University College London

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CHI '26Game UX & Player Behavior +2

Playing for Wellness: A Diary Study of Videogame Usage and Adolescent Wellbeing

Adolescence is often associated with emotional upheaval and teens themselves value support with their emotions. HCI research on emotion regulation has focused on lab-based interventions for those with the greatest needs. This paper explores how adolescents use commercially available videogames in their daily envir…

CHI '26One-Handed Operation & Mobile Gestures +1

Understanding How Mobile Interactions Shape Grasp and Contact Patterns Beyond the Touchscreen

The way users hold a smartphone depends on the interaction task, yet little is known about the fingers' engagement with the device's surfaces beyond the touchscreen. Such an understanding not only opens up opportunities for novel on- and off-screen interactions, but also the device’s possible physical affordances. We…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Orality: A Semantic Canvas for Externalizing and Clarifying Thoughts with Speech

People speak aloud to externalize thoughts as one way to help clarify and organize them. Although Speech-to-text can capture these thoughts, transcripts can be difficult to read and make sense due to disfluencies, repetitions and potential disorganization. To support thinking through verbalization, we introduce ORALIT…

CHI '26Honorable MentionHealth Self-Tracking +3

From Sleep Scores to Self-Knowledge: Older Adults’ Experiences with Tracking Sleep Using the Oura Ring

As people age, sleep often becomes lighter, more fragmented, and a source of increasing concern. Smart rings, like Oura, offer a discreet and comfortable means of supporting sleep tracking, yet it remains unclear how older adults engage with the sleep-related insights they provide. Our research investigates how older…

CHI '26Food Culture & Food Interaction +1

Speaking of Food: Understanding How People Talk About Food Experiences

'How was your lunch?’ Even simple food talk reveals how people translate multisensory impressions into language, offering insights for HCI applications such as food recommendation and health management. While prior work has emphasised the multisensory nature of eating, less is known about the linguistic strategies thr…

CHI '26Haptic Wearables +3

The RepairBot Framework: Touch-Aware Conversational Agent for Hands on Clothes Repair

Learning clothes repair is challenging for novices, who face interconnected procedural and embodied challenges, especially when learning alone. Existing tools fail to provide holistic support as interactive tutors and lack awareness of the embodied interactions of working with textiles. This paper presents a multi-pha…

CHI '26Mid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +3

BioHaptics: Emotion Modulation via Biosignal-Inspired Ultrasonic Mid-air Haptics in Video-Watching Experiences

Ultrasonic mid-air haptics (UMH) offers a novel way to modulate affective responses through contactless, biosignal features inspired haptics (i.e., BioHaptics). Yet, the effects of different BioHaptics on affective responses of emotions experienced during video-watching context are unclear, limiting the flexible emoti…

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

Animacy and the Eye of the Beholder: A Mixed-Methods Study on Cognitive Animacy with a Kinetic Origami Surface

Previous research shows how animacy attribution is shaped by perceptual and cognitive processes based on morphological and behavioural characteristics. Existing evidence is largely focused on passive observation of movement on a screen or scenarios involving predefined interactions. We explore cognitive animacy percep…

CHI '26Motor Impairment Assistive Input Technologies +2

Beyond the Manual: Mapping Peer-Generated Content about Wheelchair Care and Adaptation on YouTube

Wheelchair users often face significant barriers to maintaining and adapting their chairs, from resource constraints to limited access to professional services. In response, many turn to social media platforms such as YouTube to share and learn practical knowledge. However, little is known about how wheelchair users d…

CHI '26Honorable MentionVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +2

NaviNote: Enabling In-situ Spatial Annotation Authoring to Support Exploration and Navigation for Blind and Low Vision People

GPS and smartphones enable users to place location-based annotations, capturing rich environmental context. Previous research demonstrates that blind and low vision (BLV) people can use annotations to explore unfamiliar areas. However, current commercial systems allowing BLV users to create annotations have never been…

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AI & Machine Learning Interaction

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Immersion & Presence Research

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Universal & Inclusive Design

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User Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation)