{"id":778,"date":"2026-06-17T02:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/?page_id=778"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:22:18","slug":"dis-2026-awards-and-recognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/dis-2026-awards-and-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"DIS 2026 Awards and Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best Paper and Honourable Mention Awards 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best Paper: 16 papers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1249 Exploring Fairy Cursor as a Form of AI Agent for In-the-Flow Assistance: Design Opportunities and Challenges<br>Yining Cao, James Hollan, Haijun Xia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1721 Shifting Narrative Salience: Fine-Tuning LLMs as a Design Intervention in Generative Design Fiction<br>Piyum Fernando, Nipuni Siyambalapitiya, Tharindu S Kumarage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1835 Beyond Project Time: Multiple Years of Living with a Slow Technology Research Product<br>William Odom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2622 Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Lighter-than-Air Soft Floating Robots in Indoor Environments<br>Mingyang Xu, Yanheng Li, Burcu Nimet Dumlu, RAY LC, Giulia Barbareschi, Matthias Hoppe, Jie Li, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2682 Building A Civic Tool for Community&#8211;Police Engagement to Adapt Neighborhood Policing<br>Ravinithesh Reddy Annapureddy, Sta\u0146islavs \u0160eiko, Natalie Higham-James, William Droz, Alessandro Fornaroli, Sarah Vollmer, Britta Elena Hecking, Daniel Gatica-Perez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3023 What Makes Technology Feel &#8216;Alive&#8217;: The Precursors of Perceived Consciousness in Interactive Systems Scale<br>Pawe\u0142 W. Wo\u017aniak, Jasmin Niess, Julia Dominiak, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Barbara Sienkiewicz, Konstantin R. Str\u00f6mel, Anna Walczak, Miko\u0142aj P. Wo\u017aniak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5896 Knit Joinery: Incorporating Multifunctional Materials with Single-bed Machine Knitting<br>Yi-Chin Lee, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Scott E Hudson, James McCann, Lea Albaugh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5949 Praxis Guides: Community Approaches to Resistance Efforts through Mutual Aid Zineing<br>Alesandra Baca-V\u00e1zquez, Kiara (Sunny) Dailey, Lynn Dombrowski, Angela D. R. Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5976 Sensibilities as Knowledge in Design Research<br>Mafalda Gamboa, Kristina Andersen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6024 Rushed by Discomfort, Trapped by Immersion: Users&#8217; Experiences and Responses to Privacy Deceptive Design in Commercial VR Applications<br>Hilda Hadan, Michaela Valiquette, Lennart E. Nacke, Leah Zhang-Kennedy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6188 From Nowhere to Now-here: Centering Black Senses of Place and Placemaking in Speculative Design<br>Alex Jiahong Lu, Comfort Umoren-Olorunnisomo, Caitlin Crutcher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7727 DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination<br>Liwenhan Xie, Jiayi Zhou, Anyi Rao, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8554 Warped Tour: Analyzing Design Tools Support for Multilayer Weaving Production in HCI<br>Devon Frost, Jennifer Jacobs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9474 Machine Learning as Design Material for Music Co-Creation<br>Luc\u00eda Montesinos Garc\u00eda, Anders Sundnes L\u00f8vlie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9530 Compass vs Railway Tracks: Unpacking User Mental Models for Communicating Long-Horizon Work to Humans vs. AI<br>Savvas Dimitrios Petridis, Michael Xieyang Liu, Alexander J. Fiannaca, Carrie J Cai, Michael Terry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9840 The Trials of Designing Communication Aids for Clinical Trials: Challenges and Recommendations from Practicing Co-Design in the Domain of Medical Research<br>Sarah Dunn, Bettina Weber, David Studer, Areti Manataki, Lia Bally, Benjamin Bach, Tara Capel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honourable Mention: 47 papers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1066 Conceptualizing How to Design for AI Literacy through Game Artifacts<br>Joseph Tu, Geneva M. Smith, Simone Bassanelli, Annapaola Marconi, Lennart E. Nacke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1499 Embodied AI in the Wild: Comparing Older Adults&#8217; Interactions with an Avatar and a Humanoid Robot in a Public Space<br>Eva Theresa Jahn, Ashita Ashok, Mea-Sophie Edelmann, Nora Anna Luise Hille, Mehrbod Manavi, Nadezhda Kushina, Rainer Wieching, Dave Randall, Karsten Berns, Volker Wulf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1691 The Misalignment of Technology, Democracy, and Design: A Scoping Review<br>Alma Leora Cul\u00e9n, Jasmin Niess, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Aki Axel Caspersen, Tora Jarsve, Suhas Govind Joshi, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Konstantin Str\u00f6mel, Nadine Wagener, Anna Walczak, Pawe\u0142 W. Wo\u017aniak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1895 On Designing Visceral Encounters with Synthetic Intimate Imagery<br>Alejandra G\u00f3mez Ortega, H\u00fcseyin U\u011fur Gen\u00e7, Willem van der Maden, Rob Comber, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007 Puppet Prototyping: Exploring Puppetry as a Design Method for Relational Robots<br>Ellen Weir, Ute Leonards, Anne Roudaut<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2330 Everyday Design Knowledge: A Knowledge-in-Pieces Perspective on HCI Learning<br>Alexandros Nikolaos Lotsos, Amartya Banerjee, Yizhu Wang, Mike Horn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2433 Designing Worker-Led Documentation Practices: How Unionized Cleaners Articulate Harm Beyond Reporting<br>Franchesca Spektor, Shivani Kapania, Minjung Park, Olivia Terry, Jodi Forlizzi, Sarah E Fox<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2789 Delay-Buffered Editing for Accessible Slide Presentation Videos<br>Azizul Haque, Jonggi Hong<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2810 &#8220;We are caregivers of caregivers&#8221;: Designing AI to Support the Human Infrastructure of Dementia Support Groups<br>Yuanhui Huang, Anne Marie Piper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2866 Designing Conversations with the Dead: How People Engage with Generative Ghosts<br>Jack M Manning, Daniel Sullivan, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Anthony T. Pinter, Jed R. Brubaker<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3219 &#8220;How Do I Want to Live with Type 1 Diabetes?&#8221;: Understanding Self-Management Styles to Inform the Design of T1D Technologies<br>Clara-Maria Barth, Anton Fedosov, Chat Wacharamanotham, J\u00fcrgen Bernard, Elaine M. Huang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3474 &#8220;Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger&#8221;: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Emerging Technologies for Return-to-Sport<br>Maria Chiu, Kelan Queenan, Christopher M. Bono, Casper Harteveld<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3595 Supporting Reflection on Reality Disjunction in Dementia Care: The Complementary Roles of Chatbots and Humans<br>Yvon Ruitenburg, Minha Lee, Panos Markopoulos, Wijnand IJsselsteijn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3768 Designing for Emotion Regulation in Popular Music Apps: Evaluation of MoodDJ, a Novel Spotify Plugin<br>Xanthe Lowe-Brown, Peter Koval, Solange Glasser, Greg Wadley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3937 Equity by Design: A New HCI Method for Surfacing Inclusivity Issues in Remote Collaboration Software<br>Shandler A Mason, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4015 IdeaBlocks: Expressing and Reusing Divergent Intents for Graphic Design Exploration using Generative AI<br>DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Jaesang Yu, HyunJoon Jung, Juho Kim<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4502 Exploring Embodied Expression as a Design Resource for Understanding the Dynamism of Vulnerability<br>Bhakti Moghe, Daniel Tetteroo, Maarten Houben<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4602 Translating Card Play to Tangible Tabletops: Opportunities and Challenges in Intergenerational Museum Play<br>Timothy Merritt, Rasmus Brandt S\u00f8rensen, Rasmus Kokholm M\u00f8ller, Maria-Theresa Bahodi, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Florian Echtler, Ilhan Aslan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4935 MakeAloud: Think-Aloud to Bridge Design-Fabrication Workflows<br>Ritik Batra, Kendra Wannamaker, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4946 Supporting Practitioner-Led Adaptive Switch Design: Stories and Speculative Design Opportunities for Adaptive Switch Design using GenAI<br>Karen Anne Cochrane, Bryce Arthur Moore, Jesse N Simon, Daniel Harley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5036 Artistic Practice Opportunities in CST Evaluations: A Longitudinal Group Deployment of ArtKrit<br>Catherine Liu, Tao Long, Asya Lyubavina, Chau Vu, Jiaju Ma, Jingyi Li<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5233 The Invisible Work of Robotic Surgery: How Specialists Support, Shoulder, and Sustain Human-Robot Collaboration<br>Jasper T Vermeulen, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Muge Teixeira, Alan G Burden, Matthias Guertler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5685 Creating Empowering Counter-Narratives through Collective Digital Art by Disabled People<br>Giulia Barbareschi, Chihiro Sato, Dunya Chen, sifan chen, Eimi Koga, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Kai Kunze<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5737 Interactive Intent-Based Image Recommendations for Assistive Communication: Insights from an Iterative User Study<br>Alieh Hajizadeh Saffar, Laurianne Sitbon, Sirinthip Roomkham, Manesha Andradi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5933 Fast-Food Intimacy: How Chinese Women Navigate Soul&#8217;s AI Boyfriend<br>Huiqian Lai, EunJeong Cheon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6054 Prop-Chromeleon: Adaptive Haptic Props in Mixed Reality through Generative Artificial Intelligence<br>Haoyu Wang, Fengyuan Zhu, Bingjian Huang, Zhecheng Wang, Ludwig Sidenmark<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6606 SoTA: An Interactive Art Exhibition for Public AI Engagement<br>Jeanyoon Choi, Intae Hwang, SeJoon Park, Hyungjun Cho, Heejae Bae, Yiyun Kang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6742 From Active Tests to Co-Interpretation: Design Considerations for Data Representations in Parkinson&#8217;s Care<br>Benjamin Maus, Gent Ymeri, Carl Magnus Olsson, Dario Salvi, Myrthe Wassenburg, Mareike Gloss, Per Svenningsson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6917 GamifiedLM: Co-designing an LLM-driven Gamified Learning App with University Students to Mitigate Learning Difficulties<br>Kaiyuan Tang, Kerui Chen, Shreya Gopi, Li Xie, Mark Quinlan, Youngjun Cho<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6924 Design and Evaluation of AR-Based Real-Time Feedback System for Kinesthetic Robot Teaching<br>Muhammad Bilal, Tharaka Sachintha Ratnayake, D. Antony Chacon, Nir Lipovetzky, Denny Oetomo, Wafa Johal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6959 Using the Blackbox in Embodied AI Art Practice<br>Dorothy Yuan, Connor Graham, Amanda Lim, Hiromu Yakura<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6984 ChewTect: Designing Temporal Food Texture via Computational Molding<br>Yamato Miyatake, Aoi Yamada, Huaishu Peng, Parinya Punpongsanon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7053 Making Space for Joy in Community Engaged Equity-Oriented Work in HCI<br>Ricarose Roque, Jaleesa Trapp, Alexis Hope<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7193 E.A.T.: Towards Understanding the Design of Social XR Restaurant Experiences for Diners With and Without Headsets<br>Yuchen Zheng, Hongyue Wang, Kenath Perera, Henryaldi Matio, Florian &#8216;Floyd&#8217; Mueller<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7428 Stepping Into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs to Public Exploration Through Discursive Design<br>Sarah G Immel, Neel Rajani, Rayo Verweij, Jingjie Li, Bettina Nissen, Luis Louren\u00e7o Soares, Alex S Taylor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7475 Consentful Lights: Designing for Consent when Sharing Intimate Fertility Data<br>Alejandra G\u00f3mez Ortega, Joo Young Park, Anna St\u00e5hl, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Shradha Shivaji Retharekar, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7615 Systemic Futures: Integrating Critical Speculation and Systemic Design Pragmatism<br>Emily Wong, Fraser Paxton, Henry Pook, John Howe, Jens Emil Sloth Gr\u00f8nb\u00e6k, Wafa Johal, Eduardo Velloso, Frank Vetere<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7651 Who Owns the Robot Matters: How Robot Ownership Shapes Belonging and Social Roles in Human Groups<br>Tuan Vu Pham, Judith D\u00f6rrenb\u00e4cher, Thomas H. Weisswange, Marc Hassenzahl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7813 When Heritage Folk Artists Meet Generative AI: A case of Chitrakars of Naya<br>Anasmita Ghoshal, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7884 &#8220;There Is Beauty in the Small&#8221;: A Study of Visual Artists&#8217; Attitudes toward Small-Data and Model Crafting Approaches to Creative AI Work<br>Ahmed M. Abuzuraiq, Arshia Sobhan, Alexandra Kitson, Philippe Pasquier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8242 The Cat Fiction: Orchestrating Situated AI-Enabled Storytelling for Multispecies Sense-Making<br>Zhen-Chi Lai, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, Rung-Huei Liang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8881 MediMate: Co-Crafting Patient-Centered Medical Explanations Using LLMs as a Rehearsal Partner<br>Yifan Jin, Shizhen Zhang, Dongjun Chen, Yang Ouyang, Yuheng Shao, Chang Jiang, Hanlu Li, Quan Li<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8885 The Ambivalent Experience of Eye Contact for People with Visual Impairments: Mechanisms and Design Challenges<br>Markus Wieland, Phillip Koch, Michael Sedlmair<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9420 Artificial Intelligence at the Margins: Risks and Opportunities for Iranian Immigrant Nonprofits in the Global North<br>Maryam Mokhberi, Dipto Das, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9881 HanaARrange: Designing An Augmented Reality Support System for Daily Ikebana Practice and Well-being<br>Xiyue Wang, Zeynep Eda Altintop, Derek Kirschbaum, Miao Cheng, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Chiahuei Tseng<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9893 Temporal awareness and ethical reflection: Chronopolitical considerations for HCI research<br>Marguerite Barry, Fiona McDermott, Daniel Snow, Jacinta Jardine, Maria Murray, Irum Rauf, Shelby Hagemann, Camille Nadal, Sarah Robinson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9910 Group Conversational Agents: A Review of Designs that Support and Shape Group Interaction<br>ShunYi Yeo, Tianyi Zhang, Scott Bateman, Gary Hsieh, Young-Ho Kim, Simon Tangi Perrault, Jiannan Li, Anthony Tang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Paper and Honourable Mention Awards 2026 Best Paper: 16 papers Honourable Mention: 47 papers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-778","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dis.acm.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}