March 23, 2026
Papers, presentations, and workshops from CREATE researchers at CHI 2026, the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. We appreciate your patience as we continue to update this page.
Congratulations to CREATE associate director Jon E. Froehlich, who will be honored with a Societal Impact Award at the 2026 SIGCHI Conference in Barcelona!
Papers
Ability heuristics for conducting accessibility inspections
Claire Mitchell, Judy Kong (Ph.D. student), Jesse Martinez (Ph.D. student), Sean Kane (Ph.D. graduate and CREATE advisory council member), Amy Ko (faculty member), Alexis Hiniker, and Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director)
Artists on a Decade of AI Evolution: An Interview Study of Affordances, Culture, and Artistic Practice with Machine Learning
Téo Sanchez, Hochschule München, Mariya Dzhimova, Stacy Hsueh (former CREATE postdoctoral researcher), Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Vaynee Sungeelee, and Baptiste Caramiaux
GeoVisA11y: An AI-based Geovisualization Question-Answering System for Screen-Reader Users
Chu Li (Ph.D. student), Rock Yuren Pang (Ph.D. student ), Arnavi Chheda-Kothary (Ph.D. student), Ather Sharif (CREATE Ph.D. graduate), Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer.
Best Paper
“I Don’t Trust it, but I Use it”: Navigating Trust, Privacy, and Identity in Disabled People’s Use of Generative AI
Jazette Johnson (postdoctoral researcher), Aaleyah Lewis (Ph.D. student), Jennifer Mankoff (Director of CREATE), Olivia Banner (CREATE Director of Strategy and Operations)
Interface Support for Evaluating Disability Bias in AI Generated Images
Kelly Avery Mack (Ph.D. graduate), Lucy Jiang (Ph.D. student), Lotus Zhang (Ph.D. student), Leah Findlater (CREATE associate director)
Like, Comment & Caption: A Decade of Social Media Video Caption Research (2015–2025)
Huong Nguyen, Emma J McDonnell (Ph.D. graduate), Lloyd May, Alexander Druzenko, Zoobia Saifullah Syeda, Mark Cartwright, Sooyeon Lee
Honorable Mention
Nonvisual Support for Understanding and Reasoning about Data Structures
Brianna L Wimer, Ritesh Kanchi, Kaija Frierson, Venkatesh Potluri (Ph.D. graduate), Ronald Metoyer, Jennifer Mankoff (Director of CREATE), Miya Natsuhara, and Matt Wang
TaskAudit: Detecting functiona11ity errors in mobile apps via agentic task execution
Mingyuan Zhong (Ph.D. student), Chen, X., Kyi, D.W., Li, C., James Fogarty (CREATE associate director), and Jacob O. Wobbrock (CREATE associate director)
Posters
Access to Interpretation: How Formal Cues Ground Interpretive Alt Text for Paintings
Vera L. Zhong, Lucy Jiang (Ph.D. student), Kathryn E. Ringland
AutismCarebot: Emotion-First, Source-Aware Conversational Support for Autistic Users
Shristi Srivastava, Annuska Zolyomi (CREATE associate director), Dong Si