We look for a researcher in HCI/IxD. You can support ongoing and future research projects in the areas of Future Interfaces, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Hybrid Play & Learning. More information can be found here: karriere.fh-salzburg.ac.at/Human-Computer…

I wish there was a way to use research funds to book a hotel to pretend to be at a conference and ignore my daily life for a few days, so I can concentrate on listening to the talks and networking. It's what real conferences are, why can't I do that with online ones?

People have been making VR games for almost a decade now and no one’s figured out how to make a VR experience the average consumer wants to play for more than 45 minutes and multiplayer avatar-based ones are noticeably absent but sure the world’s ready for Snowcrash any day now.

Playful things you might have never heard of ... unless you have! tdpcc.substack.com/p/playful-thin…

Academia is a wildly broken game: way too much randomness, too little agency, too swingy, unfair positive/negative feedback loops that are nigh-impossible to break out of, a slog. Wait, that reminds me of something ...

FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps therecord.media/fbi-document-s…

Thanks to Dan Olson for making a video on NFTs so good that the rest of us can stop 🙏

Wanna start a PhD in HCI? Together with @fhsalzburg we will start a brand-new doctoral program in HCI in autumn 2022. Within 4 years, 5 fully funded PhD students will investigate *Meaningful Human Technology Relations. All details: hci.sbg.ac.at/doc-hci @PLUS_RESEARCH FWF

It really irritates me that my research agenda has to be based on what tech bros decide to chase. They get $$$ chase X, X gets proliferated, then we spend all our time analyzing and mitigating the harms of X. We never wanted to build X, that was never in our research agenda,

Are you ready to teach all that frontend magic? We are looking for a (Senior) Lecturer Web - Frontend Development (w/m/d) in Salzburg, Austria. karriere.fh-salzburg.ac.at/Senior-Lecture…

📢 Opportunity for #PhD candidates❗@PLUS_1622 will host five PhD students to study the interdependencies of human and digital technologies ⚠️Deadline is TODAY ⚠️#europeanuniversities #eu #studyineurope #civis_eu #research #PhDfunding More details here 👉ow.ly/MU8t50I2nfr

Pls RT: #HCI #Job #PhD Second round of applications for 5 (fully funded, 4yr) PhD positions on designing meaningful, entangled interactions with digital tech @CenterForHCI deadline 29.6 hci.sbg.ac.at/sites/doc-hci/

There is still some time for submitting your games to CHI PLAY 2022 Student Game Design Competition! It's a great chance to showcase and adorn your games with various awards. See last year's finalists here: chiplay.acm.org/2021/student-g… and check the original tweet for details!

“Conference travel reimbursement”, by M. C. Escher (Lithograph, 1957).

Really interesting article on how after Netrunner (another Richard Garfield game) stopped being published players started a non-profit to keep it going including designing new sets and running events.

We are looking for a (Senior) Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at our department for creative technologies. Come join us working with international students on the future of interactive technology: karriere.fh-salzburg.ac.at/Senior-Lecture…

On an existential level I even understand digital artists embracing blockchain-based ownership certificates, on a cultural level I think it's a horrible idea to threaten the most valuable achievement of digital technology: that information wants to, and can, be free.

Academic publication venues that impose complex and invasive rules are just working to make themselves irrelevant. It's 2023, people can just post things online.

In silent astonishment at the realisation that "Horse with No Name" and "The Last Unicorn" were sung by the same band ...