University of Virginia

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IUI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Improving Human Verification of LLM Reasoning through Interactive Explanation Interfaces

The reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their increasing employment in several critical applications, particularly education, where they support problem-solving, tutoring, and personalized study. While there are a plethora of works showing the effectiveness of LLMs in generating step-by-…

CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +2

``It Feels Like I am Invited to Communicate'': Mediating Ad-Hoc Bystander-VR User Interruptions Through Proactive Proxies

As VR expands into public spaces, new challenges emerge around spontaneous interactions between bystanders and unfamiliar VR users. While current VR systems often prioritize user awareness of their physical surroundings, they overlook the social dynamics affecting nearby bystanders. We conducted a deception-based stud…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Toward Scalable and Responsible Integration of Course-Specific AI Tutors: Instructor Experiences with a Campus-Wide Platform

Despite rapid investment in generative AI across higher education, how instructors create, evaluate, and implement course-specific AI tutors remain empirically underexplored, highlighting critical tensions between institutional adoption and instructional practices. Drawing on interviews with 20 instructors, teaching a…

CHI '26Cognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) +3

Infrastructuring for Access: Co-Designing Writing Tools with a Dyslexic Academic

Disability Studies and Accessibility HCI document what design elements are (in)accessible to disabled communities and illuminate technological ableism. However, Disability Studies' systemic critique rarely includes roadmaps for design. We articulate a roadmap by marrying HCI's infrastructuring theory with Disability S…

CHI '26Misinformation & Fact-Checking +1

Evaluating Peer Fact-Checking on WhatsApp

Private messaging platforms hinder public oversight, making misinformation hard to counter. Meanwhile, platforms are pivoting to crowdsourced verification amid waning trust in institutional fact-checkers. This raises a critical question: how do peer corrections compare with local journalists or fact-checking tiplines?…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

DataSpeck: An AI-Driven Human-in-the-Loop System for Automating Transformations in Data Conversion Workflows

In data-driven systems, integrating disparate data sources becomes challenging when incoming data does not conform to the system's specifications. Despite advances in automated schema matching systems, data integration tasks involving complex semantic interrelationships still require users to manually identify and def…

CHI '26Immersion & Presence Research +2

Redirected Pinch: Efficient and Comfortable Bare-Hand Interaction for 2D Windows in VR

Virtual Reality (VR) offers portable and flexible workspaces. However, enabling efficient and comfortable interactions without external input devices remains challenging. We propose leveraging redirected input to enable comfortable and touch-like interaction for quick and intuitive control. Our design study revealed t…

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 '26Human-LLM Collaboration +3

Inferring Affect and Intervention Opportunities for Cancer Survivors from Digital Diaries with Context-Aware LLMs

Cancer survivors face unique mental health challenges, yet nearly half report unmet psychosocial needs. Smartphone interventions could help, but a major obstacle is knowing if, when, and how to intervene because inferring affective states with low-burden methods is hard. We test whether ultra-brief mobile diaries can…

CSCW '25Online Interactions with Friends and Strangers

ThingMoji: User-Captured Cut-Outs For In-Stream Visual Communication

Live streaming has become increasingly popular, driven by the desire for direct and real-time interactions between streamers and viewers. However, current text-based interactions and pre-defined emojis limit expressiveness, especially when referring to specific stream moments. We propose ThingMoji, a type of user-capt…

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