NordiCHI 2026 will feature 34 workshops, all of which are in-person. You register for a workshop as part of the conference registration process.
For questions related to a specific workshop, please contact the workshop organizers directly.
For general questions, you can contact the NordiCHI 2026 workshop chairs Dina Koutsikouri (dina.koutsikouri@ait.gu.se) and Daniel Ventus (daniel.ventus@abo.fi).
All workshops will be held during the pre-conference days (Saturday and Sunday) at Academill building, Åbo Akademi University (Vaasa Campus).
Please note that the schedule is subject to change and further updates will come closer to the conference.
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Morning Sessions (09:30–13:00)
HCAI4IDS: Human-Centered AI Support for Immersive Data Sensemaking
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: HCAI4IDS
The Purposeful Deployment of Humanoid Service Robots in the Real-World: A Human-Centric Co-Creation Workshop
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: https://nordichi.techlabs.fi/
Navigating Design Spaces and Guidelines for Human Augmentation in Industry and Craftsmanship
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://nordichi2026-human-augmentation.wineme.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/
Afternoon Sessions (14:00–17:30)
Robots as Welfare Technologies and Actors within Future Home- and Healthcare Services: Co-Designing an Integration Model through Story-Dialogue Method ROBOWELL
- Room: TBA
- Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/robowell-nordichi26/home
When Design Becomes Visible: Structural Awareness and Reimagination in Playable Systems
- Room: TBA
- Webpage: TBA
Empowering Users in Public Procurement – User Involvement, Work Environment, and AI in Practice
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://empoweringusersinpublicprocurement.wordpress.com/
Full-Day Sessions (09:30–17:30)
Soul Sync: Exploring Technological Resonance in Religious and Spiritual Energy
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://spiritedhci.org/nordichi-2026/
Spatial Interaction Design: A Field-Based Workshop for Observing and Designing in Everyday Social Environments
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://www.design.cmu.edu/spatial-ixd
Designing Multi-Reality Futures: Speculative Explorations of Seamless and Meaningful XR Experiences
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://inter-reality.com/2026/06/16/designing-multi-reality-futures-workshop/
The Many Facets of Eudaimonia: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Design Perspectives
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: http://eudaimonicdesign2026.init-owl.de/
The Dissonance Workshop: Live Performance and Generative Friction with AI
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: http://www.dissonanceworkshop.com
Taking Your Students for a Walk: Art Interventions and Critical Techniques in HCI Design Pedagogy
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: https://takingyourstudentsforawalk.com/
Where Participation Happens: Mapping Contemporary Sociotechnical Settings
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/design/events/nordichi26-whereparticipationhappens
Design Without Goal: Listening, Silence, and Emergence in Practice
- Room: TBA
- Webpage: TBA
Shifting Stories of Human-Centered Computing Research: Exploring Narratives Through the Lens of Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://pit-carrierbag.github.io/cbt-humancenteredcomputing/
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Morning Sessions (09:30–13:00)
Challenges & Tactics of Navigating Long-term Researcher-Participant Relationships
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://melodyorz.notion.site/navigating-long-term-relationship
Design for Calibrated Trust in AI: Exploring Opportunities to Support Appropriate Mental Models When Interacting with Conversational AI
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: https://hci.rwth-aachen.de/nordichi26-calibrated-trust-in-ai
Keeping Up: IxD Education in the Age of GenAI
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/genai-ixd-education/
Broken Design and Maintenance of Technology: Thinking of Repair as a World-Making Practice Through Design and Philosophy
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: https://brokendesign.odie.us
Afternoon Sessions (14:00–17:30)
Designing for Early Parenthood Together: Exploring Collaborative Technologies for Parents and Their Wider Care Ecosystems
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/designingforearlyparenthood/
From Participation to Transformation: Children Shaping AI Futures
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/nchi26-shaping-ai-futures/home-page
The Second Workshop on Designing with AI
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://hci.uib.no/ws/designing_with_ai_2
The Last Mile of HCI: From Participatory Design to Community Impact
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: https://svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/the-last-mile-of-hci/
Speculative AI Futures Workshop
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://pit-carrierbag.github.io/NordiCHI-AI-Futures-WS/
Full-Day Sessions (09:30–17:30)
A Feminist Salon: Finding and Making Our Carrier Bags for Feminist HCI
- Room: TBA
- Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/nordichi-feministhci-workshop
Jokaisenoikeudet in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Participatory Co-Design and Solarpunk Narratives in HCI
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://nordichi-solarpunk.pages.dev/
Emancipatory HCI: Exploring the Energy of Transformation in Participatory Approaches
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://medieteknik.info/emancipatory-hci/
Human-Computer Intimacy: Mapping and Manifesto-ing Technologies and Politics of Intimacy
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://technologies-of-intimacies.carrd.co/
Designing for the Democratic Pulse: Engagement, Silence, Friction, and Storytelling
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/aparecip/designing-for-the-democratic-pulse.html
Regulation by Design: Exploring the Role of Nordic HCI in EU Technology Regulation
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/design-regulations/startsida
Designing for Children’s Participation in Everyday Life: Bridging HCI and Occupational Therapy Through Roles and Contexts
- Room: TBA
- Open to everyone.
- Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/childrensparticipationinlife/home
Rethinking the Datafied Human: Critical Data Literacy in HCI
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://medieteknik.info/rethinking-datafied-human/
Understanding Intermediaries’ Role in Public Service Design
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://trustmproject.aalto.fi/intermediaries-workshop/
Post-growth Sandbox: Designing (in) a Post-growth World
- Room: TBA
- Pre-acceptance required.
- Webpage: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=R_J9zM5gD0qddXBM9g78ZJ1oJ5cZ9lBBkv6g1Y8Xvc5UMElGUTZUOU9ENkdRU0owSk1SRTFSWUo3QS4u