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Human–human and human–computer interaction have long been focal concerns for scholars and practitioners across the CHIIR and SIG‑USE communities. This symposium brings these communities together to examine the socio‑technical boundaries through which search, recommendation, and social platforms shape what people can know, trust, and use.

Through opinion pieces, paper presentations, and facilitated group discussions, participants will critically reflect on where information interaction begins and ends, and how those boundaries are being reconfigured by algorithmic systems, platforms, and everyday practices. The symposium offers a collaborative space to identify emerging questions, challenge assumptions, and set shared research and practice agendas. Attendees will leave with new connections, conceptual tools, and directions for rethinking information interaction in an increasingly hybrid human–algorithmic world.