CHI 2025 paper acceptances!

2025 January 22

It’s quite cold outside today!

What was I up to this past week? I worked on a literature review for my advisor's paper, co-worked with a friend at a lovely cafe downtown, wrapped up an IRB resubmission, caught a shiny Absol in Pokémon Go, drew an illustration of some old library friends, and complained about Ben Johnson going to the Bears. Every once in a while I would check my phone notifications, glimpse another nightmare horror looming over trans people (and everyone else) in the United States, then turn my phone back off and shove it deep, deep, deep into my pocket.

In brighter news: I am very proud of my friend Ria Khan, whose first full-length first-authored paper was just accepted to the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (aka CHI 2025)! I am very happy for all members of our research lab whose works were accepted to CHI this year (not to flex, but I'm a co-author on some of these too ;-) ):

  • Cataloging Augmented, Ambivalent Transgender Futures: Designing Inclusive AR Technologies for Trans Communities Through Speculative, Participatory Zine-Making, authored by F. Ria Khan, Kat Brewster, Aloe DeGuia, Denny Starks, Malay Mañacop, Samuel Mayworm, Tawanna Dillahunt, and Oliver L. Haimson
  • 'That Moment of Curiosity': Augmented Reality Face Filters for Transgender Identity Exploration, Gender Affirmation, and Radical Possibility, authored by Kat Brewster, Aloe DeGuia, Samuel Mayworm, F. Ria Khan, Mel Monier, Denny Starks, and Oliver L. Haimson
  • The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences, authored Ben Zefeng Zhang, Tianling Yang, Milagros Miceli, Michaelanne Thomas, and Oliver L. Haimson
  • The Virtual Jail: Content Moderation Challenges Faced by Chinese Queer Content Creators on Douyin, authored by Caoyang Shen and Oliver L. Haimson

I am very proud of my friends for their accomplishments, and that I look forward to traveling with them to Yokohama in the spring :D

(On that note: remind me to outline that workshop paper!)