Nels Numan

[CHI 2025] CoCreatAR: Enhancing Authoring of Outdoor AR Experiences Through Asymmetric Collaboration YouTube video by Niantic Research

If you’re interested in reading more about the work I presented, you can check it out here: nels.dev/publication/...

What a week at #CHI2025 in Yokohama! Loved reconnecting with friends and making new ones along the way! Also very grateful for the chance to present a paper based on my work at @niantic-labs.bsky.social, which received a Best Paper Honorable Mention 🌟

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

CHI’25 Preprint Collection Looking for current research on HCI + AI? Here’s a list.

📢 Looking for current research on #HCI + #AI? Here's a collection of 200+ #CHI2025 preprints, collected via arXiv and your suggestions: medium.com/human-center...

Super proud of our collaboration with academia on advancing inputs for XR receiving a recognition by @acm-sigchi.bsky.social. 🙌 @ejgonz.bsky.social, @kenpfeuffer.bsky.social, @hansgellersen.bsky.social, Hasti, Karan, Max, Andrea

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Ryo, Misha, David and myself are organizing a workshop at #CHI2025 on *Everyday AR through AI-in-the-Loop*. If you are interested in topics such as adaptive AR, AR+AI Agents, or task guidance, consider submitting. We are looking for 1-2 pagers! Deadline is Feb 15th. xr-and-ai.github.io/

A man stands smiling outside a Google office, giving a thumbs-up. He wears a black jacket and jeans, with the colorful Google logo above the glass entrance. Potted plants frame the doorway.

I’m happy to share that I've joined the BIRD (Blended Interaction Research & Devices) lab at Google for a research internship! I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with such a remarkable team and to be mentored by Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Eric Gonzalez, and Harish Kulkarni! 🦜

Just saying, if it’s set in Noun Town and I have to translate words to disarm bombs, I’m preordering the collector’s deluxe edition

It's great to see you here Jack! I'm good! Just starting my last internship and then back to UCL to finish up my PhD. How are you?

Added you to the starter pack! There's many great ones out there!

Creative Technologists & Prototypers (AR/VR) starter pack
by @dmvrg.bsky.social

CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work: Application for AC roles (due: Nov 30) The CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Co-chairs invite you to volunteer as an Associate Chair (AC) for the CHI 2023 (LBW) Program Committee! Please use the form below to provide details about yourself...

Help with CHI Late Breaking Work program! We are looking for associate chairs (ACs). Not only is the LBW an excellent track for our community to show new work at CHI, but it is also an important step to train new ACs in our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #hci #CHI2025

@kentbye.com gathered some great other XR-related starter packs!

As this platform grows, I thought I'd share a starter pack of #XR + #HCI researchers I've come across! This includes individuals exploring augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and related areas.

Let me know if you would like to be added or have any recommendations!

#VR #AR #MR

BlendScape: Enabling End-User Customization of Video-Conferencing Environments through Generative AI YouTube video by ACM SIGCHI

In a related work in the 2D image domain, which introduced BlendScape, we explored how to empower end-users to tailor video-conferencing environments to their meeting context by leveraging image inpainting techniques: nels.dev/publication/...

(#UIST2024 video preview: youtu.be/T0TfAtJQhkY)

SpaceBlender: Creating Context-Rich Collaborative Spaces Through Generative 3D Scene Blending YouTube video by ACM SIGCHI

My most recently published work introduced SpaceBlender, a generative AI pipeline that blends users' physical surroundings into unified context-rich 3D virtual environments for collaboration in VR: nels.dev/publication/...

(#UIST2024 video preview: youtu.be/2rTTyjNl-a0)

A brief intro to start populating my feed here. I'm Nels, a PhD candidate at UCL. I study collaboration in mixed reality and am currently particularly fascinated by the meaning and representation of spaces. I'm excited to see the #HCI community grow on this upcoming platform!

More info: nels.dev