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YY Teng @yyteng.com · 13/09/2026

At #CHI2026, we (w/ Darren Gergle) proposed a new frame, Developmental Flourishing: assistive technology not for access, but through which blind and low-vision (BLV) people explore, create, and make meaning. At #CSCW2026, we share a sequel on mixed-ability collaboration (preprint: on my website).

Front page of the paper "Developmental Flourishing in Mixed-Ability Collaboration" to appear in CSCW2026 Companion.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Nice post from @eytan.adar.prof on the cargo cult science of "AI-native" PhD students, who come in super productive because they perform all major parts of research with genAI. No one needs all these quick papers, and they can really hurt students down the road. eytanadar.medium.com/ai-native-ph...

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AI-Native PhD Students

If you’re a student and just want the tl;dr, feel free to jump to the end.

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YY Teng @yyteng.com · 28/08/2026

✈️ I'm in Atlanta, Georgia (8/29–9/2), attending the ACM AI Leadership Summit. My research advances human-AI technologies that support human developmental flourishing by focusing on the process (not just the outputs) of creativity and problem-solving. If you'll be there, I'd love to connect.

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YY Teng — HCI Researcher & Architect

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YY Teng @yyteng.com · 16/04/2026

#CHI2026 Today 2:15pm📍Green Zone #8! Our poster "Access Is Not Enough: Toward Developmental Flourishing." Two versions: one visual, one OCR-optimized. If BLV folks have a different process, the poster should too. Come debate: What is the purpose of assistive technology, and how?

CHI poster design with two versions. On the left is a visually rich design featuring colors, images, and a diagrammatic layout. On the right is a version optimized for OCR legibility, where subsections are sequentially numbered and the text uses a monospace, OCR-friendly font.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In “Six Memos for the Next Millenium”, Italo Calvino distilled six literary virtues he felt should endure regardless of how the world changed. As we enter an age of automated evaluation & production of science, what are the parallel epstemic virtues we should try to preserve? We want your input! 🧵

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link: shorturl.at/bV2lF You can also tell us if you think we missed any. We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏 In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social

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Epistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community Survey

In Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino proposed six literary virtues he felt should be preserved and cultivated in literature regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exa...

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YY Teng @yyteng.com · 12/04/2026

"Access Is Not Enough", we need a new frame. At #CHI2026, we share an opinion paper at Thursday’s poster session that reorients assistive technology toward “Developmental Flourishing.” The “access” frame has driven important advances, but measuring success by outcome equivalence overlooks (1/5)

front page of the paper titled "Access Is Not Enough: Toward Developmental Flourishing" by Yuanyang (YY) Teng and Darren Gergle, Northwestern University

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