ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Uncovering Parental Struggles: Using Digital Probes to Analyse Challenges in Applying Online Parenting Content | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Understanding the situated challenges that people face when attempting to apply online parenting advice is crucial for building effective digital parenting supports. However, existing HCI methods do n...

Authors: Seray Ibrahim, Julia Dabrowski, Alissa Antle, Julie Kientz, Alexandra Chesters, Petr Slovák
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The work contributes new directions for the design of digital parenting interventions that are more closely aligned with the realities of family life and responsive to the complexity of parenting practices.

Based on studies with 280+ parents, this research adapts probe-like methods to uncover the everyday challenges of applying parenting advice. Findings reveal practical and emotional barriers while offering insights into adapting probes to capture rich, in-situ parenting data.

✨ New in ACM TOCHI: Uncovering Parental Struggles. This article investigates how parents encounter and respond to online parenting advice, and introduces a digital probe methodology to capture their lived experiences in everyday contexts. @serayibrahim.bsky.social
#DigitalHealth #Parenting

Authors: Authors: Eimaan Saqib, Shijing He, Junghyun Choy, Ruba Abu-Salma, Jose Such, Julia Bernd, and Mobin Javed

Behind the scenes, when this team first started studying bystander privacy, it felt like a “side issue” compared to protecting owners. But they realized that waiting would mean bystanders’ privacy might never be addressed. That insight led to their new TOCHI review paper.

🔊Smart home devices don’t just track their owners-- they also collect data on guests, tenants, and workers. A new TOCHI paper reviews how research defines “bystanders,” what concerns they face, and which solutions might protect their privacy. doi.org/10.1145/3731...

Authors: Jiangnan Xu, Sanzida Mojib Luna, Garreth W. Tigwell, Nicolas Lalone, Michael Saker, Samuli Laato, John Dunham, Yihong Wang, Alan Chamberlain, Konstantinos Papangelis

🎮✨When the game is both digital and physical, how do players adapt?
A new TOCHI study on Shared AR gameplay (Urban Legends) shows players start off confused, leaning on verbal cues, but soon evolve dynamic movement, role strategies, and smoother teamwork
doi.org/10.1145/3749...

We’re thrilled to announce that ACM #TOCHI 's impact factor rose from 4.8 → 6.6 in the latest JCR (Clarivate)! 🎉

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Violence isn’t just physical. This work theorizes how cyber forces are weaponized against transgender people, what that does to us, and what we might do about it, drawing on decolonial theory of necropolitics. (2/2)

#HCI #TransStudies #CyberPolitics #TOCHI

The Three Steps to Trans Death: Introducing Trans Cyber-Necropolitics in Digital Media | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Many trans people experience marginalization and violence in cyberspace. This violence is characterized by intricate dynamics surrounding voice, identities, bodies, and social interactions. To compreh...

✨ New from #TOCHI ✨

📄 The Three Steps to Trans Death: Introducing Trans Cyber-Necropolitics in Digital Media
by @shanoliang.bsky.social, Michelle V. Cormier, @snapdragoness.itch.io , & @rose-bohrer.bsky.social

DOI: doi.org/10.1145/3745... (1/2)

Behind the scenes (Authors mention): Recruiting participants was a challenge.

Authors: Niclas Kannengießer*, Niklas Hasebrook, Felix Morsbach, Marc-André Zöller, Jörg Franke, Marius Lindauer, Frank Hutter, Ali Sunyaev

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Practitioner Motives to Use Different Hyperparameter Optimization Methods | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Programmatic hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods, such as Bayesian optimization and evolutionary algorithms, are known for their sample efficiency in identifying optimal configurations for machi...

New in #TOCHI: "Practitioner Motives to Use Different Hyperparameter Optimization Methods"

Interviews and surveys reveal performance goals, model understanding, org context, and tool limits shape HPO choices, explaining manual tuning’s lasting appeal.

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Paper: "Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models"
Authors:
@morganklauss.bsky.social, Katy Weathington, Adrian Petterson, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Dipto Das, Michael Ann DeVito, Jed R. Brubaker.
#ACMTOCHI #LLMs #AIethics #HCI

🤖🏳️‍⚧️ Can chatbots be trans-affirming, or do they just sound that way?
New TOCHI paper finds that LLMs often respond “positively” to trans questions, but with subtle, hard-to-detect transphobia lurking beneath.
📄 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Authors: Dagoberto Jose Herrera-Murillo, Hector Ochoa Ortiz, Umair Ahmed, Barbara Re, Andrea Polini, Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer, Javier Nogueras-Iso

@iaaa-lab.bsky.social, @i3a.unizar.es
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Collective Intelligence in Humanitarian Voluntary Geographic Information: The Case of the HOT Tasking Manager | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Voluntary Geographic Information initiatives are transforming the disaster response landscape. Our research provides insights into how the concept of collective intelligence is accomplished in humanit...

🌍 When disasters hit, thousands map. But a few experts keep it from falling apart.

New TOCHI study of 746 HOT projects reveals how collective intelligence drives disaster response—and how to make it smarter, more connected, and useful 🧠

📄 Read: doi.org/10.1145/3733...

How Creative Practitioners Use Tools to Capture Ideas: A Cross-Domain Study | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Creative practitioners rely on tools to capture and manage ideas as a foundational aspect of their work. However, we have little knowledge about how idea management practices vary in different creativ...

Authors: Emilia Rosselli Del Turco, Nanna Inie, James D. Hollan, Peter Dalsgaard

@erossellidt.bsky.social, @nannainie.bsky.social ie.bsky.social, @profhollan.bsky.social , @peterdalsgaard.bsky.social

#Creativity #HCI #DesignTools #ACMTOCHI

🎨🧠 How do creatives really capture ideas on the fly?

New TOCHI paper finds idea capture for creative practitioners is fast, messy, and wildly different across creative domains. ⚡Yet all prioritize capturing ideas quickly, even if it disrupts order.

📄 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3727...

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