Emotions are invisible;so how can we regulate them?
In TouchEmotion,authors (Chen Ji, Corina Sas, Katherine Isbister) present #AR prototypes that use metaphorical emotional trajectories to support regulation.
A thoughtful shift from "fixing" emotions to co-existing.
dx.doi.org/10.1145/3777...
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📃Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
📊Full dataset, including motion capture data: doi.org/10.15125/BAT...
@james-whiffing.bsky.social @tobiaslanglotz.bsky.social
Whiffing et al. study freehand cursorless pointing across different levels of attention, effort, and target placement using a hybrid motion capture setup with 23 participants. They uncover 3 distinct pointing behaviours, each with different performance characteristics
🖐️ How do people actually point when there is no cursor?
As spatial interaction becomes more common in AR, VR, and smart environments, freehand pointing is often treated as a single, idealized gesture. In reality, people point in many different ways depending on context.
The paper shows how unity emerges when digital tools become part of shared work practices. This sense of unity, experienced through aggregation, relationality, connection, and fun, supports key psychological needs linked to engagement and well being at work
Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🤝 What makes digital collaboration feel good at work?
In a new TOCHI paper, Pinar Simsek Caglar and colleagues move beyond usability to examine how tools like Miro shape everyday experiences in remote teamwork.
New in #TOCHI
FairFare (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11273) a crowdsourced data tool co-designed with a Colorado rideshare union to audit platform take rates from 76k+ rideshare trips.
Authors: Dana Calacci, Varun Rao, Samantha Dalal, Kok-Wei Pua, Andrew Schwartz, Danny Spitzberg, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
ACM #TOCHI is inviting self-nominations for its Distinguished Reviewer Board!
Seeking researchers who can review 5 papers/year, return reviews within 30 days, and have prior reviewing + a strong HCI publication record.
Apply here: forms.gle/ggUy5DvbjFQV...
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Authors: Seray Ibrahim, Julia Dabrowski, Alissa Antle, Julie Kientz, Alexandra Chesters, Petr Slovák
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The work contributes new directions for the design of digital parenting interventions that are more closely aligned with the realities of family life and responsive to the complexity of parenting practices.
Based on studies with 280+ parents, this research adapts probe-like methods to uncover the everyday challenges of applying parenting advice. Findings reveal practical and emotional barriers while offering insights into adapting probes to capture rich, in-situ parenting data.
✨ 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
Authors: Authors: Eimaan Saqib, Shijing He, Junghyun Choy, Ruba Abu-Salma, Jose Such, Julia Bernd, and Mobin Javed
Behind the scenes, when this team first started studying bystander privacy, it felt like a “side issue” compared to protecting owners. But they realized that waiting would mean bystanders’ privacy might never be addressed. That insight led to their new TOCHI review paper.
🔊Smart home devices don’t just track their owners-- they also collect data on guests, tenants, and workers. A new TOCHI paper reviews how research defines “bystanders,” what concerns they face, and which solutions might protect their privacy. doi.org/10.1145/3731...
Authors: Jiangnan Xu, Sanzida Mojib Luna, Garreth W. Tigwell, Nicolas Lalone, Michael Saker, Samuli Laato, John Dunham, Yihong Wang, Alan Chamberlain, Konstantinos Papangelis
🎮✨When the game is both digital and physical, how do players adapt?
A new TOCHI study on Shared AR gameplay (Urban Legends) shows players start off confused, leaning on verbal cues, but soon evolve dynamic movement, role strategies, and smoother teamwork
doi.org/10.1145/3749...
We’re thrilled to announce that ACM #TOCHI 's impact factor rose from 4.8 → 6.6 in the latest JCR (Clarivate)! 🎉
📊 Top-ranked:
• 4/31 in Cybernetics
• 25/258 in CS: Info Systems
Know more about the JCR impact preview in the August Blue Diamond newsletter:
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Violence isn’t just physical. This work theorizes how cyber forces are weaponized against transgender people, what that does to us, and what we might do about it, drawing on decolonial theory of necropolitics. (2/2)
#HCI #TransStudies #CyberPolitics #TOCHI
✨ New from #TOCHI ✨
📄 The Three Steps to Trans Death: Introducing Trans Cyber-Necropolitics in Digital Media
by @shanoliang.bsky.social, Michelle V. Cormier, @snapdragoness.itch.io , & @rose-bohrer.bsky.social
DOI: doi.org/10.1145/3745... (1/2)
Behind the scenes (Authors mention): Recruiting participants was a challenge.
Authors: Niclas Kannengießer*, Niklas Hasebrook, Felix Morsbach, Marc-André Zöller, Jörg Franke, Marius Lindauer, Frank Hutter, Ali Sunyaev
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New in #TOCHI: "Practitioner Motives to Use Different Hyperparameter Optimization Methods"
Interviews and surveys reveal performance goals, model understanding, org context, and tool limits shape HPO choices, explaining manual tuning’s lasting appeal.
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#ML#HPO
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Paper: "Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models"
Authors:
@morganklauss.bsky.social, Katy Weathington, Adrian Petterson, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Dipto Das, Michael Ann DeVito, Jed R. Brubaker.
#ACMTOCHI #LLMs #AIethics #HCI
🤖🏳️⚧️ Can chatbots be trans-affirming, or do they just sound that way?
New TOCHI paper finds that LLMs often respond “positively” to trans questions, but with subtle, hard-to-detect transphobia lurking beneath.
📄 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Authors: Dagoberto Jose Herrera-Murillo, Hector Ochoa Ortiz, Umair Ahmed, Barbara Re, Andrea Polini, Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer, Javier Nogueras-Iso
@iaaa-lab.bsky.social, @i3a.unizar.es
#CollectiveIntelligence #DisasterResponse #OpenStreetMap #Crowdsourcing #ACMTOCHI
🌍 When disasters hit, thousands map. But a few experts keep it from falling apart.
New TOCHI study of 746 HOT projects reveals how collective intelligence drives disaster response—and how to make it smarter, more connected, and useful 🧠
📄 Read: doi.org/10.1145/3733...
Authors: Emilia Rosselli Del Turco, Nanna Inie, James D. Hollan, Peter Dalsgaard
@erossellidt.bsky.social, @nannainie.bsky.social ie.bsky.social, @profhollan.bsky.social , @peterdalsgaard.bsky.social
#Creativity #HCI #DesignTools #ACMTOCHI
🎨🧠 How do creatives really capture ideas on the fly?
New TOCHI paper finds idea capture for creative practitioners is fast, messy, and wildly different across creative domains. ⚡Yet all prioritize capturing ideas quickly, even if it disrupts order.
📄 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3727...
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