University of Florida

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CHI '26Agent Personality & Anthropomorphism +3

AmongOthers: A Design Speculation for Rethinking AI in Online Social Communities

Artificial intelligence (AI) is deepening human social experiences within online spaces in increasingly layered ways. Amid these shifts, we designed AmongOthers, an online community populated with 800 AI agents, and rethought human–AI social interactions. Eight participants engaged with AmongOthers for four weeks. For…

CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +3

Facilitating Hands-On Learning in Microelectronics Education through Mixed Reality and AI Pedagogical Agents: Insights from a Participatory Design Process

Mixed reality (MR) and AI-powered pedagogical agents have been increasingly explored in STEM labs as a means of providing hands-on practice with virtual teaching assistants. However, teaching microelectronics presents unique challenges because learners must integrate conceptual knowledge, procedural skills, and visual…

CHI '26Health Self-Tracking +1

Improve my Performance, Protect my State of Mind: How Collegiate Student-Athletes Engage with their Sports Data

Collegiate student-athletes train and compete in a dense data ecology where information about their bodies and performances circulates among coaches, staff, and fans. To understand how student-athletes themselves engage with this data, we conducted interviews with 20 student-athletes, identifying four modes of engagem…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Be Friendly, Not Friends: How LLM Sycophancy Shapes User Trust

LLM-powered conversational agents are increasingly influencing our decision-making, raising concerns about “sycophancy”–the tendency for LLMs to excessively agree with users even at the expense of truthfulness. While prior work has primarily examined LLM sycophancy as a model behavior, our understanding of how users p…

CHI '26Honorable MentionHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC) +1

Thing Ethnography in a Factory: Exploring Emergent and Dynamic Relations of Cobots and Workers

Collaborative robots (cobots) are often portrayed as transformative technologies that promise efficiency and productivity in industrial workplaces, with their roles frequently pre-defined as autonomous collaborators to human workers. This paper presents a different picture based on an 18-day robot-centered thing ethno…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Exploring Teacher-Chatbot Interaction and Affect in Block-Based Programming

AI-based chatbots have the potential to accelerate learning and teaching, but may also have counterproductive consequences without thoughtful design and scaffolding. To better understand teachers’ perspectives on large language model (LLM) based chatbots, we conducted a study with 11 teams of middle-school teachers us…

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

“I’m happy even though it’s not real”: GenAI Photo Editing as a Remembering Experience

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly integrated into photo applications on personal devices, making editing photographs easier than ever while potentially influencing the memories they represent. This study explores how and why people use GenAI to edit personal photos and how this shapes their re…

CSCW '25Honorable MentionSocial and Environmental Justice

Sustaining Workers Who Sustain the World: Assets-Based Design for Conservation Technologies in Madagascar

Local workers and their knowledge are essential for sustainable and effective conservation efforts. However, many technology-assisted conservation programs are guided by global benchmarks (e.g., forest cover) and industry metrics (e.g., cost per acre), which often devalue local knowledge and fail to consider the econo…

CUI '25Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +3

SmartEats: Investigating the Effects of Customizable Conversational Agent in Dietary Recommendations

In conversational recommender systems (CRS), the communication characteristics exhibited by the conversational agent (CA) can greatly shape user experience and their perceptions of the recommendation quality. Yet, prior work often adopts a one-size-fits-all approach, leaving the potential benefits of CA customizabilit…

CHI '25Identity & Avatars in XR +2

Coach, Data Analyst, and Protector: Exploring Data Practices of Collegiate Coaching Staff

A rapidly emerging research community at the intersection of sport and human-computer interaction (SportsHCI) explores how technology can support physically active humans, such as athletes. At highly competitive levels, coaching staff play a central role in the athlete experience by using data to enhance performance,…

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