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CHI '26Creative Coding & Computational Art +2

Req2CAD: bridging functional requirements and parametric CAD models to support conceptual 3D design

Conceptual CAD requires transforming functional requirements into parametric 3D models, yet existing systems have steep learning curves and limit creativity through premature fixation. Generative AI shows promise in producing diverse alternatives, while current methods mainly reconstruct CAD modeling sequences of exis…

CHI '26Honorable MentionHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

KNIT: Computational Boundary Objects for Real-Time Convergence in Interdisciplinary Teams

Interdisciplinary teams developing complex technologies such as healthtech struggle to align disciplinary perspectives, stakeholder priorities, and evolving problem framings, particularly during rapid iteration, when existing collaboration tools offer limited support for in-session negotiation. We present KNIT, an AI-…

CHI '26Honorable MentionRobots in Education & Healthcare +3

Take the Dog to the Park: Quadruped Robot for Joint Attention Training with Autistic Children in Naturalistic Settings

Robot-supported interventions for joint attention (JA) in autistic children have shown encouraging outcomes, yet most remain confined to stationary robots in indoor settings, limiting opportunities for skill generalization and broader developmental benefits. We introduce an intervention that employs a quadruped robot…

CHI '26Haptic Wearables +2

Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings

Direct interaction with digital synthesisers using audio signals can offer opportunities for intimate and nuanced interaction in digital musical instrument designs. Unlike acoustic instruments, these hybrid instruments tend to follow a unidirectional interaction structure: tactile gestures generate audio signals that…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +4

Human-AI Interaction for Time-Critical Sensemaking in Missing Persons Investigations

Every year an estimated 200,000 people go missing in the UK alone. Missing persons investigations involve challenging time-critical sensemaking tasks based on fragmented data sources. This paper describes a mixed-methods participatory study evaluating data science and AI-driven techniques (summarisation, fact extracti…

CHI '26AI-Assisted Creative Writing +2

Sci-Fi Spark: A Human-AI Co-Creation System for Science Fiction Ideation

In science fiction writing, ideation demands both novelty to construct fictional worlds and consistency to maintain internal and temporal logic within those worlds. While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted as co-creators, generated ideas often lack surprise and struggle to maintain consistency. More…

CHI '26Honorable MentionWorkplace Wellbeing & Work Stress +1

Understanding Workplace Relatedness Support among Healthcare Professionals: A Four-Layer Model and Implications for Technology Design

Healthcare professionals (HCPs) face increasing occupational stress and burnout. Supporting HCPs’ need for relatedness is fundamental to their psychological wellbeing and resilience. However, how technologies could support HCPs’ relatedness in the workplace remains less explored. This study incorporated semi-structure…

CHI '26Shape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +2

Holding MenstaRay: Expressing Menstrual Pain through Tactile and Knitted Soft Robotic Interactions

Menstrual pain is an embodied, unpredictable, and diverse lived experience. However, current menstrual tracking technologies mainly adopt medicalised and quantitative approaches, reducing pain to numerical data, concealing its organic and messy nature. To uncover the felt, lived experience of pain, we explored soft ro…

CHI '26Community Engagement & Civic Technology +2

From Participation to Relational Engagement: Psychological Ownership in Digital Petitions

Online petitions are a central tool of digital advocacy, but often collapse into “slacktivism”—minimal engagement that rarely leads to meaningful change. We use Psychological Ownership (PO) as a design lens to evaluate how the sense of “mineness” can deepen participation into richer relational engagement with a cause.…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

``It Hasn’t Lived in Our Society”: Investigating Cultural Sensitivity in LLM Chatbots for Emotional Support

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer potential benefits for increasing access to digital well-being support, yet their application raises important questions about risks and responsible implementation. This paper examines a critical, often overlooked, dimension of LLM safety: cultural and social alignment in underrepres…

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