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Art Pilacinski @fatresearchcat.bsky.social · 1d

Our Dagstuhl Seminar with @panxueni.bsky.social, @vrneuroscience.bsky.social and @pedrolopes.org is now official!

Invites will be sent next week by the admins, but stay tuned for the outcomes next July!

www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...

Dagstuhl Seminar 26262: Virtual Bodies for Real Humans – Avatars, Sensations, Emotions and Brains

www.dagstuhl.de

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 1d

We'd need a breakdown of number of new authors vs. more papers from same authors. But my sense is that at UIST I met a lot of new people (especially big growth in Asia) that were attending for first time (with a paper), so I'd say that's actual growth. (Also UIST got A listed in China recently)

Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 1d

Is that number reasonable? Well, it's the size of our field, so it's always reasonable per definition. Maybe your question is if a single HCI conference should get those or spread over multiple? P.s.:Our field isn't particularly huge compared to other sciences or sub fields of CS, but it's healthy.

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 2d

#CHI2026 breaking records with 6.7k paper submissions! It's a lot of papers (last year was ~5k, now we are closing in on ~7k!). I know we all can be grumpy about things in HCI but the field is definitely growing and very much engaging with new ideas! I find it really inspiring.

ACM CHI @handle.invalid · 2d

🚀 CHI 2026 received 6,731 completed paper submissions — a record high number! Peer review is now underway — thank you to everyone making it possible!
📖 Learn more about this year’s review process: chi2026.acm.org/2025/08/08/r...

#CHI2026 #HCI

Revised CHI 2026 Papers Desk Reject Process - ACM CHI 2026

TL;DR: The 2026 CHI Papers track will add an Assisted Desk Reject step to its review process, collaboratively performed by SCs and ACs, with four additional Desk Reject criteria. As we look ahead to…

chi2026.acm.org

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ACM CHI @handle.invalid · 2d

🚀 CHI 2026 received 6,731 completed paper submissions — a record high number! Peer review is now underway — thank you to everyone making it possible!
📖 Learn more about this year’s review process: chi2026.acm.org/2025/08/08/r...

#CHI2026 #HCI

Revised CHI 2026 Papers Desk Reject Process - ACM CHI 2026

TL;DR: The 2026 CHI Papers track will add an Assisted Desk Reject step to its review process, collaboratively performed by SCs and ACs, with four additional Desk Reject criteria. As we look ahead to…

chi2026.acm.org

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ACM UIST @acmuist.bsky.social · 7d

🎉 Highlights from Day 2 at #UIST2025!

🎙️ Paper sessions
🏭 Industry session
🙋‍♂️ Posters

Talk on Project Aria from Meta at the industry session

Poster session: two attendees standing in front of the poster.

Attendee asking question during a paper session

Attendees eating food at the industry session

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 9d

Giving a vision talk today at #uist2025 titled "What of the I in HCI stands for Integration?"

... Hope to see you all soon at @acmuist.bsky.social
(Will post slides later at lab.plopes.org)

Door of my lab and the printed paper of the vision talk

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13d

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections.

Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do?

New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Active Filtering: A Predictive Function of Recurrent Circuits of Sensory Cortex | Annual Reviews

Our brains encode many features of the sensory world into memories: We can sing along with songs we have heard before, interpret spoken and written language composed of words we have learned, and reco...

www.annualreviews.org

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 12d

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SIGACCESS @sigaccess.bsky.social · 12d

We’re overwhelmed by the response to ASSETS 2025; this will be the largest ASSETS yet! We must limit new in-person registrations. Please sign up on our waitlist in case spots open up forms.gle/a9H5WpzVqn2h.... Virtual reg is still available. More details: assets-conference.github.io/assets2025/u....

ASSETS 2025 In-Person Registration Waitlist

Individuals on the waitlist will be contacted with further instructions as slots become available.

forms.gle

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 12d

Wow. Huge win but simultaneously #uist2025 sold out, #chi2025 sold out, now assets! What will the community do? Online? Scalp tickets? ;)

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 12d

Right? Why limit yourself to hearing one part of the record when you could hear them all?

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 12d

Playing at @dotolim.bsky.social tonight! If you are in Seoul come by for one turntable but multiple needles kind of footwork.

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 13d

UChicago CS' presence at #UIST2025, with six papers (from text visualization to brain stimulation!) and many more activities (two workshops etc)!
If you are at @acmuist.bsky.social come say hi. Many of us will be there including myself, Yudai Tanaka , Ken Nakagaki's team, Sam, etc!

Six thumbnails, each a figure from one of our six UIST 2025 papers.

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 14d

Stelarc being stellar!

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VR Summit @vrsummit.bsky.social · 20d

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 #SpeakerSpotlight 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗩𝗥𝗦𝟮𝟱! ✨

We are honored to present:
Michael Wiesing — University of Barcelona (UB)
Nitesh Bhatia — UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
Sylvia Xueni Pan — Goldsmiths, University of London

📅 𝗩𝗥 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 — Oct 20–21, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 • Rotunde Bochum

👉 vrs.rub.de

#VRresearch

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 18d

Our #UIST2025 workshop "Toward Everyday Perceptual and Physiological Augmentation" packs a day of fun activities, which you can read in detail here: everyday-augmentation.github.io if that's not enough to convince you... then check out our keynote by Thad Starner ! see you at @acmuist.bsky.social

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 19d

I thought you were kidding when I saw the thumbnail. Wow

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 20d

Today is the last day to help make your voice heard for protection of our wilderness, places where we need to get away from the trauma of being human. Places of solitude. Please speak up for roadless rule. It’s easy and it only takes a few minutes at this link. earthjustice.org/action/prote...

Tell the Trump administration to keep this landmark conservation rule in place

Protect forests from massive expansion of logging

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