Poster pitch presentations

  • 2-minute oral presentation per poster on the core idea, motivation, and contribution
  • No Q&A following the pitches; Discussions can continue next to the poster boards
  • 29-31 July, Ballroom 517 ABCD during the refreshment and lunch breaks
Conference time zone:
Eastern Daylight Time - EDT (Montreal, Canada)
Sunday (26 July)
Monday (27 July)
Tuesday (28 July)
Program: 
Last Updated: 26 July 2026, 16:28 EDT
Wednesday, 29 July, 10:00 - 10:30 (EDT - Montreal)
Human-AI Interaction
Room: 517 ABCD
1149
Simple Working Memory and Sustained Attention Associate with High Performance in Human-AI Interaction
Anna-Stiina Wallinheimo, Simon Evans, Elena Davitti [United Kingdom]
1052
Understanding Canadians’ AI Literacy Needs: Toward a Typology for Human-Centered Design
Nelson T Shen, Mary Rose Van Kesteren, Laura Sikstrom, Marta Marslej, Clement Ma, Sheng Cheng, Madison Bettle, Masooma Hassan, Tristan Glatard, SaraLi Forouzanfar [Canada]
1040
Heuristics for AI-in-the-Loop: A Human-Centered Framework for Designing and Evaluating AI Interfaces
Abraham Shaun Kurian, Tania Allen, F. Andrés Téllez, Kelley Wekheye [United States]
1127
Agency vs. Automation: Investigating "Human-in-the-Loop" Preferences in Military-Adjacent AI Adoption
Eoin Sands, Thomas Vaughan-Johnston, Justin Savage, Pete Burnap, Phillip Morgan [United Kingdom]
1833
Shaping Work and Creativity in the Age of AI: Benefits, Challenges, and Design Guidelines
Urvj Banerjee, Koustuv Saha [United States]
1138
Human–AI Collaboration in Resource-Seeking: A Participatory Generative AI Design Study with Rural Foster Parents
Rachel H Rodney [United States]
1904
The Persuasive Power of the Real and the Artificial: An Empirical Study on the Use of GenAI Images in Climate Risk Communication
Tai-Ling Tung, Ching-I Chen [Taiwan]
1032
Analyzing the Effects of Iterative Trial-and-Error and Task Type on User Satisfaction and Output Alignment in Text-to-Image Generative AI
Dain Kim, Jane Lee, Jekyung Choo, Sooyeon Lee, Subin Jeong, Yesel Lee, Heeyoung Kim, Sohyun Park, Myung Hwan Yun [Korea]
1444
Beyond Explainability: What Drives Optometrists’ Trust in AI Glaucoma Screening
Ali Karim, Faisal Ghaffar, Wendy Xu, Nadine Furtado, Catherine Burns [Canada]
1812
From Insights to Impact: AI-Powered ResearchOps System for Sustainable Research Planning and UX Knowledge Management.
Veronica Dogbegah [Canada]
Poster Board: 18.02
1135
Too Easy, Not Funny? Exploring Cognitive Effort in AI-Generated Humor
Mei Si [United States]
Wednesday, 29 July, 12:30 - 13:00 (EDT - Montreal)
Human-Centered Technology Design
Room: 517 ABCD
1109
Social Context in HAI: Towards a Theoretical Framework Based on Multi-Perspectival Imaginaries
Anna L. Menne, Christian Schulz [Germany]
1145
Designing Trustworthy AI Interfaces: The Trustworthy AI UX (TAUX) Framework
Kenechukwu Christian Eyisi [United Kingdom]
1521
Design Considerations for Personalizing Conversational AI for Persons Living with Dementia
Camille Normandin, Amy Hwang, Luisa Pimentel, Lina Marsso, Aline Aboujaoude, Renee-Pier Filiou, Maxime Lussier, Rosalie Wang, Thomas Tannou [Canada]
1329
AI for All? Inclusive Learning Environments with and through AI in Early Primary Education
Anna Plohmer, Sarah Desiree Lange [Germany]
1004
Using Generative AI to Discover Ancient Civilizations
Chencheng Zhang, Sarah Saad, Thomas Palazzolo, Robert Reynolds, John O'Shea, Ashley Lemke, Cailen O'Shea [United States]
Poster Board: 10.02
1638
Robot-assisted Language Learning vs. Teacher-led Instruction in Early Childhood: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong and Singapore
Ka Yan Fung [Hong Kong]
Poster Board: 16.04
1011
Intelligent Analysis Framework for Academic Papers with Local LLM Integration
Xiaoye Huang [P.R. China]; Yan Wu [Canada]
Poster Board: 10.05
1926
Deciphering Divergence: Visualizing Linguistic Ambiguity in Low-Resource Translation Support Systems
Kingston Pal Thamburaj, Mercedes Premalatha Ramesh [Singapore]
Poster Board: 19.04
1827
Improving Usability & Workflow Efficiency in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Software: A Heuristic Evaluation & Prototype Exploration
Seth Y Christensen, Ethan T Hawkes [United States]
1627
OpenET: Converging on Open Standards for Hardware-interfacing and Data-sharing in Eye-tracking
Shreshth Saxena, Lauren Fink [Canada]
Wednesday, 29 July, 13:00 - 13:30 (EDT - Montreal)
Pitch Session III
Room: 517 ABCD
Wednesday, 29 July, 15:30 - 16:00 (EDT - Montreal)
Design, User Experience, and Accessibility
Room: 517 ABCD
1807
Charting Pathways to Success in Fourth Wave HCI: Place-based Methods for Technology Design from Abundant Intelligences
Robert N Marinov, Orus Mateo Castano Suarez, Ceyda Yolgormez [Canada]; Jason Edward Lewis [United States]; Sara L Diamond [Canada]
Poster Board: 18.06
1801
From Self-Report to Situated Behavior: Uncovering Information Evaluation Patterns of Authority-Dependent Users Through System-Mediated Observation
Hyungwoo Song, Jeongha Kim, Minju Kim, Hyunggu Jung [Korea]
Poster Board: 18.03
1846
How Presentation Concreteness Shapes Concept Testing Evaluations: The Role of Assumed Use Contexts
Yusuke Mori, Masaya Ando [Japan]
1402
Specialized Design Heuristics that Optimize Interactions for Older Adults
Yonatan Kelemu Desta, Jerry C Schnepp [United States]
1501
A Comparative Study of Automated Accessibility Checker Tools and Manual Evaluation on Rwanda’s E-Government Portals: Towards a Hybrid Framework for Digital Inclusion
Pauline Uwase, Edith Talina Luhanga [Rwanda]
Poster Board: 15.03
1920
Democratizing Hydrography: UX Practices for Communicating Hydrographic and Bathymetric Information to Non-Experts – A Scoping Review
Elmira Rezaei Sepasi, Sanaz Azimi, Angelique Montuwy, Willian Ney Cassol [Canada]
1930
Do Passkey Explanations Discourage Adoption?
Zainab Husain [Canada]; Eric Spero [New Zealand]; Robert Biddle [Canada]
1506
A Review of Exoskeleton Developments to Meet User Needs
Martin Maguire [United Kingdom]
Poster Board: 15.05
1424
Adaptive Urban Navigation for Older Adults: Integrating Physiological Sensing, Multimodal Guidance, and Real-Time Urban Data
Debbie Watson, Nimish Biloria, Shankar Sankaran [Australia]
1825
Social and Ethical Drivers of Switching Intentions Among Spotify Users
Alicia Morgan, Alan Tsang [Canada]
Thursday, 30 July, 10:00 - 10:30 (EDT - Montreal)
Games and Extended Reality
Room: 517 ABCD
1741
Guardians of Luminara: A Game-Based Approach to Scaffolding Independent Reading Comprehension
Noynica Ahuja, Sayli Pednekar, Meera Bharat, Carrie Bruce [United States]
Poster Board: 17.01
1719
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” A Serious Game for Improving Hurricane Literacy
Kathi Kaiser [United States]
1716
Optimizing Caption Characteristics via a Crowdsourced Caption-Placement Rhythm Game
Takeaki Shionome [Japan]
1707
Language Island - Using Large Language Models to create Serious Games for Language Learning
David A. Plecher [Germany]; James E Pickrell [United States]; Kilian Feser, Melisa Yilmaz, Linfeng Guo, Christian Eichhorn, Johanna Pirker [Germany]
1733
Anshijie: Development of an AR-Based Gamified Intervention System for Children’s Dental Fear (CDF)
Hiutung Hong [Hong Kong]; Ruoxi Lu, Jing Cao [P.R. China]; Choiieng Lai [Macau]; Biwan Cai [P.R. China]
1230
Investigating Spatial Disorientation in VR: A Flight Simulator Integrating Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation
Toru Kurihara, Yuki Ueyama, Masanori Harada [Japan]
1212
From Microsociology to VR Design: A Framework for Integrating Non-Verbal Behavior in Adaptive Systems
Iryna Ignatieva, Birgit Nierula, Karam Tomotaki-Dawoud, Sebastian Bosse [Germany]
1202
Beyond Entertainment: Virtual Reality as a Tool for Engaging Insurance Risk Communication
Felix Scheerer, Verena Pohl, Katrin Angerbauer, Dominik Böhl, Michael Sedlmair [Germany]
Poster Board: 12.05
1226
LOCOMO MR: Visualizing the Carbon Footprint of AI Inference in Mixed Reality
Somang Nam, Joel S Varghese [Canada]; Hyunggu Jung [Korea]; Seilin Uhm [United Kingdom]
1240
Comparing Object Interaction Methods for XR-Based Airport Security Screening Training
Jeonghoon Lee [Korea]
Thursday, 30 July, 12:30 - 13:00 (EDT - Montreal)
Pitch Session VI
Room: 517 ABCD
Thursday, 30 July, 13:00 - 13:30 (EDT - Montreal)
Pitch Session VII
Room: 517 ABCD
Thursday, 30 July, 15:30 - 16:00 (EDT - Montreal)
Intelligent Systems, Digital Twins, and Industrial Applications
Room: 517 ABCD
1635
An Activity-to-Service Traceability Framework for Designing Model-Independent Digital Twin Interfaces
Aleeza Adeel, Mark Apperley [New Zealand]
Poster Board: 16.01
1136
A Decision Support System for Effective Control of High-Quality Sulfur Production Processes under Conditions of Fuzziness
Batyr Orazbayev, Ainur Zhumadillayeva, Kulman Orazbayeva, Ramazan Yessirkessinov [Kazakhstan]
1603
A Preliminary Study of the Optimal Camera Locations for Markerless Motion Capture in Construction Machinery Cabins
Callum John Thornton, Mitsunori Tada, Tsubasa Maruyama [Japan]
1113
An LLM-Based Interview System for Extracting Operational Resilience in Everyday Work: A Field Study in Chemical Plants
Mana Uchida, Miwa Nakanishi [Japan]
1008
AIRIN: An LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Augmenting Human Expertise in IT Service Incident Management
Michal Stromko, Peter Bednar, Kristian Sopkovic, Matus Pleva, Vladimir Banoci [Slovakia]
Poster Board: 10.04
1942
Enhancing IT Service Management Efficiency through Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning of Gemini 2.5 Flash Adapters
Kristian Sopkovic, Daniel Hladek, Matus Pleva, Michal Stromko, Vladimir Banoci [Slovakia]; Artur I. Karoly [Hungary]
Poster Board: 19.07
1623
Exploring LLM-Based Fragment Selection in Video Ethnography of Interactions between Automated Vehicles and Other Road Users
Rutger Verstegen, Pavlo Bazilinskyy, Marieke Martens [Netherlands]
1038
Bridging the Multidisciplinary Gap in Safety-critical Agentic Systems Design
Garrick Cabour, Juliette Regimbal, Anjali Khurana, David G Marino, Jhelum Chakravorty [Canada]
1913
Clothing Classification for Textile Recycling and Evaluation of Dataset Supplementation
Christoph Saad, Tommy Böhm, Tobias Roth, Stefan Geißelsöder [Germany]
Poster Board: 19.02
1921
Bridging the Double Semantic Gap: A Theoretical Framework for AI-Assisted Fashion Design in High-Context Cultures
Aling Lin, I-Chin Kuo [Taiwan]
Friday, 31 July, 10:00 - 10:30 (EDT - Montreal)
Designing Technologies with Societal Impact
Room: 517 ABCD
1831
Translating Ethical Frameworks into User-Centred Anti-Social Behaviour Interventions
Rachel E M Hill, Tom Owen, Julian Hough [United Kingdom]
1328
Digital Basic Education Teacher Training and Self-Reported Digital Competence Profiles in Austria
David Handler, Gerald Geier, Harald Burgsteiner [Austria]
Poster Board: 13.03
1514
A Case Study and Comparative Analysis of Employment-Continuation Support Using Generative AI in Animation Production for the Independence of Adult Neurodivergent Individuals (ADHD) in Japan
Shoko Kimura, Ayaka Fujii, Tomoya Sawada, Ute Sawada, Yuya Miyawaki, Yuji Matsuda [Japan]
Poster Board: 15.02
1422
Pacapaca: A Laptop-Mounted Companion Robot that Uses Social Mirroring and Affective Bonding to Nudge Upright Posture
Yunkyo Cheon, Heejin Kim, Kun Lee, Kyung Yun Choi, Dokshin Lim [Korea]
Poster Board: 14.01
1429
Gait-Starter: A Deployable Obstacle and Visual Biofeedback System to Support Gait Initiation in Parkinson’s Disease
Kyeongmin Ha, Jaesuk Jang, Yonggeun Kil, Seorim Park, Hyunjune Yim, Dokshin Lim [Korea]
Poster Board: 14.02
1516
Balancing Accuracy and Wearability: An Exhaustive Analysis of the Minimum Channel Requirement for sEMG Interfaces
Chengxian Yin, Kazushi Ahara [Japan]
1824
Investigation of a Calibration Method for Reducing Pose Effects on RGB Values in Real Facial Images
Miku Shimizu, Shunya Onuki, Tota Mizuno, Kazuyuki Mito, Naoaki Itakura [Japan]
1620
PawTouch: Pedal-Input-based Real-time Haptic Feedback for Battery-aware Sustainable Driving in Electric Vehicles
Joonhee Lee, Sojin Han, Eunchae Song, ShinYoung Lee, Kyung Yun Choi [Korea]
Poster Board: 16.06
1937
Mobile Application to Measure the Carbon Footprint of Smartphone Use in Mexico
Erika Hernandez-Rubio, Amilcar Meneses-Viveros, Caleb Salomon Bolanos-Ramos, Jose Eduardo Olay-Silis [Mexico]
Poster Board: 19.06
1331
Exploring a Generative Programming Teaching Model for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Integrating Computational Vouchers, Internship Opportunities and Roadshow Mechanisms
Yi Yang, Hao Feng, Beichen Lu, Jiasong Sun [P.R. China]
Friday, 31 July, 12:30 - 13:00 (EDT - Montreal)
Pitch Session X
Room: 517 ABCD
Friday, 31 July, 13:00 - 13:30 (EDT - Montreal)
Pitch Session XI
Room: 517 ABCD
Friday, 31 July, 15:30 - 16:00 (EDT - Montreal)
Pitch Session XII
Room: 517 ABCD

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