George Mason University

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CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Improving User Interface Generation Models from Designer Feedback

Despite being trained on vast amounts of data, most LLMs are unable to reliably generate well-designed UIs. Designer feedback is essential to improving performance on UI generation; however, we find that existing RLHF methods based on ratings or rankings are not well-aligned with with designers' workflows and ignore t…

CHI '26Conversational Chatbots +2

Rehearsing the Self with AI: Teens Cross-Domain Use of Chatbots

Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT are increasingly embedded in teens’ everyday routines—not just for academic support, but emotional expression, identity rehearsal, and social interaction. Drawing on interviews with 20 U.S. teens aged 13–18, this paper examines how chatbots are used across academic, emotional, and s…

CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +3

HieraVisVR: Hierarchical Visual Analytics for Motion-Centric VR Playtesting

Playtesting is widely used in the game industry to identify design flaws and evaluate player experience, yet little research explores how to effectively visualize and analyze playtesting data. This challenge is particularly pronounced in motion-based VR games, which involve physical movements and interactions tracked…

CHI '26Participatory Design +3

Designing for Upstream Work: Learnings from Co-Design for Preventative Solutions with Urban Fire Departments

Scholars and practitioners in public health and social welfare increasingly recognize the need for preventative interventions that address root causes rather than respond to emergent crisis. However, they face significant challenges in designing tools and demonstrating success for these initiatives. We characterize th…

CHI '26Digital Emotional Expression & Transmission +2

PuppetChat: Fostering Intimate Communication through Bidirectional Actions and Micronarratives

As a primary channel for sustaining modern intimate relationships, instant messaging facilitates frequent connection across distances. However, today's tools often dilute care; they favor single tap reactions and vague emojis that do not support two way action responses, do not preserve the feeling that the exchange k…

CHI '26Intelligent Tutoring Systems & Learning Analytics +2

Designing AI Peers for Collaborative Mathematical Problem Solving with Middle School Students: A Participatory Design Study

Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is a fundamental practice in middle-school mathematics education; however, student groups frequently stall or struggle without ongoing teacher support. Recent work has explored how Generative AI tools can be designed to support one-on-one tutoring, but little is known about how AI c…

CHI '26Privacy by Design & User Control +3

From A to Zines: Narrative Threat Modeling in U.S. Reproductive Health Media

Post-Roe, people capable of pregnancy face fragmented reproductive privacy landscapes in the United States (U.S.), with risks spanning legal, digital, and interpersonal domains. These conditions demand new forms of privacy guidance. We analyzed 212 reproductive health zines—a DIY, subversive, and collectively produced…

CHI '26Empowerment of Marginalized Groups +2

Care Workers' Risk Work: How Nannies Manage Invisible Threats in Employers' Homes

Extending prior HCI and CSCW research on the invisible challenges domestic care workers face, we examine how childcare workers, particularly nannies, experience and manage workplace risks. Drawing on interviews with 21 nannies, we identified three interrelated risks—physical, emotional, and financial—arising from stru…

CHI '26Teleoperation & Telepresence +3

Designing Multi-Robot Ground Video Sensemaking with Public Safety Professionals

Videos from fleets of ground robots can advance public safety by providing scalable situational awareness and reducing professionals’ burden. Yet little is known about how to design and integrate multi-robot videos into public safety workflows. Collaborating with six police agencies, we examined how such videos coul…

CHI '26Multi-User Large Display Collaboration +2

Exploring Collaborative Immersive Visualization & Analytics for High-Dimensional Scientific Data through Domain Expert Perspectives

Cross-disciplinary teams increasingly work with high-dimensional scientific datasets, yet fragmented toolchains and limited support for shared exploration hinder collaboration. Prior immersive visualization & analytics research has emphasized individual interaction, leaving open how multi-user collaboration can be sup…

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