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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My pinhole projector attempt was rubbish but the spontaneous view from between the trees was magical! #eclipse

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

and if you or someone you know is interesting in this sort of stuff and looking for a postdoc in cross-sensory fabrication and playful interaction? Ping me or anyone from the #inclusiveXplay project team for a chat: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We also shared some work on speculative speech tracking for families: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... TLDR; families are more willing to track when it’s for “children’s development purposes”, but cautious about the broken promises of tech living up to expectations. #chi2026

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From Ephemeral to Actionable: Parent Perspectives on Speculative Family Speech Tracking | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Oh, and we did an “AAC thing” too - check out our poster: a lit review on AI and AAC: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... -posing here with co-author + the wisest🦉prof Jeff Higginbotham & guest appearance from Damien Rudaz

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This year, it was so exciting to enjoy a full #chi2026 session on Augmented Communication! Long may it continue (…with rigorous AAC HCI work 🙃)

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Coffee conversions and catch ups with friends were wholesome (:

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

All three #chi2026 social impact award talks were so moving for different reasons - feeling energised by the breadth of quality research.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The #chi2026 Speech4All workshop was truly excellent. Loved the WS keynote by Eva Szekely.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It’s been a whirlwind week of #chi2026 & I tried to stay present in-person so here’s my round up of the bits I loved the most ⬇️🧵

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Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference @acm-idc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🚨 IDC 2026 abstract deadline for Full or Short Papers or Pictorials is TODAY! 🚨 🗓️ Abstracts due today (Jan 20, 2026: Midnight AoE) 🗓️ Full submissions due next week (Jan 27, 2026: Midnight AoE) Theme: Creating a More Sustainable Future 🔗 Calls & guidelines: idc.acm.org/2026/ #IDC2026

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hey there #IDC2026 community! We see your wonderful pictorials abstracts in PCS and can't wait to receive your full submissions by 27th Jan, midnight AOE! idc.acm.org/2026/calls/p... - Good luck with those submissions and remember to get these in soon! (: 🏎️💨

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Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference @acm-idc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Deadline for submission to the Pictorials track is approaching! IDC2026 invites pictorial submissions about “Creating a More Sustainable Future.” Pictorials foreground visual communication; images, layout, and typography are central to the contribution. #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren

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Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference @acm-idc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Introducing the IDC2026 Chairs! Kate Howland is taking on the role of General Chair this year, and Seray Ibrahim joins as Chair for the Pictorials track. 🦋Follow Kate @wildwoodlander.bsky.social 🦋Follow Seray @serayibrahim.bsky.social #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren #ourchairs

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Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference @acm-idc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

IDC 2026 is calling on young creators to imagine a more sustainable world. Any idea that helps the planet or supports fairer, kinder communities, in any format (art, stories, videos, prototypes, games), is welcome. info @ idc.acm.org/2026/calls/r... #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being
Felix Eling
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The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being

Felix Eling

Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Gulu College of Health Sciences, Gulu City, Northern Uganda

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.47772/IJRISS.2025.90400265

Received: 13 March 2025; Revised: 22 March 2025; Accepted: 25 March 2025; Published: 30 April 2025

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The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in social interactions has transformed how humans experience companionship, communication, and mental well-being. This review examines the psychological impact of AI-driven social interactions, focusing on virtual assistants, AI chatbots, and digital companions. It explores the benefits, risks, and ethical concerns associated with AI companionship. A systematic review methodology was employed, detailing inclusion criteria, databases searched, and analysis techniques. Findings suggest that while AI can offer emotional relief and support, over-reliance may disrupt real-world social bonding. Ethical concerns such as data privacy, emotional manipulation, and regulatory gaps are highlighted. The study underscores the need for balanced AI integration in human socialization. The study also addresses gaps in previous literature by examining AI’s influence on different demographic groups and cultural contexts.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

It feels special resurrecting (and creating manual zotero entries) for important papers from no longer active workshops and conferences (...which otherwise sounded great). Your DOIs may not be active, but I see you, brilliant papers 😍

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

😂 it still doesn’t sound like a neat automated way of capturing those circled responses 😝

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What I wanna know is who has time to process all that paper!

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ISAAC International @isaacinternational.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The ISAAC Research Committee invites you to participate in an online survey on how to define AAC! 📝 All stakeholders including AAC users, families, clinicians, vendors, researchers and others interested in the field of AAC are encouraged to participate.

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Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference @acm-idc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

📢Calls for Participation to IDC26 Brighton are now live!📢 Read the full calls🔗https://idc.acm.org/2026/calls/ Follow for updates:👇 ➡️Instagram: @idc_acm ➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InteractionDesignChildrenConference ➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/acm-idc #IDC2026 #InteractionDesignAndChildren

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 23/09/2025

The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres. The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky cup.org/3IDqYNf

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

📣 **Exciting job opportunities** with the absolutely stellar human being @quiteneate.bsky.social. Tim is hiring 2 HCI postdocs, a SLT researcher & a PhD student to explore designing AI-enable AAC. This is gonna be a good one peeps! Check it out ⬇️ 👀

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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) @acmtochi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

✨ 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

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d-mcnaughton.bsky.social @d-mcnaughton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Critically important information, wonderful to see the complete special issue is now freely available! See link in original post

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 17/09/2025

The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year! We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world. If you have some spare time, come along! For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...

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Largest social science festival shows research’s impact on lives

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science returns for its 23rd year, offering hundreds of free events across the UK.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Unexpectedly, the data capturing method (a promoted diary & adapted journey map) appeared to help parents engage with online parenting advice, suggesting potential as a component of parenting support. Check out our #OA paper 😊

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

We were interested in methods that parents could potentially find intrinsically helpful (for self-reflection) whilst also capturing data about lived experiences and implementation challenges.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Together with @juliadabrowska.bsky.social , Alissa Antle, @juliekientz.bsky.social , Alex Chesters & Petr Slovak, we iteratively developed & tested digital probes for investigating parenting experiences.

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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

A Wikipedia-style guideline page on avoiding exaggerated wording by LLMs, with two sections titled Undue emphasis on symbolism and importance and Promotional language. Each section lists “words to watch” in a beige box, such as "stands as a testament", "plays a vital role", "rich cultural heritage", "breathtaking", and "must-see". Below, example sentences are shown with problematic phrases highlighted in yellow, including "enhancing its significance", "captivates both residents and visitors alike", "stands as a symbol", "reflects the evolving identity", "vibrant town with a rich cultural heritage", "fascinating glimpse into the diverse tapestry", and "value-driven experiences".

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Fascinated to see how this will play out 👀

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thank you CHI2025 and all the great people within it!

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

One last thread for today's HCC content at CHI - more great papers by my inspiring colleagues, doing a lot of incredible work at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you’re still around at the very end of the day, come hear me talk about how we re-conceptualise EMA-type questions as an approach for helping parents tune into their child’s emotions throughout the day #CHI2025

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Come check out Sruthi Viswanathan’s work on parent-chatbot interaction! The work exposes the interactional practices that parents want from a chatbot! #CHI2025

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Petr Slovak and @amiraskeggs.bsky.social share the design overview and validation studies on creating a scalable story elicitation tool for research participants #chi2025

Two speakers present paper on how they developed an AI enabled story creation tool for research participants

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Nazanin Andalibi @naz-andalibi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#CHI2025 attendees: SIGCHI CARES is available on-site and online as a resource if anyone experiences or witnesses any form of harassment, harassment, etc. You can use the listed email or directly approach any of us! Thank you 🌷

Image includes names and pictures of the six CARES representatives at CHI. The email is sigchi-cares@acm.org and you can approach any of us directly too!

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King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

At 11.10am today @florencesn.bsky.social will be presenting their paper on Gameworld Archaeological Mental Models in the Games Session in G318+G319, co-authored with @mtrc.bsky.social. #chi25 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

@amiraskeggs.bsky.social and Petr Slovak will share our exciting work on the micro-narratives method; a scalable, new tool to complement existing qualitative methods #CHI2025

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King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Also at 11.10am Sinem Görücü will be presenting their paper on analysing Machine Learning Eco-feedback Tools in the Sustainable Development session in G314+G315. #chi25 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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King's HCC Group @kingshcc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

We're at #chi2025 this week, with lots of papers and sessions featuring our group members... here's a thread of some of the Monday sessions we're in.

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I’ll be presenting some work from our group on using Ecological Momentary Assessment as an intervention approach for helping parents and kids with emotion-focused conversations #CHI2025 🏅 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our lovely @kingshcc.bsky.social group @kingsnmes.bsky.social will be at #CHI2025 in Yokohama next week presenting a respectable 14 papers with four honourable mention awards 🥳 Here’s some of our work: kingshcc.org/publications... - find me to chat about anything child mental health or AAC related 🙇🏻‍♀️

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