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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Are you a Bluesky user or developer? Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media. Participation includes: • 45–60 min Zoom interview • $30 USD digital gift card Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtb...

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Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What if you could have more agency over your social media feed? CITP researchers have built Bonsai to explore what happens when users can have that control. Try the app now on @bsky.app! getbonsai.org Team: @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @andresmh.com @mariannealq.bsky.social Omar El Malki

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Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 14/04/2026

Hey Bluesky friends, please check out and let us know what you think of 🌳 Bonsai, a new tool to create custom Bluesky feeds getbonsai.org Story: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha... Presented at #CHI2026 by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social and @mariannealq.bsky.social

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Bonsai

Bonsai is a research system that replaces black-box engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ching-Yi Tsai gave a fantastic talk this morning at #CHI2026! Check out uncertain-pointer.github.io

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PrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Check out upcoming talks from @princetonhci.bsky.social at #CHI2026!

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

As AI agents enter the physical world via AR glasses and robots, they need to interpret ambiguous references, including imprecise pointing and underspecified language like “what’s that?” We present Uncertain Pointer at #CHI2026 led by the amazing Ching-Yi Tsai w/ Nicole Tacconi & Andy Wilson 🧵 1/4

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Proud of Lauren Wang for giving an excellent talk at #HRI2026! Check out X-OOHRI — using #AR for in situ robot explanations: xoohri.github.io

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Slide text reads: Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as AR Affordances by

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PrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Lauren Wang from @princeton.edu will be presenting at #HRI2026 in Edinburgh next week! “Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as AR Affordances” Come say hi if you’re around! 👋 🔗 Project Page: xoohri.github.io  📅 Time and Location: Mar 17 Tuesday, 2 PM, Session 3B

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

People form ad hoc conventions, establishing linguistic & gestural abstractions, and shift information across speech and gesture to communicate more efficiently over time. We study this in our #CHI2026 paper, led by Kiyosu Maeda with @judithfan.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social and team 🧵👇 1/4

Top: Modality shift in block instruction: R1: Take the green block and put it on the left side of the grid. A hand is holding an imaginary piece toward the left column of a 2×2 grid; label reads Redundant position and orientation. R4: the green block pointing this way. A hand is pointing near the bottom left cell with an arrow showing movement toward the top left cell; label reads Complementary position and orientation. Target tower: a 3 block green and red C-shape tower on a 2x2 grid. Bottom: Modality shift in tower instruction: R1: they are going to form a C-shape. A c-shape hand pose with the index and thumb is shown far from the grid; the label reads No information about position or orientation. R4: Put the C on the left side, facing away from you. Right hand shows the C shape facing away, and left hand with the palm open indicates placement on the left side; labels read Redundant position and orientation.

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

A fundamental challenge in human-robot interaction is that capabilities and limitations are often opaque to users. In our upcoming #HRI2026 paper, X-OOHRI, led by the brilliant Lauren Wang, we use AR to make robot capabilities and limits visible during object-oriented interactions 🤖

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

First was an amazing talk by @parastooabtahi.bsky.social on haptic illusions in VR and object-oriented interactions in AR at Princeton Robotics. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlo9... (2/8)

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Princeton Robotics Seminar - Parastoo Abtahi

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📣 I’m recruiting 1–2 #HCI PhD students interested in spatial computing, #AR, and #HRI. More information: parastooabtahi.com/applicants If you’re interested, apply to Princeton CS by Dec 15 and mention my name in your application.

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Thrilled that Reality Promises received a best paper award at #UIST2025. Come see Mo Kari’s talk on the last day of the conference! 📍Wed, at 11:00 AM, in the Sydney room

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation... New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!

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Makeability Lab - How to Figures

How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu

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UploadVR @uploadvr.com · 23/08/2025

Researchers made a robot that can make deliveries to VR. They call it Skynet. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/invisible-mo...

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

In #VR, users can experience “magical” interactions, such as moving distant virtual objects with the Go-Go technique. How might we similarly extend people’s abilities in the physical world? 🪄 Excited to share Reality Promises, our #UIST2025 paper, led by the amazing Mo Kari ✨

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Check out Lauren Wang’s #UIST2025 poster on GhostObjects: life-size, world-aligned virtual twins for fast and precise robot instruction, with real-world lasso selection, multi-object manipulation, and snap-to-default placement. This is the first piece in her ongoing work on #AR for #HRI 🤖👓

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📢 Find Judy Fan (@judithfan.bsky.social) at #CogSci2025 during Poster Session 1 (⏰Tomorrow, 1–2:15 PM | 📍Salon 8) to learn about our work on understanding multimodal communication and how people form linguistic and gestural abstractions in collaborative physical tasks.

Poster for the Cognitive Tools Lab at CogSci 2025, scheduled for Thursday, July 31. The poster is titled “Using gesture and language to establish multimodal conventions in collaborative physical tasks.” It features an image of a hand pointing to a 2×2 grid, with an arrow indicating movement from the bottom-left square to the top-left square. A quote reads, “... the green block pointing this way,” and the gesture is labeled “Complementary position & orientation.” Headshots of the four authors, Maeda, Tsai, Fan, and Abtahi, appear at the bottom. The session is listed as Poster Session 1 at 1:00 pm.

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Sunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

📢 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation! Huge thanks to my committee (Olga @andresmh.com @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @parastooabtahi.bsky.social) & everyone who supported me ❤️ 📢 Next I'll join Apple as a research scientist in the Responsible AI team led by @jeffreybigham.com!

Sunnie standing in front of her presentation celebrating the successful defense 🎉

Vera, Andrés, Sunnie, Olga, and Jenn (on Sunnie’s laptop screen) celebrating

Group photo of everyone who joined Sunnie’s dissertation defense

Lauren, Sunnie, and Jeff (photo taken at CHI 2025)

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Sunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Tue April 29: I'll be cheering Indu Panigrahi present our LBW on interactive AI explanations (w/ Amna, Rohan, Olga, Ruth, @parastooabtahi.bsky.social) in the 10:30-11:10am and 3:40-4:20pm poster sessions (North 1F) 🧵 bsky.app/profile/para... 📌 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Check out Indu Panigrahi’s LBW at #CHI2025: “Interactivity x Explainability: Toward Understanding How Interactivity Can Improve Computer Vision Explanations.” 🔗 Project Page: ind1010.github.io/interactive_XAI 📄 Extended Abstract: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10745

Title: “Interactivity x Explainability: Toward Understanding How Interactivity Can Improve Computer Vision Explanations.” Authors: Indu Panigrahi, Sunnie S. Y. Kim*, Amna Liaqat*, Rohan Jinturkar, Olga Russakovsky, Ruth Fong, Parastoo Abtahi. Logos: Princeton University, NSF, OpenPhil, Princeton HCI, Open Glass Lab, and Princeton Visual AI Lab. CHI 2025, April 26–May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan, including illustrations of Yokohama’s skyline, ferris wheel, and a pink sailboat labeled “CHI.”

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 30/11/2024

Boosting this up for a last chance to come join us at #CHI2025 to assist with being an associate chairs (ACs) for the @chi.acm.org Late Breaking Work program! Please forward to anyone that you know might be interested.

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Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

HCI researchers starter pack. Lets you follow a bunch of HCI people at once (which the HCI list didn't let you do). Again, ask to be added if I missed you. go.bsky.app/p3TLwt

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Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#HCI Starter Packs: HCI Researchers: go.bsky.app/p3TLwt HCI + Games: go.bsky.app/CTm8Qea HCI + Accessibility Researchers: go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP XR + HCI Research: go.bsky.app/8Tdtocp

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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Since #AcademicBluesky seems to be a bigger thing now, I wanted to share my PhD admissions advice YouTube resources. Please pass this on to anyone you think it might help! Probably most useful for STEM and especially CS adjacent fields, but broadly applicable. cfiesler.medium.com/phd-admissio...

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PhD Admissions Advice

Sorry about the hidden curriculum. :(

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