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VOLUME XXXII.6 November - December 2025
- WELCOME
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What are you reading?
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What Are You Reading?
Luigina Ciolfi
I'm interested in work and technology, and how contemporary work is evolving, often morphing into diluted microtasks. Antonio Casilli's keynote at the 2018 European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in Nancy, France, was revelatory, and I have been following his research ever since. Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands…
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Blog@IX
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New Rules for AI Artists: Creativity Support Tools in the GenAI Era
ChungHa Lee, DaeHo Lee
With the rise of generative AI, AI artists are pioneering new creative processes. But does easier creation enabled by AI change the essence of creativity? We explored how AI artists engage with generative models—not just as tools but as creative partners—and what this means for the future of creativity.…
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Exhibit X
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The Community Carbon Impact: Engaging Visitors in Urban Sustainability
Leticia Izquierdo, Gabriela Bìlá, Maitane Iruretagoyena, Kent Larson
At MIT City Science, we have spent years developing models to understand how cities can become more sustainable, not only by using new technologies but also through everyday decisions people make. Cities are at the heart of the climate challenge: They generate the majority of the world's carbon emissions,…
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Columns
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What Should a Junior User Experience Designer Have in Their Portfolio?
Jon Kolko
I've recently spent a great deal of time speaking with design leaders at large companies who are responsible for hiring junior designers. I've heard over and over again that the candidates are largely unprepared and that the hiring process has become an arduous drudge through hundreds or thousands of…
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Feeding AI, Eating Us
Jonathan Bean
In 2017, when the editors of Interactions suggested we rename this column "Consuming Tech," the change appealed to me, because it reflected a focus on the effects of the humans involved in human-computer interaction. Making consumer devices requires material resources and energy. It takes rare earths to manufacture smartphones…
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Hardware Afterlives
Melissa Gregg
If reusing technology is key to a more sustainable industry, where can we best learn how to design with this intention? At the recent International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference in Singapore, my fellow panelists Ramon Lobato, Rahul Mukherjee, Dang Nguyen, and I set out to…
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Why Analog Tools Still Matter in an AI World
Tiffany Knearem
Earlier this year, I was visiting a friend in Scotland, and we toured a newly opened whisky distillery in the Lowlands. Scotland is renowned for its long history of distilling, and many of its distilleries serve not only as production sites but also as living embodiments of Scottish cultural…
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Forums
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Reawakening Sensibility to the More than Human
Marco Gillies, Tianyuan Zhang
Philosopher Baptiste Morizot [1] characterizes our current environmental polycrisis as, at least in part, a crisis of sensibility to nature. We have lost the ability to see and experience the more than human (for this article, we will use this term to refer to more-than-human life, rather than AI,…
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Features
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Values, Ethics, and Intersectional Language Modeling in AI
Alice Ashcroft, Clàudia Figueras Julián
Many organizations are quickly incorporating AI systems into their work processes to make them more efficient and automated [1]. But a comprehensive study of how ethics and values contribute to the large language models behind generative AI has yet to be done. Furthermore, with existing recommendations, such as Ethics…
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Empowering Tenants and Landlords Through Conversational AI for Housing Rights
Nischal Subedi
The affordable housing crisis in the U.S. is more than an economic problem: It is a crisis of information. Every year, more than a million eviction filings are initiated, a figure that represents not just legal actions but also profound moments of human distress [1]. Behind every filing is…
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Cover story
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We Won’t Be Talking About GenAI in 2035, and That’s a Problem
Eva Eriksson, Lone K. Hansen, Peter Dalsgaard
In this feature, we apply a decennial perspective to discuss the interweaving of technology, everyday practices, and societal infrastructures. We ask what happens when technologies become so embedded in everyday life that we stop talking about them and who gets left out in this process. The occasion of the…
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Calendar
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Calendar
INTR Staff
November AFRICHI '25: 5th Biennial African Human-Computer Interaction Conference (Cairo, Egypt) November 4–8, 2025 https://www.africhi2025.org India HCI '25: 16th International Conference of Human-Computer Interaction Design and Research (New Delhi, India) November 7–9, 2025 https://www.2025.indiahci.org SUI '25: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (Montréal, Canada) November 10–11, 2025 https://sui.acm.org/2025 HAI…
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Exit
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How Many Images Can Possibly Exist?
Renato Verdugo, Scott Minneman
Contributor: Jacob Adler Curators: Renato Verdugo and Scott Minneman Still frames from the film Total Pixel Space. In his 1941 short story "The Library of Babel" Jorge Luis Borges imagined a space containing every possible book. Its narrator describes the Library as total—"its shelves register all the possible combinations…
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Voices
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Masitah Ghazali
Masitah Ghazali
What is your current role? I'm a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Computing at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. I'm part of the Department of Emergent Computing, and I teach courses such as HCI and software engineering and innovation. My current research focuses on emotion recognition using brain-computer interfaces and…
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Waves
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Halfway to the Future: A Design-Focused HCI Symposium
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Katherine Isbister, Stuart Reeves
How might Donna Haraway's notion of "staying with the trouble" help HCI researchers design for resilience in more-than-human worlds? What does Terry Winograd, an early pioneer of working at the intersection of HCI and AI, think of contemporary LLM-based research? How can we knit together issues of identity and…
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Commentary
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Redesigning Success: How Post-Growth Economics Can Reshape the Games Industry
Samantha Stahlke, Tanner Mirrlees, Pejman Mirza-Babaei
Creating games is wonderful. Working in the industry, however, is fraught with precarity. Will your game sell? Will it be successful enough to please your shareholders or to keep your job? We exist in an economy that demands these sales constantly increase. Falter in your compliance, and your work,…
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