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Everyday Design with Surrounds: Rehearsing Alternatives Amid Urban Sociotechnical Changes

This paper rethinks everyday design by shifting from materially available, physical ``surroundings'' as design resources to the unsettled, open-ended, and politically entangled ``surrounds'' as sites of practice. Drawing from ethnographies in New York City and Detroit, we describe how urban communities rehearse altern…

CHI '26Honorable MentionHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Large Language Models in Peer-Run Community Behavioral Health Services: Understanding Peer Specialists and Service Users’ Perspectives on Opportunities, Risks, and Mitigation Strategies

Peer-run organizations (PROs) provide critical, recovery-based behavioral health support rooted in lived experience. As large language models (LLMs) enter this domain, their scale, conversationality, and opacity introduce new challenges for situatedness, trust, and autonomy. Partnering with Collaborative Support Progr…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Relief or displacement? How teachers are negotiating generative AI's role in their professional practice

As generative AI (genAI) rapidly enters classrooms, accompanied by district-level policy rollouts and industry-led teacher trainings, it is important to rethink the canonical “adopt and train” playbook. Decades of educational technology research show that tools promising personalization and access often deepen inequit…

CHI '26Early Childhood Education Technology +2

When Less Can Be More: Evaluating the Impact of Animated and Interactive Demonstrations in Voice-Assisted Counting Games for Young Children

Early counting forms a critical foundation for numeracy, involving coordination of visual representations, verbal number words, and physical actions such as pointing. Designing effective technologies for young children, therefore requires careful calibration of multimodal features. This study investigated how differen…

CHI '26Participatory Design +2

Confronting the Discursive–Material Power of Storyboards: Toward Participatory Storyboarding

Storyboarding is a key method in design research and practice, widely used for ideation, communication, and critique of design prototypes. This article repositions storyboards as critical design artifacts with discursive and material power that mediates expertise and imaginaries of design futures. Drawing from a case…

CHI '26Misinformation & Fact-Checking +1

Evaluating Peer Fact-Checking on WhatsApp

Private messaging platforms hinder public oversight, making misinformation hard to counter. Meanwhile, platforms are pivoting to crowdsourced verification amid waning trust in institutional fact-checkers. This raises a critical question: how do peer corrections compare with local journalists or fact-checking tiplines?…

CHI '26Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +3

Beyond the Silence: How Men Navigate Infertility Through Digital Communities and Data Sharing

Men experiencing infertility face unique challenges navigating Traditional Masculinity Ideologies that discourage emotional expression and help-seeking. This study examines how Reddit's r/maleinfertility community helps overcome these barriers through digital support networks. Using topic modeling (115 topics), networ…

CHI '26Technology Ethics & Critical HCI +3

Counter-Visual Artifacts: Negotiating Surveillance and Carceral Visuality in Public Housing through Videovoice

U.S. public housing is historically a site of racialized and carceral surveillance. Digital surveillance technologies reinforce this containment by mediating carceral visuality, the institutionalized visual and analytic lenses that shape perceptions and governance of public housing spaces and residents. This paper pre…

CHI '26Participatory Design +2

Rethinking Knowledge Sharing as (Re)Orientations through Intergenerational Participatory Speculative Design

This paper reconsiders knowledge sharing as a relational process of disorientation and reorientation, which is a way of turning toward others, the world, and possible futures. Drawing on an intergenerational participatory speculative design project in a historically Black neighborhood, we show how seniors and youth sh…

CSCW '25Fighting Misinformation, Building Believability

“If it has an exclamation point, I step away from it, I need facts, not excited feelings”: Technologically Mediated Parental COVID Uncertainty

As a novel virus, COVID introduced considerable uncertainty into the daily lives of people all over the globe since late 2019. Relying on twenty-three semi-structured interviews with parents whose children contracted COVID, we analyzed how the use of social media moderated parental uncertainty about the symptoms, prog…

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