Awardsby GlyphCHI Best Paper Award winners by year
ACM SIGCHI · Paper award · usually Apr · next expected Apr 2027
Winners
"An Experience That Could Not be Found Anywhere Else": Resonance as an Explanatory Concept for Player Experience Research and Game DesignJaakko Väkevä, Jan B. Vornhagen, Heidi Rautalahti et al.2026Source ↗
"Families are messy": From Parent-Child Tensions to Family-Centered Design of Smart Home TechnologiesKaiwen Sun, Jade Xiaoyi Li, Irene Chung et al.2026Source ↗
"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model" – Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI WorkNadia Nahar, Chenyang Yang, Yanxin Chen et al.2026Source ↗
"Social Media Killed Our Generation": Teenagers' Felt Experiences of Harm on Social MediaRitika Gairola, Colin M. Gray, Jingxin Dong et al.2026Source ↗
A Cantilevered DeltaXY Positioning Mechanism Enabling Rackable Digital Fabrication Form FactorsIlan E Moyer, Leo McElroy, Quentin Bolsée et al.2026Source ↗
A decision-theoretic representation of assistive interfacesJulien Gori, Aurelien Nioche, Christoph A. Johns et al.2026Source ↗
AI Sensing and Intervention in Higher Education: Student Perceptions of Learning Impacts, Affective Responses, and Ethical PrioritiesBingyi Han, Ying Ma, Simon Coghlan et al.2026Source ↗
AI That Moves With You: A Review of Interactive Technologies Powered by Large Foundation Models for Mobility ImpairmentDuosi Dai, Yuchong Zhang, Yong Ma et al.2026Source ↗
Are Semantic Networks Associated with Idea Originality in Artificial Creativity? A Comparison with Human AgentsUmberto Domanti, Lorenzo Campidelli, Sergio Agnoli et al.2026Source ↗
BRIDGE: Borderless Reconfiguration for Inclusive and Diverse Gameplay Experience via Embodiment TransformationHayato Saiki, Chunggi Lee, Hikari Takahashi et al.2026Source ↗
Becoming Watchful on the Trail and at Home: Understanding Experiential Outcomes of Capra in Long-Term UseWilliam Odom, Samuel Barnett, Jordan White et al.2026Source ↗
Bloom: Designing for LLM-Augmented Behavior Change InteractionsMatthew Jörke, Defne Genç, Valentin Teutschbein et al.2026Source ↗
Characterizing Scam-Driven Human Trafficking Across Chinese Borders and Online Community Responses on RedNoteJiamin Zheng, Yue Deng, Jessica Chen et al.2026Source ↗
Chasing Meaning and/or Insight? A Survey on Evaluation Practices at the Intersection of Visualization and the HumanitiesAlejandro Benito-Santos, Florian Windhager, Aida Horaniet Ibañez et al.2026Source ↗
Civil Data Disobedience: Navigating Data Interaction Challenges in Human Rights Defense OrganizationsMaria Normark, Karin Hansson, Mattias Jacobsson2026Source ↗
CoBRA: Programming Cognitive Bias in Social Agents Using Classic Social Science ExperimentsXuan Liu, HaoYang Shang, Haojian Jin2026Source ↗
Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI AgentsK. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke et al.2026Source ↗
Crafting Remembrance Beyond the Self: Older Adults' Digital and Material LegaciesRamprabu Thangaraj, Jed R. Brubaker, Emma Dixon et al.2026Source ↗
Designing for Long-Term Emotion Regulation: A Breathing Biofeedback Game for Women in Compulsory Isolation Drug Rehabilitation CentersQi Chen, Jiachen Du, Zhihao Yao et al.2026Source ↗
Do Children Trust AI, and Should They? Designing and Validating a Child-Centred K-AI Trust Scale for Intelligent SystemsGrazia Ragone, Paolo Buono, Judith Good et al.2026Source ↗
Friend, Foe, or Bot? Exploring Intergroup Dynamics in Hybrid Human-Bot TeamsAssem Zhunis, Ziqi Pan, Yuanhao Zhang et al.2026Source ↗
From Overload to Convergence: Supporting Multi-Issue Human–AI Negotiation with Bayesian VisualizationMehul Parmar, Chaklam Silpasuwanchai2026Source ↗
From Preference to Performance: Patient-Centered Design of Multimodal Cueing in Parkinson's Disease Gait TrainingXinjin Li, Wenjie Wang, Kai Wang et al.2026Source ↗
From Using to Infrastructuring: Grassroots VPN-Building in Iran's Women–Life–Freedom MovementSarvin Qalandar, Philip Engelbutzeder, Dave Randall et al.2026Source ↗
Generative Muscle Stimulation: Providing Users with Physical Assistance by Constraining Multimodal-AI with Embodied KnowledgeYun Ho, Romain Nith, Peili Jiang et al.2026Source ↗
GeoVisA11y: An AI-based Geovisualization Question-Answering System for Screen-Reader UsersChu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary et al.2026Source ↗
How They Type: Eye and Finger Movement Strategies in Typing of Individuals with Cerebral PalsyTingting Song, Liangyue Han, Yunfei Bi et al.2026Source ↗
How are Vibrotactile Experiences Visually Represented? A Taxonomy of Illustration CharacteristicsBruno Fruchard, Dennis Wittchen, Nihar Sabnis et al.2026Source ↗
Let's Make a Community [of Practice]: Using Community-Based Participatory Design to Support InterdependenceElaine Czech, Dan Bennett, Grace Jane Stangroome et al.2026Source ↗
Localized Imaginaries, Global Assets: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Assetization of Data Centers in SingaporeTanmaie Kailash, Cindy Kaiying Lin2026Source ↗
Managing Medication Plans When Information Is Scattered: Clinicians' Strategies and ToolsAnastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ignacio Avellino, Wendy E. Mackay2026Source ↗
Mining Player Experience Trends From Game Reviews Using Large Language ModelsSupriya Dutta, Joel Oksanen, Jaakko Väkevä et al.2026Source ↗
MlondaCam: Designing Context-Aware Smart Cameras for Supporting Domestic Security and Privacy in Malawian HomesGeorge Chidziwisano, Yewande Ojo, Thandiwe Jere2026Source ↗
Narratives and Perspectives: How AI Summaries Steer Users' Opinions and Engagement on Social MediaJarod Govers, Cherie Sew, Eduardo Velloso et al.2026Source ↗
Novobo: Supporting Teachers' Peer Learning of Instructional Gestures by Teaching a Mentee AI-Agent TogetherJiaqi Jiang, Kexin Huang, Huan Zeng et al.2026Source ↗
PerEye: Co-Designing Extended Reality Rendering Attributes for Vision Health Diagnosis and EducationHowe Yuan Zhu, Jacinta Anne Walz, Nguyen Thanh Trung Le et al.2026Source ↗
PleaSQLarify: Visual Pragmatic Repair for Natural Language Database QueryingRobin Shing Moon Chan, Rita Sevastjanova, Mennatallah El-Assady2026Source ↗
Promise or Peril? Exploring Black Adults' Perspectives on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health ContextsAndrea G Parker, Laura M Vardoulakis, Christina Harrington2026Source ↗
RAG Without the Lag: Enabling "What-If" Analysis for Retrieval-Augmented Generation PipelinesQuentin Romero Lauro, Shreya Shankar, Sepanta Zeighami et al.2026Source ↗
Reacquainting with Everyday Urban Nature: Exploring Natural Soundscape Restoration with Personal Audio ARYu Chen, Yu-Cheng Chang, Yu Lun Hsu et al.2026Source ↗
Scene2Hap: Generating Scene-Wide Haptics for VR from Scene Context with Multimodal LLMsArata Jingu, Easa AliAbbasi, Sara Safaee et al.2026Source ↗
Sensemaking in User-Driven Algorithm Auditing: A Case Study on Gender Bias in an Image Captioning ModelBehnoosh Mohammadzadeh, Jules Françoise, michele gouiffes et al.2026Source ↗
Sex after Cancer: Co-Designing Bespoke Care Technologies for Post-Cancer BodiesCéline Offerman, Francesca Maria Mauri, Alessandro Bozzon et al.2026Source ↗
Small Talk, Big Impact? LLM-based Conversational Agents to Mitigate Passive Fatigue in Conditional Automated DrivingLewis Cockram, Yueteng Yu, Jorge Pardo et al.2026Source ↗
Sound2Hap: Learning Audio-to-Vibrotactile Haptic Generation from Human RatingsYinan Li, Hasti Seifi2026Source ↗
Starting From Scratch Again and Again: Tracing the Origins of High Schoolers' Negative Perceptions of Block-Based ProgrammingCaryn Tran, Kristin Fasiang, Max Kanwal et al.2026Source ↗
Stress Mindset Matters: Rethinking Mental Stress Detection with Multimodal Wearable SensorsLakmal Meegahapola, Marios Constantinides, Zoran Radivojevic et al.2026Source ↗
The Words That Can't Be Shared: Exploring the Design of Unsent MessagesMichael Yin, Robert Xiao2026Source ↗
ThreeTopo: Focused Interactive Navigation for Multi-Pitch Rock ClimbingBen Pearman, Kurtis Danyluk, Wesley Willett2026Source ↗
Touching Emotions, Smelling Shapes: Exploring Tactile, Olfactory and Emotional Cross-sensory Correspondences in Preschool-aged ChildrenTegan Joy Roberts-Morgan, Min Susan Li, Priscilla Y. Lo et al.2026Source ↗
Towards Fluent Interaction with Cyber-Physical ArchitectureJesse T Gonzalez, Neeta M Khanuja, Michael Mingxuan Li et al.2026Source ↗
Trauma-Informed Digital Evidence Collection: A Design Inquiry into Evidence Practices for Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Partner ViolenceSophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Kyle Huang et al.2026Source ↗
Unit-Less Measurements with StoryStick++: Rethinking Measurement as Interactive ProcessesStig Konings, Maties Claesen, Danny Leen et al.2026Source ↗
When Plants Play: Rethinking Plant Materiality in Digital GamesYoonji Lee, Chang Hee Lee2026Source ↗
When Scaffolding Breaks: Investigating Student Interaction with LLM-Based Writing Support in Real-Time K-12 EFL ClassroomsJunho Myung, Hyunseung Lim, Hana Oh et al.2026Source ↗
When Workout Buddies Are Virtual: AI Agents and Human Peers in a Longitudinal Physical Activity StudyAlessandro Silacci, Mauro Cherubini, Arianna Boldi et al.2026Source ↗
Who Controls the Conversation? User Perspectives On Generative AI (LLM) System PromptsAnna Neumann, Yulu Pi, Jatinder Singh2026Source ↗
With Visual Integrity and Care: A Framework for Mixed Methods Research on Visual Social DataNina Lutz, Joseph S. Schafer, Priya Dhawka et al.2026Source ↗
Writing with AI Can Reduce Gender Bias in Hiring EvaluationsAlicia T.H. Liu, Mina Lee, Xuechunzi Bai2026Source ↗
iTagPDF: Towards Finally Automating PDF AccessibilityPeya Mowar, Aaron Steinfeld, Jeffrey P Bigham2026Source ↗
µCap: Instrumental Music Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing IndividualsSooYeon Ahn, In-Chang Baek, KyungJoong Kim et al.2026Source ↗
About this award
Best paper awards of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, given to roughly the top 1 percent of submissions.
The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Apr); it changes when ACM SIGCHI announces one.
62 papers named in the 2026 edition.
Now tracked: Best paper awards of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, given to roughly the top 1 percent of submissions.