Several Drexel School of Computer and Information Sciences (SCIS, formerly CCI) faculty and students will present at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) in Barcelona, Spain, at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona, April 13-17, 2026.
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI—pronounced “kai” —is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology. This year, the conference embraces a new format to streamline the experience and address rapid growth of the community and scholarship over the past years. Technical program submissions now fall into six areas: papers, panels, meetups, posters, workshops, and interactive demos, spread across five weekdays. This year is also the first time the conference will be held on the Iberian Peninsula, allowing for engagement with the broader Mediterranean region.
The following SCIS faculty and students (in bold) will participate in CHI 2026:
ACM SIGCHI Awards
Helena M. Mentis received the 2026 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. As part of the honor, Mentis will deliver an invited talk at the conference. Learn more.
Full Papers
Mohammad “Matt” Namvarpour, Brandon Brofsky, Jessica Y. Medina, Mamtaj Akter, and Afsaneh Razi contributed a paper “Understanding Teen Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots Through Self-Reported Reddit Narratives.”
Links: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790597; https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15783 [PDF]
Shruti Phadke contributed a paper “Reinforcing the Unreal: Subliminals and the Normalization of Unscientific Body Transformations on Reddit.”
Tzu-Yu Weng and Karthik S. Bhat contributed a paper “A Blessing and a Challenge: Unpacking Boundary Ambiguities Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults.”
Link: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790392
Recipient of an Honorable Mention Award (received by top 5% of submissions)
Karthik S. Bhat, Jiayue Melissa Shi, Wenxuan Song, Dong Whi Yoo, and Koustuv Saha contributed a paper “‘In my defense, only three hours on Instagram’: Designing Toward Digital Self-Awareness and Wellbeing.”
Link: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790263
Yi Jou Li, Zeming Yu, James A Mattei, Ananta Soneji, Zhibo Sun, Ruoyu “Fish” Wang, Jaron Mink, Daniel Votipka, and Tiffany Bao contributed a paper “I Can SE Clearly Now: Investigating the Effectiveness of GUI-based Symbolic Execution for Software Vulnerability Discovery.”
Posters
Christine D. Ikponmwonba, Vidhi Shah, Sifan Yuan, Ivan Marsic, Randall Burd, and Aleksandra Sarcevic contributed a poster “Bounding Boxes in Practice: Design and Early Evaluation of a Video-Based PPE Compliance Monitoring Application for Time-Critical Care.”
Link: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798549
Tyler Chang and Afsaneh Razi contributed a poster “A Systematic Literature Review of Generative AI Risks and Harms for Youth.”
Link: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798673
Zaid Ahmed, Omar A. Khan, Hyeongil Nam, and Kangsoo Kim contributed a poster “Exploring Experiential Differences Between Virtual and Physical Memory-Linked Objects in Extended Reality.”
Meetups
Ignacio Avellino, Francisco Nunes, Helena M. Mentis, Aneesha Singh, Pin Sym Foong, James R. Wallace, Jason Wiese, Sean A. Munson, and Chia-Fang Chung organized a meetup, Meetup: Mentorship in HCI × Health Research. This meetup is a mentorship and community-building space for researchers working in HCI × Health, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty.
Kasper Hornbaek, Irmandy Wicaksono, Chirstipher Frauenberger, Tiffany D. Do, and Sanchari Das organized a meetup Meet ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction: Submitting, Getting Accepted, and Being Involved. The purpose of this meetup is to give CHI attendees a better understanding of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).
Program Committee
Karthik S. Bhat served as an Associate Papers Chair on the Health Subcommittee.
Shruti Phadke served as an Associate Papers Chair on the Understanding People—Statistical and Quantitative Methods Subcommittee.