Authors from the University of Cambridge have contributed to 21 papers to the 2026 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), including one Best Paper award and four Honourable Mentions. There is further Cambridge representation in the Poster, Workshop, and Meet-Up programmes.
The ACM CHI conference is the most prestigious venue in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), with a current h5-index of 139 and CORE ranking of A* (the top 8.4% of 750 ranked venues in computer science). ACM CHI is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group (SIG) for HCI in the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). CHI was launched in 1982, arising from a longer, storied history in HCI research and practice.
We start by acknowledging special recognitions, exclusive invites, and community service:
- đïž Professor Per Ola Kristensson was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy, and also held roles as a CHI Steering Committee member and the CHI 2026/2027 Technical Program Chair (TPC) liaison.
- Zhuoyue Lyu acted as Visa Co-Chair.
- Xiang Li acted as Assistant to the TPC.
- Associate Chairs (ACs) included John Dudley, Florian Fischer, Per Ola Kristensson, Katie Seaborn, and Danqing Shi.
- Student Mentoring Program (SMP) invitees included Zhuoyue Lyu and Junlong Chen.
You can peruse the entire CHI '26 programme here or find items and events for the University of Cambridge here.
Papers
- Access Over Deception: Fighting Deceptive Patterns through Accessibility
Tobias Pellkvist, Katie Seaborn, Miu Kojima - Objestures: Everyday Objects Meet Mid-Air Gestures for Expressive Interaction
Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensson - đ Who Controls the Conversation? User Perspectives On Generative AI (LLM) System Prompts - BEST PAPER
Anna Neumann, Yulu Pi, Jatinder Singh - đ Understanding Workplace Relatedness Support among Healthcare Professionals: A Four-Layer Model and Implications for Technology Design - HONOURABLE MENTION
Zheyuan Zhang, Dorian Peters, Lan Xiao, Jingjing Sun, Laura Moradbakhti, Andrew Hall, Rafael A Calvo - Grand Challenges around Designing Computersâ Control Over Our Bodies
Florian âFloydâ Mueller, Nadia Berthouze, Misha Sra, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Henning Pohl, Susanne Boll, Richard Byrne, Arthur Caetano, Masahiko Inami, Jarrod Knibbe, Per Ola Kristensson, Xiang Li, Zhuying Li, Joe Marshall, Louise Petersen Matjeka, Minna Nygren, Rakesh Patibanda, Sara Price, Harald Reiterer, Aryan Saini, Oliver Schneider, Ambika Shahu, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Don Samitha Elvitigala - SimStep: Human-in-the-Loop Authoring of Interactive Educational Simulations Through Task-Level Abstractions
Zoe Kaputa, Anika Rajaram, Vryan Feliciano, Zhuoyue Lyu, Maneesh Agrawala, Hariharan Subramonyam - Creating and Evaluating Personas Using Generative AI: A Scoping Review of 81 Articles
Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Farhan Ahmed, Sonja M.H. Tervola, Sankalp Sethi, Bernard J. Jansen - Human-AI Interaction for Time-Critical Sensemaking in Missing Persons Investigations
Pola Zuzanna Labedzka, Dorian Peters, John J Dudley, Miri Zilka - The Limits of Stakeholder Participation in Safety-Critical Contexts: Lessons from Air Traffic Control
Emma Marlene Kallina, Constanze M Leeb, Jatinder Singh - Agent-Supported Foresight for AI Systemic Risks: AI Agents for Breadth, Experts for Judgment
Leon Fröhling, Alessandro Giaconia, Edyta Paulina Bogucka, Daniele Quercia - "It didnât feel right but I needed a job so desperately": Understanding Peopleâs Emotions and Help Needs During Scams
Jake Chanenson, Tara Matthews, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Jessica McClearn, Sarah Meiklejohn, Abhishek Roy, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Amelia Hassoun - Supporting Effective Goal Setting with LLM-Based Chatbots
Michel Schimpf, Sebastian Maier, Anton Wyrowski, Lara Christoforakos, Stefan Feuerriegel, Thomas Bohné - Radical Gender Neutrality: Agender Euphoria in Gaming and Play Experiences
Katie Seaborn, Shano Liang, Rua Mae Williams, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas - Who Does What? Archetypes of Roles Assigned to LLMs During Human-AI Decision-Making
Shreya Chappidi, Jatinder Singh, Andra Valentina Krauze - Unbounded: Object-Boundary Interactions in Mixed Reality
Zhuoyue Lyu, Per Ola Kristensson - đ Cost-Aware Bayesian Optimization for Interactive Devices - HONOURABLE MENTION
Thomas Langerak, Renate Zhang, Ziyuan Wang, Per Ola Kristensson, Antti Oulasvirta - đ KNIT: Computational Boundary Objects for Real-Time Convergence in Interdisciplinary Teams - HONOURABLE MENTION
Echo Chuqiao Wan, Carrie Yin, Akira Ito, Ziwei Gao, Jasper Jia, Yuki Taoka, Shigeki Saito, Malak Sadek, CĂ©line Mougenot - How Do We Evaluate Experiences in Immersive Environments?
Xiang Li, Wei He, Per Ola Kristensson - đ âItâs Just a Wild, Wild Westâ: Harnessing Public Procurement as an AI Governance Mechanism - HONOURABLE MENTION
Anna Ida Hudig, Emma Marlene Kallina, Jatinder Singh - Operationalizing Perceptions of Agent Gender: Foundations and Guidelines
Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds, Ilaria Torre, Martina De Cet, Katie Winkle, Marcus Göransson - Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners Evaluate LLM Products in the Wild
Willem van der Maden, Malak Sadek, Ziang Xiao, Aske Mottelson, Q. Vera Liao, Jichen Zhu - Privacy in Human-AI Romantic Relationships: Concerns, Boundaries, and Agency
Rongjun Ma, Shijing He, Jose Luis Martin-Navarro, Xiao Zhan, Jose Such - Privacy and Safety Experiences and Concerns of U.S. Women Using Generative AI for Seeking Sexual and Reproductive Health Information
Ina Kaleva, Xiao Zhan, Ruba Abu-Salma, Jose Such
Posters
- Investigating Personalised Avatars with Face Tracking in Social VR
Samuel E R Thompson, Dominik Cyrillus Lange-Nawka, Burkhard WĂŒnsche - A Preliminary Study of Wearable OlfactoryâThermal Feedback for Immersive VR Cultural Heritage
Hanbing Wang, Xiang Li, Kexin Nie, Yunfeng Shu, Xizi Liu, Xiwen Liu, Yingying Liu, Zhixin Cai, Mingjie Zhou, Xianqi Wang, Li Zhao, Chunling Wu, Lie Zhang - Human-in-the-Loop Egyptology: A System for Ancient Egyptian Text Study
Innokentiy Humonen, Maksim Golyadkin, Valeria Rubanova, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Alexandre A Loktionov, Ilya Makarov - MyoInteract: Fast and Usable Reinforcement Learning for Biomechanical Simulations in HCI
Ankit Bhattarai, Hannah Selder, Florian Fischer, Arthur Fleig, Per Ola Kristensson
Workshops
- Bridge Over Troubled Water: Aligning Commercial Incentives With Ethical Design Practice To Combat Deceptive Patterns
Thomas Essmeyer, Johanna Gunawan, Colin M. Gray, Lorena SĂĄnchez Chamorro, Alberto Monge Roffarello, Katie Seaborn, Hauke Sandhaus, Kai Lukoff, Gian-Luca Savino, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Satoshi Nakamura - HCI-TERRA: HCI Towards EnviRonmentally Responsible AI
Georgia Panagiotidou, Christina Bremer, Silvia Cazacu, Sinem GörĂŒcĂŒ, Nanna Inie, Luiz A. Morais, Raghavendra Selvan, Ben Snaith, Ana Valdivia - Participatory Data Governance in Practice
Jovan Powar, Emma Marlene Kallina, Anna Ida Hudig, Jatinder Singh, Lin Kyi, Heleen Janssen, Genevieve Smith, Renwen Zhang - Ethics at the Front-End: Responsible User-Facing Design for AI Systems
Dorian Peters, Tomasz Hollanek, Naseem Ahmadpour, Rafael A Calvo, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Christian Dindler, Colin M. Gray, Shaimaa Lazem, Gizem Ăz, Nadia Piet - Cultivating Pedagogies for Post-Growth HCI
Vishal Sharma, Hongjin Lin, Jasmine Lu, Han Qiao, Asra Sakeen Wani, Christina Bremer, Philip Engelbutzeder, Christoph Becker, Neha Kumar, Rikke Hagensby Jensen, Anupriya Tuli
Meet-Ups
- How Could AI Supply Chain Research Shape HCI Inquiries And Vice-Versa?
Inha Cha, David Gray Widder, Blair Attard-Frost, Jatinder Singh, Agathe Balayn - The Role of AI in HCI Education
Per Ola Kristensson, Elizabeth F Churchill, Kasper HornbĂŠk, Antti Oulasvirta, Malak Sadek, Albrecht Schmidt, Lin-Ping Yuan