Kathrin Gerling

Are you aged 60+ and regularly play games? We want to understand how older players experience competence in games, and whether/how this makes gaming worthwhile. Super excited that Friedrich is returning to where I left things when wrapping up my PhD - we'd love to hear from you.

CHI26 workshop “Crip HCI: Cyborg Perspectives on Disability Justice” invites self-identified fellow cyborgs to consider what the field of HCI might gain from a deeper engagement with cyborg perspectives on disability justice, “crip HCI”, and better AT. Submissions due Feb 12.
t1dsign.org/chi-2026

Welcome to the annual period of advisor anxiety when #chi2026 notifications are out, but first authors are rightly asleep. Congratulations to everyone who already knows their papers have been accepted! :)

First year we've managed to shake the tradition of Sint bringing presents after moving away from Belgium. Glad to share they're now supplied by the Mamakind, because apparently, we're now too old to believe the Christkind is real.

Big white porcelain cat, Christmas tree in the background, plate of cookies in the foreground.

Happy Catmas, everyone! I wish all of us a few days of peace and quiet in a world that's way too loud.

Stock image of dark haired woman throwing a bunch of papers in the air. Underneath, the text reads: Call for Papers. Deadline for Full Papers is: February 18th, 2026 (23:59 AoE).

We have published the Call for Papers for #CHIPLAY2026!

CHI PLAY 2026 will take place November 2-5 in York, United Kingdom.
Deadline for Full Paper Submissions is February 18, 2026 (23:59 AoE).

The full call is available here: chiplay.acm.org/2026/full-pa...

@acm-sigchi.bsky.social #chiplay

Immerhin gibt es dank der gelben Scheiben die Illusion von Sonnenlicht...

Yellow tram from the 60s with red decorations and destination Europaplatz pictured in a grey environment.

It's advent tram season, and here's our favourite type.

We're excited to share that the PACM issue containing full papers that will be presented at CHI PLAY 2025 has just gone online 👉 dl.acm.org/toc/pacmhci/...
#chiplay #chiplay2025

That sounds super interesting - we'll be running a Dagstuhl on HCI games research in the same week, so hopefully there'll be time to learn more about yours over breakfast. :)

Ha! I just read a paper on VR accessibility that uses AI for scene description, and kept wondering whether it wouldn't be easier to pull data from the engine and try to do something meaningful with that. So... thanks for showing that it works, even if in a slightly different setting.

Yes! Gerade zufällig im Spiegel gefunden, und ich habe mich sehr über die nuancierte Darstellung gefreut...danke dafür!

Grafik mit Werbung und QR-Code für das Programm der Fakultät für Informatik zum Tag der offenen Tür mit Campus-Tag am KIT. Text: "Samstag 17. Mai 2025, 10-19 Uhr Campus Süd des KIT"

Tag der offenen Tür mit Campus-Tag am #KIT am 17. Mai 2025, und wir sind auch dabei mit umfangreichem Programm: www.informatik.kit.edu/14708.php #TdoT

Historical tram waiting to depart at Europaplatz in Karlsruhe. Wooden cart painted in white and yellow on the left, tram stop on the right. Grey sky in the background.

The advent tram arrived early this year...

Red Lego Airport Shuttle on gray monorail on a wooden table.

Time for the traditional holiday Lego monorail construction project...

Was dieser Mann in dem Video erzählt, das sind die Lügen der "Cure Autism Industry", wenn ich das mal so nennen darf.
#Autismus ist angeboren und genetisch.
Autisten sind keine Tragödie, zerstören keine Familien.
Autisten leiden nicht per se.

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Picture of TU Graz campus, showing a walkway between buildings made of concrete and glass. Everything in the image is grey.

The advantage of being a light sleeper in unfamiliar environments: Waking early and having time to explore. This time it's TU Graz - looking forward to joining #fdg2025 today to talk about equitable access to games. #fdg

The image shows a drawing of a letter, next to writing in bold black and orange, stating “Notifications for the full papers track have gone out!”

📢We have shared the notifications for submitted Full Papers with the corresponding authors!

chiplay.acm.org/2025/2025/04...

@acm-sigchi.bsky.social
#chiplay2025
#chiplay

Photo of a pond at UTwente. Concrete surroundings, a few plants in the water, and trees in the background.

UTwente has such a beautiful campus. Also an odd trip down memory lane, the last time I was in the area must've been around 2003 for Drome 10.

#GAconf, IGDA-GASIG. Advancing accessibility for disabled players. Hybrid online & Pullman St Pancras London, April 14th - 15th 2025

📢 Speaker announcement!

@kathringerling.bsky.social will be presenting her research paper on representation of invisible disability: exploring the lived experience of teenagers with ADHD to inform game design.

April 14th - 15th, registration & line-up at gaconf.com
#gamedev #indiedev

tldr: Interactive seat maps have potential to convey venue accessibility, but are often designed for categories of people that do not reflect diversity of attendees. A better solution would be to think in seat categories. For more detail and nuance - read the full paper! 2/2

"Is This Seat Accessible for Me?": An Autoethnography of a Person With a Mobility Disability Using Interactive Seat Plans for Public Events Spectating sports matches or concerts is a popular activity, but these public live events have yet to become more accessible to people with disabilities. Inspe

We may not be traveling to Japan for #chi2025, but our work certainly is: Here's a pre-print of @lukestrowalker.bsky.social 's autoethnography that explores whether digital ticket booking systems support accessibility of large public events. publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000179652 1/2

HCI, Disability, and Sport: A Literature Review | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Equitable access to sport for disabled people remains challenging, and technology is often viewed as a way of addressing barriers. However, little is known about how disability is approached in such r...

You can read our full paper via dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/..., and we hope that it'll inspire future research on sports technology and the role of leisure and joy for all of us. 3/3

We show that sports technology for disabled people often prioritizes health over leisure (although this doesn't need to be a dichotomy, of course), and that value frameworks for the design of sports technology need to be expanded to reflect perspectives of disabled persons. 2/3

HCI, Disability, and Sport: A Literature Review | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Equitable access to sport for disabled people remains challenging, and technology is often viewed as a way of addressing barriers. However, little is known about how disability is approached in such r...

How does HCI accessibility research approach the design of sports technology for disabled users? @lukestrowalker.bsky.social explored this question in his literature review that has just been accepted to the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 1/3

And I struggle to understand why hate seems to have become the go-to response to everything. We only have this planet, we only have each other.

I've always been interested in politics, and learning about different political systems while living in different countries has been really neat. These days though, politics mostly leave me with a heavy heart.

#GAconf (igda-gasig). Advancing accessibility for disabled players. Hybrid online & Pullman St Pancras, London, April 14th-15th 2025

The next edition of GAconf will be at the Pullman St Pancras Hotel, London, on April 14th & 15th. And hybrid, also free to attend online.

Two days of talks and networking on accessibility for disabled players. Registration now open at GAconf.com!

#accessibility #gamedev

Wishing everyone a very playful 2025! 🎉

We're happy to announce an open call for two positions on the DiGRA Belgium board: (1) Co-Chair and (2) Treasurer. Deadline: 10 February 2025.

If interested, please contact Pierre-Yves Houlmont with a letter of motivation!

You're still welcome to participate in the study if you're curious and would like to share your thoughts, but we can unfortunately only reimburse participants who live in the EU. :-/