University of California - Berkeley

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IUI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

"Un-default" Behavior Tuning: Specifying Model Behavior outside the Norm with LLM Self-Playing and Self-Improving

Specifying model behavior is challenging—especially when the desired behavior is unpopular relative to the model’s training data. Reversing the influence of massive training corpora is both time-consuming and costly, and such interventions are typically inaccessible to end users. While Large Language Models (LLMs) mak…

CHI '26Honorable MentionDesign Fiction +2

Reflections Towards an Ecology of Internet Connectivity: Three Speculative Scenarios Involving Foot Pedals

HCI's dominant assumptions of always-on and relatively ubiquitous internet connectivity often overlook other potential configurations of connectivity, which may embody alternative social values and politics, or promote alternative types of technology practices. Building on research exploring alternate configurations…

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

HygroMetric: A Computational Framework for Hygromorphic Shape-Morphing

Designers have long relied on steam bending, lamination techniques, kerf cuts, and considerable craft to shape curved wood. What if wood could be programmed to shape itself beyond bending, making complex forms more affordable? We present a computational framework for 3D printing wood-based hygromorphic structures that…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

DraftMarks: Enhancing Transparency in Human-AI Co-Writing Through Interactive Skeuomorphic Process Traces

As generative AI becomes part of everyday writing, questions of transparency and productive human effort are increasingly important. Educators, reviewers, and readers want to understand how AI shaped the process. Where was human effort focused? What role did AI play in the creation of the work? How did the interaction…

CHI '26Honorable MentionGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Noise Pilot: Enabling Artistic Workflow Composition with Diffusion-Based Image Generation

Creativity support tools (CSTs) increasingly include image-generation features. The underlying diffusion models enact a particular image diffusing process that AI CSTs tend to obscure within a black-box. Artists’ creative control is limited to indirect manipulation (prompting), chaining these "black-boxes" together, o…

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

How Notations Evolve: A Historical Analysis with Implications for Supporting User-Defined Abstractions

Traditional human-computer interaction takes place through formally-specified systems like structured UIs and programming languages. Recent AI systems promise a new set of informal interactions with computers through natural language and other notational forms. These informal interactions can then lead to formal repre…

CHI '26Creative Coding & Computational Art +3

Programming By Scaffolded Demonstration with Perpend

Output-centric programming paradigms such as Direct Manipulation Programming, Programming By Demonstration, and Programming By Example enable users to author programs by constructing an intended output. However, sometimes the purpose of a programming interaction is to discover an "intended output'' in the first place…

CHI '26Best PaperHuman-LLM Collaboration +1

RAG Without the Lag: Enabling "What-If" Analysis for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines have become the de-facto approach for building AI assistants with external knowledge. Given a user query, RAG pipelines retrieve (R) information from external sources, before invoking a Large Language Model (LLM), augmented (A) with this information, to generate (G) respo…

CSCW '25Trauma & Abuse

SnuggleSense: Empowering Online Harm Survivors Through a Structured Sensemaking Process

Online interpersonal harm, such as cyberbullying and sexual harassment, remains a pervasive issue on social media platforms. Traditional approaches, primarily content moderation, often overlook survivors' needs and agency. We introduce SnuggleSense, a system that empowers survivors through structured sensemaking. Ins…

CSCW '25Perspectives on Data Privacy

Expanding Perspectives on Data Privacy: Insights from Rural Togo

Passively collected ``big'' data sources are increasingly used to inform critical development policy decisions in low- and middle-income countries. While prior work highlights how such approaches may reveal sensitive information, enable surveillance, and centralize power, less is known about the corresponding privacy…

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