CHI 2026 Schedule

Opening Plenary & Keynote

AI & Timing Matters

AI Explanations and Decision Support in Healthcare

AI Governance and Accountability

AI in Family, Dating and Private Life

AI in Work and Expertise

AI Personality

AI-Driven Creativity & Design Methods

Animals & Nature

Collaborative/Shared XR

Diversity and Inclusion

Gendered Experiences

Hand Pose & Gestures

Haptic and Multisensory Feedback

Identity, Culture, and Games for Social Impact

Interactive Prompting, Chaining, and LLM Orchestration Tools

Learning, Training, and Self-Development with AI

Living with Robots

Online Cultures and Creator Economies

Power, Values, and the Politics of Accessibility

Quantifying the Algorithmic Lens

Relationships with AI

Structural Foundations and Theories

Textiles & Sound

Toxicity and Moderation in Online Games

Trust and Transparency in Everyday Life

Video Presentations (Papers)

Virtual Reality

CHI2027 Lunch

Body Transformation Experiences: A workshop on How to Elicit, Assess and Support them through Multisensory Technology

Co-Data: Cultivating Effective Human-LLM Collaboration for Collaborative Data Processing

Cross-Sensory Futures: Rewiring Perception in HCI

Data Literacy for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Visualization, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education

Designing with forest stories to explore what it might mean for forest-related technologies to “get it right”

Developmentally Safe Generative AI Environment for Youth

Does Peer Review Need to Change? A Panel on Reporting Standards and Checklists in the Age of AI

Follow Your Nose: Experiencing Smell as a Design Material

From Generation to Simulation: Responsible Use of AI Personas in Human-Centered Design and Research

From Human-Human Collaboration to Human-Agent Collaboration: A Vision, Design Philosophy, and an Empirical Framework for Achieving Successful Partnerships Between Humans and LLM Agents

Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping

Global Science Program

Growing Bio-HCI at CHI: Exchanging Materials, Tools, Practices, and Artifacts

Health Learning and Youth

How Could AI Supply Chain Research Shape HCI Inquiries And Vice-Versa?

Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI): Re-examining XAI in the Era of Agentic AI

Posters (Monday)

Sensemaking and AI 2026: Uses, Behaviors, Design, and Recommendations

Shaping Future Human Connection: Social Augmentation through XR Technologies

Student Mentoring Program: CHI 101

The 3rd InterAI Workshop: Interactive AI for Human-centered Robotics

The AI Accomplice: Exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence in Facilitating and Amplifying Deceptive Designs

The CHIndness of Strangers: Exploring Reciprocity and Pro-Social Action

Understanding and Engaging Critical Resistance to AI in Education

Understanding, Mitigating, and Leveraging Cognitive Biases to Calibrate Trust in Evolving AI Systems

Video Presentations (Posters)

Visual Storytelling Beyond the Human: Co-Creation, Culture, and Futures

1st Annual Human-CAT (Connection, Animals, Technology) Interaction Meet-Up

Body Transformation Experiences: A workshop on How to Elicit, Assess and Support them through Multisensory Technology

CHI Academy Panel

Co-Data: Cultivating Effective Human-LLM Collaboration for Collaborative Data Processing

Cognition Uncertainty and Tool Support

Cross-Sensory Futures: Rewiring Perception in HCI

Cultures as Catalysts: Nurturing HCI Communities Across Regions

Data Literacy for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Visualization, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education

Designing with forest stories to explore what it might mean for forest-related technologies to “get it right”

Developmentally Safe Generative AI Environment for Youth

Flourishing In Flux: Connecting on the Things That Keep (Us) Changing

From Generation to Simulation: Responsible Use of AI Personas in Human-Centered Design and Research

From Human-Human Collaboration to Human-Agent Collaboration: A Vision, Design Philosophy, and an Empirical Framework for Achieving Successful Partnerships Between Humans and LLM Agents

Growing Bio-HCI at CHI: Exchanging Materials, Tools, Practices, and Artifacts

Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI): Re-examining XAI in the Era of Agentic AI

Participatory AI & Social Justice

PhysioCHI: Lessons Learned from Implementing Human-Centered Physiological Computing

Posters (Monday)

Sensemaking and AI 2026: Uses, Behaviors, Design, and Recommendations

Shaping Future Human Connection: Social Augmentation through XR Technologies

Student Mentoring Program: Building a Research Cohort

The 3rd InterAI Workshop: Interactive AI for Human-centered Robotics

The AI Accomplice: Exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence in Facilitating and Amplifying Deceptive Designs

Understanding and Engaging Critical Resistance to AI in Education

Visual Storytelling Beyond the Human: Co-Creation, Culture, and Futures

Workshop on Developing Standards and Documentation For LLM Use as Simulated Research Participants

Reception and Interactivity Demos

Accessibility in Everyday Life

AI Collaboration in Practice

AI Risks

AI Systems for Human Goals

Alternative Perspectives

Collaborating with AI

Collaborative Work Systems

Community Practices

Conversational AI

Designing Player Experience

Ecological HCI and Urbanism

Education

Extended Reality & Immersive Systems

Haptics + XR

More-than-Human & Multispecies Design

Negotiating Health, Identity, and Belief

Perception & Cognition in Data Visualization

Personalization and Human-AI Alignment

Privacy Policies

Responsible AI, Policy, & Dark Patterns

Role Play, Creativity and AI

Scam Experiences

Security and Privacy Behavior

The Workplace

Women's Health and Safety

XR Selection

Affective Agents & Reflective Data

Care, Disability, & Healthcare Technologies

Consent, Risk, and Everyday Ethics

Critical Reflections on AI

Designing Data Visualizations

Experiencing Virtual Worlds (XR)

Generative AI and Creative Workflows

Generative AI in Education

Human Behavior with AI Systems

Human-AI Decision Making

Interactive Design Systems for Fabrication

Interactive Visualization for Model Inspection and Debugging

Labor, Equity and the Hidden Economy

Living with AI/LLMs

LLM Interaction & Conversational Agents

LLM Interactions and Generative AI Mechanics

Mental Health Chatbots and Conversational Agents

Modeling Spatial, Linguistic, and Sensory Errors

Reading and Writing Accessibility

Safety, Identity & Relatedness

Self-Tracking and Personal Health Informatics

Sensemaking

Social VR

Spatial Input and 3DUI

Trust and Perception in AI Systems

Wearable, Audio and Novel Interactive Devices

TOCHI Lunch

(Re-)Thinking Empathy's Materiality in HCI

A Meet-Up done the Mediterranean way: prospects of the Mediterranean CHI community

Agentic Automation Experiences---Rethinking the Interaction of Humans and AI Agents

Architects at CHI

Are We Doing Enough? Sharing Design and Manufacturing Expertise Across Open Source Hardware Communities

Between and Beyond: Designing for Identity Complexity in HCI

Bridging Factions: A Meet-up Connecting Diverse Perspectives in Human–Computer Interaction

Crip HCI: Cyborg Perspectives on Disability Justice

Designing for 'Last-Mile' Climate Resilience with Communities

Dissertation Awards

Everyday Wearable for Personalized Health and Well-Being

From Remote Space to Remote Time

Human Expertise for AI Red-Teaming and Scalable Evaluation

Human-AI-UI Interactions Across Modalities

Interactivity Demos

LLMs Prompting and Explainability

Mapping the Responsible Democratization of Generative AI through Participatory Futuring

Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI

Participatory Data Governance in Practice

Posters (Tuesday)

The Co-Living between Reality and Virtuality as a Daily Routine

The Quality of Speculation: Common Ground for Speculative Design in Human-Computer Interaction?

The Role of AI in HCI Education

Towards Proactive Approaches to Combating Toxicity, Harassment, and Abuse in Online Social Spaces: A Collaborative Theory-Building Workshop

Where is the Body in Designing (Through) AI? Frictions and Opportunities in Integrating AI with Soma Design

XR for Challenging Environments - Enabling Human Performance and Agency under Stress

(Re-)Thinking Empathy's Materiality in HCI

Agentic Automation Experiences---Rethinking the Interaction of Humans and AI Agents

AI Agents and the Future of Deliberation: Designing Human–AI Collaboration for Democratic Dialogue

AI and the Self: Exploring Identity, Agency, and Relational Personhood.

Are We Doing Enough? Sharing Design and Manufacturing Expertise Across Open Source Hardware Communities

Between and Beyond: Designing for Identity Complexity in HCI

Crip HCI: Cyborg Perspectives on Disability Justice

Designing for 'Last-Mile' Climate Resilience with Communities

Digital Society Labor and Relationships

Everyday Wearable for Personalized Health and Well-Being

Human Expertise for AI Red-Teaming and Scalable Evaluation

Human-AI-UI Interactions Across Modalities

Job Fair and Interactivity Demos

Mapping the Responsible Democratization of Generative AI through Participatory Futuring

Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI

Participatory Data Governance in Practice

Posters (Tuesday)

RAI@CHI: Responsible and Human Centred AI Across Borders

Sign-Up on Deaf Technologies: Reframing Access, Interaction, and Design

Societal Impact Awards

SportsHCI Meet-Up: Exploring the Role of AI in the Evolving World of SportsHCI

Student Research Competition: Posters

The Co-Living between Reality and Virtuality as a Daily Routine

The Quality of Speculation: Common Ground for Speculative Design in Human-Computer Interaction?

Towards Proactive Approaches to Combating Toxicity, Harassment, and Abuse in Online Social Spaces: A Collaborative Theory-Building Workshop

Where is the Body in Designing (Through) AI? Frictions and Opportunities in Integrating AI with Soma Design

XR for Challenging Environments - Enabling Human Performance and Agency under Stress

Student Mentoring Program Breakfast

Aging and Later Life

AI & Data Visualization

AI for Task Augmentation

AI in Practice

AI Literacy, Ethics, and Critical AI Understanding

Augmenting expression and communication

Care and Lived Practices

Context-specific Studies and Perspectives

Conversational AI, Agency and Control

Design Methods and Frameworks

Designing Creative GenAI Tools

Discussions

Embodied Interaction and Wearables

Emergency and Serious Illness Care

Gaze as Input

Haptics, Wearables & Embodied Interaction

HCAI and Collaboration

Human-Robot Interaction & Embodied Sensing

Methods, Reviews & Ethical Futures

Modeling Human Performance & Motion

Physical and Tangible Data Visualizations

Practical and Adaptive Accessibility

Privacy Risks and Perceptions

Security Operations and Governance

Tech in Nature

Teenagers & Technology

Algorithmic Power, Justice and Repression

Bodies, Care & More Than Human Places

Co-Design in Motion & High-Stakes Contexts

Data Work

Designing with Older Adults

Eating Behaviors and Food-Related Technologies

Envisioning the Future

Family Caregiving and Support Technologies

FinTech / Governance

Haptic, Touch, and Physical Display

Human-AI Interaction & GenAI

Immersive and Spatial Visualization

Immersive Play and Spatial Computing

Intelligent Feedback & Learning Design

Liars & Deepfakes

Navigating Biases in Accessibility and Aging

Physical Activity and Behavior Change Technologies

Privacy, Health and Gender

Qualitative Method Reflection and Tools

Safe Driving

Sound, Music, and Dance Accessibility

Synergistic with AI

Tangible Interfaces for Electronics, PCBs, and Physical Computing

Thermal and Gestural Interaction

VR and Immersive Technologies for Mental Health

XR Navigation

SIGCHI Townhall

Augmented Body Parts: Bridging VR Embodiment and Wearable Robotics

CHIdeology: Disentangling the fragmented politics, values and imaginaries of Human-Computer Interaction through ideologies

Configuring Money as an Interface

Craft-Based Data Physicalization: Opportunities and Challenges

Cultivating Pedagogies for Post-Growth HCI

Ethics at the Front-End: Responsible User-Facing Design for AI Systems

Everything Is a Robot (and Nothing Is)

From Movement to Sound and Back: A Workshop on Movement-Based and Sonification Design Approaches

From Papers to the Real World: Making Fabrication Research Matter

Herding CATs: Making Sense of Creative Activity Traces

Human-AI Interaction Alignment: Designing, Evaluating, and Evolving Value-Centered AI For Reciprocal Human-AI Futures

Inclusion Critical Perspectives and Governance

Interactivity Demos

Meetup: Mentorship in HCI × Health Research

Multi-sensory Dark Patterns

NeuroHCI: Integrating Neuroscience and Human-Computer Interaction

Participation, Procurement & Proof of Impact in Public Sector AI Innovation

Posters (Wednesday)

Restoring Human Authenticity in AI-Mediated Communication

Social and Emotional Uses of AI

Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Responsible Design: A Case for Mitigating Gender-based Online Harm

Student Mentoring Program: Dissertation Research Roundtable

The Global Impact of Generative AI on the HCI Landscape: International Perspectives on HCI Education, Industry Dynamics, and Funding Considerations

Third Workshop on Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models: AI Agents-in-the-Loop

Upcoming changes to the CHI full paper peer review process: Community feedback session

What Comes After Research? Exploring Alternative Research Outcomes in HCI

What does Generative UI mean for HCI Practice?

Augmented Body Parts: Bridging VR Embodiment and Wearable Robotics

Biodesign x AI: Interactions in the Algorithmic Wet Lab

CHIdeology: Disentangling the fragmented politics, values and imaginaries of Human-Computer Interaction through ideologies

Co-designing SIGCHI Futures

Configuring Money as an Interface

Craft-Based Data Physicalization: Opportunities and Challenges

Cultivating Pedagogies for Post-Growth HCI

Embodiment in Action: Embodied Experiences of More-Than-Human Entanglements

Ethics at the Front-End: Responsible User-Facing Design for AI Systems

Everything Is a Robot (and Nothing Is)

From Movement to Sound and Back: A Workshop on Movement-Based and Sonification Design Approaches

From Papers to the Real World: Making Fabrication Research Matter

Herding CATs: Making Sense of Creative Activity Traces

Human-AI Interaction Alignment: Designing, Evaluating, and Evolving Value-Centered AI For Reciprocal Human-AI Futures

Interactivity Demos

Knots & Flows: An Engagement Design Meet-Up

Meta-HCI: Practising Reflection in HCI Research

Neurodiversity Meet-Up @ CHI: Building a Neuro-Affirming Community in HCI

Participation, Procurement & Proof of Impact in Public Sector AI Innovation

Posters (Wednesday)

Restoring Human Authenticity in AI-Mediated Communication

Social and Emotional Uses of AI

Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Responsible Design: A Case for Mitigating Gender-based Online Harm

Student Mentoring Program: Dissertation Research Roundtable

Third Workshop on Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models: AI Agents-in-the-Loop

What does Generative UI mean for HCI Practice?

XR Embodied and Spatial Interaction

AI and Interactive Tools for the Arts

AI for Language Learning & Communication Skills

AI Governance and Safety

Assistive Tech and Professional Inclusion

Captioning, Description, and Media Interaction

Child-Computer Interaction

Context-aware Interfaces for Mobility & Automation

Dark Patterns, Deception, and Manipulative Interfaces

Educational Support

Electrical Stimulation

Embodied Interaction and Soma Design

Environment and Sustainability

Health Tools and Technologies

Interactive Systems for Teaching, Learning, and Concept Formation

Labor, Data and Ethics

LLM-Assisted Writing and Authoring

Methodological Foundations

Privacy and Security in Software Development

Religion, Spirituality, and Design

Romance and Relationships in the Age of AI

Shape-Changing Systems

Social Intelligence & Human-Agent Dynamics

Social Media

Social Media Feeds and Algorithms

Technology for Social Impact

Technology, Safety and Justice

AI-Assisted Clinical Diagnosis and Reasoning

AI, Learning and Inclusion in Education

AI, Motivation and Learning

Co-Design

Co-Design and Collaboration

Creating with AI

Creativity and Innovation

Designing Care Futures

Designing XR Interaction

Driving Innovation

Ethics, Inclusion & Algorithmic Impact

Explaining and Evaluating AI Systems

Fabrication, Fashion, & Modular Systems

Getting Emotional

Heritage, Memory, & Speculative Narratives

Human Steering and Interaction with AI

Justice, Surveillance and Marginalized Identities

Mental Wellbeing

Novel Approaches to VR & Games: Neurodiversity, Tangibles, Wellbeing and more!

Optimizing Interactive Systems

Reflecting on Haptics

Research Methodology & UX

Social Impact and Responsible Tech

Sports technologies

Stress Management and Emotional Regulation

Youth, Families, and Safe Play

SIGCHI conferences lunch

AI Across Cultures: Co-Designing Equitable and Culturally Grounded Futures

AI CHAOS! 2nd Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems

AI for Haptics and Haptics for AI: Challenges and Opportunities

Bridge Over Troubled Water: Aligning Commercial Incentives With Ethical Design Practice To Combat Deceptive Patterns

CHI Stitch ’n B*tch, A Feminist HCI Meetup

Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design

Crossing the Academia–Practice Divide in Interaction Design

Developing an AI-Powered UX Research Point of View (POV)

Embodying Relationships: Designing TUIs for Co-Located Human-Human Dynamics

Engagement in Digital Health Interventions: Open Questions for Research and Design

Global Science Program

HCI-TERRA: HCI Towards EnviRonmentally Responsible AI

Interactivity Demos

Lifetime Service Awards

Meet ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction: Submitting, Getting Accepted, and Being Involved

Next Steps for Augmented Reality On-the-Move: Challenges and Opportunities

PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy

Posters (Thursday)

Shaping HCI Research for Children's Care Ecosystem Involvement

Speech AI for All: The What, How, and Who of Measurement

Strengthening the CHIIR Community: Bridging Interactive IR and HCI at CHI 2026

Sustainable Body Transformation Experiences

The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics

Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI—From Vision to Implementation

Toward Relationship-Centered Care with AI: Designing for Human Connections in Healthcare

AI Across Cultures: Co-Designing Equitable and Culturally Grounded Futures

AI CHAOS! 2nd Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems

AI for Haptics and Haptics for AI: Challenges and Opportunities

Bridge Over Troubled Water: Aligning Commercial Incentives With Ethical Design Practice To Combat Deceptive Patterns

Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design

Developing an AI-Powered UX Research Point of View (POV)

Disability, Differences, and Diversity: Revisiting Inclusive Design and Access

Engagement in Digital Health Interventions: Open Questions for Research and Design

HCI-TERRA: HCI Towards EnviRonmentally Responsible AI

Human-Centred AI or AI-Enabled HCI?

Interactivity Demos

Legitimizing, Developing, and Sustaining Feminist HCI in East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

Lifetime Research Awards

Next Steps for Augmented Reality On-the-Move: Challenges and Opportunities

Planetary boundaries and data in HCI

PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy

Posters (Thursday)

Reflections on Format Changes at CHI

Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading (STAR)

Speech AI for All: The What, How, and Who of Measurement

Student Research Competition: Final

The Arts in HCI Tapestry: Networking, Making, and Reflecting Together

The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics

Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI—From Vision to Implementation

Toward Relationship-Centered Care with AI: Designing for Human Connections in Healthcare

SIGCHI chapters and regions Breakfast

AI for Youth Learning

Capturing Experience & Generating Meaning

Collective Infrastructure

Community Governance and Moderation

Designing for Sensory Access

Digital Wellbeing Frameworks and Design Strategies

Education

Embodied AR/XR

Enabling Private & Smart Architectures and Spaces

Expression and Affective Wellbeing

Extended Reality & Immersive Systems II

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Interfaces

Inferring Human State

Learning in the AI Era

Mindfulness, Breathing, and Biofeedback Technologies

Mixed-Reality Systems for Spatial Understanding and Navigation

Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems for Sensemaking and Planning

Non-visual and conversational experiences

Online & Citizen Communities

People and Data

Physical Tasks & Robots

Sexual and Reproductive Health Technologies

Spatial Interaction Design, Gestures & Communication

Steering and Evaluating Generative AI

Time & Personhood

AI Tutors and Learning Support Systems

Behavior (Change) and Wellbeing

BIPOC Sovereignty and Care

Blind and Low-Vision Interaction

Communication

Data Visualization Designs and Tools

Domain Specific Systems

Families, Informal Learning & Home Contexts

Generative AI in Design and Practice

Group Work

Health Equity and Underserved Populations

Human-Robot Interaction

Margins

Memory and Interaction

Modeling Minds and Mentalities

Movement and Going Places

Movement-based Games, Sports, and Coaching

Music to My Ears

Novel Mobile and Tangible Interactions

Sensing and Novel Fabrication

Social Media Discourse and Online Harms

Sustainability & Critical Computing

The Dark Sides of AI

VR AR XR

XR and Environmental Adaptation/Integration

Keynote & Closing Plenary