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Huzzaah \o/ a topic I care deeply about, designing for, with and by people in sensitive or vulnerable context. I have been allowed to co-organize this workshop at the decennial (thats once every 10 years) #Aarhus2025 conference. its not a big conference but I am probably as close to a son of the Aarhus approach to #design and #HCI as one can be.
Updates:
https://bettercli.org/
https://github.com/cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines
#AskFedi I am looking for books, articles, posts and research papers on the user experience and user interface / HCI design of *command line applications*
Please boost.
Looking for a validated questionnaire to measure people's interaction experience with social robots, chatbots, or any artificial social agents? You are in for a treat as the Artificial Social Agent Questionnaire (ASAQ) is out now. It comes with a comparative dataset and practical guidance on sample sizes and visualising results
https://asaq.ewi.tudelft.nl
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103482.
Had the pleasure of visiting IT University Copenhagen and meet Mike, Rune and @elisamekler. I presented my research in modeling interactive experiences with "Aiming, Pointing, Steering" which won the best paper award at the CHI PLAY conference last year. The paper presents basic interaction patterns that games are built of, more info here:
https://gametasks.create.aau.dk/
Thanks Elisa and Mike for the arrangements!
#gamedesign #science #phd #hci #chiplay #chiplay2024 #gamedev #research @chiplay
Congratulations DOCTOR Liudas Panavas on the successful defense of his dissertation "Bridging the Gap: Human Centered Research for Democratizing #DifferentialPrivacy " and congrats to advisor @codydunne
#HCI #DataVisualization
Next was a fantastic talk by Morgan Barense on an app-based intervention to support memory in older US adults at the Psychonomic Society. The effects here were very impressive, and hopefully future work involves more collaboration with the HCI community. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pki6Ap49swc (5/8) #HCI #psychology
New publication alert!
Excited to share that our paper, "It’s Not Always the Same Eye That Dominates: Effects of Viewing Angle, Handedness and Eye Movement in 3D," will be presented at CHI 2025!
We show that eye dominance isn’t fixed but varies with task and context—challenging common assumptions in vision science and XR research.
Read more here: https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/its-not-always-the-same-eye-that-dominates(c07a2b05-329c-47e2-8f3c-8ece1c305048).html
Another thing Apple did right was to decide not to put touch in their desktop OS. PC users (including me) have mocked Macs for not having a touchscreen, but Apple did the right thing. Touch has completely different requirements than keyb/mouse input. For instance, UI elements have to be gigantic for touch to work, meaning they will be horrendous to use with a keyb/mouse. Worst of both worlds.
#Apple #UX #HCI #smartphones #computers
Pretty much the *only* advantage finger-touch has in personal computing is convenience. The human finger is inexact, shaky, enormous and opaque. And touchscreens register on touch, so there's no hover etc. As far as convenience goes, the finger is hard to beat, but for advanced usage it is very much sub-par as a modality imo.
#UX #HCI
Smartphones have always bugged me, in that I abhor the usability of touchscreens, and especially small ones. I just found a pen that has a soft pillow on the other end that works on touch screens, so I used it as a stylus for a while. It was much better than finger touch. Now imagine if there was a smartphone OS made primarily for advanced stylus use (like old Windows Phone). I'd probably opt for that for every phone going forward.
#smartphones #UX #HCI
Next was a compelling talk by @haimson on trans technologies at Stanford. Hopefully US universities will continue to support free inquiry into essential areas such as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWtkUBnwqVQ (8/9) #HCI #trans
License Plate Detector by Darkart (every camera you drive by surveillance) This program is intended solely for ethical and educational purposes. #anon #anonymous #graphicdesign #programing #coding #engineers #tech #technology #hacker #hacking #python #linux #c #rust #HCI #XXE #sql #security #news
Dont Stop Believing Anonymous
youtu.be/9HK-MLamafs?...
#anon #anonymous #graphicdesign #programing #coding #engineers #nerds #tech #technology #hacker #hacking #python #linux #c #rust #binary #HCI #XXE #sql #security
Dont Stop Believing Anonymous ...
Guess I can kiss attending American conferences goodbye as well, considering what I've been posting. Honestly, good riddance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
#HCI #academicchatter