April 2026
The User Empowerment Lab is heading to Barcelona for the ACM CHI 2026 conference. Daisy Chen will be presenting new work on Engagement-Prolonging Designs and Chris Fu will be presenting new work on using AI in the design process. Lab members are also contributors on several other papers. Past and current lab members will be attending the
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Proceedings of the 44th annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026).
Acceptance rate: 25%.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026).
Acceptance rate: 25%.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026).
Acceptance rate: 25%.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026).
Acceptance rate: 25%.
Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections
Decoupling of Usefulness and Novelty: Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Design Outputs and Designers' Creative Thinking
The Engagement-Prolonging Designs Teens Encounter on Very Large Online Platforms
Quantifying the Novelty Bias when Evaluating Interactive Prototypes
Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)