Community Showcase 2
Date: Tuesday 3 Nov 2026
Time: 14:50–15:20
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| Time | Presentation | Abstract | Authors | Contribution type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:50-15:05 | The Wrong Question: Is Generative Artificial Intelligence Replacing Sketching? | Generative AI has reignited a long-standing question in design: Does manual sketching still matter when images can be created instantly from text? Our hot take is that this is the wrong question. Rather than replacing sketching, GenAI is exposing what sketching has always offered beyond image production: thinking, reflection, ambiguity, and dialogue. Drawing on preliminary findings from two recent case studies, we argue that the future of sketching is neither analogue nor GenAI-driven, but hybrid. At the same time, we challenge the HCI community to consider the ethical and educational implications of increasingly outsourcing creative processes to generative systems. Through an interactive presentation, participants will contribute their own perspectives, helping to shape an evolving conversation about what should—and should not—be delegated to GenAI in creative practice. | Lewis, Sturdee, Lengyel | Community |
| 15:05-15:20 | Writing so much - Changing so little: Towards Enhanced Participation of Children in HCI Research | The ChiCI group at the University of Lancashire have spent more than ten years seeking ways to improve the agency of children in HCI activity. Encouraging full participation without selection, facilitating non-participation, avoiding gathering personal data, explaining data to even the youngest children, and reporting back, are all methods we have explored. This talk reflects on our work to date and asks where this research is going and what has been its impact on the community. In pushing for children's participation to be valued and to be much more than tokenism, we firstly ask ourselves to what extent we have followed our own standards and then we question the way we have chosen to communicate our research – largely as academic outputs - which has been largely ineffective in changing practice. Our report card reads ‘must do better’ - in delivering this talk – we seek a roadmap for improvement. | Read, Horton, Fitton, Sim | Community |