@ousmet.bsky.social
Associate Professor of HCI. Co-director, Bristol Interaction Group: http://biglab.co.uk Lead, Diverse-ability Interaction Lab: http://dive.ousmet.com Cross-sensory Interaction, Diverse-ability, Co-design, Accessibility. ERC CoG: inclusiveXplay
Sensory HCI is at a crossroads. Rather than combining multiple sensory modalities, could cross-sensory interaction offer a lens to treat perception itself as design material, foregrounding the relational and transformative effects across senses?
Deadline: Feb 16
xsensoryfutures.ousmet.com/
#CHI2026
Last but not least, Sydney presented a pictorial exploring how children with ADHD and their parents can customise their own health-tracking tech
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Our second paper (Teganβs first full paper, well done!) explores how cross-sensory metaphors (like βsharp smellβ) help kids & adults connect. A metaphor-based game revealed age-based strategies, offering new ways to design tools that bridge generational gaps.
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Brooke @b-morris.bsky.social presented work that challenges 90+ years of play theory (Parten, 1932) by proposing a neuro-inclusive continuum model of social play; a bold step toward designing tech that can support for all children. Congrats on the award Brooke!
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@bristolhci.bsky.social and the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab had a good presence at #IDC2025 with two full papers and one pictorial, and with one of the paper receiving a Best Paper Honourable Mention Award!
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More details here:
www.ozyegin.edu.tr/en/announcem...
If you're near Istanbul tomorrow, 29th May, join us at ΓzyeΔin University from 2:30pm. Iβll talk about how co-design and cross-sensory cognition can offer new ways to design inclusive interactions beyond traditional assistive technologies.
With thanks to Gâkçe Elif Baykal for the kind invitation
Read our paper written in many languages including Hungarian, Japanese, Cree, German, Welsh, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Polish, Arabic, and English here
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Listening to Japanese on stage during the closing keynote of #CHI2025 by Masako Wakamiya makes this the perfect CHI to have presented our Lost in Translation paper; questioning the centrality of English in HCI thinking and communicating about our thinking.
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Come see Katherine Jones talk on understanding joint attention between visually impaired and sighted children, and the impact of AI-driven headsets on this process
Communication and Support session in G402, our talk is at 9:48
#CHI2025
Check out the Bristol Interaction Group @bristolhci.bsky.social contributions to the #CHI2025 technical program across the various submission categories:
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/sea...
And come say hello if you see us around.
Finally, we have an opening for a PhD in our lab, so I'll be looking for candidates interested in working in the space of cross-sensory interaction, shape-changing interfaces, and accessibility. Come find me for a chat if you or someone you know would be interested. #CHI2025
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On Thursday 1st, Katherine Jone will present her paper: "Put Your Hands Up": How Joint Attention Is Initiated Between Blind Children And Their Sighted Peers
Session: Communication and support
Time: 9:48
Location: G402
Also on Tue, @gracestangroome.bsky.social and Alex Tcherdakoff are leading a SIG on Designing for Neurodiversity in Academia: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Computer Interaction
Time: 2:10
Location: G217
on Tue 29th, @mamoru-watanabe.bsky.social will present a later breaking work titled: "I Feel It Like I Actually Feel It": How HCI Can Support the Experiences of Synaesthesia
Session: Multimodal Interaction
Time: 10:30 - 11:10
Location: North 1F
Spoiler alert: come to this one if you want to hear a CHI talk not just in English!
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also on Monday, we will present an alt.chi paper led by Eszter Vogh and Ellen Weir titled: Lost in Translation: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Linguistic Inaccessibility in HCI.
Session: Systems, Power, and Digital Realities
Time: 3:22pm
Location: G313
On Monday 28th: our Best Paper Award lead @b-morris.bsky.social: "It Helps Us Express Our Feelings Without Having To Say Anything": Exploring Accompanying Social Play Things Designed With and For Neurodiverse Groups of Children
Session: Neurological Considerations
Time: 12:22
Location: G414+G415
Some of us are attending #CHI2025, will be presenting 3 papers, a poster, an alt.chi paper and a SIG.
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Hello Bluesky! First post here to introduce the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab: part of @bristolhci.bsky.social we study inclusive tech that centres the experiences of both disabled and non-disabled people.
Come say hello if you're at #CHI2025!
