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sh1m.bsky.social
shm garanganao almeda
@sh1m.bsky.social
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"shim" (they/them)
creativity support, rabbits, trains 🎨🚆🐰
hci @ berkeley, adobe research, mj storytelling
https://shmuh.co
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can you imagine missing my talk @ tiat tonite (7pm thursday nov 20th)

couldn't be me!
i wouldn't miss it for the world

luma.com/tiat
In lieu of a flyer this is a Screenshot of my instagram story reposting the tiat announcement @ my talk at the intersection of art and technology gallery thursday november 20 at 7pm about creativity as an ecosystem
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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my rabbits & I drove 831 miles, visited 6 institutions, and 2 beaches!
I learned a lot about networking — not as transaction, but as a tool to serve & nurture the strength of a community.
Let's keep nurturing the HCI community, and the communities our work is meant to serve. ❤️
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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❤️ @ Jingyi Li for hosting me at Pomona College! The Claremont Colleges are so beautiful and full of awesome students ✨💫
shm in front of the pomona college sign. Fun fact the X.com version of this tweet got a polite smile but i'll stick my tongue out for u bluesky
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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made it to UCLA! ☀️
Shm in the sun in front of royce hall at UCLA
October 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Getting into the details of a system with folks who have a depth of interest & knowledge around building similar systems is SO cool…!

Thank you SO much @stevenpdow.bsky.social , Haijun Xia, Jim Hollan, Scott Klemmer, & all the awesome students working w/ them @designlabucsd.bsky.social !
shm smiling and giving double ASL ILY signs in front of their presentation on the design of technology by and for artistic worlds The slide says, Artistic support tool research. Shm is wearing a calamansi hairpin in their green hair and an orange shirt, presenting while sitting down. Shm is laughing at the definitely hilarious joke they told while presenting a slide about artists having problems that are difficult for CSTs to neatly solve!
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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‪I have always so deeply admired Dr. Jennifer Jacobs and the amazing, critical work the Expressive Computation Lab is doing @UCSB's Media Arts & Technology Dept.… what an honor & a dream come true to share my work with them! 😭❣️‬
Dr. Jennifer Jacobs and Shm Almeda in front of a projector that reads The Design of Technology by and for Artistic Worlds in the Expressive Computation Lab space at UC Santa Barbara.
October 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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my notes on Terry Winograd & Lucy Suchman's conversation @stanfordhai.bsky.social yesterday! such an honor and a privilege to hear them speak on AI, data, our roles in the world as computer professionals, technology designers, humans…

tysm Nava & Stanford HCI for organizing!
Nava Haghighi, Terry Winograd and Lucy Suchman sitting at a table with notes on their conversation around them. Theres a lot more text here than I can put into an image description; please let me know if you want all the content as a text document!
October 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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uc santa cruz is very beautiful ✨🌲🌳🌊
October 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I'm on an hci research / personal mesearch tour — road-tripping, giving talks, and making friends across southern california! Thank you soooo much to Stanford HCI for having me today!
shm in front of a green and orange dlide that says the design of technology by and for artistic worlds Shm in front of a slide that says 2 wicked artistic support problems- 1. The banality of creative labor- artmaking requires a great deal of not so artistic tasks Shm in front of some iconically stanford esque architecture
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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we got korean bbq to heal our fomo
" #uist2025 "
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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the entire Creative Design with GenAI session on Wed @ 11AM looks amazing — as a digital artist myself I'm so excited to see how this work ft. ArtKrit deeply engages with our processes & needs, + to see that recognized with a well-deserved Best Paper award!
programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr...
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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everyone's talking @ how LLMs are changing programming — what programs can get written, who will be writing them.

nobody has taught me more about this than Tim Aveni in his work on Ply.

try the demo 2nite; see the talk in the Programming session tomorrow @ 9AM! programs.sigchi.org/uist/2025/pr...
September 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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visit the Midjourney Storytelling Lab at the #UIST2025 demo session & try Dramamancer, a delightfully novel interactive narrative system!
I had a blast using it to craft a dynamic story experience, wherein you can roleplay my dream… of being at the UIST demo session... 😝
A visual novel like display where a fox in conference outfit talks on the phone to a shiba inu. In the text box, a Hedgehog researcher says hurriedly adjusting fheir tiny glasses, oh sorry, can't chat! Im rushing to try the Midjourney Storytelling Lab demos before the line gets too long-- have you seen Dr. Wendy Macaw's interface work? Amazing!
September 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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new hair new profile pic! 💚🧡
its shm with green and orange hair and their colorful painted blazer! Shm's baybayin necklace (it says "walang suko" meaning no surrender in tagalog") and their I 🧡 HCI bracelet!
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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so incredibly proud of sophia liu (sophiawliu.com) for leading this piece, and giving an awesome presentation (that you can watch!) at ACM Hypertext -- Friction & (user) Agency are values we feel are really needed as we design for a future inundated by (AI) Agents 🩵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIqj...
36th acm conference on hypertext and social media, blue sky award, to agency among agents designing with hypetextual friction in the algorithmic web !
September 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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while moving I found my very first motivational miku, drawn under the to-do list for my first full paper as a PhD student!
hatsune miku saying we can do it!
September 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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motivational mikus of deadlines past
September 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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as per deadline hell tradition, motivational whiteboard miku
miku pointing at you saying you gotta lock in!
September 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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coding is over; it's all ✨vibes✨ now!
well, the challenge of information overload + making good design choices, even/especially when generating code on vibes, persists. I've enjoyed seeing @zamfi.bsky.social & co. explore this in their work with PAIL! #chi2025 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
April 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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What does it mean to "misuse" creative tools, and how might that change the way we understand and design for [mis-]users?
If you're at #CHI2025 - come to G416 to find out! Regardless, check out our paper! @ilyues.bsky.social @aceschen.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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I enjoyed learning and discussing at the Anime SIG at #CHI2025 - about the anime industry, the role that creativity support & hci/ai research could play, the influence of/on culture & human identity... Thanks to the organizers!
heres my notes…
April 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I'm excited to present our work, "Creativity Supportive Ecosystems" today at #CHI2025. Here's a sneak peek at some slides.
with @joyokim.bsky.social & @/bjo3rn ✨ programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
a drawing of someone sitting at a desk drawing an anime character in photoshop on a computer, while a young person is crouched on the couch behind them watching over their shoulder a diagram that depicts related work on creativity support in HCI that looks at the complex relationships and dynamics that can be involved in creativity- two creators who collaborate are influenced by normative ground ( Beyond the Artifact by Li J. et al) and a mentor, peer, and critic also influence the creator and their work (Artist Support Networks by Chung et al) A diagram of creativity and reuse with the label "unsupportive, ai driven reuse threatens the sustainability of creative communities" A screenshot from the sigchi program showing the creativity supportive ecosystems talk will occur at 2:22pm in G316+G317 at CHI2025.
April 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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a motivational lab whiteboard drawing to kick off a deadline week, as per tradition 🖤❤️❤️‍🔥 (i love this little guy) #shadowthehedgehog
January 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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my ritualistic grind-time self portrait sketches are steadily becoming less demoralized with each return to deadline hell, this is progress
drawing of shm saying I KNOW I CAN DO IT drawing of shm saying: this is a lot of work
December 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM