Best Paper and Honourable Mention Awards 2026
Best Paper: 16 papers
- 1249 Exploring Fairy Cursor as a Form of AI Agent for In-the-Flow Assistance: Design Opportunities and Challenges
Yining Cao, James Hollan, Haijun Xia - 1721 Shifting Narrative Salience: Fine-Tuning LLMs as a Design Intervention in Generative Design Fiction
Piyum Fernando, Nipuni Siyambalapitiya, Tharindu S Kumarage - 1835 Beyond Project Time: Multiple Years of Living with a Slow Technology Research Product
William Odom - 2622 Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Lighter-than-Air Soft Floating Robots in Indoor Environments
Mingyang Xu, Yanheng Li, Burcu Nimet Dumlu, RAY LC, Giulia Barbareschi, Matthias Hoppe, Jie Li, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze - 2682 Building A Civic Tool for Community–Police Engagement to Adapt Neighborhood Policing
Ravinithesh Reddy Annapureddy, Staņislavs Šeiko, Natalie Higham-James, William Droz, Alessandro Fornaroli, Sarah Vollmer, Britta Elena Hecking, Daniel Gatica-Perez - 3023 What Makes Technology Feel ‘Alive’: The Precursors of Perceived Consciousness in Interactive Systems Scale
Paweł W. Woźniak, Jasmin Niess, Julia Dominiak, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Barbara Sienkiewicz, Konstantin R. Strömel, Anna Walczak, Mikołaj P. Woźniak - 5896 Knit Joinery: Incorporating Multifunctional Materials with Single-bed Machine Knitting
Yi-Chin Lee, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Scott E Hudson, James McCann, Lea Albaugh - 5949 Praxis Guides: Community Approaches to Resistance Efforts through Mutual Aid Zineing
Alesandra Baca-Vázquez, Kiara (Sunny) Dailey, Lynn Dombrowski, Angela D. R. Smith - 5976 Sensibilities as Knowledge in Design Research
Mafalda Gamboa, Kristina Andersen - 6024 Rushed by Discomfort, Trapped by Immersion: Users’ Experiences and Responses to Privacy Deceptive Design in Commercial VR Applications
Hilda Hadan, Michaela Valiquette, Lennart E. Nacke, Leah Zhang-Kennedy - 6188 From Nowhere to Now-here: Centering Black Senses of Place and Placemaking in Speculative Design
Alex Jiahong Lu, Comfort Umoren-Olorunnisomo, Caitlin Crutcher - 7727 DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination
Liwenhan Xie, Jiayi Zhou, Anyi Rao, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu - 8554 Warped Tour: Analyzing Design Tools Support for Multilayer Weaving Production in HCI
Devon Frost, Jennifer Jacobs - 9474 Machine Learning as Design Material for Music Co-Creation
Lucía Montesinos García, Anders Sundnes Løvlie - 9530 Compass vs Railway Tracks: Unpacking User Mental Models for Communicating Long-Horizon Work to Humans vs. AI
Savvas Dimitrios Petridis, Michael Xieyang Liu, Alexander J. Fiannaca, Carrie J Cai, Michael Terry - 9840 The Trials of Designing Communication Aids for Clinical Trials: Challenges and Recommendations from Practicing Co-Design in the Domain of Medical Research
Sarah Dunn, Bettina Weber, David Studer, Areti Manataki, Lia Bally, Benjamin Bach, Tara Capel
Honourable Mention: 47 papers
- 1066 Conceptualizing How to Design for AI Literacy through Game Artifacts
Joseph Tu, Geneva M. Smith, Simone Bassanelli, Annapaola Marconi, Lennart E. Nacke - 1499 Embodied AI in the Wild: Comparing Older Adults’ Interactions with an Avatar and a Humanoid Robot in a Public Space
Eva Theresa Jahn, Ashita Ashok, Mea-Sophie Edelmann, Nora Anna Luise Hille, Mehrbod Manavi, Nadezhda Kushina, Rainer Wieching, Dave Randall, Karsten Berns, Volker Wulf - 1691 The Misalignment of Technology, Democracy, and Design: A Scoping Review
Alma Leora Culén, Jasmin Niess, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Aki Axel Caspersen, Tora Jarsve, Suhas Govind Joshi, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Konstantin Strömel, Nadine Wagener, Anna Walczak, Paweł W. Woźniak - 1895 On Designing Visceral Encounters with Synthetic Intimate Imagery
Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Hüseyin Uğur Genç, Willem van der Maden, Rob Comber, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam - 2007 Puppet Prototyping: Exploring Puppetry as a Design Method for Relational Robots
Ellen Weir, Ute Leonards, Anne Roudaut - 2330 Everyday Design Knowledge: A Knowledge-in-Pieces Perspective on HCI Learning
Alexandros Nikolaos Lotsos, Amartya Banerjee, Yizhu Wang, Mike Horn - 2433 Designing Worker-Led Documentation Practices: How Unionized Cleaners Articulate Harm Beyond Reporting
Franchesca Spektor, Shivani Kapania, Minjung Park, Olivia Terry, Jodi Forlizzi, Sarah E Fox - 2789 Delay-Buffered Editing for Accessible Slide Presentation Videos
Azizul Haque, Jonggi Hong - 2810 “We are caregivers of caregivers”: Designing AI to Support the Human Infrastructure of Dementia Support Groups
Yuanhui Huang, Anne Marie Piper - 2866 Designing Conversations with the Dead: How People Engage with Generative Ghosts
Jack M Manning, Daniel Sullivan, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Anthony T. Pinter, Jed R. Brubaker - 3219 “How Do I Want to Live with Type 1 Diabetes?”: Understanding Self-Management Styles to Inform the Design of T1D Technologies
Clara-Maria Barth, Anton Fedosov, Chat Wacharamanotham, Jürgen Bernard, Elaine M. Huang - 3474 “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Emerging Technologies for Return-to-Sport
Maria Chiu, Kelan Queenan, Christopher M. Bono, Casper Harteveld - 3595 Supporting Reflection on Reality Disjunction in Dementia Care: The Complementary Roles of Chatbots and Humans
Yvon Ruitenburg, Minha Lee, Panos Markopoulos, Wijnand IJsselsteijn - 3768 Designing for Emotion Regulation in Popular Music Apps: Evaluation of MoodDJ, a Novel Spotify Plugin
Xanthe Lowe-Brown, Peter Koval, Solange Glasser, Greg Wadley - 3937 Equity by Design: A New HCI Method for Surfacing Inclusivity Issues in Remote Collaboration Software
Shandler A Mason, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal - 4015 IdeaBlocks: Expressing and Reusing Divergent Intents for Graphic Design Exploration using Generative AI
DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Jaesang Yu, HyunJoon Jung, Juho Kim - 4502 Exploring Embodied Expression as a Design Resource for Understanding the Dynamism of Vulnerability
Bhakti Moghe, Daniel Tetteroo, Maarten Houben - 4602 Translating Card Play to Tangible Tabletops: Opportunities and Challenges in Intergenerational Museum Play
Timothy Merritt, Rasmus Brandt Sørensen, Rasmus Kokholm Møller, Maria-Theresa Bahodi, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Florian Echtler, Ilhan Aslan - 4935 MakeAloud: Think-Aloud to Bridge Design-Fabrication Workflows
Ritik Batra, Kendra Wannamaker, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka - 4946 Supporting Practitioner-Led Adaptive Switch Design: Stories and Speculative Design Opportunities for Adaptive Switch Design using GenAI
Karen Anne Cochrane, Bryce Arthur Moore, Jesse N Simon, Daniel Harley - 5036 Artistic Practice Opportunities in CST Evaluations: A Longitudinal Group Deployment of ArtKrit
Catherine Liu, Tao Long, Asya Lyubavina, Chau Vu, Jiaju Ma, Jingyi Li - 5233 The Invisible Work of Robotic Surgery: How Specialists Support, Shoulder, and Sustain Human-Robot Collaboration
Jasper T Vermeulen, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Muge Teixeira, Alan G Burden, Matthias Guertler - 5685 Creating Empowering Counter-Narratives through Collective Digital Art by Disabled People
Giulia Barbareschi, Chihiro Sato, Dunya Chen, sifan chen, Eimi Koga, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Kai Kunze - 5737 Interactive Intent-Based Image Recommendations for Assistive Communication: Insights from an Iterative User Study
Alieh Hajizadeh Saffar, Laurianne Sitbon, Sirinthip Roomkham, Manesha Andradi - 5933 Fast-Food Intimacy: How Chinese Women Navigate Soul’s AI Boyfriend
Huiqian Lai, EunJeong Cheon - 6054 Prop-Chromeleon: Adaptive Haptic Props in Mixed Reality through Generative Artificial Intelligence
Haoyu Wang, Fengyuan Zhu, Bingjian Huang, Zhecheng Wang, Ludwig Sidenmark - 6606 SoTA: An Interactive Art Exhibition for Public AI Engagement
Jeanyoon Choi, Intae Hwang, SeJoon Park, Hyungjun Cho, Heejae Bae, Yiyun Kang - 6742 From Active Tests to Co-Interpretation: Design Considerations for Data Representations in Parkinson’s Care
Benjamin Maus, Gent Ymeri, Carl Magnus Olsson, Dario Salvi, Myrthe Wassenburg, Mareike Gloss, Per Svenningsson - 6917 GamifiedLM: Co-designing an LLM-driven Gamified Learning App with University Students to Mitigate Learning Difficulties
Kaiyuan Tang, Kerui Chen, Shreya Gopi, Li Xie, Mark Quinlan, Youngjun Cho - 6924 Design and Evaluation of AR-Based Real-Time Feedback System for Kinesthetic Robot Teaching
Muhammad Bilal, Tharaka Sachintha Ratnayake, D. Antony Chacon, Nir Lipovetzky, Denny Oetomo, Wafa Johal - 6959 Using the Blackbox in Embodied AI Art Practice
Dorothy Yuan, Connor Graham, Amanda Lim, Hiromu Yakura - 6984 ChewTect: Designing Temporal Food Texture via Computational Molding
Yamato Miyatake, Aoi Yamada, Huaishu Peng, Parinya Punpongsanon - 7053 Making Space for Joy in Community Engaged Equity-Oriented Work in HCI
Ricarose Roque, Jaleesa Trapp, Alexis Hope - 7193 E.A.T.: Towards Understanding the Design of Social XR Restaurant Experiences for Diners With and Without Headsets
Yuchen Zheng, Hongyue Wang, Kenath Perera, Henryaldi Matio, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller - 7428 Stepping Into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs to Public Exploration Through Discursive Design
Sarah G Immel, Neel Rajani, Rayo Verweij, Jingjie Li, Bettina Nissen, Luis Lourenço Soares, Alex S Taylor - 7475 Consentful Lights: Designing for Consent when Sharing Intimate Fertility Data
Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Joo Young Park, Anna Ståhl, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Shradha Shivaji Retharekar, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam - 7615 Systemic Futures: Integrating Critical Speculation and Systemic Design Pragmatism
Emily Wong, Fraser Paxton, Henry Pook, John Howe, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Wafa Johal, Eduardo Velloso, Frank Vetere - 7651 Who Owns the Robot Matters: How Robot Ownership Shapes Belonging and Social Roles in Human Groups
Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange, Marc Hassenzahl - 7813 When Heritage Folk Artists Meet Generative AI: A case of Chitrakars of Naya
Anasmita Ghoshal, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan - 7884 “There Is Beauty in the Small”: A Study of Visual Artists’ Attitudes toward Small-Data and Model Crafting Approaches to Creative AI Work
Ahmed M. Abuzuraiq, Arshia Sobhan, Alexandra Kitson, Philippe Pasquier - 8242 The Cat Fiction: Orchestrating Situated AI-Enabled Storytelling for Multispecies Sense-Making
Zhen-Chi Lai, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, Rung-Huei Liang - 8881 MediMate: Co-Crafting Patient-Centered Medical Explanations Using LLMs as a Rehearsal Partner
Yifan Jin, Shizhen Zhang, Dongjun Chen, Yang Ouyang, Yuheng Shao, Chang Jiang, Hanlu Li, Quan Li - 8885 The Ambivalent Experience of Eye Contact for People with Visual Impairments: Mechanisms and Design Challenges
Markus Wieland, Phillip Koch, Michael Sedlmair - 9420 Artificial Intelligence at the Margins: Risks and Opportunities for Iranian Immigrant Nonprofits in the Global North
Maryam Mokhberi, Dipto Das, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim - 9881 HanaARrange: Designing An Augmented Reality Support System for Daily Ikebana Practice and Well-being
Xiyue Wang, Zeynep Eda Altintop, Derek Kirschbaum, Miao Cheng, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Chiahuei Tseng - 9893 Temporal awareness and ethical reflection: Chronopolitical considerations for HCI research
Marguerite Barry, Fiona McDermott, Daniel Snow, Jacinta Jardine, Maria Murray, Irum Rauf, Shelby Hagemann, Camille Nadal, Sarah Robinson - 9910 Group Conversational Agents: A Review of Designs that Support and Shape Group Interaction
ShunYi Yeo, Tianyi Zhang, Scott Bateman, Gary Hsieh, Young-Ho Kim, Simon Tangi Perrault, Jiannan Li, Anthony Tang