Sessions at ICCHP 2026
WG13.3 is organizing several sessions at the ICCHP conference, which is being held in Brno in the Czech Republic July 15 – 17 (see https://icchp.org/):
Wednesday 15 July 13:30 – 15:30: Interacting with Data for Understanding and Analysis of Complex Information (organized by Gerhard Weber, Anna Bramwell-Dicks and Helen Petrie)
Wednesday 15 July 16:00 – 17:30 and Thursday 08:30 – 10:00: Indoor and Outdoor Navigation for Disabled People: Challenges and Opportunities (organized by Helen Petrie and Gerhard Weber)
Meetings
July 15 – 17 (exact time and location to be announced)
We will also hold a meeting of anyone interested in the group at the ICCHP conference, an in-person event, but if people would like to join online we will set up a hybrid or separate meeting as well.
July 29
We will also hold an online “ICCHP Reflections” meeting on 29th July at 16:00 CEST (15:00 in UK and Portugal). We will report on interesting talks, activities at the conference and the WG13.3 meeting.
To join: Zoom
Online Courses
In collaboration with WG13.3 (Interaction Design and Children), we are running our free one day courses for PhD students and new researchers again in 2026. These have been very popular in the past.
April 21: Research methods for human-computer interaction
Researchers in human-computer interaction use a wide range of methods drawn from different disciplines and often adapted to the needs of our research areas. This course will provide a framework for thinking about research methods as well as overview of some of the more popular (and some of the more unusual) research methods used in HCI. The course will provide both theoretical and practical advice. These will include both qualitative and quantitative methods, self-report and direct observation with participants. Methods to be covered will include expert evaluation methods, bespoke and standardised questionnaires including the NASA-TLX, verbal protocols, contextual inquiry, experience sampling, true experiments and the Delphi method. If there are particular methods you would like discussed, please contact the organizers as they are open to other possibilities.
May 12: The challenges of working with specific populations
HCI researchers have a long tradition of working with a wide range of different user groups, including children, people with disabilities, older people and people from different cultures. Working with a different population from yourselves can present many challenges to researchers. The ability to work positively with diverse groups of people is a core requirement for successful research. This includes how to recruit appropriate participants, how to work with participants in respectful and successful ways, how to write respectfully about different groups and how to ensure ethical and legal considerations are followed in all cases. In this course, you will cover a wide range of concepts for conducting research with specific populations including ethics and good practice of working with children, people with disabilities and older people. In many cases standard research methods in HCI are applicable to different groups, but care needs to be taken in applying them and some adjustments may be needed to meet the differing needs of different groups. The course will provide you with theoretical underpinnings as well practical advice on how best to work with different user groups in running studies of different kinds. The course is designed for PhD students interested in working with specific user groups to encourage you to critique your approaches and practices.
June 2: Introduction to statistics for HCI researchers
Researchers starting their career in HCI often have little background in the kinds of statistics used to analyse quantitative data from their studies. This course will provide an introduction to how to approach both descriptive and inferential statistics. We will discuss hypothesis testing versus exploratory research questions, probability levels, and the pitfalls of parametric and non-parametric data. We will explain a range of tests including chi-square, t-tests and their non-parametric equivalents, the Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests, as well as correlations, both parametric and non-parametric. We will briefly explore analysis of variance and linear regression, if we have time. We will look at what tests you can do for free using tools from the internet, and what you can do with packages such as SPSS. If many of these terms are a mystery to you, do not worry, the day will explain everything in non-technical, non-scary ways to give you confidence in both reading about and conducting your own statistical analyses.
To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-statistics-for-hci-researchers-tickets-1982002265129?aff=oddtdtcreator
Upcoming events of interest
June 29 – 130: 23rd International Web for All Conference (W4A ’26)
This conference was due to be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, but due to the situation in the region, it will now be held online.
https://www.w4a.info/2026/
July 12 – 15: The 19th Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA 2026)
Crete, Greece
https://www.petrae.org/index.html
July 15 – 17: 20th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP ’26)
Brno, Czech Republic
https://icchp.org/
July 26 – 30: HCI International
Montreal, Canada
https://2026.hci.international/index.html
Often has papers relevant to our area
September 2 – 4: ACM 6th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT26)
Pisa, Italy
https://goodit2026.di.unipi.it/index.html
Has a special track this year “Advancing Inclusive and Accessible Technologies”
https://sites.google.com/view/advancing-inclusive-tech/home
September 15 – 18: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2026)
Siena, Italy
https://ecce2026.unisi.it/
(Inclusivity is one of the main themes for the conference this year)
October 5 – 7: NordiCHI 2026
Vaasa, Finland
https://sites.uwasa.fi/nordichi2026/
Often has papers relevant to our area
October 25 – 28: 28th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2026)
Porto, Portugal
https://assets26.sigaccess.org/
November 4 – 6: 8th International Universal Design Conference (UD26)
Galway City, Republic of Ireland
https://ud26.ie/
March 8 – 12, 2027: CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
Anaheim, California, USA
https://www.csun.edu/cod/conference
April 7 – 9 2027: Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology
Cambridge, UK
https://www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com/conference/
Note the deadline for full papers is 8 July 2026
September 8 – 10, 2027: Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE) Conference
Mechelen, Belgium
https://aaate2027.eu/