University of California San Diego

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IUI '26Best PaperEye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +2

Gazeify Then Voiceify: Physical Object Referencing Through Gaze and Voice Interaction with Displayless Smart Glasses

Smart glasses enhance interactions with the environment by using head-mounted cameras to observe the user’s viewpoint , but lack the visual feedback used for common interactions. We introduce "Gazeify then Voiceify", a multimodal approach allowing object selection via gaze and voice using displayless smart glasses. Us…

CHI '26Full-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +3

Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks

A quintessential feature of human intelligence is the ability to create ad hoc conventions over time to achieve shared goals efficiently. We investigate how communication strategies evolve through repeated collaboration as people coordinate on shared procedural abstractions. To this end, we conducted an online unimoda…

CHI '26Honorable MentionAR Navigation & Context Awareness +2

Investigating How Physical Surfaces Can Serve as Common-Region Cues for Perceptual Grouping of Virtual Elements in Augmented Reality

Perceptual grouping enables people to organize elements into units according to intrinsic (e.g., proximity) and extrinsic (e.g., common region) principles. However, the role of physical surfaces as extrinsic grouping cues for virtual elements in Augmented Reality (AR) remains unclear. To provide a deeper understanding…

CHI '26Conversational Chatbots +2

Understanding Parents’ Desires in Moderating Children’s Interactions with GenAI Chatbots through LLM-Generated Probes

This paper studies how parents want to moderate children’s interactions with Generative AI Chatbots, with the goal of informing the design of future GenAI parental control tools. We first used an LLM to generate synthetic Child--GenAI Chatbot interaction scenarios and worked with four parents to validate their realism…

CHI '26Programming Education & Computational Thinking +2

Design and Evaluation of a Photorealistic AI Virtual Peer in Elementary Collaborative Classroom

In elementary education, students struggle to articulate uncertainties, limiting diverse perspectives in classroom discussions, particularly in small schools where limited participants constrain collaborative learning. This study designed and evaluated ``Saya,'' a photorealistic AI virtual peer functioning as an addit…

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

Can GenAI Move from Individual Use to Collaborative Work? Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities of Coordinating GenAI into Collaborative Newswork

Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping work, but adoption remains largely individual and experimental rather than coordinated into collaborative work. Whether GenAI can move from individual use to collaborative work is a critical question for future organizations. Journalism offers a compelling site to examine this shift:…

CHI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

VizCrit: Exploring Strategies for Displaying Computational Feedback in a Visual Design Tool

Visual design instructors often provide multi-modal feedback, mixing annotations with text. Prior theory emphasizes the importance of actionable feedback, where “actionability” lies on a spectrum—from surfacing relevant design concepts to suggesting concrete fixes. How might creativity tools implement annotations that…

CHI '26Collaborative Writing Tools +2

Tidynote: Always-Clear Notebook Authoring

Recent work identified clarity as one of the top quality attributes that notebook users value, but notebooks lack support for maintaining clarity throughout the exploratory phases of the notebook authoring workflow. We propose always-clear notebook authoring that supports both clarity and exploration, and present a Ju…

CHI '26Music Composition & Sound Design Tools +2

A Design Space for Live Music Agents

Live music provides a uniquely rich setting for studying creativity and interaction due to its spontaneous nature. The pursuit of live music agents---intelligent systems supporting real-time music performance and interaction---has captivated researchers across HCI, AI, and computer music for decades, and recent advanc…

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

Orca: Browsing at Scale Through User-Driven and AI-Facilitated Orchestration Across Malleable Webpages

Web-based activities span multiple webpages. However, conventional browsers with stacks of tabs cannot support operating and synthesizing large volumes of information across pages. While recent AI systems enable fully automated web browsing and information synthesis, they often diminish user agency and hinder contextu…

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