Are you a Bluesky user or developer? Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media. Participation includes: • 45–60 min Zoom interview • $30 USD digital gift card Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtb...

What if you could have more agency over your social media feed? CITP researchers have built Bonsai to explore what happens when users can have that control. Try the app now on @bsky.app! getbonsai.org Team: @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @andresmh.com @mariannealq.bsky.social Omar El Malki

Hey Bluesky friends, please check out and let us know what you think of 🌳 Bonsai, a new tool to create custom Bluesky feeds getbonsai.org Story: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha... Presented at #CHI2026 by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social and @mariannealq.bsky.social

Ching-Yi Tsai gave a fantastic talk this morning at #CHI2026! Check out uncertain-pointer.github.io

Check out upcoming talks from @princetonhci.bsky.social at #CHI2026!

As AI agents enter the physical world via AR glasses and robots, they need to interpret ambiguous references, including imprecise pointing and underspecified language like “what’s that?” We present Uncertain Pointer at #CHI2026 led by the amazing Ching-Yi Tsai w/ Nicole Tacconi & Andy Wilson 🧵 1/4

Proud of Lauren Wang for giving an excellent talk at #HRI2026! Check out X-OOHRI — using #AR for in situ robot explanations: xoohri.github.io

Lauren Wang from @princeton.edu will be presenting at #HRI2026 in Edinburgh next week! “Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as AR Affordances” Come say hi if you’re around! 👋 🔗 Project Page: xoohri.github.io
 📅 Time and Location: Mar 17 Tuesday, 2 PM, Session 3B

PrincetonHCI@princetonhci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Checkout the latest work from @princetonhci.bsky.social folks at #CHI2026 @princeton.edu @princetonhci.bsky.social

People form ad hoc conventions, establishing linguistic & gestural abstractions, and shift information across speech and gesture to communicate more efficiently over time. We study this in our #CHI2026 paper, led by Kiyosu Maeda with @judithfan.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social and team 🧵👇
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A fundamental challenge in human-robot interaction is that capabilities and limitations are often opaque to users. In our upcoming #HRI2026 paper, X-OOHRI, led by the brilliant Lauren Wang, we use AR to make robot capabilities and limits visible during object-oriented interactions 🤖

First was an amazing talk by @parastooabtahi.bsky.social on haptic illusions in VR and object-oriented interactions in AR at Princeton Robotics. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlo9... (2/8)

Princeton Robotics Seminar - Parastoo Abtahi

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📣 I’m recruiting 1–2 #HCI PhD students interested in spatial computing, #AR, and #HRI. More information: parastooabtahi.com/applicants If you’re interested, apply to Princeton CS by Dec 15 and mention my name in your application.

Thrilled that Reality Promises received a best paper award at #UIST2025. Come see Mo Kari’s talk on the last day of the conference! 📍Wed, at 11:00 AM, in the Sydney room

Parastoo Abtahi@parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In #VR, users can experience “magical” interactions, such as moving distant virtual objects with the Go-Go technique. How might we similarly extend people’s abilities in the physical world? 🪄 Excited to share Reality Promises, our #UIST2025 paper, led by the amazing Mo Kari ✨

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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Researchers made a robot that can make deliveries to VR. They call it Skynet. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/invisible-mo...

In #VR, users can experience “magical” interactions, such as moving distant virtual objects with the Go-Go technique. How might we similarly extend people’s abilities in the physical world? 🪄 Excited to share Reality Promises, our #UIST2025 paper, led by the amazing Mo Kari ✨

Check out Lauren Wang’s #UIST2025 poster on GhostObjects: life-size, world-aligned virtual twins for fast and precise robot instruction, with real-world lasso selection, multi-object manipulation, and snap-to-default placement. This is the first piece in her ongoing work on #AR for #HRI 🤖👓

📢 Find Judy Fan (@judithfan.bsky.social) at #CogSci2025 during Poster Session 1 (⏰Tomorrow, 1–2:15 PM | 📍Salon 8) to learn about our work on understanding multimodal communication and how people form linguistic and gestural abstractions in collaborative physical tasks.

📢 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation! Huge thanks to my committee (Olga @andresmh.com @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @parastooabtahi.bsky.social) & everyone who supported me ❤️ 📢 Next I'll join Apple as a research scientist in the Responsible AI team led by @jeffreybigham.com!

Tue April 29: I'll be cheering Indu Panigrahi present our LBW on interactive AI explanations (w/ Amna, Rohan, Olga, Ruth, @parastooabtahi.bsky.social) in the 10:30-11:10am and 3:40-4:20pm poster sessions (North 1F) 🧵 bsky.app/profile/para... 📌 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Parastoo Abtahi@parastooabtahi.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out Indu Panigrahi’s LBW at #CHI2025: “Interactivity x Explainability: Toward Understanding How Interactivity Can Improve Computer Vision Explanations.” 🔗 Project Page: ind1010.github.io/interactive_XAI 📄 Extended Abstract: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10745

Check out Indu Panigrahi’s LBW at #CHI2025: “Interactivity x Explainability: Toward Understanding How Interactivity Can Improve Computer Vision Explanations.” 🔗 Project Page: ind1010.github.io/interactive_XAI 📄 Extended Abstract: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10745

Boosting this up for a last chance to come join us at #CHI2025 to assist with being an associate chairs (ACs) for the @chi.acm.org Late Breaking Work program! Please forward to anyone that you know might be interested.

Pedro Lopes@pedrolopes.org · 2y ago

Help with CHI Late Breaking Work program! We are looking for associate chairs (ACs). Not only is the LBW an excellent track for our community to show new work at CHI, but it is also an important step to train new ACs in our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #hci #CHI2025

HCI researchers starter pack. Lets you follow a bunch of HCI people at once (which the HCI list didn't let you do). Again, ask to be added if I missed you. go.bsky.app/p3TLwt

#HCI Starter Packs: HCI Researchers: go.bsky.app/p3TLwt HCI + Games: go.bsky.app/CTm8Qea HCI + Accessibility Researchers: go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP XR + HCI Research: go.bsky.app/8Tdtocp

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

Since #AcademicBluesky seems to be a bigger thing now, I wanted to share my PhD admissions advice YouTube resources. Please pass this on to anyone you think it might help! Probably most useful for STEM and especially CS adjacent fields, but broadly applicable. cfiesler.medium.com/phd-admissio...

PhD Admissions Advice

Sorry about the hidden curriculum. :(

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