CHI 2026 Roundup: HCIL students and faculty publish 19 papers, win two honorable mentions

Once again, the HCIL will have a strong presence at this year’s ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026), which will be held in Barcelona, Spain in April 2026.
HCIL students and faculty are authors on 19 papers, four workshops, and one poster. We’re also excited to share that two papers received honorable mentions, which are awarded to the top 5% of all submitted papers. Details on all accepted works are listed below. The full CHI 2026 program can be accessed here.
Congratulations to everyone who had work accepted at this year’s conference and we hope to see many of you in Barcelona!
Papers
- HONORABLE MENTION: Kyungyeon Lee, Jai Vaichalkar, Arnav Dadarya, Wooje Chang, Atsshi Kikumoto, and Jun Nishida – FIXical I/O: Exploring the Effects of Real-time Error Sensing and Physical Intervention on Finger-based Motor Sequence Learning
- HONORABLE MENTION: Amanda Lazar, Elissa Carpio, Ruipu Hu, Beth Barnett, Kibron Tesfatsion, & Sheena Erete – Interrogating the “Us” Versus “Them” Dichotomy in Technology Research with Older Adults
- Huaishu Peng, Zeyu Yan, and others – Restoring Human Authenticity in AI-Mediated Communication
- Valentina Hong, Hal Daume, Katie Shilton, and others – Surveilling Suitability: How AI Hiring Interviews Impact Job Seekers with Disabilities
- Jong Ho Lee & Stephanie Valencia — Do-It-Yourself AAC: Co-Designing User-Programmable AI Communication Tools with People with Aphasia
- Gabe Kaptchuk and others – “Having Confidence in My Confidence Intervals”: How Data Users Engage with Privacy-Protected Wikipedia Data
- Ruipu Hu, Eun Kyoung Choe, and Amanda Lazar – Looking Beyond the Screen to Study the Technology Use of Older People Experiencing Cognitive Concerns
- Conor Baumler & Hal Daume – When Stereotypes GTG: The Impact of Predictive Text Suggestions on Gender Bias in Human-AI Co-Writing
- Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati, Yuehan Qiao, Hal Daume, and Hernisa Kacorri – Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users
- Jason Ding and others – Towards AI as Colleagues: Multi-Agent System Improves Structured Ideation Processes
- Yongle Zhang & Ge Gao – Are Conversational AI Agents the Way Out? Co-Designing Reader-Oriented News Experiences with Immigrants and Journalists
- Elana Blinder, beth bonsignore, & Tammy Clegg – “Even though you feel like it’s good, it isn’t”: Surfacing the Ethical Priorities of Powerful Male Youth Targeted for Racial Oppression through Evaluating and Co-Designing XR Utopian and Dystopian Use Cases
- Phoebe Moh and others – From A to Zines: Narrative Threat Modeling in U.S. Reproductive Health Media
- Jiasheng Li, Zining Zhang, Zeyu Yan, Matthew Wong, Arnav Mittal, Ge Gao, & Huaishu Peng – As Content and Layout Co-Evolve: TangibleSite for Scaffolding Blind People’s Webpage Design through Multimodal Interaction
- Sheena Erete, Jessa Dickinson, Hawra Rabaan, Anthonia Carter, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, and others – ROOTED in Us: A Framework for Cultivating Community Ecosystems through Relationships and Data
- Hansika Murugu and others — Exploring Aggressors’ In‑Match Cognitive and Emotional Formation and Toxic Behavior Trajectories in MOBA Games
- Fumeng Yang and others – Codesigning Ripplet: An LLM-Assisted Assessment Authoring System Grounded in a Conceptual Model of Teachers’ Workflows
- Fumeng Yang and others – Through a Live Elections Dashboard, Darkly: Managing Expectations and Trust in Progressive Vote Counting During the 2024 U.S. Election
- Stephanie Valencia and others – I, Robot? Exploring Ultra-Personalized AI-Powered AAC; an Autoethnographic Account
WORKSHOPS
- Jessica Vitak, Sheena Erete, Tammy Clegg, and others – Developmentally Safe Generative AI Environment for Youth
- Jun Nishida and others – Body Transformation Experiences: A workshop on How to Elicit, Assess and Support them through Multisensory Technology
- Ge Gao and others – Restoring Human Authenticity in AI-Mediated Communication
- Sheena Erete and others – Participation, Procurement & Proof of Impact in Public Sector AI Innovation
POSTERS
- Yoon Kyung Shon, Kyungyeon Lee, Jun Nishida, & Pablo Paredes – When Awareness Isn’t Enough: Exploring Physical Interventions for Nail-Biting


