FMI (for my information)
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take [SIC] place in Barcelona.
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take [SIC] place in Barcelona.
1. “Writing with AI Can Reduce Gender Bias in Hiring Evaluations” Alicia T. H. Liu, Mina Lee, and Xuechunzi Bai.
2. “‘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, and Amelia Hassoun.
3. “How Does My Time Use Align With My Values? Personal Informatics for Connecting Abstract Values to Everyday Life” Michael J. Hoefer, Raegan Rychecky, and Stephen Voida.
4. “Participatory, Not Punitive: Student-Driven AI Policy Recommendations in a Design Classroom” Kaoru Seki, Manisha Vijay, and Yasmine Kotturi.
The disciplines that fall under the HCI umbrella has also changed dramatically. In the 1980s, it was cognitive psychologists and computer scientists. Social psychology came in, then design, then ethnography, developing countries, social justice, public policy, and many many more. Having been in the field for almost 30 years, I think that this breadth is part of HCI's strength, though also it's weakness.
Aside: I saw Tom Mitchell (of Machine Learning fame) give a talk about how the field evolved over the past 40 years. What I found fascinating is that, for the most part, there was a single question that drove the field: how to make computers learn from experience (or data)? However, there isn't a single such question for HCI. Again, it's part of its strength and its weakness.