IUI-WS 2026
Workshops at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2026 Workshops
  Antonela Tommasel, Patricia Kahr, Karthik Dinakar, Werner Geyer

Workshop 1: AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (AgentCraft 2026)

• From Prompt to Product: A Human-Centered Benchmark of Agentic App Generation Systems
  Marcos Ortiz, Justin Hill, Collin Overbay, Ingrida Semenec, Frederic Sauve-Hoover, Jim Schwoebel, Joel Shor
• Agentic AI for Safety-critical Multi-drone Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
  Timothy Merritt, Alejandro Jarabo-Peñas, Juan Bravo-Arrabal, Maria-Theresa Bahodi, Anders Lyhne Christensen
• Agent-Flavored Markdown: Natural Language Specifications for Framework-Agnostic Agent Development
  Maryam Ziyad Mohamed, Hasitha Aravinda, Rania Khalaf
• Making Hidden Misalignment Observable: Interpretive Drift Detection for Latent Pragmatic Misalignment
  Jacky Doll, Mei Si
• RecipeComics: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Sequential Instruction Visualization
  Atharva Patil, Arnav Jhala

Workshop 2: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human-Centered Design (CURE 2026)

• Conceptual Alignment in Human-Centered Design Teams through Critical Reflection on Large Language Models
  Simone Ciciliano, Rosella Gennari
• Visual Cues in Wrong-Path Interactions: An Exploratory Study of User Experience in Conversational AI
  Jie Bai, Alessandra Zarcone
• Can Intelligent User Interfaces Engage in Philosophical Discussions?: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study of Philosophers' Judgments
  Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Lyumanshan Ye, Yan Guan
• Uncertainty perception by humans and LLMs in a multi-agent social network simulation
  Tim Donkers, Jürgen Ziegler

Workshop 3: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (HealthIUI 2026)

• It's That Time Of The Month Again: Adjusting Period Tracking Apps To Include Partner Users
  Shania Jane Martijn, Marit Bentvelzen, Hanna Hauptmann
• The Importance of Contextual Information in Clinical Decision Support: A Neonatal-Sepsis Case Study
  Niels Helmantel, Hanna Hauptmann, Daniel Vijlbrief, Richard Bartels
• Towards Scalable Therapist Training via Multi-Turn LLM-Based Client Simulation
  Enea Gurra, Neha Deshpande
• Talking to Your Data: Exploring Embodied Conversation as an Interface for Personal Health Reflection
  Nikola Kovacevic, Bastien Husler, Di Zhuang, Rafael Wampfler, Barbara Solenthaler
• Toward a Digital Physiotherapy Support System for Home Training: Survey Insights into Expectations and Requirements of Patients and Therapists
  Daniela Blumberg, Marco Rahner, Daniel Seebacher, Philip Zimmermann, Daniel A. Keim
• Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Support System for Palliative Care
  Seyed Nima Afzali, Sabahat Ölcer, Ayseguel Doganguen
• Dual Trajectories of User Engagement with Medical Generative AI: Cognitive Maturation and Attitudinal Recalibration
  Yibo Meng, Qiuyu Long, Bingyi Liu, Yan Guan, Xiaolan Ding
• Between Knowledge and Care: Evaluating Generative AI-Based IUI in Type 2 Diabetes Management Through Patient and Physician Perspectives
  Yibo Meng, Ruiqi Chen, Bingyi Liu, Yan Guan, Xiaolan Ding
• Final Happiness: What Digital Companionship Systems Can Do for The Lonely Dying
  Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Lyumanshan Ye, Yan Guan, Xiaolan Ding
• SmartPause: Designing a Reinforcement Learning Model for Reducing Screen Time
  Gustavo Kruger, Nikhil Sachdeva, Yixue Zhao, Tianyi Li, Michael Sobolev
• Design Tradeoffs in Health Interfaces for Behavior Change
  Michael Sobolev
• Two-Level Personas to Support the Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Health Interfaces
  Peter Brusilovsky, Khushboo Thaker, Mohammad Hassany, Behnam Rahdari, Vivian Hui, Youjia Wang, Heidi Donovan, Mary Lou Klem, Daqing He, Young Ji Lee
• Sanora: A Conversational AI Agent for Multimodal Digital Biomarkers of Mental Health
  Matthew So, Michael Sobolev, Gregory Menvielle
• Understanding Elder Care AI Adoption Through Self-Determination Theory
  Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel, Leon Feldman, Mor Hodaya Maman, Ulrich Gartzke

Workshop 4: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (SHAPEXR)

• Spatio-Temporal Representation of Eye-Tracking Data for Cognitive Failure Detection in VR
  Tanaz Ghahremani, Sahar Niknam, Berin Venedik, Jean Botev
• Empowering NAO: Overcoming Humanoid Robot Constraints via Large Language Models
  Valerio Colonnese, Gilda Manfredi, Nicola Capece, Ugo Erra, Anthony Rivelli
• From Multimodal Signals to Adaptive XR Experiences for De-escalation Training
  Birgit Nierula, Karam Tomotaki-Dawoud, Daniel Johannes Meyer, Iryna Ignatieva, Mina Mottahedin, Thomas Koch, Sebastian Bosse
• Supporting Medical Doctors with AI-based Smart Wearable Assistance: Case Study of Diagnosis and Therapy Evaluation for Ward Visits
  Agnese Augello, Giuseppe Caggianese, Silvia Franchini, Ignazio Infantino, Luca Sabatucci
• Inclusive Hand-Based Region-of-Interest Selection Using On-Device Landmark Recognition
  Fabian Glöggler, Markus Hahn, Marianne von Schwerin
• Adaptive Virtual Reality Museum: A Closed-Loop Framework for Engagement-Aware Cultural Heritage
  Joseph Damouni, Wadia Tanus, Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel
• Occlusion-Robust Multimodal Emotion Recognition in VR via Fusion of Facial Images and EMG
  Birgit Nierula, Karam Tomotaki-Dawoud, Mert Akguel, Mustafa Tevfik Lafci, David Przewozny, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert, Sebastian Bosse

Workshop 5: 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (AI CHAOS! 2026)

• Don't blame me: How Intelligent Support Affects Moral Responsibility in Human Oversight
  Cedric Faas, Richard Uth, Sarah Sterz, Markus Langer, Anna Maria Feit
• Human Oversight-by-Design for Accessible Generative IUIs
  Blessing Jerry, Lourdes Moreno, Paloma Martínez
• Beyond the Turing Test: The Domestication of Humanity as the Ultimate Benchmark for Superintelligence
  Djallel Bouneffouf
• Community Notes as a Boundary Object for Distributed Oversight
  Michal Shaharabani, Irit Hadar, Osnat Mokryn
• Intelligent support for Human Oversight: Integrating Reinforcement Learning with Gaze Simulation to Personalize Highlighting
  Thorsten Klößner, João Belo, Zekun Wu, Jörg Hoffmann, Anna Maria Feit
• Orchestrating Attention: Bringing Harmony to the 'Chaos' of Neurodivergent Learning States
  Satyam Kumar Navneet, Joydeep Chandra, Yong Zhang
• Filtering the Data Lake: Why Siloed Human Oversight Is Insufficient to Prevent Data Degradation in Recursive Generative AI Training - A Review
  Syaamantak Das
• Understanding Perceived Trustworthiness as a Basis for Human Oversight in the Wild
  Evgenia Christoforou, Jahna Otterbacher, Styliani Kleanthous
• Assessing Compliance for Generative AI Systems under the Digital Services Act
  Marie-Therese Sekwenz, Rita Hermann-Gsenger, Shreyan Biswas, Ujwal Gadiraju
• Encoding Disagreement: Human Oversight Challenges in LLM-as-a-Judge Systems
  Charles Chiang, Simret Gebreegziabher, Annalisa Szymanski, Yukun Yang, Hyo Jin Do, Zahra Ashktorab, Werner Geyer, Toby Li, Diego Gomez-Zara
• The Human Oversight Fallacy–and What We Can Do About It
  Angelica Henestrosa, Alexeï Grinbaum, Ivan Yamshchikov
• Human Oversight in Action: Designing Risk-Aware AI Systems for Employee Incentive Planning
  Yiheng An, Jia Li, Fan Yang, Jiawei Zhang