Luigina Ciolfi

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

A great honour to be interviewed by Fawzia Kara-Isitt of ACMs Women in Computing for U-RISE (Unconventional Routes into Computing: Re-Imagining Skills & Entry).
I appreciated the chat about my path in HCI and CSCW across past and present.
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Obligatory Northern Lights snaps!

Why all Olympic curling stones come from a Scottish island Kays Scotland have been producing curling stones using Ailsa Craig granite for almost two centuries.

I learned about curling stones, where they are made, why they are made only in one place in the world, and why the granite comes only from Ailsa Craig - the Scottish Island in Ayrshire also known as Paddy’s Milestone as it’s about halfway between Belfast and Glasgow.

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Pictured (left to right): UCC School of Applied Psychology researchers Dr Conor Linehan; John Twomey, lead researcher of Deepfakes/Real Harms; and Dr Gillian Murphy.

World-first tool reduces harmful engagement with AI-generated explicit images

A new online educational tool aims to curb the watching, sharing, and creation of AI-generated explicit imagery.

Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2026...

UCC researchers unveil 'world-first tool' aimed at persuading Grok users to avoid creating explicit images Free 10-minute intervention dubbed ‘Deepfakes/Real Harms’ has been designed to reduce the willingness of users to engage with harmful uses of deepfake technology, like creating non-consensual explicit...

"The free 10-minute intervention dubbed ‘Deepfakes/Real Harms’ has been designed to reduce the willingness of users to engage with harmful uses of deepfake technology, like creating non-consensual explicit content", research by John Twomey supported by Lero
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UCC launches toolkit to combat AI deepfake engagement Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) have developed a new online educational toolkit designed to reduce engagement with AI-generated explicit images.

PAT research led by John Twomey on addressing engagement with deepfake tools is featured in the media today! @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc-apppsych.bsky.social @lerocentre.bsky.social www.rte.ie/news/munster...

Our School has arrived on Bluesky! Please give @ucc-apppsych.bsky.social a follow, there will be posts on education, outreach, and research activities spanning our key themes of mental health and wellbeing, people and technology, healthy development and ageing.

Are you thinking about your 2026 CAO choices? Have an interest in Psychology? Students from UCC PsychSoc have put together an extremely informative introduction to the School of Applied Psychology in UCC! #caochoices #cao #psychology #leavingcert

Prof. Luigina Cliolfi stands in front of slides on the topic of 'Digitally-Entangled Worklives, Continued: Is Hybrid really the ideal “new normal”?'

Many thanks @luiciolfi.bsky.social for delivering this year’s annual HCI@UCD Christmas Lecture on the topic of our increasingly digitally-entangled worklives. Is hybrid really the ideal “new normal”?

Food for thought as we enter the winter break! Wishing you a lovely holiday from all at HCI@UCD!

It's nice to finally be able to talk about "Minimal Curation: Minimal Computing for Sustainable Digital Sociocultural Heritage", which involves a nice team bridging community development, digital preservation, software development, and sustainable HCI!

Visiting the Cailleach at Samhain time

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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What Are You Reading? | IX Magazine Issue XXXII.6 November - December 2025 I'm interested in work and technology, and how contemporary work is evolving, often morphing into diluted microtasks. Antonio Casilli's keynote at the 2018 European Conference on...

So nice to see my short "What Are You Reading?" piece out in the latest issue of ACM Interactions! Many thanks to @efc.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute, it was a great opportunity to reflect on some interesting books! Article here 👉 interactions.acm.org/archive/view...

For the #CSCW2025 closing keynote, @ginasue.bsky.social discusses the myth of automation: automation uncovers and foregrounds current sociotechnical configurations. Technological innovation doesn't happen overnight, it's negotiated by people on the ground over time.

Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social : Innovation isn't disruption, it's negotiation.

How do you make room for negotiating innovation? Reconsider team environment and team structure. Add more time and space to figure out what works--and what doesn't.

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Let’s put CSCW on the map 🗺️ if you’re attending #CSCW2025, be sure to connect with someone new and interact with our Community Art Installation, located in the coffee area on the first floor 😊 A great way to meet someone new and find a CSCW connection from across the globe! 🌍 @acm-cscw.bsky.social

#cscw2025 | Luigina Ciolfi Quite a few (mainly US-based) people at #CSCW2025 have approached me asking for advice about looking for jobs in Europe and relocating. I thought it would be useful to summarise some pointers here: - ...

Quite a few people at #CSCW2025 asked me about job hunting in Europe, so for those on LinkedIn here’s a summary of hopefully useful pointers: www.linkedin.com/posts/luigin...

Indeed, some people were asking for resources on the genesis of CSCW…we have a nice piece for you 😊 #cscw2025

For PhD students at #CSCW2025 If you were interested in the keynote, consider applying to the EUSSET summer school (usually the last week of August) www.eusset.eu/events/summe...

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Workshop Spotlight ⭐

Traces, Breadcrumbs, and Patina: Exploring and Designing with Traces of Activity

#CSCW2025

The CSCW DC is always an inspiring and memorable day…really honoured to have been one of the DC mentors at #cscw2025

We made the attendance map this year! The Cork (UCC+MTU) contingent at the ACM #CSCW2025 conference in Bergen @ucc.ie @mtu.ie

📸 Honoring the core organizing team behind CSCW 2025 for their exceptional behind-the-scenes work that made the conference possible!

#CSCW2025

trans/queer CSCW 2025! a guide to trans and queer-focused papers etc. at CSCW 2025! feel free to add your paper if I missed it :)

I put together this list of work on trans/queer topics at #CSCW2025 - lots of exciting papers to check out! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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This will be my first in-person CSCW conference in several years and I am looking forward to catching up with everyone in Bergen! #CSCW2025

- Workshop "Traces, Breadcrumbs, and Patina: Exploring and Designing with Traces of Activity", Ida Larsen-Ledet, Myriam Lewkowicz, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Carol Linehan, Luigina Ciolfi 👇

- "‘Take Everything With a Pinch of Salt’: Learning to Navigate Fitness on Social Media", Doireann Peelo Dennehy, Stephanie Murphy, Sarah Foley, John McCarthy, Kellie Morrissey 👇

- "Sharing, Support-Seeking, and Managing Safety: A Qualitative Study of Online Platform Engagement After Pregnancy Loss", Stephanie Murphy, Ava Hickey, Doireann Peelo Dennehy, Kellie Morrissey, John McCarthy, Sarah Foley 👇

- "Encountering Deepfakes: A thematic analysis of comments on a music video featuring deepfake content", Didier Ching, John Twomey, Conor Linehan, Gillian Murphy 👇