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Luigina Ciolfi
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Professor of Human Computer Interaction, School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, @patlabucc.bsky.social. I study the role of digital technologies in human practices. #HCI #CSCW. Cat person. All opinions are my own. She/Her. .. more

Computer science 51%
Art 15%

Visiting the Cailleach at Samhain time
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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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...
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...
interactions.acm.org

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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.

#cscw2025

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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.

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...
#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: - ...
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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

Indeed, some people were asking for resources on the genesis of CSCW…we have a nice piece for you 😊 #cscw2025
If you fancy this historical perspective on CSCW, you may be interested in this chapter #cscw2025

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The CSCW DC is always an inspiring and memorable day…really honoured to have been one of the DC mentors at #cscw2025
For #CSCW2025’s Doctoral Consortium, 16 PhD students from the U.S., Canada and Europe presented their work covering topics across social media, accessibility, health, policy and work. Thanks to Elena Agapie and Nervo Verdezoto for organizing it!

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

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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...
Summer School – EUSSET
www.eusset.eu

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If you fancy this historical perspective on CSCW, you may be interested in this chapter #cscw2025

hal.science/hal-04299779...
hal.science

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For #CSCW2025’s Doctoral Consortium, 16 PhD students from the U.S., Canada and Europe presented their work covering topics across social media, accessibility, health, policy and work. Thanks to Elena Agapie and Nervo Verdezoto for organizing it!
I put together this list of work on trans/queer topics at #CSCW2025 - lots of exciting papers to check out! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

padlet.com/haimson/tran...
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 :)
padlet.com

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Workshop Spotlight ⭐

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

#CSCW2025

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 👇

We are on our way to #CSCW2025!

The UCC People and Technology group @patlabucc.bsky.social will be there with several papers and a workshop 👇👇👇

Looking forward to spending the day at the #CSCW2025 DC on Sunday! 🤩
We’re excited to welcome 16 doctoral researchers to the #CSCW2025 Doctoral Consortium in Bergen, Norway next week! 🎉
Themes: work, health/social care, social media, accessibility, policy & harms.
Cohort: 11🇺🇸 · 2🇨🇦 · 1🇳🇴 · 1🇬🇧 · 1🇰🇷.
#HCI #CSCW #DoctoralConsortium

I’m looking forward to #CSCW2025 but I’m gonna miss this little sausage boi

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It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...
30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better
Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech
www.polygon.com

Thanks to @katta.bsky.social who virtually joined us at UCC to speak on Global Ethics Day...Plenty of food for thought, and brilliant reading suggestions, including this article by Hanne De Jaegher, "Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
In search of our highest capacities, cognitive scientists aim to explain things like mathematics, language, and planning (and while explaining them, they often imagine computers at work). But are thes...
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We’re excited to welcome 16 doctoral researchers to the #CSCW2025 Doctoral Consortium in Bergen, Norway next week! 🎉
Themes: work, health/social care, social media, accessibility, policy & harms.
Cohort: 11🇺🇸 · 2🇨🇦 · 1🇳🇴 · 1🇬🇧 · 1🇰🇷.
#HCI #CSCW #DoctoralConsortium

Some highlights from the weekend and Sounds from a Safe Harbour - the best festival ever, and right here in Cork!

Too many to mention…but Skara Brae is definitely high on that list!

Unexpected find at the Douglas book swap - I’ll re-read it in translation