ITI’s impressive contribution at the ACM CHI Conference 2026 in Barcelona
ITI/LARSyS is at CHI 2026, with an impressive presence from researchers and collaborators across the programme.
This year’s presence includes:
- 🏆 1 Best Paper
- ⭐ 1 Honorable Mention
- 📄 8 full papers
- 🛠️ 5 workshops and meet-ups
- 📊 6 posters and demos
🏆 The Best Paper distinction was awarded to Towards Fluent Interaction with Cyber-Physical Architecture.
⭐ An Honorable Mention was awarded to EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development.
Across the programme, these contributions engage with:
- 🌱 sustainability in code
- ⚖️ workers’ rights in platform systems
- ❤️ heartbeat as a social medium
- ♿ crip futures in self-tracking
- 🤖 the body in AI
- 👵 aging with dignity
- 🧏 play across hearing ability
- 🎮 horror as reflection
- 🌍 the Mediterranean as a place to do HCI differently
📄 Full Papers (CHI ’26)
- Towards Fluent Interaction with Cyber-Physical Architecture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791787
ITI/LARSyS author: Neeta M. Khanuja - EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791330
ITI/LARSyS authors: André Barrocas, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Valentina Nisi - Revisiting Worker-Centered Design: Tensions, Blind Spots, and Action Spaces
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791128
ITI/LARSyS authors: Shuhao Ma, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes - Social Play Between Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Hearing Peers: Learning from Children and School Ecosystems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791520
ITI/LARSyS authors: Jing Zhao, Hugo Nicolau - The Ocular Command Center: How Eye Responses to Luminance, Color, Tunneling, and Visual Suppression Mediate Users’ Physiological States in VR
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791328
ITI/LARSyS authors: Andreia Valente, Augusto Esteves - Values Across Contexts: Understanding How Older Adults Enact What Matters Through Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791780
ITI/LARSyS authors: Valentina Nisi, Neeta M. Khanuja - “More Aware and More Curious to Understand”: Emotionally Challenging Experiences in Psychological Horror Games
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790451
ITI/LARSyS authors: Filipe Pinheiro Tomé, Pedro F. Campos - Design for Dis/Ability: A Crip Inquiry into Personal Energy Tracking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790404
ITI/LARSyS author: Pedro Sanches
🛠️ Workshops & Meet-ups (CHI EA ’26)
- A Meet-Up done the Mediterranean way: Prospects of the Mediterranean CHI Community
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778810
ITI/LARSyS author: Valentina Nisi - CHI Stitch ’n Btch: A Feminist HCI Meetup
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778787
ITI/LARSyS author: Ana O. Henriques - Growing Bio-HCI at CHI: Exchanging Materials, Tools, Practices, and Artifacts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778679
ITI/LARSyS author: Fernanda Soares da Costa - Where is the Body in Designing (Through) AI? Frictions and Opportunities in Integrating AI with Soma Design
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778774
ITI/LARSyS author: Pedro Sanches - Crossing the Academia–Practice Divide in Interaction Design
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778879
ITI/LARSyS author: José Abdelnour Nocera
📊 Posters & Demos (CHI EA ’26)
- Enhancing Social Connection in Shared Audiovisual Experiences via Collective Heartbeat Haptic Feedback
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798307
ITI/LARSyS authors: Andreia Valente, Juliana Marcelino, Augusto Esteves - From Explanation to Action: A Case Study of Agronomist Workflows
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799333
ITI/LARSyS authors: Rui Pedro Porfírio, Pedro Albuquerque Santos, Rui Neves Madeira (confirm affiliation if needed) - ReadTheWay: Designing and Developing a Mobile Application to Facilitate and Promote Literary Tourism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799101
ITI/LARSyS author: Augusto Esteves - Operationalizing Self-Perceptions of Aging Using Reflection Probe and SPA Design Cards with HCI Practitioners
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799060
ITI/LARSyS authors: Neeta M. Khanuja, Valentina Nisi - Slide.Bingo: From Passive Attendance to Active Listening Through AI-Generated Bingo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799376
ITI/LARSyS authors: Hugo Nicolau, Ana Cristina Pires - Beyond Immediate Evaluation: A Longitudinal Study of Learning Effects in an Educational Game
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799341
ITI/LARSyS authors: Cristiano França, Genesis Nobrega, Beatriz Jardim Peres, Pedro F. Campos, Frederica Gonçalves
