ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2026
Co-authored the full paper “Agency in Child–AI Interaction: A Review of How It Is Conceptualised, Studied, and Supported in HCI”, presented by Isobel Voysey at the 25th Interaction Design and Children conference.
The paper reviews 25 recent HCI studies and finds that children’s agency is rarely defined explicitly, with conceptualisations varying between something children innately possess and something to be developed. It maps how researchers observe agency – through children’s planning and self-regulation, asserting control over AI systems, and critique and re-design of the status quo – and the epistemic, interactional, social, and motivational conditions reported to enable or constrain it.
Brighton, England
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!