Last month, several faculty, students, and alumni from Drexel’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) visited Japan to present their research at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025). Held in Yokohama this year, CHI (pronounced “kai”) is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction, bringing together global researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest in interactive technology.
The following CCI faculty, students, and alumni (in bold) participated in this year's conference between April 26 and May 1, 2025.
Full Papers
John S. Seberger and Sanonda Datta Gupta. 2025. Designing for Difference: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Doppelganger. In Proceedings of the 2025 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713560
(Best Paper Award) Tiffany D. Do, Usama Bin Shafqat, Elise Ling, and Nikhil Sarda. 2025. PAIGE: Examining Learning Outcomes and Experiences with Personalized AI-Generated Educational Podcasts. In Proceedings of the 2025 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713460
Late-Breaking Work
Tiffany D. Do, Martez Mott, John Tang, Sasa Junuzovic, Ann Paradiso, and Edward Cutrell. 2025. Exploring AI-Driven Affective Avatars for Autistic Adults and Adults with Social Anxiety in Virtual Meetings. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719885
Tyler Chang, Joseph Trybala, Sharon Basson, and Afsaneh Razi. 2025. Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms and Design toward Transparency. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719829
Workshop Organizers
Guo Freeman, Julian Frommel, Regan L. Mandryk, Jan Gugenheimer, Lingyuan Li, Douglas Zytko, Afsaneh Razi, and Cliff Lampe. 2025. Developing Sociotechnical Solutions to Mitigate New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Workshop at CHI 2025. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706708
Ignacio Avellino, Pei-Yi (Patricia) Kuo, Pin Sym Foong, Jason Wiese, Helena M. Mentis, Sean A. Munson, James R Wallace, Aneesha Singh, Andrew D Miller, Daniel A. Epstein, Francisco Nunes. 2025. Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), 6 pages. https://www.hcihealth.org/
Conference Organization
- Karthik Bhat – Program Committee, Associate Chair on the Specific Application Areas Subcommittee
- Tim Gorichanaz – Program Committee, Associate Chair on the Design Subcommittee
- Helena M. Mentis – SIGCHI Executive Committee, Past President
- Afsaneh Razi – Program Committee, Associate Chair on the Understanding People Subcommittee
More information about the conference can be found here.