Do MLLMs Capture How Interfaces Guide User Behavior? A Benchmark for Multimodal UI/UX Design Understanding
  • Jaehyun Jeon, Min Soo Kim, Janghan Yoon, Sumin Shim, Yejin Choi, Hanbin Kim, Dae Hyun Kim, Youngjae Yu
  • Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

Multi-turn Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Behaviours in Large Language Models
  • Lujain Ibrahim, Canfer Akbulut, Rasmi Elasmar, Charvi Rastogi, Minsuk Kahng, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kevin R McKee, Verena Rieser, Murray Shanahan, Laura Weidinger
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)

Best Paper Award
Supporting Multimodal Data Interaction on Refreshable Tactile Displays: An Architecture to Combine Touch and Conversational AI
  • Samuel Reinders, Munazza Zaib, Matthew Butler, Bongshin Lee, Ingrid Zukerman, Lizhen Qu, Kim Marriott
  • IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis 2026)

Cerebra: Aligning Implicit Knowledge in Interactive SQL Authoring
  • Yunfan Zhou, Qiming Shi, Zhongsu Luo, Xiwen Cai, Yanwei Huang, Dae Hyun Kim, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

Challenges in Synchronous & Remote Collaboration Around Visualization
  • Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Alark Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Gabriela Molina León, Harald Reiterer, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Jonathan Schwabish, Brian A. Smith, Yasuyuki Sumi, Ryo Suzuki, Anthony Tang, Yalong Yang, Jian Zhao
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

Data-Prompt Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Creation of Interactive Story Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
  • Jiangnan Xu, Haeseul Cha, Gosu Choi, Gyu-cheol Lee, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Zucheul Lee, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim, Juho Kim
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

HyPockeTuner: Bringing Hyperparameter Optimization to Mobile Devices
  • Donghee Hong, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook Seo, Jaemin Jo
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

Transformer Explainer: Learning LLM Transformers with Interactive Visual Explanation and Experimentation
  • Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Seongmin Lee, Alec Helbling, Benjamin Hoover, Zijie J. Wang, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng Chau
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

Understanding Spatiotemporal-Aware Multimodal Conversational Search in the Outdoor Urban Space
  • Jiangnan Xu, Suyeon Seo, Joni Salminen, Michael Saker, Joongi Shin, Alan Chamberlain, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

Honorable Mention Award
Unpacking Visual Metaphors in Infographics: A Design Space
  • Yukai Guo, Lanxi Xiao, Xinhuan Shu, Qiong Wu, Bongshin Lee, Shixia Liu
  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

CANVAS: A Benchmark for Vision-Language Models on Tool-Based User Interface Designs
  • Daeheon Jeong, Seoyeon Byun, Kihoon Son, Dae Hyun Kim, Juho Kim
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)

SalusChart: A Data Visualization Library for Mobile Health Apps
Understanding Over-the-Counter Medication Decision-Making Among Older Adults and Caregivers
  • Mengying Li, Harshitha Kommaraju, Jarrett G.W. Lee, Seongjae Bae, Siqiao Austin Ao, Bongshin Lee, Eun Kyoung Choe
  • Proceedings of AMIA, accepted for publication

Envisioning Mobile Data Visualization Libraries for Digital Health
From Vision to Touch: Bridging Visual and Tactile Principles for Accessible Data Representation
  • Kim Marriott, Matthew Butler, Leona Holloway, William Jolley, Bongshin Lee, Bruce Maguire, Danielle Albers Szafr
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2025)

PiCCL: Data-Driven Composition of Bespoke Pictorial Charts
  • Haoyan Shi, Yunhai Wang, Junhao Chen, Chenglong Wang, Bongshin Lee
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2025)

Semantic-Structural Alignment for Generative Pictorial Charts
  • Zhida Sun, Yulin Zhang, Zheng Gu, Min Lu, Bongshin Lee, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Visualizing Information on Smartwatch Faces: A Review and Design Space
  • Alaul Islam, Tingying He, Anastasia Bezerianos, Tanja Blascheck, Bongshin Lee, Petra Isenberg
  • Information Visualization (SAGE Journals)

COMPASS: A Framework for Evaluating Organization-Specific Policy Alignment in LLMs
  • Dasol Choi, DongGeon Lee, Brigitta Jesica Kartono, Helena Berndt, Taeyoun Kwon, Joonwon Jang, Haon Park, Hwanjo Yu, Minsuk Kahng
  • arXiv

Dataset-Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction
  • Hyeon Jeon, Jeongin Park, Soohyun Lee, Dae Hyun Kim, Sungbok Shin, Jinwook Seo
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2025)