ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2026
Organised and ran the Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design (CAMCAD) workshop, continuing the series of Child-Centred AI workshops at CHI 2023 and 2024. I assembled the team of ten co-organisers, led the proposal writing, ran the website, call for papers, and submission portal, managed peer review of 15 submissions, and coordinated the co-authored post-workshop report.
The workshop opened with a keynote from Professor Netta Iivari (University of Oulu) on fostering transformative agency of children in the age of AI, followed by five invited talks, a poster session with fourteen accepted submissions, and group discussion on design responses to the risks AI poses to children’s agency.
The extended abstract is published in the CHI 2026 Proceedings, and the recordings, accepted submissions, and full workshop report are on the workshop website.
Barcelona, Spain
Hi 👋😊! I’m Vidminas (most people call me Vid), a postdoc on the CHAILD project splitting time between the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and the Institute of Education, University College London.
I am interested in technology and education, and more specifically researching and developing technologies that empower people. The current CHAILD project focus is about defining and designing for agency in children and young people’s use of AI tools.
I completed my PhD at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh in March 2026, supervised by Professor Fiona McNeill and Professor Judy Robertson. The project was about better understanding and designing tools to help teachers search for educational resources.
I am always keen to chat about teaching and learning, human-computer interaction, participatory research, and designing applications for good, feel free to get in touch!