January - February 2025 | ACM Interactions

VOLUME XXXII.1 January - February 2025

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WELCOME
- Human Augmentation: A Paradigm Shift for HCI?
  
  Elizabeth F. Churchill, Mikael Wiberg
  
  In 1962, Douglas Engelbart wrote "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework." Engelbart was ahead of his time, pushing the boundaries of what were then new technological potentials. In the intervening years, his explorations of what such augmentation could look like have become commonplace (e.g., the mouse and video conferencing).…
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What are you reading?
- What Are You Reading?
  
  Tiffany Knearem
  
  As I approach three years since transitioning from academia to industry research, I find myself reflecting on the lifelong curiosity that has led me down this winding yet fulfilling path. My journey began with a fascination for Japanese language and culture, which led me to pursue a dual bachelor's…
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Blog@IX
- Being a First-Year Undergrad in Human-Centered Research
  
  Lily Anfang, Maya Flynn, Kaitlynn Gray, Ethan Sandoval, Lynn Kirabo
  
  Offering research experience to undergraduates is a well-known path to broadening participation in research fields [1]. We are a team of four undergraduate students, with experience working in areas ranging from environmental policy to tax filing and human-centered design projects. We spent the summer of 2024 working in the…
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Columns
- Sex, Disability, and HCI
  
  Gopinaath Kannabiran, Anna Brynskov
  
  In this column, I engage in a discussion with Anna Brynskov, a fellow HCI researcher who is working on projects related to sexual well-being. My work explores the intersection of sexuality and ecological issues through an ecofeminist approach, while hers examines the intersection of sexuality and disability through a…
- Participatory Design in Colonial Contexts
  
  Daria Loi, Penny Hagen
  
  In my previous column, I discussed key themes related to participatory practice outside of academia, leveraging a book chapter that I recently coauthored with Penny Hagen and Raphael Arar [1]. In this column, I interviewed Penny Hagen, codirector of the Auckland Co-Design Lab, to outline a specific section of…
- What If We Don’t Accept the Cookies?
  
  Jie Li
  
  Every day, we open dozens of websites, each requiring us to navigate different cookie consents before we can proceed to view the content. In Europe, reading through these cookie consents is frustrating, because all we sometimes want is a single Reject All button. Instead, we often encounter websites that…
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Forums
- Physiological Computing for All: Exploring Neural Interface Education
  
  Chris S. Crawford
  
  In 2019, Meta purchased CTRL-Labs, a neural interface start-up, for more than $500 million. A recent report by Morgan Stanley analysts valued the total addressable market of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) at around $400 billion in the U.S. alone. Headlines discussing the exploration of novel neural interface technologies by companies…
- A Powerful Sisterhood: Black Women Scholars in Feminist HCI
  
  Shaniah Reece, Covenant Adenuga, Tierra Ablorh, Yolanda A. Rankin
  
  One of the criticisms of applying intersectionality as a critical framework in human-computer interaction research is related to developing appropriate methods that can be utilized in the design of technology. The solution lies in the diversity of experiences of intersectional populations and standpoint epistemology. Standpoint epistemology values lived experience…
- Better Health by Design: UX for Health and Wellness
  
  A. Miller
  
  Understanding and applying a multidimensional wellness approach is vital to human health. This approach considers the whole person and views wellness as a pursuit of continued growth and balance that can help enhance the quality of life. Though there are differences of opinion on the number of wellness dimensions,…
- Climate for Change: New HCI Research for Climate Action
  
  Robert Soden, Vishal Sharma, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Nicola J. Bidwell
  
  This forum showcases emerging approaches, new ideas, and promising pathways that draw attention to the diverse, interdisciplinary, and impactful work of global scholars to advance dialogue in the field on how we can best contribute to climate action.— Robert Soden, Vishal Sharma, Matthew Louis Mauriello, and Nicola J. Bidwell,…
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Features
- Assistive Augmentation: Fundamentally Transforming Human Ability
  
  Felicia Fang-Yi Tan, Chitralekha Gupta, Dixon Prem Daniel Rajendran, Pattie Maes, Suranga Nanayakkara
  
  The rapid development of smart devices and emerging AI capabilities holds immense potential to transform not only our daily interactions but also our pursuit of life goals. Existing user interfaces, however, often fall short of realizing this potential. Individuals with disabilities, who rely heavily on assistive technologies for daily…
- CHI’s Greatest Hits: Analyzing the 100 Most-Cited Papers in 43 Years of Research at ACM CHI
  
  Annika Kaltenhauser, Gian-Luca Savino, Nick von Felten, Johannes Schöning
  
  The CHI conference is the premier venue for publishing research in human-computer interaction. As a result, CHI attracts a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, including those from computer science, psychology, design, engineering, and the social sciences. It is ranked as one of the top computer science…
- Human-Data Interaction: Thinking Beyond Individual Datasets
  
  Laura Koesten, Jude Yew, Kathleen Gregory
  
  We live in data-centric times. Many of the world's greatest challenges, from advancing science to improving government services and tackling climate change, require access to large amounts of data. In recent years, avenues that allow individuals to share and use data online have proliferated. Scientists use open platforms, such…
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Calendar
- Calendar
  
  INTR Staff
  
  January COMSNETS '25: 17th International Conference on Communications Systems and Networks (Bengaluru, India) January 6–10, 2025 https://www.comsnets.org/ GROUP '25: ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (Hilton Head Island, SC, USA) January 12–15, 2025 https://group.acm.org/conferences/group25/ POPL '25: 52nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (Denver, CO, USA)…
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Exit
- 52 Quintillion Shades of Eno
  
  Gary Hustwit
  
  Contributor: Gary Hustwit Curators: Scott Minneman and Renato Verdugo Unlike the definitive "director's cut," Gary Hustwit's documentary about Brian Eno heads in the other direction, embodying and honoring Eno's role as a generative media pioneer. Every roughly 90-minute screening of Eno is different, drawing on more than 30 hours…
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Conversations in Sketch
- The Memory Game
  
  Miriam Sturdee
  
  "I'm interested in memory augmentation and manipulation. Who is going to use future memory technologies and what will the impact and downside be?" Text version Eva Wolfangel is a journalist, author, speaker, and moderator who has worked for ZEIT, Deutschlandfunk, and Technology Review, among others. She combines complex topics…
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Voices
- Passant Elagroudy
  
  Passant Elagroudy
  
  How would you describe your current role at work? I have been an HCI postdoc and a project manager at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence for the past two years. I create technologies that augment cognitive capabilities. I just finished my role as project manager for HumanE-AI-Net,…
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Waves
- The State of Large Language Models in HCI Research: Workshop Report
  
  Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Hope Schroeder, Casey Randazzo, Jie Gao
  
  In 2023, four Ph.D. students across different institutions were experimenting with using large language models (LLMs) in HCI research. Aubin Le Quéré was labeling thousands of social media posts according to a qualitative codebook; Schroeder was generating news surveys on the fly; Randazzo was playing with generative agents; and…
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