Pedro Lopes

Text or video is not only form AI can take. In embodied-ai.tech (#CHI2026, Best Paper 🏆) we create an embodied AI that acts via muscle stimulation to perform physical tasks: e.g., place a bike on a bus rack and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJM2... ... Yun Ho (www.yunho.org) and Romain Nith!

Welcome three new members to the Human-Computer Integration Lab (lab.plopes.org): Hannah & Kenny (PhDs) & Louis (postdoc)! Check out their amazing profiles and learn more about their work: Hannah: hsuanlinglee.net Kenny: www.bocheongim.com Louis: albertlouisphilippe.com/home

👏 👏👏 The IEEE VR conference is setting up the reviewer's UIs nicely! Nice scoring system (a Likert scale w/ options from 1 to 8, #CHI2028 wink wink) and love the "Write here the helpful review you would like to receive as an author", beautiful reminder just before folks click send!

Some one said wearables?

The conference organizers have responded to scale with a coercive matching process for reviewers. This will result in lower quality reviews from people who’ve been pressured to review outside their expertise and threatens unjust desk rejections for people who try to hold the line on quality.

Hours of reading perfectly summed up in #CHI'26 paper that clarifies the landscape of #HCI Haptic fidelity in the real world taxonomy is framing the architecture of my project @pedrolopes.org @tengshanyuan.info Yudai Tanaka @alexmazursky.bsky.social @chi.acm.org #UChicagoCS doi.org/10.1145/3772...

Attention arXiv authors. Because of the exponential increase in submissions, arXiv is limiting the number of papers that a person can submit each month to two. blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

We’re hiring at UChicago Computer Science! We’re looking for tenure-track Assistant Professors with particular interests in Robotics, Embodied Intelligence, AI, and Systems. Come help shape our growing CS department in Chicago: apply.interfolio.com/193574 share widely!

The hardware foundation for this build is heavily inspired by @pedrolopes.org and his lab at #UChicagoCS His vision of Human-Computer Integration - not just interaction - in-reached my perspective on wearable haptics. Highly recommend this podcast: youtu.be/R-iTnlFQzoQ?...

Specifically, I’m adapting the back-of-hand electrotactile concept from their CHI'23 paper by Yudai Tanaka Check out their demo here: youtu.be/zowpbnes9J4?... at @acm-sigchi.bsky.social

I'm proud to be part of the new group of investigators in the Neuroscience Institute at UChicago. I look forward to many great collaborations.

neuroscience.uchicago.edu/meet-new-mem... I joined the Neuroscience Institute at the U of Chicago, incredible group of people alongside new members: Julia Cox, John Downey, Charles Greenspon, Joshua Jacobs, Sumin Jang, Adam Martersteck, Samuel Muscinelli, Marcella Noorman Lucas Pinto, Zinan Zhou!

Our work "Embodied AI" (embodied-ai.tech) was on display at the art festival Ars Electronica 2026 last days! Super exciting to see it as a video installation, including new videos and demos by Yun Ho and Romain Nith that were not on the original paper! (Big thanks to Cameron, Miles & Ken)

Is this the dark academia telescope buddy flick we've all been waiting for? www.nasa.gov/missions/rom...

New CHI process! See below more info

We have four art works from the University of Chicago that will be shown at Ars Electronica, including a brand new installation showcasing our recent work on Embodied AI (embodied-ai.tech). If you come to Linz, please come check it out! (Org by Cameron, Ken & Jason)

Sign up for our UIST 2026 workshop on "Augmenting Human Dexterity From multisensory feedback and motor capabilities to skill acquisition". Bring a demo, come share it, discuss, see keynotes, etc! All info: augmenting-dexterity.web.app p.s.: Spots are limited, register now!

Interesting how 90% of this is what researchers in human computer interaction call a haptic proxy! Check out the reddit thread to see how VR users add immersion at low cost: www.reddit.com/r/virtualrea... Highlight by @skarredghost.bsky.social

My blog turns 10 YEARS OLD today. I am feeling so many emotions at the same time, and I wanted to thank everyone for the support, so I wrote an article to celebrate this achievement! skarredghost.com/2026/08/15/1... #VirtualReality #VR #blogging

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM

Big update: lab.plopes.org Integration Lab has been so busy we haven't had the time to say huge thanks to the current members who joined us this summer adventure and our recent graduated alumni (Jas & Jasmine who are now professors and Lonnie & Bruno, now PhD students!)

Great lists/resource if you are looking for women and underrepresented scholars in philosophy and philosophy of neuroscience—created by @morgankthomp.bsky.social (1) www.apaonline.org/mpage/theupd... (2) philneurounderrepresented.weebly.com

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📣We are excited to announce 11 workshops at #UIST2026! Workshops will run on Monday, November 2. Spots are limited for each workshop, so register early! For more information about the workshops, visit: uist.acm.org/2026/worksho...

#UIST2026 workshop list is exciting. You can have a whole day of haptics! "Haptics beyond Vibration: Generative AI to Advance Multisensory Interfaces" + "Augmenting Human Dexterity: From Feedback and Motor Capabilities to Skill Acquisition"! Sign up: uist.acm.org/2026/worksho...

Wonderful course ideas!

Fantastic opportunity at UChicago for neuroscience and biological science folks! (Plus you get to be Joel's colleague, which alone is a huge bonus!)

Cluster neuroscience faculty hiring at University of Chicago! This first year focused on circuit interventions and restorative neuroscience. Goal of ~20 hires over 5 years with different themes each year. #NeuroJobs #neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/190756

Can we all agree with need science approaches at all scales: yes we need toy models (my work is probably closer to this camp) and we need practical real world complex models too! We also need funding for all these approaches! Go science!

Nice! I made a similar argument re the value of small “toy” models in #neuroscience doi.org/10.53053/WUS...

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

Had a lot of fun on the Big Brains podcast talking about learning through embodied AI and haptics: youtu.be/CZXp8ipKX5k?... (full podcast is on YouTube too: youtu.be/R-iTnlFQzoQ?...)

I published the keynote I have at the Taiwan Human Computer Interaction conference: * Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Ij... * Drawings from attendees at TAI CHI: vision.plopes.org/taichi * Slides from my talk: lab.plopes.org/taichi

📅 Save the dates: four days of XR in Bochum! 💻 10–11 Oct | #VRSHackathon Form teams, develop ideas and build XR prototypes with researchers, developers, designers, students and creatives. 🎤 12–13 Oct | #VRSConference Keynotes, talks, posters, live demos and discussions.

If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Beautiful work from Reza. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science books of the 20th century. So how does it hold up today, asks Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Friends! I'm bad at advertising but better late than never! I'm co-organizing a workshop at #CSCW2026 exploring the future of infrastructure, in conversation with its deep roots in CSCW scholarship. Please join us! cscw2026-infrastructure-workshop.github.io My short pitch below 👇