A word from the #ASSETS2025 Doctoral Consortium Chairs about remote participation: assets25.sigaccess.org/updates.html...
Deadline to apply to the DC is June 25, 2025. Please see the web site for more details.

it’s nice to wake up in the morning and feel that i’m pretty philosophically aligned with most my fellow aussies

part of the lab at TeamLab Planets 🥰

On Saturday, Australia votes. Don't be confused, listen to Dennis the Election Koala*. Unlike most of the world, Australia's voting is different. So you can't 'waste your vote' by voting for minor vs major parties.

(*Like Anthony Green, only more feisty).

www.chickennation.com/voting/

perk of my job 😉 #InternationalGuideDogDay

it’s International Guide Dog Day! i love doggos, but i tell you… guide dogs are next level, just the most beautiful creatures on the planet 🥰🦮

lots of other great stuff on the #chi2025 program, and then i’ll finish off my Wednesday with a fancy awards dinner to celebrate Leona’s award winning thesis some more 🥳

then in the Wednesday 2pm session at #chi2025 is Minoli Perera exploring the role of gen AI in supporting blind and low vision folks with spreadsheet access and tasks dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

first up for Wednesday at #chi2025 will be Leona Holloway, with one of the last papers to come out of her SIGCHI award winning thesis! catch her presentation at 9am dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

what a day of #chi2025 thanks in big part to my amazing PhD students and postdocs! what’s on the agenda for tomorrow…

finally for Tuesday at #chi2025 (3pm) for our lab is the amazing Leona Holloway, presenting not a paper, but on her PhD more broadly for her Best Dissertation Award! yes! prid proud supervisor, what a star 🤩

our second lab paper at #chi2025 is Tuesday about 11am, by my wonderful PhD student (and dancer!) Madhuka De Silva. super innovative work co-designing tech to support dance teachers and blind dancers for contemporary dance instruction 💃🕺 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

First up at Tuesday 9am is a #chi2025 Best Paper winner! It’s our work led by postdoc Sam Reinders on embodiment in interactive models to support people who are blind or have low vision (from his awesome PhD) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

let’s see if i can get into the habit of using bluesky as my “professional” social media!