Kartik
@jkabiir9.bsky.social
PhD student in Technology and Social Behavior at Northwestern University. Research on HCI and Social Computing.
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On Nov 6th, Katharina Reinecke joined the Technology & Social Behavior Colloquium to discuss her new book "Digital Culture Shock", exploring how culture shapes the way we use and are shaped by technology:
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Digital Culture Shock
How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design
press.princeton.edu
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
On Nov 6th, Katharina Reinecke joined the Technology & Social Behavior Colloquium to discuss her new book "Digital Culture Shock", exploring how culture shapes the way we use and are shaped by technology:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Doing PhD work on a Sunday coz the grind doesn't stop on the weekend and trying to hit deadlines.
#phdlife
#phdlife
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November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Doing PhD work on a Sunday coz the grind doesn't stop on the weekend and trying to hit deadlines.
#phdlife
#phdlife
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With the #chi2026 reviews coming out, I am posting my regular reminder to folks who do qualitative research. I have been curating a document with common critiques of qual research and how to respond. Check it out and add your own examples!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them Author: Jessica Vitak (+ anyone who adds to the document) About This Document (and a disclaimer) Reviewing is a highly subjective pr...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
With the #chi2026 reviews coming out, I am posting my regular reminder to folks who do qualitative research. I have been curating a document with common critiques of qual research and how to respond. Check it out and add your own examples!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AI-mediated communication -- apology edition:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
And yes, there's academic research too:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMC
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
And yes, there's academic research too:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMC
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
AI-mediated communication -- apology edition:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
And yes, there's academic research too:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMC
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
And yes, there's academic research too:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMC
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Big congratulations to Connie W. Chau, a student in the Technology & Social Behavior program and Personalized & Adaptive Technology for Health (PATH) Lab for receiving the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship!
www.hci.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
www.hci.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
Connie Chau receives HCI Google PhD Fellowship
TSB student Connie Chau, alongside fellow Northwestern students Ziyi Guo and Gefei Tan, have received 2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships.
www.hci.northwestern.edu
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Big congratulations to Connie W. Chau, a student in the Technology & Social Behavior program and Personalized & Adaptive Technology for Health (PATH) Lab for receiving the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship!
www.hci.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
www.hci.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
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Tune in to the Technical Difficulties Podcast: “Code About Power, Positionality & Creativity” with Amy Ko, Professor at the University of Washington. Unpack how tech can be harnessed for play, power, and equity within more technologically just futures.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwW...
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwW...
Rerelease: Code About Power, Positionality, & Creativity with Dr. Amy Ko
YouTube video by Technical Difficulties Podcast
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October 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Tune in to the Technical Difficulties Podcast: “Code About Power, Positionality & Creativity” with Amy Ko, Professor at the University of Washington. Unpack how tech can be harnessed for play, power, and equity within more technologically just futures.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwW...
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwW...
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you can't make a technical contribution in HCI by just connecting an LLM to something. we need to know how it works, beyond a user study with a few people. what are the ways that it fails? how fundamental are these problems, what does it reveal about the potential of this kind of use, etc.
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
you can't make a technical contribution in HCI by just connecting an LLM to something. we need to know how it works, beyond a user study with a few people. what are the ways that it fails? how fundamental are these problems, what does it reveal about the potential of this kind of use, etc.
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Most AI: "Here's the answer." This AI: "Have you thought about this risk? What evidence do you have?" Turns out, in domains like entrepreneurship and mentorship, the most valuable thing AI can do is make us think deeper and better, not less. tinyurl.com/thinkingdeep... #CSCW2025
AI That Helps Us Think Deeper, Not Less
We’re building artificial intelligence backwards. We create tools that give quick answers, do tasks for us, and make work easier. But for…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Most AI: "Here's the answer." This AI: "Have you thought about this risk? What evidence do you have?" Turns out, in domains like entrepreneurship and mentorship, the most valuable thing AI can do is make us think deeper and better, not less. tinyurl.com/thinkingdeep... #CSCW2025
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Online incivility is often tackled after the damage is done. A #CSCW2025 paper explores a proactive approach: emotion monitoring dashboards that reveal either our own or peers’ emotions. Read more here:
Emotional Intelligence for Social Media: Rethinking How We Tackle Online Incivility
This blog post summarizes the paper “Emotionally Aware Moderation: The Potential of Emotion Monitoring in Shaping Healthier Social Media…
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October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Online incivility is often tackled after the damage is done. A #CSCW2025 paper explores a proactive approach: emotion monitoring dashboards that reveal either our own or peers’ emotions. Read more here:
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Why do we juggle 5+ messaging apps just to talk with the same person?
@rongjun-ma.bsky.social conducted a two-week diary and interview study on channel switching — revealing 5 drivers: topic, expectation, features, mood, and inertia. Check out our new #CSCW2025 paper!
@rongjun-ma.bsky.social conducted a two-week diary and interview study on channel switching — revealing 5 drivers: topic, expectation, features, mood, and inertia. Check out our new #CSCW2025 paper!
One Friend, Five Apps: Why We Switch Channels to Talk to the Same Person?
Early in the morning, we wake up and check our phones. Messages flood in from every direction. Alice is buzzing the group chat on WhatsApp…
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October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Why do we juggle 5+ messaging apps just to talk with the same person?
@rongjun-ma.bsky.social conducted a two-week diary and interview study on channel switching — revealing 5 drivers: topic, expectation, features, mood, and inertia. Check out our new #CSCW2025 paper!
@rongjun-ma.bsky.social conducted a two-week diary and interview study on channel switching — revealing 5 drivers: topic, expectation, features, mood, and inertia. Check out our new #CSCW2025 paper!
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Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent?
I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
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I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
1/10
October 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent?
I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
1/10
I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
1/10
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Please join the Communication & Technology Division for the #ICA26 Welcome Meeting and Q&A. If you have questions about submitting to #ICA26 or just want to meet members of the executive committee, please join us! Wed Oct 15, 1400 UTC or Fri Oct 17, 0800 UTC tinyurl.com/CATOct2025 to join
October 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Please join the Communication & Technology Division for the #ICA26 Welcome Meeting and Q&A. If you have questions about submitting to #ICA26 or just want to meet members of the executive committee, please join us! Wed Oct 15, 1400 UTC or Fri Oct 17, 0800 UTC tinyurl.com/CATOct2025 to join
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This Tuesday, October 7th, the HCI+D Center hosted a student-led PhD Research Discussion, fostering a collaborative space for students to share ideas, exchange feedback, and strengthen our research community!
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This Tuesday, October 7th, the HCI+D Center hosted a student-led PhD Research Discussion, fostering a collaborative space for students to share ideas, exchange feedback, and strengthen our research community!
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Revisiting one of our favorite conversations from The Technical Difficulties Podcast: The Power of Staying Curious with Irene Au, Design Partner at Kholsa Ventures, as she shares how curiosity shaped her journey in design.
Watch now: lnkd.in/gHTNEe79
Watch now: lnkd.in/gHTNEe79
October 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Revisiting one of our favorite conversations from The Technical Difficulties Podcast: The Power of Staying Curious with Irene Au, Design Partner at Kholsa Ventures, as she shares how curiosity shaped her journey in design.
Watch now: lnkd.in/gHTNEe79
Watch now: lnkd.in/gHTNEe79
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TIL that when the Ctrl key gets stuck, the touchpad goes insane...#LaptopLife
February 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
TIL that when the Ctrl key gets stuck, the touchpad goes insane...#LaptopLife
What's up with this Bengaluru weather man!
April 4, 2024 at 10:04 AM
What's up with this Bengaluru weather man!