Pedro Lopes

Assoc. Prof. of Comp. Science @uchicagocs /
Human Computer Integration Lab / XR, haptics, hw / HCI lab: / music:

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

Text or video is not only form AI can take.
In https://t.co/SIakxtWjTd (#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!
https://t.co/9P9s3fveLH
by @yun_yh_ @romainnith

[Data Science Institute @DSI_UChicago]

Job Opportunity Alert - positions remain open for applications, apply here today:

Associate Professor of Data Science: https://t.co/R3OZVJqpZJ

Assistant Professor of Data Science: https://t.co/UFY0jZA9oL

EOE / Vet / Disability

[University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute @UChicago_Brains]

From curiosity to collaborator: Neuroscientist builds her own lab while maintaining research partnerships

Former UChicago PhD student Hayoung Song (Rosenberg Lab) launches her own lab at UT Austin while staying close to the mentors who shaped her.

More: https://t.co/kqkrd6eoLj

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

@drinami Now in english by @drinami himself: https://t.co/aCsLlqBHws

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

Wonderful reflections here by @drinami about AI, UIST, and the way conferences grow and what we can do to have them continue to make sense and nurture our thinking (it's in Japanese but you can click translate and read it in any language you want!)

[稲見昌彦/ INAMI Masahiko @drinami]

AIが論文を読み書きする時代に、なぜ学会へ行くのか｜稲見 昌彦 (INAMI Masahiko) @drinami https://t.co/R5c1hV5GdO
UISTに参加しつつ研究者が集まる意味について考えました

[稲見昌彦/ INAMI Masahiko @drinami]

Thank you, Pedro! I’ve now written an English version: “Why Go to Conferences When AI Reads and Writes the Papers?” On human-scale conferences, shared attention, and the questions we develop together before a paper exists.
https://t.co/HE75XWrpcF

[ACM CHI Conference @acm_chi]

Call for Participation: Host a SIGCHI Pod at CHI 2027-ACM CHI 2027:
We are excited to announce that SIGCHI is piloting "Pods" as part of the CHI 2027 conference experience. Click for more:https://t.co/WG4o6FhO66

[Ian Arawjo @IanArawjo]

“Numerous signs strongly suggest that some reviewers are relying entirely on AI tools to automatically generate peer reviews... We strongly protest this. This is a gross disrespect to the authors. It is a flagrant desecration of the reviewer's sacred duty.”

[Craig Shultz @hapticsguy]

Getting coffee to wake up and chair a 9am UIST session, and ran into this guy. This count as a good selfie for the #UISTChallenge @ACMUIST ?

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

#UIST2026 is over, we just posted the slides for our talks (RingIO: a novel ring with output and input via touch; and Improving Thermal Referral via Electrotactile) in our talks page: https://t.co/7mj0rq4cYg
( did not catch our demos? -> https://t.co/zIcEMRidUJ )

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

@JohnnyFoxe @AbdulElSayed Well said John!

[Ran Blekhman @blekhman]

It's time, calling for a “Rebuild American Science Act”:

- Double the NIH & NSF budgets
- Limits on executive interference
- End forward funding
- Rebuild the research training pipeline
- Full transparency of success rates
- Permanent H-1B fee exemption for universities

[稲見昌彦/ INAMI Masahiko @drinami]

UIST2027はウィーン

[Haozhi Qi @HaozhiQ]

📢 Call for Papers!

Excited to serve as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Haptics Special Issue on The Sense of Touch in Contact-Rich Dexterous Robot Manipulation!

We welcome work on tactile sensing, haptic teleoperation, robot learning, and contact-rich manipulation.

📅 Deadline: March 15, 2027

https://t.co/LS9WUFzwJV

together with @wenzhenyuan382, Rebecca Friesen, Yasemin Bekiroglu, @yushe_1, and @linshaonju.

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

@DaisukeSakamoto Yes. UIST Tokyo is still the biggest (huge jump in attendance, unmatched when you control for paper growth!)

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

Fortune slop? Cookie slop? New terminology needed :)

[James Evans @profjamesevans]

Biggest LLM safety breach so far…models have infiltrated the fortune cookie factory?!

[University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute @UChicago_Brains]

The reason you can't truly multitask may be hardwired into your brain. A new UChicago study finds that the moment you're unsure what matters most, the brain starts mixing up details it should keep apart—dragging down how well you do everything. @_ChengXue

https://t.co/1C0KINqiQd

[Hannah Lee @HsuanlingLee]

🧵 What if we could weave digital information into everyday fabrics? Excited to share InvisIto, our work on weaving visually unobtrusive, machine-readable markers into textiles using NIR-absorbing yarns! 🎉 Catch our presentation at #UIST2026 on Nov 4!
🔗 https://t.co/1lN8Ovm2Bf

[Jun Nishida @umd_emd]

At #UIST2026 we present ProtoCall, a VLM-powered exosuit that nudges your head or stops your hand before you make a sequential error, toward embodied human-AI collaboration.

Led by Kyungyeon Lee. Try it at our live demo at Rm Ontario 1037, with FIXical I/O (CHI2026) demo!

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

The session is called tactile and thermal rendering! It's a fascinating session on #haptics , tangibles and expressive devices. Come by!

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

In ten minutes at the Marquette room at #uist2026 Wen Li is presenting our thermal illusion using electro tactile! Come see the talk!

[Pedro Lopes @plopesresearch]

In ten minutes at the Marquette room at #uist2026 Wen Li is presenting our thermal illusion using electro tactile! Come see the talk!