University of Lisbon

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Values Across Contexts: Understanding How Older Adults Enact What Matters Through Technology

As populations age and technology becomes more pervasive, understanding the alignment between older adults' values and technology design is paramount. More research is needed to understand how older adults’ living contexts shape their values and the use of technology. To address this, through a multi-context study, we…

CHI '26Behavior Change & Reflection Technology +2

Exploring the Role of Interaction Data to Empower End-User Decision-Making in UI Personalization

User interface personalization enhances digital efficiency, usability, and accessibility. However, in user-driven setups, limited support for identifying and evaluating worthwhile opportunities often leads to underuse. We explore a reflexive personalization approach where individuals engage with their digital interact…

CHI '26Health Self-Tracking +2

Breaking it Down: Micro Goals in Physical Activity Tracking

Physical activity trackers rely on fixed daily step goals, treating the day as the primary unit for planning and evaluating activity. However, these goals often misalign with everyday life: schedules fluctuate, opportunities for movement vary, and long-term targets can be difficult to sustain, leading to frustration a…

CHI '26Game UX & Player Behavior +1

Characterising Gaming Group Experiences

When people play digital games together, their experiences are often influenced by the group. While prior research has focused on the individual player experience, we argue that a deeper understanding of group dynamics is required for designing digital games that effectively support complex social interactions. In thi…

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

An Exploration of Default Images in Text-to-Image Generation

In the creative practice of text-to-image (TTI) generation, images are synthesized from textual prompts. By design, TTI models always yield an output, even if the prompt contains unknown terms. In this case, the model may generate default images: images that closely resemble each other across many unrelated prompts. S…

CHI '26Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration) +2

Social Play Between Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Hearing Peers: Learning from Children and School Ecosystems

Social play is an essential pathway for emotional, cognitive, and social development in children. However, Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children often experience barriers to social play, namely in mixed-hearing ability environments (e.g., school playground). In this paper, we conducted interviews with six educators…

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

EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development

Frontend code, replicated across millions of page views, consumes significant energy and contributes directly to digital emissions. Yet current AI coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, emphasize developer speed and convenience, with energy impact not yet a primary focus. At the same time,…

CHI '26Health Self-Tracking +2

Between Control and Uncertainty: Understanding Self-Tracking Practices in Enigmatic Disease Management

Self-tracking tools are often built around the assumption that tracking the “right” health variables will lead to actionable insights and greater control over one’s health. Yet, it remains unclear how these assumptions hold up in contexts marked by uncertainty, unpredictability, and frequent fluctuations in health nee…

CHI '26Participatory Design +2

Revisiting Worker-Centered Design: Tensions, Blind Spots, and Action Spaces

Worker-Centered Design (WCD) has gained prominence over the past decade, offering researchers and practitioners ways to engage worker agency and support collective actions for workers. Yet few studies have systematically revisited WCD itself, examining its implementations, challenges, and practical impact. Through a f…

CSCW '25Working together (with other people)

Exploring Collaboration in Programming Activities with Children with Visual Impairments: a 10-Session Study in a School Setting

Introductory coding environments have been used in early education to promote computational thinking, supporting the development of cognitive, critical, and social skills. Many environments focus on individual use, which has limited benefits compared to collaborative learning. In this paper, we present the results of…

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Accessibility & Inclusive Design

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