HCII2026 Student Design Competition: Video Presentations

In the context of the HCII2026 Student Design Competition, the following video submissions have been accepted for presentation, as a series of rolling video presentations, during the Conference.

Accepted video clip submissions are being evaluated by a nine-member international committee acting as the jury to select the three award winners.

The awards will be announced and conferred during the Opening Plenary Session of the Conference on Tuesday, 28 July, 18:00 - 20:00 EDT (Montreal, Canada).

All accepted video submissions, together with a short abstract, will be accessible to all registered Conference participants through the Whova platform, under the Student Design Competition section of the Poster area, for the entire six-day period of the Conference, from Sunday, 26 July to Friday, 31 July.
Conference participants will be able to pose their questions to presenters using all the communication channels available through the platform (chat, email etc).

Furthermore, all accepted video submissions will be repeatedly presented for the entire duration of the main Conference (Wednesday, 29 July, 10:00 to Friday, 31 July, 16:00) in the Exhibition/Posters/Coffee Break Area. Authors are welcome to attend the rolling video presentations during the above days and times in order to meet interested Conference participants and discuss the work presented in their video clip.

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Clover Tag: Tangible Content Access for Eoreusin Care
Jihye Kang, Bogyum Kim, Jeongmin Seo, Yumin Shin, ShinYoung Lee, Korea
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Wuyin Harmony
Zhuoyue Xu, Canada; Diwen Liu, Zixuan Mei, P.R. China
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AssisTech SmartShower — A Voice-Activated Assistive System for Independent Bathing
Sasha Ovalle, United States
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From Needs to Design: Bridging Intimate Gaps with LLM-Augmented Nonviolent Communication
Xingyi Chen, P.R. China
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You Can Grow Here: A Therapeutic VR Journey for Anxiety Management
Khin Yuupar Myat, Cindy Nakhammouane, Hope Jo, Gaeun Lee, United States
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UniStroke: A Parallel Evolution System for Cultural Growth
Xingyi Chen, P.R. China
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ALLÉGO
Lea Guimond, Camille Glissant, Catherine Buteau, Guan Legault-Violette, Canada
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Forest Defenders
Pavan K Kannan, Nefthali Arizmendi, Semih Kesler, United States
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Invisible Cartographer: Revealing Spatial Representation Bias through Interactive Urban Mapping
Huxi Guan, P.R. China
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HESSE
Seok Young Hwang, Dongwoon Lee, Juseong Kim, Wooseok Noh, Sanghun Song, Seonghyeok Shin, Eunkyeol Ko, Korea
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From Body to Mind: Embodied Asymmetric VR Dyadic Game Training for Empathy and Perspective-Taking in Autistic Children
Yu-Pin Weng, Zi-Yu Chen, I-Jui Lee, Taiwan
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Birdy
Seongsu Choi, Jungmin Kim, Seonghyeok Shin, Jaehoon Cha, Songah Seo, Juseong Kim, Kyeongmin Ha, Korea
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MürMur: A Space Where Performance Anxiety Isn’t Carried Alone Anymore
Maelanne Armstrong, Alexane Charbonneau, Emilie Goupil-Nantel, Canada
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Geometry Explorer Glasses
Shahd Aljayar, Leen Mardini, Muhammad Saad Farooq, Saudi Arabia
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VOID: Towards developing a natural locomotion method for virtual reality
Joel S Varghese, Canada
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Rémi: A Personalized Companion Guiding the Caregiving Journey
Myriam Couture, Jerome Dorion, Sophie Laroche, Canada
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Journey to Care: A Card-Deck Toolkit for Co-designing Inclusive Health Services for International Students
Enyi Zhu, Australia; Xingyu Xiao, P.R. China; Xinye Wang, Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele, Yidan Cao, Australia
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MedAI — An AI-Based Mobile App for Symptom Analysis
Ivan Li, Andrew Wu, United States
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EchoMemo: An Autonomous AI Digital Persona Device
Xin Yu Wang, YI PING TSOU, Cheng Jiue Tsai, Chenwei Chiang, Taiwan
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DockTales: Empathic and Reflective mHealth Design for Chronic Pain and Sleep Disturbance
Giancarlo Colloca, Anna Han, Jeba Rezwana, Yang Wang, United States
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AURA: An Anti-Fraud Assistant for Older Adults
Juliette St-Pierre, Maxime Gagnon, Wilyam Aubut Labonte, Eiji-Antoine Martin-Bessho, Canada
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Baasera: Haptic Feedback Navigation and Assistive Intelligence System for Visually Impaired Users
Eyad Shady, Aljwharah K Basfar, Saudi Arabia
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HumanCheck Lab: Behaviour-Based Human Verification for the Modern Web by Kene Eyisi
Kenechukwu Christian Eyisi, United Kingdom
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HugMatch Blocks
Chloe Koo, United States
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Exoplanet Explorer: An Open-Source Educational Video Game for Teaching Human–Autonomy Teaming
Benjamin R. Berton, Robin Kevorkian, Canada
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Brantford Bus Kiosk: Bridging the Digital Divide
Yash Goswami, Jieying Chen, Swarali P Gogate, Congxi Dong, Zhesheng Teng, Canada
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Guardians of Luminara: A Narrative-Driven Reading Comprehension Game for Middle Schoolers
Noynica Ahuja, Sayli Pednekar, Meera Bharat, United States
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Cities as Interfaces: Designing Interactive Cultural Memory in Urban Environments
Yun Han Wah, Malaysia
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Gait-Starter : Making Gait Initiation Visible for People with Parkinson’s Disease
Kyeongmin Ha, Jaesuk Jang, Yonggeun Kil, Seorim Park, Korea
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Invisible Control
Hanna Zheng, United States
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FLIDIS: Flight Deck Interaction Simulator
Charles Njoku, United Kingdom
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Tvara: Improving Medicine Traceability and Recall in India’s Rural Public Healthcare
Srishti Kulkarni, India
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Beyond the Stop- A proprioceptive brace for knee hyperextension
Firas Abu Sada, Malik Abu Shah, Adi Katar, Ibrahem Zriene, Naama Agassi, Hadas Chassidim, Israel