Thanks to attendees who joined us from around the world! It was wonderful to connect with colleagues, former students and leaders in the field. #CHIIR2026

#CHIIR2026 + Kirschblüte = perfekte Kombi 🌸 Vivien Petras & Maria Gäde präsentieren morgen auf der #CHIIR2026 (25.03., 10:30–11:45, South Ballroom) ihr Paper.
Die #CHIIR2027 in Berlin kann nicht ganz mithalten.. aber hey, dafür haben wir Späti-Bier, vegane Currywurst & garantiert pünktliche Öffis 🙃

Blind Usability Issues with Discussion Forums > An interview study with 14 blind screen reader users explored auditory usability challenges in online discussion forums. > Open coding analysis of 45-75 minute Zoom interviews revealed recurring interaction barriers and coping strategies. > Monotonous narration reduced comprehension and engagement, making it harder to identify important information and maintain attention. > Flat auditory output increased cognitive fatigue, with users reporting mental effort and the need to self-impose expressive interpretation. > Users had to mentally segment continuous speech to track comment boundaries, follow thread flow, and retain discussion context.

For screen reader users reading discussion forums, “flat auditory output increased cognitive fatigue” findings from VoxVista #chiir2026

More great news: our other full paper "Tip-of-the-Tongue Search in the Wild: Analyzing Human and LLM Performance and Success Factors on Complex Search Requests" was also accepted at #chiir2026, this one together with @maria83.bsky.social, Mark Hall, Marijn Koolen, Mette Skov and Vivien Petras!

Excellent news! Our full paper "The Influence of the Communication Medium on Data Storytelling" based on the thesis of my former master's student Tamara Nagel has been accepted for oral presentation at #chiir2026! See you in Seattle!

For anyone who's waiting for #CHIIR2026 notifications. Rest assured, they are on their way!

We're crossing the t's and dotting the i's.

Let's hope that #ECIR2026 is on track too (it's not a competition 😏)

@ecirelyk.bsky.social @acmsigir.bsky.social

🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum!

Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp...

More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20...

#SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026