Google at CHI 2025
Google at CHI 2025
The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), a premier conference on human-computer interaction, is being held from April 26th to May 1, in Yokohama, Japan. Google is proud to be a Hero Sponsor of CHI 2025, where Google researchers are presenting over 20 papers and are actively involved in organizing and hosting a number of different events across workshops, courses, and interactive sessions.
If you’re registered for CHI 2025, we hope you’ll visit the Google booth to learn more about the exciting work across various topics, including language interactions, question answering and more. Visit the @GoogleAI X (formerly Twitter) and Google Research LinkedIn accounts to find out about Google booth activities.
Continue below to learn more about how Google researchers are engaged at CHI 2025 (Google affiliations highlighted in bold).
All session times are provided in JST.
Demos and Q&A at the Google Booth
*Dates and times may be subject to change. Stop by the Google booth (G01) for more info.
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Tue, Apr 29 | 10:30 - 11:10 AM
Trust & Safety at GooglePresenter: Patrick Gage Kelley
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Tue, Apr 29 | 1:40 - 2:10 PM
Geometry Aware Passthrough Mitigates CybersicknessPresenters: Francis Duan, Mohit Goyal
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Tue, Apr 29 | 3:40 - 4:20 PM
Visual Blocks and InstructPipe: Visual Prototyping of AI PipelinesPresenters: Ruofei Du, Xun Qian, Zhongyi Zhou
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Wed, Apr 30 | 10:30 - 11:10 AM
Google Research Q&APresenter: Laura Vardoulakis
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Wed, Apr 30 | 1:40 - 2:10 PM
AMA: Industry vs AcademiaPresenter: Orson Xu
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Wed, Apr 30 | 3:40 - 4:20 PM
Conducting Enterprise AI UX ResearchPresenters: Vinita Tibdewal, Sophie Min, Janice de Jong
Sponsor Talk & Panels
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Tue, Apr 29 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North F1
Interactive Perception & Graphics for a Universally Accessible Extended RealityInvited Speaker: Ruofei Du
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Mon, Apr 28 | 4:20PM — 5:50PM, Annex Hall F201+F202
Barriers to Implementation of Accessibility Research in Industry Practice – and Vice VersaPanelist: Cynthia Bennett
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Tue, Apr 29 | 4:20PM — 5:50PM, Annex Hall F201+F202
Bridging Gaps in HCI: Advancing Education, Research, and Careers in AsiaPanelist: Ding Wang
SIGCHI Awards
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Mon, Apr 28 | 2:10PM — 3:40PM, G403
SIGCHI Academy PanelPanelist: Martin Wattenberg
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SIGCHI Special Recognition
SIGCHI recognizes the Google/academia Android XR interaction team: Karan Ahuja, Andrea Colaco, Massimiliano Di Luca, Hans Gellersen, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Eric J. Gonzalez, Ken Pfeuffer, Hasti Seifi
Accepted papers
🏆 Best Paper
⭐ Honorable Mention
🏆 SpeechCompass: Enhancing Mobile Captioning with Diarization and Directional Guidance via Multi-microphone Localization
Artem Dementyev, Dimitri Kanevsky, Samuel J. Yang, Mathieu Parvaix, Chiong Lai, Alex Olwal
Design for Civic Quality of Life Things
Graham Dove, Eric Corbett
Virtual Solidarity, Concrete Care: A Review of Mutual Aid Online
Darley Sackitey, Hiya Ashish Sachdev, Andrea G. Parker
PinchCatcher: Enabling Multi-selection for Gaze+Pinch
Jinwook Kim, Sangmin Park, Qiushi Zhou, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Jeongmi Lee, Ken Pfeuffer
The Odyssey Journey: Top-Tier Medical Resource Seeking for Specialized Disorder in China
Ka I Chan, Siying Hu, Yuntao Wang, Xuhai "Orson" Xu, Zhicong Lu, Yuanchun Shi
Text Entry for XR Trove (TEXT): Collecting and Analyzing Techniques for Text Input in XR
Arpit Bhatia, Moaaz Hudhud Meghrabi, Diar Abdlkarim, Massimiliano Di Luca, Mar Gonzalez-Franco,
Karan Ahuja, Hasti Seifi
Generative Ghosts: Anticipating Benefits and Risks of AI Afterlives
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jed R. Brubaker
AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures Through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue
Rida Qadri, Piotr Mirowski, Remi Denton
🏆 PAIGE: Examining Learning Outcomes and Experiences With Personalized AI-Generated Educational Podcasts
Tiffany D. Do, Usama Bin Shafqat, Elsie Ling, Nikhil Sarda
⭐ Hashtag Re-Appropriation for Audience Control on Recommendation-Driven Social Media Xiaohongshu (Rednote)
Ruyuan Wan, Lingbo Tong, Tiffany Knearem, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang, Qunfang Wu
⭐ Simulating Errors in Touchscreen Typing
Danqing Shi, Yujun Zhu, Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior, Shumin Zhai, Antti Oulasvirta
⭐ Beyond Code Generation: LLM-Supported Exploration of the Program Design Space
J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Eunice Jun, Michael Terry, Qian Yang, Björn Hartmann
Participatory AI Considerations for Advancing Racial Health Equity
Andrea G Parker, Laura M Vardoulakis, Jatin Alla, Christina N Harrington
"The Conduit By Which Change Happens": Processes, Barriers, and Support for Interpersonal Learning About Responsible AI
Jaemarie Solyst, Lauren Wilcox, Michael Madaio
Prevalence and Impacts of Image-Based Sexual Abuse Victimization: A Multinational Study
Rebecca Umbach, Nicola Henry, Gemma Beard
🏆 Prototyping With Prompts: Emerging Approaches and Challenges in Generative AI Design for Collaborative Software Teams
Hari Subramonyam, Divy Thakkar, Andrew Ku, Jürgen Dieber, Anoop Sinha
Online-EYE: Multimodal Implicit Eye Tracking Calibration for XR
Baosheng James Hou, Lucy Abramyan, Prasanthi Gurumurthy, Haley Adams, Ivana Tosic Rodgers,Eric J Gonzalez, Khushman Patel, Andrea Colaço, Ken Pfeuffer, Hans Gellersen, Karan Ahuja, Mar Gonzalez-Franco
🏆 Permission Rationales in the Web Ecosystem: An Exploration of Rationale Text and Design Patterns
Yusra Elbitar, Soheil Khodayari, Marian Harbach, Gianluca De Stefano, Balazs Engedy, Giancarlo Pellegrino, Sven Bugiel
"Perfect Is the Enemy of Good": The CISO's Role in Enterprise Security as a Business Enabler
Kimberly Ruth, Veronica A. Rivera, Gautam Akiwate, Aurore Fass, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
⭐ InstructPipe: Generating Visual Blocks Pipelines With Human Instructions and LLMs (see blog post)
Zhongyi Zhou, Jing Jin, Vrushank Phadnis, Xiuxiu Yuan, Jun Jiang, Xun Qian, Jingtao Zhou, Yiyi Huang, Zheng Xu, Yinda Zhang, Kristen Wright, Jason Mayes, Mark Sherwood, Johnny Lee, Alex Olwal, David Kim, Ram Iyengar, Na Li, Ruofei Du
Tap&Say: Touch Location-Informed Large Language Model for Multimodal Text Correction on Smartphones
Maozheng Zhao, Michael Xuelin Huang, Nathan G Huang, Shanqing Cai, Henry Huang, Michael G Huang, Shumin Zhai, IV Ramakrishnan, Xiaojun Bi
Case Studies & Journals
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Mon, Apr 28 | 5:08PM — 5:20PM, G412+G413 (With AI)
Creating Benchmarkable Components to Measure the Quality of AI-Enhanced Developer ToolsElise Paradis, Ambar Murillo, Maulishree Pandey, Sarah D'Angelo, Andrew Macvean, Ben Ferrari-Church, Matthew Hughes
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Wed, Apr 30 | 9:00AM — 9:12AM, G412+G413 (Methodology)
The Verdict Is… : A Case Study Detailing the Courtroom Methodology as an Adaptable User Experience Research MethodMelissa A. Smith, Wonhee Baek
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Wed, Apr 30 | 11:34AM — 11:46AM, G412+G413 (Vulnerable Populations)
Generative Dreams: Rethinking GenAI Design Through a Community-Based Approach With Recently Incarcerated, Gang Affiliated, and At-Risk Young Adults at a Trauma Informed Arts CenterRichard Martinez, Mark Van Hollebeke, Kurt Squire, Tong Wu, Marco Zamarato
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Mon, Apr 28 | 11:58AM — 12:10PM, G301 (From Individual to Society)
Supporting the Digital Safety of At-Risk Users: Lessons Learned from 9+ Years of Research & TrainingTara Matthews, Elie Bursztein, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lea Kissner*, Andreas Kramm, Andrew Oplinger, Andreas Schou, Manya Sleeper, Sephan Somogyi, Dalila Szostak, Kurt Thomas, Anna Turner, Jill Palzkill Woelfer*, Lawrence L. You*, Izzie Zahorian*, Sunny Consolvo
Courses
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Wed, Apr 30 | 2:10PM — 5:50PM, G219
Ethical Co-development of AI Applications With Indigenous CommunitiesInstructor: Edem Wornyo
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Wed, Apr 30 | 9:00AM — 12:40PM, G220
Multimodal AI for Human Sensing and InteractionInstructor: Karan Ahuja
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Wed, Apr 30 | 2:10PM — 5:50PM, G221
UX Research Meets AI: Level Up Your SkillsInstructors: Rachana Ranade, Pongkhi Bujorbarua
Late breaking work track
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Mon, Apr 28 | 6:00PM — 8:00PM, North 1F (Humans with AI)
ReaLJam: Real-Time Human-AI Music Jamming With Reinforcement Learning-Tuned TransformersAuthors: Alexander Scarlatos*, Yusong Wu*, Ian Simon, Adam Roberts, Tim Cooijmans, Natasha Jaques,
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Tue, Apr 29 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North 1F (Data and Visualization)
LLM Adoption in Data Curation Workflows: Industry Practices and InsightsAuthors: Crystal Qian, Michael Xieyang Liu, Emily Reif, Grady Simon*, Nada Hussein, Nathan Clement,
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Tue, Apr 29 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North 1F (Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality)
Mind the GAP: Geometry Aware Passthrough Mitigates CybersicknessAuthors: Trishia El Chemaly, Mohit Goyal, Tinglin Duan, Vrushank Phadnis, Sakar Khattar, Bjorn Vlaskamp,
Achin Kulshrestha, Eric Lee Turner, Aveek Purohit, Gregory Neiswander, Konstantine Tsotsos -
Wed, Apr 30 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North 1F (Learning and Education)
Generative AI for Medical Education: Insights From a Case Study With Medical Students and an AI Tutor for Clinical Reasoning LLMAuthors: Amy Wang, Roma Ruparel, Anna Iurchenko, Paul Jhun, Julie Anne Seguin, Patricia Strachan, Renee Wong, Alan Karthikesalingam, Yossi Matias, Avinatan Hassidim, Dale R. Webster, Christopher Semturs, Jonathan Krause, Mike Schaekermann
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Wed, Apr 30 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North 1F (Human-AI Collaboration)
Inspo: Writing With Crowds Alongside AIAuthors: Chieh-Yang Huang, Sanjana Gautam, Shannon McClellan Brooks, Ya-Fang Lin, Tiffany Knearem, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang
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Wed, Apr 30 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North 1F (AI Ethics and Trusts)
"It's Something to Polish Your Own Thoughts, Rather Than Create Thoughts for You": Understanding Participants' Use of Chatbots and LLMs During Online Research ParticipationAuthors: Steven Schirra, Sasha Volkov, Frank Bentley
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Wed, Apr 30 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North 1F (Health and Well-being)
Navigating Skin Concerns With AI: A Human-Centered Investigation of a Dermatology App in a Diverse CommunityAuthors: Rory Sayres, Anna Devon-Sand, Mike Schaekermann, Margaret Ann Smith, Patricia Strachan, Grace Hong, Trinh Nguyen, Doris Wong, Naama Hammel, Dawn Heather Siegel, Kexin Ren, Chelsea Belletieri, Vijaytha Muralidharan, Rajeev Rikhye, Yuan Liu, Beverly Freeman, Mike González, Nathan Ashcraft, Heidi Cho, Jimmy Li, Shweta Oak, Megan Shum, Abbi Ward, Yossi Matias, Greg S Corrado, Dale Webster, Peggy Bui, Preeti Singh, Yun Liu, Justin Ko, Steven Lin
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Wed, Apr 30 | 10:30AM — 11:10AM, North 1F (Human-AI Collaboration)
Zoom In, Zoom Out, Reframe: Domain Experts’ Strategies for Addressing Non-Experts' Complex QuestionsAuthors: Beverly Freeman, Roma Ruparel, Laura M Vardoulakis
Special interest groups (SIG)
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Mon, Apr 28 | 2:10PM — 3:40PM, G217
Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: Emerging Challenges and OpportunitiesPanelists (Googler): Michael Xieyang Liu, Yang Li
Panelists (non googler): Hua Shen, Tiffany Knearem, Reshmi Ghosh, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Tongshuang Wu, Diyi Yang, Yun Huang, Tanushree Mitra, Marti Hearst
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Wed, Apr 30 | 2:10PM — 3:40PM, G217
Unanticipated Lessons From Communities: Navigating Society-Centered Research in the AI EraPanelists (Googler): Ding Wang, Remi Denton, Anoop K. Sinha, Shruti Sheth, Neha Kumar,
Panelists (non Googler): Lauren Wilcox, Maryam Mustafa, Motahhare Eslami, Ken Holstein, Maarten Sap, Angela D. R. Smith, Andrea G Parker,Naveena Karusala, Tawanna R Dillahunt, Jared Lee Katzman
Workshops
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Sat, Apr 26 | 9:00AM — 5:50PM, G419
Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and MethodsOrganizer: Cynthia Bennet
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Sat, Apr 26 | 9:00AM — 5:30PM, G218
Body Politics: Unpacking Tensions and Future Perspectives for Body-Centric Design Research in HCIOrganizer: Christina Harrington
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Sat, Apr 26 | 9:00AM — 5:50PM, G414
Everyday AR Through AI-in-the-LoopOrganizer: Mar Gonzalez-Franco
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Sun, Apr 27 | 9:00AM — 5:50PM, G220
Defining a UX Research Point of View (POV)Organizer: Stephen Giff
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Sun, Apr 27 | 9:00AM — 5:30PM, G317
Designing and Developing User Interfaces With AI: Advancing Tools, Workflows, and PracticesOrganizer: Clara Kliman-Silver
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Sun, Apr 27 | 9:00AM — 5:50PM, G315
Generative AI and Accessibility Workshop: Surfacing Opportunities and RisksOrganizer: Amy Pavel
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Sun, Apr 27 | 9:00AM — 5:50PM, G218
Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and EquityOrganizer: Qisheng Li
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Sun, Apr 27 | 9:00AM —6:00PM, G417
Technology Mediated Caregiving for Older Adults Aging in PlaceOrganizer: Erin Beuhler
Board & Organizing Committee
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Jake Chanenson
- Assistant to Paper Chairs
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Karan Ahuja
- Interactivity/Demonstrations Chairs
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Zhongyi Zhou
- Poster Presentation Chairs
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Xun Qian
- Session Chair: Crowdsourcing and Tech in the Wild
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Frank Bentley
- Session Chair: Future of HCI and Research Practices:
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Ruofei Du
- Session Chair: XR and Virtual Characteristics