Call for participation: 10th Summer School & Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow, Scotland. June 16-20, 2026. Summer School expanded to include Symposium. Call for Workshops (14th Feb) & Student Attendence (14th March). s3cix.computationalinteraction.org

Treating AI as a black box may be holding back progress. Our fresh piece in IEEE Computer with @bjo3rn.bsky.social argues that to advance generative AI, we need to stop treating algorithms and users as separate concerns.

Feedback in RLHF is collected from human raters who are prompted by the system to compare pairs and express preferences. What advantages do we get if humans can exhibit higher agency? doi.org/10.1111/cgf....

Teaching HCI in Higher Education event starting: lecture-series.hcistudio.org

Happy to announce that our CHI 2026 Meet-up proposal 'The Role of AI in HCI Education' has been accepted! The goal is to serve as a catalyst for a community-wide discussion on how we ought to consider AI in HCI education going forward. Please forward and join if you can!

Launch of the new ELLIS Institute Finland. Excited to be part it!

One thing I’m especially proud of in our HCI intro book is that it includes an entire section dedicated to Engineering in HCI. As interactive technologies grow more complex, these methods are more important than ever. academic.oup.com/book/60808

Aleksi Ikkala on stage defending his thesis “Learning to Interact: Simulating Users with RL in HCI”, with Per Ola Kristensson as the opponent and Perttu Hämäläinen as the supervisor.

Prof Per Ola Kristensson / Cambridge giving a talk on how to design for the emergent properties of human-AI systems at Aalto. Per Ola is the opponent of Aleksi Ikkala who is defending his doctoral thesis on Friday, with Perttu Hämäläinen as the supervisor.

So proud of our PhD student Yue Jiang, who defended her thesis "Computational Representations for User Interfaces" last Friday, with Brian A. Smith as the opponent.

Brian A. Smith giving his talk "Computers as Partners in Human Ability" today at Aalto. Impressive work. I especially appreciate his work on creating auditory interfaces that allow blind users play real-time video games like driving. Brian is Yue Jiang's opponent and visiting us today and tomorrow.

Just presented "WigglyEyes: Inferring Eye Movements from Keypress Data" at Ubicomp/ISWC'25. It's a method that, given keypress data only, infers how users move their eyes when they type. It uses a user simulator for data augmentation. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... github.com/quintus0505/...

Ubicomp'25 starting at Dipoli at Aalto. 793 attendees this year

This is the 2025 cohort of the Ubicomp Doctoral Colloquium. Some of the best PhD students in this area. We're standing here in front of Dipoli, the beautiful main venue of the conference. I look forward to hearing about these students as they move on after their PhDs.

On Friday, @ainiputkonen.bsky.social defended her dissertation on modeling decision-making in naturalistic settings with Prof. Adam Sanborn as the opponent. It has been a joy to watch her grow and emerge as a rigorous and original researcher. Congrats Aini! aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cf8487...

Prof. Adam Sanborn giving a talk on Bayesian Brain without Probabilities at Aalto

John R. Platt's Strong Inference 1958 (Science) keeps giving. Reading it this morning I found this gem. To push forward HCI, we need to do the same: sit down, think, and build models that help us tease out the fundamental questions -- and only then run empirical studies. Not the other way around.

The textbook is much more comprehensive than any introductory class needs. That's why we offer recommendations in Preface for courses in different contexts: computer science, design, engineering, social sciences, and specialized courses. Preface here: introductiontohci.org

Our new textbook isn't just about the essentials of research in HCI, it also offers guidance to those who entertain HCI as their future careers. My own two favorite bits are on how to read a paper critically and selecting HCI problems that matter. academic.oup.com/book/60808

Thrilled to share our #UIST2025 research! We investigate how the decomposition principle can improve human feedback for LLM alignment. In a 160-participant study, our tool DxHF increases feedback accuracy by +4.7% 👉 sdq.github.io/DxHF Furui Tino @oulasvirta.bsky.social @elassady.bsky.social

@acmuist.bsky.social #uist2025 program is out: programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr... ... lots of interesting papers to look forward to, see you there

With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation... New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!

Makeability Lab - How to Figures

How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu

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OUP now offers not only one mammoth PDF but each chapter as its own file: academic.oup.com/book/60808

Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract. Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction provides the first comprehensive textbook on the design of computing systems for human use. The book i

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📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola. In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses: ✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process ✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs ✅ Open access (!)

🏆Anton Gasse, Alexander Lingler(@ituaustria.bsky.social), Martin Lorenz, @oulasvirta.bsky.social(@aalto.fi‬), @philwintersberg.bsky.social(@ituaustria.bsky.social) & @patebel.bsky.social won the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster @chiwork.bsky.social 2025 in Amsterdam! 🔗https://shorturl.at/D5JDO

We had a lovely summer school last week in Paris. Thirty amazing students and postdocs, a week full of keynotes and hands-on lectures on computational methods. State-of-the-art as call as classical topics, ranging from LLM agents to Bayesian inference cixschool2025.isir.upmc.fr

I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere? "If my kids excel, will they move away?" jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/wh...

In Pittsburgh, I’m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the top computer science school in the world. I’ve also worked in various large technology companies, who have offices in Pittsburgh to connect with and employ Carnegie Mellon faculty and students.

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John Williamson lecturing about simulator-bases inference at the Comp Int summer school cixschool2025.isir.upmc.fr

Philipp Wintersberger giving a talk on multitasking and human-AI interaction at Aalto