🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Exploring Fairy Cursor as a Form of AI Agent for In-the-Flow Assistance: Design Opportunities and Challenges
Yining Cao; James Hollan; Haijun Xia
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Shifting Narrative Salience: Fine-Tuning LLMs as a Design Intervention in Generative Design Fiction
Piyum Fernando; Nipuni Siyambalapitiya; Tharindu S Kumarage
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Beyond Project Time: Multiple Years of Living with a Slow Technology Research Product
William Odom
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
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
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
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
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
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
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Knit Joinery: Incorporating Multifunctional Materials with Single-bed Machine Knitting
Yi-Chin Lee; Vernelle A. A. Noel; Scott E Hudson; James McCann; Lea Albaugh
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Praxis Guides: Community Approaches to Resistance Efforts through Mutual Aid Zineing
Alesandra Baca-Vázquez; Kiara (Sunny) Dailey; Lynn Dombrowski; Angela D. R. Smith
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Sensibilities as Knowledge in Design Research
Mafalda Gamboa; Kristina Andersen
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
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
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
From Nowhere to Now-here: Centering Black Senses of Place and Placemaking in Speculative Design
Alex Jiahong Lu; Comfort Umoren-Olorunnisomo; Caitlin Crutcher
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination
Liwenhan Xie; Jiayi Zhou; Anyi Rao; Huamin Qu; Xinhuan Shu
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Warped Tour: Analyzing Design Tools Support for Multilayer Weaving Production in HCI
Devon Frost; Jennifer Jacobs
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Machine Learning as Design Material for Music Co-Creation
Lucía Montesinos García; Anders Sundnes Løvlie
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
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
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Conceptualizing How to Design for AI Literacy through Game Artifacts
Joseph Tu; Geneva M. Smith; Simone Bassanelli; Annapaola Marconi; Lennart E. Nacke
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
On Designing Visceral Encounters with Synthetic Intimate Imagery
Alejandra Gómez Ortega; Hüseyin Uğur Genç; Willem van der Maden; Rob Comber; Airi Lampinen; Madeline Balaam
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Puppet Prototyping: Exploring Puppetry as a Design Method for Relational Robots
Ellen Weir; Ute Leonards; Anne Roudaut
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Everyday Design Knowledge: A Knowledge-in-Pieces Perspective on HCI Learning
Alexandros Nikolaos Lotsos; Amartya Banerjee; Yizhu Wang; Mike Horn
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Delay-Buffered Editing for Accessible Slide Presentation Videos
Azizul Haque; Jonggi Hong
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
“We are caregivers of caregivers”: Designing AI to Support the Human Infrastructure of Dementia Support Groups
Yuanhui Huang; Anne Marie Piper
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
“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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
“Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Emerging Technologies for Return-to-Sport
Maria Chiu; Kelan Queenan; Christopher M. Bono; Casper Harteveld
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Supporting Reflection on Reality Disjunction in Dementia Care: The Complementary Roles of Chatbots and Humans
Yvon Ruitenburg; Minha Lee; Panos Markopoulos; Wijnand IJsselsteijn
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Designing for Emotion Regulation in Popular Music Apps: Evaluation of MoodDJ, a Novel Spotify Plugin
Xanthe Lowe-Brown; Peter Koval; Solange Glasser; Greg Wadley
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Equity by Design: A New HCI Method for Surfacing Inclusivity Issues in Remote Collaboration Software
Shandler A Mason; Sandeep Kaur Kuttal
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
IdeaBlocks: Expressing and Reusing Divergent Intents for Graphic Design Exploration using Generative AI
DaEun Choi; Kihoon Son; Jaesang Yu; HyunJoon Jung; Juho Kim
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Exploring Embodied Expression as a Design Resource for Understanding the Dynamism of Vulnerability
Bhakti Moghe; Daniel Tetteroo; Maarten Houben
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
MakeAloud: Think-Aloud to Bridge Design-Fabrication Workflows
Ritik Batra; Kendra Wannamaker; George Fitzmaurice; Justin Matejka
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Artistic Practice Opportunities in CST Evaluations: A Longitudinal Group Deployment of ArtKrit
Catherine Liu; Tao Long; Asya Lyubavina; Chau Vu; Jiaju Ma; Jingyi Li
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Interactive Intent-Based Image Recommendations for Assistive Communication: Insights from an Iterative User Study
Alieh Hajizadeh Saffar; Laurianne Sitbon; Sirinthip Roomkham; Manesha Andradi
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Fast-Food Intimacy: How Chinese Women Navigate Soul’s AI Boyfriend
Huiqian Lai; EunJeong Cheon
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Prop-Chromeleon: Adaptive Haptic Props in Mixed Reality through Generative Artificial Intelligence
Haoyu Wang; Fengyuan Zhu; Bingjian Huang; Zhecheng Wang; Ludwig Sidenmark
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
SoTA: An Interactive Art Exhibition for Public AI Engagement
Jeanyoon Choi; Intae Hwang; SeJoon Park; Hyungjun Cho; Heejae Bae; Yiyun Kang
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Using the Blackbox in Embodied AI Art Practice
Dorothy Yuan; Connor Graham; Amanda Lim; Hiromu Yakura
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
ChewTect: Designing Temporal Food Texture via Computational Molding
Yamato Miyatake; Aoi Yamada; Huaishu Peng; Parinya Punpongsanon
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
Making Space for Joy in Community Engaged Equity-Oriented Work in HCI
Ricarose Roque; Jaleesa Trapp; Alexis Hope
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
When Heritage Folk Artists Meet Generative AI: A case of Chitrakars of Naya
Anasmita Ghoshal; Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
“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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
The Cat Fiction: Orchestrating Situated AI-Enabled Storytelling for Multispecies Sense-Making
Zhen-Chi Lai; Janet Yi-Ching Huang; Rung-Huei Liang
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
The Ambivalent Experience of Eye Contact for People with Visual Impairments: Mechanisms and Design Challenges
Markus Wieland; Phillip Koch; Michael Sedlmair
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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
🏆 2026Honorable Mention
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