The UE Lab at CHI 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 Bridge Over Troubled Water workshop on dark patterns.

Alexis Hiniker, Daisy Chen, Chris Fu, Longjie Guo

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Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections

Claire Mitchell, Junhan Kong, Jesse Martinez, Shaun Kane, Amy Ko, Alexis Hiniker, Jacob Wobbrock

Proceedings of the 44th annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). Acceptance rate: 25%.

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Decoupling of Usefulness and Novelty: Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Design Outputs and Designers' Creative Thinking

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Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). Acceptance rate: 25%.

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The Engagement-Prolonging Designs Teens Encounter on Very Large Online Platforms

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Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). Acceptance rate: 25%.

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Quantifying the Novelty Bias when Evaluating Interactive Prototypes

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Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). Acceptance rate: 25%.

Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)

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