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

From Prompt to Presence: Co-Creating Personalised Emotional Sanctuaries in VR with Generative AI

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), combined with immersive virtual reality (VR), enables the rapid creation of personalised virtual content from simple text prompts, holding potential for emotional support. However, most current VR systems rely on pre-authored content and limit user agency…

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

Invisible Users in Digital Health: A Scoping Review of Digital Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among CALD Women

Digital health has strong potential for promoting physical activity (PA), yet interventions often fail to sustain engagement among culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women. Prior reviews focus on short-term efficacy or surface-level localisation, while a design-oriented synthesis of deep cultural adaptation…

CHI '26VR Medical Training & Rehabilitation +2

When EmotionTech Causes Harm: The Case of Therapeutic XR

Emotional harm and discomfort in therapeutic extended realities (XR) remains underexamined, even as immersive tools are increasingly deployed in healthcare contexts. We frame therapeutic XR as EmotionTech and reflect on 12 cases from 9 researchers and designers through interviews and workshops. We locate four concerns…

CHI '26Drone Interaction & Control +2

Towards LLM-powered Assistive Drone for Blind and Low Vision Users

Drones have gained traction as a versatile form of assistive robots for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) people. Nonetheless, novel interaction techniques are required to enable BLV people to communicate with drones naturally. In this work, we built an LLM-powered assistive drone for BLV users. We leverage an LLM to transla…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

AI of Oz: Enhancing Wizard of Oz Studies in HCI with AI Assistance for Human Moderation

The Wizard of Oz (WoZ) method is a common and popular approach for simulating interactive systems in Human-Computer Interaction. Running such studies is demanding for researchers because the human wizard must manage human–agent interactions in real time while keeping participants safe and the interaction natural. Many…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Cognitive Bridge: AI-Generated Boundary Objects for Cross-Functional Collaboration

Cross-functional teams struggle when static collaboration tools fail to keep pace with dynamic conversations. Through a formative study with seven professionals, we identified a critical gap: designers and developers speak different vocabularies, causing semantic misalignments. We present Cognitive Bridge, an AI syste…

CHI '26Immersion & Presence Research +2

The Ocular Command Center: How Eye Responses to Luminance, Color, Tunneling, and Visual Suppression Mediate Users' Physiological States in VR

This work introduces the Ocular Command Center framework to investigate how eye responses mediate visual effects on physiology and user experience in virtual reality. In a controlled study (N=40), participants experienced variations in luminance, color temperature, peripheral occlusion, and periodic visual suppression…

CHI '26Honorable MentionAffective Human-Computer Dialogue +1

Affective and Goal-Oriented Factors of Relationship Formation in the Digital Therapeutic Alliance: A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health Chatbots

Mental health chatbots are increasingly deployed as scalable interventions, yet the relational mechanisms underpinning their effectiveness remain unclear. Drawing on prior research on digital therapeutic alliance, we operationalized a preliminary multi-dimensional instrument to capture perceptions of relational and fu…

CSCW '25Communicating With/Through AI

Introspectus AI: Long-term AI-Driven Dialogue Training To Promote Self-Reflection

IntrospectusAI is a generative AI-based system designed to enhance self-reflection and support positive behavior change. By leveraging multimodal information from users' daily life recordings, it provides personalized and detailed feedback, aiming to deepen self-awareness and facilitate positive behavioral adjustments…

IUI '25Full-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +1

Real-Time Full-body Interaction with AI Dance Models: Responsiveness to Contemporary Dance

Interactive AI chatbots put the power of Large-Language Models (LLMs) into people's hands; it is this interactivity that fueled explosive worldwide influence. In the generative dance space, however, there are few deep-learning-based generative dance models built with interactivity in mind. The release of the AIST++ da…

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Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality (XR)

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