IDI Researchers at 2026 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

For many of our PhD students this was their first experience of attending and presenting at CHI, for some CHI veterans it was an opportunity to reconnect with former colleagues and IDI alumni. Researchers from IDI were involved in a remarkable 22 full paper submissions, including work tracing the adoption of generative AI by artists, to prototypes of novel decentralized attribution systems, to empirical studies of the relations between religion and misinformation on social media, to systematic reviews of the concept of care in the HCI community – and more! The scale and diversity of this works demonstrates the leading role the IDI play in human-centred, critical and design-led research into the technologies shaping our everyday lives. IDI researchers were also involved in running workshops and meet-ups, as well as presenting posters of work-in-progress during interactive sessions.