CAMCAD

Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design workshop at CHI 2026

Call for proposals

The Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design (CAMCAD) at CHI 2026 workshop organisers invite researchers, designers, educators, and practitioners for an afternoon of sharing and exploration of how AI applications could be designed to support children and young people in making informed decisions and enacting them meaningfully.

This workshop builds on previous Child-Centred AI workshops at CHI 2023 and 2024. This year’s theme is collaborative agency. Through this lens, we are interested in how children and young people can be supported in making and acting on decisions not just as individuals, but in collaboration with others, such as peers, teachers, and parents.

Unlike in previous years, there is no additional cost for attending conference workshops at CHI 2026. We are not anticipating to be able to support remote or hybrid attendance, workshops will run only in-person this year. We are expecting approximately 20 participants to attend the workshop.

Find out more

• Program — schedule of talks, poster session, and workshop activities
• Map — venue location and room details
• Participants — list of workshop organisers and attendees
• Submit — topics of interest, submission guidelines, and the submission portal
• Submissions — accepted workshop submissions

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Important Dates

• Thursday, December 18, 2025: Submissions Open
• Thursday, February 12, 2026 [extended to Monday, February 16, 2026] end of day Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time: Submission Deadline
• Wednesday, February 25, 2026: Author Notifications (one week prior to CHI early bird registration deadline)
• Wednesday, March 17, 2026 end of day Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time: Camera-ready Submission Deadline
• Monday-Friday, 13–17 April, 2026: CHI 2026 Conference
  • Thursday 16 April, 2026; 14:15 - 18:00 (CEST): CAMCAD Workshop

Acknowledgments

The workshop is organised by the University of Oxford Child-Centred AI Design Lab team and colleagues from University College London, University of Oulu, Raspberry Pi Foundation, and University of Edinburgh.

This work is supported by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Cross Research Council Responsive Mode projects CHAILD - Children’s Agency In the age of AI: Leveraging InterDisciplinarity (MR/Z505882/1) and GRASPING DATA: Co-creating Physicalizations to Empower Young Children to Interact with, Understand, and Benefit from Their Personal Data (MR/Z505602/1) and the Research Council of Finland funded project Critical DataLit: Cultivating justice-oriented data literacies among GenZ (Grant #354445).

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.