Workshops

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: PDHSR 2026

 

Navigating Design Spaces and Guidelines for Human Augmentation in Industry and Craftsmanship

 

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
  • Open to everyone.
  • Webpage: ROBOWELL

 

When Design Becomes Visible: Structural Awareness and Reimagination in Playable Systems

 

Empowering Users in Public Procurement – User Involvement, Work Environment, and AI in Practice

 

Full-Day Sessions (09:30–17:30)

Soul Sync: Exploring Technological Resonance in Religious and Spiritual Energy

  • Room: TBA
  • Pre-acceptance required.
  • Webpage: Soul Sync

 

Spatial Interaction Design: A Field-Based Workshop for Observing and Designing in Everyday Social Environments

 

Designing Multi-Reality Futures: Speculative Explorations of Seamless and Meaningful XR Experiences

 

The Many Facets of Eudaimonia: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Design Perspectives

 

The Dissonance Workshop: Live Performance and Generative Friction with AI

 

Taking Your Students for a Walk: Art Interventions and Critical Techniques in HCI Design Pedagogy

 

Where Participation Happens: Mapping Contemporary Sociotechnical Settings

 

Design Without Goal: Listening, Silence, and Emergence in Practice

 

Shifting Stories of Human-Centered Computing Research: Exploring Narratives Through the Lens of Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

 

Understanding Intermediaries’ Role in Public Service Design

Sunday, October 4, 2026

 

Morning Sessions (09:30–13:00)

Challenges & Tactics of Navigating Long-term Researcher-Participant Relationships

 

Design for Calibrated Trust in AI: Exploring Opportunities to Support Appropriate Mental Models When Interacting with Conversational AI

 

Keeping Up: IxD Education in the Age of GenAI

 

Broken Design and Maintenance of Technology: Thinking of Repair as a World-Making Practice Through Design and Philosophy

 

Afternoon Sessions (14:00–17:30)

Designing for Early Parenthood Together: Exploring Collaborative Technologies for Parents and Their Wider Care Ecosystems

 

From Participation to Transformation: Children Shaping AI Futures

 

The Second Workshop on Designing with AI

 

The Last Mile of HCI: From Participatory Design to Community Impact

 

Speculative AI Futures Workshop

 

Full-Day Sessions (09:30–17:30)

A Feminist Salon: Finding and Making Our Carrier Bags for Feminist HCI

 

Jokaisenoikeudet in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Participatory Co-Design and Solarpunk Narratives in HCI

 

Emancipatory HCI: Exploring the Energy of Transformation in Participatory Approaches

 

Human-Computer Intimacy: Mapping and Manifesto-ing Technologies and Politics of Intimacy

 

Designing for the Democratic Pulse: Engagement, Silence, Friction, and Storytelling

 

Regulation by Design: Exploring the Role of Nordic HCI in EU Technology Regulation

 

Designing for Children’s Participation in Everyday Life: Bridging HCI and Occupational Therapy Through Roles and Contexts

 

Rethinking the Datafied Human: Critical Data Literacy in HCI

 

Post-growth Sandbox: Designing (in) a Post-growth World