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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Preventing Intimate Partner Violence 🚨 through Video Games 🎮: Designing a Gender-Transformative 🌱 Health Intervention 💊 for Young Men 👦 by Veen Wong, Laura Wallace Jarvis, Maham Kamal, Chris McNab, @caylery.bsky.social, James R Wallace! #IH2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3810...

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🤝 (Re-) Defining Boundaries in Informal Care 🤝: An Interview Study 🗣️ on the Perspectives of Aging Parents 👴 and Adult Children 👨‍👩‍👧 by Leila Homaeian, Michelle Ma, Vanessa Duong, Zixi Christina Li, Keiko Katsuragawa, James R Wallace! #IH2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3822...

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(Re-) Defining Boundaries in Informal Care: An Interview Study on the Perspectives of Aging Parents and Adult Children | ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

Many older adults prefer to independently live in their homes and communities for as long as possible, with their adult children often playing a key role as informal helpers. While the HCI community…

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

When Constraints Limit 🚧 and Inspire 💡: Characterizing Presentation Authoring Practices ✍️ for Evolving Narratives 📖 by Linxiu Zeng, Emily Kuang, Jian Zhao! #DIS2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Rushed by Discomfort 😰, Trapped by Immersion 🥽: Users' Experiences and Responses to Privacy 🔒 Deceptive Design 🕵️ in Commercial VR Applications by Hilda Hadan, Michaela Valiquette, @lennartnacke.com, Leah Zhang-Kennedy! 🏆BEST PAPER🏆 #DIS2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Supporting Practitioner-Led 👩‍⚕️ Adaptive Switch Design 🔧: Stories 📖 and Speculative Design 🔮 Opportunities for GenAI 🤖 Use by Karen Anne Cochrane @embodiedcomputing.bsky.social, Bryce Arthur Moore, Jesse N Simon, Daniel Harley! 🏅Honourable Mention 🏅#DIS2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

PWiP! Security Noir 🕵️: Critical Designs for Security 🔐 & Privacy 🚨 by Didem Demirag, Leah Zhang-Kennedy, Jeremy Clark! #DIS2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

PWip! AttentionGo 🎯: Designing Tangible 🖐️ Neurofeedback Tools 🧠 for Children 👧 with ADHD through a Holistic Well-being 🌿 Lens by An Bella Chen, James R. Wallace, Leah Zhang-Kennedy! #DIS2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It is #DIS2026 time!! The first uwaterloo session was by Karen Cochrane @embodiedcomputing.bsky.social and her team, 🧵 Workshop 🧵 Patchwork Knowledge 🪡: Documenting Material Learning 📚 in Human-Computer Interaction. Stay tuned for more Waterloo HCI's works this week!

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"I can see the big picture 🖼️'': Comparing Switching 🔄 to Single VR Perspectives when Empathizing 🤝 with Multiple User Groups 👥 by Jieun Lee, @oliver-hx.bsky.social and @caylery.bsky.social! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New at GI 2026 ✨: Pragmatica, a VR 🥽 tool that lets people with aphasia 🗣️ practice communication 💬 independently at home 🏠. 366 activities 📋, 31 hours ⏱️ of use, and real lessons on one-handed 🖐️ controls and multi-modal 🎨 design. Catch the talk Friday 📅. @oliver-hx.bsky.social #GI2026 #HCI #aphasia

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

💻 Technology-Based 💻 Prevention 🚨 of Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review 🔍 by Veen Wong, Jieun Lee, @caylery.bsky.social James R Wallace! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

💬 Special Session 💬 Panel and Networking Session 🤝 on Teaching Creative Coding 🎨💻 by Christian Frisson, Daniel Vogel, Jon Corbett, Rodolfo Cossovich, Xuan Ye! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Happening now!! What is (H)CI 🖥️: Why Does the "Human" 🧑 Matter ❓ by Sejal Agarwal, Delara Forghani, Brandon Lit, Thomas Driscoll, Anthony Maocheia-Ricci! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

💬 Workshop 💬 Proactive Systems in HCI and AI: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities by @sharon-ferguson.bsky.social, Cosmin Munteanu and more! #GraphicsInterface2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sketch Bug 🐛: Using Sketch-Based ✏️ Input for Interactive Code 💻 Debugging by Helen Weixu Chen, Daniel Vogel! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Tickle Trunk 🧰: A Plug-and-Play Toolkit 🔌 for Exploring Haptic 🤲 and Tangible Interaction ✋ by Ana Lucia Diaz de Leon Derby, Faduma Ahmed, Bibhushan Raj Joshi, Karen Anne Cochrane @embodiedcomputing.bsky.social, @oliver-hx.bsky.social and more! #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Exploring Above-neck 🧑‍💼 Unimanual Swipe Gestures 🫳 for Off-Device Earable 🎧 Interaction 👂 by Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Ali Neshati, Junwei Sun, Qiang Xu, Jian Zhao! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Multi-level Keypresses ✋ with Hall Effect Keyboards ⌨️ by Yen-Ting Yeh, Mitchell Kuo, Carl Gutwin! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

⏳Coming up: 📈 Measuring Together, Thinking Apart: Interrogating Alignment In Group Informatics Systems 🧠 in Minds In The Loop session at 2:27pm EDT in the E7 event space in 🇨🇦 #GraphicsInterface2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

💬 Special Session 💬 The Annual Meeting 📅 of Canadian 🍁 Human-Computer Interaction Educators 👩‍🏫 by Cosmin Munteanu, Olivier St-Cyr! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

💬 Special Session 💬 Building Accessibility Research Capacity 🌱 in Canada 🍁: Challenges, Best Practices ✅, and Collaborative Paths Forward 🤝 by Cosmin Munteanu and more! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Shape of Agency 🧩: Designing for Personal Agency 💪 in Qualitative Data Analysis 🗣️ by Luka Ugaya Mazza, Plinio Pelegrini Morita, James R Wallace! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📈 Measuring Together, Thinking Apart: Interrogating Alignment In Group Informatics Systems 🧠 by @sharon-ferguson.bsky.social, Zayn Dhilon, and more! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🔍 DeTAILS 🔍: Deep Thematic Analysis with Iterative 🔄 LLM Support 🤖 by Ansh Sharma, Karen Anne Cochrane @embodiedcomputing.bsky.social, James R Wallace! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🖥️ Interaction Techniques 🖥️ that Encourage Longer Prompts 📝 Can Improve Psychological Ownership 🧠 when Writing ✍️ with AI 🤖 by Nikhita Joshi and Daniel Vogel! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thinking Inside the Box 📦: Building User Interfaces 🖥️ with Question-Guided ❓ Inputs by Sejal Agarwal, Helen Weixu Chen, Daniel Vogel, Anamaria Crisan! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Choreography 💃 of Augmented Reality 🥽 Timelines ⏳: Studying the Relative Position 📍, Chronology & Situatedness of Event Sequences 🔢 by Isabelle Kwan, Jessica Chen, @mattbrehmer.bsky.social! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

👀 Demo 👀 HomeLink 🏠: Supporting Family Communication 💬 for Aging in Place 👴 by Leila Homaeian, Zixi Christina Li, Michelle Ma, Brigitte Lee, Keiko Katsuragawa, James R Wallace! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🪧 Poster 🪧 Bare-Hand 🖐️ Continuous VR 🥽 Locomotion 🚶 Using Beyond-FOV 👁️, Around-HMD Unimanual Gestures 🖐️ by Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Junwei Sun, Qiang Xu, Jian Zhao! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

👀 Demo 👀 Tickle Trunk 🧰: A Plug-and-Play Toolkit 🔌 for Exploring Haptic 🤲 and Tangible Interaction ✋ by Ana Lucia Diaz de Leon Derby, Faduma Ahmed, Bibhushan Raj Joshi, Karen Anne Cochrane, Kristina R. Llewellyn, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Jennifer J. Llewellyn, @oliver-hx.bsky.social! #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🪧 Poster 🪧 A Glimpse, Not a Gaze 👀 : Using Generative AI 🤖 to Balance Privacy 🔒 and Awareness 👁️ in 👴 Inter-generational Caregiving 👧 by Zixi Christina Li, Keiko Katsuragawa, James R Wallace! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

💸 Workshop 💸 Happening now!! Exploring Strategies for Obtaining Research Funding for HCI by @sharon-ferguson.bsky.social and more! Note that this event is targeted at professors. #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

👀 Demo 👀 Designing an LLM 🤖-Supported Qualitative Analysis Tool 🛠️ for Iterative Inquiry 🔄 by Anna Zhelizniak and James R Wallace! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🪧 Poster 🪧 Privacy Notice 🔒 Design for Humanoid Social Robots 🤖 in the Home 🏠: Child-Centered 👶 Co-design Study by JaeEun Jen Shin, Leah Zhang-Kennedy, and Yue Hu! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

👀 Demo 👀 Freeing the Wizard of Oz 🧙: A Highly Configurable Platform ⚙️ for Behavioural Experiments 🧪 with Conversational User Interface 💬 by Emily Shiu, Anthony Tieu, Joanna Xiong, Leo Qi, Cosmin Munteanu, Katherine White! #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🪧 Poster 🪧 Personas at Play 🎮 : Understanding Disabled Player Experience 👩‍💻 to Expand Accessible Controller Design 🕹️ by Georgia Loewen, Karen Anne Cochrane, Yili Wen, Audrey Girouard! @embodiedcomputing.bsky.social #GraphicsInterface2026 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Graphics Interface (GI) 2026 is happening this week in Waterloo! 🎉 It's the only conference where computer graphics, data viz, and HCI all collide 🎨📊💻 We'll be posting University of Waterloo HCI's work throughout the week — stay tuned! 👀 #GI2026

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 🏠 Homeroom 🏠: A Value-Aligned and 🎓 Community-Centered Homeschooling Platform in Families, Informal Learning & Home Contexts session at 12:15 CEST (06:15 EDT) in P1 - Room 121 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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Homeroom: A Value-Aligned and Community-Centered Homeschooling Platform | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 🖥 ""Tech'' a Deep Breath 💨: Technology-guided Breathing Practise 🤖 With or Without a Social Robot for Psychological and Emotional Well-Being in Human-Robot Interaction session at 12:03 CEST (06:03 EDT) in P1 - Room 130 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 🎨 VR for Design 🎨: Exploring Long-Term Experiences and Workflows of 3D Designing in Virtual Reality 🧑‍🏫 in Spatial Interaction Design, Gestures & Communication session at 9:00 CEST (03:00 EDT) in P1 - Room 133 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🖥 "Tech'' a Deep Breath 💨: Technology-guided Breathing Practise 🤖 With or Without a Social Robot for Psychological and Emotional Well-Being by Shruti Chandra, Charlie Zheng, Priyank Avijeet, Michael Dixon, Kerstin Dautenhahn and more! #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 🧵 SewFab 🧵: Sewing Inspired Fabrication on an Unmodified FDM 3D Printer 🖨 Leveraging Intermittent Human Assistance in Fabrication, Fashion, & Modular Systems session at 12:27 CEST (06:27 EDT) in P1 - Room 122 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 👥 Accounting for (Dis)advantages in Capability Sensitive Design for 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Marginalized Communities in Justice, Surveillance and Marginalized Identities session at 12:27 CEST (06:27 EDT) in P1 - Room 119 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 👥 Engaging Communities Meaningfully in Defining Disability Representation for 🤖 AI Image Generation 🖼 in Co-Design and Collaboration session at 11:39 CEST (05:39 EDT) in P1 - Room 117 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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DiLLS: Interactive Diagnosis of LLM-based Multi-agent Systems via Layered Summary of Agent Behaviors | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 🛝 To Slide or Not To Slide: Exploring Techniques for Comparing Immersive Videos 🎥 in Designing XR Interaction session at 11:39 CEST (05:15 EDT) in P1 - Room 118 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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Waterloo HCI @uwhci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

⏳Watch soon: 🖥 DiLLS 🖥 : Interactive Diagnosis of LLM-based 🤖 Multi-agent Systems via Layered Summary of Agent Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems for Sensemaking and Planning session at 10:12 CEST (04:12 EDT) in P1 - Room 134 in 🇪🇸 #CHI2026 📜 doi.org/10.1145/3772...

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DiLLS: Interactive Diagnosis of LLM-based Multi-agent Systems via Layered Summary of Agent Behaviors | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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