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