UCL at CHI 2026

We are excited to share UCL’s contributions to the CHI 2026 technical programme. The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from 13–17 April 2026.

UCL researchers will present a substantial body of work, including 23 full papers, alongside workshops, a panel, meet-ups, journal presentations, and other contributions. Together, these outputs highlight the breadth of research at UCL, spanning human-centred AI, digital wellbeing, multisensory experiences, accessibility, personal informatics, interactive systems, and emerging technologies that shape how people live, work, and communicate.

In addition to research presentations, UCL faculty members will play key organisational roles within CHI 2026. Notably, Professor Anna Cox will serve on the SIGCHI Executive Committee as Chair-Elect, contributing to the strategic leadership of both the conference and the broader HCI community. UCL researchers will also serve as Associate Chair and Awards Chair roles, helping to shape the scientific programme and peer-review process.

Professor Duncan Brumby, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, will host an Editorial Board meeting for the journal during CHI 2026, reflecting its continued growth and central role in advancing research on the design and use of interactive computer technologies.

PAPERS

• AAC: An Acoustic Actor-Critic Trajectory Planning and Correction System for Stable Multi-Particle Levitation Displays
  Jincheng Wang, Lei Gao, Zhouyang Shen, Pengyuan Wei, Diego Martinez Plasencia.
• Beyond the Manual: Mapping Peer-Generated Content about Wheelchair Care and Adaptation on YouTube
  Wen Mo, Aneesha Singh, Lan Xiao, Catherine Holloway.
• BioHaptics: Emotion Modulation via Biosignal-Inspired Ultrasonic Mid-air Haptics in Video-Watching Experiences
  Zhouyang Shen, Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, Jing Xue, Marianna Obrist, Diego Martinez Plasencia.
• Cohort Differences in Internet Use Among Older Adults: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
  Bran Knowles, Andrew Steptoe, Jasmine Fledderjohann, Aneesha Singh, Caroline Swarbrick, Yvonne Rogers, Richard Harper.
• Don’t Worry, Just Follow Me: Prototyping and In-the-Wild Evaluation of Smart Pole Interaction Unit with Mobility
  Vishal Chauhan, Anubhav Anubhav, Mark Colley, Chia-Ming Chang, Xinyue Gui, Ding Xia, Ehsan Javanmardi, Takeo Igarashi, Kantaro Fujiwara, Manabu Tsukada.
• eHMI for All: Investigating the Effect of External Communication of Automated Vehicles on Pedestrians, Manual Drivers, and Cyclists in Virtual Reality
  Mark Colley, Simon Kopp, Debargha Dey, Pascal Jansen, Enrico Rukzio.
• Exploring the Impacts of Background Noise on Auditory Stimuli of Audio-Visual eHMIs for Hearing, Deaf, and Hard-of-Hearing People
  Wenge Xu, Foroogh Hajiseyedjavadi, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Mark Colley.
• From Sleep Scores to Self-Knowledge: Older Adults’ Experiences with Tracking Sleep Using the Oura Ring
  Aneesha Singh, Minsi Song, Stella Loukeri Woestman, Jiratchaya Ongsricharoenporn, Yasemin Gunal, Bran Knowles, Ewan Soubutts, Yvonne Rogers.
• Grand Challenges around Designing Computers’ Control Over Our Bodies
  Florian “Floyd” Mueller, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Misha Sra, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Henning Pohl, Susanne Boll, Richard Byrne, Arthur Caetano, Jarrod Knibbe, Per Ola Kristensson, Xiang Li, Zhuying Li, Joe Marshall, Louise Petersen Matjeka, Minna Nygren, Rakesh Patibanda, Sara Price, Harald Reiterer, Aryan Saini, Oliver Schneider, Ambika Shahu, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Don Samitha Elvitigala.
• GTA: Generative Traffic Agents for Simulating Realistic Mobility Behavior
  Simon Lämmer, Mark Colley, Patrick Ebel.
• Improving Low-Vision Chart Accessibility via On-Cursor Visual Context
  Yotam Sechayk, Hennes Rave, Max Rädler, Mark Colley, Zhongyi Zhou, Ariel Shamir, Takeo Igarashi.
• MIRAGE: Enabling Real-Time Automotive Mediated Reality
  Pascal Jansen, Julian Britten, Mark Colley, Markus Sasalovici, Enrico Rukzio.
• NaviNote: Enabling In-situ Spatial Annotation Authoring to Support Exploration and Navigation for Blind and Low Vision People
  Yuheng Wu, Ruijia Chen, Charlie Houseago, Filipe Gaspar, Filippo Aleotti, Dorian Gálvez-López, Oliver Johnston, Diego Mazala, Maryam Bandukda, Gabriel Brostow, Jessica Van Brummelen
• Peeking Ahead of the Field Study: Exploring VLM Personas as Support Tools for Embodied Studies in HCI
  Xinyue Gui, Ding Xia, Mark Colley, Yuan Li, Vishal Chauhan, Anubhav Anubhav, Zhongyi Zhou, Ehsan Javanmardi, Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Chia-Ming Chang, Manabu Tsukada, Takeo Igarashi.
• Playing for Wellness: A Diary Study of Videogame Usage and Adolescent Wellbeing
  Andrei Munteanu, Wen Mo, Kyrill Potapov, Leya George, Isabel Georgia Miller, Aneesha Singh.
• ProVoice: Designing Proactive Functionality for In-Vehicle Conversational Assistants Using Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization to Enhance Driver Experience
  Josh Susak, Yifu Liu, Pascal Jansen, Mark Colley.
• Queering Character Creation: Player Perspectives on Choosing Characters’ Gender and Sexual Orientation in Role-Playing Games
  Gunnar Húni Björnsson, Martin Johannes Dechant, Susanne Poeller.
• Speaking of Food: Understanding How People Talk About Food Experiences
  Yihan Kang, Ceylan Beşevli, Sriram Subramanian, Marianna Obrist.
• The Domestic Operating System: An Empirical Investigation of Digital Technology and Hidden Work in the Home
  Sarah Lucy Frampton, Sandy J. J. Gould, Anna L. Cox.
• The RepairBot Framework: Touch-Aware Conversational Agent for Hands-on Clothes Repair
  Yifu Liu, Tao Bi, Chuang Yu, Lucie F. Hernandez, Bruna Beatriz Petreca, Minna Nygren, Sharon Baurley, Youngjun Cho, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze.
• Towards Inclusive External Human-Machine Interface: Exploring the Effects of Visual and Auditory eHMI for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
  Wenge Xu, Foroogh Hajiseyedjavadi, Kurtis Weir, Chukwuemeka Eze, Mark Colley.
• Understanding How Mobile Interactions Shape Grasp and Contact Patterns Beyond the Touchscreen
  Carolin Stellmacher, Leon Tristan Dratzidis, André Zenner, Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Johannes Schöning, Yvonne Rogers, Donald Degraen, Mark Colley.
• What Happens When Reviewers Receive AI Feedback in Their Reviews?
  Shiping Chen, Shu Zhong, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna L. Cox.

POSTERS (LATE BREAKING WORK)

• Investigating the Role of Agentic AI in Facilitating Travel Planning for People with Low Vision
  Ranran Ding, Maryam Bandukda
• Learning on the Move: Designing Adaptive Education for Automated Vehicles
  Kevin Fred, Mark Colley, Thiemo Wambsganss.
• Rethinking Simulator Fidelity in Urban Air Mobility: A Null-Result Investigation into the Effects of Induced Arousal and Motion Cues
  Luca-Maxim Meinhardt, Mark Colley, Ayse Balci, Annalisa Degenhard, Pascal Jansen, Enrico Rukzio.
• VLM-driven Risk-Adaptive HUD Interactions for Trust Calibration in Automated Driving
  Mengyang Ren, Pai Zheng, Mark Colley.

PANELS

• Human-Centred AI or AI-Enabled HCI?
  Yvonne Rogers (chair), Elizabeth F. Churchill, Matt Jones, Lucia Terrenghi, Johannes Schöning.

WORKSHOPS

• AI CHAOS! 2nd Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems
  Malik Khadar, Julia Cecil, Leon Van Der Neut, Nikola Banovic, Kevin Baum, Stevie Chancellor, Enrico Costanza, Motahhare Eslami, Anna Maria Feit, Susanne Gaube, Ujwal Gadiraju, Harmanpreet Kaur.
  Workshop site
• Body Transformation Experiences: How to Elicit, Assess and Support them through Multisensory Technology
  Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Elena Márquez Segura, Marte Roel Lesur, Laia Turmo Vidal, Frederic Bevilacqua, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Aneesha Singh, Alice C. Haynes, Pedro Lopes, Jun Nishida, Don Samitha Elvitigala, Paul Strohmeier.
  Workshop site
• (Re-)Thinking Empathy’s Materiality in HCI
  Sophia Ppali, Mireia Yurrita, Alice Vitali, Alok Debnath, Lucie Flek, Andrea Cuadra, Sven Mayer, Michal Lahav, Tiffanie Horne, Aneesha Singh, Giulia Barbareschi, Andrea Mauri, Himanshu Verma.
  Workshop site
• The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics
  Christina Schneegass, Francesco Chiossi, Anna L. Cox, Dimitra Dritsa, Teodora Mitrevska, Stephen Rainey, Max L. Wilson.
  Workshop site

MEET-UPS

• Follow Your Nose: Experiencing Smell as a Design Material
  Marianna Obrist, Ceylan Beşevli, Emanuela Maggioni, Mei-Kei Lai, Carlos Velasco.
  Meet-up site
• Mentorship in HCI × Health Research
  Ignacio Avellino, James R. Wallace, Francisco Nunes, Jason Wiese, Helena M. Mentis, Sean A. Munson, Aneesha Singh, Chia-Fang Chung, Pin Sym Foong.
  Meet-up site

JOURNALS (TO APPEAR AT CHI)

• Experiences of User-Centred Design with Agile Development for Clinically Supported Self-Management of Long COVID
  Ann Blandford, Julia Bindman, Katherine Bradbury, Belinda Cooper, Enrico Costanza, Sandra Edwards, Fiona Hamilton, Melissa Heightman, John R. Hurst, Hannah Hylton, Stuart Linke, Paul Pfeffer, William Ricketts, Chris Robson, Fiona Stevenson, David Sunkersing, Jonathan Waywell, Henry Goodfellow.
  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
  ACM link
• RunMe: An adaptive sound system for running meditation
  Peng Tan, Xiaofei Zhu, Tao Bi, Xiangshi Ren.
  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
  ACM link

UCL ROLES AT CHI 2026

• Steering Committee: Anna Cox (Chair-Elect)
• Associate Chairs: Amid Ayobi, Mark Colley, Enrico Costanza, Anna Cox, Martin Dechant, Catherine Holloway
• Accessibility Co-chair: Maryam Bandukda
• Awards Chair: Marianna Obrist
• Best Paper Committee: Mark Colley
• Student Mentoring Program Member: Mark Colley