Detailed Program - CHIIR 2026

DETAILED PROGRAM

Conference Venue

All program below takes place at the HUB (Husky Union Building) on the University of Washington campus.

HUB Second Floor Plan

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Rooms

Main conference: South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)
Other events: TBA

Click a session in the daily tables below to expand and see the chair and papers in that session.

* All times are in Pacific Time (PT).

Sunday, March 22nd, 2026

CHIIR Registration – [Location TBA]

Time	DC / Tutorials
08:30–09:00 AM	Breakfast
09:00–10:30 AM	Doctoral Consortium [Room TBA] Tutorial 1: Controlled Experimentation of Model Search Behaviour with Geniie-Lab — Hideo Joho [Room TBA] Tutorial 2: Information Seeking in the Age of Agentic AI: A Half-Day Tutorial — Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu and Tanya Roosta [Room TBA]
10:30–11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 PM	Doctoral Consortium[Room TBA] Tutorial 1:Controlled Experimentation of Model Search Behaviour with Geniie-Lab — Hideo Joho [Room TBA] Tutorial 2:Information Seeking in the Age of Agentic AI: A Half-Day Tutorial — Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu and Tanya Roosta [Room TBA]
12:30–01:30 PM	Lunch
01:30–03:00 PM	Doctoral Consortium [Room TBA] Tutorial 3: Simulation of Interactive Information Retrieval: A Guided Tour — Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest and Johanne R. Trippas [Room TBA]
03:00–03:30 PM	Coffee Break
03:30–05:00 PM	Doctoral Consortium [Room TBA] Tutorial 3: Simulation of Interactive Information Retrieval: A Guided Tour — Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest and Johanne R. Trippas [Room TBA]
06:00–08:00 PM	Welcome Reception [Burke Museum]

Monday, March 23rd, 2026

CHIIR Registration – [Location TBA]

Time	Sessions
08:30–09:00 AM	Breakfast
09:00–09:30 AM	Opening Session [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
09:30–10:30 AM	Keynote 1: Ben Shneiderman [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
10:30–11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00–12:15 PM	Session 1: Cognitive Factors and Measurements [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
Attention! Rethinking What We Measure in CHIIR Studies — Dan Zhang, Gavindya Jayawardena and Jacek Gwizdka [pp] Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Search Task Complexity on Cognitive Load — Gavindya Jayawardena, Li Shi and Jacek Gwizdka [fp] Characterizing Personality from Eye-Tracking: The Role of Gaze and Its Absence in Interactive Search Environments — Jiaman He, Marta Micheli, Damiano Spina, Dana McKay, Johanne R. Trippas and Noriko Kando [fp]
12:15–01:00 PM	Lunch
01:00–02:15 PM	Session 2: Trust, Verification, and Mis/Disinformation [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
"Although Powerful, it's not Infallible": Investigating Academic Researchers' Verification Challenges with LLMs — Monica Visani Scozzi, Stephann Makri and Pranava Madhyastha [fp] Bias or Balance? Analyzing Stance in Google and Bing Results for the 2024 EU Parliament Election — Sebastian Schultheiß, Katja Niemann and Dirk Lewandowski [fp] Does Cognitive Load Affect Human Accuracy in Detecting Voice-Based Deepfakes? — Marcel Gohsen, Nicola Libera, Johannes Kiesel, Jan Ehlers and Benno Stein [fp]
02:15–02:45 PM	Coffee Break
02:45–04:00 PM	Session 3: Accessibility and Real-World Applications [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
Micro-Behavioral Analysis of Online Shopping Patterns for Blind Users — Yash Prakash, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Nithiya Venkatraman, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee and Vikas Ashok [fp] VoxVista: Enhancing Screen Reading Experience for Online User Comments — Yash Prakash, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Mohammed Shoaib Alyaan, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee and Vikas Ashok [fp] Technology Use in Community Work: Operational Realities and Implications for Smart Cities — Sunyoung Kim, Phaneendra Shivangula and Ge Gao [fp]
04:00–05:00 PM	Industry Panel [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
05:00–07:00 PM	Social Event: Pizza + Bowling [HUB Games]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2026

CHIIR Registration – [Location TBA]

Time	Sessions
08:45–09:15 AM	Breakfast
09:15–10:30 AM	Session 4: Conversational Interactions and Personalization [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
"I don't know anything about laptops!" - User Perception of Digital Product Advisors Adapting to Their Knowledge Levels — Kevin Schott, Andrea Papenmeier, Daniel Hienert and Dagmar Kern [fp] Cooking Up Politeness in Human-AI Information Seeking Dialogue — David Elsweiler, Christine Elsweiler and Anna Ziegner [fp] Understanding the Effects of Conversational Agent Personality on the Credibility of LLM-Based Conversational Search — Hyeonjeong Byeon, Uran Oh and Gary Hsieh [fp]
10:30–11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00–12:15 PM	Session 5: Search as Learning and Education [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
A Multi-Year Survey of Use and Perceptions of Generative AI in Higher Education — Anita Crescenzi, Bogeum Choi, Pao-Pei Huang, Emma Gautier, Riley Little and Siddhida Pandya [fp] From Tool to Teacher: Rethinking Search Systems as Instructive Interfaces — David Elsweiler [pp] The Effects of Goal-Setting on Learning During Information Seeking with Generative AI — Kelsey Urgo, Yuan Li, Jaime Arguello and Robert Capra [fp]
12:15-01:00 PM	Lunch
01:00–02:15 PM	Session 6: Narrative and Multi-Modality [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
From SERPs to Sound: How Search Engine Result Pages and AI-generated Podcasts Interact to Influence User Attitudes on Controversial Topics — Junjie Wang, Gaole He, Alisa Rieger and Ujwal Gadiraju [fp] The Bayesian Storyteller: An Interactive System for Human-AI Collaborative Pitch Book Narrative Generation — Zichao Li [fp] The Influence of the Communication Medium on Data Storytelling — Tamara Nagel and Toine Bogers [fp]
02:15–02:45 PM	Coffee Break
02:45–04:00 PM	Poster and Demo Sessions [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
Beyond the Query: A Survey Design for Eliciting Underlying Motivations in Web Search — Elsa Lichtenegger, Aleksandra Urman and Aniko Hannak [sp] The Effects of Thinking Aloud on Participants during Search and Sensemaking — Bogeum Choi and Jaime Arguello [sp] Privacy Discourse and Emotional Dynamics in Mental Health Information Interaction on Reddit — Jai Kruthunz Naveen Kumar, Aishwarya Surani, Harkirat Singh and Sanchari Das [sp] Rare but Respected: Sustainable Intent in Online Product Search — Florian Meier and David Elsweiler [sp] A Questionnaire for Capturing Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning Processes during Information Seeking — Kelsey Urgo, Jaime Arguello and Robert Capra [sp] Do LLMs Understand Collaborative Signals? Diagnosis and Repair — Shahrooz Pouryousef and Ali Montazeralghaem [sp] The Martian Game: Exploring Open-Ended Question-Asking via an Online Gaming Environment — Gili Cohen and Yoed N. Kenett [sp] Confirmation, Framing, and Position Biases in LLM Responses — Liana Ermakova, Anton Firsov and Jaap Kamps [sp] Information Overload in Information Seeking with Conversational Agents: A Survey and Design Considerations — Paul Compensis [sp] Implicit Humanization in Everyday LLM Moral Judgments — Hoda Ayad and Tanu Mitra [sp] Measuring the credibility of generative AI-produced information: An exploratory factor analysis — Anita Crescenzi, Bogeum Choi, Pao-Pei Huang, Siddhida Pandya, Emma Gautier and Riley Little [sp] Can Instructed Retrieval Models Really Support Exploration? — Piyush Maheshwari, Sheshera Mysore and Hamed Zamani [sp] Information Infrastructures of Play: Metadata, Discourse, and Storytelling in Iranian Video Games — Melinda Cohoon [sp] Not All Transparency Is Equal: Source Presentation Effects on Attention, Interaction, and Persuasion in Conversational Search — Jiangen He and Jiqun Liu [sp] Offscript: Automated Auditing of Instruction Adherence in LLMs — Nicholas Clark, Ryan Bai and Tanu Mitra [sp] Improving Data Reusability in Interactive IR: Insights from the Community — Tianji Jiang, Wenqi Li and Jiqun Liu [sp] Interest-Driven Search in AI-Mediated Information Environments: An Audio Diary Study — Yujin Choi and Soo Young Rieh [sp] Length Effects in Conversation-Style Sustainability Information for Ethical Consumption: An Eye-tracking Study — Letizia Sangoi and Frans van der Sluis [sp] SEA-u-lator: Privacy Preserving Social Engineering Attack Simulator for Gmail — Marcin Pawlukiewicz and Shaun Wallace [demo] Cleo: A Transparent and Controllable Chatbot for Conversational Commerce — Kevin Schott, Jan Lattenkamp, Daniel Hienert and Dagmar Kern [demo] PulseSearch: Modeling Long- and Short-term Patterns for Personalized Music Search Suggestions — Antonios Anagnostou, José Luis Redondo García, Emelie Jin, Jonathan Warburton, Vinay Rao, Yannis Kantarelis, Daniel Lazarovski, Dani Doro, Francesco Cucari, Christine Doig Cardet, Hugues Bouchard, Dominic Child, Jonathan C. Brooks-Bartlett and Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke [demo] Exploring Art through Internet Aesthetics: A Serendipitous Interface for Artpedia — Sophia Rangelova, Bruno Nadalic Sotic and Jaap Kamps [demo] Building a Test Collection for Social Science Dataset Retrieval — Ji Eun Kim, Sara Lafia and Libby Hemphill [rr] In-Browser Agents for Search Assistance — Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer [demo] Expanded Tag Genomes for Cross-Domain Recommendation — Denis Kotkov, Alan Medlar, Dorota Glowacka and Martin Halvey [rr] Interactive Taxonomy Development with Hybrid Methods — Jiaming Qu, Madhu Gopinathan, Shayan Ali Akbar and Omar Alonso [demo] Retrieval-Augmented Search for Large-Scale Map Collections with ColPali — Jamie Mahowald and Benjamin Lee [demo] CHARISMA: Character-Based Interaction Simulation with Multi-LLM Agents Toward Computational Social Psychology — Vahid Sadiri Javadi, Fryderyk Róg, Aksa Aksa, Johanne R. Trippas, Svitlana Vakulenko and Lucie Flek [demo] Seek and You Shall Find: Design & Evaluation of a Context-Aware Interactive Search Companion — Markus Bink, Marten Risius, Udo Kruschwitz and David Elsweiler [demo] Result Assessment Tool (RAT): An Open-Source Toolkit for Conducting Studies based on Search Results — Sebastian Sünkler, Kardelen Bilir, Tuhina Kumar, Oliver Koop, Sebastian Schultheiß and Dirk Lewandowski [demo] SearchPath: A Visual Reminder of Past Search Activity to Support Students with Dyslexia when Undertaking Exploratory Searches — Anita Seihoon, Lynne Beveridge and Orland Hoeber [demo] ImmiGo - An Adaptive Multilingual Chatbot for Immigration Assistance — Stephen Toriola, Anirban Chakraborty and Ingo Frommholz [demo] Measuring What Matters: Aligning System-Level RAG Metrics with User Trust in a High-Stakes Compliance Domain — Paul Momoh and Julius Odede [demo] AskAda: An AI-Anchored Conversational Agent for Scholarly Information Seeking in Educational Contexts to Improve Learning — Ruochen Zhao, Nibras Ar Rakib, Qianru Shi, Sangeun Han and Javed Mostafa [demo] Supporting Humans in Evaluating AI Summaries of Legal Depositions — Naghmeh Farzi, Laura Dietz and David D. Lewis [demo] From SERPs to Agents: A Platform for Comparative Studies of Information Interaction — Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer [rr]
04:30–06:00 PM	Social Event: "The Boys in the Boat" Tour
06:00–09:00 PM	Social Dinner [Conibear Shellhouse]

Wednesday, March 25th, 2026

CHIIR Registration – [Location TBA]

Time	Sessions
08:30–09:00 AM	Breakfast
09:00–10:00 AM	Keynote 2: Xin Luna Dong [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
10:00–10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30–11:45 AM	Session 7: Information Requests and Needs [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
Designing for Complex Information Needs: A Case Study in Special Education Health Services and Future Information Retrieval Systems — Amir Reza Asadi, Jess Kropczynski, Jennifer Johnson, Corey O'Connor, Wesley Reed and Hazem Said [fp] Rules, Resources, and Restrictions: A Taxonomy of Task-Based Information Request Intents — Melanie A. Kilian and David Elsweiler [fp] Tip-of-the-Tongue Search in the Wild: Analyzing Human and LLM Performance and Success Factors on Complex Search Requests — Toine Bogers, Maria Gäde, Mark Hall, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras and Mette Skov [fp]
11:45–01:00 PM	Lunch + CHIIR-It-Forward (Business Meeting)
01:00–02:15 PM	Session 8: Searching over Time [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
Does It Still Make Sense? Organizing and Summarizing Resources in Cross-Session Aggregated Search — Milad Momeni and Orland Hoeber [fp] Don't Break the Flow: Supporting Deferral and Review of Potentially Serendipitous Information in Library Search — Orland Hoeber, Abbas Pirmoradi, Ei Ei Mon and Stephann Makri [fp] Information Farming: From Berry Pickers to Berry Growers — Leif Azzopardi and Adam Roegiest [pp]
02:15–02:45 PM	Coffee Break
02:45–04:15 PM	Session 9: Human-AI Collaboration [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]
"Can You Tell Me?": Designing Copilots to Support Human Judgment in Online Information Seeking — Markus Bink, Marten Risius, David Elsweiler and Udo Kruschwitz [fp] CollabSearch: A Study of User–LLM Collaboration in Task-Based Search — Gloris Denisse Cedeño Batista, Joemon Jose and Hideo Joho [fp] Rethinking Human-AI Collaboration in Information Seeking: Why Epistemic Incompatibility Demands New Design Paradigms — Chirag Shah [pp]
04:15–04:45 PM	Closing Session [South Ballroom (211B, 2nd Floor)]

Thursday, March 26th, 2026

CHIIR Registration – [Location TBA]

Time	Workshops
08:30–09:00 AM	Breakfast
09:00–10:30 AM	Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS) — Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber, Chang Liu, Soo Young Rieh and Luanne Sinnamon [Room TBA]
10:30–11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 PM	Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS) — Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber, Chang Liu, Soo Young Rieh and Luanne Sinnamon [Room TBA]
12:30–01:30 PM	Lunch
01:30–03:00 PM	Workshop on Human-Centered Proactive and Personalized Agents for Interactive Information Access — Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Madhura Raju, Tanya Roosta, Grace Hui Yang and Chirag Shah [Room TBA]
03:00–03:30 PM	Coffee Break
03:30–05:00 PM	Workshop on Human-Centered Proactive and Personalized Agents for Interactive Information Access — Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Madhura Raju, Tanya Roosta, Grace Hui Yang and Chirag Shah [Room TBA]

Paper types

[fp] Full paper
[pp] Perspective paper
[sp] Short paper
[rr] Resource paper
[demo] Demonstration