CHI NL Community Event 2025: Looking Back

We were super excited to host this year’s CHI NL Community Event and welcome the Dutch HCI community to the University of Twente (UT), Enschede, on April 10th, 2025. This event was sponsored by UTFonds, SIGCHI Development Fund, and supported by CHI Nederland.

It was the first time that the HCI community came together at the UT, enabling networking and social activities. In addition, it was a great opportunity to rehearse presentations of accepted CHI papers in a welcoming atmosphere. The event was a great success with a full-day program and more than 75 registered attendees.

We had the CHI 2025: Dutch HCI Contributions booklet ready right before the event for the participants of the event.

We kicked off with a welcome from the organizers and an introduction to CHI NL, intended for the substantial number of people new to the community. The technical program began with our first keynote NWO-Vidi Laurate Assoc. Prof. Dr. Steven Houben (TU Eindhoven). Steven discussed how tangible and physical AI interfaces can enhance human creativity, decision-making, and collaboration, fostering a more intuitive and meaningful approach to data interaction in the AI era.

After the first keynote, there was an ice-breaker activity, “name-queuing”, in which we fostered the attendees to get to know each other, which was followed by a coffee break accompanied by poster presentations.

Before lunch, we held our first session of paper presentations, featuring:

Garoa Gomez-Beldarrain on automation adoption in organizations.
Di Yan on collaborative sensemaking of personal data.
Marit Bentvelzen on social comparison strategies in personal informatics.
Merel van den Berg on user perspectives of wearable stress management technology.
Katja Rogers on reporting quality in CHI systematic reviews.

The lunch break was again accompanied by poster presentations, featuring eight posters from various research institutes.

After the lunch break, we welcomed ERC Starting Grant Laurate Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gerling (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) as our second keynote speaker. In her keynote, Kathrin discussed the state of VR accessibility through the lens of physical, digital, and experiential accessibility, and closed with reflections on how to move toward equitable VR experiences for all of us.

The afternoon continued with a second round of paper presentations, including:

Jiaxin Xu on human caregiving for robots.
Simone Ooms on haptic biosignals affecting proxemics toward virtual reality agents.
Ugur Genc on emotional language and visuals in agent conversations.

After the second coffee break, we had the last paper session featuring:

Gaole He on user trust and team performance with LLM agents.
Sterre van Arum on human-AI partnerships in personal health decision-making.
Anne Arzberger on reflexive data curation in human-AI collaboration.
Céline Offerman : (Re)discovering Sexual Pleasure after Cancer: Understanding the Design Space

The day ended with closing words and announcements, followed by a traditional Dutch borrel, giving attendees time to chat. We were also happy to announce that the next year’s (2026) CHI NL Community Event will be held at the University of Amsterdam!