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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Closing 7th May 2yrs postdoc on cross-sensory fabrication @bristolhci.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social Join ERC project #inclusiveXplay exploring how to support accessible and playful cross-sensory experiences for blind or visually impaired and sighted children Apply here shorturl.at/gVP3g

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#CHI2026 today 12:27 (Rm 112, session: VR AR XR) Tegan will present (our 2nd BEST PAPER this conference) Touching Emotions Smelling Shapes, we show how even at ages 2–4 children systematically link touch smell and emotion demonstrating foundations for cross-sensory learning and play #inclusiveXplay

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#CHI2026 today 11:15 (Rm 112, session: VR AR XR) Priscilla will present Feeling Flavours; Where we use "non-edibles" as proxies to explore touch–taste cross-sensory correspondences, potentially opening new ways to reduce food neophobia in children. #inclusiveXplay

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#CHI2026 today 12:03 P1 Room 132 (session: Getting Emotion) Susan Min Li will present Rough Meanings, her first CHI paper (!) on how tiny surface features shape emotion, colour, and language associations, moving cross-sensory interaction towards the realm of micro-structures #inclusiveXplay

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#CHI2026 today 10:00 (Auditorium, session AI & Interactive Tools) @mamoru-watanabe.bsky.social will present presents Somatic Drawing Tool: A VR + body-based approach to externalise hard-to-articulate sensory experiences like Synaesthesia

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#CHI2026 are you or someone you know looking for a postdoc in cross-sensory fabrication and playful interaction? Ping me or anyone from the #inclusiveXplay project team for a chat. Check @bristolhci.bsky.social work at CHI for a flavour of what we do: biglab.co.uk/chi2026/

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#CHI2026 today Siyu Zhang is presenting Beyond Accuracy 12:15 Navigating Biases in Accessibility Rm 117 We show how gesture recognition is not just about accuracy but also alignment between human intention and machine interpretation What happens when this breaks for people with motor impairments?

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#CHI2026 today @elaineczech.bsky.social is presenting our Best Paper Aging & Later Life 9:24 Room 125 We extend interdependence in HCI by grounding it in Wenger's communities of practice framework, showing how co-design can build not just technologies but also the social structures of inclusion.

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

#CHI2026 Come check out Zhuzhi present triMorph this morning Haptic+XR session Room 119: a novel shape-changing interface to precisely measure when cross-sensory effects are triggered #inclusiveXplay

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

With #CHI2026 upon us, I’d like to share the output of the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab. We will present 7 full papers (incl. 2 that received Best Paper Awards), 1 workshop, and 1 meet-up, all exploring cross-sensory interaction, inclusion, and playful technologies:

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Sensory HCI is at a crossroads. Rather than combining multiple sensory modalities, could cross-sensory interaction offer a lens to treat perception itself as design material, foregrounding the relational and transformative effects across senses? Deadline: Feb 16 xsensoryfutures.ousmet.com/ #CHI2026

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About - Cross-Sensory Futures: Rewiring Perception in HCI

Workshop Motivation Sensory interaction has been a foundational concern in Human–Computer Interaction since its earliest days, evolving through paradigms such as multimodal interaction and, more recen...

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

@bristolhci.bsky.social and the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab had a good presence at #IDC2025 with two full papers and one pictorial, and with one of the paper receiving a Best Paper Honourable Mention Award!

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If you're near Istanbul tomorrow, 29th May, join us at Özyeğin University from 2:30pm. I’ll talk about how co-design and cross-sensory cognition can offer new ways to design inclusive interactions beyond traditional assistive technologies. With thanks to Gökçe Elif Baykal for the kind invitation

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Listening to Japanese on stage during the closing keynote of #CHI2025 by Masako Wakamiya makes this the perfect CHI to have presented our Lost in Translation paper; questioning the centrality of English in HCI thinking and communicating about our thinking.

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Come see Katherine Jones talk on understanding joint attention between visually impaired and sighted children, and the impact of AI-driven headsets on this process Communication and Support session in G402, our talk is at 9:48 #CHI2025

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Check out the Bristol Interaction Group @bristolhci.bsky.social contributions to the #CHI2025 technical program across the various submission categories: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/sea... And come say hello if you see us around.

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Oussama Metatla @ousmet.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Hello Bluesky! First post here to introduce the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab: part of @bristolhci.bsky.social we study inclusive tech that centres the experiences of both disabled and non-disabled people. Come say hello if you're at #CHI2025!

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