Cockney CHI 2026 is a gathering for London-based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers and practitioners, ahead of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Barcelona, Spain.
Building on the success of previous pre-CHI event at UCL Interaction Centre in 2024 and King’s College in 2025, we aim to strengthen connections within the London HCI community, provide a supportive environment for rehearsing CHI talks, and offer a ‘slice of CHI’ to those who may not be able to attend the full conference.
Join us for a day of insightful presentations, networking opportunities, and a chance to experience the excitement of CHI in London!
Cockney CHI 2026 is kindly hosted by the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. It is also the first official event of the London ACM SIGCHI Chapter, which will hold an inaugural townhall during the event to present itself to the community.
Registration
Regular registration is now closed.
You can register for the waiting list if people cancel their registration. Available spaces will be released in order of waitlisting on Friday 20 March.
Agenda
9:30-10:00 Registration and mingle
10:00-10:15 Introduction and housekeeping
10:15-11:15 Papers I (Moderator: Tao Bi)
- Understanding Workplace Relatedness Support among Healthcare Professionals: A Four-Layer Model and Implications for Technology Design (Zheyuan Zhang, Dorian Peters, Lan Xiao, Jingjing Sun, Laura Moradbakhti, Andrew Hall, Rafael A. Calvo)
- Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings (Matthew Davison and Andrew McPherson)
- MIRAGE: Enabling Real-Time Automotive Mediated Reality (Pascal Jansen, Julian Britten, Mark Colley, Markus Sasalovici, and Enrico Rukzio)
- The RepairBot Framework: Touch-Aware Conversational Agent for Hands on Clothes Repair (Yifu Liu, Tao Bi, Chuang Yu, Lucie F Hernandez, Bruna Beatriz, Petreca Minna Nygren, Sharon Baurley, Youngjun Cho, Nadia Berthouze)
11:15-11:45 Coffee break & posters
- Tear-able to Wearable’: Exploring End-of-Life Pathways for E-Textiles (Maya Thabal Herron, Magdalena Kohler, Tommaso Nieri, Daniele Spinelli, Ilaria Canesi, Sora Kutz, Berit Greinke, Rebeca Stewart)
- SAGE: Sensor-Augmented Grounding Engine for LLM-Powered Sleep Care Agent (Hansoo Lee, Yoonjae Cho, Sonya S. Kwak, Rafael A. Calvo)
- Glanceable Verification Indicators for AI-Assisted Storytelling (Muhan Xu, Ziwei Zhao, Junyi Zeng, Tianhong Wang, Francesca Panetta, Rebecca Fiebrink, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Mick Grierson)
- Conversational Agents as Relational Mediations for GLAM: A Design Framework (Tianxiao Wang, Sebastian Deterding)
- GenAI-augmented Group Awareness Tools for Supporting Socially Shared Metacognition (Yihang Zhao, Wenxin Zhang, Advait Sarkar, Amy Rechkemmer, Albert Meroño Peñuela, Elena Simperl)
- RunMe: An Adaptive Sound System for Running Meditation (Peng Tan, Xiaofei Zhu, Tao Bi, Xiangshi Ren)
11:45-12:45 Papers II (Moderator: Qingjue Wu)
- Designing Movement Generation Models in Collaboration With Voguing And Dancehall Dancers Léo Chédin, Jules Françoise, Baptiste Caramiaux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui
- From Breakups to Lethargy: Player Accounts of Third Variables Affecting Video Game Playtime and Wellbeing Nick Ballou, Tamás Földes, Thomas Hakman, Andrew Przybylski
- KNIT: Computational Boundary Objects for Real-Time Convergence in Interdisciplinary Teams Echo (Chuqiao) Wan, Carrie Yin, Akira Ito, Ziwei Gao, Jasper Jia, Yuki Taoka, Shigeki Saito, Malak Sadek, and Céline Mougenot
- Navigating Financial Lives: How Autistic Adults Adapt Financial Technologies, Tools and Strategies Helena Lyhme, Belén Barros Pena, Stephanie Wilson
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 London ACM SIGCHI chapter town hall
14:30-15:15 Papers III (Moderator: Qingjue Wu)
- Holding MenstaRay: Expressing Menstrual Pain through Tactile and Knitted Soft Robotic Interactions (Yixun Li, Mingke Wang, Imogen Young, Rebecca Stewart, Bettina Nissen)
- Beyond the Manual: Mapping Peer-Generated Content about Wheelchair Care and Adaptation on YouTube (Wen Mo, Aneesha Singh, Lan Xiao, Catherine Holloway)
- “Computer Says No”: Disabled Welfare Experiences and Envisioned Futures Under AI Governance (Humphrey Curtis, Adam Jenkins, Alistair Gentry, Sioban Zacharek, Sally McVicker, Timothy Neate, Filip Bircanin)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:30 Papers IV (Moderator: Matt Davison)
- Experiences of user-centred design with agile development for clinically supported self-management of long COVID (Ann Blandford, Julia Bindman, Katherine Bradbury, Belinda Cooper, Enrico Costanza, Sandra Edwards, Fiona Hamilton, Melissa Heightman, John R Hurst, Hannah Hylton, Stuart Linke, Paul Pfeffer, William Ricketts, Chris Robson, Fiona Stevenson, David Sunkersing, Jonathan Waywell, Henry Goodfellow)
- The People’s Gaze: Co-Designing and Refining Gaze Gestures with Users and Experts (Yaxiong Lei, Xinya Gong, Shijing He, Yafei Wang, Mohamed Khamis, Juan Ye)
- From Participation to Relational Engagement: Psychological Ownership in Digital Petitions (David Sarlos, Weston Baxter)
16:30-16:45 Closing out
17:15 Mingling at The Queen’s Arms (30 Queen’s Gate Mews, South Kensington, London SW7 5QL)
Getting here
Please enter through the main entrance at Imperial College Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DB. (The building also has a side entrance on Exhibition Rd, but this is not accessible). Signs will guide you to the registration desk in the Fusion 54 Café.