@martacecchinato.bsky.social
Asst Prof in Human-Computer Interaction at Northumbria University CHI & CHIWORK steering committee Working on #HCI #Productivity #FutureOfWork #WorkLifeBalance #DigitalWellbeing #Neurodiversity #EquitableWork #InclusiveFutures She/her
At ECSCW where @laurenscottdev.bsky.social is talking about the role of accidental spreaders of misinformation in offline conversations
Excited to present our paper "Accidental Spreaders: How Different Roles Interact During Misinformation Discussions" at #ECSCW at @newcastleuni.bsky.social in July. Written with @docwarner.bsky.social, Lynne Coventry and @martacecchinato.bsky.social - read it here: dl.eusset.eu/items/9e3b2c...
🏃♀️🚨Fully funded PhD in HCI + neurodiversity with me & @dbpharrison.bsky.social
PhD will explore self-tracking tools for neurodivergent women, rethinking how they can support sport,health& wellbeing in more inclusive ways.
🇬🇧UK/home-fee only.
Please share widely!
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Love the “rejected author”! Will be getting one too 🤣 see you around!
We are recruiting Lecturers/Assistant Profs in our School of Computer Science - looking for more HCI people to join us! #chi2025
Deadline to apply: 8th May
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO320/a...
And if you are looking for job/PhD - we are recruiting!
We’re recruiting PhD students for our Citizen-Centred AI CDT #CCAI #CHI2025
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/aca...
Come along to our #CHI2025 SIG on Designing for Neurodiversity in Academia: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in HCI.
📆Tuesday 29th April
🕑2:10pm
📍G217
Everyone welcome, whether you are neurodivergent, an ally, or just curious. See you there! 🧩✨
Heading to #CHI2025 tomorrow 🤩 if any of this sounds interesting, let’s connect! 🧵
🧠 ADHD-inclusive productivity tools
🤖 Future of work: worker-centred gig economy, AI in third sector & @chiwork.bsky.social
💚 Well-being through reflective / affective interaction
🧐 First-person research methods
Manifesting a first/business class upgrade @british-airways.bsky.social , since my 4yo drew me laying down on my flight to Japan! 🇯🇵✈️😎
Love the detail of the Japanese flag on the airplane tail!
#chi2025
CHIWORK 2025 (chiwork.org) early bird registration ends in less than a month on May 14th, so don’t miss your chance to join us in Amsterdam (or virtually) at a discounted rate.
We are recruiting new Lecturers/Assistant Profs in all areas of Computer Science, including HCI and Responsible AI, at
@NorthumbriaUni. Deadline is 8th May. Ping me if you want more info work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
We’re growing and going global! 🌍
CHIWORK 2025 is shaping up to be our biggest and most diverse edition yet. Thanks to everyone who submitted, reviewed, and supported us 💙
Can’t wait to see you in Amsterdam!
🔗 chiwork.org
#CHIWORK2025 #HCI #FutureOfWork
📢 Students & colleagues interested in CHIWORK!
The CHIWORK Student Consortium is a great opportunity for BSc, MSc, & PhD students to connect, receive feedback, and advance their careers! 🎓
🗓 Early deadline: March 20, 2025
🔗 More info: lnkd.in/es2ueHXS
#CHIWORK #FutureOfWork #HCI
Now that you received the #chi2025 reviews, it’s time to get ready for #CHIWORK2025!
The deadline for full papers is on Jan 31, 2025. Accepted papers are published in the ACM DL.
🔗 www.chiwork.org/call-for-papers/
📅 Conference dates: June 23-25, 2025 (Amsterdam and hybrid)
#FutureofWork #HCI
It’s marking season again 😩 trying to avoid using sugar as a reward/motivation, and instead stole this visual timer from my son. Works a charm with him to move on to help him move on to the next activity (usually bedtime!)… and it turns out it works a charm on me too! I’m on a roll!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Hope your day is filled with pjs, roasties, cosy films, and Lego! Or you know, whatever tickles your fancy 😉
My 4-year-old built this “alien who works at a university”. I’m hoping it’s here to take over my marking!
I forgot to say, it was @dbpharrison.bsky.social ideas! I thought students would find it lame but they were smiling and laughing so maybe not…? 😅
Did it take me more than it should have to make this review? Absolutely. I probably should have started marking in that time, but it was fun. And I'll try to keep this up every year if I can.
Overall, some of these numbers surprised me and made me look at the module in a slightly different light. Was it all positive? No, plenty of people didn't engage, but I wanted it to be a positive reflection for those who had been attending and engaging.
I must have repeated this sentence a million times... "you are not the user". Let's see how many WEIRD personas I get this year...
This year the assessment was all about Future of work. Students had to pick one of 4 challenges to design for and research:
1. worker-centred gig economy
2. inclusive work environments for neurodiversity
3. managing work-life balance for working students
4. designing transparent & ethical bossware
Last year the module feedback said my lectures needed to be more engaging. So every week I've included a Mentimeter quizzing them on previous lectures, debating topics, or getting them to reflect on their assumptions:
Shoutout to Simone Strumpf, & Margaret Burnett's (et al.) GenderMag resources!
This student also gave me some really lovely feedback:
"...Following the slides, the points that are made and the general QoL additions that you have put in (one free paper, then going through each and the heaps of additional tips) are truly helpful and quite a breath of fresh air."
Students thought I would have received more emails from them. I don't have data from previous years to compare, but I do think we received more in the past.... maybe my explanations are better now? 😜
No surprises here for week 1 attendance, but week 3 was all about doing literature reviews. I want to give a shout out to Leysia Palen who shared her approach to annotated literature with me last year and students absolutely loved it! Highest reading rates ever!
That's over 54hrs, if you don't want to do the math 😅 You might think a tab was left open, but there were a handful of students with similar numbers and all seemed to have engaged with the content for large amount of time.
That's 36 hours - 1h lecture and 2h workshops a week, for 12 weeks.
While some of my students' Spotify got their wrapped review wrong this year, I reassured them this was accurate 😂
Just gave my last HCI lecture of the semester! HCI is a bit like marmite for CS students—you love it or hate it. To reflect back and connect with students, I made them their own ‘wrapped’ review of the module. Here's how students engaged with the module:
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