Google at CHI 2026
Google at CHI 2026
As a Hero Sponsor, Google is excited to support the ACM CHI 2026 conference, the premier global forum for Human-Computer Interaction research, held from April 13 to April 17 in Barcelona, Spain.
Our delegation from Google, including Google Research, Google DeepMind and more will be highly involved, presenting more than 30 research papers and contributing to 10 distinct workshops.
Attending CHI 2026? Visit us at the Google booth (locations #A2 & #A3) at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona to engage with our researchers, experience live demonstration. To keep up with our conference activities and announcements, follow @GoogleResearch on X and Google Research on LinkedIn.
Note: All scheduled sessions are listed in Central European Time (CET). Please be aware that dates and times may change.
Authors with Google affiliation in bold
* Indicates work done while at Google
Google Booth Activities
Mon, Apr 13 | 10:30AM - 11:00AM
Vibe Coding XR: Accelerating AI + XR Prototyping with XR Blocks and GeminiRuofei Du, Xun Qian, Zhongyi Zhou, Luna Chen, David Kim
Mon, Apr 13 |12:45PM - 2:15PM
Q&A: Trust & Safety at GooglePatrick Gage Kelley, Ashley Walker
Tue, Apr 14 | 10:30AM - 11:00AM
Developer Experience vs User ExperienceJude Yew, Noah Kersey, Angelica Rosenzweig Castillo
Wed, Apr 15 | 10:30AM - 11:00AM
Fabula: a Narrative Storytelling SidekickPiotr Mirowski
Wed, Apr 15 | 3:45PM - 4:15PM
Dan Russell's AMA at CHI 2026: 21 Years of Google UXDaniel Russell
Thu, Apr 16 | 10:30AM - 11:00AM
YouTube Ask on TVSasha Volkov, Steven Schirra, Dessie Sadrzadeh
Organizing Committee
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Meredith Ringel Morris
- CHI Academy Committee Chair
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Karan Ahuja
- Interactive Demo Chair
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Nitesh Goyal
- Steering Committee
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Jude Yew
- Sponsor Chair
Sponsor Talk
Wed, Apr 15 | 10:35AM — 10:50AM, Invited Talk Theater
The Role of AI in Productionizing Desirable Experiences at Google
Dessie Sadrzadeh, Frank Bentley, Steven Schirra, Sasha Volkov
Panels & Meetups
Mon, Apr 13 | 4:30PM — 6:00PM, Auditorium
CHI Academy PanelModerator: Meredith Ringel Morris
Mon, Apr 13 | 4:30PM — 6:00PM, P1 - Room 117
Participatory AI & Social JusticeCo-Author: Christina Harrington
Wed, Apr 15 | 2:15PM — 3:45PM, P1 - Room 117
The Global Impact of Generative AI on the HCI Landscape: International Perspectives on HCI Education, Industry Dynamics, and Funding ConsiderationsCo-Author & Panelist: Nitesh Goyal
Meet-Ups
Tue, Apr 14 | 4:30PM — 6:00PM, P1 - Room 134
RAI@CHI: Responsible and Human Centred AI Across Borders
Organizers: Rishub Jain
Program Committee: Lili Janzer
Best Paper Award
Promise or Peril? Exploring Black Adults' Perspectives on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Contexts
Andrea G. Parker, Laura M. Vardoulakis, Christina N. Harrington
Honorable Mention
Barriers that Programming Instructors Face While Performing Emergency Pedagogical Design to Shape Student-AI Interactions with Generative AI Tools
Sam Lau, Kianoosh Boroojeni, Harry Keeling, Jenn Marroquin
Peeking Ahead of the Field Study: Exploring VLM Personas as Support Tools for Embodied Studies in HCI
Xinyue Gui, Ding Xia, Mark Colley, Yuan Li, Vishal Chauhan, Anubhav Anubhav, Zhongyi Zhou, Ehsan Javanmardi, Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Chia-Ming Chang, Manabu Tsukada, Takeo Igarashi
Accepted papers
Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections
Claire L. Mitchell, Junhan Kong, Jesse J. Martinez, Shaun K. Kane, Amy J. Ko, Alexis Hiniker, Jacob O. Wobbrock
ADCanvas: Accessible and Conversational Audio Description Authoring for Blind and Low Vision Creators
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Michael Xieyang Liu, Cynthia L. Bennett, Shaun K. Kane
AgentHands: Generating Interactive Hand Gestures for Spatially Grounded Agent Conversations in XR
Ziyi Liu, David Li, Zhongyi Zhou, David Kim, Ruofei Du, Xun Qian
Approximate vs Precise: An Experiment in What Impacts User Choice When Apps Request Location Access
Alex Berke, Jessica Johnson
Beyond PII: How Users Attempt to Estimate and Mitigate Implicit LLM Inference
Synthia Wang, Sai Teja Peddinti, Nina Taft, Nick Feamster
Black LLMirror: User (Self) Perceptions in Black American English Interactions with LLMs
Mikayla Campbell, Joel Mire, Mark Díaz, Maarten Sap
Break the Window: Exploring Spatial Decomposition of Webpages in XR
Chenyang Zhang, Tianjian Wei, Haoyang Yang, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Yalong Yang, Eric J. Gonzalez
DeltaDorsal: Enhancing Hand Pose Estimation with Dorsal Features in Egocentric Views
William Huang, Siyou Pei, Leyi Zou, Eric J. Gonzalez, Ishan Chatterjee, Yang Zhang
Designing Around Stigma: Human-Centered LLMs for Menstrual Health
Amna Shahnawaz, Ayesha Shafique, Ding Wang, Maryam Mustafa
Designing Privacy Choice in Generative AI Chatbot Ecosystems
Lanjing Liu, Xinran Adeline Li, Allen Yilun Lin, Yaxing Yao
Exploring the Role of User Comments Throughout the Stages of Video-Based Task-Learning
Nayoung Kim, Yotam Sechayk, Zhongyi Zhou, Takeo Igarashi
From Correctness to Collaboration: A Human-Centered Taxonomy of AI Agent Behavior in Software Engineering
Tao Dong, Harini Sampath, Ja Young Lee, Sherry Y. Shi, Andrew Macvean
Governance of AI-Generated Content: A Case Study On Social Media Platforms
Lan Gao, Abani Ahmed, Oscar Chen, Margaux Reyl, Zayna Cheema, Nick Feamster, Chenhao Tan, Kurt Thomas, Marshini Chetty
Grand Challenges Around Designing Computers’ Control Over Our Bodies
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Misha Sra, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Henning Pohl, Susanne Boll, Richard Byrne, Arthur Caetano, Masahiko Inami, Jarrod Knibbe, Per Ola Kristensson, Xiang Li, Zhuying Li, Joe Marshall, Louise Petersen Matjeka, Minna Nygren, Rakesh Patibanda, Sara Price, Harald Reiterer, Aryan Saini, Oliver Schneider, Ambika Shahu, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Don Samitha Elvitigala
How Generative AI Empowers Attackers and Defenders Across the Trust & Safety Landscape
Patrick Gage Kelley, Steven Rousso-Schindler, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Allison Woodruff
How Tech Workers Contend with Hazards of Humanlikeness in Generative AI
Mark Díaz, Renee Shelby, Eric Corbett, Andrew Smart
How Well Can 3D Accessibility Guidelines Support XR Development? An Interview Study with XR Practitioners in Industry
Daniel Killough, Tiger F. Ji, Kexin Zhang, Yaxin Hu, Yu Huang, Ruofei Du, Yuhang Zhao
I Have to Talk Proper White Ways': Australian Aboriginal English Speakers' Experiences with Voice Technologies
Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard, Hope Narrier, Katrina Cox, Lily Hayward, Daniel Colbung, Ben Hutchinson
Improving Low-Vision Chart Accessibility via On-Cursor Visual Context
Yotam Sechayk, Hennes Rave, Max Rädler, Mark Colley, Zhongyi Zhou, Ariel Shamir, Takeo Igarashi
“It Became My Buddy, But I’m Not Afraid to Disagree”: A Multi-Session Study of UX Evaluators Collaborating with Conversational AI Assistants
Emily Kuang, Ehsan Jahangirzadeh Soure, Luyao Shen, Nitesh Goyal, Mingming Fan, Kristen Shinohara
"It Didn’t Feel Right but I Needed a Job So Desperately": Understanding People's Emotions & Help Needs During Financial Scams
Jake Chanenson*, Tara Matthews, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Jessica McClearn*, Sarah Meiklejohn*, Abhishek Roy, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Amelia Hassoun
Keeping Community-in-the-Loop: A Novel Methodology for UX Research
MC, Clara Caldeira, Talita Pagani, Vinita Tibdewal
MoXaRt: Audio-Visual Object-Guided Sound Interaction for XR
Tianyu Xu, Sieun Kim, Qianhui Zheng, Ruoyu Xu, Tejasvi Ravi, Anuva Kulkarni, Katrina Passarella-Ward, Junyi Zhu, Adarsh Kowdle
Navig-AI-tion: Navigation by Contextual AI and Spatial Audio
Mathias N. Lystbæk, Haley Adams, Ranjith Kagathi Ananda, Eric J. Gonzalez, Luca Ballan, Qiuxuan Wu, Andrea Colaço, Peter Tan, Mar Gonzalez-Franco
Navigating Uncertainties: Understanding How GenAI Developers Document Their Models on Open-Source Platforms
Ningjing Tang, Megan Li, Amy Winecoff, Michael Madaio, Hoda Heidari, Hong Shen
Preshaping Hand Behaviour for Direct and Indirect Manipulation of 3D Objects
Thorbjørn Mikkelsen, Qiushi Zhou, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Hans Gellersen, Ken Pfeuffer
Sticky and Magnetic: Evaluating Error Correction and User Adaptation in Gaze and Pinch Interaction
Jazmin Collins, Prasanthi Gurumurthy, Eric J. Gonzalez, Mar Gonzalez-Franco
Surfacing and Applying Meaning: Supporting Hermeneutical Autonomy for LGBTQ+ People in Taiwan
Yi-Tong Chen, En-Kai Chang, Nanyi Bi, Nitesh Goyal
TALES: A Taxonomy and Analysis of Cultural Representations in LLM-Generated Stories
Kirti Bhagat, Shaily Bhatt, Athul Velagapudi, Aditya Vashistha, Shachi Dave, Danish Pruthi
The Perfection Paradox: From Architect to Curator in AI-Assisted API Design
Mak Ahmad, Andrew Macvean, JJ Geewax, David Karger
Towards Better Health Conversations: The Benefits of Context-Seeking (see Research Blog)
Rory Sayres, Yuexing Hao, Abbi Ward, Amy Wang, Beverly Freeman, Serena Zhan, Diego Ardila, Jimmy Li, I-Ching Lee, Anna Iurchenko, Siyi Kou, Kartikeya Badola, Jimmy Hu, Bhawesh Kumar, Keith Johnson, Supriya Vijay, Justin Krogue, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Dale R. Webster, Sunny Virmani, Yun Liu, Quang Duong, Mike Schaekermann
Uncovering Relationships Between Android Developers, User Privacy, and Developer Willingness to Reduce Fingerprinting Risks
Alex Berke, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Michael Specter, Mihai Christodorescu
Usability Hasn’t Peaked: Exploring How Expressive Design Overcomes the Usability Plateau
Frank Bentley, Lennard Lukas Schmidt, Alyssa Sheehan, Bianca Gallardo, Ying Wang
Who am I Talking to? A Large-Scale Measurement of Surface Attribution Across Real-World Security and Privacy Interfaces
Marian Harbach, Jessica Johnson
Who Is At Risk? Examining the Prevalence of Digital-Safety Attacks and Contextual Risk Factors in the United States
Sharon Heung*, Claire Weizenegger*, Mo Houtti, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Ashley Marie Walker