Oussama Metatla

@ousmet

Associate Professor of HCI; Lead of Diverse-ability Interaction Lab: Cross-sensory Interaction; Co-design; Inclusion.

Bristol, UK ousmet.com Joined June 2009

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Closing 7th May: 2yrs postdoc on cross-sensory fabrication @BristolIG @bristolcs

Join ERC project #inclusiveXplay exploring how to support accessible and playful cross-sensory experiences for blind or visually impaired and sighted children

Oussama Metatla @ousmet Apr 17

#CHI2026 today 12:27 (Rm 112, VR AR XR) Tegan presents (our 2nd BEST PAPER this conference) Touching Emotions Smelling Shapes, we show how even at ages 2–4 children systematically link touch smell and emotion demonstrating foundations for cross-sensory learning #inclusiveXplay

Oussama Metatla @ousmet Apr 17

#CHI2026 today 11:15 (Rm 112, session: VR AR XR) Priscilla Lo will present Feeling Flavours; Where we use "non-edibles" as proxies to explore touch–taste cross-sensory correspondences, in collaboration @JanetRead and Matthew Horton
#inclusiveXplay

Oussama Metatla @ousmet Apr 16

#CHI2026 today 12:03 P1 Room 132 (session: Getting Emotion) @susan_m_li will present Rough Meanings, her first CHI paper on how tiny surface features shape emotion, colour and language associations moving cross-sensory interaction to the realm of micro-structures #inclusiveXplay

Oussama Metatla @ousmet Apr 16

#CHI2026 today 10:00 Auditorium (AI & Interactive Tools) Mamoru will present presents Somatic Drawing Tool: A VR + body-based approach to externalise hard-to-articulate sensory experiences like Synaesthesia