🖐️ How do people actually point when there is no cursor?
As spatial interaction becomes more common in AR, VR, and smart environments, freehand pointing is often treated as a single, idealized gesture. In reality, people point in many different ways depending on context.

🤝 What makes digital collaboration feel good at work?
In a new TOCHI paper, Pinar Simsek Caglar and colleagues move beyond usability to examine how tools like Miro shape everyday experiences in remote teamwork.

New in #TOCHI

FairFare (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11273) a crowdsourced data tool co-designed with a Colorado rideshare union to audit platform take rates from 76k+ rideshare trips.

Authors: Dana Calacci, Varun Rao, Samantha Dalal, Kok-Wei Pua, Andrew Schwartz, Danny Spitzberg, Andrés Monroy-Hernández

ACM #TOCHI is inviting self-nominations for its Distinguished Reviewer Board!

Seeking researchers who can review 5 papers/year, return reviews within 30 days, and have prior reviewing + a strong HCI publication record.

Apply here: forms.gle/ggUy5DvbjFQV...

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✨ 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

🔊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...

🎮✨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)! 🎉

📊 Top-ranked:
• 4/31 in Cybernetics
• 25/258 in CS: Info Systems

Know more about the JCR impact preview in the August Blue Diamond newsletter:
www.acm.org/articles/pub...
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✨ 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)

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.

🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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🤖🏳️‍⚧️ 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...

🌍 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 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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