NordiCHI 2026 serves daily on-site lunches for all conference attendees
To support community members – both old and new – to connect with other attendees, there will be themed Community Lunches. These are informal gatherings over lunch, intended for anyone who would like an extra boost to meeting new people and discussing shared topics of interest.
Where: In Alma, a room located by the lunch restaurant Mathilda (Tervahovi building, University of Vaasa, 1st floor). The room will be organised to fit six mini-gatherings, each with its own topic and a table leader who will lightly facilitate the encounter. Specific themes and table leaders will be announced ahead of the lunch. The information will be available in Alma as well as ahead of time by the registration desk.
When: Each day of the main conference, Monday through Wednesday, at 12:00-13:30. You can simply head to Alma once you have picked up your lunch tray and then choose a table of interest. Seats are available on a first come first served basis.
Would you like to lead a discussion? Next to pre-planned themes, there will be at least two open slots each day that conference attendees are welcomed to claim! If you would like to propose a theme and serve as a table leader, you can sign up at the registration desk.
Lunch Themes and Table Leaders
Monday
1. Understanding Each Other in Virtual Environments / Noak Petersson, Stockholm University
2. Experience Design / Virpi Roto, Aalto University
3. User-Centred Design / Marta Lárusdóttir, Reykjavik University
4. Human-Data Interaction / Niklas Elmqvist, Aarhus University
Open slot
Open slot
Tuesday
1. Politics & Technology / Matti Nelimarkka, University of Helsinki
2. Sustainable HCI / Chiara Rossitto, Stockholm University
3. AI Creativity / Johanna Silvennoinen, University of Jyväskylä
4. Designing Society with Children and Youth / Sara Ljunglad, Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology
Open slot
Open slot
Wednesday
1. Collaborative AI / Kaisa Väänänen, Tampere University
2. Encounters Between Humans and Algorithms / Jesse Haapoja, University of Helsinki
3. Digital Literacies and Digital Equity / Johanna Ylipulli, University of Vaasa
4. Designing With AI / Pavel Okopnyi, University of Bergen
Open slot
Open slot
Questions? Please get in touch with our Newcomers’ Chairs if you have questions or ideas.
Antti Salovaara (antti.salovaara@aalto.fi)
Airi Lampinen (airi@dsv.su.se)