The Department of Computational Media at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz will contribute a wide range of publications to CHI 2025, the flagship annual conference for human-computer interaction and design.
Researchers from UCSC’s Computational Media Department have made a significant impact at CHI 2025. They authored nine full papers, including one that received a Best Paper Award, placing in the top 1% of submissions. Their contributions also include two Alt.CHI presentations, five Late-Breaking Work pieces, one panel, and two organized workshops. Faculty from the department also actively contributed to the CHI steering committee and program committee.

Papers
Best Paper Award (top 1%)
Tracking and its Potential for Older Adults with Memory Concerns
Amelia Short, Norman Makoto Su, Ruipu Hu, Eun Kyoung Choe, Hernisa Kacorri, Margaret Danilovich, David E. Conroy, Shannon Jette, Beth Barnett, and Amanda Lazar.
Preparing and Experiencing Food During Life Events: Implications for Technology Supporting Social and Value Changes
- Seung Wan Ha, Novia Nurain, Elena Agapie, and Chia-Fang Chung.
“It’s Too Much On Top of Your Own Food Drama”: Exploring Food Allergy Identity and Experience Through Social Media
- Chun-Han Ariel Wang, Elizabeth Kaziunas, and Chia-Fang Chung.
Designing with Dynamics: Reflections on Co-design Workshops Between People Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners
- Long-Jing Hsu, Alex Foster, Selma Sabanovic, and Chia-Fang Chung.
Normalizing Grit: The Futility of Personal Informatics for Farm Workers and Climate Change
- Akash Chaudhary, Stefany Arevalo Escobar, Dulce Zayas, and Norman Makoto Su.
Social Wearables Edu-Larp: Insights From a Novel Camp Combining Crafting, Coding, and Larping Aimed at Non-traditional Steam Participants
- James Collin Fey, Raquel B Robinson, Chen Ji, Ella Dagan, Shannon Campe, Kaia Schweig, Elliot Crisp, Carmen Alicia Padilla De La Torre, and Katherine Isbister.
Translating HCI Research to Broader Audiences: Motivation, Inspiration, and Critical Factors on Alternative Research Outcomes
- MinYoung Yoo, Sophia Ppali, William Odom, Yumeng Zhuang, Kritika Kritika, Wyatt Olson, Catherine Wieczorek, Heidi Biggs, Arne Berger, Audrey Desjardins, Ron Wakkary, and Kathryn E. Ringland.
Why Larp? A Synthesis Article on Live Action Roleplay in Relation to HCI Research and Practice
- Karin Johansson, Raquel B Robinson, Jon Back, Sarah Lynne Bowman, James Collin Fey, Elena Márquez Segura, Annika Waern, and Katherine Isbister.
“Ultimately, it’s a matter of safety, and resisting ostracization”: Understanding Neurodivergent Masking with Online Communities
- Kritika Kritika, Rua Mae Williams, and Kathryn E. Ringland.
Alt.CHI Presentation
Mobile Maps Continue to Fail Pedestrians: Synthesised Reflective Auto-Aggro-Ethnographies of Walking
- Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Bhavani Seetharaman, Rebecca J. Fleming, Shano Liang, Don Samitha Elvitigala, Jennifer Rode, and Nicolas LaLone.
Name is a Required Field: Politics of Deadnaming in Administrative Systems
- Ace S. Chen, and Kathryn E. Ringland.
Special Interest Group
Designing for Neurodiversity in Academia: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Computer Interaction
- Nathalie Alexandra “Alex” Penglin Tcherdakoff, Grace Jane Stangroome, Ashlee Milton, Catherine Holloway, Marta E. Cecchinato, Antonella Nonnis, Tessa Eagle, Dena Al Thani, Hwajung Hong, and Rua Mae Williams.
Late Breaking Work
Bridging Human Intuition and AI in Colorful Food Assessment
- Weslie Khoo, Long-Jing Hsu, Frangil M. Ramirez, Liang Jhen Huang, Trisha Konkimalla, Chia-Fang Chung, and David Crandall.
Bushwhacking Through Expectations: A Critical Analysis of Body Inclusivity in the Hiking App AllTrails
Mitigating Deepfake Harm in Online Communities: Insights from the BTS ARMY Fandom
Translating Social Dilemmas into Gameful Designs for Wildfire Resilience
- MJ Johns, Yael Nidam, Mário Escarce Junior, Linda Hirsch, Yiyang Lu, Bridget Ho, Anna Toledo, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Stephen Collier, Edward F. Melcer, and Katherine Isbister.
User Preferences for Interaction Timing in Smartwatch Sleep Hygiene Games
- Zilu Liang, Daeun Hwang, Samantha Chen, Nhung Huyen Hoang, Kingkarn Khotchasing, and Edward F. Melcer.
Workshops
Workshop Organization
Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity
- Shaomei Wu, Kimi V. Wenzel, Jingjin Li, Qisheng Li, Alisha Pradhan, Raja Kushalnagar, Colin Lea, Allison Koenecke, Christian Vogler, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Norman Makoto Su, and Nan Bernstein Ratner.
Purposeful XR: Affordances, Challenges, and Speculations for an Ethical Future
- Elizabeth Childs, Samir Ghosh, Sebastian Cmentowski, Andrea Cuadra, and Rabindra Ratan.
CHI Steering Committee
Katherine C Isbister
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Computational Media
Conference Program Committee
Associate Chair for Health Subcommittee
Christina Chung
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Computational Media
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