University of Calgary

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CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +2

The Dominance Effect: How Verbal and Nonverbal Cues of Virtual Agents Influence Decision-Making in VR

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) can influence users through verbal and nonverbal social cues. Focusing on dominance, we examine how verbal and nonverbal dominance cues influence users' decision-making and perceptions of the agent in VR. We conducted a user study using a 2 (verbal: dominant vs. submissive) x 2…

CHI '26Honorable MentionExplainable AI (XAI) +2

Privy: Envisioning and Mitigating Privacy Risks for Consumer-facing AI Product Concepts

AI creates and exacerbates privacy risks, yet practitioners lack effective resources to identify and mitigate these risks. We present Privy, a tool that guides practitioners without privacy expertise through structured privacy impact assessments to: (i) identify relevant risks in novel AI product concepts, and (ii) pr…

CHI '26Best PaperFull-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +2

ThreeTopo: Focused Interactive Navigation for Multi-Pitch Rock Climbing

We explore new interactions for wayfinding in complex, hazardous environments through the concrete case of multi-pitch rock climbing. Working with seven expert climbers, we derived design principles for navigation tools that support both pre-climb planning and on-the-wall decision making with limited physical and ment…

CHI '26Honorable MentionConversational Chatbots +2

Metacognitive Demands and Strategies While Using Off-The-Shelf AI Conversational Agents for Health Information Seeking

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversational agents become widespread, people are increasingly using them for health information seeking. The use of off-the-shelf conversational agents for health information seeking could place high metacognitive demands (the need for extensive monitoring and control of one's own th…

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

RoboHaptics: Designing Haptic Interactions for Lower Body with Quadruped Robot Dogs

Extended Reality (XR) has advanced audiovisual immersion, yet haptic feedback, especially for the lower body, remains limited. We present RoboHaptics, the first system to explore lower-body haptics using commercial quadruped robots. RoboHaptics leverages its freestanding and reconfigurable nature to deliver both activ…

CHI '26Creative Collaboration & Feedback Systems +2

Tracing Creativity: A Design Space For Creative Activity Traces in HCI

Creativity tools are a cornerstone of HCI, with systems for video, music, writing, and design deeply embedded in modern creative practice. Yet one key element of these systems remains undertheorized: the role of activity traces. Activity traces are the records of creator data, including artifact iterations, annotation…

CSCW '25Best PaperHumans vs. AI for Decision Making

Understanding Data Usage when Making High-Stakes Frontline Decisions in Homelessness Services

Frontline staff of emergency shelters face challenges such as vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout. The technology they use is often not designed to fit their unique needs and can feel burdensome, on top of already cognitively and emotionally taxing work. While existing literature focuses on data-driven t…

UIST '25Geospatial & Map Visualization +1

MapStory: Prototyping Editable Map Animations with LLM Agents

We introduce MapStory, an LLM‑powered animation prototyping tool that generates editable map animation sequences directly from natural language text by leveraging a dual-agent LLM architecture. Given a user-written script, MapStory automatically produces a scene breakdown, which decomposes the text into key map animat…

UIST '25Prototyping & User Testing +2

FEDT: Supporting Experiment Design and Execution in HCI Fabrication Research

Fabrication research in HCI relies on diverse experiments to inform and assess research contributions. However, performance and reporting of these experiments is inconsistent, not only reducing transparency that reassures reviewers and readers of a project's rigour but also challenging methods' replicability by future…

UIST '25Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) +1

SparseEMG: Computational Design of Sparse EMG Layouts for Sensing Gestures

Gesture recognition with electromyography (EMG) is a complex problem influenced by gesture sets, electrode count and placement, and machine learning parameters (e.g., features, classifiers). Most existing toolkits focus on streamlining model development but overlook the impact of electrode selection on classification…

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