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CHI 2025 roundup: HCIL Researchers Showcase Research & Win Awards at CHI 2025

UMD HCIL Members - May 9, 2025

UMD's HCIL continues to lead at CHI 2025 with 45 contributors and four award-winning papers

Some of the HCIL members who attended CHI pose for a group photo.

Some of the HCIL members who attended CHI pose for a group photo.

The HCIL had another excellent showing at this year’s ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), which was held April 26-May 1, 2025 in Yokohama Japan.

This year, 45(!) faculty and students were authors/organizers on papers, SIGs, workshops, panels, interactivity, Alt CHI, Late Breaking Work, and the doctoral consortium. Notably, 20 papers included HCIL members as authors and four papers were honored with a best paper or honorable mention award. Congratulations to all those who participated in CHI 2025!

Below, we list paper titles, links to the paper in the ACM digital library, and submission authors. UMD authors are bolded.

Papers

BEST PAPER: FluidTrack: Investigating Child-Parent Collaborative Tracking for Pediatric Voiding Dysfunction Management: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713878

BEST PAPER: Tracking and its Potential for Older Adults with Memory Concerns: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714093

HONORABLE MENTION: PCB Renewal: Iterative Reuse of PCB Substrates for Sustainable Electronic Making: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714276

HONORABLE MENTION: Why So Serious? Exploring Timely Humorous Comments in AAC Through AI-Powered Interfaces: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714102

Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714112

Comparing Native and Non-native English Speakers’ Behaviors in Collaborative Writing through Visual Analytics: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713693

Children using Tabletop Telepresence Robots for Collaboration: A Longitudinal Case Study of Hybrid and Online Intergenerational Participatory Design: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713746

Conversation Progress Guide : UI System for Enhancing Self-Efficacy in Conversational AI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714222

Datamancer: Bimanual Gesture Interaction in Multi-Display Ubiquitous Analytics Environments: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713123

FormA11y – Research and Development of a Tool for Remediating PDF Forms for Accessibility: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3702317

Hapticus: Exploring the Effects of Haptic Feedback and its Customization on Motor Skill Learning: Tactile, Haptic, and Somatosensory Approaches: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713821

Make Making Sustainable: Exploring Sustainability Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities in Making Activities: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713665

NeuResonance: Exploring Feedback Experiences for Fostering the Inter-brain Synchronization: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713872

Seeing Through the Overlap: The Impact of Color and Opacity on Depth Order Perception in Visualization: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714070

Surfacing Technology Routines While Studying Videoconferencing Among Older Adults with Cognitive Concerns: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714207

Sustaining Human Agency, Attending to Its Cost: An Investigation into Generative AI Design for Non-Native Speakers’ Language Use: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713626

The News Says, the Bot Says: How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News Reading: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714050

Understanding Older Adults’ (Dis)Engagement with Design Materials: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713846

What-if Analysis for Business Professionals: Current Practices and Future Opportunities: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713672

XCam: Mixed-Initiative Virtual Cinematography for Live Production of Virtual Reality Experiences: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713305

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Conducting Ethical Research on Emerging Technologies for Children: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3716397

Workshops

Emerging Practices in Participatory AI Design in Public Sector Innovation: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3706727

Panels

The Churns and Turns of HCI: Which CHI Papers Make the Most Impact in an Ever-growing Sea of HCI Publications: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3716285

Interactivity

Demonstrating Hapticus: Exploring the Effects of Haptic Feedback and its Customization on Motor Skill Learning: Tactile, Haptic, and Somatosensory Approaches: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3721279

Demonstrating NeuResonance: Inter-brain Synchronization and Feedback Modalities in Collaboration: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3721276

Why So Serious? Exploring Timely Humorous Comments in AAC Through AI-Powered Interfaces: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714102

Alt CHI

Musings on the Brutality of Email: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3716233

Unlimited Editions: Documenting Human Style in AI Art Generation: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3716214

Late-Breaking Work

Unpacking Negative Feelings and Perceptual Gaps About Social Interactions with Conversational AI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3719975

Who Helps the Helpers?: Complications and Considerations for ICT Instructors Teaching Older Adults: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3720257

Doctoral Consortium

Designing AI-Based Language Tools for Non-Native Speakers’ Language Use and Development: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3721094

The original article was written by HCIL Members and published by the UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab on May 9, 2025.