The AlpCHI conference will be held from March 1st to 5th, 2026 at the CSF. Owing to its deliberately small and focused format, full participation from Sunday through Thursday is expected. Participants are invited to arrive on Sunday early afternoon in time for a welcome drink in the afternoon. The conference will be opened afterwards with keynotes and will conclude on Thursday, with departures after lunch.
The conference programme will begin each day with scientific talks in the mornings. In the afternoons, there will be a combination of workshops and keynote sessions.
In addition, the programme will include workshops and curated sessions featuring classic and influential papers. We are also open to further contributions.
Keynote Speakers
We are pleased to confirm keynote presentations by:
Yvonne Rogers
University College London
Elisabeth Andrรฉ
Augsburg University
David Kim
Harald Reiterer
University of Konstanz
Programme (tentative)
Sunday
(March 1, 2026)
Arrival
โ Coffee
Balint Hall
15:00 – 15:30
[S1] Conference Opening
Auditorium
15:30 – 16:00
[S1.1] Opening Keynotes
โWhat makes HCI?โ (Yvonne Rogers)
and
“Building Systems in HCIโ (Elisabeth Andrรฉ)
Auditorium
16:00 – 18:00
๐น Welcome Drink
18:30 – 19:00
๐ Dinner
19:00 – 20:00
[S2] Informal Come Together
Talk & connect with the other participants
Balint Hall
20:00 – 21:30
Monday
(March 2, 2026)
โ Coffee Break
Balint Hall
10:30 – 11:00
๐ Lunch
12:00 – 13:00
[S4c]
Guided Tour
โMonte Veritร : Experiments in Art and Lifeโ
13:30 – 15:30
โ Coffee Break
Balint Hall
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 18:00
๐ Dinner
19:00 – 20:00
[S5] Informal Meet & Greet
Networking with early-stage and senior researchers
Balint Hall
20:00 – 21:30
Tuesday
(March 3, 2026)
โ Coffee Break
Balint Hall
10:30 – 11:00
๐ Lunch
12:00 – 13:00
โ Coffee Break
Balint Hall
15:30 – 16:00
[S7a] Keynotes
David Kim
and
Harald Reiterer
Auditorium
16:00 – 18:00
๐ Dinner
19:00 – 20:00
Wednesday
(March 4, 2026)
โ Coffee Break
Balint Hall
10:30 – 11:00
๐ Lunch
12:00 – 13:00
โ Coffee Break
Balint Hall
15:30 – 16:00
๐ฅ Conference Dinner
19:00 – 22:00
Thursday
(March 5, 2026)
โ Coffee Break
Balint Hall
10:30 – 11:00
[S12] Wrap-Up and Closing Session
Auditorium
11:00 – 12:00
๐ Optional Lunch
12:00 – 13:00
Departure
Optional Hike: “AlpCHIke”
TBD
Accepted Works
Papers
๐๏ธ Monday, March 2, 2026
| Presentations | 09:00 – 10:30 | Auditorium |
| Interactive/Posters | 11:15 – 12:00 | Balint Hall |
๐ Extending the Fishing Reel – Improving Multiple Object Selection in VR Using Transparency and a Resizable Pointer
Jonathan Wieland, Samar Abed, Anke Reinschluessel, Johannes Zagermann, Harald Reiterer and Tiare Feuchtner
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780046
๐ Pressing a Sensor Feels Harder Than Pushing a Button: Comparing On-Smart-Ring Clutch Events For Gesture Detection
Lennart Wenke and Katrin Wolf
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780047
๐ Simulating Avatars’ Stamina in Virtual Reality through Weight-Changing Controllers
Alexander Kalus, Thilo Hohl, Luca Hilbrich, Katrin Wolf and Niels Henze
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780053
๐ Promoting Head Movements Through a Weight-Shifting Helmet
Juan F Olaya Figueroa, David Dann, Alexander Kalus and Katrin Wolf
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780060
๐ TrainCafรฉ: VR Usage on the Go through Virtual Metaphors
Yu Sun, Adrian Pandjaitan and Gero Trรคm
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780062
๐๏ธ Tuesday, March 3, 2026
| Presentations | 09:00 – 10:30 | Auditorium |
| Interactive/Posters | 11:15 – 12:00 | Balint Hall |
๐ DigitalOmmie: Adapting Calm Design from Social Robots to Digital Replicas to Reduce Momentary Anxiety
Selina Giger, Heike Brockmann, Florian Mathis
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780048
๐ Connected Words, Shared Journeys: Understanding the Motivations, Practices, and Experiences of Individual and Collaborative Gratitude Journalling Users
Annika Kaltenhauser, Adrian Preussner, Meike Kocholl and Johannes Schรถning
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780050
๐ Friend or Therapist? A Systematic Literature Review on Chatbots and Mental Health in Young People
Negin Hashmati, Therรฉse Skoog, Mohammad Obaid and Thommy Eriksson
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780052
๐ Are Digital Characters Suitable for Emotion Recognition Tasks? An Evaluation Study Using MetaHumans
Federica Bruno, Razeen Hussain, Manuela Chessa, Guillaume Sacco, Valeria Manera, Maรซl Addoum and Fabio Solari
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780054
๐ Prompting the Future: AI-Guided Episodic Thinking to Support Long-Term Goals
Fiona Verena Feldhus, Josef Mawas, Yi Li and Florian Michahelles
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780058
๐ Breathing Space: Spatial Mapping of Breath and Cardiac Biofeedback for Affective State Representation and Coherence Training in Viscereality
George Fejer, Till Holzapfel, Taru Hirvonen, Anestis Lalidis Mateo, Johannes Blum, Michael Gaebler and Bigna Lenggenhager
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780061
๐๏ธ Wednesday, March 4, 2026
| Presentations | 09:00 – 10:30 | Auditorium |
| Interactive/Posters | 11:15 – 12:00 | Balint Hall |
๐ Wildfire@Home: Personalized Immersive Training for Household Situation Awareness
Tianyi Xiao, Yan Feng, Suvodip Chakraborty, Peter Kiefer, Toups Dugas Phoebe and Martin Raubal
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780049
๐ Exploring peopleโs testing strategies in ML-based image classification
Tรฉo Sanchez, Fani-Marina Kalamara, Simone Stumpf and Baptiste Caramiaux
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780051
๐ A User-Centered Design to Support Trajectory Deviation Visualization
Ilyes Kadri, Simon Ruffieux and Denis Lalanne
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780055
๐ Enough With Trust! Why We Must Move Beyond a Convenient but Insufficient Concept in AI-Supported Decision-Making Research
Patricia Kahr and Abraham Bernstein
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780056
๐ Wheeling the Outdoors in Austria: Challenges not Imposed by Nature but by a Dispersed Information Landscape
Felix Fussenegger and Katta Spiel
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780057
๐ Using Large Language Models to Detect Insufficient Effort Responding in Open-Ended Survey Questions
Nick von Felten
https://doi.org/10.1145/3780045.3780059
Revisit HCI
| ๐๏ธ Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | 13:30 – 15:30 | Auditorium |
๐ Revisiting “User Experience Over Time”: Towards Methods and Metrics for Temporal UX Phases in the Age of AI
Sebastian Zepf, Nima Zargham and Matthias Kraus
๐ Creativity-oriented HCI: From Classic Approach to LLMs-based CSTs
Ana Rodrigues, Diogo Cabral and Pedro Campos
๐ Revisiting Disability Studies in HCI: From Access to Justice through Artistic Practices
Puneet Jain, Katta Spiel and Chris Salter
๐ Guidelines are Less than Half of the Story: Accessibility Evaluations in 2025 and Beyond
Maximiliano Jeanneret Medina and Denis Lalanne
๐ Learner-Centered Design: The (Updated) Challenge for HCI in the 21st Century
Cรฉlina Treuillier and Denis Lalanne
๐ Innocent’s Soft Facades: Rediscovering a Vision for Adaptive and Malleable Interfaces
Christoph Albert Johns
| ๐๏ธ Thursday, March 5, 2026 | 09:00 – 10:30 | Auditorium |
๐ From Search for Children to Children as Searchers
Diletta Micol Tobia, Hrishita Chakrabarti, Maria Soledad Pera and Monica Landoni
๐ A Retrospective on Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics in HCI
Arthur Fleig
๐ Ceremony Meets Usability: An HCI Lens on Authentication
Lorin Schรถni
๐ Rethinking Eco-Feedback: Expanding Interaction Design through the HumanโBuilding Interaction Perspective
Yidong Huang and Yann Laurillau
Demos
| ๐๏ธ Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | 20:00 – 21:30 | Balint Hall |
๐ Heads Up!: Towards In Situ Photogrammetry Annotations and Augmented Reality Visualizations for Guided Backcountry Skiing
Christoph Albert Johns, Lรกszlรณ Kopรกsci, Michael Barz and
Daniel Sonntag
๐ Real-Time Object Detection and Augmented Reality to Support Low-Vision Navigation and Object Localization: A
Demonstration
Yong-Joon Thoo, Karim Aebischer, Nicolas Ruffieux and Denis
Lalanne
๐ Kinetiq: Active Bodies, Healthy Minds – Microinterventions for Movement and Learning
Annabella Sakunkoo and Jonathan Sakunkoo
๐ Walking the Digital Street: A VR Tool for Assessing Urban Walkability
Viet Hung Pham, Malte Wagenfeld and Regina Bernhaupt
๐ Proxemics – Exploring Personal Space, Digital Embodiment and Environmental Awareness through Interactive Mixed Reality Installation
Marco Strobel, Christian Geiger and Ivana Druลพetiฤ-Vogel
๐ Voices of the Boyne: An Audio-First Locative Augmented Reality Game for Experiential Historical Exploration
Karun Manoharan, Mads Haahr, Joris Vreeke, Svetlana Rudenko
and Breanne Pitt
๐ SingLing: Learning Languages by Singing Code-Switched Lyrics
Jonathan Sakunkoo and Annabella Sakunkoo
๐ [MCTA]: Connecting Menstrual Cycles and Sports Tracking for Everyday Athletes
Madeleine Soukup, Flavia Taras, Carol Barbara Ernst,
Kristijonas Buciunas, Elaine Huang and Marcia Niรen
