Digital Interactions Lab UvA

Opening of the User Interaction Lab at the University of Amsterdam - Informatics Institute 19 December marked the official opening of the User Interaction Lab (UIL), part of the Digital Interactions Lab (DIL) at the Informatics Institute in LAB42. The opening event brought together staff, s...

It has now been almost two months since our User Interaction Lab officially opened within the Informatics Institute @uva.nl! It is exciting to see the lab actively used for teaching Bachelor’s and Master’s courses focused around socially responsible interactive systems!

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Today is the opening of our User Interaction Lab (UIL)! We warmly invite you to join us on this occasion! We will have remarks by the Dean, the interactive “Overwhelm” exhibit, display of new technologies, & networking with drinks. @uva.nl

📅 Today, 15:00–18:00
📍 LAB42, Room L0.03

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Official opening User Interaction Lab - Informatics Institute You are invited to the official opening of the User Interaction Lab (UIL) in LAB42, part of the Digital Interactions Lab. The opening will include remarks by the Dean, the 'Overwhelm' interactive exh...

We invite you to the opening of our User Interaction Lab (UIL)! We will have remarks by the Dean, the interactive “Overwhelm” exhibit, new technologies, & networking with drinks.

When: 19/12/2025, 15:00–18:00
Where: Science Park 900 – LAB42, Room L0.03, Amsterdam

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We are thrilled to share that @drsbrooke.bsky.social is launching the Queer & Feminist Informatics Network (QFIN) within the @uva.nl. They will host their very first event on 25/11/25 with an inaugural talk by Dr. Oliver Haimson!

Event 🔗 lnkd.in/ednjVgj7
website 🔗 www.qfinformatics.com

We invited Kristel Karriqi to speak about her work in technology for social good while still in high school! She’s mentored through TechGirls and Technovation, led STEM projects, and is now developing her startup Prizm, focused on local youth issues. We can't wait to see what she takes on next!

Now Hiring - Postdoc in HCI x Urban Design!

BEAT is our new €3.8M EU research project on creating inclusive cities. This vacancy is the first and thus one of the most impactful positions in BEAT, as we are constructing an interdisciplinary team.

Vacancy 🔗 lnkd.in/gsPVX7iP
BEAT 🔗 lnkd.in/gxrNjCH6

A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research - Impact of Social Sciences To use public data researchers must navigate legal regulations & platform norms. The PETLP framework shows how privacy-by-design can be built in at the outset.

The article lays out the PETLP framework (Privacy-by-design Extract-Transform-Load-Present) to address the tangled legal & ethical terrain of AI research using social media data.

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🌟 @drsbrooke.bsky.social recently co-wrote a piece with Nick Oh for The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which is now live on the Impact of Social Sciences blog! [1/2]

#AIethics #PrivacyByDesign #SocialMediaResearch #ResponsibleAI #DataProtection @uva.nl

A reminder that we have a page on LinkedIn now!

Follow us for updates on our research, projects, and collaborations in topics such as accessibility, audio, games, health & well-being, neurodiversity, smart buildings, and social robotics.

👉 www.linkedin.com/company/digi...

Amar's work explores how soft magnetic materials can be made accessible tools for designers creating shape-changing interfaces!

Read more about Mijksenaar Lab and their work here: mijksenaar.com/lab

Last week we had @fenneroefs.bsky.social & Amar Mohindra from Mijksenaar Lab visiting us! We had a super interesting research chat around wayfinding, sound, & accessibility. We went hands-on with Amar’s soft-magnetic demo, developed with the Material Aesthetic’s Lab at the Industrial Design @tue.nl.

Vacancy — PhD Position in Co-Design Methods with Diverse Disabled Communities - University of Amsterdam The Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam is looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate as part of the NWO-funded research project TACIT (Inclusive Technologies for Access and Social ...

We have an exciting PhD opportunity @uva.nl!

Join our lab to work on a four-year PhD around co-creation/co-design methods and diverse lived experiences of disabilities. @judithgood.bsky.social

Apply by 1 Nov 2025.

🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

#PhD #HCI #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign

We’re on LinkedIn now!

Follow the Digital Interactions Lab for updates on our research, projects, and collaborations in topics such as accessibility, audio, games, health & well-being, neurodiversity, smart buildings, and social robotics.

👉 www.linkedin.com/in/digital-interactions-lab-uva

€3.8M Research project led by IvI Boosts Accessibility in Dutch Cities - Informatics Institute An NWO-KIC grant led by Hamed Alavi from the Digital Interactions Lab has received €3.8M. The project explores a radically new approach to inclusive city-making, grounded in people’s lived experiences...

What does BEAT aim to do?

• Centre people’s lived experience to identify everyday accessibility challenges such as broken elevators and mis-parked bikes.
• Integrate AI, design and policy to generate solutions that are inclusive and practical.

Learn more here:
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We are proud to announce BEAT, a €3.8M project boosting accessibility in Dutch cities!

Led by Hamed Alavi with co-PIs @judithgood.bsky.social & @katjesjes.bsky.social, BEAT pioneers inclusive city-making, grounded in lived experience and shaped by AI, design and policy.

Illustration: Beyza Durmuş.

Exciting lab news! @drsbrooke.bsky.social has been awarded a Veni grant for “Human‑Centred Code: Building Accessible IDEs for Neurodiverse Women in Computing Education.” She will co-design tools to break down barriers in coding education & embed inclusivity into IDEs!

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📖 "An Umbrella Review of Reporting Quality in CHI Systematic Reviews: Guiding Questions and Best Practices for HCI" - Katja Rogers et al.

This umbrella review evaluates systematic reviews at CHI using PRISMA/ENTREQ and offers guiding questions to improve transparency & rigour in future reporting.

🏆 Honourable Mention: "Python is for girls! Masculinity, Femininity, and Queering Inclusion at Hackathons" - Siân Brooke

An examination of how queerness is expressed—but also constrained—by tech’s masculine norms at 7 UK hackathons.

Our CHI papers this year:
🏆 Best Paper: "What Do We Design for When We Design Smart Buildings?" - Shruti Rao, Katja Rogers, Judith Good, Hamed Alavi

A scoping review of 192 papers on human experience in smart buildings – mapping out human experiences, design mechanisms, and associated technologies.

Two paper awards for Digital Interactions Lab at CHI conference - Informatics Institute The Digital Interactions Lab and the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems group were well represented at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), one of the top-ranked confe...

Our lab's achievements at #CHI2025 this year were featured by the Informatics Institute (IvI) at the University of Amsterdam. We submitted 3 papers, of which 1 received a best paper award and the other a honourable mention! [1/4]

Read more about them via IvI:
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BBC Radio London - Shay Kaur Grewal, 13/05/2025 Celebrating Londoners and a recap of the day's news.

Dr. Siân Brooke @drsbrooke.bsky.social recently joined BBC Radio London to discuss the appeal of the #manosphere and how it preys on young men’s real struggles by offering hate rather than support.

🔗 Listen to her here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The AI for Health Equity Lab has been awarded €2.3M through NGF @AiNed ELSA Labs (NWO)! Since 2023, we've been working with partners to develop and implement AI applications designed for accessibility and equity. Implementation is underway-interested in collaborating? healthy-ai.org/nieuws/

Vacancy — Fully-Funded PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction with a Focus on Audio Design and Perception Are you interested in the role of audio in human interaction with computing systems? Do you want to actively shape our understanding of how audio design impacts whether technology is viewed as trustwo...

Interested in human-computer interaction & audio?
Explore and shape how audio makes technology be viewed as trustworthy or persuasive - apply to this fully funded PhD position at the University of Amsterdam:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
One week until the deadline: 03 March. #hci #audio #phd

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