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CHI '26Best PaperElectrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) +3

Generative Muscle Stimulation: Providing Users with Physical Assistance by Constraining Multimodal-AI with Embodied Knowledge

Electrical-muscle-stimulation (EMS) can support physical-assistance (e.g., shaking a spray-can before painting). However, EMS-assistance is highly-specialized because it is (1) fixed (e.g., one program for shaking spray-cans, another for opening windows); and (2) non-contextual (e.g., a spray-can for cooking dispenses…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Digital Companionship: Overlapping Uses of AI Companions and AI Assistants

Large language models are increasingly used for both task-based assistance and social companionship, yet research has typically focused on one or the other. Drawing on a survey (N = 202) and 30 interviews with high-engagement ChatGPT and Replika users, we characterize digital companionship as an emerging form of human…

CHI '26Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) +2

Increasing Input Accuracy of Embodied Devices via Electrical Muscle Stimulation

This paper evaluates interaction techniques to increase input accuracy with embodied devices—an emergent type of interactive system where the user's body serves as both the input and output medium (e.g., gestural input via cameras/IMUs; gestural output via motors/muscle stimulation). A shortcoming of existing embodied…

CHI '26Desktop 3D Printing & Personal Fabrication +2

Clay ARTools: Precise Machine Toolpath Editing for Clay 3D Printing With Craft-Inspired Direct Manipulation Tools in AR

Ceramics practice is an embodied activity where creators use manual tools in unique ways to shape physical material. Clay 3D printing uses the same material as manual ceramics craft, enabling new opportunities for form and texture by precisely controlling the 3D printing toolpath. However, current clay 3D printing des…

CHI '26Ubiquitous Computing +2

Attention Nooks: Situated Frictions to Foster Intentional Technology Use

As persuasive technologies weave themselves deeper into the fabric of domestic life, the challenge of sustaining digital wellbeing grows increasingly entangled with the spaces and rhythms of everyday living. Conventional Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs), while offering momentary reprieve, often falter under sustaine…

CHI '26Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) +2

Modeling Perceived Force of Electrical Muscle Stimulation to Improve User’s Recall

Interactive electrical-muscle-stimulation (EMS) supports motor- skills by actuating the user’s muscles. However, existing EMS- interfaces exclusively focus on demonstrating movements/sequences (e.g., which fingers to actuate to play a piano melody) and have not investigated EMS for skills requiring precise force a…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Underreporting of AI Use: The Role of Social Desirability Bias

Rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into work and educational settings challenges organizations to gauge and respond to adoption rates. However, most measures of AI adoption come from self-reported surveys, producing estimates of AI use that disagree by up to 40 percentage points within the same setting.…

CHI '26Explainable AI (XAI) +2

Beyond PII: How Users Attempt to Estimate and Mitigate Implicit LLM Inference

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can infer personal attributes from seemingly innocuous text, raising privacy risks beyond memorized data leakage. While prior work has demonstrated these risks, little is known about how users estimate and respond. We conducted a survey with 240 U.S. participants who judged…

CHI '26Mid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +2

Next Generation Wearable Haptics Should Balance Virtual & Real-world Fidelity

Providing tactile-feedback when users contact virtual-interfaces has been a seminal advance. However, we posit these advances have been explored in isolation from considerations of users’ physical interactions with surrounding-objects. Most touch-interfaces were designed to optimize virtual interfaces, but rarely cons…

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

Exploring Texture-Level Creative Decisions with penPal, a Novel Handheld Actuated Drawing Tool

This paper looks at texture---middle-level components---as an important aspect of drawing. We present a hardware tool, penPal, that is designed to support dynamic mark-making and direct creative actions at this level. By incorporating a tendon-driven continuum robot, penPal’s tip can move independently, giving the use…

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