Seray Ibrahim
@serayibrahim.bsky.social
Interested in how technology helps & hinders social interaction, disability and child mental heath ▫️
Lecturer @universityofessex.bsky.social ▫️ honorary research fellow @kingsnmes.bsky.social ▫️ @ucl.ac.uk▫️ https://cyens.org.cy/ ▫️
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Lecturer @universityofessex.bsky.social ▫️ honorary research fellow @kingsnmes.bsky.social ▫️ @ucl.ac.uk▫️ https://cyens.org.cy/ ▫️
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Common ground in AAC: how children who use AAC and teaching staff shape interaction in the multimodal classroom
Children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are multimodal communicators. However, in classroom interactions involving children and staff, achieving mutual understanding and a...
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A thread of my recent work and stuff I care about 🧵⬇️
I'm interested in the ways technology helps and hinders social interaction. In the past, I've focused on communication involving people and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems:
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I'm interested in the ways technology helps and hinders social interaction. In the past, I've focused on communication involving people and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres.
The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky
https://cup.org/3IDqYNf
The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky
https://cup.org/3IDqYNf
September 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres.
The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky
https://cup.org/3IDqYNf
The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier & @lieven.bsky.social, Out Now
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #BookSky
https://cup.org/3IDqYNf
Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣
#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already.
Some (updated) tips I wrote about this:
sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...
Some (updated) tips I wrote about this:
sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...
A quick guide to reviewing papers quick
Last year, the world was on fire [1]. While it burned, I reviewed. A lot. More than I care to review again in a single year.
sauvik-das.medium.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣
📣 **Exciting job opportunities** with the absolutely stellar human being @quiteneate.bsky.social. Tim is hiring 2 HCI postdocs, a SLT researcher & a PhD student to explore designing AI-enable AAC. This is gonna be a good one peeps! Check it out ⬇️ 👀
I was awarded a ~£2M UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship! 🥳
This will fund human-centred work on communication accessibility, exploring emerging AI & embodied form factors.
I'm hiring 2 HCI postdocs, an SLT researcher & a PhD student:
tdjneate.github.io/flf/flf_anno...
This will fund human-centred work on communication accessibility, exploring emerging AI & embodied form factors.
I'm hiring 2 HCI postdocs, an SLT researcher & a PhD student:
tdjneate.github.io/flf/flf_anno...
Timothy Neate
tdjneate.github.io
October 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📣 **Exciting job opportunities** with the absolutely stellar human being @quiteneate.bsky.social. Tim is hiring 2 HCI postdocs, a SLT researcher & a PhD student to explore designing AI-enable AAC. This is gonna be a good one peeps! Check it out ⬇️ 👀
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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
#DigitalHealth #Parenting
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
✨ 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
#DigitalHealth #Parenting
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Critically important information, wonderful to see the complete special issue is now freely available! See link in original post
The journal of #AugmentativeAndAlternativeCommunication published papers from our Future of #AACResearchSummit! Nearly all of the 21 papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses #AAC. Access these papers & watch many of the authors present here: lnk.to/aacfr. 📷: Photo by Steven Sutfin
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![[Image: AAC users Lateef McLeod (left) and Lance McLemore (right) present on stage at the Future of AAC Research Summit in May 2024. Lateef and Lance type on communication devices. Across from them, the backs of two audience members’ heads are visible. They appear to be listening attentively].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rttsf4zrtbea47kiv56ec4vb/bafkreihafrxz2trfhob7varx3eqe4ev37y2ujorjbk75ohkb5tm62z44yi@jpeg)
September 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Critically important information, wonderful to see the complete special issue is now freely available! See link in original post
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The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year!
We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world.
If you have some spare time, come along!
For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...
We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world.
If you have some spare time, come along!
For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...
Largest social science festival shows research’s impact on lives
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science returns for its 23rd year, offering hundreds of free events across the UK.
www.ukri.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year!
We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world.
If you have some spare time, come along!
For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...
We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world.
If you have some spare time, come along!
For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...
Just accepted! 📄 🤩 Our ToCHI paper describes our approach for developing digital methods for understanding about people’s attempts to apply online advice and change their daily social practices #chi2026 🧵👇 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Uncovering Parental Struggles: Using Digital Probes to Analyse Challenges in Applying Online Parenting Content | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Understanding the situated challenges that people face when attempting to apply online
parenting advice is crucial for building effective digital parenting supports. However,
existing HCI methods do n...
dl.acm.org
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just accepted! 📄 🤩 Our ToCHI paper describes our approach for developing digital methods for understanding about people’s attempts to apply online advice and change their daily social practices #chi2026 🧵👇 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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This is really fascinating
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
August 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is really fascinating
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Fascinated to see how this will play out 👀
Nature publishes peer review comments alongside new papers
Change at flagship journal praised as publisher says it wants to open “black box”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Change at flagship journal praised as publisher says it wants to open “black box”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Nature publishes peer review comments alongside new papers - Research Professional News
Change at flagship journal praised as publisher says it wants to open “black box”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Fascinated to see how this will play out 👀
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Exciting work from my colleagues @quiteneate.bsky.social and Alexandre Nevsky!
Scientists use ChatGPT to make nation's favourite podcasts more accessible
The work breaks new ground on audio media accessibility for people with complex communication needs.
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Exciting work from my colleagues @quiteneate.bsky.social and Alexandre Nevsky!
Thank you CHI2025 and all the great people within it!
May 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thank you CHI2025 and all the great people within it!
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One last thread for today's HCC content at CHI - more great papers by my inspiring colleagues, doing a lot of incredible work at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction.
We hope you're feeling good after the first session of the day! This afternoon we have more #chi25 talks from the HCC 🌸 Details below...
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
One last thread for today's HCC content at CHI - more great papers by my inspiring colleagues, doing a lot of incredible work at the cutting-edge of human-computer interaction.
If you’re still around at the very end of the day, come hear me talk about how we re-conceptualise EMA-type questions as an approach for helping parents tune into their child’s emotions throughout the day #CHI2025
And a little after that, a paper about Designing Daily Supports for Parent-Child Conversations about Emotion presented by @serayibrahim.bsky.social. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... #chi25 #chi2025
🕰️ 5:32pm
📍 G302
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCZS...
🕰️ 5:32pm
📍 G302
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCZS...
Designing Daily Supports for Parent-Child Conversations about Emotion: Ecological Momentary Asses...
YouTube video by ACM SIGCHI
www.youtube.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If you’re still around at the very end of the day, come hear me talk about how we re-conceptualise EMA-type questions as an approach for helping parents tune into their child’s emotions throughout the day #CHI2025
Come check out Sruthi Viswanathan’s work on parent-chatbot interaction! The work exposes the interactional practices that parents want from a chatbot! #CHI2025
First off in the afternoon, Co-Designing User-LLM Interactions in Parental Wellbeing Support Systems, presented by Sruthi Viswanathan in collboration with Petr and Seray from the HCC. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... #chi25 #chi2025
🕰️ 2:10pm
📍 G302
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM49...
🕰️ 2:10pm
📍 G302
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM49...
Conference Programs
programs.sigchi.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Come check out Sruthi Viswanathan’s work on parent-chatbot interaction! The work exposes the interactional practices that parents want from a chatbot! #CHI2025
Petr Slovak and @amiraskeggs.bsky.social share the design overview and validation studies on creating a scalable story elicitation tool for research participants #chi2025
April 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Petr Slovak and @amiraskeggs.bsky.social share the design overview and validation studies on creating a scalable story elicitation tool for research participants #chi2025
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#CHI2025 attendees: SIGCHI CARES is available on-site and online as a resource if anyone experiences or witnesses any form of harassment, harassment, etc. You can use the listed email or directly approach any of us! Thank you 🌷
April 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
#CHI2025 attendees: SIGCHI CARES is available on-site and online as a resource if anyone experiences or witnesses any form of harassment, harassment, etc. You can use the listed email or directly approach any of us! Thank you 🌷
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At 11.10am today @florencesn.bsky.social will be presenting their paper on Gameworld Archaeological Mental Models in the Games Session in G318+G319, co-authored with @mtrc.bsky.social. #chi25
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Conference Programs
programs.sigchi.org
April 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
At 11.10am today @florencesn.bsky.social will be presenting their paper on Gameworld Archaeological Mental Models in the Games Session in G318+G319, co-authored with @mtrc.bsky.social. #chi25
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
@amiraskeggs.bsky.social and Petr Slovak will share our exciting work on the micro-narratives method; a scalable, new tool to complement existing qualitative methods #CHI2025
And at 4.20pm is the Digital Storytelling session in G304, where work on Eliciting Stories of People’s Lived Experience featuring @serayibrahim.bsky.social and Petr Slovak will be presented. #chi25
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Conference Programs
programs.sigchi.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
@amiraskeggs.bsky.social and Petr Slovak will share our exciting work on the micro-narratives method; a scalable, new tool to complement existing qualitative methods #CHI2025
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Also at 11.10am Sinem Görücü will be presenting their paper on analysing Machine Learning Eco-feedback Tools in the Sustainable Development session in G314+G315. #chi25
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Conference Programs
programs.sigchi.org
April 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Also at 11.10am Sinem Görücü will be presenting their paper on analysing Machine Learning Eco-feedback Tools in the Sustainable Development session in G314+G315. #chi25
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
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We're at #chi2025 this week, with lots of papers and sessions featuring our group members... here's a thread of some of the Monday sessions we're in.
April 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We're at #chi2025 this week, with lots of papers and sessions featuring our group members... here's a thread of some of the Monday sessions we're in.
Our lovely @kingshcc.bsky.social group @kingsnmes.bsky.social will be at #CHI2025 in Yokohama next week presenting a respectable 14 papers with four honourable mention awards 🥳 Here’s some of our work: kingshcc.org/publications... - find me to chat about anything child mental health or AAC related 🙇🏻♀️
Human-Centred Computing @ King's College London
kingshcc.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Our lovely @kingshcc.bsky.social group @kingsnmes.bsky.social will be at #CHI2025 in Yokohama next week presenting a respectable 14 papers with four honourable mention awards 🥳 Here’s some of our work: kingshcc.org/publications... - find me to chat about anything child mental health or AAC related 🙇🏻♀️
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I made this video about Black Mirror and ChatGPT before the LAST season of Black Mirror, but I think all of this still holds and is a good reminder. :)
April 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I made this video about Black Mirror and ChatGPT before the LAST season of Black Mirror, but I think all of this still holds and is a good reminder. :)