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All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. The submission site of each track will open approximately four weeks before its submission deadline.

Accepted Workshops

Workshops are gathering places for attendees with shared interests to meet in the context of a focused and interactive discussion. These events offer opportunities to advance specific areas of research and a chance to find people who care about similar issues, questions, and research agendas — a great way to meet relevant people and build communities.

The workshops are organized independently by their organizers. Please see the websites of the individual events for detailed instructions on how to attend and submit position papers, etc.

UPDATE on Dec 20, 2024: Please note that the following list of workshops might include minor details that are subject to change. Please check this page (and the individual workshop pages) later for updates.

Saturday (26 Apr 2025)

Sunday (27 Apr 2025)

Descriptions of the workshops and symposia

W1: Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, And Then What?

Sunday
Webpage: http://thingsofdesign.info
Organizers:

  • Arne Berger, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
  • Stephan Hildebrandt, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
  • Albrecht Kurze, Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • William Odom, Simon Fraser University
  • Tom Jenkins, IT University of Copenhagen
  • James Pierce, University of Washington, Seattle
  • David Chatting, Newcastle University
  • Doenja Oogjes, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Sara Nabil, Queen’s University
  • Andy Boucher, Northumbria University
  • William Gaver, Northumbria University

Description: This workshop focuses on the temporal dimensions of Research through Design (RtD) in Human-Computer Interaction. Building on the success of previous objects of design workshops at CHI, it explores how time impacts the creation, evolution, and deployment of design artifacts. Participants will discuss long-term and unconventional deployments, addressing methodological, ethical, and organizational challenges. Through hands-on, studio-style critique and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to generate insights into how temporal aspects of design contribute to knowledge production. The event will also initiate long-term design deployments, with findings to be reported at a follow-up workshop in 2026, marking the 10th anniversary of this series.

W2: Body Politics: Unpacking Tensions and Future Perspectives for Body-Centric Design Research in HCI

Saturday
Webpage: https://bodypoliticschi.wordpress.com/
Organizers:

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, University of Copenhagen
  • Sarah Fdili Alaoui, University of the Arts London
  • Sarah Homewood, University of Copenhagen
  • Jonas Fritsch, University of Copenhagen
  • Anna Brynskov Digital Design, University of Copenhagen
  • Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Malmö University
  • Kristin Carlson, Illinois State University
  • Katta Spiel, Crip Collective and TU Wien
  • Marco Fyfe Pietro Gillies, University of London, Goldsmiths
  • Christina Harrington, Carnegie Mellon University

Description: Human bodies are deeply political as they carry historical and social meanings, including race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and abilities. The expanding body-centric research in HCI can be traced in the plurality of methods, theories and domains that take bodies as a central point of departure, when designing or studying interaction with technologies. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners within the CHI community to discuss, map, and unpack emerging tensions and challenges on the topic of body politics for HCI. Interested participants are invited to submit examples from their own research, which, in the workshop, will be used as a point of departure to critically reflect on and expand body-centric methods, theories and domains through the lens of body politics. Workshop outcomes will include charting future directions for body-centric research to address challenges and opportunities of acknowledging that bodies are always political in design research.

W3: Future of Money and HCI

Sunday
Webpage: https://hci.money/
Organizers:

  • Johnna Blair, Pennsylvania State University
  • Jeff Brozena, Pennsylvania State University
  • John Vines, University of Edinburgh
  • Jofish Kaye, Wells Fargo
  • Mark J. A. Matthews, University College Dublin
  • Saeed Abdullah, Pennsylvania State University

Description: Money and financial activities reflect social connections and societal norms. Collaborative financial activities and decision-making are highly common in our day-to-day activities. However, existing financial technologies (fintech) are often limited to individual-centric approaches and goals. Recent HCI work has repeatedly noted the need for creating new interaction strategies and design paradigms to better support our financial behaviors, habits, and goals. However, there has not been much concrete work yet, specifically when it comes to supporting collaborative behaviors and social norms that underpin much of our daily financial activities. In this in-person workshop, we will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in reshaping the current landscape of digital money and fintech with a focus on social and collaborative interactions. Specifically, we will identify limitations of existing fintech approaches and potential strategies to address these limitations. We will also discuss key challenges for fintech design and development, including collaboration, privacy, agency, trust, and accessibility. The workshop will lead to identifying novel HCI research and implementation directions focusing on the future of financial technologies.

W4: Defining a UX Research Point of View (POV)

Sunday
Webpage: https://www.uxrpovplaybook.com/chi2025workshop
Organizers:

  • Huseyin Dogan, Bournemouth University
  • Renée M Barsoum, Admiral Group
  • Stephen Giff, Google
  • Alan Dix, Swansea University
  • Elizabeth Churchill, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Description: A User Experience Research Point of View (UXR PoV) is a perspective based on data, evidence, and insight that shapes how you observe, interpret, and represent the needs of your target users. We need to equip UX Practitioners with the essential tools needed to develop and articulate a persuasive PoV. Our mission is to support professionals in preparing and establishing a compelling narrative that aligns with the needs of their stakeholders. We are developing a UXR playbook that defines a set of plays and instructions for practitioners to build, establish, and land a compelling UX Research POV. The proposed workshop offers an opportunity to hear from HCI Researchers, UX Research professionals and cross-functional partners involved in design processes to extend the foundations already laid and create a more detailed UXR POV playbook.

W5: New Frontiers of Human-centered Explainable AI (HCXAI): Participatory Civic AI, Benchmarking LLMs and Hallucinations for XAI, and Responsible AI Audits

Saturday
Webpage: https://hcxai.jimdosite.com/
Organizers:

  • Upol Ehsan, Northeastern University and Harvard University
  • Elizabeth A Watkins, Intel Labs
  • Philipp Wintersberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
  • Carina Manger, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
  • Nina Hubig, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria
  • Saiph Savage, Northeastern University
  • Justin D. Weisz, IBM Research
  • Andreas Riener, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

Description: Explainable AI (XAI) is more than just “opening” the black box — who opens it matters just as much, if not more, as the ways of opening it. Human-centered XAI (HCXAI) advocates that algorithmic transparency alone is not sufficient for making AI explainable. In our fifth CHI workshop on Human-Centered XAI (HCXAI), we shift our focus to new, emerging frontiers of explainability: (1) participatory approaches toward explainability in civic AI applications; (2) addressing hallucinations in LLMs using explainability benchmarks; (3) connecting HCXAI research with Responsible AI practices, algorithmic auditing, and public policy; and (4) improving representation of XAI issues from the Global South. We have built a strong community of HCXAI researchers through our workshop series whose work has made important conceptual, methodological, and technical impact on the field. In this installment, we will push the frontiers of work in HCXAI with an emphasis on operationalizing perspectives sociotechnically.

W6: Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health

Sunday
Webpage: https://www.hcihealth.org/
Organizers:

  • Ignacio Avellino, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, ISIR
  • Pei-Yi (Patricia) Kuo, National Tsing Hua University
  • Pin Sym Foong, National University of Singapore
  • Jason Wiese, University of Utah
  • Helena M. Mentis, Drexel University
  • Sean A. Munson, University of Washington
  • James R Wallace, University of Waterloo
  • Aneesha Singh, University College London
  • Andrew D Miller, Indiana University Indianapolis
  • Daniel A. Epstein, University of California, Irvine
  • Francisco Nunes, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS

Description: This workshop will gather the health and well-being (henceforth “Health”) research community to prepare and kickstart an independent conference. While there is substantial research at the intersection of HCI and Health, there is not yet a SIGCHI-sponsored conference dedicated to the HCI and Health community. The workshop will bring together the broad community of academic and industry researchers across Human–Computer Interaction, medical informatics, health informatics, and digital health. This widespread Health community also brings diverse approaches to epistemology and research, requiring that we work towards defining the scope, audience, and methods that will establish a shared language while welcoming areas of growth. This workshop will be an opportunity for the fledgling community to kick-start important discussions around what constitutes a contribution for the Health community.

W7: Beyond Glasses: Future Directions for XR Interactions within the Physical World

Saturday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/xr-phy-2025
Organizers:

  • Sang Ho Yoon, KAIST
  • Andrea Bianchi, KAIST
  • Hasti Seifi, University of Copenhagen
  • Jin Ryong Kim, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava
  • Jeongmi Lee, KAIST
  • Geehyuk Lee, KAIST

Description: Recent developments in XR-related technologies enable us to extend the use of XR beyond laboratory settings and, therefore, beyond the common paradigm of head-mounted displays (HMD) or AR glasses. As the industry is pushing XR glasses to become the next-generation computer interface and mobile phone replacement, we see an opportunity to reconsider the future of XR interfaces beyond just this form factor and explore whether new affordances can be leveraged. In fact, while glasses represent the most convenient and practical wearable interface, users remain limited to a specific set of displays, raising concerns about privacy, social acceptability, and overreliance on the visual channel. Conversely, we believe that there is an opportunity to leverage the physicality of the world, including the human body and the surrounding space, to create more engaging XR experiences. In this workshop, our goal is to gather fresh insights and perspectives from HCI researchers, practitioners, and professionals on strategies and techniques to enhance interactions in XR beyond the conventional glasses framework. We will bring together experienced academics and emerging researchers within the interdisciplinary field of HCI. We anticipate developing research pathways to leverage physicality to investigate possibilities and obstacles beyond XR glasses, ultimately shaping a new approach to engaging with XR.

W8: How do design stories work? Exploring narrative forms of knowledge in HCI

Sunday
Webpage: https://hcidesignstories.com
Organizers:

  • Doenja Oogjes, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Heidi Biggs, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Audrey Desjardins, University of Washington
  • Nadia Campo Woytuk, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Sylvia Janicki, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Karey Helms, Stockholm University
  • Kristina Andersen, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Laura Devendorf, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
  • Li Jönsson, Malmö University

Description: Design is storied, and stories are designed. While elements of stories have long been part of the field through methods like personas, scenarios and design fictions, there has been a recent surge of new approaches including fabulations, epics, memoirs, site-writing and design events. In this workshop we aim to understand how stories are built, what narrative traditions they draw from, how they co-constitute research processes and what kind of knowledge can emerge from them. Specifically, we will explore the role of storytelling in HCI, the craft of writing stories, relations between fiction, truth and knowledge and finally the risks, tensions and limitations of writing stories. We will outline an overview of this new wave of stories in HCI and what they are activating and advocating for, build a set of tips, tricks and advice for writing stories and keep track of ongoing issues and open questions for further research.

W9: GenAICHI 2025: Generative AI and HCI at CHI 2025

Sunday
Webpage: https://generativeaiandhci.github.io/
Organizers:

  • Michael Muller, IBM Research
  • Lydia B Chilton, Columbia University
  • Mary Lou Maher, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Charles Patrick, Australian National University
  • Minsik Choi, Australian National University
  • Greg Walsh, University of Baltimore
  • Anna Kantosalo, University of Helsinki

Description: This workshop applies human centered themes to a new and powerful technology, generative artificial intelligence (AI).Unlike AI systems that produce decisions or descriptions, generative AI produces new instances of types of data that can include images, texts, music, design, and motion. However, it is not yet clear how humans can make sense of generative algorithms and outcomes. We have yet to understand what user interface technologies will enable humans to control, and more generally to interact with these powerful, variable capabilities. These human-like capabilities put into question our current paradigms for mixed initiative user interfaces. Further, the unpredictability of “creative” algorithms raises new questions about how, when, and how much control humans may wish to share with these algorithms, and what types of societal governance may be needed for such powerful capabilities. Finally, it is not clear what kinds of collaboration patterns will emerge when creative humans and creative technologies work together. In this one-day workshop, we will convene the interdisciplinary research domain of generative AI and HCI. Participation in this invitational workshop is open to seasoned scholars and early career researchers from diverse disciplines. We solicit descriptions of completed projects, works-in-progress, and provocations. Together we will develop theories and practices in this intriguing new domain. Please visit https://generativeaiandhci.github.io/ to learn more about the workshop, and to find participation and contact details.

W10: Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning: Improving Human Reflective and Critical Thinking with Artificial Intelligence

Saturday
Webpage: https://aireasoning.media.mit.edu/
Organizers:

  • Valdemar Danry, MIT Media Lab
  • Pat Pataranutaporn, MIT Media Lab
  • Christopher Cui, University of California, San Diego
  • Jui-Tse Hung, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Lancelot Blanchard, MIT Media Lab
  • Zana Buçinca, Harvard University
  • Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago
  • Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab

Description: AI-Augmented Reasoning systems are cognitive assistants that support human reasoning by providing AI-based feedback that can help users improve their critical reasoning skills. Made possible with new techniques like argumentation mining, fact-checking, crowdsourcing, attention nudging, and large language models, AI augmented reasoning systems can provide real-time feedback on logical reasoning, help users identify and avoid flawed arguments and misinformation, suggest counter-arguments, provide evidence-based explanations, and foster deeper reflection. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from AI, HCI, cognitive and social science to discuss recent advances in AI-augmented reasoning, to identify open problems in this area, and to cultivate an emerging community on this important topic.

W11: Augmented Educators and AI: Shaping the Future of Human-AI Collaboration in Learning

Saturday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/augemted-educators-and-ai/home
Organizers:

  • Hyeji Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
  • Jongyoul Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
  • Hyeongbae Jeon, TutorusLabs
  • Sidney S Fels, University of British Columbia
  • Samuel Dodson, University at Buffalo
  • Kyoungwon Seo, Seoul National University of Science and Technology

Description: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in educational settings, it is crucial to explore how it can enhance—rather than replace—the role of educators. This workshop focuses on advancing AI-driven tools that support personalized learning and designing AI systems capable of understanding students’ emotional and cognitive needs. The workshop will explore two main themes: (1) empowering teachers with AI technologies for delivering customized feedback and individualized instruction, and (2) examining ethical and practical considerations for developing empathetic AI that complements the human aspects of teaching. Participants will discuss opportunities and challenges in building effective AI-augmented learning environments, considering ethical concerns such as privacy, equity, and the maintenance of human agency. The workshop aims to unite educators, researchers, and technologists in developing innovative solutions and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue. Key outcomes include establishing best practices for AI integration in education and disseminating research findings that shape the future of human-AI collaboration in teaching.

W12: Scaling Distributed Collaboration in Mixed Reality

Saturday
Webpage: https://blendedrealities.jensemil.dk/scaling-distributed-collaboration-in-mixed-reality/
Organizers:

  • Adélaïde Genay, University of Melbourne
  • Brandon Victor Syiem, University of Sydney
  • Emily Wong, University of Melbourne
  • Tiare Feuchtner, University of Konstanz and Aarhus University
  • Jarrod Knibbe, University of Queensland
  • Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Aarhus University
  • Eduardo Velloso, University of Sydney

Description: Distributed collaboration in Mixed Reality (MR) promises to revolutionise how people connect across different physical environments, offering experiences akin to face-to-face interactions. However, previous work has mostly focused on enabling this vision in overly simplified settings such as with only two users interacting in identical distributed environments. Scaling current systems to work with large groups and for common real-life scenarios is a persistent challenge that requires addressing multiple tensions. We identified six challenges: 1) supporting locally congruent actions from heterogeneous remote spaces, 2) communicating accurate user behaviours through virtual representation instead of physical bodies, 3) facilitating organic group interactions within limited physical space, 4) maintaining conversational dynamics even in asynchronous exchanges, 5) providing equal access to physical objects for all participants, and 6) enabling efficient task switching within a complex ecology of applications, devices, and accessibility needs. This workshop aims to gather researchers and practitioners to explore actionable strategies for resolving these challenges. Through a mix of presentations, hands-on activities, and group discussions, participants will generate new ideas and develop a research agenda to articulate the future of MR collaboration systems. The workshop outcomes will include a list of concrete next steps for the community to bring distributed MR collaboration at scale.

W13: Meta-HCI: First Workshop on Meta-Research in HCI

Saturday
Webpage: https://meta-hci.github.io
Organizers:

  • Jonas Oppenlaender, University of Oulu
  • Sylvain Malacria, Inria centre at the University of Lille
  • Xinrui Fang, University of Tokyo
  • Niels van Berkel, Aalborg University
  • Fanny Chevalier, University of Toronto
  • Koji Yatani, University of Tokyo
  • Simo Hosio, University of Oulu

Description: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a rapidly evolving field. It has undergone many changes, and several current challenges deserve more attention from the community. Meta-research – the study of research practices – offers insights into how a field can refine its methodological frameworks, enhance rigor, and address its challenges. We believe CHI deserves a dedicated space for meta-research. This workshop establishes an open space for HCI scholars in the top conference of the field to explore and discuss meta-research in HCI. We are equally focused on the past, present, and future: what we study, how we document it, how we evaluate, and how we distribute our work. Collateral effects such as mounting career pressures to publish always more are interesting, too. Short term results of this workshop include a research roadmap specifically for HCI meta-research. In the long term, we hope to see this workshop be the initial spark to establishing a permanent HCI meta-research community.

W14: Mobile Technology and Teens: Understanding the Changing Needs of Sociocultural and Technical Landscape

Sunday
Webpage: https://mobiletechteens-chi2025.github.io/
Organizers:

  • Janghee Cho, National University of Singapore
  • Inhwa Song, KAIST
  • Zainab Agha, San Francisco State University
  • Bengisu Cagiltay, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Veena Calambur, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Minjin (MJ) Rheu, Loyola University Chicago
  • Jina Huh-Yoo, Stevens Institute of Technology

Description: Teens’ mobile technology use can help teens connect with one another, but it also raises concerns around overuse, addiction, and exposure to harmful content. Traditional tools and methods for parental controls and guidance for mobile technology use among children, such as screen time limits, often fail to address teens’ nuanced experiences on the benefits and harm on their mobile technology use. This workshop brings together interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and teen advocates to examine how the CHI community can foster healthy teen mobile-technology relationships. Our goals are to: (1) co-design research agenda, (2) foster cross-sociocultural collaboration, (3) generate guidance for stakeholders (e.g., public, policymakers, parents, healthcare providers), and (4) plan actionable steps for ongoing impact. The workshop will explore themes like engaging broader stakeholders, embracing marginalized voices, and navigating the implications of emerging technologies through panel presentations and interactive sessions. By examining these themes, we aim to re-explore the HCI community’s discourse on teen mobile technology use and well-being, fostering a comprehensive understanding and inclusive approaches to navigate the multifaceted challenges in the modern digital landscape in diverse sociocultural contexts.

W15: Grasping Data: Mapping Out HCI Methods for Children and Young People’s Interactions with their Personal Data

Sunday
Webpage: https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/research-areas/children-technology/chi-2025-workshop-grasping-data-mapping-out-hci-methods-children
Organizers:

  • Cara Wilson, University of Edinburgh
  • Andrew Manches, University of Edinburgh
  • Ayça Atabey, University of Edinburgh
  • Uta Hinrichs, University of Edinburgh
  • Stephen Anthony Brewster, University of Glasgow
  • Bernd Ploderer, Queensland University of Technology
  • Ge Wang, Stanford University

Description: Children and young people today are uniquely datafied, tracked, and digitally monitored like no generation before them. Children are increasingly vulnerable to data collection through seemingly benign toys and devices equipped with voice recognition, geolocation, sensors, and cameras, but typically lack awareness or control over these data exchanges, as consent is usually provided by adult caregivers (who may also lack data literacy). Although there have been advancements in legislation and design guidelines, there is a significant need for interdisciplinary approaches to directly empower children in understanding, valuing and benefiting from their personal data, as well as learning to manage it. We ask, how can the CHI community support children to be informed and included in design for and with their personal data? How do we support children to participate in their personal data – and do they want to? This workshop aims to gather designers, researchers and practitioners working on projects relating to children’s personal data, and to map out the current practices and methods at play across the CHI community on this critical topic.

W16: Bridging HCI and Industrial Manufacturing

Saturday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/cornell.edu/chi2025hci4industry/welcome
Organizers:

  • Saki Suzuki, Aisin Technical Center of America
  • Ilan Mandel, Cornell Tech
  • Kenshikimyo Terao, Cornell Tech and Aisin Technical Center of America
  • Nikolas Martelaro, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Soichiro Iga, Palo Alto Research Center
  • Amritansh Kwatra, Cornell Tech
  • Hiroshi Yasuda, Toyota Research Institute
  • Yuichi Inobori, Ristumeikan University
  • Tom Igoe, New York University
  • Lionel Peter Robert Jr, University of Michigan
  • Wendy Ju, Cornell Tech

Description: This workshop explores the integration of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) principles within the manufacturing sector, examining the challenges and opportunities that arise in academia-industry collaborations. The workshop aims to foster dialogue on how HCI methods can enhance manufacturing practices, while addressing the specific hurdles these partnerships face. We will discuss areas of HCI research including: collaborative robots, industrial augmented reality, advances in digital fabrication, and systems for workplace communication as they apply to existing problems in industrial settings. The key goals include generating actionable insights for both academic and industrial participants, fostering practical, cross-disciplinary collaborations that will drive innovation in user-centered industrial systems. Hosting this workshop at CHI 2025 in Japan offers a unique opportunity to engage with Japan’s world-class manufacturing sector, renowned for its precision and innovation, making it an ideal setting to bridge HCI research and industrial practices.

W17: Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models

Saturday
Webpage: https://heal-workshop.github.io/
Organizers:

  • Yu Lu Liu, Johns Hopkins University
  • Wesley Hanwen Deng, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Michelle S. Lam, Stanford University
  • Motahhare Eslami, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Juho Kim, KAIST
  • Q. Vera Liao, Microsoft Research
  • Wei Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jekaterina Novikova, AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance
  • Ziang Xiao, Johns Hopkins University

Description: The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted numerous, and will impact more, real-world applications. However, these models also pose significant risks to individuals and society. To mitigate these issues and guide future model development, responsible evaluation and auditing of LLMs are essential. This workshop aims to address the current “evaluation crisis” in LLM research and practice by bringing together HCI and AI researchers and practitioners to rethink LLM evaluation and auditing from a human-centered perspective. The workshop will explore topics around understanding stakeholders’ needs and goals with evaluation and auditing LLMs, establishing human-centered evaluation and auditing methods, developing tools and resources to support these methods, building community and fostering collaboration. By soliciting papers, organizing invited keynote and panel, and facilitating group discussions, this workshop aims to develop a future research agenda for addressing the challenges in LLM evaluation and auditing. Following a successful first iteration of this workshop at CHI 2024, we introduce the theme of “mind the context” for this second iteration, where participants will be encouraged to tackle the challenges and nuances of LLM evaluation and auditing in specific contexts.

W18: The Third Workshop on Building an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse for All

Saturday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/accessiblemetaverse/home
Organizers:

  • Callum Parker, University of Sydney
  • Soojeong Yoo, University of Sydney
  • Joel Fredericks, University of Sydney
  • Tram Thi Minh Tran, University of Sydney
  • Mark Colley, University College London
  • Youngho Lee, Mokpo National University
  • Khanh-Duy Le, University of Science, VNUHCM
  • Simon Stannus, Square Enix Co.
  • Woontack Woo, KAIST
  • Mark Billinghurst, University of South Australia

Description: The Metaverse is envisioned as a shared, persistent experience that encompasses both augmented and virtual reality, representing the convergence of a virtually enhanced physical reality and interconnected persistent virtual spaces. It has the potential to break down physical boundaries, connecting people from all walks of life together through digital technology. As the Metaverse is still evolving, there is a unique opportunity to shape its development into an inclusive, all-encompassing space that is accessible for all. However a key challenge lies in designing the Metaverse from the ground up to ensure inclusivity and accessibility. This workshop aims to explore how to build an open, inclusive Metaverse and develop methods for evaluating its success. Key outcomes will include identifying new opportunities to enhance inclusivity, establishing evaluation methodologies, and outlining considerations for designing accessible environments and interactions within the Metaverse.

W19: Advancing Post-growth HCI

Saturday
Webpage: https://bit.ly/4gBS6Ys
Organizers:

  • Vishal Sharma, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Hongjin Lin, Harvard University
  • Asra Sakeen Wani, IIIT Delhi
  • Jared Lee Katzman, University of Michigan
  • Anupriya Tuli, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Naveena Karusala, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Shaowen Bardzell, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Christoph Becker, University of Toronto
  • Martin Tomitsch, University of Technology Sydney
  • Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology

Description: The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) both shapes and is shaped by the forces of economic growth. Extending the calls to move beyond growth and toward post-growth, this workshop brings researchers, designers, and practitioners together in a critical dialogue on examining the often-hidden ways growth patterns manifest in HCI. It aims to nurture the Post-growth HCI Collective of scholars and practitioners to work together, in solidarity, to resist the commodification and drive for infinite capital accumulation in/through digital technologies for the betterment of HCI and the broader computing community. Through collective action, we aim to operationalize post-growth principles in HCI, contributing to more tangible pathways toward socioecologically just and sustainable technology-mediated futures for the planet and its people.

W20: Resisting AI Solutionism: Where Do We Go From Here?

Sunday
Webpage: https://resisting-ai-solutionism.carrd.co/
Organizers:

  • Gisela Reyes-Cruz, University of Nottingham
  • Velvet Spors, Tampere University
  • Michael Muller, IBM Research
  • Marianela Ciolfi Felice, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Shaowen Bardzell, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Rua Mae Williams, Purdue University
  • Karin Hansson, Södertörn University
  • Ivana Feldfeber, DataGénero

Description: The latest advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Large Language Models (LLMs), have provoked a massive expansion and adoption of AI applications across the board, with seemingly no sector left untouched by recent developments. Anywhere we look, from healthcare to the creative industries, from education to entertainment, from sustainability to knowledge work, AI is being adopted and adapted, funded and fundraised for, developed and designed for, researched and used for doing research. As AI continues to be treated as a necessary and unquestioned solution for a range of societal problems, we seek to ponder and challenge its perceived suitability and inevitability. Moreover, we wonder how we can go about resisting AI solutionism (i.e., the idea that technology provides solutions to complex social problems) and who gets to resist it, in particular if the structures that surround people and their specific positions constrain them from doing so. This workshop will focus on gathering and sharing lessons from experiences resisting, or attempting to resist, AI solutionism; taking stock and revisiting previous learnings from decades of work within and beyond HCI; and envisioning ways, perspectives, tools, and practices to orient ourselves and each other towards more pluralistic futures.

W21: News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption

Saturday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/newsfutures/home
Organizers:

  • Sachita Nishal, Northwestern University
  • Marianne Aubin, Cornell University
  • Brian James McInnis, University of Texas at Austin
  • Bronwyn Jones, University of Edinburgh
  • Kristen Vaccaro, University of California San Diego
  • Tanja Aitamurto, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Mor Naaman, Cornell Tech
  • Nicholas Diakopoulos, Northwestern University

Description: The news and information ecosystem is undergoing significant upheaval across processes of news production and consumption. For instance, AI integration in newsrooms and the rise of independent creators on digital platforms exemplify shifts in production and dissemination, while evolving audience behaviors of information-seeking show how consumption is changing. This workshop aims to convene researchers and designers in HCI and news to examine these socio-technical shifts across stakeholders, activities, and technologies, and explore how design can support newswork and public engagement with news. Participants will engage in collaborative activities to reflect on current challenges facing news producers and audiences, synthesize the state of research in news and HCI, and identify future research directions. By bringing together diverse perspectives, we aim to nuance our understanding of the evolving news ecosystem and design socio-technical systems that strengthen journalism’s democratic function.

W22: Generative AI and Accessibility Workshop: Surfacing Opportunities and Risks

Sunday
Webpage: https://accessgaichi.com/
Organizers:

  • Kate S Glazko, University of Washington
  • Mina Huh, University of Texas, Austin, Austin
  • Jazette Johnson, University of Washington
  • Amy Pavel, University of Texas, Austin, Austin
  • Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington

Description: The increasing use of generative AI (GAI) as an accessibility tool offers transformative opportunities, but it also introduces significant risks and barriers that remain unaddressed. This workshop explores the multi-faceted nature of GAI use for accessibility, focusing on its potential to create access solutions where none exist while surfacing the risks of bias, inaccessibility, and misinformation. Our goal is to establish best practices for inclusive GAI design that centers disabled people’s agency, addressing key questions such as how to ensure GAI tools are accessible by default and how to mitigate risks without undermining autonomy. By bringing together experts in accessibility, AI, human-computer interaction (HCI), and disability studies, this workshop aims to develop design guidelines, recommendations, and practices that will influence future GAI systems. Participants will collaboratively define an agenda for creating GAI tools that advance equity, minimize harm, and embrace the diverse needs of the disability community.

W23: Sensorimotor Devices: Coupling Sensing and Actuation to Augment Bodily Experience

Sunday
Webpage: https://sensorimotordevices.github.io/
Organizers:

  • Paul Strohmeier, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Laia Turmo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Gabriela Vega, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Courtney N. Reed, Loughborough University London
  • Alex Mazursky, University of Chicago
  • Easa AliAbbasi, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Jürgen Steimle, Saarland University

Description: An emerging space in interface research is wearable devices that closely couple their sensing and actuation abilities. A well-known example is MetaLimbs, where sensed movements of the foot are directly mapped to the actuation of supernumerary robotic limbs. These systems are different from wearables focused on sensing, such as fitness trackers, or wearables focused on actuation, such as VR headsets. They are characterized by tight coupling between the user’s action and the resulting digital feedback from the device, in time, space, and mode. The properties of this coupling are critical for the user’s experience, including the user’s sense of agency, body ownership, and experience of the surrounding world. Understanding such systems is an open challenge, which requires knowledge not only of computer science and HCI, but also Psychology, Physiology, Design, Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Control Theory. This workshop aims to foster discussion between these diverse disciplines and to identify links and synergies in their work, ultimately developing a common understanding of future research directions for systems that intrinsically couple sensing and action.

W24: Designing and Developing User Interfaces with AI: Advancing Tools, Workflows, and Practices

Sunday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/computational-uichi25
Organizers:

  • Yuwen Lu, University of Notre Dame
  • Yue Jiang, Aalto University
  • Tiffany Knearem, Google
  • Clara E Kliman-Silver, Google
  • Christof Lutteroth, University of Bath
  • Jeffrey Nichols, Apple
  • Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Simon Fraser University

Description: Designing and developing user-friendly interfaces has long been a cornerstone of HCI research. However, we are now at a turning point for how user interfaces can be designed and evaluated with new AI-based models and tools. The latest AI models have shown capabilities to model user behaviors, automate end-user tasks, and even generate user interfaces. We are at a pivotal moment to reflect on current UI design and development practices and discuss the opportunities, challenges, and risks brought by AI. Both incremental improvements and transformative opportunities exist for designers, developers, and the hand-off process in between. In this proposed workshop, we encourage participants to envision AI-enabled UI prototyping tools, workflows, and practices. By bringing together academic researchers and industry practitioners, we aim to identify opportunities to enhance prototyping tools and reshape UI creation workflows for the future as well as discuss potential negative consequences of these tools.

W25: Weaving Indigeneity and Culture into the Fabric of HCI Futures

Saturday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/weavingfuturechi/home
Organizers:

  • Jaydon Farao, University of Cape Town
  • Ajit G. Pillai, University of Sydney
  • Hafeni Mthoko, Independent Institute of Education
  • Marly Muudeni Samuel, Glasgow School of Art
  • Houda Elmimouni, University of Manitoba
  • Shaimaa Lazem, City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications

Description: Interconnectedness and relationality have become integral to technology development and innovation, which has led to indigenous and cultural philosophies and approaches becoming important in developing effective and inclusive design practices. This workshop challenges the dominant paradigms in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) by exploring the potential of indigeneity and culture to inform design methodologies. We invite participants to reflect on how such approaches can move HCI research toward more inclusive, culturally diverse, and mutually beneficial synergies. Through constructive conflict and co-creation, we aim to illuminate the potential of indigenous and cultural approaches in HCI practice, inspiring vital shifts towards decolonial and pluralistic design. We welcome HCI researchers and practitioners and indigenous scholars and experts interested in disrupting traditional methods and embracing indigenous and cultural lenses to join this critical conversation.

W26: Hybrid Automation Experience – Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration within Human-AI Teams

Sunday
Webpage: https://matthiasbaldauf.com/automationxp25/
Organizers:

  • Philipp Spitzer, Karlsruhe Service Research Institute
  • Matthias Baldauf, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
  • Philippe Palanque, University Paul Sabatier
  • Virpi Roto, Aalto University
  • Katelyn Morrison, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Domenique Zipperling, University of Bayreuth
  • Joshua Holstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Description: Automated systems and AI-assisted workflows are evolving from support tools to sophisticated collaborators in so-called “hybrid” teams with human and AI-based members. This evolution presents new challenges and opportunities in the field of “Automation Experience”, particularly in how these team members communicate, coordinate, and collaborate. This workshop aims to contribute to the design of automated systems that augment users’ capabilities, maintain human autonomy, and create positive automation experiences in human-AI teams. Through presentations, a keynote talk, discussions, and interactive collaborative activities, researchers and practitioners from different fields will address challenges regarding communication, coordination, and collaboration within hybrid human-AI teams. The workshop aims to spark innovative research directions and foster collaborative interdisciplinary initiatives that will advance our understanding of automation experiences in an increasingly AI-dominated landscape.

W27: Purposeful XR: Affordances, Challenges, and Speculations for an Ethical Future

Saturday
Webpage: https://smrghsh.github.io/purposefulXR/
Organizers:

  • Elizabeth Childs, Stanford University
  • Samir Ghosh, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Sebastian Cmentowski, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Andrea Cuadra, Olin College of Engineering
  • Rabindra Ratan, Michigan State University

Description: Education, healthcare, poverty, and equity are just some of the social problems in which XR researchers leverage augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality to create novel solutions. In this workshop proposal, we intend on gathering XR researchers who are interested in making a positive impact with their research, and to use this opportunity to discuss leveraging unique affordances of XR technology and common challenges. In our motivation, we refer to recent human computer interaction gatherings that discuss applications of XR to social benefit. Then, we present a background of research across XR technologies and diverse social problems to illustrate example affordances and challenges. To attend the workshop, attendees will submit a position paper on a particular XR affordances and how it can help address a social problem, and optionally submit a demo artifact as a sample for group discussion. The workshop will include a keynote, discussion based activities and demos, and conclude with a speculative exercise, where attendees will work together to describe XR technology in the context of an ethical future.

W28: Gathering Textiles at CHI: Convening a Meeting to Share, Make, and Speculate

Sunday
Webpage: https://gathering-textiles-at-chi.web.app/
Organizers:

  • Kaori Ueda, Kyoto Saga University of Art
  • Bine Roth, Royal College of Art
  • Laura Devendorf, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Kristina Andersen, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Irene Posch, University of Art and Design Linz

Description: CHI is becoming home to an emerging community of researchers and practitioners engaging with textiles as a design and research material. This work is spread across a range of areas from digital fabrication to haptics. This workshop offers the opportunity for the broader research community to share techniques and ideas that underpin these textile practices at CHI. Knitting, weaving, embroidery, hand-stitching, quilting, garment making, dying, felting, paper making, etc. offer distinct functional and aesthetic qualities while engaging similar materials and modes of working.We propose this workshop to create a community meeting place for CHI researchers engaging textiles in any capacity. We suggest a day of skill sharing and collective speculating grounded in the textiles techniques and histories of Japan.

W29: Everyday AR through AI-in-the-Loop

Saturday
Webpage: https://xr-and-ai.github.io/
Organizers:

  • Ryo Suzuki, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Google
  • Misha Sra, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • David Lindlbauer, Carnegie Mellon University

Description: This workshop brings together experts and practitioners from augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to shape the future of AI-in-the-loop everyday AR experiences. With recent advancements in both AR hardware and AI capabilities, we envision that everyday AR—always-available and seamlessly integrated into users’ daily environments—is becoming increasingly feasible. This workshop will explore how AI can drive such everyday AR experiences. We discuss a range of topics, including adaptive and context-aware AR, generative AR content creation, always-on AI assistants, AI-driven accessible design, and real-world-oriented AI agents. Our goal is to identify the opportunities and challenges in AI-enabled AR, focusing on creating novel AR experiences that seamlessly blend the digital and physical worlds. Through the workshop, we aim to foster collaboration, inspire future research, and build a community to advance the research field of AI-enhanced AR.

W30: Walking the Future: Bridging Foot Augmentation into Next Steps of Human Augmentation

Sunday
Webpage: https://derikon.github.io/WalkingTheFuture_Workshop/
Organizers:

  • Nihar Sabnis, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Dennis Wittchen, Dresden University of Applied Sciences and Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Ata Otaran, Saarland University
  • Fatima Badmos, Technological University Dublin
  • Siyi Liu, Monash University
  • Aryan Saini, Monash University
  • Georg Regal, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
  • Vincent van Rheden, University of Salzburg
  • Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Monash University
  • Suranga Nanayakkara, National University of Singapore
  • Denys J.C. Matthies, Auckland Bioengineering Institute
  • Troy Nachtigall, Eindhoven
  • Paul Strohmeier, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Laia Turmo Vidal, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Don Samitha Elvitigala, Monash University

Description: Over the past decade, a noticeable increase in literature can be seen in wearable foot interfaces, which have evolved from activity tracking to enhancing human capabilities. Our legs, being the largest body limbs, play an essential role in various functions such as locomotion, maintaining balance, supporting proper posture and providing ground-contact using our feet. Hence, foot augmentations offer the opportunity to augment our entire body. However, most prior research focuses on specific application areas, thus affording a research agenda to further understand the full potential of feet in designing augmentations and to contextualize it in the broader human augmentation space. To achieve this, in this workshop, we invite researchers, designers, and practitioners, novice and expert, interested in designing human and foot augmentations. We will discuss how early foot interfaces helped in augmenting humans, and based on current work and trends in foot augmentation, we will formulate strategies for the next steps and discuss the applicability of such strategies in the broader space of human augmentation.

W31: Affective interaction and affective computing – past, present and future

Sunday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/affectiveinteraction-chi25/
Organizers:

  • Naseem Ahmadpour, University of Sydney
  • Danielle Lottridge, University of Auckland
  • Jonas Fritsch, IT University of Copenhagen
  • Corina Sas, Lancaster University
  • Marta E. Cecchinato, Northumbria University
  • Daniel Harrison, Northumbria University
  • Kristina Höök, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Pin Sym Foong, National University of Singapore
  • Kiran Ijaz, University of Sydney, Sydney
  • Phillip Gough, University of Sydney
  • Yidan Cao, University of Sydney
  • Xuefei Li, University of Sydney
  • Shaimaa Lazem, City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications
  • Thida Sachathep, University of Sydney

Description: HCI researchers recognize affect and emotion as fundamental parts of human experience however conceptualizing emotions as ineffable, embodied, situated, or culturally bound does not fit within some of the dominant paradigm of Affective computing and emotion AI research focused mostly on recognition and classification of basic emotions. An alternative term, Affective Interaction, has emerged to bring together a growing body of research which treats emotion and affect within HCI in similar ways. This workshop brings the research community together to examine various perspectives on affect, and specifically contrast Affective Interaction with Affective Computing. The aim is to discuss opportunities and limitations associated with each perspective, reconcile with advances in the science of emotion, and to speculate on future research directions. We believe that bringing together HCI researchers around Affective Interaction is vitally important because the broad reach of Affective Computing techniques may be obscuring advances in emotion research that show evidence that emotion defies easy categories and is culturally situated.

W32: Maternal Machines: Imagining Experiences in Perinatal Care

Sunday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/imaginingperinatalcare
Organizers:

  • Paulina Yurman, University of the Arts London
  • Matt Malpass, University of the Arts London
  • Madeline Balaam, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Caroline Yan Zheng, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Yoav Luft, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Céline Mougenot, Imperial College London
  • Maria Luce Lupetti, Politecnico di Torino

Description: Perinatal care is a term that broadly refers to the period of time from pregnancy up to a year after giving birth. Imaginaries, fictional scenarios, patents and actual designs to support affected stakeholders during this period reflect how this topic has for a long time fed into society’s dreams, fears and desires about care. Smart monitors of infants’ sleep, respiration, heart rate or temperature, cots with facial recognition, swing chairs that are ‘Alexa compatible’, chatbots for postpartum depression, ‘maternal’ Alexas or nanny robots are examples of the potentials that this topic offers for imagining scenarios for care and wellbeing. Often rich with insights about societal dreams, fears and desires about what we would like technologies to do for us, imagined scenarios can also indicate ways in which we regard those already engaged in roles of care, echoing cultural and gendered tropes. As AI and related technologies increasingly become entangled in situations of care, the imagined possibilities in contexts of such complex, sensitive and emotionally charged spaces are worth examining, whilst interrogating how HCI technologies in perinatal care could expand beyond quantifiable data and tap into sensorial, non-numerical forms of knowledge. In this workshop, we will look at ideated scenarios with technologies related to maternal and infant care in contemporary, historical and cultural contexts including those from Japan, and we will create our own imagined scenarios of care. Through a mixture of activities that include presentations, drawing, hands-on interactions and group conversations we will discuss opportunities and implications in the design of technologies for maternal/parental and infant care around the perinatal period. Our imagined scenarios will explore in particular two interrelated themes in the research: non-numerical forms of knowledge and touch.

W33: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

Saturday
Webpage: https://ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/
Organizers:

  • Lev Tankelevitch, Microsoft Research
  • Elena L. Glassman, Harvard University
  • Jessica He, IBM Research
  • Majeed Kazemitabaar, University of Toronto, Toronto
  • Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Mina Lee, University of Chicago
  • Srishti Palani, Tableau Research
  • Advait Sarkar, Microsoft Research
  • Gonzalo Ramos, Microsoft Research
  • Yvonne Rogers, University College London
  • Hariharan Subramonyam, Stanford University

Description: We invite researchers, designers, practitioners, and provocateurs to explore what it means to understand and shape the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on human cognition. GenAI radically widens the scope and capability of automation for work, learning, and creativity. While impactful, it also changes workflows and the quality of thinking involved, raising questions about its effects on cognition, including critical thinking and learning. Yet, GenAI also offers opportunities for designing tools for thought that protect and augment cognition. Such systems provoke critical thinking, provide personalized tutoring, or enable novel ways of sensemaking, among other approaches. How does GenAI change workflows and human cognition? What are opportunities and challenges for designing GenAI systems that protect and augment human cognition? Which theories, perspectives, and methods are relevant? This workshop aims to develop a multidisciplinary community interested in exploring these questions to protect against the erosion, and fuel the augmentation, of human cognition using GenAI.

W34: Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity

Sunday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/aimpower.org/speech-ai-workshop/home
Organizers:

  • Shaomei Wu, AImpower.org
  • Kimi Wenzel, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jingjin Li, AImpower.org
  • Qisheng Li, AImpower.org
  • Alisha Pradhan, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Raja Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University
  • Colin Lea, Apple
  • Allison Koenecke, Cornell University
  • Christian Vogler, Gallaudet University
  • Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Norman Makoto Su, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Nan Bernstein Ratner, University of Maryland

Description: Trained and optimized for typical and fluent speech, speech AI works poorly for people with speech diversities, often cutting them off from speaking and misinterpreting their speech. The increasing deployment of speech AI in automated phone menus, AI-conducted job interviews, and everyday devices poses tangible risks to people with speech diversities. To mitigate these risks, this workshop aims to build a multidisciplinary coalition and set the research agenda for fair and accessible speech AI. Bringing together a broad group of academics and practitioners with diverse perspectives including HCI, AI, and other relevant fields such as disability studies, speech language pathology, and law, this workshop will establish a shared understanding of the technical challenges for fair and accessible speech AI, as well as its ramifications in design, user experience, policy, society. In addition, the workshop will invite and highlight first-person accounts from people with speech diversities, facilitating direct dialogues and collaboration between speech AI developers and the impacted communities. The key outcomes of this workshop include a summary paper that synthesizes our leanings and outlines the roadmap for improving speech AI for people with speech diversities, as well as a community of scholars, practitioners, activists, and policy makers interested in driving progress in this domain.

W35: Sociotechnical AI Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for HCI

Sunday
Webpage: https://chi-staig.github.io/
Organizers:

  • K. J. Kevin Feng, University of Washington
  • Rock Yuren Pang, University of Washington
  • Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Amy Winecoff, Center for Democracy & Technology
  • Emily Tseng, Microsoft Research
  • David Gray Widder, Cornell Tech
  • Harini Suresh, Brown University
  • Katharina Reinecke, University of Washington
  • Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington

Description: Rapid advancements in and adoption of frontier AI systems have amplified the need for AI governance measures across the public sector, academia, and industry. Prior work in technical AI governance has proposed agendas for governing technical components in AI development, such as data, models, and compute. However, recent calls for more sociotechnical approaches recognize the critical role of social infrastructures surrounding technical ones in shaping governance decisions and efforts. While scholars and practitioners have advocated for sociotechnical AI governance, concrete research directions in this area are only beginning to emerge. This workshop aims to gather the expertise of researchers in HCI and adjacent disciplines to chart promising paths forward for sociotechnical AI governance. To make problems in this area more tangible, we outline four core governance challenges for contributions: anticipating high-priority risks to address with governance, identifying where to focus governance efforts and who should lead those efforts, designing appropriate interventions and tools to implement governance actions in practice, and evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions and tools in context. Through papers, panel discussions, keynotes, and collaborative drafting of a research agenda, this workshop will build community and empower actionable efforts to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens.

W36: Digital communication moving beyond human-centric replication

Saturday
Webpage: https://digitalcommunicationecologies.wordpress.com/
Organizers:

  • Carey Jewitt, University College London
  • Sara Price, University College London
  • Lucia Seminara, University of Genoa
  • Nihar Sabnis, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Jürgen Steimle, Saarland University
  • Nadia Berthouze, University College London
  • Kouta Minamizawa, Keio University
  • Desiree Foerster, University of Chicago
  • Grant Jun Otsuki, University of Tokyo

Description: This agenda-setting workshop will bring together HCI researchers and designers with colleagues from sociology, media and communications to generate an interdisciplinary research agenda for digital communication beyond human-centric replication. It argues that the dominance of a human-centric replication paradigm in digital communication is problematic, constraining, limits digital innovation, and continues to unquestionably place humans at the centre of digital futures with negative social implications for modes of digital communication and how we relate to one another. This workshop will explore and foster alternative visions of digital communication, drawing inspiration from animal and plant sensory worlds (through inspirational talks, hands-on-activities, discussion) to generate ideas towards a new way of thinking and working in sensorial immersion beyond the human-centric. We will address key research opportunities and challenges and build the foundations for a road-map for this novel area of research.

W37: Developing Sociotechnical Solutions to Mitigate New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Workshop at CHI 2025

Saturday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/chi-2025-workshop-solutions
Organizers:

  • Guo Freeman, Clemson University
  • Julian Frommel, Utrecht University
  • Regan L. Mandryk, University of Victoria
  • Jan Gugenheimer, TU-Darmstadt and Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  • Lingyuan Li, University of Texas at Austin
  • Douglas Zytko, University of Michigan-Flint
  • Afsaneh Razi, Drexel University
  • Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan

Description: Mitigating new harms in immersive and embodied virtual spaces (e.g., embodied harassment in social VR, new AI-powered online attacks, and harmful virtual world design to manipulate users) is a critically needed HCI research agenda for achieving safer online environments in the future, which requires cross-disciplinary, community-wide discussion, and collective reflections. Building upon our CHI 2024 workshop on identifying and understanding these new harms, this workshop aims to gather researchers and practitioners from various domains to collectively design and develop concrete and actionable sociotechnical solutions that specifically target new harms in immersive and embodied virtual worlds. This includes but is not limited to the four themes identified in our CHI 2024 workshop: monetizing embodied harms, blurring reality with the online world, platforming perpetrators by investigating their motivations and emotions, and embodied harms specifically targeting children. Through this workshop, we will not only synthesize and map our existing interdisciplinary efforts and challenges in this space but also collaboratively create a roadmap detailing our developed sociotechnical solutions to address these new harms in immersive and embodied virtual spaces as a community.

W38: Technology Mediated Caregiving For Older Adults Aging in Place

Sunday
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/chi2025-aging-in-place/home
Organizers:

  • Elizabeth D Mynatt, Northeastern University
  • Masatomo Kobayashi, IBM Research
  • Alisha Pradhan, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Niharika Mathur, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • John Vines, University of Edinburgh
  • Katie Seaborn, Institute of Science
  • Erin Buehler Google
  • Jenny Waycott, University of Melbourne
  • John Rudnik, University of Michigan
  • Tamara Zubatiy, Northeastern University
  • Agata Rozga, Georgia Institute of Technology

Description: The caregiving environment for an older adult aging in place includes a network of caregivers working with the older adult to support their needs and maintain independence. As older adults experience cognitive and functional changes, their caregiving network expands to include spouses or siblings (who are often older adults themselves), children, friends, neighbors and community members—each bringing unique values, expectations, and goals. In this network of care, technology-enabled support offers the potential to mediate care responsibilities, such as coordinating activities and assisting with everyday tasks. However, designing these systems requires addressing value tensions among caregivers, cultural norms around aging, participatory research practices and balancing autonomy with safety concerns for older adults in later life. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss (1) opportunities and challenges for designing technological systems for caregiving for older adults; (2) longitudinal interactions with these systems as older adults progress through stages of functional and cognitive changes; (3) potential for such systems to support caregivers while centering older adults’ privacy and autonomy needs; and (4) the influence of cultural norms on caregiving and technology use.

W39: HCI Across Borders: Building a Collective Vision for the Future

Saturday
Webpage: https://hcixb.org/events/hcixb-at-chi-2025-building-a-collective-vision-for-the-future/
Organizers:

  • Sara Moin, IIITD, Delhi
  • Vikram Kamath, Saarland University
  • Hafeni Mthoko The Independent Institute of Education’s Varsity College
  • Cuauhtémoc Rivera-Loaiza, Universidad Michoacana
  • Tsuyoshi Kano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
  • Delvin Varghese, Monash University
  • Sarina C Till, University of Cape Town
  • Aakash Gautam, University of Pittsburgh
  • Marisol Wong-Villacres, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
  • Laura Sanely Gaytán-Lugo, Universidad de Colima
  • Susan Dray, Dray & Associate
  • Christian Sturm, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences

Description: The HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) workshop at CHI 2025 will focus on “Building a Collective Vision for the Future.” HCIxB has gathered a diverse audience annually by conducting workshops and symposia since CHI 2016. This year, we hope to regroup as a community to reflect on the growth of HCIxB over the past ten years, engage in mentoring sessions for present early career researchers, and collectively form a vision for the future. This full-day hybrid workshop aims to gather researchers and practitioners to explore how we can collectively shape the future of HCI across diverse cultures and geographies. We will have a panel discussion featuring invited speakers sharing insights from a recent HCIxB Book Chapter summarizing our future. Attendees will showcase their research through posters, highlighting HCIxB’s trends worldwide, particularly in the Global South. Lastly, we will collaborate to create a vision for our community’s future and provide initial resources to future HCIxB organizers.

W40: Emerging Practices in Participatory AI Design in Public Sector Innovation

Sunday
Webpage: https://participatoryaidesign.github.io/home
Organizers:

  • Devansh Saxena, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Zoe Kahn, University of California, Berkeley
  • Erina Seh-Young Moon, University of Toronto
  • Lauren Marietta Chambers, University of California, Berkeley
  • Corey Jackson, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Min Kyung Lee, University of Texas at Austin
  • Motahhare Eslami, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Shion Guha, University of Toronto
  • Sheena Erete, University of Maryland College Park
  • Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego
  • Deirdre Mulligan, University of California, Berkeley
  • John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University

Description: Local and federal agencies are rapidly adopting AI systems to augment or automate critical decisions, efficiently use resources, and improve public service delivery. AI systems are being used to support tasks associated with urban planning, security, surveillance, energy and critical infrastructure, and support decisions that directly affect citizens and their ability to access essential services. Local governments act as the governance tier closest to citizens and must play a critical role in upholding democratic values and building community trust especially as it relates to smart city initiatives that seek to transform public services through the adoption of AI. Community-centered and participatory approaches have been central for ensuring the appropriate adoption of technology; however, AI innovation introduces new challenges in this context because participatory AI design methods require more robust formulation and face higher standards for implementation in the public sector compared to the private sector. This requires us to reassess traditional methods used in this space as well as develop new resources and methods. This workshop will explore emerging practices in participatory algorithm design – or the use of public participation and community engagement – in the scoping, design, adoption, and implementation of public sector algorithms.

W41: Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods

Saturday
Webpage: https://dcitizens.eu/access-incontext-chi25/
Organizers:

  • Patricia Piedade, University of Lisbon
  • Peter A Hayton, Newcastle University
  • Cynthia L Bennett, Google
  • Anna R. L. Carter, Northumbria University
  • Clara Crivellaro, Newcastle University
  • Alan Dix, Cardiff Metropolitan University
  • Jess McGowan, University of St Andrews
  • Katta Spiel, Crip Collective and TU Wien
  • Miriam Sturdee, University of St Andrews
  • Garreth W. Tigwell, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Hugo Nicolau, Instituto Superior Técnico

Description: The popularity of accessibility research has grown recently, improving digital inclusion for people with disabilities. However, researchers, including those who have disabilities, have attempted to include people with disabilities in all aspects of design, and they have identified a myriad of practical accessibility barriers posed by tools and methods leveraged by human computer interaction (HCI) researchers during prototyping. To build a more inclusive technological landscape, we must question the effectiveness of existing prototyping tools and methods, repurpose/retrofit existing resources, and build new tools and methods to support the participation of both researchers and people with disabilities within the prototyping design process of novel technologies. This full-day workshop at CHI 2025 will provide a platform for HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to discuss barriers and opportunities for creating accessible prototyping and promote hands-on ideation and fabrication exercises aimed at futuring accessible prototyping.

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