Every year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) holds the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference, the premier international conference in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. The 2025 conference will take place in Yokohama, Japan, starting on April 26th.
Informatics faculty Daniel Epstein served as Subcommittee Chair for Health, and Elena Agapie and Stephen Schueller served as Associate Chairs for Understanding People and Health.
Informatics students, postdocs, and faculty contributed to 22 full papers and journal articles which will be presented at the conference, including 4 recipients of Honorable Mention Awards. Informatics affiliates are in bold.
- “It’s a spectrum”: Exploring Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness in Software Development Processes and Tools by Novia Wong, Nai-Yu Cheng, Bruna Oewel, Katherine E. Genuario, Sarah Elizabeth Stoeckl, Stephen M. Schueller, Iftekhar Ahmed, André van der Hoek, and Madhu Reddy (Honorable Mention Award Recipient)
- Learning Curiosity through Play: Exploring the Role of Games and Interactive Design in Museums by Thomas D. Grace, Christie Abel, and Katie Salen (Honorable Mention Award Recipient)
- The Dilemma of Building Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Solutions For Workplace Accessibility by Yoonha Cha, Victoria Jackson, Karina Kohl, Rafael Prikladnicki, André van der Hoek, and Stacy M. Branham (Honorable Mention Award Recipient)
- Understanding Temporality of Reflection in Personal Informatics through Baby Tracking by Julianne Louie, Tara Mukund, Chau Vu, Daniel A. Epstein, Alexandra Papoutsaki (Honorable Mention Award Recipient)
- “As an Autistic Person Myself”: The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs by Sohyeon Park, Aehong Min, Jesus Armando Beltran, and Gillian R Hayes
- A House Divided: How U.S. Politics Could Shape Contact-Tracing Adoption in Future Pandemics by Garrett Smith, Kirsten Chapman, Tzu-Yu Weng, Haijing Hao, Mainack Mondal, Staci Smith, Yunan Chen, and Xinru Page
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Research on Goals for Behavior Change by Jun Zhu, Sruzan Lolla, Meeshu Agnihotri, Sahar Asgari Tappeh, Lala Guluzade, Elena Agapie, and Corina Sas
- Briteller: Shining a Light on AI Recommendations for Children by Xiaofei Zhou, Yi Zhang, Yufei Jiang, Yunfan Gong, Chi Zhang, Alissa N. Antle, and Zhen Bai
- Designing Conversational AI for Aging: A Systematic Review of Older Adults’ Perceptions and Needs by Yuanhui Huang, Quan Zhou, and Anne Marie Piper
- Everyday Uncertainty: How Blind People Use GenAI Tools for Information Access by Xinru Tang, Ali Abdolrahmani, Darren Gergle, and Anne Marie Piper
- Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling by Lucas M. Silva, Xi Lu, Emily Liang, and Daniel A. Epstein
- Healing Through Stories: Co-designing Digital Mental Health with Asian Americans by Justine Bautista, Novia Wong, Madhu Reddy, and Stephen M. Schueller
- Meditating Together: Practices, Benefits and Challenges of Meditation on Social Virtual Reality by Lika Haizhou Liu, Xi Lu, Pei-Chun Chiang, Daniel A. Epstein, and Kurt Squire
- Organize, Then Vote: Exploring Cognitive Load in Quadratic Survey Interfaces by Ti-Chung Cheng, Yutong Zhang, Yi-Hung Chou, Vinay Koshy, Tiffany Wenting Li, Karrie Karahalios, and Hari Sundaram
- Preparing and Experiencing Food During Life Events: Implications for Technology Supporting Social and Value Changes by Seung Wan Ha, Novia Nurain, Elena Agapie, and Chia-Fang Chung
- Social by Nature: How Socio-tecture Shapes the Work of SMBs and Considerations for Reimagining Collaborative Human-AI Systems by Elizabeth Ankrah, Kagonya Awori, Stephanie Nyairo, Mercy Muchai, Millicent Ochieng, Mark Kariuki, Gillian R. Hayes, and Jacki O’Neill
- Towards Clinically Useful AI: From Radiology Practices in Global South and North to Visions of AI Support by Hubert Dariusz Zając, Tariq Osman Andersen, Elijah Kwasa, Ruth Wanjohi, Mary Kerubo Onyinkwa, Edward Kamau Mwaniki, Samuel Nguku Gitau, Shawnim Shakir Yaseen, Jonathan Frederik Carlsen, Marco Fraccaro, Michael Bachmann Nielsen, and Yunan Chen
- Understanding Adolescents’ Perceptions of Benefits and Risks in Health AI Technologies through Design Fiction by Jamie Lee, Kyuha Jung, Erin Gregg Newman, Emilie Chow, and Yunan Chen
- Understanding Mental Wellbeing and Tools for Support with Taiwanese Emerging Adults: An Eastern Cultural Perspective by Nai-Yu Cheng, Novia Wong, and Madhu Reddy
- Understanding Public Agencies’ Expectations and Realities of AI-Driven Chatbots for Public Health Monitoring by Eunkyung Jo, Young-Ho Kim, Sang-Houn Ok, and Daniel A. Epstein
- What’s In Your Kit? Mental Health Technology Kits for Depression Self-Management by Eleanor R. Burgess, Sean A. Munson, David C. Mohr, and Madhu Reddy
- Wording Matters: The Effect of Linguistic Characteristics and Political Ideology on Resharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Tweets by Judith Willemijn Borghouts, Yicong Huang, Suellen Hopfer, Chen Li, and Gloria Mark
Informatics affiliates are also involved in works presented in a variety of other tracks at the conference.
- Case Study: Centering Black Voices: Lessons Learned and Reflections from a Large-Scale AAVE Data Collection at a Historically Black University by Jazette Johnson, Lucretia Williams, Jaye Nias, Saurav K. Aryal, and Gloria Washington
- Case Study: Generative Dreams: Rethinking GenAI Design Through a Community-based Approach with Recently Incarcerated, Gang Affiliated, and At-risk Young Adults at a Trauma Informed Arts Center by Richard Martinez, Mark Van Hollebeke, Kurt Squire, Tong Wu, and Marco Zamarato
- Late-Breaking Work: Adopting Backward Design into a Constructionist Curriculum Design for IoT Skill Development in High Schoolers by Ananya Ipsita, Terrell Kendall Glenn, Disha Ajay Bhagwat, Nielsen Pereira, Kylie A. Peppler, and Karthik Ramani
- Late-Breaking Work: The Bureaucratic Challenges of Unified Data: Examining Predictive Policing Technology Design Issues Posed by Federal and State U.S. Criminal Legal System Data Sets by Amelia Roskin-Frazee and Christine Denise Head
- SIG: Beyond Culture: Centering Power, Reciprocity, and Justice in HCI and Mental Health Research by Sachin R. Pendse, Novia Wong, Munmun De Choudhury, Jaydon Farao, Neha Kumar, Nasalifya Namwinga, Giovanni Ramos, Asra Sakeen Wani, Jessica Lee Schleider, and Madhu Reddy
- Workshop: Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health by Ignacio Avellino, Pei-Yi (Patricia) Kuo, Pin Sym Foong, Jason Wiese, Helena M. Mentis, Sean A. Munson, James R. Wallace, Aneesha Singh, Andrew D. Miller, Daniel A. Epstein, and Francisco Nunes
The full CHI 2025 program is available online.