My pinhole projector attempt was rubbish but the spontaneous view from between the trees was magical! #eclipse
Seray Ibrahim
@serayibrahim.bsky.social
Lecturer at King’s College London. Digital health research - disability & design, social interaction, and mental health. https://seray-i.github.io/
and if you or someone you know is interesting in this sort of stuff and looking for a postdoc in cross-sensory fabrication and playful interaction? Ping me or anyone from the #inclusiveXplay project team for a chat: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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It’s been a whirlwind week of #chi2026 & I tried to stay present in-person so here’s my round up of the bits I loved the most ⬇️🧵
🚨 IDC 2026 abstract deadline for Full or Short Papers or Pictorials is TODAY! 🚨 🗓️ Abstracts due today (Jan 20, 2026: Midnight AoE) 🗓️ Full submissions due next week (Jan 27, 2026: Midnight AoE) Theme: Creating a More Sustainable Future 🔗 Calls & guidelines: idc.acm.org/2026/ #IDC2026
Hey there #IDC2026 community! We see your wonderful pictorials abstracts in PCS and can't wait to receive your full submissions by 27th Jan, midnight AOE! idc.acm.org/2026/calls/p... - Good luck with those submissions and remember to get these in soon! (: 🏎️💨
Pictorials
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Deadline for submission to the Pictorials track is approaching! IDC2026 invites pictorial submissions about “Creating a More Sustainable Future.” Pictorials foreground visual communication; images, layout, and typography are central to the contribution. #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren
Introducing the IDC2026 Chairs! Kate Howland is taking on the role of General Chair this year, and Seray Ibrahim joins as Chair for the Pictorials track. 🦋Follow Kate @wildwoodlander.bsky.social 🦋Follow Seray @serayibrahim.bsky.social #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren #ourchairs
IDC 2026 is calling on young creators to imagine a more sustainable world. Any idea that helps the planet or supports fairer, kinder communities, in any format (art, stories, videos, prototypes, games), is welcome. info @ idc.acm.org/2026/calls/r... #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
It feels special resurrecting (and creating manual zotero entries) for important papers from no longer active workshops and conferences (...which otherwise sounded great). Your DOIs may not be active, but I see you, brilliant papers 😍
The ISAAC Research Committee invites you to participate in an online survey on how to define AAC! 📝 All stakeholders including AAC users, families, clinicians, vendors, researchers and others interested in the field of AAC are encouraged to participate.
📢Calls for Participation to IDC26 Brighton are now live!📢 Read the full calls🔗https://idc.acm.org/2026/calls/ Follow for updates:👇 ➡️Instagram: @idc_acm ➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InteractionDesignChildrenConference ➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/acm-idc #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren
The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres. The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky https://cup.org/3IDqYNf
Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣
#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already. Some (updated) tips I wrote about this: sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...
📣 **Exciting job opportunities** with the absolutely stellar human being @quiteneate.bsky.social. Tim is hiring 2 HCI postdocs, a SLT researcher & a PhD student to explore designing AI-enable AAC. This is gonna be a good one peeps! Check it out ⬇️ 👀
I was awarded a ~£2M UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship! 🥳 This will fund human-centred work on communication accessibility, exploring emerging AI & embodied form factors. I'm hiring 2 HCI postdocs, an SLT researcher & a PhD student: tdjneate.github.io/flf/flf_anno...
✨ New in ACM TOCHI: Uncovering Parental Struggles. This article investigates how parents encounter and respond to online parenting advice, and introduces a digital probe methodology to capture their lived experiences in everyday contexts. @serayibrahim.bsky.social #DigitalHealth #Parenting
Critically important information, wonderful to see the complete special issue is now freely available! See link in original post
The journal of #AugmentativeAndAlternativeCommunication published papers from our Future of #AACResearchSummit! Nearly all of the 21 papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses #AAC. Access these papers & watch many of the authors present here: lnk.to/aacfr. 📷: Photo by Steven Sutfin 1/2
The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year! We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world. If you have some spare time, come along! For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...
Largest social science festival shows research’s impact on lives
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science returns for its 23rd year, offering hundreds of free events across the UK.
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Just accepted! 📄 🤩 Our ToCHI paper describes our approach for developing digital methods for understanding about people’s attempts to apply online advice and change their daily social practices #chi2026 🧵👇 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Uncovering Parental Struggles: Using Digital Probes to Analyse Challenges in Applying Online Parenting Content | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Understanding the situated challenges that people face when attempting to apply online parenting advice is crucial for building effective digital parenting supports. However, existing HCI methods do n...
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This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
🤦🏽♀️ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews
Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review
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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Exciting work from my colleagues @quiteneate.bsky.social and Alexandre Nevsky!
Scientists use ChatGPT to make nation's favourite podcasts more accessible
The work breaks new ground on audio media accessibility for people with complex communication needs.
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Thank you CHI2025 and all the great people within it!
One last thread for today's HCC content at CHI - more great papers by my inspiring colleagues, doing a lot of incredible work at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction.
We hope you're feeling good after the first session of the day! This afternoon we have more #chi25 talks from the HCC 🌸 Details below...
If you’re still around at the very end of the day, come hear me talk about how we re-conceptualise EMA-type questions as an approach for helping parents tune into their child’s emotions throughout the day #CHI2025
And a little after that, a paper about Designing Daily Supports for Parent-Child Conversations about Emotion presented by @serayibrahim.bsky.social. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... #chi25 #chi2025 🕰️ 5:32pm 📍 G302 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCZS...
Come check out Sruthi Viswanathan’s work on parent-chatbot interaction! The work exposes the interactional practices that parents want from a chatbot! #CHI2025
First off in the afternoon, Co-Designing User-LLM Interactions in Parental Wellbeing Support Systems, presented by Sruthi Viswanathan in collboration with Petr and Seray from the HCC. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... #chi25 #chi2025 🕰️ 2:10pm 📍 G302 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM49...
Petr Slovak and @amiraskeggs.bsky.social share the design overview and validation studies on creating a scalable story elicitation tool for research participants #chi2025
#CHI2025 attendees: SIGCHI CARES is available on-site and online as a resource if anyone experiences or witnesses any form of harassment, harassment, etc. You can use the listed email or directly approach any of us! Thank you 🌷