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Andrés Lucero

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💼 IxD Professor, Aalto University 🧪 UX, HCI, spirituality researcher 🎙️ ACM distinguished speaker 🛠️ Ex-SDU, -Nokia, -Philips 🎓 Alum TUe, UTEM 📣 Views my own

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Jan 16

Porting from the other site: my academic #rejections.

Tips on dealing with academic rejection by @eegilbert.org:
eegilbert.org/posts/reject...

Compassion as a cure to academic rejection by @pankisseskafka.bsky.social:
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

#academia #reviewer2 #phdlife #phdchat

Why Is Academic Rejection So Very Crushing?

Losing out on a job, tenure, or publication can be a unique agony. The cure is not success but rather compassion.

www.chronicle.com

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Jens Emil Grønbæk @jensemil.bsky.social · Sep 8

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/

ERC Grant – Blended Realities Lab

blendedrealities.jensemil.dk

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Antti Oulasvirta @oulasvirta.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Aug 14

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 ❤️” 🥹

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Aug 4

#NewProfilePic

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Antti Oulasvirta @oulasvirta.bsky.social · Jul 31

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 (!)

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

@acm-dis.bsky.social

dl.acm.org

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · May 19

👑 @blumineck.bsky.social

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · May 19

This is so fucking good

Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · May 14

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

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Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social · May 13

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

Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social · Mar 21

Is your PhD research on game design, game production, HCI, or design theory? I've got three 2-year postdoc positions in my ERC StG project to investigate what makes theory useful and usable in game design / interaction design.

Reposts much appreciated. Thx!

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Postdoc positions in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Postdoc position in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen

candidate.hr-manager.net

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · May 11

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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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · May 2

Sayōnara Yokohama! Safe travels back from #chi2025 everyone!

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · May 1

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?

🤔

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · May 1

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!

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · May 1

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.”

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 30

Always my pleasure!

Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 30

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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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 29

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.

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 28

This morning in room G414+G415 at 9:00, I'll be chairing a very special #CHI2025 session:

More than Human 2.

Forests, wood, lemurs, cats, creeks, ecologies and aesthetics.

What's not to like?

Please join us!

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 28

@mutalenkonde.bsky.social’s #CHI2025 opening keynote: “Internet culture was pioneered by the far right. […] Those of us who think about the #sociotechnical would’ve been able to advise our computer science colleagues that Nazi-ism is common in Internet culture and we need to design around it.”

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 28

#CHI2025 had 5020 submissions—1,249 accepted papers—for a 24,9% acceptance rate!

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 27

Indeed, where is #CHInosaur?

#NomNom #chi2025

Austin Toombs @altoombs.bsky.social · Apr 26

If anyone is making a #chi2025 bingo card this year, then they should make sure to include “overheard senior academics discussing their Bidet experiences” on the card somewhere #whereischinosaur

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · Apr 27

If you are at #chi2025 you should go to an altchi session. It’s the last time altchi will ever run and your last opportunity to see its joy, creativity, and alterity. There is nothing like it

dont worry about fomo for not catching the hot LLM session, there will be more of those I promise

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 27

Please note that the walk from Minatorimai station (1), to Pacifico Yokohama North (2) to pick up your #chi2025 badge, and the National Convention Hall (3) for the opening plenary is easily a 15-25 minute walk.

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · Apr 26

A serene walk in the rain. #Ginza

#chi2025

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