back! Come present your work, learn, and connect with other HCI researchers. A free, supportive conference for students, academics and industry! 📅 27/3/2026 📍 Bill Brown Suite, University of Bristol Reg: bit.ly/4qPjMP7 Site: bit.ly/4qI2uTQ #PreCHI #CHI2026

CALLING ALL GAME DEVELOPERS & DESIGNERS IN BRISTOL! Join our Impaired Technologies Game Jam 2025! November 8th-9th University of Bristol (Temple Quarter) What you'll get: Network with industry professionals & academics Collaborate with a team of 4-5 Express interest: forms.office.com/e/LcAZjwGy0n

Did you know alt.CHI 2025 was the last edition of this unique track of the CHI conference? I think we should preserve it and have signed this form to show that. If you agree, consider adding your name. shorturl.at/yO6Xi

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alt.CHI 2025 is set to be the last edition of this unique track of the CHI conference. Do you think we should try to preserve it somehow? If you think yes, then please leave your name, email, and an ...

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Also on Tue, @gracestangroome.bsky.social and Alex Tcherdakoff are leading a SIG on Designing for Neurodiversity in Academia: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Computer Interaction Time: 2:10 Location: G217

🎉 Last working day before #PreCHI2025! 🕓 Last day to register—don’t miss out! 👉 bit.ly/4hSWq6x 🛠️ 4 amazing workshops on Monday! 📋https://bit.ly/4lrThN6 See you there! 😄✨ #HCI #Workshops #CHI2025 #LastChance #register

I want to explain things in more detail elsewhere and I'll probably miss some things but it seems like a good time to make a list of alt text best practice for images of text on social media. So here goes: 1. Include the whole text. The actual text. Not a summary.

A history of the alt text label as I understand and remember it: I'm talking about the little box that sits in the corner of an image on social media with the letters A L T when the image has alt text. It appeared on Twitter in 2022 IIRC (Before Musk) in response to a user-demonstrated need. 1/

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I am very honoured to announce participation is OPEN for me and my wonderful co-authors for our SIG at CHI 2025! Designing for Neurodiversity in Academia: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Computer Interaction. Find out more on our website! sites.google.com/view/sigchi2...

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SW UK & De Cymru HCI researchers! Pre-CHI is your chance to practice talks, share work-in-progress, & connect in a supportive space. Free & open to all — students, academics, & industry pros! 📅 14-15/04/2025 📍 Wills Memorial, Bristol 🔗 Reg: bit.ly/4hSWq6x 🔗 Site: bit.ly/3XapAph #HCI #PreCHI #CHI2025

South West UK Pre-CHI returns! Last year was a hit, with attendees from across the UK (and the world!). Join us to practice CHI talks, get feedback, and connect — free for anyone! 📅 14-15/04/2025 📍 Wills Memorial Bldg, Bristol 🔗 Reg: bit.ly/4hSWq6x 🔗 Site: bit.ly/3XapAph #PreCHI #CHI2025

Parents! It's important to us that you let us know which dates would work best for you!

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Hi! Please let us know your preference of venue and date, refined from our previous poll: www.linkedin.com/posts/south-...

Michael Proulx @michaelproulx.bsky.social is kicking off a new year of BIG TALK this Thursday at 2pm GMT with "Eye tracking in extended reality," discussing his research at University of Bath & Reality Labs Research (Meta née Oculus). Join us online, all welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-talk-m...

BIG TALK: Michael Proulx, Meta Reality Labs

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I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

BIG TALK: Ding Wang from Google AI will be discussing "Whose AI Dream? In search of the aspiration in data annotation" online Thu 21 November 2-3pm GMT: bighci.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/10/03/b... All welcome to our #HCI seminar series! Join on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-talk-d...

Yet again: please do not share image posts without alt text. It makes it harder to turn doing alt text into the norm. Also: if you share videos here, alt text is not the way to make videos accessible. Please do a video description post after the video post. 1/?

People in the UK! Thiiiis 👇🏽!!!!

Matt Kamen@mattkamen.bsky.social · 2y ago

UK voters - don't forget that you'll need photo ID to vote today! Acceptable forms of ID are detailed here: www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/... #LocalElections2024 #MayoralElection2024

Bristol is full of buildings named after people & orgs involved in imperialism & slavery. One of them is the building I work in. We'd like to change its name. The organisation it's named for is fine with the name change Uni: "it'd be a performative act" Petition: www.change.org/p/rename-mvb...

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The Society of Merchant Venturers was historically partially a rivalry with tensions between the University and the Society, until a fire destroyed the Society's rival school in 1905, after which the ...

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