London ACM SIGCHI Chapter
London has an incredible HCI community, but there is clearly more we could do to connect people across universities, industry, and career stages. It was brilliant to test out this idea in April in a room full of people at CockneyCHI at Imperial College. If you’d like to be part of the new London SIGCHI […]
eWorkResearch @ CHI2026 in Barcelona
This year’s conference was held in Barcelona, Spain, on 13–17 April 2026. PAPERS WORKSHOPS OTHER ROLES AT CHI 2026
Cognitive Sensing for Human–Computer Interaction
Just back from a Dagstuhl seminar on Cognitive Sensing for Human–Computer Interaction — an excellent few days of discussion about how sensing technologies, interaction, human augmentation, and ethics. This seminar aimed to bring together specialists and experts in HCI, machine perception, psychology, neuroscience, and AI to investigate the possibilities of digitally sensing, interacting, and enhancing […]
CHIPLAY 2025 lasting impact award
Our 2015 CHI PLAY paper on removing HUDs and player involvement just won the CHIPLAY 2025 Lasting Impact Award. The award honours one influential paper published at CHI PLAY that has significantly impacted the CHI PLAY community and has shown sustained influence. Thanks especially to Jo Iacovides, who gave the acceptance talk at the conference […]
New Starts at Home, New Focus at Work – Autumn 2025
This time of year always brings a sense of new beginnings—buying school uniforms at home and preparing for the arrival of new students at work. This autumn adds another milestone: getting my eldest ready to start their new adventure at university. As they head off into this new chapter of their life, I’ve been reflecting […]
What if a shorter work week could make us healthier, happier, and more productive?
I had a fun conversation with Professor Rochelle Burgess & Dr Xand van Tulleken on their podcast about the public health case for a four-day work week. 🚨 New episode of Public Health Disrupted out now! Is it time to rethink the 9 to 5? In this episode, we explore the public health case for a […]
Paving the Way for AI that Supports Flourishing at Work — CHIWORK’25 Workshop
by Sowmya Somanath from University of Victoria | Reblogged from https://medium.com/@labvixi/paving-the-way-for-ai-that-supports-flourishing-at-work-chiwork25-workshop-314f9c1fadcf We recently ran a workshop at CHIWORK together with Sowmya Somanath and others. Sowmya wrote a blogpost for the VIXI lab blog which we are reblogging here. We recently conducted a workshop on the topic of AI and ways it can support flourishing at work [1] during the CHIWORK’25 […]
Questions questions
By Nancy Xia This year at CHIWORK 2025, which took place in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, I challenged myself to ask questions to the speakers at the conference. Initially, my motivations were entirely personal. I wanted to develop my own confidence in voicing my thoughts and reflections before an audience. In addition, many of […]
First Academic Conference Experience
By Yifei Gao CHIWORK 2025 was the very first academic conference I’ve attended since starting my PhD studies in February 2025. It was truly an eye-opening experience. I now have a much clearer understanding of what an academic conference involves, and I’ve learned a lot from participating. First, I want to express my heartfelt thanks […]
Peer Review at CHIWORK25
by Shiping Chen Summer has brought not only sunshine but also the excitement of the annual CHIWORK conference! I’m thrilled to be a paper presenter at CHIWORK this year. CHIWORK 2025 is being hosted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Although I wasn’t able to attend in person due to other commitments, I still felt the vibrant […]