Pedro Lopes
@pedrolopes.org
Associate Professor at University of Chicago, Computer Science. Runs the Human-Computer Integration Lab (https://lab.plopes.org) & also a musician.
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Pedro Lopes
@pedrolopes.org
· Nov 25
Interested in the future of wearables and of bidirectional neural/brain–computer interfaces? 🧠📡⚡ I recently joined the Big Brains podcast 🎙️ to discuss our lab’s latest research advances and functional prototypes in this space.
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
#CHI2026 program is shaping up: here's the first glimpse at the list of accepted workshops: chi2026.acm.org/workshops/ac...
This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)
This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)
Accepted Workshops - ACM CHI 2026
CHI workshops are organized independently by their organizers. Please see the websites of the individual events for detailed instructions on how to submit position papers and/or applications. Please n...
chi2026.acm.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
#CHI2026 program is shaping up: here's the first glimpse at the list of accepted workshops: chi2026.acm.org/workshops/ac...
This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)
This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)
CHI workshops are out soon (full list coming), here's a great example already from @duri-long.bsky.social and colleagues! Check their website
Excited to be co-organizing the #CHI2026 Workshop on Data Literacy for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Visualization, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education.
Submissions are due Feb 10, 2026 (AoE).
More info: data-literacy-workshop.github.io/CHI26/
Submissions are due Feb 10, 2026 (AoE).
More info: data-literacy-workshop.github.io/CHI26/
Data Literacy for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Visualization, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education
CHI 2026 Workshop
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December 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
CHI workshops are out soon (full list coming), here's a great example already from @duri-long.bsky.social and colleagues! Check their website
This is insane! Peer reviewed abstract? Nah, let's just use AI one. ACM can do better!
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is insane! Peer reviewed abstract? Nah, let's just use AI one. ACM can do better!
#CHI2026 registration is open! (I know many of you are waiting on decisions papers and other tracks, but it'll be an awesome conference, so register already!)
chi2026.acm.org/2025/12/09/r...
P.s. also some tracks are still open for submissions if you need more reasons to attend!
chi2026.acm.org/2025/12/09/r...
P.s. also some tracks are still open for submissions if you need more reasons to attend!
CHI 2026 Registration is Open! - ACM CHI 2026
Registration now for CHI 2026 in Barcelona! The conference runs from April 13 through April 17. Read about the new format and new options.
chi2026.acm.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
#CHI2026 registration is open! (I know many of you are waiting on decisions papers and other tracks, but it'll be an awesome conference, so register already!)
chi2026.acm.org/2025/12/09/r...
P.s. also some tracks are still open for submissions if you need more reasons to attend!
chi2026.acm.org/2025/12/09/r...
P.s. also some tracks are still open for submissions if you need more reasons to attend!
I think this lines up (as a potential explanation) to why we can speed participants with muscle stimulation and they will not notice the speed up (report as their own or guess randomly) until the speed up is clearly distinct (typically 30ms is actually not far from our results!). Fascinating paper!
Metacognitive modeling of bodily self-awareness, made easy. Read The Conversation piece by @renzolanfranco.bsky.social about our new PNAS study here.
theconversation.com/why-our-phys...
theconversation.com/why-our-phys...
Why our physical bodies may be a core part of conscious experience – new research
The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.
theconversation.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I think this lines up (as a potential explanation) to why we can speed participants with muscle stimulation and they will not notice the speed up (report as their own or guess randomly) until the speed up is clearly distinct (typically 30ms is actually not far from our results!). Fascinating paper!
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
Metacognitive modeling of bodily self-awareness, made easy. Read The Conversation piece by @renzolanfranco.bsky.social about our new PNAS study here.
theconversation.com/why-our-phys...
theconversation.com/why-our-phys...
Why our physical bodies may be a core part of conscious experience – new research
The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.
theconversation.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Metacognitive modeling of bodily self-awareness, made easy. Read The Conversation piece by @renzolanfranco.bsky.social about our new PNAS study here.
theconversation.com/why-our-phys...
theconversation.com/why-our-phys...
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using our interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
#CHI2026 Student Mentoring Program is open for applications: chi2026.acm.org/authors/stud... with a brand new program:
(1) CHI 101
(2) Building a Research Cohort
(3) Dissertation Research Roundtable
Deadline: 22 Jan!
RT friends of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org
(1) CHI 101
(2) Building a Research Cohort
(3) Dissertation Research Roundtable
Deadline: 22 Jan!
RT friends of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org
Student Mentoring Program (SMP) - ACM CHI 2026
Note: CHI 2026 has no hybrid or remote attendance. Important Dates All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check you...
chi2026.acm.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
#CHI2026 Student Mentoring Program is open for applications: chi2026.acm.org/authors/stud... with a brand new program:
(1) CHI 101
(2) Building a Research Cohort
(3) Dissertation Research Roundtable
Deadline: 22 Jan!
RT friends of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org
(1) CHI 101
(2) Building a Research Cohort
(3) Dissertation Research Roundtable
Deadline: 22 Jan!
RT friends of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org
We are hiring PhD students in our Human-Computer Integration lab at the University of Chicago.
You can apply via UChicago:
1. Computer Science (deadline Dec 11)
2. Data Science (Dec 16)
3. Neuroscience Institute's CNS (Dec 3)
... Join us to work on how future devices will integrate with the body!
You can apply via UChicago:
1. Computer Science (deadline Dec 11)
2. Data Science (Dec 16)
3. Neuroscience Institute's CNS (Dec 3)
... Join us to work on how future devices will integrate with the body!
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We are hiring PhD students in our Human-Computer Integration lab at the University of Chicago.
You can apply via UChicago:
1. Computer Science (deadline Dec 11)
2. Data Science (Dec 16)
3. Neuroscience Institute's CNS (Dec 3)
... Join us to work on how future devices will integrate with the body!
You can apply via UChicago:
1. Computer Science (deadline Dec 11)
2. Data Science (Dec 16)
3. Neuroscience Institute's CNS (Dec 3)
... Join us to work on how future devices will integrate with the body!
I get a bunch of emails/comments about my single-take videos we do to showcase our lab's work, so we gathered them in one page: lab.plopes.org/videos.html (including an annotated history of how we started making these, and how they transformed over the years, to become more improv!)
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I get a bunch of emails/comments about my single-take videos we do to showcase our lab's work, so we gathered them in one page: lab.plopes.org/videos.html (including an annotated history of how we started making these, and how they transformed over the years, to become more improv!)
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
First was a compelling talk by @pedrolopes.org on moving from human computer interaction to HC integration at @acmuist.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1sn... (2/8)
What if the “I” in HCI stands for Integration? (UIST Vision Talk)
YouTube video by HCintegration
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
First was a compelling talk by @pedrolopes.org on moving from human computer interaction to HC integration at @acmuist.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1sn... (2/8)
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
If we do this right, computers won’t pull us deeper into screens—they may bring us back into our bodies: more physical, embodied, and present.
Thanks Paul Rand for the conversation 🙏
🎧 Full episode: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p...
Learn/apply as PhD to our lab: lab.plopes.org 10/10
Thanks Paul Rand for the conversation 🙏
🎧 Full episode: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p...
Learn/apply as PhD to our lab: lab.plopes.org 10/10
How wearable tech will heighten our senses and abilities, with Pedro Lopes
Computer scientist explores the potential of human-computer integration and haptics to help us move and learn
news.uchicago.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
If we do this right, computers won’t pull us deeper into screens—they may bring us back into our bodies: more physical, embodied, and present.
Thanks Paul Rand for the conversation 🙏
🎧 Full episode: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p...
Learn/apply as PhD to our lab: lab.plopes.org 10/10
Thanks Paul Rand for the conversation 🙏
🎧 Full episode: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p...
Learn/apply as PhD to our lab: lab.plopes.org 10/10
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
Listen to the episode of @BigBrainsUC podcast:
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iT...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dUe...
Just web player: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... (includes transcript)
Some insights below of our discussion 👇2/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iT...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dUe...
Just web player: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... (includes transcript)
Some insights below of our discussion 👇2/
How Wearable Tech Will Heighten Our Senses and Abilities, with Pedro Lopes
YouTube video by Big Brains
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Listen to the episode of @BigBrainsUC podcast:
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iT...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dUe...
Just web player: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... (includes transcript)
Some insights below of our discussion 👇2/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iT...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dUe...
Just web player: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... (includes transcript)
Some insights below of our discussion 👇2/
Interview at the big brains podcast, which was a lot of fun and I had the chance to talk about much of our last years of work on bidirectional neural interfaces (e.g., muscle and brain computer interfaces that not only sense, but also stimulate and impart body movements). Link 👇
Listen to the episode of @BigBrainsUC podcast:
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iT...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dUe...
Just web player: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... (includes transcript)
Some insights below of our discussion 👇2/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iT...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dUe...
Just web player: news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p... (includes transcript)
Some insights below of our discussion 👇2/
How Wearable Tech Will Heighten Our Senses and Abilities, with Pedro Lopes
YouTube video by Big Brains
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Interview at the big brains podcast, which was a lot of fun and I had the chance to talk about much of our last years of work on bidirectional neural interfaces (e.g., muscle and brain computer interfaces that not only sense, but also stimulate and impart body movements). Link 👇
Interested in the future of wearables and of bidirectional neural/brain–computer interfaces? 🧠📡⚡ I recently joined the Big Brains podcast 🎙️ to discuss our lab’s latest research advances and functional prototypes in this space.
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Interested in the future of wearables and of bidirectional neural/brain–computer interfaces? 🧠📡⚡ I recently joined the Big Brains podcast 🎙️ to discuss our lab’s latest research advances and functional prototypes in this space.
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
Link and key insights below 👇 1/
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
If you are into #VisionScience or #neuroengineering, come check out our first poster at #SfN2025 this afternoon!
Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea
PSTR122.22
Nov 16 at 1:00 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea
PSTR122.22
Nov 16 at 1:00 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you are into #VisionScience or #neuroengineering, come check out our first poster at #SfN2025 this afternoon!
Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea
PSTR122.22
Nov 16 at 1:00 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea
PSTR122.22
Nov 16 at 1:00 PM
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
Excellent talk by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at our Data Science Institute ( @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social) at the University of Chicago! (Completely packed audience).
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Excellent talk by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at our Data Science Institute ( @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social) at the University of Chicago! (Completely packed audience).
Excellent talk by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at our Data Science Institute ( @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social) at the University of Chicago! (Completely packed audience).
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Excellent talk by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at our Data Science Institute ( @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social) at the University of Chicago! (Completely packed audience).
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
What a fun venue! Wow!
💡Submission deadline: October 20th, 2025
Beyond this year’s theme, we warmly invite all relevant research in HCI on how we design, adapt, and experience technologies within all environments!
👉 Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...
📄CfP: alpchi.org/call-for-pap...
#AlpCHI2026 #HCI #CfP
Beyond this year’s theme, we warmly invite all relevant research in HCI on how we design, adapt, and experience technologies within all environments!
👉 Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...
📄CfP: alpchi.org/call-for-pap...
#AlpCHI2026 #HCI #CfP
October 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
What a fun venue! Wow!
Very cool work!
New (i.e. finally published!) paper alert 🥳:
We asked whether unpredicted visual movement feedback is processed differently depending on whether it is behaviourally relevant or not.
MINI THREAD 👇
academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
We asked whether unpredicted visual movement feedback is processed differently depending on whether it is behaviourally relevant or not.
MINI THREAD 👇
academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
That’s (relevant for) me: Task set dependent brain responses to delayed visual movement feedback
Abstract. Bodily self-other distinction relies on the detection of (mis)matches between predicted and actual sensory movement consequences, but the brain c
academic.oup.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Very cool work!
Also really nice article by UChicago with some quotes from the lead author (Kensuke Katori) on his experience while an intern in our lab and after presenting this paper too: cs.uchicago.edu/news/redirec...
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Also really nice article by UChicago with some quotes from the lead author (Kensuke Katori) on his experience while an intern in our lab and after presenting this paper too: cs.uchicago.edu/news/redirec...
Just posted
- talk (w/ demo!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7i...
- slides: lab.plopes.org/slides/2025-...
- video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpco...
- paper: lab.plopes.org/published/20...
of our paper (w/ Ken & Yudai) on using vestibular stimulation to improve hand redirection / haptic retargeting!
- talk (w/ demo!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7i...
- slides: lab.plopes.org/slides/2025-...
- video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpco...
- paper: lab.plopes.org/published/20...
of our paper (w/ Ken & Yudai) on using vestibular stimulation to improve hand redirection / haptic retargeting!
Vestibular Stimulation Enhances Hand Redirection (UIST 2025 Live Talk)
YouTube video by HCintegration
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Just posted
- talk (w/ demo!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7i...
- slides: lab.plopes.org/slides/2025-...
- video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpco...
- paper: lab.plopes.org/published/20...
of our paper (w/ Ken & Yudai) on using vestibular stimulation to improve hand redirection / haptic retargeting!
- talk (w/ demo!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7i...
- slides: lab.plopes.org/slides/2025-...
- video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpco...
- paper: lab.plopes.org/published/20...
of our paper (w/ Ken & Yudai) on using vestibular stimulation to improve hand redirection / haptic retargeting!
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
Nice piece that highlights what does feel like a deliberate choice by the Nobel committee www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Nice piece that highlights what does feel like a deliberate choice by the Nobel committee www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Reposted by Pedro Lopes
I’ve been meaning to write more publicly—something faster and freer than peer review.
After a great chat with @pedrolopes.org at @acmuist.bsky.social about what “augmentation” means to different people, from accessibility to enhancement, I finally did it!
augmentalist.org
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After a great chat with @pedrolopes.org at @acmuist.bsky.social about what “augmentation” means to different people, from accessibility to enhancement, I finally did it!
augmentalist.org
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October 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I’ve been meaning to write more publicly—something faster and freer than peer review.
After a great chat with @pedrolopes.org at @acmuist.bsky.social about what “augmentation” means to different people, from accessibility to enhancement, I finally did it!
augmentalist.org
[1/2]
After a great chat with @pedrolopes.org at @acmuist.bsky.social about what “augmentation” means to different people, from accessibility to enhancement, I finally did it!
augmentalist.org
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