Bringing Liubai to CHI 2026 | Aalto University Doctoral Researcher Xiaran (Sarah) Song’s paper titled “留白 (Liubai) at a Hushed Sanctuary: Layered Reflections on an Artist Residency” has been accepted at the prestigious CHI Conference.

Aalto University (@aalto.fi) covering @notsarahsong.bsky.social's doctoral research, present this week at #CHI2026!

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Bringing Liubai to CHI 2026 | Aalto University Doctoral Researcher Xiaran (Sarah) Song’s paper titled “留白 (Liubai) at a Hushed Sanctuary: Layered Reflections on an Artist Residency” has been accepted at the prestigious CHI Conference.

Aalto University (@aalto.fi) covering @notsarahsong.bsky.social's doctoral research, present this week at #CHI2026!

www.aalto.fi/en/news/brin...

A person in winter clothing stands in a serene snowy woods, with soft snow blanketing the ground and tall snow-dusted trees in the background creating a peaceful atmosphere.

If you're at #CHI2026, Sarah (@notsarahsong.bsky.social) will be presenting her paper today (Wednesday) right before lunch:

"留白 (Liubai) at a Hushed Sanctuary: Layered Reflections on an Artist Residency"

📍P1, Room 128 – Immersive and Spatial Visualization
⏰ 11:27 am

A person in winter clothing stands in a serene snowy woods, with soft snow blanketing the ground and tall snow-dusted trees in the background creating a peaceful atmosphere.

If you're at #CHI2026, Sarah (@notsarahsong.bsky.social) will be presenting her paper today (Wednesday) right before lunch:

"留白 (Liubai) at a Hushed Sanctuary: Layered Reflections on an Artist Residency"

📍P1, Room 128 – Immersive and Spatial Visualization
⏰ 11:27 am

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | ACM Conferences

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems #chi2026 are now online!

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A person in winter clothing stands in a serene snowy woods, with soft snow blanketing the ground and tall snow-dusted trees in the background creating a peaceful atmosphere.

#Liubai — offers empirical insights of shared silence and meditation experiences from a one-month artist residency. Weaves field study with interview data, first-person inquiry and artistic artefacts. 😶🧘🏻‍♀️❄️ #CHI2026

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Getting some serious #Pandemic vibes!

#BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS_ARIRANG
#BTS_SWIM #KEEPSWIMMING

Final session of the Nordic Pre-#CHI2026 event with presentations by @aalto.fi's @oulasvirta.bsky.social on assistive interfaces and @notsarahsong.bsky.social on 留白 (liúbái).

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Congrats if you were notified of a @acm-dis.bsky.social submission acceptance! 👏🎉

All our #DIS2026 submissions were rejected (3 papers, 3 pictorials).

A lot of the people now telling you that generative AI is the future whether you like it or not and you'd better get onboard or be left behind said the exact same shit about the Metaverse

Here's the German #CHI2026 Pre-CHI programme: www.hcilab.org/event/german...

Held @aalto.fi in Espoo, Finland, this year's Nordic Pre-CHI event gives an opportunity to get a taste of upcoming #CHI2026 presentations, as well as to network with peers over two days.

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No matter how long you have been part of it, academic life is characterized by rejection.

Please share: I’ll be building a team of three PhD students and a postdoc. So let’s get in touch if you're interested in pioneering research on Mixed Reality collaboration!

🔗 Read more about the BRIDGE project on this website: blendedrealities.jensemil.dk/erc-grant/

📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Our 20yr old daughter is off to study for 3 years to the Netherlands, where we first moved to 23 years ago, almost to the day (18/8/2002). As she hugged me goodbye she said “dad, thanks for all the help ❤️” 🥹

It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola.

In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses:
✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process
✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs
✅ Open access (!)

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference #dis2025 are now online!

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👑 @blumineck.bsky.social

Wonderful talk by @qveraliao.bsky.social on bridging the socio-technical gap in AI.

DL just around the corner! Apply by May 15 if you're interested in advancing research on theory translation and games

A mother and her son are seated at a table, smiling at a beautifully decorated cake between them, sharing a warm and happy moment together.

Our ever smiling boy was born 🎂 on #MothersDay. Seventeen years later, both celebrations fall once again on the same day. Congratulations to both and to all mothers out there! ❤️

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Sayōnara Yokohama! Safe travels back from #chi2025 everyone!

Ok, so apparently CHInosaur was active on the other site during #chi2025.

For a while, I thought CHInosaur had evolved into @chiyote.bsky.social. Perhaps not?

🤔

I hope I can be half as awesome as the #chi2025 keynote speaker, Wakamiyu Masako, when I grow up. She’s a technology legend at 90!

A woman speaks at a podium in front of a large screen, engaging with her audience during a presentation.

Masako Wakamiya’s #chi2025 closing keynote ‘Designing Beyond Age: Rethinking Inclusion and Interaction in a 100-Year Life’: “elderly people will eventually find it difficult to go out […] and may think this is impossible to escape [but] with digital technologies, it’s no longer impossible.”

Always my pleasure!

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The sun rises over Yokohama for the last day of #chi2025!

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Concept artist @kortizart.bsky.social (Marvel, Dr. Strange) at the #chi2025 panel on “Forging an HCI Research Agenda with Artists Impacted by Generative AI”:

“Consider concept artists’ hard labor that is taken for free. […] It’s really disrespectful.”

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After lunch, please come see @notsarahsong.bsky.social’s #chi2025 talk:

“Walking in My Shoes: An Autoethnography of Techno-Spiritual Practices”

Spirituality and Legacies session in room G304.