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HCI International News, Number 138, July 2026

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HCII 2026: See you soon in Montreal!

Montréal is delighted to welcome the HCII 2026 Conference participants to the city, full of welcoming charm, inviting them to soak up the irrepressible creativity, energy, and hospitality that permeate the city and to experience unforgettable Montréal moments. Enjoy your stay!

You are welcome to explore all the exciting things to do this July in Montréal, with festivals, family fun, fireworks and much more! Beyond these signature events, Montréal offers a wealth of attractions, including live music venues, comedy clubs, museums, beautiful parks, rooftop terraces with spectacular city views, exceptional dining, and the historic charm of Old Montréal. Whether you're looking to relax after the Conference or continue the excitement into the evening, the city has something for everyone.

The Conference venue, Montreal Convention Centre, is located in the heart of the city, only 20 minutes from the airport and within walking distance from main attractions and restaurants. A nearby hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton Montreal has been selected as the official HCII 2026 hotel. Further information and additional accommodation options are available through the Conference website.

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HCII 2026: Program Highlights

The HCII 2026 Program is available including detailed schedule for:

We look forward to welcoming you to the Montreal Convention Centre for HCI International 2026, 26-31 July.

HCII 2026 will run as an 'on-site' Conference with the additional option for 'on-line' participation.

The first three days of the Conference (26-28 July) will comprise 'on-line' parallel sessions for paper presentations, 'on-site' and 'on-line' Courses and 'hybrid' Workshops (allowing both 'on-site' and 'on-line' presentations).

The Opening Plenary Session (evening of the 28th of July) and the parallel sessions that will take place between 29-31 July will run as 'hybrid' events (i.e., available 'on-site' and 'on-line' for presenters and participants).

The ‘on-site’ poster presentations will be available to all Conference participants with physical presence, from 29 to 31 July. The ‘on-line’ poster presentations will be available to all Conference participants only through Whova. All poster presentations will be listed in Whova, for the entire six-day period of the Conference, from 26 to 31 July.

Places are still available for the 20 Courses on offer covering a wide spectrum of topics.

Participation in the Courses, which will run either as ‘on-site’ or as ‘on-line’ events, is available for registered Conference participants on a first-come-first-served basis. A token fee of $25 per Course is applicable.

Workshops will run as 'hybrid' events. Workshops are ‘closed’ events, i.e. only invited participants or authors of accepted submissions for a Workshop will be admitted. Workshop registration is complimentary for registered Conference participants; Workshop participants not registered for the Conference are required to pay a fee of $95 per Workshop.

Professor Yoshua Bengio is the recipient of the 'HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT' for 2026 and keynote speaker. Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor of Computer Science at Université de Montreal, Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero, as well as the Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mila and the Canada CIFAR AI Chair. He is the most cited computer scientist worldwide, and the most-cited living scientist across all fields (by total citations).

The award ceremony, followed by his Keynote speech, titled “The Current AI Trajectory Poses Catastrophic Risks — is there a safer path?”, will take place on Tuesday, 28 July 2026, 18:00 Eastern Daylight Time - EDT (Montreal, Canada).

The Student Design Competition gives College and University students of all grades an opportunity to present their design ideas. Thirty-three video submissions have been accepted for presentation, as a series of rolling video presentations, during the Conference. Three awards will be presented, GOLD ($1000), SILVER ($500) and BRONZE ($250).

Professor Gavriel Salvendy has cordially accepted the Conference invitation to hold a mentoring session for PhD students. The mentoring session will take place only ‘on-site’ during the Conference on Thursday, 30 July 2026, 16:00 - 18:00.

Awards will be presented during the Opening Plenary Session to the authors of the best paper of each of the Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences and of the best poster of HCII 2026. Each awarded contribution will receive a plaque, a certificate and one complimentary e-book of their choice from the six-volume book series on Human-Computer Interaction.

The 'HCII Design Café' is an interactive satellite event to be held in-person during the HCII 2026 Conference with the goal to provide a forum for (re)thinking and discussing HCI issues in the context of broader topics relevant to society and the economy. The 2026 HCII Design Café marks the second edition on “Human-AI Teaming (HAT)”, scheduled to take place on Friday, 31 July, 1:30 – 6:00 p.m., where its participants will further explore, develop and refine HAT-issues of great economic, social, and existential significance.

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HCII 2026: Practical Information

Conference participants can find in our website general information about the Conference Registration Secretariat, the Conference Reception, the Exhibition, Refreshment Breaks, and other useful information.

Presenters can find practical information at the HCII 2026 website about their paper and poster presentations, taking place either ‘on-site’ or ‘on-line’.

The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in the LNCS and LNAI series, while poster extended abstracts will be published in the CCIS series. All volumes will be available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by subscribing libraries, and indexed by a number of services, including: CPCI (part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science); Scopus; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; Google Scholar; DBLP, etc.

Just before the Conference, all registered participants will get access to read and download the 53 volumes of the Proceedings to appear before the event.

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HCII 2026: Exhibition

Exhibiting at the HCII 2026 Conference is an ideal opportunity to display your products and services to an international audience of academics, researchers, professionals and users in the field of HCI. In addition to the ‘on-site exhibition’, exhibitors are offered complimentary 'on-line' presence, i.e. virtual booths for the presentation of their exhibits.

List of HCII 2026 Exhibitors:

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HCII 2026: Supporting participants from Least Developed Countries

In support of the Programme of Action (PoA) for the Least Developed Countries of the United Nations (UN-OHRLLS), HCII 2026 offers to academics and students of all grades, residing and working in these countries, the possibility to register for ‘on-line’ participation in the Conference with an 80% discount.

In order to take advantage of this offer, prospective participants from these counties will need to create an account for the Conference, through the CMS, enter their affiliation details, and apply for this fee discount following the provided guidelines. They also had the opportunity to submit their work for presentation during the Conference and publication in the proceedings, following the established peer-review process.

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World Usability Initiative 2025 Design Challenge - three awards sponsored by HCII 2026

The 2025 World Usability Initiative (WUI) Design Challenge theme was "Emerging Technologies and Human Experience". The award winners have been announced on World Usability Day:

  • Gold: “AI-Driven Social Interaction: A Sustainable Bench for Building Connections in the Parks (Bonding Bench)” by: Phuong Lien (Lindsey) To
  • Silver: “AR Applications for Future Flight Deck: System Usability and User Experience” by: Declan Saunders, Wen-Chin Li, James Blundell, Samuel Cohort, and Dujuan Sevillian
  • Bronze: “Stopping AI Scams with AI: A Scam Detection App for User Protection” by: Christina Kim

HCI International 2026 congratulates the winners and sponsors the three awards (Gold $1,250; Silver $1,000; and Bronze $750) that will be conferred during the Opening Plenary Session in the evening of the 28th of July 2026.

The three award winners have been cordially invited, with complimentary registration, to present their work on the 29th of July 2026 in a special hybrid session of the Conference, chaired by Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Director of World Usability Initiative.

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Open Access Papers initiated and sponsored by HCI International

The below papers, reflecting Grand Challenges in HCI, have been initiated and sponsored by the HCI International Conference and are published as Open Access articles in the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (IJHCI):

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Book: Bridging Art, Design and Technology: My Lifetime Work, by: Aaron Marcus

Mr. Marcus’ book delivers a chronological survey of the author’s work. He is a pioneer in computer graphics/art, user interface/user-interaction design, information-oriented graphic design, and visible-language experiments. Aaron Marcus was one of the first to use computer technology in art, virtual reality, experimental visible languages, and information visualization in the early days of digital media.

One part absorbing autobiography, one part designer monograph, the book tells the story of the early days of computer-based graphic design, fully supported with compelling images and backstories behind Marcus’s innovative HCI/user-experience designs and solutions for brands like Apple, HP, Microsoft, Motorola, Oracle, Sabre, Samsung, SAP, US Federal Reserve Bank, Visa, and more.

Examples provide a background/context, process, and results of work undertaken by the author and his firm for major companies worldwide. The text and figures reveal a personal philosophy and history of art, design, computers, and technology across 70 years.

Aaron Marcus, Principal
Aaron Marcus and Associates, (AM+A), USA
Founder and Co-Chair (2011-2024) of the International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU, https://2024.hci.international/duxu)
Web: www.bAMandA.com

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