CHI 2026

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

Virtual Reality

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

Extended Reality & Immersive Systems

Haptics + XR

Human Factors in Privacy, Security, and Trust

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

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

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

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