She addressed how AI can be effectively designed for playful persuasion and shared insights on how study participants could not distinguish between human-controlled and NPC characters in a game, raising important questions about perception and agency!
🔗 Her personal website: rinawehbe.ca
We were thrilled to have Dr. Rina R. Wehbe at our lab today! Rina is from Dalhousie University and head of the lab HCI4Good Research. Rina shared her work "Designing Persuasively using Playful Elements" where she gave examples of her various projects that explored persuasion for engagement.
2. "Emotion in Smart Buildings: Can Affective Interaction Shape the Smart Agenda in Architecture" shows how the Affective Interaction lens can reveal new insights into how occupants experience smart indoor environments. [🏆 Honourable Mention]
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1. "Do Children Trust AI, and Should They? Designing and Validating a Child-Centred K-AI Trust Scale for Intelligent Systems" introduces a new K-AI trust framework for children after direct interaction with AI. [🏆 Best Paper]
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We are at #CHI2026! 🎉 We will be presenting 2 papers, once again with a Best Paper and an Honourable Mention!
We look forward to seeing our CHI friends, collaborators, and the broader community in Bareclona!
Paper details follow. [1/3] @uva.nl @chi.acm.org
It has now been almost two months since our User Interaction Lab officially opened within the Informatics Institute @uva.nl! It is exciting to see the lab actively used for teaching Bachelor’s and Master’s courses focused around socially responsible interactive systems!
🔗 ivi.uva.nl/content/news...
Today is the opening of our User Interaction Lab (UIL)! We warmly invite you to join us on this occasion! We will have remarks by the Dean, the interactive “Overwhelm” exhibit, display of new technologies, & networking with drinks. @uva.nl
📅 Today, 15:00–18:00
📍 LAB42, Room L0.03
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We invite you to the opening of our User Interaction Lab (UIL)! We will have remarks by the Dean, the interactive “Overwhelm” exhibit, new technologies, & networking with drinks.
When: 19/12/2025, 15:00–18:00
Where: Science Park 900 – LAB42, Room L0.03, Amsterdam
RSVP ivi.uva.nl/content/even...
We are thrilled to share that @drsbrooke.bsky.social is launching the Queer & Feminist Informatics Network (QFIN) within the @uva.nl. They will host their very first event on 25/11/25 with an inaugural talk by Dr. Oliver Haimson!
Event 🔗 lnkd.in/ednjVgj7
website 🔗 www.qfinformatics.com
We invited Kristel Karriqi to speak about her work in technology for social good while still in high school! She’s mentored through TechGirls and Technovation, led STEM projects, and is now developing her startup Prizm, focused on local youth issues. We can't wait to see what she takes on next!
Now Hiring - Postdoc in HCI x Urban Design!
BEAT is our new €3.8M EU research project on creating inclusive cities. This vacancy is the first and thus one of the most impactful positions in BEAT, as we are constructing an interdisciplinary team.
Vacancy 🔗 lnkd.in/gsPVX7iP
BEAT 🔗 lnkd.in/gxrNjCH6
The article lays out the PETLP framework (Privacy-by-design Extract-Transform-Load-Present) to address the tangled legal & ethical terrain of AI research using social media data.
🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
🌟 @drsbrooke.bsky.social recently co-wrote a piece with Nick Oh for The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which is now live on the Impact of Social Sciences blog! [1/2]
#AIethics #PrivacyByDesign #SocialMediaResearch #ResponsibleAI #DataProtection @uva.nl
A reminder that we have a page on LinkedIn now!
Follow us for updates on our research, projects, and collaborations in topics such as accessibility, audio, games, health & well-being, neurodiversity, smart buildings, and social robotics.
👉 www.linkedin.com/company/digi...
Amar's work explores how soft magnetic materials can be made accessible tools for designers creating shape-changing interfaces!
Read more about Mijksenaar Lab and their work here: mijksenaar.com/lab
Last week we had @fenneroefs.bsky.social & Amar Mohindra from Mijksenaar Lab visiting us! We had a super interesting research chat around wayfinding, sound, & accessibility. We went hands-on with Amar’s soft-magnetic demo, developed with the Material Aesthetic’s Lab at the Industrial Design @tue.nl.
We have an exciting PhD opportunity @uva.nl!
Join our lab to work on a four-year PhD around co-creation/co-design methods and diverse lived experiences of disabilities. @judithgood.bsky.social
Apply by 1 Nov 2025.
🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
#PhD #HCI #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign
We’re on LinkedIn now!
Follow the Digital Interactions Lab for updates on our research, projects, and collaborations in topics such as accessibility, audio, games, health & well-being, neurodiversity, smart buildings, and social robotics.
👉 www.linkedin.com/in/digital-interactions-lab-uva
What does BEAT aim to do?
• Centre people’s lived experience to identify everyday accessibility challenges such as broken elevators and mis-parked bikes.
• Integrate AI, design and policy to generate solutions that are inclusive and practical.
Learn more here:
ivi.uva.nl/content/news...
@uva.nl
We are proud to announce BEAT, a €3.8M project boosting accessibility in Dutch cities!
Led by Hamed Alavi with co-PIs @judithgood.bsky.social & @katjesjes.bsky.social, BEAT pioneers inclusive city-making, grounded in lived experience and shaped by AI, design and policy.
Illustration: Beyza Durmuş.
Exciting lab news! @drsbrooke.bsky.social has been awarded a Veni grant for “Human‑Centred Code: Building Accessible IDEs for Neurodiverse Women in Computing Education.” She will co-design tools to break down barriers in coding education & embed inclusivity into IDEs!
🔗 ivi.uva.nl/content/news...
📖 "An Umbrella Review of Reporting Quality in CHI Systematic Reviews: Guiding Questions and Best Practices for HCI" - Katja Rogers et al.
This umbrella review evaluates systematic reviews at CHI using PRISMA/ENTREQ and offers guiding questions to improve transparency & rigour in future reporting.
🏆 Honourable Mention: "Python is for girls! Masculinity, Femininity, and Queering Inclusion at Hackathons" - Siân Brooke
An examination of how queerness is expressed—but also constrained—by tech’s masculine norms at 7 UK hackathons.
Our CHI papers this year:
🏆 Best Paper: "What Do We Design for When We Design Smart Buildings?" - Shruti Rao, Katja Rogers, Judith Good, Hamed Alavi
A scoping review of 192 papers on human experience in smart buildings – mapping out human experiences, design mechanisms, and associated technologies.
Our lab's achievements at #CHI2025 this year were featured by the Informatics Institute (IvI) at the University of Amsterdam. We submitted 3 papers, of which 1 received a best paper award and the other a honourable mention! [1/4]
Read more about them via IvI:
🔗 ivi.uva.nl/content/news...
Dr. Siân Brooke @drsbrooke.bsky.social recently joined BBC Radio London to discuss the appeal of the #manosphere and how it preys on young men’s real struggles by offering hate rather than support.
🔗 Listen to her here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The AI for Health Equity Lab has been awarded €2.3M through NGF @AiNed ELSA Labs (NWO)! Since 2023, we've been working with partners to develop and implement AI applications designed for accessibility and equity. Implementation is underway-interested in collaborating? healthy-ai.org/nieuws/
Interested in human-computer interaction & audio?
Explore and shape how audio makes technology be viewed as trustworthy or persuasive - apply to this fully funded PhD position at the University of Amsterdam:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
One week until the deadline: 03 March. #hci #audio #phd
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