Program

Accepted CI Papers

Accepted CI papers are published in the CI 2026 conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.

• Communication Heterogeneity and Collective Consensus in Neural Cellular Automata

  Nishit Singh

• Disentangling Threads: Exploring the Potential of LLM-Supported Discussion Forum Analysis for Community Insight

  Tony Wang Li, Zhiqing Wang, Thanh-Nha Tran, Grace Yu-Chun Yen and Steven Dow

• Engineering Predictable Turing Patterns for Spatial Organisation in Swarm Robotics

  Clementine Fry, Stuart Thomson and Sabine Hauert

• Hackalysis: Detecting Hackathon-Origin Software Through Temporal and Structural Repository Traces

  Eisha Tir Raazia, Carlos Vivar Rios, Robin Franken and François Grey

• Identifying Broadly Effective Approaches for Users with Different Abilities

  Ryota Maruo, Kyohei Atarashi and Hisashi Kashima

• Implicit Physical Coordination as a Group-Level Trait: Preliminary Evidence from Youth Football

  Nouhayla Majdoubi, Taha Jebbar, Mehdi Moussaid and Brent Strickland

• Personal Research Ontologies for Personal Open Science

  Jonas Oppenlaender

• SleuthTalk: Supporting Historical Photo Identification with Private Workspaces for Collective Sensemaking and Deliberation

  Liling Yuan, Vikram Mohanty and Kurt Luther

Accepted CI Talks

• A Cognitive Account of Density Effects in Highly-Interdependent Networks

  Cleotilde Gonzalez, Palvi Aggarwal and Don Morrison

• Agents Are Instruments, Not Pilots: Capturing Expert Signal as Reliability Infrastructure for Agentic AI

  Marisa Ferrara Boston

• AI as a Caring Neighbor: Shaping Collective Environmental Health Intelligence through Community Knowledge Ecosystems

  Avina Nakarmi, Subhodeep Ghosh, Anthony Diaz, Neil Maher, Alisha Pradhan and Aritra Dasgupta

• Anchored Minds, Collective Foresight: How Collective Intelligence Reshapes the Perceived Ruggedness of a Smooth Problem

  Thomas Maillart and Johannes Castner

• Connections between Interactions

  Michelle Vaccaro

• Conversational Forecasting using Hyperchat AI vs a large-scale Prediction Market

  Hans Schumann, Louis Rosenberg, Gregg Willcox and David Baltaxe

• Metacognitive AI and Peer Information in Collective Decisions

  Xiang Cheng, Eaman Jahani and Siva Viswanathan

• Open practices across science, software, education and other domains

  John Meluso, Cassandra Chambers, Richard Littauer, Nerea Llamas, Elizabeth Long Lingo, Marlene Mhangami, Beck Pitt, Violetta Splitter and Huajin Wang

• Preference-based deliberation optimizes for endorsement, not efficiency

  Russ Yoon

• Reimagining Scientific Discovery: Collective Intelligence Through the Convergence of Citizen Science and Computational Systems

  Saiph Savage, Lea Shanley, Lucy Fortson, Corey Jackson, Kevin Crowston, Tanya Berger-Wolf and Haley Griffin

• Same Structure, Different Trajectories: Community Dissolution on an AI Agent Social Platform

  Shichao Jia

• Social learning drives underprioritization of collective challenges

  Russ Yoon and Vicky Chuqiao Yang

• Where can AI be used? Insights from a deep ontology of work activities

  Alice Cai, Iman YeckehZaare, Shuo Sun, Vasiliki Charisi, Xinru Wang, Aiman Imran, Robert Laubacher, Alok Prakash and Thomas Malone

• Worse Leader Quality Resulted in More Coordinated But Less Adaptive Voting Patterns in a Dynamic Environment

  Joshua Cox, Miruna Cotet, Henrik Olsson and Mirta Galesic

Posters and Demos

• A Mobile Tool for Naturalistically Logging Human Information-Seeking Across Search Engines and Conversational AI Poster

  Andy Luu and Vassilis Kostakos

• A taxonomy of rater disagreements: Surveying challenges & opportunities from the perspective of annotating online toxicity Poster

  Wenbo Zhang, Saptarshi Roy, Saatvik Pradhan, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Ian D. Kivlichan, Davis Yadav, Hangzhi Guo and Amulya Yadav

• Adoption Depth and Organizational-Labor Transformation in the AI Era Poster

  Anuoluwapo Joshua

• AI in Information Cascades Poster

  Yiqun Wang

• An Empirical Study on Human Evaluation of Legal Generative AI Applications Poster

  Robert Kingan, Leslie Barrett, Tina Tseng and Micah Rappazzo

• Anchored Sequential Deliberation: Slower Convergence, More Stable Outcomes Poster

  Sijing Tu and Ashish Goel

• BenchMarkerUI: An Interactive System for Auditing and Repairing Multiple-Choice Benchmarks Demo

  Hyunjin Oh, Nishant Balepur and Jordan Boyd-Graber

• Beyond AI Uncertainty: Predicting When Human Review Will Actually Improve an AI Decision Poster

  Akbar Mohammed, Sambasiva Rao Akkisetti, Naveen Anand Mishra and Satya Karteek Gudipati

• Beyond Consensus: Designing AI Summaries That Preserve Dissent in Group Decision-Making Poster

  Naveen Anand Mishra, Satya Karteek Gudipati, Akbar Mohammed and Gopikanth Ankam

• Beyond the Traceback: Crowdsourced Calibration of Skill-Targeted LLM Explanations for Programming Errors Poster

  Alexandru-Radu Moraru, Shreyan Biswas and Ujwal Gadiraju

• BirdsongChat: Cross-Modal Generation and Interactive Control for Bird Motion and Soundscape Demo

  Ellie Zhang, Callie Liao and Duoduo Liao

• Collective Intelligence Simulator: An Interactive Testbed for Studying Team Decisions Across Agile Sprints Demo

  Arslan Sultan and Juan Garbajosa

• Decoding the Mind of the Machine: A Cognitive Evaluation Framework of Perception and Adaptation in Language Models Poster

  Siyu Wu, Aritra Bandyopadhyay, Jonathan Francis, Alessandro Oltramari and Frank Ritter

• Diamond In The Sky: Towards Human–AI Complementary Story-Driven Learning Environment for Children's STEM Education Poster

  Tisha Khandokar

• Dynamic Complementarity in Human–LLM Collaboration: Modeling Competence Evolution Over Repeated Decision Tasks Poster

  Negin Yazdani Motlagh, Negar Yazdani Motlagh and Lewis Tseng

• Dynamic Opinion-policy Feedback Model Explains Long-Term Patterns of Public Opinion Change Poster

  Rachael Kha

• Evaluating Beyond the Screen: Collective Assessment of AI-Generated Business Plans with Resource-Constrained Entrepreneurs Poster

  Qi Zhao, Marjory Pineda, Ketul Chhaya, Aakash Gautam and Yasmine Kotturi

• Evaluation and Best Practices of AI-Assisted Thematic Analysis Poster

  Teddy Wright, Nastaran Jadidi, Sara Yeo and Vineet Pandey

• Exploration vs. Fixation: Scaffolding Divergent and Convergent Thinking for Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models Poster

  Chao Wen, Tung Phung, Pronita Mehrotra, Sumit Gulwani, Roger Beaty, Tomohiro Nagashima and Adish Singla

• GeoVision: Designing a Complementary Human-AI Workflow for Cue-Based Geolocation Poster

  Kirk Knutsen and Kurt Luther

• Human vs AI Instruction in Multilingual Conversational Crowdsourcing: Effects on Crowdworker Performance, Efficiency and Interaction Poster

  Jose Libreros, Tasneem Hussain, Florian Schlechte and Matthias Hirth

• Human-AI Co-Construction of Verifiable Narrative Identity: A Pilot Study on Family Stories Poster

  Cheng-En Tsai, Fanfan Chen and Jane Yung-Jen Hsu

• Human-AI Collaboration for Detecting AI-Generated Media: Just-in-Time Advice from Experts and LLMs Poster

  Negar Kamali, Aakriti Kumar, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Candice Gerstner, Jessica Hullman and Matthew Groh

• Human-AI Collaborative Ontology Editing: An LLM-Assisted Dashboard for Improving an Ontology of Work Activities Poster

  Yilin Yang, Sophia Min, Alice Cai, Xinru Wang, Aadya Nishtha, Shuo Sun, Iman YeckehZaare and Thomas Malone

• Human-AI Complementarity in Poverty Governance: An Interpretable XGBoost Scorecard for Calibrating Human Decision-Making Poster

  Md Foysal Ahmed, Md Main Uddin Rony and Mohaimen Mansur

• Knowing When Humans Need More Help: Confidence-Aware Enterprise AI Decision Support Poster

  Satheeshkumar Ponugoti and Gopikanth Ankam

• Mapping AI Exposure Across the U.S. Workforce: Evidence from Millions of AI Conversations Poster

  Teddy Wright, Alice Schwarze and Zach Boyd

• Mental Models and Personalization of Model Selection Poster

  Zezhen He, Xinlan Emily Hu, Dean Eckles and Renee Gosline

• Merging the Interaction Gap: A RAG-Driven Contextual Knowledge Graph for Human-AI Communication in Interactive Data Products Poster

  Jawwad Shadman Siddique

• Multi-Agent Debate for Human-AI Decision-Making Poster

  Harry Tian and Ming Yin

• MusiChat: Vibe Composing for Music Creation Demo

  Callie Liao, Duoduo Liao and Ellie Zhang

• Performance, Suggestion Adoption, and Trust in Iterative AI-Assisted Ideation Poster

  Jiacheng Sun and Ting Liao

• PersonaSmith: Human-Centered Calibration of LLM Personas through Dynamic Profile Optimization Poster

  Shi-Wei Dai, Yan-Wei Shie, Lun-Wei Ku and Yung-Hui Li

• Preserving the Record of a Cultural Computing Community: A Human-AI Collaborative Knowledge Graph Workflow Poster

  Lindsey Hartman

• Principled Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models: A Survey of Probabilistic Foundations and Frontiers Poster

  Jatin Chopra

• Right Advice, Wrong Reasons: Effect of Reasoning Alignment on Trust and Reliance in AI Advisors Poster

  Eunkyu Park, Vasudha Varadarajan, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Anisha Reddy, Gunhee Kim, Motahhare Eslami, Jana Schaich Borg and Maarten Sap

• Should an Expert Specialize, Synthesize, or Speculate? Discovering Latent Clusters and Ensemble Probabilities through Bandit-Arm Bid Search and Arbitrage Poster

  Theodore Ledford

• Supporting Personal Investigative Sensemaking with an Emotion-Adaptive AI Assistant Poster

  Fei Shan and Kurt Luther

• Temporal Alignment Impacts Human–AI collaboration in a Cooperative Task Poster

  Grace Roessling, Chase McDonald and Cleotilde Gonzalez

• Trusted but Untouched: How Opacity and Audience Distance Stall Synthetic Interview Outputs Before Collective Sensemaking Poster

  Inyeop Kim, Eunsol Lee, Miyoung Seo, Younghyun Choi and Kyung Sakong

• Trustworthy Autonomy at Hyperscale: Granular Authorization, Human Oversight, and Progressive Crystallization for Production AI Agents Poster

  Arun Malik

• VibeJam: A User Study Platform for Web Development with Agents Demo

  Nishant Balepur, Connor Baumler, Valerie Chen, Eunsol Choi, Rachel Rudinger and Jordan Boyd-Graber

• What Should Humans Refuse to Delegate to AI? A Turing Test for Civilization Poster

  Utsav Gupta

• Where AI Helps a Design Workflow—and Where It Does Not: Stage-Level Human–AI Complementarity in Multi-Agent Design Thinking Poster

  Younghyun Choi, Inyeop Kim, Jiyeon Lee, Janghyun Park, Nahye Kim and Kyung Sakong

• Which Piece Should I Play Next? Human–AI Collaboration for Personalized Music-Difficulty Assessment Poster

  Arman Bahraini and Eli Tilevich

• Who Decides Which AI to Use? Expert Weighting Diverges from Leaderboards Across Three Deployment Contexts Poster

  Buse Esirik and Ebru Gökalp

Doctoral Consortium Students

• Adaptive Communication in AI-Mediated Systems

  Ruyuan Wan

• AI Agents for Supporting Group Collaboration in Education

  Prerna Ravi

• AI and Collective Information Aggregation

  Yiqun Wang

• AI as a Collaborative Agent for Neurodivergent Adults: Design for Work, Productivity, and Communication

  Zinat Ara

• AI Disengagement

  Shreya Chappidi

• Balancing Learning and Sourcing: Human-AI Complementarity in Learnersourcing

  Yuzhe Zhou

• Evaluation in the Age of Automated Expertise: Supporting Human Judgment in Human-AI Red-Teaming Teams

  Alice Qian

• The Collective Intelligence Implementation Gap

  Nouhayla Majdoubi

• The Universalization Problem in Content Moderation: Towards Culturally Adaptive Evaluation and Governance of Harmful Speech

  Farida Eleshin

• Tools and Methods for Worker-Centered AI

  Kashif Imteyaz