If you're curious or working in Neuroscience & HCI and going to
@chi.acm.org #CHI026 join the #NeuroHCI meetup Wed 15 Apr 14:15-15:45 🧠
neurohci.github.io/CHI2026/
W/ @iddowald.bsky.social Yudai Tanaka Yun Ho @jamieward.bsky.social @drmaxlwilson.bsky.social Kia Höök
@pedrolopes.org Rainer Malaka
I should note it's the first time in the history of this class that it's being taught with @tengshanyuan.info and it took me like 10m into the first lecture to say, well this symbol was made by ... "Prof. Shan Yuan Teng"! Let's see if we even get to the end without his help this time!
Pedro and Romain smiling after ordering all the PCBs
That time of the year where Romain Nith and I teach PCB (w @kicad.org and @jlcpcb.bsky.social ) to folks with no electronics/EE background, it's awesome it is to see them make physical devices from scratch! This is hcipcb.plopes.org class at @uchicagopsd.bsky.social @uchicagocs.bsky.social
I'm still so mind blown by all her work I shared a screenshot of Instagram rather than the actual photo... ! Congratulations @xjasminelu.bsky.social
Everyone celebrating with Jasmine in front of her PhD slide!
I can't put this into any other words except that "you should check our Dr. Jasmine Lu's work at jasminelu.site "
.... A huge congratulations to @xjasminelu.bsky.social on her absolutely stellar PhD and to Eric Paulos Ken Nakagaki and Greg Abowd for serving on this most incredible committee!
[Appreciate repost or referring me to other channels!]
My UM team is recruiting DHH adults who have experience using Social VR apps (casual or professional). The study will be remote, last about 1 hour and compensated. Please fill out this form if you are interested: tinyurl.com/mrtjwtbv! Thanks!
Finally, this paper got a Best Paper Award 🏆! Both lead authores Romain Nith and Yun Ho, and co-author Shan-Yuan Teng will be at #CHI2026.
Read the paper: embodied-ai.tech/static/pdfs/...
Watch the video: youtube.com/watch?v=pJM2...
Get the code: github.com/humancompute...
or DM us! 7/7
Images (with consent from participants and blurred where requested) of people interacting with our system to perform real tasks, like use a analogue camera they ever used before, or a weird tool (a magnetic sweeper).
But how do people perceive having their bodies moved by an AI? In a study, we found participants successfully completed physical tasks while guided by generative EMS, even when EMS instructions were (purposely) erroneous! (we injected some cool errors) 6/7
Two usages of our system, here, the same request "EMS help me" generates two different instructions because, a spray can with paint should be shaken and only then pressed, but a spray can with oil should only be pressed (no need to shake): the multimodal AI gets this entirely from context (i.e., sensors, POV image from smart glasses, etc) = no custom code!
Here, the same "help me" request generates two different movements because, a spray can with paint should be shaken, but a spray can with oil needs no shake: the multimodal AI gets this entirely from context (i.e., sensors, POV image from smart glasses, etc) = no custom code! 5/7
System diagram from our embodied ai, note how it uses many sensors, smart glasses to see what the user sees, microphone to hear them, in order to generate contextually relevant instructions
To implement our form of Embodied AI we use computer-vision + large-language-models + lots of user-worn sensors (smart glasses, GPS, etc) to generate contextually-relevant EMS instructions, constraining these to a muscle-stimulation knowledge base that cares of joint limits! 4/7
Four tasks our system can do, bike rack, open pill bottle, spray and open a weird window.
Instead, in embodied-ai.tech we explore a different approach where muscle-stimulation instructions are AI-generated considering the user’s context (e.g., pose, location, surroundings). The resulting system can perform physical assistance without any custom programming! 3/7
A photo of affordance++ paper
I have been working on electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) for physical assistance for more than a decade (in affordance++, we showed EMS can help manipulate tools!). But, EMS-assistance is highly specialized and non-contextual—it ignores your body pose & ignores your needs 2/6
New paper🏆: Generative Muscle Stimulation: Physical Assistance by Constraining Multimodal-AI with Embodied Knowledge.
A physical AI that generates muscle-stimulation instructions based on your physical task goals: embodied-ai.tech
demo video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJM2...
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Might have joined in after your genius move. :)
My Sun?
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Text or video is not only form AI can take.
In embodied-ai.tech (#CHI2026, Best Paper 🏆) we create an embodied AI that acts via muscle stimulation to perform physical tasks: e.g., place a bike on a bus rack and more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJM2...
... Yun Ho (www.yunho.org) and Romain Nith!
As eLife editor, it has been exciting and we are in a new steady state: quality of papers remains high, variance has dropped; work during the editorial phase has gone up tremendously; review quality is excellent and has improved. Kudos to @behrenstimb.bsky.social and the leadership team.
Great keynote by Olaf Blanke at #augmentedHumans20026 touching on consciousness and neuroscience at #AHS2026
I'm chairing the first session of #augmentedhumans2026 on #haptics, sensory substitution and perception! What a collection of incredible papers! (They will be soon online, but DM if you want a preview). #AHs2026
#augmentedhumans2026 conference started (#AHs2026) with a record number of papers and participants! Thanks to the organizing committee for all the hard work! Papers will be in the ACM DL very soon!
Building a more sustainable CHI 🌍 We’re sharing resources and guidance to help the community reduce the environmental footprint of the conference. Learn more about sustainability efforts for CHI 2026: chi2026.acm.org/2026/03/02/s...
#CHI2026 #CHICommunity #HCI #SustainableCHI
Dan you are always rocking. Hope to see you there and if possible will try to attend those papers (this year might be a bit challenging for me to be at talks, but will do my best!)
Barcelona PhD students in HCI: join the global CHI community! 🌍
Apply for the CHI 2026 Local Student Scholarship and receive full conference registration.
Priority for first-time CHI attendees.
📅 Mar 20
📩 local@chi2026.acm.org
#CHI2026
Wow, what a fantastic set of contributions to CHI26! Congrats everyone at UMD!
Please follow the official details here about the high demand of #CHI2026 registrations (a good problem for our community!) and how to navigate the waitlist.
📝 Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. 📝
🎉 Thrilled to share that our paper "Reporting and Reviewing LLM-Integrated Systems in HCI: Challenges and Considerations" has been conditionally accepted to #CHI2026!
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Lots of AI at #CHI2026, soon we will release the poster schedule and there will be some more on this front for @dbuschek.bsky.social to parse :)
Amazing meetup! Thanks for your contribution to CHI 26!
Amazing meetup! So glad you submitted and organized this
