CMU at CHI 2026 kharlan Fri, 03/06/2026 - 16:24 March 25, 2026 News Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) authors from a wide variety of disciplines will showcase work at the international conference for human-computer interaction next month. The prestigious Association of Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI, pronounced “kai”) will take place April 13 to 17, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain. This year, authors from CMU contributed to 76 papers, including 3 recognized with Best Paper Awards and 9 with Honorable Mention Awards ( jump down to view the list ). In addition to paper presentations, CMU researchers contributed to 14 workshops, 4 posters, 2 interactivity sessions and more. A search for Carnegie Mellon in the CHI 2026 program returns a full list of involvement. “The interdisciplinary CHI conference encompasses the research of many of our faculty and students at the HCI Institute, and has historically been the premiere place to publish work in many areas of human-computer interaction,” said Brad Myers, Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and professor of HCI. “We are delighted to see such a strong Carnegie Mellon presence this year. Authors from 15 different CMU departments contributed work to CHI 2026 on a variety of human-centered topics, representing areas of computer science, engineering, design and business,” Myers said. CHI 2026 received a record-breaking 6,700 paper submissions, which reflects the strength and creativity of the global HCI community, and is now ACM’s largest conference. The CHI awards are extremely competitive each year with Best Paper Awards recognizing the top 1% and Honorable Mentions the top 5% of accepted papers. We celebrate the following awards and research affiliated with CMU authors at CHI 2026. 2026 SIGCHI Awards Congratulations to the following 2026 SIGCHI award winners with ties to Carnegie Mellon or the HCII. They will be celebrated at the awards ceremony during the conference. ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award : Lorrie Cranor, affiliated faculty 📰 CyLab news: Cranor receives 2026 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2026: Three HCII faculty and one alumnus will join the CHI Academy this year. Jeffrey P. Bigham , associate professor Laura Dabbish , professor Chris Harrison , associate professor Darren Gergle (HCII Ph.D. 2006), now faculty at Northwestern University Accepted Papers Carnegie Mellon University authors contributed to the following papers accepted to CHI 2026. This list is organized in alphabetical order by paper title. Award-winning papers are listed first and noted with icons and text. 🏆 Best Paper Award “I Don’t Think RAI Applies to My Model” – Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work Nadia Nahar (CMU S3D) , Chenyang Yang (CMU S3D) , Yanxin Chen, Wesley Hanwen Deng (HCII), Kenneth Holstein (HCII), Motahhare Eslami (HCII), Christian Kästner (CMU S3D) 🏆 Best Paper Award iTagPDF: Towards Finally Automating PDF Accessibility Peya Mowar (CMU RI), Aaron Steinfeld (CMU RI), Jeffrey P. Bigham (HCII) 🏆 Best Paper Award Towards Fluent Interaction with Cyber-Physical Architecture Jesse T Gonzalez (HCII), Neeta M Khanuja (HCII), Michael Mingxuan Li (CMU), Maggie Guo (CMU Architecture), Layomi Olaitan (CMU ECE), Emily Lau (CMU Design), Jenny Pugh (CMU), Alexandra Ion (HCII), Scott E Hudson (HCII) 🏅 Honorable Mention Award EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development André Barrocas, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Valentina Nisi, Nikolas Martelaro (HCII) 🏅 Honorable Mention Award Evidotes: Integrating Scientific Evidence and Anecdotes to Support Uncertainties Triggered by Peer Health Posts Shreya Bali (HCII), Riku Arakawa (HCII) , Peace Odiase, Tongshuang Wu (HCII), Mayank Goel (S3D/HCII) 🏅 Honorable Mention Award HiFiGaze: Improving Eye Tracking Accuracy Using Screen Content Knowledge Taejun Kim (HCII), Vimal Mollyn (HCII), Riku Arakawa (HCII), Chris Harrison (HCII) 🏅 Honorable Mention Award Large Language Models in Peer-Run Community Behavioral Health Services: Understanding Peer Specialists and Service Users’ Perspectives on Opportunities, Risks, and Mitigation Strategies Cindy Peng (HCII), Megan Chai (HCII), Gao Mo (CMU MLD), Naveen Raman (CMU MLD), Ningjing Tang (HCII) , Shannon Pagdon, Margaret Swarbrick, Nev Jones, Fei Fang (CMU S3D), Hong Shen (HCII) 📰 SCS news: PeerCoPilot Uses AI To Support Community Mental Health Care 🏅 Honorable Mention Award MindfulAgents: Personalizing Mindfulness Meditation via an Expert-Aligned Multi-Agent System Mengyuan Wu, Zhihan Jiang, Yuang Fan, Richard Feng, Sahiti Dharmavaram, Mathew Polowitz (CMU Psychology) , Shawn Fallon, Bashima Islam, Lizbeth Benson, Irene Tung, David Creswell (CMU Psychology) , Xuhai "Orson" Xu 🏅 Honorable Mention Award Privy: Envisioning and Mitigating Privacy Risks for Consumer-facing AI Product Concepts Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee (HCII) , Yu-Ju Yang, Matthew Bilik, Isadora Krsek (HCII), Thomas Serban von Davier (CMU SEI), Kyzyl Monteiro (HCII) , Jason Lin, Shivani Agarwal (CMU III), Jodi Forlizzi (HCII), Sauvik Das (HCII) 🏅 Honorable Mention Award The Siren Song of LLMs: How Users Perceive and Respond to Dark Patterns in Large Language Models Yike Shi (CMU CS), Qing Xiao (HCII), Diane Hu (CMU Design), Hong Shen (HCII) , Hua Shen 🏅 Honorable Mention Award WELDAR: Augmenting Live Hands-On Training with In-Situ Guidance for Novice Learners Chuhan (Franklin) Xu (CMU Design), Lia Sparingga Purnamasari (CMU Design), Zhenfang Chen (CMU Architecture), Daragh Byrne (CMU Architecture), Dina EL-Zanfaly (CMU Design) 🏅 Honorable Mention Award Will They Try Again? A Large-Scale RCT on Scaffolds that Support Persistence in an Intelligent Tutoring System Michael W Asher (HCII), Yumou Wei (HCII) , Adam Reynolds, Amy Ogan (HCII), Paulo F Carvalho (HCII) A Design Space for Live Music Agents Yewon Kim (CMU CSD) , Stephen Brade, Alexander Wang (HCII) , David Zhou, Haven Kim, Bill Wang, Sung-Ju Lee, Hugo F Flores Garcia, Anna Huang, Chris Donahue (CMU CSD) ADCanvas: Accessible and Conversational Audio Description Authoring for Blind and Low Vision Creators Franklin Mingzhe Li (HCII) , Michael Xieyang Liu, Cynthia L. Bennett, Shaun K. Kane Auditorily Embodied Conversational Agents: Effects of Spatialization and Situated Audio Cues on Presence and Social Perception Yi Fei Cheng (HCII), Jarod Bloch (CMU SCS), Alexander Wang (HCII) , Andrea Bianchi, Anusha Withana, Anhong Guo, Laurie M Heller (CMU Psychology), David Lindlbauer (HCII) Behavioral Indicators of Overreliance During Interaction with Conversational Language Models Chang Liu, Qinyi Zhou, Xinjie Shen, Xingyu Bruce Liu, Tongshuang Wu (HCII) , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen Beyond Content Exposure: Systemic Factors Driving Moderators' Mental Health Crisis in Africa Nuredin Ali, Tianling Yang, Shivani Kapania (HCII) , Kauna Malgwi, Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan, Adio-Adet Dinika, Elaine Nsoesie, Milagros Miceli, Stevie Chancellor Beyond Riding: Passenger Engagement with Driver Labor through Gamified Interactions Jane Hsieh (HCII) , Emily Regan, Jose Elizalde, Sophia Deng, Haiyi Zhu (HCII) Black LLMirror: User (Self) Perceptions in Black American English Interactions with LLMs Mikayla Campbell (CMU LTI), Joel Mire (CMU LTI) , Mark Diaz, Maarten Sap (CMU LTI) Botender: Supporting Communities in Collaboratively Designing AI Agents through Case-Based Provocations Tzu-Sheng Kuo (HCII) , Sophia Liu, Quan Ze Chen, Joseph Seering, Amy X. Zhang, Haiyi Zhu (HCII), Kenneth Holstein (HCII) CalmReminder: A Design Probe for Parental Engagement with Children with Hyperactivity, Augmented by Real-Time Motion Sensing with a Watch Riku Arakawa* (HCII), Shreya Bali* (HCII), Anupama Sitaraman (CMU S3D) , Woosuk Seo, Sam Shaaban, Oliver Lindheim, Traci M. Kennedy, Mayank Goel (S3D/HCII) Can GenAI Move from Individual Use to Collaborative Work? Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities of Coordinating GenAI into Collaborative Newswork Qing Xiao (HCII), Diane Hu (CMU Design) , Jingjia Xiao, Hancheng Cao, Hong Shen (HCII) Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows Valerie Chen (CMU MLD), Ameet Talwalkar (CMU MLD) , Robert Brennan, Graham Neubig (CMU LTI) Do Teachers Dream of GenAI Widening Educational (In)equality? Envisioning the Future of K-12 GenAI Education from Global Teachers’ Perspectives Ruiwei Xiao* (HCII), Qing Xiao* (HCII) , Xinying Hou, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane (HCII) , Hanqi Jane Li, Hong Shen (HCII), John Stamper (HCII) EchoScriptor: Automatic Lifelogging Narratives via Activity-Based Audio–Language Model Kaylee Yaxuan Li, Xinghao Zhou, Haizhong Zheng (CMU ECE) , Kang G. Shin, Alanson P. Sample EdTech for Last Mile Learners in the Global South: Navigating Technological and Motivational Learning Insights with Radios and Mobile Phones Christine Kwon (HCII) , Dieyu Ouyang, Lingkan Wang (HCII) , Debbie Eleene Conejo, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane (HCII), John Stamper (HCII), Amy Ogan (HCII) Exploring Texture-Level Creative Decisions with penPal, a Novel Handheld Actuated Drawing Tool Tucker Rae-Grant, Luke Jimenez, Lea Albaugh (HCII) , Ken Nakagaki From Autonomy to Sovereignty - A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology JiWoong (Joon) Jang (HCII), Patrick Carrington (HCII), Andrew Begel (S3D) From Selfie Stick to Virtual Cane: Enabling Blind Exploration through Mobile Virtual Reality Hao Tang, HONG ZHAO, Xinpeng Liu (CMU Heinz) , Zhenchao Xia, William Seiple, Zhigang Zhu Funding AI for Good: A Call for Meaningful Engagement Hongjin Lin, Anna Kawakami (HCII) , Catherine D'Ignazio, Kenneth Holstein (HCII) , Krzysztof Z. Gajos How Does Delegation in Social Interaction Evolve Over Time? Navigation with a Robot for Blind People Rayna Hata (CMU RI) , Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa Hybrid LLM-Embedded Dialogue Agents for Learner Reflection: Designing Responsive and Theory-Driven Interactions Paras Sharma, Yueping Sha, Janet Bih, Brayden Yan, Jess A Turner (HCII) , Nicole Balay, Hubert O. Asare, Angela E.B. Stewart, Erin Walker “I followed what felt right, not what I was told”: Autonomy, Coaching, and Recognizing Bias Through AI-Mediated Dialogue Atieh Taheri (HCII), Hamza El Alaoui (HCII), Patrick A. Carrington (HCII), Jeffrey P. Bigham  (HCII) Identifying, Explaining, and Correcting Ableist Language with AI Kynnedy Simone Smith (HCII) , Lydia Chilton, Danielle Bragg Inclusive Mobile Learning: How Technology-Enabled Language Choice Supports Multilingual Students Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane (HCII), Michael W Asher (HCII), Christine Kwon (HCII), Paulo F. Carvalho (HCII), Amy Ogan (HCII) InSense3D: Designing Smart 3D-Printed Structures Leveraging Ferromagnetic Filaments for Inductive Deformation Sensing Rahul Bhaumik (HCII) , Camilo Ayala-Garcia, Niko Münzenrieder, Michael Haller, Alexandra Ion (HCII) Intelligent Reasoning Cues: A Framework and Case Study of the Roles of AI Information in Complex Decisions Venkatesh Sivaraman (HCII), Eric Paul Mason (HCII) , Mengfan Ellen Li, Jessica Tong, Andrew Joseph King, Jeremy M. Kahn, Adam Perer (HCII) Investigating How Leaders Decide on AI Innovations: Opportunities for HCI Shixian Xie (HCII), Sijia Xiao (HCII), Cindy Peng (HCII), Ganesh Mani (CMU Tepper), John Zimmerman (HCII), Motahhare Eslami (HCII) "It just requires so much more creativity": Barriers and Workarounds to Gathering Information for AI Contestation Sohini Upadhyay, Dasha Pruss, Alicia DeVrio (HCII) , Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Naveena Karusala Lost in Transcription: Subtitle Errors in Automatic Speech Recognition Reduce Speaker and Content Evaluations Kowe Kadoma, Priyal Shrivastava (HCII) , Mor Naaman Lost in Translation: Understanding Autistic–Neurotypical Communication Style Differences in Job Postings Huining Feng, Zinat Ara, Andrew Hundt (CMU RI) , Slobodan Vucetic, John Joon Young Chung, Sungsoo Ray Hong LubDubDecoder: Bringing Micro-Mechanical Cardiac Monitoring to Hearables Siqi Zhang (CMU ECE) , Xiyuxing Zhang, Duc Vu, Tao Qiang, Clara Palacios, Jiangyifei Zhu (CMU ECE) , Yuntao Wang, Mayank Goel (S3D/HCII), Justin Chan (ECE/S3D) 📰 CMU ECE news: Earbuds that Listen to the Heart My Money, Your Name: Challenges and Workarounds in ID-Required Mobile Money in East Africa Edith T Luhanga (CMU Africa) , Karen Sowon, Lorrie Faith Cranor (CMU S3D/EPP), Giulia Fanti (CMU ECE), Conrad Tucker (CMU MechE), Assane Gueye (CMU Africa) Navigating Uncertainties: How GenAI Developers Document Their Models on Open-Source Platforms Ningjing Tang (HCII), Megan Li (CMU S3D) , Amy Winecoff, Michael Madaio, Hoda Heidari (CMU MLD), Hong Shen (HCII) Not Everyone Wins with LLMs: Behavioral Patterns and Pedagogical Implications for AI Literacy in Programmatic Data Science Qianou Ma (HCII), Kenneth Koedinger (HCII), Tongshuang Wu (HCII) "Not Human, Funnier": How Machine Identity Shapes Humor Perception in Online AI Stand-up Comedy Xuehan Huang, Canwen Wang (HCII) , Yifei Hao, Daijin Yang, RAY LC One Body, Two Minds: Alternating VR Perspective During Remote Teleoperation of Supernumerary Limbs Hongyu Zhou, Xincheng Huang, Winston Wijaya, Yi Fei Cheng (HCII), David Lindlbauer (HCII) , Eduardo Velloso, Andrea Bianchi, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana Passing Down Passwords: How Older Adults Approach Postmortem Account Access and Digital Estate Planning Jenny Tang (CMU S3D), Xiaoyuan Wu (CMU S3D), Lujo Bauer (CMU S3D/ECE), Nicolas Christin (CMU S3D/EPP), Lorrie Faith Cranor (CMU S3D/EPP) PointAloud: An Interaction Suite for AI-Supported Pointer-Centric Think-Aloud Computing Frederic Gmeiner (HCII) , John Thompson, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka PolicyPad: Collaborative Prototyping of LLM Policies K. J. Kevin Feng, Tzu-Sheng Kuo (HCII) , Quan Ze Chen, Inyoung Cheong, Kenneth Holstein (HCII) , Amy X. Zhang Prototyping Multimodal GenAI Real-Time Agents with Counterfactual Replays and Hybrid Wizard-of-Oz Frederic Gmeiner (HCII), Kenneth Holstein (HCII), Nikolas Martelaro (HCII) Regulating AI: Where U.S. State Policy and HCI (Mis)align Alice Gao, Adinawa D. Adjagbodjou (HCII) , Dhanaraj Thakur, Rene Just, Katharina Reinecke Revisiting Worker-Centered Design: Tensions, Blind Spots, and Action Spaces Shuhao Ma, John Zimmerman (HCII) , Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes Robot-Assisted Group Tours for Blind People Yaxin Hu, Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang, Seita Kayukawa, Daisuke Sato (CMU RI) , Bilge Mutlu, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa Robots that Evolve with Us: Modular Co-Design for Personalization, Adaptability, and Sustainability Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao (HCII) , Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, Selma Šabanović Simulating Human Audiovisual Search Behavior Hyunsung Cho (HCII) , Xuejing Luo, Byungjoo Lee, David Lindlbauer (HCII) , Antti Oulsavirta Situated, Dynamic, and Subjective: Envisioning the Design of Theory-of-Mind-Enabled Everyday AI with Industry Practitioners Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang (HCII), Jini Kim (HCII), Avanita Sharma (CMU Design), Alicia (Hyun Jin) Lee (HCII), Jodi Forlizzi (HCII), Hong Shen (HCII) skCAD: A Design Tool for Solid Knitting with Automatic Pattern Generation Yuichi Hirose (CMU RI) , Maria Larsson, Takeo Igarashi Sometimes You Need Facts, and Sometimes a Hug: Understanding Older Adults’ Preferences for Explanations in LLM-Based Conversational AI Systems Niharika Mathur, Tamara Zubatiy, Agata Rozga, Jodi Forlizzi (HCII) , Beth Mynatt SonicSieve: Bringing Directional Speech Extraction to Smartphones Using Acoustic Microstructures Kuang Yuan (CMU ECE), Yifeng Wang (CMU ECE) , Xiyuxing Zhang, Chengyi Shen, Swarun Kumar (CMU ECE), Justin Chan (CMU ECE/S3D) 📰 CMU ECE news: Teaching Your Phone to Listen Like an Ear SoundBubble: Finger-Bound Virtual Microphone using Headset/Glasses Beamforming Daehwa Kim (HCII), Chris Harrison (HCII) Supporting Informed Self-Disclosure: Design Recommendations for Presenting AI-Estimates of Privacy Risks to Users Isadora Krsek (HCII), Meryl Ye (CMU S3D) , Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Laura Dabbish (HCII), Sauvik Das (HCII) TALES: A Taxonomy and Analysis of Cultural Representations in LLM-generated Stories Kirti Bhagat, Shaily Bhatt (CMU LTI) , Athul Velagapudi, Aditya Vashistha, Shachi Dave, Danish Pruthi TaskAudit: Detecting Functiona11ity Errors in Mobile Apps via Agentic Task Execution Mingyuan Zhong, Xia Chen (CMU) , Davin Win Kyi, Chen Li (CMU) , James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock ‘The plan is just survival': Data Work in Kenya and the Regime of Entrapment Shivani Kapania (HCII) , Tianling Yang, Nuredin Ali, Morgan Scheuerman, Milagros Miceli, Alex Taylor, Sarah Fox (HCII) The Three Praxes Framework - A Thematic Review and Map of Social Accessibility Research JiWoong (Joon) Jang (HCII), Patrick Carrington (HCII), Andrew Begel (CMU S3D) Toolset Action Coding System: A Generalized Method for Tool Measurement Moshe Mahler (CMU ETC), Yuchen Liu (CMU), Jodi Forlizzi (HCII) Towards Accessible Mobility Support: User-Centered Design of a Passive, Multi-Functional, Low-Cost Knee Exoskeleton Yuyu Lin (HCII), Yujia Liu (HCII), Emma Kim (CMU MSE/BME), Alexandra Ion (HCII) Tracing Creativity: A Design Space For Creative Activity Traces in HCI Noor Hammad (HCII), David Chuan-En Lin (HCII) , Amy Smith, Max Kreminski, Erik Harpstead (HCII), Jessica Hammer (HCII) Understanding Nature Engagement Experiences of Blind People Mengjie Tang, Xinman Li, Juxiao Zhang, Franklin Mingzhe Li (HCII) , Zhuying Li Understanding the Sociocultural Role of Makerspace Infrastructure When Developing Community-based Technology-rich Learning Programs Erin Higgins (CMU Library) , Jennifer Posada, Marie Sakowicz, Quinlan O Kimble-Brown, Andrew Coy, Foad Hamidi Values Across Contexts: Understanding How Older Adults Enact What Matters Through Technology Hugo Simão, David Gonçarves, Neeta Khanuja (HCII), Valentina Nisi, Alexandre Bernardino, Tiago Guerreiro, Jodi Forlizzi (HCII) Vipera: Blending Visual and LLM-Driven Guidance for Systematic Auditing of Text-to-Image Generative AI Yanwei Huang, Wesley Hanwen Deng (HCII), Sijia Xiao (HCII), Motahhare Eslami (HCII), Jason I. Hong (HCII) , Arpit Narechania, Adam Perer (HCII) When Your Boss Is an AI Bot: Exploring Opportunities and Risks of Manager Clone Agents in the Future Workplace Diane Hu (CMU Design), Qing Xiao (HCII) , Hancheng Cao, Hong Shen (HCII) 📰 SCS news: When an AI Bot Becomes Your Boss Worker Discretion Advised: Co-designing Risk Disclosure in Crowdsourced Responsible AI (RAI) Content Work Alice Qian (HCII), Ziqi Yang (CMU) , Ryland Shaw, Jina Suh, Laura Dabbish (HCII), Hong Shen (HCII) Xspine: Integrating Motion Sensing Capability into Dynamic Structures Using Multi-material FDM 3D Printing Mingming Li, Dingning Cao, Xiang Chang, Karla Sahin (CMU ECE) , Stefanie Mueller, Jiaji Li Jeffrey Bigham Laura Dabbish Chris Harrison Brad Myers Hong Shen Qing Xiao Jodi Forlizzi Ken Holstein Motahhare Eslami Sherry Tongshuang Wu Riku Arakawa Amy Ogan Alexandra Ion David Lindlbauer John Stamper Mayank Goel Sauvik Das Sijia Xiao Tzu-Sheng Kuo Wesley Hanwen Deng Shreya Bali Phenyo Moletsane Christine Kwon Alexander Wang Haiyi Zhu Franklin (Mingzhe) Li Michael Asher Paulo Carvalho Isadora Krsek Adam Perer Nikolas Martelaro John Zimmerman Shivani Kapania Yi Fei Cheng Ruiwei Xiao Lea Albaugh Anna Kawakami Vimal Mollyn Jess Turner Atieh Taheri Hamza El Alaoui Patrick Carrington Kynnedy Smith Venkatesh Sivaraman Eric Mason Shixian Xie Alicia DeVrio Megan Chai Ningjing Tang Priyal Shrivastava Qianou (Christina) Ma Ken Koedinger Frederic Gmeiner Adinawa Adjagbodjou Hyunsung Cho Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang Jini Kim Daehwa Kim Sarah Fox Jiwoong (Joon) Jang Yuyu Lin Yujia Liu Jesse Gonzalez Scott Hudson Noor Hammad David Chuan-en Lin Erik Harpstead Jessica Hammer Neeta Khanuja Jason Hong Yumou (James) Wei Alice Qian Kyzyl Monteiro Human-Centered AI Accessibility and Assistive Technology AR / VR / XR Data Visualization Healthcare + HCI Human-Agent and Human-Robot Interaction Physical Interfaces – Sensing, Haptics, Fabrication Resea