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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's the season of #CHI writing again, so here's some writing support from my Medium blog with three articles: 1. My annual reminder that you should really discuss things in your discussion section: dbuschek.medium.com/how-to-write... #CHI2027

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How to write better discussions for your HCI study

10 tips for CHI authors

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This reminds me of a recurring question around AI: Who values process vs outcome, when? Do you jam to try sth new, to practice your skills? Or do you race to produce the most finished-looking game? Jams might be framed more explicitly around one of these to help attract those they hope to reach.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Looks really cool and the setting sounds great as well, wishlisted it! 👍

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Looks great! Love the detail of switching the portrait to a pondering expression while the reminder is up!

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Have you also experienced a “paradox of the perfect start” in a university design project? Students skipping ahead to final-looking results, presenting complete apps but struggling to articulate their own ideas, and accidentally excluding team members. Thoughts and ideas in my article below.

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The Paradox of the Perfect Start

Navigating University Design Project Kickoffs when Generative AI is Available

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Reposted by Daniel Buschek

Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Haha for a moment I had actually thought about adding this meme to my original post! 😂

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Thank you #CHI2026 for an amazing week of inspiring conversations in Barcelona!

Collage of three photos, showing the conference venue, the main exhibition hall from above, and the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. A text overlay says "Thank you CHI 2026!"

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Fun fact for #CHI2026 folks: The generated "Session Summary Podcasts" in the ACM DL "cite" the session's papers and are picked up by Google Scholar, so all papers get +1 citation automatically now!

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The "memory gap" was most acute in mixed workflows: 1️⃣ If you elaborated on an AI idea, there's a 37.7% chance you remember the idea came from AI. 2️⃣ If you used AI to elaborate on your idea, there's a 64% chance you remember the idea as yours. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.11851

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The AI Memory Gap: Users Misremember What They Created With AI or Without

As large language models (LLMs) become embedded in interactive text generation, disclosure of AI as a source depends on people remembering which ideas or texts came from themselves and which were crea...

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Can you remember which ideas & sentences were your own and which were generated with AI? In a controlled study (n=184), we found that AI use significantly reduces the accuracy of content attribution after one week. #CHI2026 preprint & numbers in 🧵 @robinwelsch.bsky.social @svengoller.bsky.social

Illustration showing the study flow overall: Left part shows Phase 1 with a user and chatbot working on ideas and elaborations for the example problem "How might we solve the problem of plastic waste in the ocean?" Text says that participants have to come up with five ideas in 1-3 keywords and write elaborations in one sentence each. An arrow with annotation ("One week later") points to a second illustration of a user with question-marked though bubbles. Text says that in this Phase 2, participants were asked: Did you work on this? Source of idea? Source of elaboration? Further text says that they were also asked this for unseen items (so-called distractors). Following another arrow to the right is a box with the title "Key findings" and three bullets: Negative impact of AI on source memory overall; mixed workflows harder to remember than never/always using AI; and people tend to be overconfident about their own performance.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The list has now grown to 500+ #CHI2026 preprints!

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Congrats, great work all! 🎉 Great that you kept pushing with this following the earlier work at CHI23, which is still one of my favourite projects I had the opportunity to contribute to!

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Cool! I'm watching arXiv for this, so the list actually already has several posters! Will update again in the next days.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Key findings (14 teams, 1 week): 📍Profiles were seen as personal territory but it's ok to interact with others' agents/tasks/comments 📍User-initative preferred 📍Thus, teams incorporated agents into social collaboration norms, rather than treating them as "equal" team members.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Typical chatbots force co-writers to leave shared docs. Our #CHI2026 paper explores collaborative AI use in shared docs via 3 features: 🤖 Shared agent profiles ☑️ Repeatable tasks, triggered by users or system 💬 Agents respond in shared comments Preprint in 🧵 w @florianlehmann.bsky.social

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Wait, what? Why? Not sure if that's a good idea. I like 2-column submissions but page limits instead of word limits penalize using well-designed, reasonably sized figures and tables.\vspace{-.1em}

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

📢 Looking for current research on #HCI + #AI? Here's a categorised collection of 300+ #CHI2026 preprints, collected via arXiv: dbuschek.medium.com/chi26-prepri...

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CHI’26 Preprint Collection

Looking for current research on HCI + AI? Here’s a list.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is a unique project in several ways: Specialists working with an actual AI writing tool product (not the latest chatbot or own prototype) as part of their actual job, in an important yet overlooked writing domain (German "easy and plain language" for accessibility).

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Reminder for #CHI2026 ACs: You can still click "excellent review" (for your 1AC papers) to award specific reviewers for great work!

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Was just thinking about it this morning, could we maybe change a PCS setting to send these out to all authors? 🙂

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Finalising your #CHI2026 revision? Or suffering from not being allowed to do so? I've "reviewed-to-reject" one of our papers with ChatGPT, to show how this leads to bad reviews - and give ideas for responding to this: dbuschek.medium.com/dont-review-...

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Don’t Review with an LLM (Laundry List Method)

The problem of asking AI for problems

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I highly recommend Ken Hinckley's article on excellence in reviews - and championing papers: kenhinckley.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Have we lost peer appreciation? Not just at #CHI2026 I notice many review-to-reject. All studies have tradeoffs, all papers have limited scope. Sure, reviewing is fast, even with "passing knowledge", if we list what isn't there and conclude it's lacking. But we should review what *has* been done.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Fortunately, I did not get obviously LLM-generated reviews in my CHI AC stack of papers but my sample size is much smaller than with your role.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Three weeks ago, my feed filled with Grammarly ads - and I wondered: What if we took their messages seriously? My anecdotal "ad-vestigation" connects them to Human-AI interaction concepts, leading to counterfactual questions for alternative design directions. medium.com/p/1bab97d0fa98

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How AI writing tools fail to speak to writers

Seven design insights from taking Grammarly ads (too) seriously

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

For me, these issues have never shown up before in such density. And LLMs make it easier to get summaries of results and related work.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...

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When LLMs Write Our Papers

Four writing issues I notice as a reviewer — and how to fix them

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Good luck! From a review we got a while ago (paraphrased): "This tool clearly helps HCI researchers [...] I don't see how this contributes to research."

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Finish your discussions today - you got this! 💪😄#CHI2026

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Is this average based on data or a nudge? 😄 #CHI2026

Screenshot from PCS showing the information on paper length for a "standard paper", saying the average is 7000-8000 words.

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

💡 It's #CHI writing season again, so time to repost my 10 practical tips on how to write better discussion sections: medium.com/p/be851092f351 Happy writing! #HCI #CHI2026 #CHI2025

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How to write better discussions for your HCI study

10 tips for CHI authors

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Our article on the AI Ghostwriter Effect is the top editor's pick in today's email by #ACM on the rising impact factor of #TOCHI - cool! 🤩 Available here (open access): doi.org/10.1145/3637... @florianlehmann.bsky.social @albrechtschmidt.bsky.social @robinwelsch.bsky.social

Screenshot of ACM Journals announcement: TOCHI impact factor rises from 4.8 to 6.6, ranking top quartile in Cybernetics and Information Systems. Editors’ Pick highlights the 2024 paper The AI Ghostwriter Effect on AI-generated text and authorship."

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Looks great! I like card + map mechanics! 🤩

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Well, guess what happened? Despite appreciating the changes, it is difficult to envision what the revised paper would look like, so a fresh round of reviewing is required. 👉 I think we should get rid of rebuttals without resubmissions. #UIST2025

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Great start! 👍 It looks like you're building a stacking mechanic (that's not the deck)? Interesting!

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Do you find yourself coding similar stuff again & again to "just run this quick user study"? Florian has invested a lot of time and effort into engineering reusable components for (online) studies in #HCI. We've used & tested it across several recent projects. Now you can, too!👇 #EICS2025

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

For #CHI we can submit a revised version after initial reviews. In contrast, it now feels bad to write a #UIST rebuttal without being able to directly show changes. I wonder if reviewers will feel the same way and if that reduces the chances of seriously engaging with rebuttals. 🤔

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Help me improve my lecture: What's one idea/concept/paper/system I should include in a session on interaction/UIs for human-AI co-creation? (Feel free to self-promote your own work!) 🤩 #HCI #AI #IUI

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Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🔍I'm looking for recommendations on recommendation systems work from an HCI perspective! (for a lecture) E.g. on aspects related to the UI/interaction design of recommendations, user control, explanations, ... Thank you for any pointers! 😄

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