SICSA Pre-CHI Day 2026
Presented “Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design” at the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance’s Pre-CHI Day, which gives Scotland’s HCI community a chance to see the work heading to CHI.
The talk introduced the CAMCAD workshop and the question behind it: how might AI applications be designed to support collaborative agency between children and the other people in their lives – peers, teachers, and parents?
University of Stirling, Scotland
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!