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- ACM SIGCHI Chapter Switzerland meetup ACM CHI Conference#SwissCHI in HamburgWith 25 accepted papers and more than 26 delegates at the ACM CHI Conference #CHI2023 in Hamburg, the ACM SwissCHI chapter was represented at the premier venue in Human-Computer Interaction. …
- Best Paper Award 🏆 in ACM CHI 2023Thrilled to announce that our paper: “Changes in Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency in Empirical Studies between CHI 2017 and CHI 2022” has received the best paper award at ACM …
- Our paper accepted in ACM CHI 2023 ConferenceWe are delighted to announce that our paper “Changes in Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency in Empirical Studies between CHI 2017 and CHI 2022” has been accepted for presentation at …
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Transparent Quantitative Research as a User Interface ProblemIn September 2022, members of the PET Lab Lahari Goswami and Kavous S. Niksirat attended a one-week seminar about Transparent Quantitative Research. The seminar gathered HCI researchers from all over …
- New Paper in Acta PsychologicaActa Psychologica Volume 230 (October 2022) includes a report on a PET Lab experiment by James Tyler titled “Contemporary self-reflective practices: A large-scale survey”. In this study, we conducted a …