🥽 What happens in a society when everyone sees a different version of reality?

Together with Luka Bekavac, Simon Mayer, and Kenan Bektas, I explore this question in our new paper: "Connecting Personalized Realities: Challenges and Opportunities in a Personalized Society". I will be presenting it at the SAXR Workshop at CHI 2026!

👉 Read the paper: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/125161

#XR #AR #AI #Personalization #HCI #PersonalizedSociety #CHI2026
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Next was an amazing talk by Gabriel Kaptchuk on using and understanding differential privacy at @hcil_umd. After giving an excellent run-through of the DP approach itself, Kaptchuk convincingly demonstrates issues with interpretations and implementations of DP and approaches for improving these problems. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuAxCaD9hs (3/8) #privacy #HCI
HCIL Brownbag Speaker Series: Dr. Gabriel Kaptchuk (February 2026)

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Feel free to reach out if you’d like to connect and chat about these papers or our other work. See you in Barcelona!

#CHI2026 #HCI #AI #TrustworthyAI #SocialMedia #Journalism

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When AI joins a team, team dynamics change. 🤖👥
A new study by Dr. Greta Ontrup (RC Trust, shared first authorship) shows:
➡️ less cohesion in human-AI teams
➡️ weaker identification with AI
➡️ but stable psychological safety
AI isn’t simply “another teammate”–it reshapes team dynamics.
đź”— https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2026.2635683
#AI #HCI #Research

Job Alert

Senior Researcher Digital Health Computing (f/m/d)

Deadline: open until filled 
Location: Austria - St. Pölten 

https://www.academiceurope.com/ads/senior-researcher-digital-health-computing-f-m-d/

#hiring #DigitalHealth #AI #postdoc #HealthComputing #datascience #phd #HCi

Watch this video by a researcher who is demoing simulated #robot emotional body language. I think this research is Incredibly dangerous. We are giving machines the ability to manipulate us on an unconscious level. We WILL respond to them because we can’t help it. The robot’s loyalty, love, understanding is entirely fake because they don’t “feel”. If the robot expressions gave us honest insight into its real internal state, then it might be helpful. But I think what you would see, today, is complete indifference. I cannot see that changing.
#AI #HRI #HCI

https://youtu.be/IcMzFr7D_DQ?si=3gLER4vgDxhsRwxH

Robot Origin F1 + Omni Model: Real-Time Human–Robot Interaction Demo

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Research insights from our team at #MindBrainBody 2026 in Berlin 🧠✨

Master’s students from our Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group presented work on VR, neuroscience & affective computing, from GAN perception to EEG-based proxemics.
Great work 👏

#VRResearch #NeuroAI #HCI

Next was a compelling talk by **Teresa Hirzle** on XR for behavior change at the **UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC)** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abvYp5Cnc4I (6/8) #XR #HCI #psychology
UCLIC Seminar, 04 Feb 2026, Teresa Hirzle, University of Copenhagen

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We are excited to share that two of our papers have been accepted to ETRA 2026!

1. QualitEye: Public and Privacy-preserving Gaze Data Quality Verification
Mayar Elfares, Pascal Reisert, Ralf KĂĽsters, Andreas Bulling

2. Learning Alignments of Human Gaze and Fine-grained Task Descriptions
Takumi Nishiyasu, Zhiming Hu, Andreas Bulling, Yoichi Sato

Congratulations to all authors!

For preprints and updates, feel free to visit our website: https://www.collaborative-ai.org/

#ETRA2026 #EyeTracking #HCI

Collaborative Artificial Intelligence

Our group conducts fundamental research towards collaborative artificial intelligence (CAI) at the intersection of multimodal machine learning, computational cognitive modelling, computer vision, and human-machine interaction.

Next was an intriguing talk by Eugenia Rho on challenges in designing generative AI-based interactive systems at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXDN-N96BE (3/6) #AI #HCI
When AI "Adapts", "Teaches", and "Trains" Surfacing Paradox, Tensions, and Challenges

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