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IUI '26Best PaperEye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +2

Gazeify Then Voiceify: Physical Object Referencing Through Gaze and Voice Interaction with Displayless Smart Glasses

Smart glasses enhance interactions with the environment by using head-mounted cameras to observe the user’s viewpoint , but lack the visual feedback used for common interactions. We introduce "Gazeify then Voiceify", a multimodal approach allowing object selection via gaze and voice using displayless smart glasses. Us…

IUI '26Interactive Data Visualization +2

Narrative Scaffolding: A Narrative-First Framework for Data-Driven Sensemaking

When exploring data, analysts construct narratives about what the data means by asking questions, generating visualizations, reflecting on patterns, and revising their interpretations as new insights emerge. Yet existing analysis tools treat narrative as an afterthought, breaking the link between reasoning, reflection…

IUI '26AI-Assisted Creative Writing +2

Script2Screen: Supporting Dialogue-Centric Scriptwriting with Interactive Audiovisual Generation

Scriptwriting has traditionally been text-centric, a modality that only partially conveys the produced audiovisual experience. A formative study with professional writers informed us that connecting textual and audiovisual modalities can aid ideation and iteration, especially for writing dialogues. In this work, we pr…

IUI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Explanation Driving Exploration: Aligning Conversational Recommender Systems with Users' Exploratory Information Needs

LLM-powered conversational recommender systems (CRSs) empower users to personalize recommendation services, giving them control over how recommendations are represented and explained. Explanations of why particular options are recommended are shown to be especially valuable when users explore unfamiliar items. While p…

IUI '26Explainable AI (XAI) +3

From Toil to Thought: Designing for Strategic Exploration and Responsible AI in Systematic Literature Reviews

Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) are fundamental to scientific progress, yet the process is hindered by a fragmented tool ecosystem that imposes a high cognitive load. This friction suppresses the iterative, exploratory nature of scholarly work. To investigate these challenges, we conducted an exploratory design s…

CHI '26Technology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

“Studying Up” through Digital Ethnography: The Case of Conservative Caste Enclaves

Although the call to ``study up'' --- directing the scholarly gaze towards elites --- was made over half a century ago, HCI scholarship in this area remains underdeveloped. This paper demonstrates digital ethnography as a critical entry point, particularly for researchers from marginalised positionality facing refusal…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

The Promises and Perils of using LLMs for Effective Public Services

Governments are the primary providers of essential public services and are responsible for delivering them effectively. In high-stakes decision-making domains such as child welfare (CW), agencies must protect children without unnecessarily prolonging a family’s engagement with the system. With growing optimism around…

CHI '26Human-Nature Relationships (More-than-Human Design) +1

The Toronto Water Atlas: Staging Encounters With Nature Through Design

Recent work in Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) and Science and Technology Studies (STS) argues that improving our relationship with nature demands designing for nature as plural and multiple. This means moving beyond approaches that impose one version of what nature is, toward sustaining its different enactments and…

CHI '26Best PaperDeaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration) +1

µCap: Instrumental Music Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

Instrumental music conveys rich affective experiences through acoustic cues, yet instrumental passages often remain inaccessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences. Although captioning practices for vocal songs have expanded, instrumental music remains largely uncaptioned, with no established criteria for rep…

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

Disclosure Matters: How Self-Disclosure Statements in Song Signing Videos Shape d/Deaf Audiences’ Acceptance of Culturally Sensitive Content

Song signing videos have grown in numbers on YouTube, with much of the content created by amateur non-d/Deaf signers. However, the Deaf community has voiced concerns over misrepresentation and cultural appropriation in these performances. We explore self-disclosure as a way for performers to clarify their motivati…

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