University of Edinburgh

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IUI '26Eye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +3

Eye2Recall: Exploring Mixed-Initiative Reminiscence Activities via Gaze-Driven LLM Prompts for Older Adults

Photo-based reminiscence can support well-being in older adults, yet most systems remain text-driven and offer little real-time adaptivity. We first conduct expert interviews to derive design considerations for accessibility, cultural fit, and safe emotional engagement. We then implemented Eye2Recall, an intelligent…

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 '26Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +3

Personal Health Data Communication: Techniques, Tensions, and Implications for Design from a Clinician Perspective

This paper reports how clinicians explain personal health data to patients and the tensions which arise from this in practice, leading us to describe a set of implications for designing communication aids around personal health data. With the trend towards patient-centered care and shared decision making, it is crucia…

CHI '26Design Fiction +3

Speculative Performance: Staging Intergenerational Speculation to Explore Critical Literacies of Technological Futures

This paper presents speculative performance as an approach for engaging participants in imagining, enacting, and reflecting on technological futures through a combination of speculative design, performance, and intergenerational engagement. While speculative and performance-based methods are well established in HCI, t…

CHI '26Honorable Mention3D Modeling & Animation +1

DancingBox: A Lightweight MoCap System for Character Animation from Physical Proxies

Creating compelling 3D character animations typically requires either expert use of professional software or expensive motion capture systems operated by skilled actors. We present DancingBox, a lightweight, vision-based system that makes motion capture accessible to novices by reimagining the process as digital puppe…

CHI '26Sustainable HCI +3

HCI for Agroecology: Agri-Tech between Grassroots and Capitalism

Digital technologies in agriculture are typically portrayed as enabling more sustainable production while increasing productivity. Yet, commercial solutions rarely address the root causes of unsustainable farming, limiting the uptake of more radical solutions such as agroecology. We conducted fieldwork on 11 UK small-…

CHI '26Privacy Perception & Decision-Making +2

Behind the Meme: Understanding User Experiences with Memes on Social Media

While memes enhance social interaction on social media, they can raise privacy and security concerns. Despite research on overtly toxic or unsafe memes, little attention has been given to users' experiences with seemingly safe memes and how contextual factors trigger privacy concerns. This study explores users’ comfor…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

From Answer Givers to Design Mentors: Guiding LLMs with the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model

Design feedback helps practitioners improve their artifacts while also fostering reflection and design reasoning. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can support design work, but often provide generic, one-off suggestions that limit reflective engagement. We investigate how to guide LLMs to act as design ment…

CHI '26Honorable MentionGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +4

ORAgen Fables: Advancing the Design and Management of Content Attribution

As the internet thrives on the circulation of easily copied content, ensuring attribution is properly given has been a perennial challenge. Following the rise of synthetic media and generative AI tools, and corresponding technologies which enable detailed media provenance, the picture has become considerably more comp…

CHI '26Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Caring about Care: A Meta-Narrative Review of HCI Research on Care

The number of HCI papers on care has grown rapidly in recent years. Despite growing interest in care both as an application domain for technology and as an ethical stance in research and design, our integrated understanding of the concept is limited. It remains unclear how various application areas of care relate to o…

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Ethics, Fairness, Social Justice & Inclusion

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