Last week, I had the pleasure of delivering a guest lecture at the University of Derby, kindly invited by Dr Chinthaka Jayananda Aluthgama-Baduge. Rather than focusing on AI as a standalone technology, the session explored the following question: How do we use AI to enhance design thinking without replacing human creativity? We explored how AI…

I’m happy to share that I’ve joined the ACM SwissCHI Board for the 2026-2028 term. It was great to meet so many HCI researchers and practitioners from across Switzerland at the recent SwissCHI Winter Meeting in Lausanne. Thanks for organising it, Mauro Cherubini & Thiemo Wambsganß! Looking forward to supporting the community together with the…

On Jan 26, I shared insights from my research at WAIVE 2026 conference in Geneva on the theme “Who holds the truth of information?” along with a great group of speakers. Thanks for the invitation. One key idea I tried to transmit: manipulation today doesn’t look like obvious lies – it looks like speed. Platforms…

Can a hackathon help us prepare for the next crisis?With our Government as a Platform (GaaP) research project on digital crisis response, we set out to test that question in practice. Instead of theory, we chose intensity, diversity, and time pressure. Here is what happened — in numbers. 48 hours That was all the time teams had to…