2 papers accepted at #UIST2024!🎉 The 1st paper, XR-Oʙᴊᴇᴄᴛs w/Google AR & VR, introduces 🪄Augmented Object Intelligence, an interaction paradigm blurring the lines between digital & physical by equipping real-world objects with the ability to interact as if they were digital:

I & coauthors will be at UIST this week! I'll present EvalGen, our approach to validating LLM-powered validators of LLMs. Our ideas have been adopted by 5+ startups. Grateful for the reception & looking forward to meeting folks! Here's to the turtles all the way down 🐢

#UIST2024 How to effectively manage peer instruction sessions for coding exercises in large classrooms? 🤔 One way is recommending smart trackers and notifications that alert instructors to critical students' behaviors. VizGroup, led by Xiaohang Tang, along with Sam Wong

Excited to present our paper at #UIST2024 tomorrow in the "AI as Copilot" session (4:10 PM) I'll be discussing how breaking down data analysis tasks into *editable*, *progressively revealed* steps can enhance control over AI and improve verification. 📜 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Can a smartwatch move your fingers? In our #UIST2024 paper with 🎖️honorable mention award, we engineered the smartwatch that can actuate your fingers & render force via electrical muscle stimulation. See full video: youtu.be/20OZ2aFdwXc?si… I hope you could catch Aki's

Imagine a world where earbuds don’t need charging — this is the vision of our research, Power-over-Skin

Proud advisor time! Xiaohang Tang just gave his first #uist presentation on the topic of supporting instructors to manage/interpret in-class students collaborative coding exercises. #UIST2024

What if paper abstracts weren’t just static summaries? In our #UIST2024 paper, we present Qlarify, a mixed-initiative system built on a lightweight interaction technique that expands abstracts with details from the full text—empowering scholars to dive deeper, faster.

📢 Join us today, Wednesday, Oct 16, for the ACM UIST 2024 Closing Keynote: Test of Time Award! 🎉 Hear from Wobbrock, Wilson, and Li as they discuss “Gestures without Libraries, Toolkits or Training: A $1 Recognizer for User Interface Prototypes” from the 2007 symposium.

Thank you so much to the #UIST2024 community for recognizing our $1 gesture recognizer work from 2007 with the Lasting Impact Award! Very honored and flattered… Andy Wilson, Yang Li HCI & Design at UW UW iSchool Allen School

Everyone at UIST is just too cool!! Love it. Thank Ryo Suzuki for sending me to conferences that I don’t have presentations in 🥺🥺❤️ Wish to meet all of you in Yokohama next year!

Thrilled to receive the People’s Choice Honorable Mention for TorqueCapsules demo! We’ve exhibited it at museums, science festivals, art exhibits—and people loved it! So proud of the love and excitement we’ve gotten, and grateful the UIST community values it too! #UIST2024

The sense of touch is innately private, but what if it could be shared across individuals? We Stanford VR studied shared body sensations in VR and found it increases body illusion and empathy toward others and influences social behavior. #ISMAR2024 🔗vhil.stanford.edu/publications/s…

I am on the job market, seeking tenure-track or industry research positions starting in 2025. My research combines human-computer interaction and robotics—please visit karthikmahadevan.ca for updated publications and CV. Feel free to reach out if interested. RT appreciated!

New work: Protecting Human Cognition in the Age of AI, with Anjali Singh Karan Taneja Klara Guan We claim that overreliance on GenAI models disrupt traditional learning pathways. We suggest best practices for better teaching, testing, and learning tools to restore these paths:

Among many reasons, missing Nandi Zhang 's talk is a big one why I feel sad not attending CHI. We ask an interesting question: life seems much easier with AI instructions (especially in-situ in AR), are they actually making us smarter or dumber, how to encourage people to learn?

Thanks to my wonderful advisors Yukang Yan and Ryo Suzuki! I enjoyed every phase of this project and grew through it with a more mature perspective as an HCI researcher.

I’m presenting it on Tuesday 11:58 am-12:10 pm in the XR Experience session. Let’s chat about overreliance on AI and what kind of digital reality we want to build for humans!

#CHI2025 Current and past group photos with me, my students, and my advisor. See you all again in Barcelona for #CHI2026 Hye-Young Jo Keiichi Ihara Nandi Zhang Xiaoan Mehrad Faridan Jarin Thundathil Hiroki Kaimoto Ran Zhou | 周然 Daniel Leithinger