📅 Save the dates: four days of XR in Bochum! 💻 10–11 Oct | #VRSHackathon Form teams, develop ideas and build XR prototypes with researchers, developers, designers, students and creatives. 🎤 12–13 Oct | #VRSConference Keynotes, talks, posters, live demos and discussions.

If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

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Two-Millisecond Passthrough Headset for Perceptual Studies By Meta's Eric Penner, Josephine D'Angelo, Clinton Smith, Nathan Matsuda, Navaneethan Siva, Phillip Guan "we find that 2 and 14 ms latencies are preferred over 23 and 29 ms when attempting to catch a ball"

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Beautiful work from Reza. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum

Null space theory predicts that neurons generate spikes not only to produce behavior but also to prevent the undesirable effect of other neurons on behavior. In this work, we show that this competitiv...

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Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science books of the 20th century. So how does it hold up today, asks Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Why Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? still feels prescient

Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science books of the 20th century. So how does it hold up today, asks Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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Friends! I'm bad at advertising but better late than never! I'm co-organizing a workshop at #CSCW2026 exploring the future of infrastructure, in conversation with its deep roots in CSCW scholarship. Please join us! cscw2026-infrastructure-workshop.github.io My short pitch below 👇

The inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit is August 31-September 1 in Atlanta Georgia and attempts to tackle some big questions in AI: what is next? what are the impacts on governance, creativity, education, scientific discovery, workforce? Website: aisummit.acm.org

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Takeo Igarashi (future of content creation tools) and @pedrolopes.org (integrating HCI and the human body) - highly recommend youtu.be/Lw6LMFosm00?... @choongwanwoo.bsky.social - external stimuli and neuroscience youtu.be/nlXRnTuMfYo?... (5/6)

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We are ready for Dagstuhl 😊 @panxueni.bsky.social @pedrolopes.org @vrneuroscience.bsky.social 🏖😸

We're inviting submissions for NeuroXR 2026, a @ieeeismar2026.bsky.social workshop for researchers working across #XR, #neuroscience, #HCI, affective computing, #neuroengineering, rehabilitation, and #AssistiveTech. Deadline: July 5, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE neuroxr-ws.github.io/www/

Meet the very talented #dis2026 doctoral consortium students! A big shout out to fellow co-chairs Ellen and Kumiyo for helping organize! @acm-dis.bsky.social

The #DIS2026 Proceedings are now available 🇸🇬✨ Explore the latest contributions from the DIS community: 🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... #DIS2026 #HCI #DesignResearch

I am writing a small reflection about serving as technical program chair for CHI. If you have questions that I can try to answer in that essay (I already got a bunch in instragram) send them my way (you can DM, you can email me annon, reply below—whatever and I'll try to incorporate it!).

Our Embodied AI (embodied-ai.tech) is also an art piece at #CVPR2026 art gallery! Watch the backend representation of an AI system that moves a dancer's body with muscle stimulation. Video: youtu.be/iRg6_SKpKrI (See all art pieces at #CVPR: thecvf-art.com/archive.php?...)

New paper at #ICRA2026 with/led by Matt Walter's team at TTIC. HapCompass: wearable haptic device for teleoperation that gives directional cues via asymmetric vibration! By mapping the robot's tactile measurements—improves teleoperation performance + better imitation learning!1/3

📢 VRSummit 2026 — Call for Submissions is Open! Submit your Talks 🎤, Posters 🖼️, or VR Demos 🥽 by July 15, 2026. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings!! 🔗 vrs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/submit/ #VRSummit2026 #XR #VirtualReality #CallForSubmissions #vrsky #VRResearch

🥁Just 21 days remaining until #ICRA2026!🚀 Be part of our two special SAC events: 🌟Lunch with Leaders 🌟 SAC x YRP Social Hour 🔗Sign up now using the link in bio. ❗Spots are limited! Looking forward to seeing you there! #ieeeras #ieeerassac #robotics #automation #students

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Letting an AI control my muscles (for science, and yes, it's a research prototype not a product!). Work done by Yun Ho and Romain Nith and published at ACM CHI (best paper award). All details at embodied-ai.tech

I had way too much fun making an example for my class: this is an FPGA driving a screen directly over VGA, no drivers, no adapter, nothing else: just pure H sync and V sync fun ;) almost a game of pong!

Reprogramming perception: A neuroplasticity-focused design space for sensory substitution devices dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.... by @ambermaimon.bsky.social @iddowald.bsky.social et al. at #AHs2026; #BCI #NeuroTech

Reflection from latest conference our lab attended (ACM CHI): lab.plopes.org/essays/chi20... which includes all the talks we gave, demos, seeing our alumni, catching up with friends, fixing broken demos, and other fun moments we had at the conference!

The most interesting question some folks asked me at #CHI2026 was: "did you not do a video with all the lab's paper this year?" Indeed, given the chairing work, I wasn't able too, but the enthusiasm of these folks helped me do it now 🙏! Here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VVt...

We did it! Students final boards from hcipcb.plopes.org class are on their way to @JLCPCB . As soon as they arrive it's solder and debug time for them: good luck and enjoy your 1st electronics adventure with a cortex MCU! Super start TAs: Dylan, Yun Ho and Romain Nith

The Abomination of AI – part 7 – what can we do? It all seems too big, requiring national and international responses.  But we can make a difference using appropriately chosen small AI (including none). Plus, this good use of AI is good for business too. alandix.com/blog/2026/04...

The Abomination of AI – part 7 – what can we do?

It all seems too big, requiring national and international responses. But we can make a difference using appropriately chosen small AI (including none). Plus, this good use of AI is good for business...

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Closing 7th May 2yrs postdoc on cross-sensory fabrication @bristolhci.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social Join ERC project #inclusiveXplay exploring how to support accessible and playful cross-sensory experiences for blind or visually impaired and sighted children Apply here shorturl.at/gVP3g

Meanwhile the ACM Digital Library is creating AI “podcasts” of papers with no author approval that of course contain inaccuracies (including e.g. misgendering authors) I don’t care about copyright. Legal /= ethical & academic institutions are embarrassing themselves www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

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