ubix @ CHI 2026

ubix group contributions to the leading conference in human-computer interaction

The ACM CHI conference takes place April 13 – 17 2026 in Barcelona, and some of our projects at the intersection of #visualization and synchronous collaboration will be presented:

First, the very talented Dion Barja visited me last year from the University of Manitoba for a University of Waterloo Undergraduate Research Fellowship, funded in part by an NSERC USRA award. He will present our paper “Glass Chirolytics:
Reciprocal Compositing and Shared Gestural Control for Face-to-Face Collaborative Visualization at a Distance” in the Collaborative/Shared XR session on Monday April 13 at 11:15. Read the pre-print at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.05864

Next, my co-authors Maxime Cordeil (University of Queensland) and Christopher Hurter (University of Toulouse) will present “Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization” at the “Methodological Foundations” paper session on Thursday April 16 at 09:00. This paper follows a recent NII Shonan seminar and synthesizes the perspectives of Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Gabriela Molina León, Harald Reiterer, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Jonathan Schwabish, Brian A. Smith, Yasuyuki Sumi, Ryo Suzuki, Anthony Tang, Yalong Yang, and Jian Zhao. Read the pre-print at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.05871 and watch my talk video:

Finally, my collaborator Narges Mahyar (City St George’s, University of London) will attend the Workshop on Craft-Based Data Physicalization Wednesday April 15, where she will represent our workshop submission “Community Craft and Embodied Input Physicalization at the Playground,” which we wrote along with Foroozan Danehszand, Negar Ghorashi, and Sydney K Purdue. Check out our extended abstract at https://osf.io/a5u63/files/hz6au.