F. R. Khan

📯 PUBLICATION ALERT (ANOTHA ONE) 📯

Happy to announce that my Provocation, “The Vibes Are Off: Considering Embodied Reflections by TBIPOC to Account for Displacement and Discomfort in Makerspaces” for @dis@hci.social 2025 was accepted! 🎊

Shout out to my co-authors who guided me through the writing of this abstract ✨ So excited to present my poster in Madeira, Funchal, Portugal 🇵🇹 and elated to get to see even more wondrous work from my research communities this year~

Cheers!

Recap of #chi2025 in Yokohama, Japan!! 🎊🌸🇯🇵 Even though I had to leave early, I’m still so grateful to have presented my first full paper, see other wonderful presentations and work, and to reconnect and meet with so many lovely colleagues and mentors! Til next, friends~

📯 Publications Announcements! 📯
Excited to announce that I will be presenting at CHI 2025 on my paper, “Cataloging Augmented, Ambivalent Transgender Futures: Designing Inclusive AR Technologies for Trans Communities Through Speculative, Participatory Zine-Making” 🎊

This is my first CHI paper, and as first author to boot! Thankful to share this milestone with my lovely collaborators Kat Brewster, Aloe DeGuia, Denny Starks, Malaya Manacop, Samuel Mayworm, Tawanna Dillahunt and Oliver Haimson~ ✨

I’m not saying we stop being vigilant, but as to keep the spiraling at bay:

-I still have my job (knock on wood), my communities, and /my/ research

-There’s no shortage of people and communities like us doing their part in what’s right, they have always been here, and will continue to be here

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Response to the NSF freezing grant reviews:

-Exec orders aren't laws, they're meant to cause confusion and chaos, and there will be legal pushback

-DEI is just a word, and we'll just use different words

-And we already have and we've been playing this game for years, and that’s our power

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Ooh ALSO follow me on BlueSky~
@friak.bsky.social

📯 PUB ANNOUNCEMENT 📯
Excited to share that TWO papers I’m part of have been conditionally accepted to @chi@hci.social 2025, including one I’m a first author of ✨

This also makes these my first CHI publications! 🥰🎊

I’ll have more details closer to the camera ready deadline, but I just want to thank my amazing co-authors, lab, and advisors ♥️ not even a year into finally being in the research space I was meant to be in, and it feels I’m already seeing the fruits of it~

Cheers!

📯 BIG LIFE UPDATE 📯
I transferred my PhD to the School of Information at the University of Michigan! 🎊 and I’ll be finishing out my program here advised by Dr. Oliver Haimson and Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt~

I’m so unbelievably lucky that transferring worked out so well—going to one of the premier schools in my field (and in the world!) at such an endearing and fun city like Ann Arbor alongside some of the most amazing and supportive colleagues and advisors a graduate could ask for ✨

Hey all! My and Agnes Romhanyi's CHI Play paper was selected to appear in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Showcase on Kudos 🎉 Go check it out now~

https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1145%25252F3573382.3616072/reader

It’s live!! 🎉Check out me and Agnes Romhanyi’s WiP paper for #CHIPLAY2023 ! And if you’re around next week at the conference, come by and see our poster presentation Thursday!

Cheers~ ✨

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3573382.3616072

Hey, I was in a another paper! From the Connected Learning Labs twitter:
“What do we know about the risks and benefits of adolescent engagement with online social technologies?
NEW CLA Paper - Youth, Mental Health, and the Metaverse: Reviewing the Literature“

Authors: Katie Salen, Madison E. Taylor, Andre Adame, Stephen M. Schueller, and myself!

Check it out at:
connectedlearning.news/cla100223

📯 Publication Announcement! 📯
I'm so happy (and late) to announce that I'll be at @chiplay@hci.social 2023 to present my WiP, "Controlling Your Voice in a Shouting Match: A Preliminary Study on Fostering Emotion Self-Regulation in Fighting Games Through Embodied Play" ✨👾🎊

As my first ACM pub, and I couldn't be more excited than to share the milestone with my collaborator Agnes Romhanyi as co-first authors 💕

I'll be in-person and SVing for the conference, so if you’re around, let me know! 🇨🇦 Cheers! ✨

Hello friends! I’m in collaboration with an all-trans research team looking for participants for a PAID research study! We are primarily seeking folks in the trans community residing in the East Bay Area for in-person participatory design workshops THIS week! Please share to any and all interested, and thank you!! 🏳️‍⚧️
bit.ly/transtechdesign

Had a blast last week at #DIS2023 !✨Though I wasn't able to attend the last 2 days, I had such a great time at the workshops, receptions, and panels I was able to see and be a part of~ Also always a joy to see my colleagues in HCI, and I hope to see everyone again next year!

Travel Announcement (again)! 📯

I’ll be attending @dis@hci.social 2023 next week for workshops! I’ll be presenting “Dare You Approach The Mighty Oracle?: Building a Design Framework for Tangible Storytelling Artifacts That Evoke The Divine” by the lovely Dr. Tess Tanenbaum and myself 🎉

Excited to be coming to Pittsburgh! CMU friendos, definitely hit me up if you’re around, and I’m excited to be seeing more great research by awesome people in the field! ♥️ #DIS2023

Day 0 of #CHI2023 ✔️