Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote

AlanYx 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's been a while since I've followed CHI, but didn't it used to be a slightly more technical conference? The second paper in particular ("It Didn’t Feel Right but I Needed a Job so Desperately’: Understanding People’s Emotions and Help Needs During Scams") seems like something that might be more appropriate for a sociology or applied psych journal.

Has it become more of a social-sciences adjacent tech research conference these days? (I'm not being critical, just curious.)

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emil-lp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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		TLDR 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.

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ktallett 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So many papers from conferences like these fascinate me. Of course you get those who are clearly doing research that was easier to get funding for but then you get questions like these where people obviously have some interesting viewpoints on the world.

Computing within limits is another conference that I'm often reading all the papers for whilst being in awe.