CHI is the leading venue for Human–Computer Interaction research worldwide, and participation in its program continues to be a meaningful indicator of scientific contribution and engagement with the broader HCI community. This year, CHI received 6,730 full paper submission, and 1,703 papers were finally accepted (25.3% acceptance rate). The conference also evaluated 2,068 poster submissions, of which 38.4% were accepted.
“We are truly happy to see our centre so strongly represented at CHI this year, with 13 contributions across a wide variety of topics. It is particularly rewarding to see games and play research represented across different fields and subcommittees, and to have so many of our subgroups present. This breadth of participation speaks not only to the diversity of our work, but also to the care and rigor behind it” comments Assistant Professor Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk, who with several members from our centre will join CHI in person.
Broadly speaking, our contributions are diversified across four thematic areas, reflecting the interdisciplinary scope and the breadth of its methodological and conceptual approaches. The accepted works span embodied interaction, robotics, sustainability, and AI‑mediated systems, aligning with the evolving research agenda of contemporary HCI. In Embodied, Social & Situated Experiences, the contributions examined how playful interactive systems intertwine with social and material contexts, including wearable technologies, trust in hybrid game environments, and haptic interaction. Within Human–Robot Interactions, the research addressed relational, interpretive, and behavioral dynamics that emerge in playful human–robot encounters across everyday and natural settings. In Nature, Well‑Being & Sustainability, the work explored how interactive systems can support ecological awareness, reflection, and sustainable living practices within broader social and environmental contexts. Finally, in AI‑Mediated Experiences, the contributions investigated how intelligent systems shape storytelling, adaptive content creation, and multimodal search in emerging playful digital landscapes.
Our Research Centre’s accepted submissions – full papers, posters, interactive demo and workshop – are listed below. Submission titles link to self-archived pdf versions, DOI links will be added later.
Full Papers
- SYNAPSE: A Sociotechnical Taxonomy of Bioadaptive Media.
Mila Bujić, Juho Hamari
Link to CHI’26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/222366 - “Standing Out While Blending In”: Learning from Experts about Designing Fashionable Wearable Experiences.
Shiva Jabari, Asif Shaikh, Çağlar Genç, Velvet Spors, Johanna Virkki, Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk, Juho Hamari
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/222078 - Can’t See Nature for the Trees: A Literature Review about Virtual Nature for Well-being.
Bakhtawar Aurangzeb Khan, Velvet Spors, Alfie R Cameron, Henri Pirkkalainen, Juho Hamari
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/223386 - DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling.
Jiangnan Xu, Haeseul Cha, Gosu Choi, Gyu-cheol Lee, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Zucheul Lee, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim, Juho Kim
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/222077 - Understanding Spatiotemporal-Aware Multimodal Conversational Search for Use in the Outdoor Urban Space.
Jiangnan Xu, Suyeon Seo, Joni Salminen, Michael Saker, Joongi Shin, Alan Chamberlain, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/223288 - Understanding the Dynamics of Trust in Location-Based Games as Hybrid Spaces: The Players’ Perspective.
Jiangnan Xu, Sanzida Mojib Luna, Michael Saker, Alan Chamberlain, Nicolas LaLone, Samuli Laato, Garreth W. Tigwell, Konstantinos Papangelis
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/222857 - Roaming with a robot: Analyzing the experiences and understanding the dimensions of designing human-robot walking interactions.
Eshtiak Ahmed, Çağlar Genç, Velvet Spors, Juho Hamari, Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk
Link to CHI’26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/222430
Posters
- Playful Experiments in Living: Towards a Method for Sustainable HCI.
Daniel Fernández Galeote, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Juho Hamari
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/229512 - Human-Robot Companionship in the Forest: Understanding the Effects of Engagement and Authority.
Eshtiak Ahmed, Narda De la Flor Enciso, Isak de Villiers Bosman, Iuliia Avgustis, Shiva Jabari, Juho Hamari, Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/230220 - Embodied Encounters in the Forest: Human Interpretations and Sense Making of Robot Presence and Behavior.
Narda De la Flor Enciso, Eshtiak Ahmed, Aino Ahtinen, Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/230172 - Towards a Systematic Mapping Review of Sustainable HCI: Opening Up Our Protocol to the Feedback of the CHI Community.
Jordi Márquez Puig, Daniel Fernández Galeote, Anton Bardera Reig, Juho Hamari, Ferran Altarriba Bertran
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/229915
Interactive Demo
- Virtual Playing, Real Touch: The Haptics of Musical Instruments.
Shivang Gupta, Xinyi Yang, Emma Jane Pretty, Zhenxing Li, Juho Hamari, Nannan Xi
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/230197
Workshop
- Designing with forest stories to explore what it might mean for forest-related technologies to “get it right”.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Heidi Biggs, Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk, Angella Mackey, William Odom, Oscar Tomico
Link to CHI26 Program: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/214866