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More than ten submissions from the Dyson School of Design Engineering have been accepted to CHI 2026, a major international conference in human-computer interaction.

Researchers from the Dyson School of Design Engineering will present their work at the 2026 Association of Computing Machinery CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, taking place in Barcelona, Spain, on 13–17 April. CHI is the leading international conference in human-computer interaction (HCI), bringing together researchers and practitioners to share advances in the design and use of interactive technologies.

This year, researchers from the Dyson School of Design Engineering will contribute across multiple tracks, including papers, journal articles, workshops, and posters, with two papers receiving honourable mention. The accepted submissions reflect the breadth of research at the department, spanning topics such as human-AI collaboration, digital wellbeing, healthcare technologies, creative systems design, adaptive sound systems, clinical decision support, and sustainable e-textiles.

The full list of accepted submissions

Full papers

Océane Lissillour, Sebastian Deterding, and Abigail Evans. 2026. What’s the Point? How Users Functionalise Points in Gamified Systems. |

Qianzhi Jing, Hankai Lu, Shuojin Huang, Peter Childs, and Liuqing Chen. Req2CAD: Bridging functional requirements and parametric CAD models to support conceptual 3D design. |

Matthew Davison and Andrew McPherson. Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings. |

David Sarlos and Weston Baxter. From Participation to Relational Engagement: Psychological Ownership in Digital Petitions. |

Echo Wan, Carrie Yin, Akira Ito, Ziwei Gao, Jasper Jia, Yuki Taoka, Shigeki Saito, Malak Sadek and Céline Mougenot. KNIT: Computational Boundary Objects for Real-Time Convergence in Interdisciplinary Teams. | – honourable mention

Yixun Li, Mingke Wang, Imogen Young, Rebecca Stewart, Bettina Nissen. Holding MenstaRay: Expressing Menstrual Pain through Tactile and Knitted Soft Robotic Interactions. |

Zheyuan Zhang, Dorian Peters, Lan Xiao, Jingjing Sun, Laura Moradbakhti, Andrew Hall, and Rafael A Calvo. 2026. Understanding Workplace Relatedness Support among Healthcare Professionals: A Four-Layer Model and Implications for Technology Design. | – honourable mention

Pola Zuzanna Labedzka, Dorian Peters, John J Dudley and Miri Zilka. Human-AI Interaction for Time-Critical Sensemaking in Missing Persons Investigations. |

Zhaojun Jiang, Wenteng Cheang, Xuanpei Xu, Haoyu Zuo, Chunyuan Zheng and Liuqing Chen. Sci-Fi Spark: A Human-AI Co-Creation System for Science Fiction Ideation. |

Nick Ballou, Tamás Andrei Földes, Thomas Hakman, and Andrew K Przybylski. From Breakups to Lethargy: Player Accounts of Third Variables Affecting Video Game Playtime and Wellbeing.  |

Yifu Liu , Tao Bi , Chuang Yu, Lucie F. Hernandez, Bruna Beatriz Petreca, Minna Nygren, Sharon Baurley, Youngjun Cho, and Nadia Berthouze. The RepairBot Framework: Touch-Aware Conversational Agent for Hands on Clothes Repair.

Journal articles

Peng Tan, Xiaofei Zhu, Tao Bi and Xiangshi Ren. RunMe: An Adaptive Sound System for Running Meditation. |

Workshops

Dorian Peters, T. Hollanek, N Ahmadpour, Rafael A Calvo, S. S. Chivukula, C. Dindler, Colin M. Gray, S. Lazem, G. Öz, and N. Piet. Ethics at the Front-End: Responsible User-Facing Design for AI Systems. |

Posters

Tianxiao Wang and Sebastian Deterding. Conversational Agents as Relational Mediations for GLAM: A Design Framework. |

Faiza Umar Bawah, Jamal-Deen Abdulai, Weston Baxter, and Talya Porat. 2026. Overcoming Cognitive and Contextual Challenges in Febrile Illness Diagnosis: Design Implications for Clinical Decision Support Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. |

Maya Thabal Herron, Magdalena Kohler, Tommaso Nieri, Daniele S Spinelli, Ilaria Canesi, Zora Kutz, Berit Greinke, and Rebecca Stewart. Tear-able to Wearable: Exploring End-of-Life Pathways for E-Textiles.  |

Yao Xiao, and Rafael A Calvo. AI as Relational Translator: Rethinking Belonging and Mutual Legibility in Cross-Cultural Contexts. |

Hansoo Lee, Yoonjae Cho, Sonya S. Kwak, Rafael A Calvo. SAGE: Sensor-Augmented Grounding Engine for LLM-Powered Sleep Care Agent. |

Many of our researchers will be attending CHI 2026 in person, and we look forward to connecting with colleagues from across the HCI community in Barcelona.