Meta-HCI

Practising Reflection
in HCI Research

What is this meet-up about?

This meet-up brings the CHI community together to candidly explore how reflection shapes our research, our values, and our everyday academic realities, offering a space to connect, share challenges, and build an enduring community of reflective practice.

We invite all CHI attendees to join the Meta-HCI community to explore how we, as researchers and practitioners, reflect on our own practices—and how we might do so more intentionally. By fostering candid conversations about ourselves, our practices, and the structures that shape the field, the meet-up offers an opportunity for collective self-examination and connection across subfields, laying the groundwork for an enduring community of reflective practice.

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What will we be discussing?

Reflection on the self

How do our values, emotions, assumptions, and life circumstances shape how we think, decide, and act as researchers? often in ways we rarely make explicit.

Reflection on practice

How do we actually do research: How do our methods, collaborations, ethical routines, and everyday choices shape what kinds of knowledge we produce.

Reflection on structures

How do the wider societal and institutional conditions of HCI, including power relations, publication systems, and career incentives determine what research is possible, visible, and valued?

Agenda: 90 Minutes for Collective Examination (Data And Times To Be Confirmed)

X:00 PM
Welcome & Framing
Short welcome, framing of reflection in HCI, and initial networking.
X:10 PM
Icebreaker: Getting to know each other
Participants share a brief moment of reflection that shaped their research or practice.
X:40 PM
Opinion Spectrum
Participants position themselves on provocative prompts (e.g., should reflection be personal or institutionalised?) to spark dialogue.
X:55 PM
Story Circles
Small groups share personal accounts of reflection, including practices, barriers, and lessons learned in a candid format.
X+1:20 PM
Wrap-up & Future Directions
Collective identification of common themes and discussion of how to maintain and grow the community post-CHI.