shm garanganao almeda

a marriage proposal is a speculative design fiction prompt

this bluesky has come to serve 2 purposes
1. mirror whatever my HCI Academic Twitter marketing persona posts on the hxllsite (X dot com 🤢) here, as a matter of principle
2. a couple of additional littol …knickknacks 'n' shiny rocks 'n' sh*tposts… too silly or sassy for the hxllsite to deserve

shm in front of the pomona college sign. Fun fact the X.com version of this tweet got a polite smile but i'll stick my tongue out for u bluesky

❤️ @ Jingyi Li for hosting me at Pomona College! The Claremont Colleges are so beautiful and full of awesome students ✨💫

that was a dumb idea i made a website instead

…doing this hci research tour during chi review season is kinda funny because everyone is in the mood to share some newly riled-up critical opinion about "what we're even DOING in HCI"
but can only speak about it in this vague, subtweet-esque manner… 😆

Shm in the sun in front of royce hall at UCLA

made it to UCLA! ☀️

getting to share a multiscale zoomable interface I built, to a person who helped invent them (Prof. Jim Hollan, see Pad++ @ UIST1994) and just, talk shop about info vis... what an honor & joy…!
one of the gifts of being an artist working in still-very-new computational mediums 😭

shm smiling and giving double ASL ILY signs in front of their presentation on the design of technology by and for artistic worlds

The slide says, Artistic support tool research. Shm is wearing a calamansi hairpin in their green hair and an orange shirt, presenting while sitting down.

Shm is laughing at the definitely hilarious joke they told while presenting a slide about artists having problems that are difficult for CSTs to neatly solve!

Getting into the details of a system with folks who have a depth of interest & knowledge around building similar systems is SO cool…!

Thank you SO much @stevenpdow.bsky.social , Haijun Xia, Jim Hollan, Scott Klemmer, & all the awesome students working w/ them @designlabucsd.bsky.social !

Dr. Jennifer Jacobs and Shm Almeda in front of a projector that reads The Design of Technology by and for Artistic Worlds in the Expressive Computation Lab space at UC Santa Barbara.

‪I have always so deeply admired Dr. Jennifer Jacobs and the amazing, critical work the Expressive Computation Lab is doing @UCSB's Media Arts & Technology Dept.… what an honor & a dream come true to share my work with them! 😭❣️‬

In my spare time, I am working on a mapmaking tool #dnd

my biggest personal takeaways:
1. feeling affirmed in my decision to shift my research towards quality data work *before* AI model work, and centering quality community work *before* that
2. feeling more empowered to call out AI-accelerated societal ills

really so valuable 😭❤️

Nava Haghighi, Terry Winograd and Lucy Suchman sitting at a table with notes on their conversation around them. Theres a lot more text here than I can put into an image description; please let me know if you want all the content as a text document!

my notes on Terry Winograd & Lucy Suchman's conversation @stanfordhai.bsky.social yesterday! such an honor and a privilege to hear them speak on AI, data, our roles in the world as computer professionals, technology designers, humans…

tysm Nava & Stanford HCI for organizing!

uc santa cruz is very beautiful ✨🌲🌳🌊

I'm at Stanford & UC Santa Cruz this week, UC Santa Barbara & UC San Diego next week, UCLA & Pomona the week following! friends (present & future) please feel invited to reach out if you want to meet up with me or my rabbits. 🐇🐇 😋

shm in front of a green and orange dlide that says the design of technology by and for artistic worlds

Shm in front of a slide that says 2 wicked artistic support problems- 1. The banality of creative labor- artmaking requires a great deal of not so artistic tasks

Shm in front of some iconically stanford esque architecture

I'm on an hci research / personal mesearch tour — road-tripping, giving talks, and making friends across southern california! Thank you soooo much to Stanford HCI for having me today!

so much exciting work to be done!

we got korean bbq to heal our fomo
" #uist2025 "

‪omg artkrit zine !! 🐛🎨🖌️✨‬
‪https://jingyi.me/static/artkrit-zine.pdf‬ #UIST2025

the entire Creative Design with GenAI session on Wed @ 11AM looks amazing — as a digital artist myself I'm so excited to see how this work ft. ArtKrit deeply engages with our processes & needs, + to see that recognized with a well-deserved Best Paper award!
programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr...

everyone's talking @ how LLMs are changing programming — what programs can get written, who will be writing them.

nobody has taught me more about this than Tim Aveni in his work on Ply.

try the demo 2nite; see the talk in the Programming session tomorrow @ 9AM! programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr...

A visual novel like display where a fox in conference outfit talks on the phone to a shiba inu. In the text box, a Hedgehog researcher says hurriedly adjusting fheir tiny glasses, oh sorry, can't chat! Im rushing to try the Midjourney Storytelling Lab demos before the line gets too long-- have you seen Dr. Wendy Macaw's interface work? Amazing!

visit the Midjourney Storytelling Lab at the #UIST2025 demo session & try Dramamancer, a delightfully novel interactive narrative system!
I had a blast using it to craft a dynamic story experience, wherein you can roleplay my dream… of being at the UIST demo session... 😝

I am not in Korea at #UIST2025 (😭) but some of the most brilliant people I know are! ✨🇰🇷
here's a few things I'm bummed to miss, and that YOU do NOT want to miss...! 🧵

its shm with green and orange hair and their colorful painted blazer!

Shm's baybayin necklace (it says "walang suko" meaning no surrender in tagalog") and their I 🧡 HCI bracelet!

new hair new profile pic! 💚🧡

I'm so so grateful and lucky to have undergraduate research mentees who end up teaching and inspiring me so much! 😭

36th acm conference on hypertext and social media, blue sky award, to agency among agents designing with hypetextual friction in the algorithmic web !

so incredibly proud of sophia liu (sophiawliu.com) for leading this piece, and giving an awesome presentation (that you can watch!) at ACM Hypertext -- Friction & (user) Agency are values we feel are really needed as we design for a future inundated by (AI) Agents 🩵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIqj...

1/ Exciting paper by @sh1m.bsky.social & Sophia Liu 🔥
“hypertext systems emphasize provenance, associative thinking, and user-driven meaning-making, while algorithmic systems tend to obscure process and flatten participation” arxiv.org/abs/2507.235...

OH.... IT WAS COMMON CRAWL....
I promise I have learned my lesson about adding robots.txt to my website this time I promise

so whoever internet archived my art portfolio site in april, before it got nuked by Adobe irrecoverably revoking my student license… i owe you a big one! thank you SO much. I promise I have learned my lesson about proprietary software this time I promise
web.archive.org/web/20250422...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names of students, staff with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move The feds are investigating alleged antisemitism on college campuses. Judith Butler, a well-known Jewish professor whose name was given, called it a ‘McCarthy era’ move.

disgusting, horrific, beyond shameful
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/12/u...