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Seray Ibrahim

@serayibrahim.bsky.social

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Interested in how technology helps & hinders social interaction, disability and child mental heath ▫️ Lecturer @ https://www.essex.ac.uk/ ▫️ honorary research fellow @ www.kcl.ac.uk ▫️ @ucl.ac.uk ▫️ https://cyens.org.cy/ ▫️ she/her ▫️

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Mar 7

A thread of my recent work and stuff I care about 🧵⬇️

I'm interested in the ways technology helps and hinders social interaction. In the past, I've focused on communication involving people and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems:
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Common ground in AAC: how children who use AAC and teaching staff shape interaction in the multimodal classroom

Children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are multimodal communicators. However, in classroom interactions involving children and staff, achieving mutual understanding and a...

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 4d

📣 **Exciting job opportunities** with the absolutely stellar human being @quiteneate.bsky.social. Tim is hiring 2 HCI postdocs, a SLT researcher & a PhD student to explore designing AI-enable AAC. This is gonna be a good one peeps! Check it out ⬇️ 👀

Timothy Neate @quiteneate.bsky.social · 19d

I was awarded a ~£2M UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship! 🥳

This will fund human-centred work on communication accessibility, exploring emerging AI & embodied form factors.

I'm hiring 2 HCI postdocs, an SLT researcher & a PhD student:

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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) @acmtochi.bsky.social · 8d

✨ New in ACM TOCHI: Uncovering Parental Struggles. This article investigates how parents encounter and respond to online parenting advice, and introduces a digital probe methodology to capture their lived experiences in everyday contexts. @serayibrahim.bsky.social
#DigitalHealth #Parenting

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d-mcnaughton.bsky.social @d-mcnaughton.bsky.social · 21d

Critically important information, wonderful to see the complete special issue is now freely available! See link in original post

CommunicationFIRST @communicationfirst.bsky.social · 23d

The journal of #AugmentativeAndAlternativeCommunication published papers from our Future of #AACResearchSummit! Nearly all of the 21 papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses #AAC. Access these papers & watch many of the authors present here: lnk.to/aacfr. 📷: Photo by Steven Sutfin

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[Image: AAC users Lateef McLeod (left) and Lance McLemore (right) present on stage at the Future of AAC Research Summit in May 2024. Lateef and Lance type on communication devices. Across from them, the backs of two audience members’ heads are visible. They appear to be listening attentively].

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 21d

The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year!

We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world.

If you have some spare time, come along!

For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...

Largest social science festival shows research’s impact on lives

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science returns for its 23rd year, offering hundreds of free events across the UK.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Sep 1

Unexpectedly, the data capturing method (a promoted diary & adapted journey map) appeared to help parents engage with online parenting advice, suggesting potential as a component of parenting support. Check out our #OA paper 😊

Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Sep 1

We were interested in methods that parents could potentially find intrinsically helpful (for self-reflection) whilst also capturing data about lived experiences and implementation challenges.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Sep 1

Together with @juliadabrowska.bsky.social , Alissa Antle, @juliekientz.bsky.social , Alex Chesters & Petr Slovak, we iteratively developed & tested digital probes for investigating parenting experiences.

Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just accepted! 📄 🤩 Our ToCHI paper describes our approach for developing digital methods for understanding about people’s attempts to apply online advice and change their daily social practices #chi2026 🧵👇 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Uncovering Parental Struggles: Using Digital Probes to Analyse Challenges in Applying Online Parenting Content | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Understanding the situated challenges that people face when attempting to apply online parenting advice is crucial for building effective digital parenting supports. However, existing HCI methods do n...

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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is really fascinating

Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it

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A Wikipedia-style guideline page on avoiding exaggerated wording by LLMs, with two sections titled Undue emphasis on symbolism and importance and Promotional language. Each section lists “words to watch” in a beige box, such as "stands as a testament", "plays a vital role", "rich cultural heritage", "breathtaking", and "must-see". Below, example sentences are shown with problematic phrases highlighted in yellow, including "enhancing its significance", "captivates both residents and visitors alike", "stands as a symbol", "reflects the evolving identity", "vibrant town with a rich cultural heritage", "fascinating glimpse into the diverse tapestry", and "value-driven experiences".

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Jul 15

🤦🏽‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews

Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Jun 28

Fascinated to see how this will play out 👀

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jun 28

Nature publishes peer review comments alongside new papers

Change at flagship journal praised as publisher says it wants to open “black box”

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Nature publishes peer review comments alongside new papers - Research Professional News

Change at flagship journal praised as publisher says it wants to open “black box”

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Jun 26

Hello @yesthattoo.bsky.social , so very nice to meet you :)

Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · May 8

Exciting work from my colleagues @quiteneate.bsky.social and Alexandre Nevsky!

Scientists use ChatGPT to make nation's favourite podcasts more accessible

The work breaks new ground on audio media accessibility for people with complex communication needs.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · May 1

Thank you CHI2025 and all the great people within it!

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · Apr 30

One last thread for today's HCC content at CHI - more great papers by my inspiring colleagues, doing a lot of incredible work at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction.

King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · Apr 30

We hope you're feeling good after the first session of the day! This afternoon we have more #chi25 talks from the HCC 🌸 Details below...

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Apr 30

If you’re still around at the very end of the day, come hear me talk about how we re-conceptualise EMA-type questions as an approach for helping parents tune into their child’s emotions throughout the day #CHI2025

King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · Apr 30

And a little after that, a paper about Designing Daily Supports for Parent-Child Conversations about Emotion presented by @serayibrahim.bsky.social. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... #chi25 #chi2025

🕰️ 5:32pm
📍 G302

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Designing Daily Supports for Parent-Child Conversations about Emotion: Ecological Momentary Asses...

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Apr 30

Come check out Sruthi Viswanathan’s work on parent-chatbot interaction! The work exposes the interactional practices that parents want from a chatbot! #CHI2025

King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · Apr 30

First off in the afternoon, Co-Designing User-LLM Interactions in Parental Wellbeing Support Systems, presented by Sruthi Viswanathan in collboration with Petr and Seray from the HCC. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... #chi25 #chi2025

🕰️ 2:10pm
📍 G302

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Apr 28

Petr Slovak and @amiraskeggs.bsky.social share the design overview and validation studies on creating a scalable story elicitation tool for research participants #chi2025

Two speakers present paper on how they developed an AI enabled story creation tool for research participants

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Nazanin Andalibi @naz-andalibi.bsky.social · Apr 28

#CHI2025 attendees: SIGCHI CARES is available on-site and online as a resource if anyone experiences or witnesses any form of harassment, harassment, etc. You can use the listed email or directly approach any of us! Thank you 🌷

Image includes names and pictures of the six CARES representatives at CHI. The email is sigchi-cares@acm.org and you can approach any of us directly too!

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King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · Apr 27

At 11.10am today @florencesn.bsky.social will be presenting their paper on Gameworld Archaeological Mental Models in the Games Session in G318+G319, co-authored with @mtrc.bsky.social. #chi25

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Apr 28

@amiraskeggs.bsky.social and Petr Slovak will share our exciting work on the micro-narratives method; a scalable, new tool to complement existing qualitative methods #CHI2025

King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · Apr 27

And at 4.20pm is the Digital Storytelling session in G304, where work on Eliciting Stories of People’s Lived Experience featuring @serayibrahim.bsky.social and Petr Slovak will be presented. #chi25

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King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · Apr 27

Also at 11.10am Sinem Görücü will be presenting their paper on analysing Machine Learning Eco-feedback Tools in the Sustainable Development session in G314+G315. #chi25

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King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · Apr 27

We're at #chi2025 this week, with lots of papers and sessions featuring our group members... here's a thread of some of the Monday sessions we're in.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · Apr 24

I’ll be presenting some work from our group on using Ecological Momentary Assessment as an intervention approach for helping parents and kids with emotion-focused conversations #CHI2025 🏅 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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