CHI is the flagship conference of ACM SIGCHI, the premier international society for professionals, academics and students who are interested in technology and human-computer interaction. The DIS group’s contributions this year span a wide range of interactive technologies, including one full paper, two posters, three meetups, and participation in the Student Mentoring Program.
Strengthening the Dutch HCI Community
Beyond presenting research, DIS continues to play a pivotal leadership role within CHI Nederland (CHI NL), the organization dedicated to connecting and supporting the HCI community in the Netherlands. DIS will continue its involvement from recent years:
- Abdallah El Ali (CWI Research Scientist) continues his tenure as Chair of CHI NL, a position he has held since 2024. For CHI 2026, he is also serving as the conference Workshops Co-chair.
- Pablo Cesar (DIS Group Leader) maintains his strategic role within LobbyCHI, focusing on HCI research advocacy in the Netherlands. At this year's conference, he serves as the Technical Program Co-Chair.
CHI NL remains highly active following the success of the HCI track at ICT.OPEN 2025, the annual CHI NL 2025 Community Event (10 April 2025 in Enschede) and the CHIWORK 2025 symposium hosted at CWI. During the conference in Barcelona, CHI NL will contribute to CHI 2026 and will co-organize the Dutch CHI Social Event on 16 April, fostering networking among Dutch researchers and international peers.
Overview of DIS Contributions at CHI 2026
Full Paper
- More Human or More AI? Visualizing Human-AI Collaboration Disclosures in Journalistic News Production .
- Authors: Amber Kusters, Pooja Prajod, Pablo Cesar, and Abdallah El Ali.
- In: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 22 pages.
- Read the Proceedings.
Posters
- Seeing the Reasoning: How LLM Rationales Influence User Trust and Decision-Making in Factual Verification Tasks.
- Authors: Xin Sun, Shu Wei, Jos A Bosch, Isao Echizen, Saku Sugawara, and Abdallah El Ali.
- In: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages.
- Read the extended abstract.
- Is it Me? Toward Self-Extension to AI Avatars in Virtual Reality.
- Authors: Jieying Zhang, Steeven Villa, and Abdallah El Ali.
- In: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.
- Read the extended abstract.
Student Mentoring Program
- Designing Virtual Reality Environments for Sociality
- Author: Sueyoon Lee
- In: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages.
- Read the extended abstract.
Meet-Ups
The DIS group is co-organizing several interactive sessions focusing on the future of the field:
- PhysioCHI: Lessons on human-centered physiological computing. Kathrin Schnizer, Teodora Mitrevska, Benjamin Tag, Abdallah El Ali, and Sven Mayer.
- In: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.
- Read more on the website or read the extended abstract.
- Multi-sensory Dark Patterns (Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj, Donald Degraen, Abdallah El Ali, Jan Gugenheimer, Gijs Huisman, Veronika Krauß, Christina Schneegass, and Steeven Villa; 2026).
- In: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.
- Read more on the website or read the extended abstract.
- Disability, Differences, and Diversity: Revisiting Inclusive Design and Access (Himanshu Verma, Giulia Barbareschi, Sophia Ppali, Kathrin Gerling, Maartje De Meulder, Judith Good, Jatinder Singh, Katta Spiel, Abdallah El Ali, Marios Constantinides, Maristella Matera, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hamed Alavi, Pablo Cesar, and Alessandro Bozzon. 2026).
- In: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages.
- Read the extended abstract
