(Soon-to-be Dr.) Suchismita Naik just successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Multi-Agent Design Patterns for Fostering Sense of Belonging in Online Communities: Insights from Fandom Communities and AI Practitioners".
Austin’s Unofficial Rules for Not Dying (or Being Boring) at Conferences, particularly #chi2025
A short thread of practical survival tips for the conference grind:
That’s the C-CILab squad at #CHI2025!
Come hang out, come see their stuff, come be nerdy with us.
We’d love to see you!
Seora Park is also presenting a paper she wrote with Dakyeom Ahn, Seolhee Lee, Jieun Cho, and Hajin Lim about how people experience the seams between real and alternative identities when watching VTubers.
Learn more here: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
#CHI2025 #VTuberResearch
Suchismita Naik’s case study about designing multi-agent AI systems will be presented by Amanda Hall at #CHI2025! Collaborators also include Amanda Snellinger, Austin Toombs, and Scott Saponas. #multiagentAI
More info here: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Tilar DeVine is presenting a Student Design Competition poster (collaborators: Matthew Clark, Jackson Fowler, and Jingxin Dong) about an identity disclosure feature designed for Discord! M and W afternoons at the poster sessions.
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
#CHI2025 #StudentDesignCompetition
Seora Park is presenting their alt.chi paper “Stuck in Translation” during the Monday afternoon alt.chi session (4:20–5:50pm)!
Tilar DeVine and Austin Toombs are also excited to be part of the paper and presentation!
More info: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
#CHI2025 #altchi
All of the C-CILab PhD students (Suchismita Naik, Seora Park, and Tilar DeVine) have work at #CHI2025 this year! Here’s a little thread celebrating what they’re up to. So proud of them! ❤️
Looking for more online groups where people genuinely connect. We’re expanding our study on subtle acts of support in online communities and are looking for new groups to observe. If you're part of such a group or you moderate one, please consider joining our study!
c-cilab.com/subtle-acts-...
Hello, friends! Just slowly continuing the migration over :D