Selecting a Subcommittee

To assist in your choice of subcommittee, we describe our five contribution areas, which are also the paper subcommittees:

• AI and Design
• Artifacts and Systems
• Critical Computing
• Design Methods and Processes
• Research Through Design

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AI and Design

This area invites papers that make a design contribution to artificial intelligence. We hope to receive papers on design for AI (making AI things), design with AI (using AI to help or automate design), design of agents and robots (such as their social presence), responsible design of AI, and implications of AI on design and its necessary regulations. Contributions may include resources, methods, and tools for design; AI artifacts and systems; first-person experiences of designing with or for AI; conceptual frameworks for combining design knowledge and AI; empirical studies of design with a sensitivity for human needs and AI capabilities. Contributions to this subcommittee should aim to develop durable knowledge about AI and design. In general, contributions should tell us something about how AI can be used for design or about how designers use AI that will stand up even as AI capabilities improve. Many papers that authors consider submitting to this subcommittee will also be a match to one of the other subcommittees. As a guide, we suggest you submit papers to this subcommittee when the paper makes an equal contribution to Design and to AI or in cases where reviewers need a deep background in both design and AI.

Example Papers

• Jeff Huang, Rui-Jie Yew, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. 2025. Copyrighting Generative AI Co-Creations. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1156–1164. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735683
• Hauke Sandhaus, Qiuquan Gu, Maria Teresa Parreira, and Wendy Ju. 2025. Co-Designing with Transformers: Unpacking the Complex Role of GenAI in Interactive System Design Education. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1228–1243. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735805
• Martin Lindrup, Rune Møberg Jacobsen, Joel Wester, Niels van Berkel, Dimitrios Raptis, and Peter Axel Nielsen. 2025. Prompt Machine: A Tangible Generative AI Tool for Supporting Children’s Learning and Literacy. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 489–505. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735673
• Imke Grabe and Tom Jenkins. 2025. Hidden Layer Interaction: A Technique to Explore the Material of Generative AI. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1913–1927. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735437
• Savvas Petridis, Michael Terry, and Carrie J Cai. 2024. PromptInfuser: How Tightly Coupling AI and UI Design Impacts Designers’ Workflows. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 743–756. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661613
• Macy Takaffoli, Sijia Li, and Ville Mäkelä. 2024. Generative AI in User Experience Design and Research: How Do UX Practitioners, Teams, and Companies Use GenAI in Industry? In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1579–1593. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660720

Subcommittee Chairs

Associate Chairs

• Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, University of Southern California
• Bernd Ploderer, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
• Catia Prandi, University of Bologna
• Dina El-Zanfaly, Carnegie Mellon University
• Divya Ramesh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Fiona Draxler, University of Mannheim
• Gary Hsieh, University of Washington
• Gonzalo Ramos, Independent Researcher
• Graham Dove, New York University
• Jakob Tholander, Stockholm University
• Jane E, National University of Singapore
• Janet Yi-Ching Huang, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Jinghui Cheng, Polytechnique Montreal
• Joanne Leong, Autodesk Research
• Joel Wester, University of Copenhagen
• John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University
• Joongi Shin, Aalto University
• Jorge Goncalves, University of Melbourne
• Joshua Newn, RMIT University
• Karl-Emil Bilstrup, University of Copenhagen
• Kendra Wannamaker, Autodesk Research
• Laura-Bianca Bilius, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava
• Lewis Chuang, TU Chemnitz
• Marco Gillies, Goldsmiths, University of London
• Martin Jonsson, Södertörn University
• Max Kreminski, Cornell Tech
• Michael Yin, University of British Columbia
• Mohi Reza, Autodesk Research
• Nadine Wagener, OFFIS Institute for Informatics
• Paweł W. Woźniak, TU Wien
• Payod Panda, Microsoft Research
• Robert Wolfe, Rutgers University
• Rune Jacobsen, Aalborg University
• Selma Šabanović, Indiana University
• Sharifa Sultana, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Tone Xu, University of California, San Diego
• Vikram Mohanty, Carnegie Mellon University
• Wendy Ju, Cornell Tech
• Xian Xu, Lingnan University
• Xipei Ren, University of Macau

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Artifacts and Systems

This subcommittee invites papers that design, evaluate, and/or reflect on artifacts and interactive systems. Such artifacts and systems can be designed using a wide range of materials and technologies (e.g., digital, tangible/physical user interfaces, fabrication methods, AR/VR). We encourage papers that expand our understanding of meaningful interactions (e.g., sensing and actuation, unconventional interactions) and how they can be designed to contribute to specific outcomes (e.g., sustainable, equitable, or resilient futures). We call for projects that address different aspects of designing objects, systems, and spaces including but not limited to discussing the material, temporal, and/or spatial aspects of design. We encourage a reflection on the evolution of artifacts and systems, including the considerations and choices that shaped the work, especially where these connect to evaluation, deployment insights, or experiences of how the artifact or system performs and is taken up in context.

Example Papers

• Sujay Shalawadi, Christopher Getschmann, Niels van Berkel, and Florian Echtler. 2024. Manual, Hybrid, and Automatic Privacy Covers for Smart Home Cameras. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 3453–3470. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661569
• Nadine Wagener, Arne Kiesewetter, Leon Reicherts, Paweł W. Woźniak, Johannes Schöning, Yvonne Rogers, and Jasmin Niess. 2024. MoodShaper: A Virtual Reality Experience to Support Managing Negative Emotions. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2286–2304. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661570
• Xiyun Hu, Dizhi Ma, Fengming He, Zhengzhe Zhu, Shao-Kang Hsia, Chenfei Zhu, Ziyi Liu, and Karthik Ramani. 2025. GesPrompt: Leveraging Co-Speech Gestures to Augment LLM-Based Interaction in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 59–80. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735769
• Yingjie Chang, Junyu Chen, Yilong Lin, Xuesong Zhang, and Seungwoo Je. 2025. HapticWings: Enhancing the Experience of Extra Wing Motions in Virtual Reality through Dynamic 2D Weight Shifting. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 15–27. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735755
• Samuelle Bourgault, Li-Yi Wei, Jennifer Jacobs, and Rubaiat Habib Kazi. 2025. Narrative Motion Blocks: Combining Direct Manipulation and Natural Language Interactions for Animation Creation. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1366–1386. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735766

Subcommittee Chairs

Associate Chairs

• Aditya Shekhar Nittala, University of Calgary
• Adwait Sharma, University of Bath
• Alexandra Kitson, University of Victoria
• Anke van Oosterhout, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Bengisu Cagiltay, Koc University
• Chang Xiao, Boston University
• Changyo Han, The University of Tokyo
• Christian Frisson, University of Calgary
• Dishita Turakhia, New York University
• Faraz Faruqi, MIT CSAIL
• Gabriel Lipkowitz, National University of Singapore
• Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan, Adobe Research
• Haojie Cheng, National University of Singapore
• Himani Deshpande, Aarhus University
• Hong Luo, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
• Jas Brooks, MIT CSAIL
• Jason Wu, Purdue University
• Jingwen Zhu, Cornell University
• Jingyi Li, Pomona College
• Johannes Schöning, University of St. Gallen
• Joy Kim, Adobe Research
• Junyi Zhu, University of Michigan
• Justin Moon, National University of Singapore
• Kars Alfrink, Delft University of Technology
• Karthik Ramani, Purdue University
• Kenan Bektas, University of St. Gallen
• Liang He, University of Texas at Dallas
• Maria Larsson, University of Tokyo
• Marios Constantinides, CYENS Centre of Excellence
• Martin Feick, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Matthew Lakier, University of Calgary
• Miguel Nacenta, University of Victoria
• Mirjana Prpa, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Muhammad Abdullah, Hasso Plattner Institute
• Narjes Pourjafarian, Cornell University
• Nattapat Boonprakong, National University of Singapore
• Nikita Sharma, University of Twente
• Novia Nurain, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
• Parinya Punpongsanon, Saitama University
• Qiuyu Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Saeed Boorboor, University of Illinois Chicago
• Sang Ho Yoon, KAIST
• Shan-Yuan Teng, National Taiwan University
• Shm Almeda, UC Berkeley
• Simon Mayer, University of St. Gallen
• Sophia Ppali, CYENS Centre of Excellence
• Tianhong Yu, Cornell University
• Ticha Sethapakdi, MIT CSAIL
• Tongyu Zhou, Adobe Research
• Vineet Pandey, University of Utah
• Xinru Wang, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
• Yasuaki Kakehi, The University of Tokyo
• Yen-Ting Yeh, University of Saskatchewan
• Yiyue Luo, University of Washington
• Yunyi Zhu, MIT CSAIL
• Zeyu Yan, University Of Maryland
• Zicheng Zhu, National University of Singapore

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Critical Computing and Design Theory

This area invites papers on the topics of critical computing, design theory, and their overlap. Critical computing encompasses the reimagination as well as analysis and critique of technologies in the world—i.e., the political, ethical, and societal dimensions of computing and the interactive systems we create. Design theory encompasses knowledge around critical-reflective design and research practice. We welcome epistemologically pluralistic approaches, spanning disciplines, theories, and methods, including those that question or confront technological progress. The area seeks papers that explore and expand the relationships among design inquiry, politics, aesthetics, ethics, ontologies, pragmatism, craft, and epistemics.

Example Papers

• Rob Comber, Cecilia Järdemar, Freddy Tsimba, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Akshata Murdeshwar, and Serge Lunyanga. 2025. Designing with Decolonial Intent: Towards a Decolonial Archive in Resistance to Epistemicide. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 884–898. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735739
• Brett A. Halperin, William Rhodes, Kai Leshne, Afroditi Psarra, and Daniela Rosner. 2024. Resistive Threads: Electronic Streetwear as Social Movement Material. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 69–85. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661537
• Udayan Tandon, Lilly Irani, Sarah E Fox, and Vera Khovanskaya. 2025. Can Smartness Fail? The Charisma of High Tech as Class Politics. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 982–998. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735732
• Anh-Ton Tran and Carl Disalvo. 2024. Counting Up: Designing Agonistic Data Collection in the Court Room. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 3257–3271. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661616
• Christine T. Wolf, Mariam Asad, and Lynn S. Dombrowski. 2022. Designing within Capitalism. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 439–453. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533559

Subcommittee Chairs

Associate Chairs

• Alessandro Soro, Queensland University of Technology
• Alex Jiahong Lu, Rutgers University
• Arissa J. Sato, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Cindy Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Emily Tseng, Microsoft Research
• Erica Principe Cruz, Carnegie Mellon University
• Eunice Sari, UX Indonesia
• Hayoun Noh, University of Oxford
• Hee Rin Lee, Michigan State University
• Hyungjun Cho, University of Florida
• Jaime Snyder, University of Washington
• Jay Cunningham, DePaul University
• Johanna Gunawan, Maastricht University
• Lydia Stamato, Berea College
• Michael Muller, Independent Researcher
• Minha Lee, KAIST
• Nimra Ahmed, University of Zürich
• Renee Shelby, Google Research
• Rua Williams, Purdue University
• Safinah Ali, New York University
• Shruti Mahajan, Union College
• Shuhao Ma, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
• Silvia Cazacu, KU Leuven
• Sumita Sharma, University of Oulu
• Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, University of Toronto
• Tamanna Motahar, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Tigmanshu Bhatnagar, University College London
• Tram Tran, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
• Yuhan Luo, City University of Hong Kong
• Yuxi Wu, Northeastern University

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Design Methods and Processes

This area invites papers that document, innovate, and advance the methods, approaches, and processes used in interaction design, UX design, and service design across industry, academia, and the public sector. We are particularly interested in methodological contributions that push the boundaries of current practice, exploring new scales, audiences, and contexts for design. This includes innovative methods that enable designers to address complex, multi-layered problems, engage with underrepresented or hard-to-reach communities, and adapt to diverse, evolving technological landscapes.

Example Papers

• Ceylan Beşevli, Lei Gao, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Giada Brianza, Orestis Georgiou, Sriram Subramanian, and Marianna Obrist. 2025. SONARIOS: A Design Futuring-Driven Exploration of Acoustophoresis. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 740–753. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735775
• Long-Jing Hsu, Janice Bays, Manasi Swaminathan, Weslie Khoo, Hiroki Sato, Kyrie Jig Amon, Sathvika Dobbala, Min Min Thant, Alex Foster, Kate Tsui, Philip B. Stafford, David Crandall, and Selma Sabanovic. 2025. Research as Care: A Reflection on Incorporating the Ethics of Care in Design Research with People Living with Dementia. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 3013–3027. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735678
• Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Pedro Sanches, and Jorge Olivares-Retamal. 2025. Searching for the Words that “Feel Right”: Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs). In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2901–2915. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735751
• Yuqi Wang, Sirui Wang, Shiman Zhang, Kexue Fu, Michelle Lui, and Ray Lc. 2025. From Temporal to Spatial: Designing Spatialized Interactions with Segmented-audios in Immersive Environments for Active Engagement with Performing Arts Intangible Cultural Heritage. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 3292–3312. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735787

Subcommittee Chairs

Associate Chairs

• Alma Leora Culén, University of Oslo
• Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski, Purdue University
• Andreea Niculescu, Institute for Infocomm Research
• Armağan Karahanoğlu, University of Twente
• Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Instituto Superior Técnico – U. Lisboa
• Devon Frost, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Esther Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Eugene Kukshinov, University of Waterloo
• Felix Epp, Aalto University
• Francesca Toso, University of Twente
• Hanieh Shakeri, Dalhousie University
• Kate Sangwon Lee, National University of Singapore
• Long-Jing Hsu, University of Michigan — Ann Arbor
• Marion Koelle, Hochschule RheinMain
• Md Naimul Hoque, Stony Brook university
• Morgan Scheuerman, University of Colorado Boulder
• Si Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Yoav Sterman, Technion
• Yuhao Sun, University of Edinburgh
• Yun Wang, Beihang University
• Tina Ekhtiar, Independent Researcher
• Geneva Smith, University of Waterloo
• Yuan Yao, Beijing Jiaotong University
• Ajit Pillai, The University of Sydney

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Research through Design

We invite contributions relating to the Research through Design family of approaches, including:

• Practice-Based Design Research
• Speculative or Critical Design & Design Fiction
• Material Experimentation and Fabrication
• Emerging design approaches such as Regeneration/Unmaking/More-Than-Human
• Other related design-led research practices such as soma design, slow design, piratical perspectives and mischievous tinkering

Our emphasis is on the ‘through’ part of design. We welcome papers that tell the full story not as a quest to problem solve but as a journey, with the focus on continuous learning and reflexive practices. Submissions to this subcommittee are likely to build on or contribute to the methods and theories of RtD. We also welcome submissions that question, critique, and are transgressive towards RtD itself. Submissions may sit anywhere on a spectrum between polished, functional, and finished prototypes, through to experimental, failed, or unconventional design explorations.

Example Papers

• Joseph La Delfa, Rachael Garrett, Airi Lampinen, and Kristina Höök. 2024. Articulating Mechanical Sympathy for Somaesthetic Human-Machine Relations. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 3336–3353. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661514
• William Odom, Samuel Barnett, Nico Brand, Minyoung Yoo, Henry Lin, and Jordan White. 2024. Negotiating Conceptual and Practical Frictions in Making the Capra Short Film: Extending a Research through Design Artifact with Video. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2866–2881. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660739
• Jayne Wallace, Kyle Montague, Trevor Duncan, Luís P. Carvalho, Nantia Koulidou, Jamie Mahoney, Kellie Morrissey, Claire Craig, Linnea Iris Groot, Shaun Lawson, Patrick Olivier, Julie Trueman, and Helen Fisher. 2020. ReFind: Design, Lived Experience and Ongoingness in Bereavement. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376531
• William Gaver, Peter Gall Krogh, Andy Boucher, and David Chatting. 2022. Emergence as a Feature of Practice-based Design Research. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533524
• Audrey Desjardins, Jena McWhirter, Justin Petelka, Chandler Simon, Yuna Shin, Ruby K Peven, and Philbert Widjaja. 2023. On the Making of Alternative Data Encounters: The Odd Interpreters. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 155, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581323
• Kiersten Hay, Abigail C Durrant, Shema Tariq, Lynne Coventry, and Helen Anderson. 2024. Zineography: A Community-Based Research-through-Design Method of Zine Making for Unequal Contexts. In Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Article 54, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685390
• We also encourage authors to take a look at and be inspired by the whole RtD conference proceedings: https://researchthroughdesign.org/2017/proceedings/index.html

Subcommittee Chairs

Associate Chairs

• Adrian Petterson, University of Toronto
• Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Stockholm University
• Alice Haynes, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Angella Mackey, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Arjun Menon, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Ashley Boone, University of Washington
• Catherine Wieczorek, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Charles Windlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Daniel Snow, University College Dublin
• Daragh Byrne, Carnegie Mellon University
• David Chatting, Newcastle University
• David McCallum, Rotterdam University of Applied Science
• Debbie Maxwell, University of York
• Elvia Vasconcelos, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Fiona Bell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Gabrielle Benabdallah, University of Washington
• Haider Akmal, University of New South Wales
• Jon Rogers, University of Northumbria
• Joo Young Park, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Jordan Eshpeter, Simon Fraser University
• Karen Cochrane, University of Waterloo
• Kyle Montague, Northumbria University
• Lauren Ferro, RMIT University
• Laurene Vaughan, RMIT University
• Marco C. Rozendaal, Delft University of Technology
• Mayane Pereira Dore, Rey Juan Carlos University
• Michelle Douglas, RMIT
• MinYoung Yoo, Simon Fraser University
• Nadia Campo Woytuk, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Nazli Cila, Delft University of Technology
• Noura Howell, University of Southern Denmark
• Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk, Tampere University
• Rowan Page, Monash University
• Samuel Barnett, Simon Fraser University
• Sarah Teasley,
• Sebastian Prost, City St George’s, University of London
• Spyros Bofylatos, Royal College of Art
• Stefan Greuter, RMIT University
• Stephanie Ochona, RMIT University
• Sylvia Janicki, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Thomas Dylan, Northumbria University
• Tom Metcalfe, University of St Andrews
• Troy Nachtigall, Amsterdam University of Applied Science
• Willem Lennert Antoon van der Maden, IT University of Copenhagen
• William Odom, Simon Fraser University
• Ylva Fernaeus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Yvon Ruitenburg, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Minjung Park, Carnegie Mellon University
• Zidong Lin, Royal College of Art
• Deanna Gelosi, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Leigh-Anne Hepburn, The University of Sydney
• Simran Chopra, The University of Edinburgh
• Dana McKay, RMIT University
• Mathilde Gouin, IST University of Lisbon
• Timothy Merritt, Aalborg University
• Zhen-Chi Lai, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Adhityan Raja, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Minjung Park, Carnegie Mellon University

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