Timothy Neate

I’m at #ASSETS2025 in Denver to present our paper on the impacts of using generative AI to scaffold just-in-time (JIT) configuration of visual scene displays (VSDs) by novice communication partners! You can catch my presentation in Session 5B on Tuesday at 11:15 MDT.

Here are some highlights👇

I was awarded a ~£2M UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship! 🥳

This will fund human-centred work on communication accessibility, exploring emerging AI & embodied form factors.

I'm hiring 2 HCI postdocs, an SLT researcher & a PhD student:

tdjneate.github.io/flf/flf_anno...

Our amazing @carlota-vzgz.bsky.social was featured in the ACM Scholar Spotlight series! Find out more about her and her research here: acmweurope.acm.org/acm-scholar-...

Some nice news :)

I got a Future Leaders Fellowship

Improving access to Amazon’s Alexa for people with aphasia | City St George's, University of London Four videos share the experience of people with the language disability aphasia when interacting with Alexa voice technology

Aphasia and Voice Technology.

Read more about the project here:
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

#BSkySpeechies
#Aphasia
#A11y

Two pictures of Cupnoodle with custom design. Shows a capybara eating noodles in a zen like state. Text of cup is altered to say 'cupybara noodles'

I did not present at #chi2025, but my amazing postdoc, PhD student and collaborators at @hcid.city did present work I was involved in. All open access here:

tdjneate.github.io/publications...

My crowning #chi2025 achievement was 'Cupybara Noodles', created at the Cupnoodle museum in #yokohama.

Scientists use ChatGPT to make nation's favourite podcasts more accessible The work breaks new ground on audio media accessibility for people with complex communication needs.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/scienti... Great work on audio accessibility in #stroke #aphasia work led by @quiteneate.bsky.social at KCL ca11yproject.github.io

Folks at #chi25 #chi2025, this talk is happening in about 20 minutes!

ASSETS 2025 technical paper submissions are now open on PCS. Navigate to submissions on PCS, under society, choose ASSETS, then ASSETS 2025 for conference/journal, and then Technical Papers.

Technical papers are due April 16, 2025, at 11:59 P.M. anywhere on Earth (UTC -12:00).

A new blog post from the ASSETS 2025 general chairs on indicating presentation modality in PCS assets25.sigaccess.org/updates.html

Head of Department of Informatics

Come be my boss:

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/111365-...

Person giving a talk in front of a slide deck

#cockneychai25 was yes! Amira giving a super talk about micro-narratives

We are always hungry :( Cockney translation is provided on the other side

Cockney CHAI Schedule showing detailed programme. It is in a SHOCKING pink. Full accessible schedule linked in the post.

Cockney CHAI (London pre-CHI event) Provisional Schedule is live. This year it is hosted at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.

cockneychai25.github.io/pages/schedu...

Event (7/4/25) is sold-out, but tickets will become available if folk pull out at the last minute.

Now updated with the CHI awards:

tdjneate.github.io/chi_stats/20...

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Again, all mostly meaningless, but might help understand more about the shape of #chi2025 and broader academic publishing patters.

Don't know who needs to know this, but we came across really good, open source, free app for qualitative coding that works in the browser.

app.taguette.org

It is basically NVivo, but free, and good. Collaboration seems pretty effortless, akin to Overleaf of GDocs

White web page showing: CHI 2025 Paper Stats <decorative CHI 2025 logo in pink japanese style> Below are some potentially interesting statistics I have generated from the JSON file from the CHI 2025 program. I consider only 'full papers' here. There were a total of 1,249 accepted full papers, from a total of 5,014 submitted (24.9% accept rate). Presenting statistics like this is an idea I borrowed (stole) from whatthehci.com, which seems to no longer be updated. You can also check out some cool statistics for the conference on the official blog. All King's College London CHI Papers All British CHI papers All London CHI papers CHI papers by institution (rank) CHI papers by country (rank) CHI papers by city (rank) CHI papers by author (rank) Papers with *accessibility* and/or *disability* in the title or abstract Papers with *aphasia* in the title or abstract Papers with *large language model* in the title or abstract

#chi2025 statistics, summarising countries, institutions, labs and people at #chi2025. Also, there are some 'reading lists' based on (my) interests. Imperfect, but hopefully useful or interesting to someone: tdjneate.github.io/chi_stats/20...

@acm-sigchi.bsky.social #chi #hci

Our paper, "𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠", is accepted to 𝐀𝐂𝐌 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓! ⛩️ With @quiteneate.bsky.social & 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨, we explored nonverbal communication tracking in videocalls. Excited to present at #CHI2025 (April26-May1)🔗 shorturl.at/VSUMX

an elderly woman says you can google it Alt: an elderly woman says you can google it and gestures typing on a keyboard

📄 Take a look at our new paper about aphasia & internet search: strategies and challenges.

With Vasiliki Kladouchou, Stephann Makri, Sylvia Frankowska-Takhari, @quiteneate.bsky.social, Andrew Macfarlane & @stephwilsoncity.bsky.social
#CHI2025
#Aphasia #Search
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/34...

@katerinahilari.bsky.social @niamhdevane.bsky.social @carlamagdalani.bsky.social @stephwilsoncity.bsky.social @quiteneate.bsky.social @aphasialibrary.bsky.social @hcid.city @briellestark.bsky.social @loiscameron.bsky.social @lingeborgsophie.bsky.social might you share and re-post the below please?

Announcing ASSETS 2025 Call for Papers and Mentoring. Technical papers are due April 16, experience reports are due June 11, posters and demos are due June 25, and the DC is due June 25. If you are new to ASSETS, you can also receive mentorship. Details at assets25.sigaccess.org Pls share.