Aalto University

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192

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#28

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Adaptive Prompt Elicitation for Text-to-Image Generation

Aligning text-to-image generation with user intent remains challenging, as users frequently provide ambiguous inputs and struggle with model idiosyncrasies. We propose Adaptive Prompt Elicitation (APE), a technique that adaptively poses visual queries to help users refine prompts without extensive writing. Our technic…

IUI '26Best PaperEye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +2

Gazeify Then Voiceify: Physical Object Referencing Through Gaze and Voice Interaction with Displayless Smart Glasses

Smart glasses enhance interactions with the environment by using head-mounted cameras to observe the user’s viewpoint , but lack the visual feedback used for common interactions. We introduce "Gazeify then Voiceify", a multimodal approach allowing object selection via gaze and voice using displayless smart glasses. Us…

IUI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +3

Making the Making Visible: How Process Evidence and Individual Differences Affect People's Creativity Judgments of Text-to-Image Generative AI

Generative AI tools for image creation are now mainstream, yet we know little about when and why observers judge them as "creative". Previous human-robot interaction research suggests that revealing the creation process can raise perceived machine creativity and points that observer differences may moderate this effec…

IUI '26Social & Collaborative VR +3

"Pathways to the Metaverse": Exploring the User Experience Mechanisms Driving Technology Acceptance in Virtual Lab Visits with an LLM-powered Avatar

Metaverse environments combined with large language models (LLMs) enable guided interaction through LLM-powered avatars that function as embodied conversational agents. In our study, we examined how scholars interact with an LLM-powered avatar modeled after a real professor during a virtual reality (VR) tour of a rese…

CHI '26Honorable MentionHand Gesture Recognition +2

Log2Motion: Biomechanical Motion Synthesis from Touch Logs

Touch data from mobile devices are collected at scale but reveal little about the interactions that produce them. While biomechanical simulations can illuminate motor control processes, they have not yet been developed for touch interactions. To close this gap, we propose a novel computational problem: synthesizing pl…

CHI '26Privacy by Design & User Control +2

PrivWeb: Unobtrusive and Content-aware Privacy Protection For Web Agents

While web agents gained popularity by automating web interactions, their requirement for interface access introduces privacy risks that are understudied, particularly from users' perspective. Through a formative study (N=15), we found that users frequently misunderstand agent data practices, and desire unobtrusive, tr…

CHI '26Full-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +2

Point & Grasp: Flexible Selection of Out-of-Reach Objects Through Probabilistic Cue Integration

Selecting out-of-reach objects is a fundamental task in mixed reality (MR). Existing methods rely on a single cue or deterministically fuse multiple cues, leading to performance degradation when the dominant cue becomes unreliable. In this work, we introduce a probabilistic cue integration framework that enables fle…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Automate, Assist, Avoid: Caseworkers’ Perspectives on Applying Large Language Model-Based Assistance in Public Sector Decision-Making Processes

Large language models (LLMs) are being introduced into the public sector – for example, to assist caseworkers in making decisions on citizens’ cases. However, there is limited knowledge of how LLM tools can be used effectively in this complex task, including legal and cultural variables. This qualitative study foregro…

CHI '26Privacy & Data Ownership in Self-Tracking +2

Do Users Even Care If Reused Smart Garments Reveal Earlier Users' Data? -- Anticipating Privacy Implications in the Circular Economy

Smart garments and circular-economy endeavours nurture imaginaries of sustainable futures. However, these trends' intersection involves privacy risks: when the smart garments are recycled, their biometric data should be erased, to protect earlier users' privacy. Unfortunately, this data erasure may not always occur. T…

CHI '26Gender & Race Issues in HCI +2

Race to the Big Lab: Gender Disparities in Large Team Collaboration and Its Impact on Early Academic Careers

This study investigates the role of large-team collaboration in shaping early-career scholars’ career development, with a focus on gender disparities. Using publication and collaboration data from SciSciNet in Computer Science, we capture the social capital accumulation process in academia with a neighborhood-based ce…

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AI & Machine Learning Interaction

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Gesture, Body & Motion Interaction

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