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This is the first study to apply Cognitive Work Analysis with Brazilian children, offering a culturally grounded framework for designing AI that supports curiosity, joy, and education together. Read more in TOCHI 🧠✨ https://t.co/q6cTsVKTLo

Researchers analyzed 1,200 child–AI conversations and found that structured “scaffolding prompt recipes” made responses clearer, more engaging, and more consistent than free-form dialogue. Smarter prompts = better learning companions.

🧒🎙️ New in TOCHI: How do children actually use conversational AI? A study with Brazilian kids (ages 9–11) shows they use voice assistants for schoolwork, discovery, and play—moving fluidly between learning and fun. @heyvanesfi

Authors: Seray Ibrahim, Julia Dabrowski, Alissa Antle, Julie Kientz, Alexandra Chesters, Petr Slovák Read the article:

The work contributes new directions for the design of digital parenting interventions that are more closely aligned with the realities of family life and responsive to the complexity of parenting practices.

The findings highlight both the practical and emotional barriers that parents experience, while also offering methodological insights into how probes can be adapted to collect rich, in-situ data at scale.

Based on studies with more than 280 parents, the research adapts probe-like methods to reveal the day-to-day challenges families face when putting new strategies into practice.

✨ New in ACM TOCHI: Uncovering Parental Struggles. This article investigates how parents encounter and respond to online parenting advice, and introduces a digital probe methodology to capture their lived experiences in everyday contexts. @serayibrahim #DigitalHealth #Parenting

📰 https://t.co/onEXpxjoQt Authors: Eimaan Saqib, Shijing He, Junghyun Choy, Ruba Abu-Salma, Jose Such, Julia Bernd, and Mobin Javed

Behind the scenes, when this team first started studying bystander privacy, it felt like a “side issue” compared to protecting owners. But they realized that waiting would mean bystanders’ privacy might never be addressed. That insight led to their new TOCHI review paper.

🔊Smart home devices don’t just track their owners-- they also collect data on guests, tenants, and workers. A new TOCHI paper reviews how research defines “bystanders,” what concerns they face, and which solutions might protect their privacy. https://t.co/onEXpxjoQt

Authors: Jiangnan Xu, Sanzida Mojib Luna, Garreth W. Tigwell, Nicolas Lalone, Michael Saker, Samuli Laato, John Dunham, Yihong Wang, Alan Chamberlain, Konstantinos Papangelis

When the game is both digital and physical, how do players adapt?🎮✨ A new TOCHI study on Shared AR gameplay (Urban Legends) shows players start off confused, leaning on verbal cues, but soon evolve dynamic movement, role strategies, and smoother teamwork https://t.co/q8mBmWOq84

We are delighted to announce that ACM TOCHI achieved an increase from 4.8 to 6.6 in its impact factor in the latest Journal Citation Reports! It is ranked in the first quartile in the categories of Cybernetics (4/31) and CS: Information Systems (25/258). https://t.co/YEkLPutF1Q

Achieving Symmetry in Synchronous Interaction in Hybrid Work is Impossible by Pernille Bjørn, Nina Boulus-Rødje et al.

RadarHand: A Wrist-Worn Radar for On-Skin Touch-Based Proprioceptive Gestures by @ryohajika, Mark Billinghurst et al.

Between Rhetoric and Reality: Real-world Barriers to Uptake and Early Engagement in Digital Mental Health Interventions by Jacinta Jardine, Gavin Doherty et al.

Self-Determination Theory and HCI Games Research: Unfulfilled Promises and Unquestioned Paradigms by April Tyack and @elisamekler

Editors' Pick for Notable Papers: The AI Ghostwriter Effect: When Users do not Perceive Ownership of AI-Generated Text but Self-Declare as Authors by @fionadraxler, Robin Welsch et al.