Many thanks @luiciolfi.bsky.social for delivering this year’s annual HCI@UCD Christmas Lecture on the topic of our increasingly digitally-entangled worklives. Is hybrid really the ideal “new normal”?

Food for thought as we enter the winter break! Wishing you a lovely holiday from all at HCI@UCD!

We close #iHCI25 with a keynote that made everyone in the room feel lucky to be there. John McCarthy talked about his research focused on the challenges of living with dementia, the value of ethnography for informing technology design, and design for recognition in dementia care.

Thank you all!

Our next #iHCI25 speaker, Ayushi Tandon, talked about tensions between biomedical language used in electronic health records, and the cultural dimensions of women’s health –often overlooked in digital health technology design.

Thank you for an insightful talk!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, Andreas Balaskas, shared his research with CBT-specialized therapists, and the importance of their engagement in the design and development of mental health technologies.

Thank you for a wonderful talk!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, Stephanie Murphy, talked about the use of online platforms for support-seeking after pregnancy loss, and how HCI research can help create safe digital spaces, mindful of people’s support needs during this challenging time.

Thank you for a wonderful presentation!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, @dannysnow.bsky.social talks about his work towards how we might understand encounters with digital data post-mortem through mundane interactions via a ‘deceased’ individual’s laptop.

Thank you for a fascinating presentation!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, Luigina Ciolfi, talks about their research on grief and how collective mourning can be realised through digital mediated tools. "New digital tools provided people with alternatives to engage in mourning rituals"

Thank you for this insightful presentation!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, John Twomey, spoke of the use of deepfakes and “audio being manipulated for political censorship”, impacting legitimacy of political figures.

Thank you for a very timely presentation!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, Dr Sun Park, gave an insightful presentation on how AI datasets are intertwined with cultural knowledge, and the importance of considering cultural explainability and value alignment when designing AI-systems.

Thank you for an amazing talk!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, Ryan Donovan, talked about his research on affective computing and the potential of AI systems to recognise spontaneous facial expressions, as a way of understanding and measuring emotional experiences.

Thank you for a wonderful presentation!

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Our next #iHCI25 speaker, Kata Szita, gave a fascinating talk about digital identity, and how users choose to represent themselves in the form of avatars within metaverse environments.

Thank you for a wonderful presentation!

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Our next #iHCI2025 speaker, Laura Maye, talked about her neuro-affirmative research and the involvement of autistic adults in the design of technologies that impact their lives.

Thank you for a timely and meaningful presentation!

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Our next #iHCI2025 speaker, Lilian Genaro Motti, gave a thoughtful presentation on positionality in #HCI, and how the aspects that define who we are also shape our research and its impact.

Thank you for a brilliant talk!

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Our next #iHCI2025 speaker is Didier Ching, who shared his PhD research on people’s lived experiences of Deepfakes in entertainment media, and its potential for either increasing engagement or creating dystopian content.

Thank you for a timely and engaging talk!

Our next #iHCI2025 speaker, Niamh Fahy, guided us through the research and design of a virtual pedagogical agent, revealing how the agent’s gender affects women’s perceptions of its trustworthiness as a financial advisor.

Thank you for a fantastic presentation!

Our next #iHCI2025 speaker is Rob McLoughlin, who gave a fascinating talk about how augmented reality can elevate e-commerce user experience and give potential customers a clear mental image of a product in order to feel certain about what they are buying.

Thank you for a memorable presentation!

Our first keynote speaker at #iHCI25 is Dr. Pin Sym Foong, who gave a moving talk about the impact of aging societies, and the potential for technology to support caregivers, healthcare professionals and patients in aging with dignity.

Thank you for an inspiring presentation!

Welcome all! We’re excited to bring you here shortly our coverage of the Irish Human-Computer Interaction Symposium 2025 taking place right here at University College Dublin today #iHCI25