Hero Image: Bristol Interaction Group at ACM SIGCHI 2026, Barcelona

BIGCHI 2026

Researchers from the Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) will present a wide range of work at ACM SIGCHI 2026 conference including full papers, posters, workshops, and community events.

These contributions highlight the breadth of research within BIG, spanning AI fairness and accessibility, affective computing, cross-sensory interaction, health and care technologies, child-computer interaction, neurodiversity in HCI, and shape-changing and material interfaces.

In addition to presenting research, BIG members contributed to the organisation of CHI 2026 through Associate Chair roles and participation in the Best Paper Committee, helping to shape the conference’s scientific programme and peer-review process.

Together, these contributions reflect BIG’s ongoing commitment to advancing inclusive and socially grounded HCI research, and to supporting the wider HCI community.

This year's ACM SIGCHI conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain from 13–17 April.

Full Papers

Image for publication Beyond Accuracy: Auditing Allocative Harms in Facial-Gesture Recognition for People with Motor Impairments

Beyond Accuracy: Auditing Allocative Harms in Facial-Gesture Recognition for People with Motor Impairments

Siyu Zhang, Yelu Gu, Kirsten Cater & Oussama Metatla

Facial-Gesture Recognition 

Image for publication Feeling the Flavour: Exploring Children's Touch–Taste Cross-sensory Correspondences and Willingness to Try Unknown Foods for Child–Food Interaction Design

Feeling the Flavour: Exploring Children's Touch–Taste Cross-sensory Correspondences and Willingness to Try Unknown Foods for Child–Food Interaction Design

Priscilla Lo, Tegan Roberts-Morgan, Matthew Horton, Janet C. Read & Oussama Metatla

Cross-sensory Interaction  Taste  virtual food interaction 

Image for publication Somatic Drawing Tool: 3D Body Sheet as Material for Articulating Synaesthetic Experiences

Somatic Drawing Tool: 3D Body Sheet as Material for Articulating Synaesthetic Experiences

Mamoru Watanabe, Oussama Metatla & Atau Tanaka

Cross-sensory  Synaesthesia 

Image for publication Rough Meanings: Cross-Sensory Correspondences Linking Surface Textures with Sound Symbolism, Colours, and Emotions

Rough Meanings: Cross-Sensory Correspondences Linking Surface Textures with Sound Symbolism, Colours, and Emotions

Min Susan Li, Zhuzhi Fan, Tegan Roberts-Morgan, Amy Ingold & Oussama Metatla

Cross-sensory 

Image for publication "I don't want to break it": An Exploration of Perceived Fragility in Shape-Changing Interfaces

"I don't want to break it": An Exploration of Perceived Fragility in Shape-Changing Interfaces

Eva Mackamul, Tom Maillard, Noé Marceau, Yelli Coulibaly, Julien Pansiot, Laurence Boissieux, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Anne Roudaut & Céline Coutrix.

Shape-changing interfaces 

Uncertainty and Risk at the Point of Care: Implications of Patient-Generated ECGs and Algorithmic Interpretations for Clinical Decision Making

Rachel Keys, Aisling O'Kane, Paul Marshall & Graham Stuart

Cardiovascular Disease  Consumer Health  Self-Care Technology 

Image for publication Dispray: The Design of an AR-Augmented Airbrush for Electroluminescent Display Fabrication

Dispray: The Design of an AR-Augmented Airbrush for Electroluminescent Display Fabrication

Ollie Hanton, Jonathan Lim, Tanvi Kotian, Torin Clark, Mike Fraser & Anne Roudaut

Augmented Reality  personal fabrication 

Honorable Mention
Image for publication Design Opportunities at the Intersection of Sexual and Reproductive Health, Cystic Fibrosis and Technology

Design Opportunities at the Intersection of Sexual and Reproductive Health, Cystic Fibrosis and Technology

Cicely Mathews, Kenton O'Hara, Jamie Ducker & Aisling O'Kane

Chronic Illness management  Contraception  Cystic Fibrosis 

Image for publication triMorph: Bridging Shape-Change and Cross-Sensory Correspondences for Haptic Interaction

triMorph: Bridging Shape-Change and Cross-Sensory Correspondences for Haptic Interaction

Zhuzhi Fan, Min Susan Li, Jialin Deng, Amy Ingold & Oussama Metatla

Color  Cross sensory interaction  Crossmodal correspondences 

Best Paper
Image for publication Touching Emotions, Smelling Shapes: Exploring Tactile, Olfactory and Emotional Cross-sensory Correspondences in Preschool Aged Children

Touching Emotions, Smelling Shapes: Exploring Tactile, Olfactory and Emotional Cross-sensory Correspondences in Preschool Aged Children

Tegan Roberts-Morgan, Min Susan Li, Priscilla Lo, Zhuzhi Fan, Dan Bennett & Oussama Metatla

Children  Correspondences  Cross-sensory 

Image for publication Constructing the Thermal Affective Design Space for Emotion Regulation: An Autoethnographic Research Through Design Inquiry

Constructing the Thermal Affective Design Space for Emotion Regulation: An Autoethnographic Research Through Design Inquiry

Feng Feng, Kim Halskov, Dan Bennett, Minna Pakanen & Elisa Mekler

Autoethnography  Design space  Emotion regulation 

Best Paper
Image for publication Let's Make a Community [of Practice]: Using Community-Based Participatory Design to Support Interdependence

Let's Make a Community [of Practice]: Using Community-Based Participatory Design to Support Interdependence

Elaine Czech, Dan Bennett, Grace Stangroome, Vanessa Hanschke, Amy Ingold, Paul Marshall & Oussama Metatla

community-based participatory-design  dementia 

Workshops

Image for publication Everything Is a Robot (and Nothing Is)

Everything Is a Robot (and Nothing Is)

Amy Ingold, Jessica R. Cauchard, Lisa May Thomas, Madeline Balaam, Ellen Weir, Anne Roudaut, Alice C Haynes, Amy Winters & Zhuzhi Fan

Interaction  Robots  chi2026workshop 

Image for publication Cross-Sensory Futures: Rewiring Perception in HCI

Cross-Sensory Futures: Rewiring Perception in HCI

Oussama Metatla, Min Susan Li, Feng Feng, Cameron Steer, Michael J Proulx, Meike Scheller & Tegan Roberts-Morgan

Cross-sensory Interaction  Crossmodal Cognition  Multimodal Interfaces  Multisensory Experiences 

Image for publication Are We Doing Enough? Sharing Design and Manufacturing Expertise Across Open Source Hardware Communities

Are We Doing Enough? Sharing Design and Manufacturing Expertise Across Open Source Hardware Communities

Rory Clark, Steve Hodges, Hyungyoung Kim, Valkrie Savage, Oliver Child, Cedric Honnet, Joseph Paradiso & Mike Fraser

chi2026workshop 

Posters

Who Owns the Worm? Authorship Collapse in Viral Digital Models

Eszter Vigh & Grace Stangroome

When Am I?: How Historiography Can Inform Positionality in HCI

Rory Clark

Meet-Ups

the SIG logo overlaid on the neurodiversity rainbow infinity symbol

Neurodiversity Meetup @ CHI: Building a Neuro-Affirming Community in HCI

Alex Tcherdakoff, Patricia Piedade, Grace Stangroome, Marta E. Cecchinato, Antonella Nonnis, Shoko Kimura, Nicolai B Hansen, Laura Maye & Anna R L Carter