Microsoft at CHI 2026
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
Microsoft Research is proud to be a sponsor of ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (opens in new tab), the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take place in Barcelona at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (opens in new tab).
Societal Impact Award
Microsoft Research is thrilled to announce that Jacki O’Neill is being honored by The Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). They will present Jacki with the Societal Impact Award on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at CHI 2026.
Honorable Mentions
We also celebrate the exceptional work recognized with the Honorable Mentions at CHI 2026. Congratulations to the authors for their groundbreaking contributions and for pushing the boundaries of human-computer interaction.
Building Benchmarks from the Ground Up: Community-Centered Evaluation of LLMs in Healthcare Chatbot Settings
H. Hamna, Gayatri Bhat, Sourabrata Mukherjee, Faisal Lalani, Evan Hadfield, Divya Siddarth, Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram
Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation
Jiachen Li, Amanda K. Hall, Ruican Zhong, Selin S. Everett, Alyssa Unell, Hanwen Xu, Matthias Blondeel, Jonathan M. Carlson, et.al.
Interaction-Augmented Instruction: Modeling the Synergy of Prompts and Interactions in Human-GenAI Collaboration
Leixian Shen, Yifang Wang, Huamin Qu, Xing Xie, Haotian Li
Texterial: A Text-as-Material Interaction Paradigm for LLM-Mediated Writing
Jacky Shen, Nicolai Marquardt, Hugo ROMAT, Ken Hinckley, Nathalie Henry Riche, Fanny Chevalier
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