University of Colorado Boulder

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CHI '26Behavior Change & Reflection Technology +2

How Does My Time Use Align With My Values? Personal Informatics for Connecting Abstract Values to Everyday Life

Can self-tracking technology be designed to help us learn how our everyday activities align with our values? Existing personal informatics systems can help track time use, but rarely explicitly connect time use with personal abstract values. We designed, built, and deployed eValuATE, a personal informatics system that…

CHI '26Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) +2

TingleTouch: Touch Guidance through Electrical Stimulation in Resistance Training

In resistance training, trainers employ touch guidance to help trainees control posture and activate muscles. Haptic feedback can extend this support to solitary workouts, but translating the nuances of touch into effective haptic patterns remains challenging. In this paper, we categorize the instructional messages c…

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

Uniquely Shaped Spaces: Object-Driven Algorithmic Shelf Design and Fabrication

Most shelving relies on rectangular compartments that ignore the contours of the objects they hold. We present Uniquely Shaped Spaces, an object-driven algorithmic tool for custom shelving generation. The workflow arranges users' object silhouettes with simulated annealing, grows walls via cellular automata to carve f…

CHI '26Best PaperDigital Legacy & Online Memorials +2

Crafting Remembrance Beyond the Self: Older Adults’ Digital and Material Legacies

Artifacts encode memories and shape how one is remembered after death. Older adults, given their life stage, are often engaged in intentional end-of-life planning, making their perspectives on curation for remembrance post-mortem valuable. While HCI has examined older adults' curation of memory artifacts (e.g., to sup…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Relief or displacement? How teachers are negotiating generative AI's role in their professional practice

As generative AI (genAI) rapidly enters classrooms, accompanied by district-level policy rollouts and industry-led teacher trainings, it is important to rethink the canonical “adopt and train” playbook. Decades of educational technology research show that tools promising personalization and access often deepen inequit…

CHI '26Explainable AI (XAI) +2

Rethinking User Empowerment in AI Recommender System: Innovating Transparent and Controllable Interfaces

AI-driven recommender systems are often perceived as personalization black boxes, limiting users’ ability to understand how their data shapes content (information asymmetry) or to influence system behavior meaningfully (power asymmetry). This study explores how design can strengthen user agency by integrating transpar…

CHI '26Honorable MentionUser Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation) +2

Degraded Data in Nonprofit Homebrew Databases

Researchers have characterized contexts for information work that are supported by often-messy ecosystems of information systems. Although important infrastructures for information work, little is known about how these less-than-perfect systems affect the data that is managed. We present results of an interview study…

CSCW '25Palliative Care

Navigating Value Elicitation: Insights from Palliative Care Providers

Healthcare providers play a crucial role in developing care plans for patients at the end of their lives. As value elicitation becomes increasingly integrated into advance care planning, digital tools have been proposed to support providers. However, the development of these tools has primarily focused on facilitating…

UIST '25AR Navigation & Context Awareness +1

Guided Reality: Generating Visually-Enriched AR Task Guidance with LLMs and Vision Models

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled the automatic generation of step-by-step augmented reality (AR) instructions for a wide range of physical tasks. However, existing LLM-based AR guidance often lacks rich visual augmentations to effectively embed instructions into spatial context for a better user understanding…

DIS '25Universal & Inclusive Design +2

"That's something that as a senior person you have to consider now": Unpacking Older Adults' Preferences for End-of-Life Data Planning

What happens to a person’s data after they pass away? Designing for digital legacy requires input from individuals across all life stages, as motivations to plan vary with age. Yet, the specific perspectives that older adults have on end-of-life data management have not been investigated in depth. Through interviews w…

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Fabrication, 3D Printing & Physical Computing

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