Conferences Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.  

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ICS '26: 2026 International Conference on Supercomputing

OCTANE: Breaking the Neighbor-List Bottleneck in GPU Molecular Dynamics
By Hanieh Toutouni, Suman Chakraborty, Yicheng Tu, Jiajun Huang
Best Paper Award at ICS '26: 2026 International Conference on Supercomputing

CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

Who Does Your AI Work For? Designing Conversational Agents as Digital Fiduciaries
By Jacob Erickson
Best Provocation Honorable Mention Award at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

Intelligence Is Not All You Need: A Case for Artificial Wisdom in Conversational Agents
By Matthias Kraus
Best Provocation Award at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

Towards a Typology of User Engagement in Conversational Agent Voting Advice Applications
By Daan van der Weijden, Thilo Ignaz Dieing, Fynn Bachmann
Best Poster Honorable Mention Award at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

The Role of Generative Summarisation in Agent-Mediated Reflection for Youth Social Prescribing
By Minseo Cho, Martina C. Di Simplicio, Rafael A Calvo
ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026 at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

AI Interviews the Interviewers: Practitioner Experience and Evaluation of Conversational AI Interviewing
By Nhi Dam, Leonhard Glomann
Inspiring Industry Paper Award at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

Sruthi: What Becomes Sayable Through Peer-Mode Reflective Scaffolding in Fieldwork Communication
By Srividya Sheshadri, Manju Balakrishnan Pillai, Renuka Kumar, Pavithra P M Nair, Apoorv Gupta, Megha Tm, Ms, Sooraj S Nair, Balu M Menon, Unnikrishnan Radhakrishnan, Bhavani Rao R
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

Empathy through the Lens of Conversational Agents: A Systematic Review
By Supriya Khadka, Smit Desai
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

Designing a Feedback Loop Between a Human and Their AI Clones for Science Communication in Museums
By Shutaro Aoyama, Kiyoshi Suganuma, He Jiang, Shunichi Kasahara
Best Paper Award at CUI '26: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026

ICMR '26: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Painting the Past: Interactive Lifelog Retrieval with Drawable Temporal Heatmaps
By Allie Tran, Hyowon Lee
Best Lifelog Search System at ICMR '26: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

HPG '26: High-Performance Graphics

Real-time Path Tracing of Massive Dynamic Foliage
By Dirk Gerrit van Antwerpen, Pascal Gautron, Edd Biddulph, Christoph Kubisch, Jan Schmid, Martin Stich
Wolfgang Straßer Award (3rd place, tied) at HPG '26: High-Performance Graphics

Ray Tracing Massive Amounts of Animated Geometry
By Holger Gruen, Carsten Benthin, Michael Kern, David McAllister
Wolfgang Straßer Award (3rd place, tied) at HPG '26: High-Performance Graphics

Memory-Efficient Bounding Volume Hierarchies with Merged Nodes for Hardware Ray Tracing
By Jacob Haydel, Andrew Kensler, Erik Brunvand, Cem Yuksel
Wolfgang Straßer Award (2nd place) at HPG '26: High-Performance Graphics

Compatibility-Guided Neighbor Selection for ReSTIR
By Orion Junkins, Markus Kettunen, Daqi Lin, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Chris Wyman
Wolfgang Straßer Award (Best Paper) at HPG '26: High-Performance Graphics

C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

What Makes an AI Writing Companion a Good Fit? A Personality-Informed Co-Design Study
By Mengke Wu, Kexin Quan, Weizi Liu, Mike Yao, Jessie Chin
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Synthetic Gestures: An Evolutionary Sketching Machine
By Matt DesLauriers
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Seed Bank, Co-op, Stoop Swap: Metaphors for Governing Language Model Data for Creative Writing
By Alicia Guo, Carly Schnitzler, Katy Gero
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Resonant Data, Embodied Memory: Reimagining Learning through Counter-Narratives and Affective Data Practices
By Tania Villalobos Lujan, Maham Fatima, Pratim Sengupta, Lora Oehlberg
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Engaging Older Adults in Online Everyday Creativity with Sound-Based Art
By Melika Adabinejad, Celine Latulipe
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Creativity in the BioFoundry: Supporting scientific creativity in the age of automation
By Mingyan Tian, Sarah Sterman
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Collective Craft: How Artists Collaborate to Train AI-based Audio Synthesis Model for Music
By Théo Jourdan, Jules Françoise, Frédéric Bevilacqua
Honorable Mention & Emma Candy Award at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Beadle: Exploring, Perceiving, and Redesigning Thermoplastic Materiads using Fuse Beads
By Mariah J Gardner, Mohammad Abu Nasir Rakib, Cesar Torres
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
By Shm Garanganao Almeda, John Joon Young Chung, Sophia Liu, Yuwen Lu, Brett Halperin, Bjoern Hartmann, Max Kreminski
Honorable Mention at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Zines as a movement point: Engaging with the margin for alternative dreaming
By Mimi Shalf, Celeste Moreno, Ronni Hayden, Ricarose Roque
Best Pictorial at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

Towards Praxis GenAI: Exploring Generative AI Tools for Huayao Embroidery Craft Practice
By Nick Bryan-Kinns, Duoduo Zhang, Hao Li, Mengzhi He, Xiaojing Yuan, Xin Zhao, Ilia Pavlov, Yijing Yang, Sanyi Wang
Best Paper at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

"Creating the World with Order!': Designing Tangible Toolkit to Support Creative Expression and Wellbeing for Individuals with ASD
By Yibo Meng, Lyumanshan Ye, Yifan Feng, Rong Fu, Bingyi Liu, Linghao Li, Nan Gao
Best Paper at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

How Playwrights Use Software: Towards Writing Support Tools for Performance
By Ace S. Chen, Isabel Li, Phoebe Huq, Rye Donaldson, Kathryn E. Ringland
Best Paper at C&C '26: Creativity and Cognition

HPDC '26: The 35th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

Pome: Parallelizing I/Os and Computations for Efficient LSM-tree-based Data Storage
By Yanpeng Hu, Li Zhu, Lei Jia, Chundong Wang
Best Paper Award at HPDC '26: The 35th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

Demonstrating InteractOR: Intraoperative Patient Image Interaction Through Surgical Instruments
By Nour Karoui, Anaïs Seroul, Isabelle Bloch, Ignacio Avellino
Best Demo at IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Parent Selection Mechanisms in Elitist Crossover-Based Algorithms
By Andre Opris, Denis Antipov
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Evolution With Purpose: Hierarchy-Informed Optimization of Whole-Brain Models
By Hormoz Shahrzad, Niharika Gajawelli, Kaitlin Maile, Manish Saggar, Risto Miikkulainen
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Evolving Multi-Channel Confidence-Aware Activation Functions for Missing Data with Channel Propagation
By Naeem Shahabi Sani, Ferial Najiantabriz, Shayan Shafaei, Dean Hougen
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

A Learning-Based Cooperative Coevolution Framework for Heterogeneous Large-Scale Global Optimization
By Wenjie Qiu, Zixin Wang, Hongyu Fang, Zeyuan Ma, Yue-Jiao Gong
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Introns and Templates Matter: Rethinking Linkage in GP-GOMEA
By Johannes Koch, Tanja Alderliesten, Peter Bosman
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Multi-objective Local Optima Networks based on Decomposition
By Gabriela Ochoa, Quentin Renau, Arnaud Liefooghe, Jonathan Fieldsend
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Distributional Value Estimation Without Target Networks for Robust Quality-Diversity
By Behrad Koohy, Jamie Bayne
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

A Heterogeneous Ant Colony Framework with Semantic Manifold Learning for Dynamic Ore-Flow Blending
By Hao Tang, Changhe Li, Guoyu Chen, Shoufei Han, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Miqing Li
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models
By Sam Earle, Kai Arulkumaran, Akarsh Kumar, Andrew Dai, Julian Togelius, Sebastian Risi
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Exploration of Pareto-preserving Search Space Transformations in Multi-objective Test Functions
By Diederick Vermetten, Jeroen Rook
Best Paper Award at GECCO '26: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

SPAA '26: 38th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

The Local/Global Disk Problem: How to Use Shared High-Bandwidth Storage Economically
By Michael A. Bender, Philip Bille, Martín Farach-Colton, Jeremy Fineman, Inge Li Gørtz, Michael T. Goodrich, Hanna Komlós, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, William Kuszmaul, Rose Silver, Todd Veldhuizen, Renfei Zhou
Outstanding Paper at SPAA '26: 38th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Energy-Efficient Aggregation and Minimum-Degree Spanning Trees in Radio Networks
By Yi-Jun Chang, Yang Ze Guan
Outstanding Paper at SPAA '26: 38th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Scheduler Augmentation: A Lightweight, Customizable, Low-Cost Profiling Technique for Fork-Join Parallel Programs
By Sam Westrick, Darshan Dinesh Kumar, Seong-Heon Jung
Best Paper at SPAA '26: 38th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

EICS '26: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

XARP: A Human-First and Agent-Ready Extended Reality Toolkit in Python
By Arthur Caetano, Radha Kumaran, Kelvin Jou, Tobias Höllerer, Misha Sra
Honorable Mention Award at EICS '26: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

UXTracker: A Tool for Conducting and Analyzing Longitudinal User Experience Studies
By Willian Garcias Assuncao, Luciana Zaina, Joelma Choma
Best Paper Award at EICS '26: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

µPoly: a First Microgesture Toolkit
By Adrien Chaffangeon Caillet, Aurélien Conil, Vincent Lambert, Charles Bailly, Alix Goguey, Laurence Nigay
Best Paper Award at EICS '26: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

“…So It Must Be Autistic”: Barbie Dolls as Sites of Speculation on How We Understand Invisible Health Conditions
By Benedetta Lusi, Sofia Bastoni, Francesca Toso, Cristina Zaga
Honorable Mention at IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

Approaching Healthcare HCI: Reflections on Developing A Patient-Centered Method for Empathetic AI in the Emergency Department
By Jacobe Klein, Tanita Daniel, Malte Heiser, Yasemin Mutlugil, Claudia Müller-Birn
Honorable Mention at IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

Who Is in the Room? Stakeholder Perspectives on AI Recording in Pediatric Emergency Care
By Alexandre De Masi, Sergio Manzano, Johan N. Siebert, Frédéric Ehrler
Honorable Mention at IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

Digital Phenotyping and the Cumulative Burden of Self-Management of Bipolar Disorder
By Karin Bogdanova, Nazli Cila, Olya Kudina, Alessandro Bozzon
Honorable Mention at IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

Patient-Centered Health Data-Sharing: How to Consider Values for Designing Better Consent Interfaces
By David Leimstädtner, Ulrike Schäfer, Laura Jürgensmeier, Odette Wegwarth, Claudia Müller-Birn
Best Paper at IH '26: Interactive Health Conference

PASC '26: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

Combining Domain and Tensor Parallelism to Train Multi-billion-parameter AI Weather Models
By Deifilia Kieckhefen, Markus Götz, Lars Helge Heyen, Achim Streit, Charlotte Debus
PASC26 Best Paper Award at PASC '26: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

SIGSIM-PADS '26: 40th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

Grid Checkpointing in Speculative Simulation
By Andrea Mazzucchi, Francesco Quaglia
Best Paper Award at SIGSIM-PADS '26: 40th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Language Embeddings Meet Shallow Autoencoder
By Rodrigo Alves, Vojtěch Vančura, Pavel Kordík, Antoine Ledent
Best Short Paper Candidate at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

CALISSTA: Calibrated Candidate Retrieval Using Sparse Autoencoders and Top-k Aggregation
By Patrik Dokoupil, Ludovico Boratto, Ladislav Peska
Best Short Paper Candidate at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Leveraging Artist Catalogs for Cold-Start Music Recommendation
By Yan-Martin Tamm, Gregor Meehan, Vojtěch Nekl, Vojtech Vancura, Rodrigo Alves, Johan Pauwels, Anna Aljanaki
Best Full Paper Candidate at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

This Is The World (Recommender Systems Made It For You): Capturing Risk Pathways for Children through a Pluralistic Multi-Risk Assessment of Recommenders
By Robin Ungruh, Maria Soledad Pera
Best Full Paper Candidate at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Personalized Misinformation Interventions: User-Adaptive Fact-Check Explanations Through Affective Modalities
By Filipe Altoe, Sergio M. Pinto, H. Sofia Pinto
Best Full Paper Candidate at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

GLSVLSI '26: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026

MPiCO: Memory-Pool-Based XPU-PIM Cluster over Optical I/O with Load-Imbalance-Aware Assignment and Execution-Site-Matching Mapping Strategies for MoE Inference
By Zixu Li, Yinyin Lin, Chengchen Wang, Yong Wang, Haidong Tian, Xiankui Xiong
Best Paper Award at GLSVLSI '26: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026

PiCASO: A Real-time Pi-Integrated Conversational AI System with Optimized LLMs
By Mahsa Ardakani, Jinendra Malekar, Ramtin Zand
Best Paper Award at GLSVLSI '26: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026

MIBID: Model Based Fault Diagnosis on Ising Machines
By Nafisa Sadaf Prova, Ahmet Efe, Abhimanyu Kumar, Chris Kim, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Ulya R. Karpuzcu
Best Paper Award at GLSVLSI '26: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026

IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

Shadows, Doodles and Dice: Three Demos for Inter-generational Interactions around AI Literacy
By Shadows, Doodles and Dice: Three Demos for Inter-generational Interactions around AI Literacy
Best Demo at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

Kumu Connect: Culturally-Authentic AI Tools to Enable Educator Agency and Data Sovereignty for Hawaiian K-12 CS Education
By Rachel Baker-Ramos, Manas Mhasakar, Viswak Raja, Evyn-Bree Helekahi-Kaiwi, William Gelder, Benjamin Carter, Rebecca Diego, Alex Cabral, Josiah Hester
Honorable Mention at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

Understanding Deception: A qualitative study of children's interactions with deceptive design in digital games
By Muhammad Zaid Arif, Asra Sakeen Wani, Ananta Chowdhury, Sana Maqsood, Sonia Chiasson
Honorable Mention Best Full Paper at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

Values Inquiry through Photovoice: Children as Value Ethnographers in Middle School Design-based Learning
By Annemiek Veldhuis, Alissa N. Antle, Crystal Smith
Best Short Paper at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

Human–AI Interaction for Accessible CS Learning: Co-Designing AI with Blind and Visually Impaired Learners
By Shi Ding, Jason Brent Smith, Kevin Gautier, Stephen Garrett, Brian Magerko, Jason Freeman, Bryan Pardo, Stephanie Ludi, Taneisha Lee, Tom McKlin
Honorable Mention for Best WiP Award at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

Inside Voice, Outside Voice: Interoceptive Awareness as a Mechanism for Digital Emotional Literacy in K--5 Populations
By Michael Charles Davis
Best WiP Award at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

PhotoThings: Designing child-friendly ways into personal photo archives
By Thomas Dylan
Best Pictorial at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

Building to Understand: Examining Teens’ Technical and Socio-Ethical Pieces of Understanding in the Construction of Small Generative Language Models
By Luis Morales-Navarro, Daniel J. Noh, Lucianne Servat, Carly Netting, Yasmin Kafai, Danaé Metaxa
Best Full Paper at IDC '26: Interaction Design and Children

FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

A Dual Role Collision: How Generative AI's Intertwining Productivity Support and Social Support Reshape Indie Game Developers' Creative Work
By Ruchi Panchanadikar, Yang Hu, Guo Freeman
Honorable Mention at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Do User-Aligned Explanations Steer Human Decisions? Context-Dependent Influence and Ethical Implications
By Mingzhe Yang, Rina Kagawa, Yukino Baba
Honorable Mention at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact
By A Pranav, Vagrant Gautam, Martin Mundt, Jordan Taylor, Arjun Subramonian, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Daniel Chechelnitsky, William Agnew, Anne Lauscher
Honorable Mention at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Ambiguity Collapse by LLMs: A Taxonomy of Epistemic Risks
By Shira Gur-Arieh, Angelina Wang, Sina Fazelpour
Honorable Mention at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Putting the ‘Practice’ in Critical Technical Practice: A Decision-Making Pedagogy for the Public Interest Technology Clinic
By Lauren Marietta Chambers, Diag Davenport
Honorable Mention at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Beyond Explanation: Evidentiary Rights for Algorithmic Accountability
By Matthew Stewart
Best Paper at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

A pipeline for enabling path-specific causal fairness in observational health data
By Aparajita Kashyap, Sara Matijevic, Noémie Elhadad, Steven A Kushner, Shalmali Joshi
Best Paper at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

The DSA's Blind Spot: Algorithmic Audit of Advertising and Minor Profiling on TikTok
By Sara Solarova, Matej Mosnar, Matus Tibensky, Jan Jakubcik, Adrian Bindas, Simon Liska, Filip Hossner, Matúš Mesarčík, Ivan Srba
Best Paper at FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Poster: Going Beyond the Delegation Architecture of Low-power Wireless Communication
By Dhairya Shah, Pramuka Sooriya Patabandige, Rajashekar Reddy Chinthalapani, Spanddhana Sara, Prabal Dutta, Ambuj Varshney
ACM MobiSys Best Poster Runner-Up Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Poster: Lying Position Monitoring for Immobile Patients via mmWave Imaging
By Jihyun Lee, Dongmin Yu, Sihun Yang, Jun Han
ACM MobiSys Best Poster Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Demo: ISAC Real-Time Experimentation Platform
By Rafael Ruiz, Marco Canil, Jesus O. Lacruz, Joerg Widmer
ACM MobiSys Best Demo Runner-Up Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Demo: A Battery-Free Sensor Seed for Large-Scale Aerial Deployment in Environmental Monitoring
By Yiming Yuan, Yinghao Gao, Yuanming Luo, Ningcong Jiang, Tengfei Chang
ACM MobiSys Best Demo Runner-Up Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Demo: OSPREE: Drone-Deployable Profiler for Low-Cost Ocean Observation
By Bill Yen, Timothy Jacques, Benjamin Nguyen, Ashley Raigosa, Jasmin Falconer, Zerina Kapetanovic
ACM MobiSys Best Demo Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Vec-LUT: Vector Table Lookup for Parallel Ultra-Low-Bit LLM Inference on Edge Devices
By Xiangyu Li, Chengyu Yin, Weijun Wang, Jianyu Wei, Ting Cao, Yunxin Liu
ACM MobiSys Best Paper Runner-Up Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

TimelyLLM: Time-sensitive LLM Serving System for Physical-I/O Limited Agents
By Neiwen Ling, Guojun Chen, Anurag Khandelwal, Lin Zhong
ACM MobiSys Best Paper Runner-Up Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Insecurity of Lost/Stolen Phone Reporting Services: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures
By Min-Yue Chen, Yiwen Hu, Yu-An Chen, Chi-Yu Li, Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu
ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award at MobiSys '26: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

E-Energy '26: The 17th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems

Flexible Connection to Accelerate Load Interconnection in Partially Measured Distribution Grids
By Nan Gu, Junjie Qin, Vassilis Kekatos
Best Paper Award at E-Energy '26: The 17th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems

DEBS '26: The 20th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

KRAKEN: Joint Optimization of Operator Placement and Communication for Distributed Stream Processing
By Ariane Ziehn, Finn Glück, Philipp Emanuel Meran, Steffen Zeuch, Volker Markl
Best Paper Award at DEBS '26: The 20th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

IGSC '26: International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference

Advancing Environmental Sustainability in Data Centers via Carbon Depreciation Models
By Shixin Ji, Zhuoping Yang, Xingzhen Chen, Alex Jones, Peipei Zhou
Best Paper Award at IGSC '26: International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference

Revisiting “Cooler is Better”: ITD-Aware Per-CPU Thermal Optimization for Sustainable Data Center Operation
By Jason Crop, Hayden Moore, Sudeep Pasricha
Best Paper Award at IGSC '26: International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference

BuildSys '26: The 13th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

NILMBENCH2026: A Benchmark for Energy Disaggregation
By Aayush Kuloor, Anurag Singh, Harsh Dhru, Nipun Batra
Best paper runner-up at BuildSys '26: The 13th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

Bridging Energy and Activity: Forecasting Residential Electricity Use with Wearable Activity Tracker Data
By Fatimah Mohammad Alhassan, Matthew Louis Mauriello
Best paper at BuildSys '26: The 13th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

PODC '26: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Efficient Counting and Simulation in Content-Oblivious Rings
By Jérémie Chalopin, Yi-Jun Chang, Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, Haoran Zhou
Best Student Paper at PODC '26: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Simple and Efficient Randomized Wait-Free Locks
By Kahbod Aeini, Dante Bencivenga, George Giakkoupis, Philipp Woelfel
Best Paper at PODC '26: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

CF '26: 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

FlIP: Flow-Based Instruction Processing for Out-of-Order Scheduling in GPGPUs
By Munawira Kotyad, Yashvardhan Rathore, Ganesh Sai Shanmukhi, Virendra Singh
Best Paper Award at CF '26: 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

AVI '26: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Memorability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Virtual Reality: An Evaluation of Enactment and Quiz-Based Gamification
By Memorability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Virtual Reality: An Evaluation of Enactment and Quiz-Based Gamification
Best Long Paper at AVI '26: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Always Controlled by What We Control: Rewiring Algorithmic Perception in an Interactive Installation
By Jeremiah Teipen
Best Interactive Experience Paper at AVI '26: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Visual Interface Design for Informal Language Acquisition with Machine Translation and LLMs
By Giada Pantana, Ilaria Torre, Myriam Garcia, Marta Castello
Best Short Paper at AVI '26: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

A Visualization and Control Interface for Rhythmic Relations
By Cagri Erdem, Davide Rocchesso
Best Demo at AVI '26: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

The Rice-Paper Layer (RPL): Intention Segmentation for Human-AI Co-Creation in Generative AI
By Helena G. Theodoropoulou, Dimitris Kalles
Best Poster at AVI '26: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

ICMR '26: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Frozen LVLMs for Micro-Video Recommendation: A Systematic Study of Feature Extraction and Fusion
By Huatuan Sun, Yunshan Ma, Changguang Wu, Yanxin Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Xiaoyu Du
Best Paper at ICMR '26: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis of Rehabilitation Exercises from a Smartphone Camera Video Stream
By Miriama Jánošová, Andrej Černek, Radovan Dvorský, Vasil Poposki, Petra Budikova, Jan Sedmidubsky
Best Technical Demonstration at ICMR '26: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Text4Radar-V2X: Text-guided 4D Radar for Cooperative 3D Object Detection
By Xiangyuan Peng, Kay Bierzynski, Lorenzo Servadei, Robert Wille
Best Student Paper at ICMR '26: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

IH&MMSec '26: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

Payload in Motion: On the Capacity of Video Steganography
By Verena Lachner, Rainer Böhme
IH&MMSec'26 Best Paper Award at IH&MMSec '26: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

“You Are the Visuals, Baby”: Sonic Speculation and Interactive Afrofutures in Black Femme Musical Performance
By Angela D. R. Smith, Gabriella Thompson, Bethany Miatta Turay, Alexandra To
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

AI Loves Boobies: Unpacking Harmful Imaginaries in Community-Based Generative AI
By Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Willem van der Maden, Airi Lampinen, Rob Comber, Madeline Balaam
Best Pictorial at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Group Conversational Agents: A Review of Designs that Support and Shape Group Interaction
By ShunYi Yeo, Tianyi Zhang, Scott Bateman, Gary Hsieh, Young-Ho Kim, Simon Tangi Perrault, Jiannan Li, Anthony Tang
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Temporal awareness and ethical reflection: Chronopolitical considerations for HCI research
By Marguerite Barry, Fiona McDermott, Daniel Snow, Jacinta Jardine, Maria Murray, Irum Rauf, Shelby Hagemann, Camille Nadal, Sarah Robinson
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

HanaARrange: Designing an Augmented Reality Support System for Daily Ikebana Practice and Well-being
By Xiyue Wang, Zeynep Eda Altintop, Derek Kirschbaum, Miao Cheng, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Chiahuei Tseng
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

The Ambivalent Experience of Eye Contact for People with Visual Impairments: Mechanisms and Design Challenges
By Markus Wieland, Phillip Koch, Michael Sedlmair
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Artificial Intelligence at the Margins: Risks and Opportunities for Iranian Immigrant Nonprofits in the Global North
By Maryam Mokhberi, Dipto Das, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan Mim
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

MediMate: Co-Crafting Patient-Centered Medical Explanations Using LLMs as a Rehearsal Partner
By Yifan Jin, Shizhen Zhang, Dongjun Chen, Yang Ouyang, Yuheng Shao, Chang Jiang, Hanlu Li, Quan Li
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

The Cat Fiction: Orchestrating Situated AI-Enabled Storytelling for Multispecies Sense-Making
By Zhen-Chi Lai, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, Rung-Huei Liang
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

"There is Beauty in the Small": A Study of Visual Artists’ Impressions of Small Data and Model Crafting Approaches to Creative AI Work
By Ahmed M. Abuzuraiq, Arshia Sobhan, Alexandra Kitson, Philippe Pasquier
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

When Heritage Folk Artists Meet Generative AI: A case of Chitrakars of Naya
By Anasmita Ghoshal, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Who Owns the Robot Matters: How Robot Ownership Shapes Belonging and Social Roles in Human Groups
By Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange, Marc Hassenzahl
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Systemic Futures: Integrating Critical Speculation and Systemic Design Pragmatism
By Emily Wong, Fraser Paxton, Henry Pook, John Howe, Jens Emil Sloth Grønbæk, Wafa Johal, Eduardo Velloso, Frank Vetere
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Consentful Lights: Designing for Consent when Sharing Intimate Fertility Data
By Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Joo Young Park, Anna Ståhl, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Shradha Shivaji Retharekar, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Stepping Into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs to Public Exploration Through Discursive Design
By Sarah G Immel, Neel Rajani, Rayo Verweij, Jingjie Li, Bettina Nissen, Luis Soares, Alex S Taylor
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

E.A.T.: Towards Understanding the Design of Social XR Restaurant Experiences for Diners With and Without Headsets
By Yuchen Zheng, Hongyue Wang, Kenath Perera, Henryaldi Matio, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Making Space for Joy in Community-Engaged Equity-Oriented Work in HCI
By Ricarose Roque, Jaleesa Trapp, Alexis Hope
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

ChewTect: Designing Temporal Food Texture via Computational Molding
By Yamato Miyatake, Aoi Yamada, Huaishu Peng, Parinya Punpongsanon
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Design and Evaluation of AR-Based Real-Time Feedback System for Kinesthetic Robot Teaching
By Muhammad Bilal, Tharaka Sachintha Ratnayake, D. Antony Chacon, Nir Lipovetzky, Denny Oetomo, Wafa Johal
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Using the Blackbox in Embodied AI Art Practice: Uncertainty at the Interface
By Dorothy Yuan, Connor Graham, Hiromu Yakura, Amanda Lim
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

GamifiedLM: Co-Designing an LLM-Driven Gamified Learning App with University Students to Mitigate Learning Difficulties
By Kaiyuan Tang, Kerui Chen, Shreya Gopi, Li Xie, Mark Quinlan, Youngjun Cho
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

From Active Tests to Co-Interpretation: Design Considerations for Data Representations in Parkinson’s Care
By Benjamin Maus, Gent Ymeri, Carl Magnus Olsson, Dario Salvi, Myrthe Wassenburg, Mareike Gloss, Per Svenningsson
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

SoTA: An Interactive Art Exhibition for Public AI Engagement
By Jeanyoon Choi, Intae Hwang, SeJoon Park, Hyungjun Cho, Heejae Bae, Yiyun Kang
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Prop-Chromeleon: Adaptive Haptic Props in Mixed Reality through Generative Artificial Intelligence
By Haoyu Wang, Fengyuan Zhu, Bingjian Huang, Zhecheng Wang, Ludwig Sidenmark
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Fast-Food Intimacy: How Chinese Women Navigate Soul's AI Boyfriend
By Huiqian Lai, EunJeong Cheon
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Interactive Intent-Based Image Recommendations for Assistive Communication: Insights from an Iterative User Study
By Alieh Hajizadeh Saffar, Laurianne Sitbon, Sirinthip Roomkham, Manesha Andradi
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Creating Empowering Counter-Narratives through Collective Digital Art by Disabled People
By Giulia Barbareschi, Chihiro Sato, Dunya Chen, Sifan Chen, Eimi Koga, Jason Wilsher-Mills, Kai Kunze
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

The Invisible Work of Robotic Surgery: How Specialists Support, Shoulder, and Sustain Human-Robot Collaboration
By Jasper T Vermeulen, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira, Alan G Burden, Matthias Guertler
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Artistic Practice Opportunities in CST Evaluations: A Longitudinal Group Deployment of ArtKrit
By Catherine Liu, Tao Long, Asya Lyubavina, Chau Vu, Jiaju Ma, Jingyi Li
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Supporting Practitioner-Led Adaptive Switch Design: Stories and Speculative Design Opportunities for GenAI Use
By Karen Anne Cochrane, Bryce Arthur Moore, Jesse N Simon, Daniel Harley
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

MakeAloud: Think-Aloud to Bridge Design-Fabrication Workflows
By Ritik Batra, Kendra Wannamaker, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Translating Card Play to Tangible Tabletops: Opportunities and Challenges in Intergenerational Museum Play
By Timothy Merritt, Rasmus Brandt Sørensen, Rasmus Kokholm Møller, Maria-Theresa Bahodi, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Florian Echtler, Ilhan Aslan
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Exploring Embodied Expression as a Design Resource for Understanding the Dynamism of Vulnerability
By Bhakti Moghe, Daniel Tetteroo, Maarten Houben
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

IdeaBlocks: Expressing and Reusing Divergent Intents for Graphic Design Exploration using Generative AI
By DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Jaesang Yu, HyunJoon Jung, Juho Kim
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Equity by Design: A New HCI Method for Surfacing Inclusivity Issues in Remote Collaboration Software
By Shandler A. Mason, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Designing for Emotion Regulation in Popular Music Apps: Evaluation of MoodDJ, a Novel Spotify Plugin
By Designing for Emotion Regulation in Popular Music Apps: Evaluation of MoodDJ, a Novel Spotify Plugin
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

My Reality or Yours? The Role of Chatbots in Reflecting on Reality Disjunction in Dementia Care
By Yvon Ruitenburg, Minha Lee, Panos Markopoulos, Wijnand IJsselsteijn
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger": An Autoethnographic Exploration of Emerging Technologies for Return-to-Sport
By Maria Chiu, Kelan Queenan, Christopher M. Bono, Casper Harteveld
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

“How Do I Want to Live with Type 1 Diabetes?”: Understanding Self-Management Styles to Inform the Design of T1D Technologies
By Clara-Maria Barth, Anton Fedosov, Chat Wacharamanotham, Jürgen Bernard, Elaine M. Huang
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Clara-Maria Barth, Anton Fedosov, Chat Wacharamanotham, Jürgen Bernard, Elaine M. Huang
By Jack Manuel Manning, Daniel Sullivan, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Anthony T. Pinter, Jed R. Brubaker
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

“We are caregivers of caregivers”: Designing AI to Support the Human Infrastructure of Dementia Support Groups
By Yuanhui Huang, Anne Marie Piper
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Enhancing Slide Presentation Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Audiences Through Delay-Buffered Editing
By Azizul Haque, Jonggi Hong
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Everyday Design Knowledge: A Knowledge-in-Pieces Perspective on HCI Learning
By Alexandros Lotsos, Amartya Banerjee, Yizhu Wang, Michael Horn
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Designing Worker-Led Documentation Practices: How Unionized Cleaners Articulate Harm Beyond Reporting
By Franchesca Spektor, Shivani Kapania, Minjung Park, Olivia Terry, Jodi Forlizzi, Sarah E Fox
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Puppet Prototyping: Exploring Puppetry as a Design Method for Relational Robots
By Ellen Weir, Ute Leonards, Anne Roudaut
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

On Designing Visceral Encounters with Synthetic Intimate Imagery
By Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Uğur Genç, Willem van der Maden, Rob Comber, Airi Lampinen, Madeline Balaam
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Embodied AI in the Wild: Comparing Older Adults’ Interactions with an Avatar and a Humanoid Robot in a Public Space
By Eva Theresa Jahn, Ashita Ashok, Mea-Sophie Edelmann, Nora Anna Luise Hille, Mehrbod Manavi, Nadezhda Kushina, Rainer Wieching, Dave Randall, Karsten Berns, Volker Wulf
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

The Misalignment of Technology, Democracy, and Design: A Scoping Review
By Alma Leora Culén, Jasmin Niess, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Aki Axel Caspersen, Tora Jarsve, Suhas Govind Joshi, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Konstantin R. Strömel, Nadine Wagener, Anna Walczak, Paweł W. Woźniak
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Conceptualizing How to Design for AI Literacy through Game Artifacts
By Joseph Tu, Geneva M. Smith, Simone Bassanelli, Annapaola Marconi, Lennart E. Nacke
Honorable Mention at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

The Trials of Designing Communication Aids for Clinical Trials: Challenges and Recommendations from Practicing Co-Design in the Domain of Medical Research
By Sarah Dunn, Bettina Weber, David Studer, Areti Manataki, Lia Bally, Benjamin Bach, Tara Capel
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Machine Learning as Design Material for Music-Making
By Lucía Montesinos, Anders Sundnes Løvlie
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Compass vs Railway Tracks: Unpacking User Mental Models for Communicating Long-Horizon Work to Humans vs. AI
By Savvas Petridis, Michael Xieyang Liu, Alexander J. Fiannaca, Carrie J. Cai, Michael Terry
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Warped Tour: Analyzing Design Tools Support for Multilayer Weaving Production in HCI
By Devon Frost, Jennifer Jacobs
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination
By Liwenhan Xie, Jiayi Zhou, Anyi Rao, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

From Nowhere to Now-here: Centering Black Senses of Place and Placemaking in Speculative Design
By Alex Jiahong Lu, Comfort Umoren-Olorunnisomo, Caitlin Crutcher
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Praxis Guides: Community Approaches to Resistance Efforts through Mutual Aid Zineing
By Alesandra Baca-Vázquez, Kiara (Sunny) Dailey, Lynn Dombrowski, Angela D. R. Smith
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Rushed by Discomfort, Trapped by Immersion: Users’ Experiences and Responses to Privacy Deceptive Design in Commercial VR Applications
By Hilda Hadan, Michaela Valiquette, Lennart E. Nacke, Leah Zhang-Kennedy
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Sensibilities as Knowledge in Design Research
By Mafalda Gamboa, Kristina Andersen
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Knit Joinery: Incorporating Multifunctional Materials with Single-Bed Machine Knitting
By Yi-Chin Lee, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D., Scott E Hudson, James McCann, Lea Albaugh
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

What Makes Technology Feel `Alive': The Precursors of Perceived Consciousness in Interactive Systems Scale
By Paweł W. Woźniak, Jasmin Niess, Julia Dominiak, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Barbara Sienkiewicz, Konstantin R. Strömel, Anna Walczak, Mikołaj P. Woźniak
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Building A Civic Tool for Community-Police Engagement to Adapt Neighborhood Policing
By Ravinithesh Reddy Annapureddy, Staņislavs Šeiko, Natalie Higham-James, William Droz, Alessandro Fornaroli, Sarah Vollmer, Britta Elena Hecking, Daniel Gatica-Perez
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Exploring Fairy Cursor as a Form of AI Agent for In-the-Flow Assistance: Design Opportunities and Challenges
By Yining Cao, James D. Hollan, Haijun Xia
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor Environments
By Mingyang Xu, Yanheng Li, Burcu Nimet Dumlu, RAY LC, Giulia Barbareschi, Matthias Hoppe, Jie Li, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Shifting Narrative Salience: Fine-Tuning LLMs as a Design Intervention in Generative Design Fiction
By Piyum Fernando, Nipuni Siyambalapitiya, Tharindu S Kumarage
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Beyond Project Time: Multiple Years of Living with a Slow Technology Research Product
By William Odom
Best Paper at DIS '26: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Aurora: Neuro-Symbolic AI Driven Advising Agent
By Lorena Amanda Quincoso Lugones, Christopher Lukas Kverne, Nityam Sharadkumar Bhimani, Ana Carolina Oliveira, Agoritsa Polyzou, Christine Lisetti, Janki Bhimani
Best Paper at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Atomic Action Slicing: Planner-Aligned Options for Generalist VLA Agents
By Stefan Tabakov, Asen Popov, Dimitar Dimitrov, S. Ensiye Kiyamousavi, Boris Kraychev, Vladimir Hristov
Poster Honorable Mention at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

A Practical Solution to Systematically Monitor Inconsistencies in SBOM-based Vulnerability Scanners
By Martin Rosso, Muhammad Asad Jahangir Jaffar, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti
Honorable Mention at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

An Analysis of Quality Assessment Methods for Knowledge Graphs
By Jasmin Kropshofer, Wolfram Wöß
Honorable Mention at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

DyCAD: Dynamic Collaborative Online Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Time Series using Adaptive Clustering
By Ming-Chang Lee, Jia-Chun Lin, Sokratis Katsikas
Honorable Mention at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

CauseRL: Reinforcement Learning-based Random Walks for Root Cause Analysis in Microservices
By Jhon Sebastian Rojas Rodriguez, Abdelkader Lahmadi, Michael Rusinowitch
Honorable Mention at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

CroSS:Cross-subject Visual Brain Decoding via Soft Alignment and Subject-aware Batch Normalization
By Jun-Mo Kim, Woohyeok Choi, Yebin Choi, Songha Kim, Tae-Eui Kam
Honorable Mention at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Crowdsensing Wayfinding for Urban Mobility Accessibility
By Mirko Franco, Salvatore Gatto, Matteo Noro, Lorenzo Perinello, Claudio Enrico Palazzi
Best Paper at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Adaptive Page Migration for Tiered Memory Systems via Working Set Awareness
By Hyolim Hong, Hyungsoo Jung
Best Paper at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Supporting Agility at Scale Through an Organization-wide Software Engineering Community of Practice: Insights from a Large Software Development Organization
By Franziska Tobisch, Klaus Häuptle, Florian Matthes
Best Paper at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Advancing Normal Tissue Complication Probability Modeling with Supervised Contrastive Learning for Predicting Osteoradionecrosis
By Eric Ababio Anyimadu, Xinhua Zhang, Clifton David Fuller, G. Elisabeta Marai, Guadalupe Canahuate
Best Paper at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

ShipNN: On-Device, Ship Identification from Underwater Noise
By Kainat Altaf, Momin Ali, Laura Harms, Christian Renner, Olaf Landsiedel
Best Paper at SAC '26: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Creating Counterspaces for Black Women in Computing
By Yolanda A. Rankin, Shaniah Reece, Covenant Adenuga, Jakita O. Thomas, Jamika Burge, Aisha J. Roberts
Exemplary Research Paper at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Equity Analysis of Statewide Longitudinal High School CS Coursework Data: An Application of the CAPE Framework
By Stephanie M. Werner, Ying Chen
Exemplary Research Paper at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Towards Pluriversal Computing: Exploring Critical Epistemologies of Teaching Assistants
By Abigail Brooks-Ramirez, Lisa Yan
Exemplary Research Paper - Work in Progress at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Cracking the Case, Missing the Data: Design Tensions in Community-Led Critical Data Literacy Instruction
By Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar, Xingyu Song, Daniel Steve Cheng, Jimmara Scott, Aakash Gautam
Exemplary Experience Report at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Exploring Equity in Artificial Intelligence: Programs and Resources for Critical AI Teaching Fellows
By Kristi Jones, Brooke Starks, Lloyd Talley, Christy R. Crawford
Exemplary Experience Report - Work in Progress at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Teaching Indigenous Languages and Knowledges Through Computer Science
By Claudette Duran, Wilfred J. Ferris, III, Avalene Glenmore, Patricia Goggles, Danielle Hope Logue, Veronica E. Miller, Nohemi Najera, Alberta Oldman, Elizabeth Robles, Elena Singer, Taralee Suppah, Rubena Tillman, Carrie White Antelope, Ray Youngchief, Marissa Spang, Kathryn M. Rich, Heather L. Cunningham
Best Experience Report Paper at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Designing for All: Leveraging Micro-Credentials to Increase Participation for Learners with Disabilities in K-12 CS Education
By Alexis Cobo, Lauren Weisberg, Dwi Maharrani, Maya Israel
Best Experience Report - Work in Progress at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Preparing Secondary and Postsecondary Educators to Support the Plurality of Identities in Computing Classrooms: The Identity-Inclusive Instructors Workshop
By Makseem Skorodinsky, Joanna Goode
Exemplary Experience Report at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Beyond Demographic Labels to Holistic Identity Measures
By Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Rosalind Owen, Yvonne Kao
Exemplary Perspectives Paper at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

PyPal: Supporting Middle Schoolers with ADHD in Computing Education
By Panhapiseth Lim, Priyanka Kumar, Hortense Gerardo
Exemplary Perspectives Paper at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Beyond Representation: Mechanisms of Culturally Affirming Mentorship for Black and Latinx Students in STEM
By Isabella Lopez, Maria Sanchez, Sanorita Dey
Best Research Paper at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Parent Cultural Wealth: How Beliefs, Curriculum Familiarity, and Community Awareness Facilitate CS Conversations
By Nicol R. Howard, Leiny Y. Garcia, Jean Ryoo, Julie Flapan, Michelle Choi, Paula Nazario, Wei Wei
Best Research Paper - Work in Progress at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Diagrams Are Structures: Reframing Accessibility for Data Structure Diagrams
By Brianna Wimer, Ritesh Kanchi, Jennifer Mankoff, Ronald Metoyer
Best Perspectives Paper at RESPECT '26: Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

IMX '26: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Virtual Sauna – Evaluating an Immersive Thermal Motion Experience
By Tim Moesgen, Donald Degraen, Antti Salovaara, Yu Xiao
Best Paper at IMX '26: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Quantifying the Cost of Manual Navigation: A Comparison of Gesture-Based Magnification versus Direct Access Reading in Digital Layout-based Documents
By Sebastian Gallardo, Aurélie Calabrèse, Hui-Yin Wu, Monica Di Meo, Stéphanie Baillif, Dorian Mazauric, Pierre Kornprobst
Honorable Mention at IMX '26: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Movie Stream: Text-Based Video Retrieval and Real-Time Generative Reinterpretation for Interactive Exhibitions
By Dominik Bönisch Alpári, Léon Lancelot Repp, Christian Geiger
Demo Honourable Mention at IMX '26: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Immersive remote learning for individuals with intellectual disabilities
By Carlos Cortés, Marta Goyena, Marta Orduna, Ainhoa Fernández-Alcaide, María Nava-Ruiz, Jesus Gutiérrez, Pablo Perez, Narciso García
Demo Honourable Mention at IMX '26: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

The Ostrich in the Sky: A Culturally Grounded VR Experience to Preserve Indigenous Star Lore
By Vanilla Riis Mortensen, Anders Lucassen Lund, Anita Larsen, Anton Nygaard Petersen, Mira Chilli Christensen, Sisco Lovisa Auala, Kasper Rodil
Best Demo Award at IMX '26: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Progress Feedback for Countering Selective Exposure: When Visualization Can Backfire
By Janine Riemann, Jasmin Alt, Uroš Sergaš, Marko Tkalcic, Bruce Ferwerda
Best Late Breaking Result at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

It is relevant, but is it useful?: A Reflection on Human-Centred Evaluation in Children Information Retrieval
By Hrishita Chakrabarti, Diletta Micol Tobia, Garrett Allen, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera
Best Short Paper at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Let Me Introduce You: Stimulating Taste-Broadening Serendipity through Song Introductions
By Brett Binst, Ulysse Maes, Martijn Willemsen, Annelien Smets
James Chen Best Student Paper at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

To Explain or Not to Explain? An Empirical Investigation into Users’ Information Needs in News Recommender Systems and Its Impact on User Engagement
By Sophia Egbert, Stefanie M. Störtebek, Juliane A. Lischka
Best Full Paper at UMAP '26: 34th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

ASIA CCS '26: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Reasoning That Leaks, Fine-Tuning That Amplifies: Exposing the Hidden Threats of Chain-of-Thought Models
By Zhiyuan Xu, Joseph Gardiner, Sana Belguith
Best Paper Award at ASIA CCS '26: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

LINE-Break: Cryptanalysis and Reverse Engineering of Letter Sealing
By Diego F. Aranha, Adam Blatchley Hansen, Thomas Kingo T. Mogensen
Best Paper Award at ASIA CCS '26: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles
By Michael Kühr, Mohammad Hamad, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Mert D. Pesé, Sebastian Steinhorst
Best Paper Award at ASIA CCS '26: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

SIGMOD/PODS '26: International Conference on Management of Data

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
By Xinyu Zeng, Ruijun Meng, Martin Prammer, Wes McKinney, Jignesh M. Patel, Andrew Pavlo, Huanchen Zhang
Honorable Mention at SIGMOD/PODS '26: International Conference on Management of Data

Sublime: Sublinear Error & Space for Unbounded Skewed Streams
By Navid Eslami, Ioana Bercea, Rasmus Pagh, Niv Dayan
Honorable Mention at SIGMOD/PODS '26: International Conference on Management of Data

Integrating Vector Databases across Embedding Models
By Beining Yang, Yang Cao, Yang Ren
Honorable Mention at SIGMOD/PODS '26: International Conference on Management of Data

GPM: The Gaussian Pancake Mechanism for Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Differential Privacy
By Haochen Sun, Xi He
Best Paper at SIGMOD/PODS '26: International Conference on Management of Data

WebSci '26: 18th ACM Web Science Conference

Framing the Fringe: Dynamics of Ingroup and Outgroup Narratives in Fringe Telegram Channels
By Upasana Dutta, Yasmine Houri
Best paper award at WebSci '26: 18th ACM Web Science Conference

I3D '26: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Improving Spatial Domain Repetition of Implicit Surfaces
By Clément Magniez, Cédric Zanni
Best Student Paper at I3D '26: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Gen-C: Populating Virtual Worlds with Generative Crowds
By Andreas Panayiotou, Panayiotis Charalambous, Ioannis Karamouzas
Best Paper (1 of 2 tied) at I3D '26: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

ReSTIR PT Enhanced: Algorithmic Advances for Faster and More Robust ReSTIR Path Tracing
By Daqi Lin, Markus Kettunen, Chris Wyman
Best Paper (1 of 2 tied) at I3D '26: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

SIGMIS-CPR '26: ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research 2026

Trajectories of Turnback to Information Technology Work
By Lisa Schned, Manuel Wiesche
Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year at SIGMIS-CPR '26: ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research 2026

ACMSE '26: 2026 ACM Southeast Conference

GPU Starvation from the Control Plane: A Systems Study of Reinforcement Learning in Deep Learning Pipelines
By Michael Seavers, Yongyi Gong, Qi Li
Best Short Paper at ACMSE '26: 2026 ACM Southeast Conference

SA-SegFormer: Sequential Attention Mix-Transformer for NMSC Histopathology Segmentation and Uncertainty Estimation
By Nishat Tasnim, Yong Shi
Best Full Paper at ACMSE '26: 2026 ACM Southeast Conference

GamiFIN '26: 10th Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2026

Quiz Traveller: A Crowdsourced Educational Game on Chat-Based Interactive Live-Streaming Platforms
By Yunfei Wang, Lei Shi, Xin Shu, Marci Chi Ma, Wilk Oliveira, Ahmed Kharrufa
Best Paper Award at GamiFIN '26: 10th Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2026

ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

HawkerVerse: Crafting Immersive Singapore Hawker Heritage Experiences through Multisensory Virtual Reality and Large Language Models
By Quanhao Gan, Tao Lin, Eng Tat Khoo, Natalie Pang, Shaoyu Cai
Honourable Mention (Art/Demo) at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

Hearing the Smile: Facilitating Spontaneous Social Ice-Breaking through Sonifying Interpersonal Warmth for the Visually Impaired Individuals
By Shan Luo, Jinlin Miao, Yue Chen, Hongyue Wang, Siyu Tian, Xin Tong
Honourable Mention (Art/Demo) at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

Harmony in Diversity: A Public AI Art Installation Bridging Neurodiversity Through Style Transfer
By Jiawen Zhang, Mingyu Chen, Xin Tong
Best Demo at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

Automaton Instrument ‘Lost Realm’
By Zimo Han, Jialin Wu, Jiadi Liu, Xingyue Ren
Best Demo at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

Tiangong Zhi: Narrative-Driven Serious Game Design for Physics Learning and Cultural Heritage
By Ziqian Zhu
Honourable Mention (Short Paper) at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

OlfaCare: A Multi-Device Olfactory System for Supporting Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
By Wenjun Yu, Qianqian Pan, Lingjuan Shen, Kai Kang
Honourable Mention (Short Paper) at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

CGM-Led Multimodal Tracking with Chatbot Support: An Autoethnography in Sub-Health
By Dongyijie Primo Pan, Lan Luo, Yike Wang, Pan Hui
Best Short Paper at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

“They are Defenseless and Depend on Us to Protect Them”: How Chinese Parents Navigate Privacy for/with Autistic Children
By Yihe Wang, Rongqi Bei, Jiaxun Cao, Yiping Tian, Yaxing Yao, Xin Tong
Honourable Mention (Papers) at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

MonoSense: A Monolithic Design and Fabrication Method for Skin-Contact Interface of Interactive Devices with Embedded Pressure Sensing via Multi-material 3D Printing
By Xinyuan Song, Hanwen Lu, Siyi Zhang, Junda Huang, Xinyang Tan, Fan Feng, Hongwei Zhang, Quan Li
Honourable Mention (Papers) at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

vNeck: Electrical Muscle Stimulation Around the Neck for Eyes-Free Target Acquisition in Virtual Reality
By Yuchao Zhuo, Hua Xu, Yucheng Liu, Duotun Wang, Jianhao Chen, Jiawei Li, Chutian Jiang, Tristan Camille Braud, Mingming Fan
Best Paper at ICHEC '25: The 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing

ICPE '26: 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

A Comparative Evaluation of Imputation Models for Agricultural Weather Networks
By Awanish Khanal, Monowar Hasan
Best Paper Candidate at ICPE '26: 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Performance Analysis and Optimization of 3D Generative Diffusion Models across GPU Architectures
By Jeeho Ryoo, Yongchan Jung, Muhammad Ali Khaliq, Weidong Zhang, Jiatong Han, Byeong Kil Lee
Best Paper Candidate at ICPE '26: 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Energy-Efficient Right-Sizing of Kafka-like Message Brokers for IoT Workloads
By Govind Kp, Guillaume Pierre, Romain Rouvoy
Best Paper Candidate at ICPE '26: 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Variability-Guided Performance Optimization
By Eitan Frachtenberg, Viyom Mittal, Mohammed Baydoun, Aditya Dhakal, Izzat El Hajj, Dejan Milojicic
Best Paper Candidate at ICPE '26: 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

PerDis '26: International Conference on Pervasive Displays

Beyond the Screen: A 360-degree Study of User Experience and Behavior in Online Virtual Museum Tours
By Roman Shikhri, Joel Lanir, Amber Maimon
Best Paper at PerDis '26: International Conference on Pervasive Displays

ISPD '26: International Symposium on Physical Design

Gradient-Guided RC Weighting for Timing-Driven Global Routing
By Liang Xiao, Qinkai Duan, Leilei Jin, Jinwei Liu, Tsung-Yi Ho, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Martin D.F. Wong
Best Paper Award at ISPD '26: International Symposium on Physical Design

CHI '26: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

A Tree’s Perspective: Enhancing Nature Connectedness Through Transitional and Multisensory Virtual Reality Experiences
By Lisa L. Townsend, Julian Rasch, Amy Grech, Bernhard E. Riecke, Sven Mayer
Honorable Mention at CHI '26: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

A Blessing and a Challenge: Unpacking Boundary Ambiguities Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults
By Tzu-Yu Weng, Karthik S Bhat
Honorable Mention at CHI '26: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

A Cantilevered DeltaXY Positioning Mechanism Enabling Rackable Digital Fabrication Form Factors
By Ilan E Moyer, Leo McElroy, Quentin Bolsée, Joshua Rivera Camacho, Jennifer Jacobs, Maria Yang
Best Paper at CHI '26: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

EuroSys '26: 21st European Conference on Computer Systems

Avicenna: Masking Slowdowns in Replicated State Machines with Counterfactual Evaluation
By Christopher Hodsdon, Zijian Qin, Khiem Ngo, Siddhartha Sen, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Wyatt Lloyd
Best Paper Award at EuroSys '26: 21st European Conference on Computer Systems

PaCaR: Improved Buffered I/O Locality on NUMA Systems with Page Cache Replication
By Jérôme Coquisart, Julien Sopena, Redha Gouicem
Best Paper Award at EuroSys '26: 21st European Conference on Computer Systems

ASPLOS '26: 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Finding Reusable Instructions via E-Graph Anti-Unification
By Youwei Xiao, Chenyun Yin, Yitian Sun, Yuyang Zou, Yun Liang
ASPLOS 2026 Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '26: 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

PF-LLM: Large Language Model Hinted Hardware Prefetching
By Ceyu Xu, Xiangfeng Sun, Weihang Li, Chen Bai, Bangyan Wang, Mengming Li, Zhiyao Xie, Yuan Xie
ASPLOS 2026 Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '26: 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Lifetime-Aware Design for Item-Level Intelligence at the Extreme Edge
By Shvetank Prakash, Andrew Cheng, Olof Kindgren, Ashiq Ahamed, Graham Knight, Jedrzej Kufel, Francisco Rodriguez, Arya Tschand, David Kong, Mariam Elgamal, Jerry Huang, Emma Chen, Gage Hills, Richard Price, Emre Ozer, Vijay Janapa Reddi
ASPLOS 2026 Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '26: 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

vCXLGen: Automated Synthesis and Verification of CXL Bridges for Heterogeneous Architectures
By Anatole Lefort, Julian Pritzi, Nicolò Carpentieri, David Schall, Simon Dittrich, Soham Chakraborty, Nicolai Oswald, Pramod Bhatotia
ASPLOS 2026 Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '26: 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

CounterPoint: Using Hardware Event Counters to Refute and Refine Microarchitectural Assumptions
By Nick Lindsay, Caroline Trippel, Anurag Khandelwal, Abhishek Bhattacharjee
ASPLOS 2026 Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '26: 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Quest2ROS2: A ROS 2 Framework for Bi-manual VR Teleoperation
By Jialong Li, Zhenguo Wang, Tianci Wang, Maj Stenmark, Volker Krueger
Best Short Contributions Paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Can VR Robots Stand in for the Real Thing? Comparing a Physical Cobot and Its Virtual Twin for User Perceptions, Experimental Effects, and Study Costs
By Martina Mara, Andreas Winklbauer, Sandra Maria Siedl, Benedikt Leichtmann
Best Theory paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models
By Till Hielscher, Fabio Scaparro, Kai O. Arras
Best Technical paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

WAFFLE: A Wearable Approach to Bite Timing Estimation in Robot-Assisted Feeding
By Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Tanisha S. Mehta, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Eric Hu, Victoria de León, Anthony Wertz, Janavi Gupta, Ben Dodson, Yunting Yan, Carmel Majidi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Zackory Erickson
Best Systems paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Robot-Mediated Mutual Gaze: How a Mobile Robot with Actuated Mirrors Facilitates Encounters between Strangers
By Serena Ge Guo, Jenny J. Yu, Wenqian Niu, Yifei Gao, Guy Hoffman, Gilly Leshed, Keith Evan Green
Best Design paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Long-Term Integration of a Robot in an Inclusive Daycare: An Ethnographic Study Focused on Children and Caregivers
By Jan Ole Rixen, Kathrin Gerling, Barbara Bruno
Best User Studies paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Fictional vs. Factual Robot Tutor Dialogue Can Shape Child Social-Emotional Learning
By Lauren L. Wright, Kaitlyn Li, Hewitt Watkins, Kiljoong Kim, Sarah Sebo
Best User Studies paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Expensive, Limited, and Still Here: The Paradox of Weak Robots in Family Homes
By Zhao Zhao
Best User Studies paper at HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Rewilding Human Life: An Annotated Portfolio of Seasonal Crafts with Children
By Karey Helms, Meike Schalk, Airi Lampinen
Sustainability Recognition at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Designing for the Leaky Body: Exploring Biomaterial Absorption as Body-Material Interaction
By Viola Arduini, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Srujana Golla, Mirela Alistar
Special Recognition at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

ROomBOT: A Room as an Assistive Robotic Interface based on Cable-Driven Parallel Robotics
By Masahiro Ohta, Takatoshi Yoshida, Tomoya Sasaki, Jinsuke Morita, Hideaki Nii, Kouta Minamizawa
Special Recognition at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Printegrated Circuits: Personal Fabrication of 3D Printed Devices with Embedded PCBs
By Oliver Child, Ollie Hanton, Jack Dawson, Steve Hodges, Mike Fraser
Sustainability Recognition at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Queue Player: On the Anatomy of a Slow Technology for Co-Listening In, Over, and Across Time
By Samann Pinder, William Odom, Samuel Barnett, MinYoung Yoo, Ayush Misra, Henry Lin
Best Pictorial at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Reimagining Upcycled Plastic Bags: Integrating Electronics Through Design for Disassembly
By HyunJoo Oh, Jinzhi Ye, Lisa Marks, Tingyu Cheng
Honorable Mention at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

PileUp: A Tufting Approach to Soft, Tactile, and Volumetric E-Textile Interfaces
By Seoyoung Choi, Rashmi Balegar Mohan, Heather Jin Hee Kim, Jisoo Ha, Jeyeon Jo
Honorable Mention at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

GlassIO: Long-Term In-Home Study of Hybrid Craft Through Interactive Stained Glass
By Daniel Gagnon-King, Lee Jones, Alisa Gamayunova, Sara Litwiniuk, Renee (Xinyu) Chen, Alisa Liu, Catherine Stinson, Sara Nabil
Honorable Mention at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Foldflatables: Programmable Folding in Inflatable Structures with Stiffness-Tunable Thermoplastic Hinges
By Masanobu Kanazawa, Yuki Nakata, Kanako Toyoshima, Yasuaki Kakehi
Honorable Mention at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

OfficeSense: Fostering Situated Data Sensemaking to Enhance Office Well-being
By Hans Brombacher, Dimitra Dritsa, Steven Vos, Steven Houben
Best Paper at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

From Piping to Printing: An Action-Based Approach to Computational Food Fabrication
By Danli Luo, Wade Ingram, Andreea Danielescu
Best Paper at TEI '26: Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

FPGA '26: The 2026 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays

KANELÉ: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Efficient LUT-based Evaluation
By Duc Hoang, Aarush Gupta, Philip C Harris
Best Paper Award at FPGA '26: The 2026 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays

SIGIR-AP '25: Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region

Adversarial Attacks against Neural Ranking Models via In-Context Learning
By Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Ebrahim Bagheri, Charles L. A. Clarke
Best Paper Runner-Up Award at SIGIR-AP '25: Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region

ScaleFormer: Span Representation Cumulation for Long-Context Transformer
By Jiangshu Du, Wenpeng Yin, Philip Yu
Best Paper Award at SIGIR-AP '25: Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region

PPoPP '26: 31st ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

Binary Compatible Critical Section Delegation
By Junyao Zhang, Zhuo Wang, Zhe Zhou
Best Paper Award at PPoPP '26: 31st ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

HierCut: Enabling 16-bit Format Mixed Precision for Molecular Dynamics through Hierarchical Cutoff
By Zeyu Song, Lin Gan, Xiaohui Duan, Zhengrui Li, Jiayu Fu, Yinuo Wang, Guangzhao Li, Guangwen Yang
Best Artifact Award at PPoPP '26: 31st ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

SoCC '25: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

Memory Matters: Load-Time Deduplication for Unikernels
By Gaulthier Gain, Benoît Knott, Cyril Soldani, Laurent Mathy
Best Paper Honorable Mention at SoCC '25: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

WDP: Mitigating Interference in CPU Sharing Through Wake-up Delay Driven Preemption for QoS-aware Co-location
By Yaoxuan Li, Pu Pang, Yecheng Yang, Quan Chen, Zhengxuan Yan, Guoyao Xu, Guodong Yang, Liping Zhang, Minyi Guo
Best Paper Honorable Mention at SoCC '25: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

Valet: Efficient Data Placement on Modern SSDs
By Devashish R. Purandare, Peter Alvaro, Avani Wildani, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller
Best Paper Award at SoCC '25: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

IMC '25: ACM Internet Measurement Conference

Patchwork: A Traffic Capture and Analysis Platform for Network Experiments on a Federated Testbed
By Nishanth Shyamkumar, Hyunsuk Bang, Bjoern Sagstad, Prajwal Somendyapanahalli Venkateshmurthy, Sean Cummings, Nik Sultana
Community Contribution Award at IMC '25: ACM Internet Measurement Conference

Congestion Patterns in a Large-scale RDMA Datacenter
By Soudeh Ghorbani, Yimeng Zhao, Srikanth Sundaresan, Ying Zhang, Yijing Zeng, Abhigyan Sharma, Prashanth Kannan, Cristian Lumezanu
Best Paper Award at IMC '25: ACM Internet Measurement Conference

VINCI '25: The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

Weakly Supervised Prediction of Damaged Areas in Yunnan Murals via Bounding-Box Annotations
By Ru Zhao, Hao Wu, Guowu Yuan
Best Paper Award at VINCI '25: The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

GestoBrush: Facilitating Graffiti Artists’ Digital Creation Experiences through Embodied AR Interactions
By Ruiqi Chen, Qingyang He, Hanxi Bao, Jung Choi, Xin Tong
Best Paper Award at VINCI '25: The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

Text-Color Hybrid Labeling for Multiclass Map Visualization: A Comparative Evaluation of Four Annotation Strategies
By Xinyao Chen, Xinyuan Zhang, Teng Ma, Lingyun Yu, Yu Liu
Honorable Mention Award at VINCI '25: The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

A Dynamic Multi-hop Attention Integrated Graph Neural Network for Subgraph Matching
By Siting Zhang, Yufeng Liu, Yuefei Qu, Jun Wu
Honorable Mention Award at VINCI '25: The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

Immersive Analysis of Multifield Point Clouds
By Ayla-Irina Flach, Tobias Rau, Michael Becher, Michael Sedlmair, Kuno Kurzhals
Best Paper Award at VINCI '25: The 18th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

GoodIT '25: International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

An Assessment of LLM-Based Auditing and Validation for Web Accessibility
By Barry Bassi, Giovanni Delnevo, Mirko Franco, Ombretta Gaggi, Salvatore Gatto, Silvia Mirri, Kelvin Olaiya
Best Paper Award at GoodIT '25: International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

ICPP '25: 54th International Conference on Parallel Processing

Efficient Construction of Large Search Spaces for Auto-Tuning
By Floris-Jan Willemsen, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Ben van Werkhoven
Best Paper Award - ICPP 2025 at ICPP '25: 54th International Conference on Parallel Processing

MIDDLEWARE '25: 26th International Middleware Conference

Stabl: The Sensitivity of Blockchains to Failures
By Vincent Gramoli, Rachid Guerraoui, Andrei Lebedev, Gauthier Voron
Best Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at MIDDLEWARE '25: 26th International Middleware Conference

HARP: Energy-Aware and Adaptive Management of Heterogeneous Processors
By Till Smejkal, Robert Khasanov, Jeronimo Castrillon, Hermann Härtig
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at MIDDLEWARE '25: 26th International Middleware Conference

Full Trust Alchemist: Reforging Attestation for Cloud-based Confidential Workloads
By Anna Galanou, Florian Lubitz, Hajeong Jeon, Christof Fetzer, Rüdiger Kapitza
Best Student Paper Award at MIDDLEWARE '25: 26th International Middleware Conference

Recipe: Hardware-Accelerated Replication Protocols: Rethinking Crash Fault Tolerance Protocols for Untrusted Cloud Environments
By Dimitra Giantsidi, Emmanouil Giortamis, Julian Pritzi, Maurice Bailleu, Manos Kapritsos, Pramod Bhatotia
Best Paper Award at MIDDLEWARE '25: 26th International Middleware Conference

SIGSPATIAL '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

One Model, Many Cities: A Transferable Social Relationship Inference Framework for Human Mobility Data
By Chen Chu, Cyrus Shahabi, Emmanuel Tung, Khurram Shafique
Best Research Paper Runner Up at SIGSPATIAL '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

XXLTraffic: Expanding and Extremely Long Traffic Forecasting beyond Test Adaptation
By Du Yin, Hao Xue, Arian Prabowo, Shuang Ao, Flora Salim
Best Research Paper at SIGSPATIAL '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

CVMP '25: European Conference on Visual Media Production

Optimized 3D Gaussian Splatting using Coarse-to-Fine Image Frequency Modulation
By Umar Farooq, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Graham Thomas, Adrian Hilton, Marco Volino
Full paper runners up award at CVMP '25: European Conference on Visual Media Production

GS-Morph: Dynamic Novel View Synthesis via UDF-ARAP Gaussian Splat Morphing
By David Stéphane Belemkoabga, Thomas Maugey, Christine Guillemot
Full paper runners up award at CVMP '25: European Conference on Visual Media Production

MIG '25: The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games

PhonemeNet: A Transformer Pipeline for Text-Driven Facial Animation
By Philine Witzig, Barbara Solenthaler, Markus Gross, Rafael Wampfler
Best Honorable mention at MIG '25: The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games

MIRRORED-Anims: Motion Inversion for Rig-space Retargeting to Obtain a Reliable Enlarged Dataset of Character Animations
By Théo Cheynel, Thomas Rossi, Omar El Khalifi, Oscar Fossey, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
Best Student Paper at MIG '25: The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games

Implicit Bézier Motion Model for Precise Spatial and Temporal Control
By Luca Vögeli, Dhruv Agrawal, Martin Guay, Dominik Borer, Robert W. Sumner, Jakob Buhmann
Best Paper Award at MIG '25: The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games

VRST '25: 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Shadow-Free Projection with Blur Mitigation on Dynamic, Deformable Surfaces
By Andre Muehlenbrock, Yaroslav Purgin, Nicole Steinke, Verena Uslar, Dirk Weyhe, Rene Weller, Gabriel Zachmann
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at VRST '25: 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

A Study of Performance and Interaction Patterns in Hand and Tangible Interaction in Tabletop Mixed Reality
By Carlos Mosquera, Neven ElSayed, Ernst Kruijff, Joseph Newman, Eduardo Veas
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at VRST '25: 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

See It and Hear It: Multimodal Guidance in MR-Based Neurosurgical Simulation for Skill Retention
By Pasquale Cascarano, Andrea Loretti, Luca Zanuttini, Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Shirin Hajahmadi, Giacomo Vallasciani, Matteo Martinoni, Gustavo Marfia
Best Paper Award at VRST '25: 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

CVMP '25: European Conference on Visual Media Production

3D-Aware Latent-Space Reenactment: Combining Expression Transfer and Semantic Editing
By Paul Hinzer, Florian Barthel, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
Best full paper award at CVMP '25: European Conference on Visual Media Production

ACI '25: The International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

A Computer Vision Pipeline to Augment Touchscreen Tasks for Chimpanzees
By William Lubetkin, Christopher Flynn Martin, Isabella Walker, Jake Peacock, Ryan J. Eller
Best Paper Emerging Works at ACI '25: The International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

Exploring the Cockatoo's Engagement with Audiovisual Stimuli: An Inclusive Avian-IoT Interaction Design
By Haoran Hong, Zhuoneng Sui, Leo Uesaka, Hiromi Kudo, Hill Hiroki Kobayashi
Honorable Mention Emerging Works at ACI '25: The International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

Look What the Cat Tapped In: Exploring Digital Interactive Systems Designed for the Cat Cafe Experience
By Florence P. E. Payne, Rebecca Kleinberger, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Honorable Mention at ACI '25: The International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

Using Community Notes to Enact Attitudinal Change towards Urban Wildlife
By Sam Gowland, Brittany Davidson, Dirk van der Linden
Best Paper at ACI '25: The International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

SportsHCI '25: Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports

Into the Zone: Demo of Glancable Ambient LED-Goggles to Assist Runners with Maintaining Heart Rate Zones
By Ege Çelikgöğüs, Vincent van Rheden, Alexander Meschtscherjakov
Best Demo at SportsHCI '25: Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports

Sound-Assisted Climbing: Exploring bouldering performance through auditory guidance
By Liyuan Sun, Yue Zheng, Qinchuan Jiang, Xiangyu Shi, Mario Romero, Renan Guarese
Best Poster at SportsHCI '25: Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports

Investigating How Recreational Cyclists Engage with Sport Tracking Technologies to Prepare for Endurance Events
By Mollie Brewer, Nadia S. J. Morrow, Xuening Peng, Oluwatomisin Obajemu, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Juan E. Gilbert
Honorable Mention at SportsHCI '25: Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports

An Investigation into Alternative Ways of Menstrual Cycle Tracking in Professional Sports
By Marta Devesa Cabrera, Armağan Karahanoğlu
Honorable Mention at SportsHCI '25: Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports

At the Speed of the Heart: Evaluating Physiologically-Adaptive Visualizations for Supporting Engagement in Biking Exergaming in Virtual Reality
By Oliver Hein, Sandra Wackerl, Changkun Ou, Florian Alt, Francesco Chiossi
Honorable Mention at SportsHCI '25: Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports

IHM '25: 36th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

How Do People Position Assistive Information During Physical Tasks? Insights for Designing Cross-Domain AR Systems
By Yue Shin Koh, Gilles Bailly, Ignacio Avellino
Honorable Mention at IHM '25: 36th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Exploring Multimodal Feedback for Light Aircraft Pilots: An Interview Study
By Angelo G. Gaillet, Sébastien Scannella, Jérémie Garcia
Honorable Mention at IHM '25: 36th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Effect of Robotic Modular Interface Assistance Type on Sense of Agency
By Ophélie Jobert, Thibaut Leone, Alix Goguey, Bruno Berberian, Julien Bourgeois, Céline Coutrix
Best Paper at IHM '25: 36th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

The Role of Social Interactions in the Interaction Discovery of Keyboard Shortcuts
By Gilles Bailly, Ignacio Avellino, Emeline Brulé, Sylvain Malacria
Best Paper at IHM '25: 36th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

CompEd '25: ACM Global Computing Education Conference 2025

The Impostor Phenomenon Among Nigerian Computing Students: A Study of Prevalence, Gender, and Academic Progression
By Oladele O. Campbell, Sophia Krause-Levy, Leo Porter, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Oluwatoyin Adelakun-Adeyemo
Best Paper Runner-Up at CompEd '25: ACM Global Computing Education Conference 2025

Adaptable Metrics to Assess and Improve Introductory CS
By Yuan Garcia, Jenny Ngo, Florence Rui Lin, Edward Donson, Zachary Dodds
Best Student Paper Runner-Up at CompEd '25: ACM Global Computing Education Conference 2025

Exploring the Role of Culture and Bilingualism in Programming Activities: Lessons from African Educators
By Emma R. Dodoo, Katharine Childs, Ethel Tshukudu
Distinguished Paper at CompEd '25: ACM Global Computing Education Conference 2025

Faculty Identities and Their Effects on Implementing Culturally Relevant Pedagogies at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
By Ismael Villegas Molina, Emma Hogan, Nawab Mulla, Josue Martinez, William G. Griswold, Leo Porter, Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj
Chairs' Award for Best Student Paper at CompEd '25: ACM Global Computing Education Conference 2025

A Pedagogical Reflection to Infusing Africanization in Distributed Systems Teaching
By Ijeoma Noella Ezeji, Matthew O. Adigun
Best Paper at CompEd '25: ACM Global Computing Education Conference 2025

MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Poster: Scalable Indoor Localization with Non-Cooperative Wi-Fi Ranging
By Enguang Fan, Emerson Sie, Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey, Deepak Vasisht
Best Poster Runner-up Award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Poster: Vibration-Tolerant Doppler Disambiguation Algorithm for MIMO Backscatter Localization Systems
By Skanda Harisha, Jimmy G D Hester, Aline Eid
Best Poster Award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Poster: Home-based, On-Device, Non-contact Sleep Staging with Infrared Video
By Kunmin Jang, You Rim Choi, Dongik Park, Hyun-Woo Shin, Hyung-Sin Kim
Best Poster Runner-up Award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Poster: VI-Planning: Infrastructure-Assisted Real-Time Planning Optimization for Autonomous Driving
By Yang Lu, Jie Wang, Xiaoyun Dong, Ziyao Huang, Bingyi Liu, Jen-Ming Wu, Jianping Wang
Best Poster Runner-up Award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Demo: Emulating Space Computing Networks with RHONE
By Liying Wang, Qirui Liu, Qing Li, Shangguang Wang, Xuanzhe Liu, Chenren Xu
Best Demo runner-up award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Demo: Intelligent Nutrition Monitoring Pump System for Nasogastric Tube Patients
By Haiyan Hu, Yandao Huang, Junyao Peng, Liu Yang, Shuangshuo Yang, Qian Zhang
Best Demo runner-up award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Demo: A Campus Scale Private 5G Open RAN Testbed
By Andrew Ferguson, Ujjwal Pawar, Tianxin Wang, Mahesh Marina
Best Demo award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

AquaScan: A Sonar-based Underwater Sensing System for Human Activity Monitoring
By Haozheng Hou, Bowen Zheng, Sitong Cheng, Xiaoguang Zhao, Peiheng Wu, Lixing He, Yunqi Guo, Guoliang Xing, Zhenyu Yan
Best Paper Award at MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

OZCHI '25: 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

The Cassandra Method: Using Dystopian Visions to Inform Responsible HCI Design and Evaluation
By Daniel Ullrich, Eva Bischoff, Sarah Diefenbach
Gitte Lindgaard Award at OZCHI '25: 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Bleed Between the Lines: Barriers and Approaches to Personalisation in Menstrual Tracking for Marginalised Users
By Freya Sambain, Tara Capel, Bernd Ploderer
Steve Howard Award at OZCHI '25: 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

CUG '25: Cray User Group

Alps, a versatile research infrastructure
By Maxime Martinasso, Mark Klein, Thomas Schulthess
Best Paper Award Winner at CUG '25: Cray User Group

Koli Calling '25: 25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

LEO: A Live Coding Assistant for Teachers
By Radu Mariescu-Istodor, Anssi Gröhn
Best Poster Award at Koli Calling '25: 25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

From State to Structure: Towards Abstraction Support in CS
By Naaz Sibia, Jessica Wen, Amber Richardson, Yashika Jain, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Bogdan Simion, Andrew Petersen, Carolina Nobre, Michael Liut
Best Presentation Award at Koli Calling '25: 25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

The CEDE Model: A Learning-Sciences Based Approach for Critical and Transformative K–12 AI Education
By Henriikka Vartiainen, Matti Tedre
Best Paper Award at Koli Calling '25: 25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

EAAMO '25: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization

Digital Pulse of Development: Constructing Poverty Metrics from Social Media Discourse
By Woojin Jung, Andrew H. Kim, Charles Chear, Vatsal Shah, Ying Hung, Tawfiq Ammari
Best Paper Honorable Mention at EAAMO '25: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization

Be Intentional About Fairness!: Fairness, Size, and Multiplicity in the Rashomon Set
By Gordon Dai, Pavan Ravishankar, Rachel Yuan, Emily Black, Daniel B. Neill
Best Paper Honorable Mention at EAAMO '25: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization

Fair Decisions through Plurality: Results from a Crowdfunding Platform
By Joel Miller, Eric Glen Weyl, Chris Kanich
Best Paper Honorable Mention at EAAMO '25: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization

Identity-related Speech Suppression in Generative AI Content Moderation
By Grace Proebsting, Oghenefejiro Isaacs Anigboro, Charlie M. Crawford, Danaé Metaxa, Sorelle A. Friedler
Best Paper at EAAMO '25: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization

Optimization Meets Participation: Iterative Zone Generation for School Assignment
By Mobin Y. Jeloudar, Irene Lo, Katherine L. Mentzer
Best Paper at EAAMO '25: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization

IHM '24: 35th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Interaction with Physical Referents In and Around the Field of View of Optical See-Through Augmented-Reality Headsets: Interaction avec des Référents Physiques Dans et Autour du Champ D'Affichage des Casques Semi-Transparents de Réalité Augmentée
By Clément Truillet, Marcos Serrano, Emmanuel Dubois
Best Paper Honorable Mention at IHM '24: 35th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Design Study of a Data Analysis Tool for Lead Climbing
By Bruno Fruchard, Timo Maszewski, Cécile Avezou
Best Paper Honorable Mention at IHM '24: 35th International Francophone Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

ISSAC '25: International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation

On OM Algorithms and Cluster Pictures
By Adrien Poteaux, Tristan Vaccon, Martin Weimann
Distinguished Paper award at ISSAC '25: International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation

ACMREP '25: ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability

Reproducibility in Applied Security Conferences: An 11-Year Review on Artifacts and Evaluation Committees
By Daniel Olszewski, Allison Lu, Anna Crowder, Nathaniel Bennett, Seth Layton, Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Tyler Tucker, Siddhant Kalgutkar, Hunter Ver Helst, Carson Stillman, Kevin R. B. Butler, Sara Rampazzi, Patrick Traynor
Best Paper at ACMREP '25: ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability

MM '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Open-Vocabulary 3D Affordance Understanding via Functional Text Enhancement and Multilevel Representation Alignment
By Lin Wu, Wei Wei, Peizhuo Yu, Jianglin Lan
Best Paper Award at MM '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Building Embodied EvoAgent: A Brain-inspired Paradigm for Bridging Multimodal Large Models and World Models
By Junyu Gao, Xuan Yao, Yong Rui, Changsheng Xu
Best Paper Award at MM '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia

MobiHoc '25: The 26th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing

REMARKABLE: RIS-Enabled Mobile Beamforming through Kernalized Bandit Learning
By Kubra Alemdar, Arnob Ghosh, Vini Chaudhary, Ness Shroff, Kaushik Chowdhury
Best Paper Award at MobiHoc '25: The 26th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing

HT '25: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

ESPERANTO: Evaluating Synthesized Phrases to Enhance Robustness in AI Detection for Text Origination
By Navid Ayoobi, Lily Knab, Wen Cheng, David Pantoja, Hamidreza Alikhani, Sylvain Flamant, Jin Kim, Arjun Mukherjee
Best Student Paper Award at HT '25: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Literary Hypertext, AI, and Google’s New Web: An Aesthetics Discussion
By Alessio Antonini, Lucia Lupi, Mariusz Pisarski, Sam Brooker
Best Paper Award at HT '25: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

NANOCOM '25: The 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

Airborne Molecular Communication Using MOS Sensors under Controlled Airflow
By Kaikai Zhu, Sümeyye Carkit-Yilmaz, Bastian Heinlein, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober, Andrea Buettner, Helene M. Loos
Best Poster Award at NANOCOM '25: The 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

Experimental Validation of a Vagal-Gastrointestinal Axis Communication Link in Rabbits
By Leyi Zhao, Xinyao Jia, Ying Qin, Zhi Huang, Wenshan Zou, Lin Lin
Best Presentation Award at NANOCOM '25: The 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

Airborne Molecular Communication Using MOS Sensors under Controlled Airflow
By Kaikai Zhu, Sümeyye Carkit-Yilmaz, Bastian Heinlein, Vahid Jamali, Robert Schober, Andrea Buettner, Helene M. Loos
Best Poster Award at NANOCOM '25: The 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

Molecule Mixture Detection and Alphabet Design for Non-linear, Cross-reactive Receiver Arrays in MC
By Bastian Heinlein, Kaikai Zhu, Sümeyye Carkit-Yilmaz, Sebastian Lotter, Helene M. Loos, Andrea Buettner, Yansha Deng, Robert Schober, Vahid Jamali
Best Paper Award at NANOCOM '25: The 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

SIGDOC '25: The 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

From UX to AI Literacies: Evaluating a Custom Chatbot in the UX Classroom
By Brandon C. Strubberg, Hayley Blackburn
Honorable Mention at SIGDOC '25: The 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Using Affinity Diagrams to Study Zoom's Design and Online Teaching Practices
By Meghalee Das
Honorable Mention at SIGDOC '25: The 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

The Complexity of a Simple Code Comment: Genre Conventions, Social Influence, and Rhetorical Functions
By Amelia Hill, Jennifer C. Mallette
Honorable Mention at SIGDOC '25: The 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Constructing Long COVID Risk Communication in the US: A Topic Modeling-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of News Coverage
By Danielle Hahn, Ryan Moore, Ke Lu, Chenxing Xie
Best Paper at SIGDOC '25: The 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

MICRO '25: 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

LLM.265: Video Codecs are Secretly Tensor Codecs
By Ceyu Xu, Yongji Wu, Xinyu Yang, Beidi Chen, Matthew Lentz, Danyang Zhuo, Lisa Wu Wills
Best Paper Award at MICRO '25: 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

Flexing RISC-V Instruction Subset Processors to Extreme Edge
By Alireza Raisiardali, Konstantinos Iordanou, Jedrzej Kufel, Kowshik Gudimetla, Kris Myny, Emre Ozer
Best Paper Award at MICRO '25: 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

ICFP '25: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

Multi-stage Programming with Splice Variables
By Tsung-Ju Chiang, Ningning Xie
Distinguished Paper at ICFP '25: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

First-Order Laziness
By Anton Lorenzen, Daan Leijen, Wouter Swierstra, Sam Lindley
Distinguished Paper at ICFP '25: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

Effectful Lenses: There and Back with Different Monads
By Ruifeng Xie, Tom Schrijvers, Zhenjiang Hu
Distinguished Paper at ICFP '25: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

Call-Guarded Abstract Definitional Interpreters
By Kimball Germane
Distinguished Paper at ICFP '25: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

SPLASH '25: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

From Linearity to Borrowing
By Andrew Wagner, Olek Gierczak, Brianna Marshall, John M. Li, Amal Ahmed
Distinguished Paper Award at SPLASH '25: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

Revamping Verilog Semantics for Foundational Verification
By Joonwon Choi, Jaewoo Kim, Jeehoon Kang
Distinguished Paper Award at SPLASH '25: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

HeapBuffers: Why Not Just Using a Binary Serialization Format for Your Managed Memory?
By Daniele Bonetta, Júnior Löff, Matteo Basso, Walter Binder
Distinguished Paper Award at SPLASH '25: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

Automatic Linear Resource Bound Analysis for Rust via Prophecy Potentials
By Qihao Lian, Di Wang
Distinguished Paper Award at SPLASH '25: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

Incremental Bidirectional Typing via Order Maintenance
By Thomas J. Porter, Marisa Kirisame, Ivan Wei, Pavel Panchekha, Cyrus Omar
Distinguished Paper Award at SPLASH '25: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

A Domain-Specific Probabilistic Programming Language for Reasoning about Reasoning (Or: A Memo on memo)
By Kartik Chandra, Tony Chen, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
Distinguished Paper Award at SPLASH '25: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity

ICMI '25: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

Exploring the effects of force feedback on VR Keyboards with varying visual designs
By Exploring the effects of force feedback on VR Keyboards with varying visual designs
Best Paper - Runner Up at ICMI '25: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

SpikEy: Preventing Drink Spiking using Wearables
By Zhigang Yin, Ngoc Thi Nguyen, Agustin Zuniga, Mohan Liyanage, Petteri Nurmi, Huber Flores
Best Student Paper Award at ICMI '25: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

Speech-to-Joy: Self-Supervised Features for Enjoyment Prediction in Human–Robot Conversation
By Ricardo Santana, Bahar Irfan, Erik Lagerstedt, Gabriel Skantze, Andre Pereira
Best Paper Award at ICMI '25: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

IVA '25: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Impact of Voice Assistants’ Conversational Style on Cognitive Driver Distraction
By Monique Dittrich, Seunghui Ko, Tobias Rieger
Best Poster at IVA '25: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

VoiceX as a Design Tool for Virtual Agents' Voices
By Daksitha Withanage, Florian Lingenfelser, Johanna Kuch, Otto Grothe, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André, Silvan Mertes
Best Poster Nominee at IVA '25: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Toward Real-Time Cohesion Estimation in Hybrid Groups: A Multimodal Social Signal Processing Approach
By Mathilde Sassier--Roublin, Julien Saunier, Alexandre Pauchet
Best paper nominee at IVA '25: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Agents
By Chen Yang, Markus Gross, Rafael Wampfler
Best paper nominee at IVA '25: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Synthetically Expressive: Evaluating gesture and voice for emotion and empathy in VR and 2D scenarios
By Haoyang Du, Kiran Chhatre, Christopher Peters, Brian Keegan, Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis
Best Paper at IVA '25: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

RecSys '25: 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Beyond Top-1: Addressing Inconsistencies in Evaluating Counterfactual Explanations for Recommender Systems
By Amir Reza Mohammadi, Andreas Peintner, Michael Müller, Eva Zangerle
Best Short Paper Award at RecSys '25: 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

You Don't Bring Me Flowers: Mitigating Unwanted Recommendations Through Conformal Risk Control
By Giovanni De Toni, Erasmo Purificato, Emilia Gomez, Andrea Passerini, Bruno Lepri, Cristian Consonni
Best Full Research Paper Award at RecSys '25: 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

SOSP '25: ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

From Rust Till Run: Extending Memory Safety From Rust to Cryptographic Assembly
By Shai Caspin, Nikhil Pimpalkhare, Amit Levy
Best Paper at SOSP '25: ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

AutomotiveUI '25: 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Reconfigurable Roadways: Envisioning the Future of V2X-Driven Autonomous Urban Infrastructure through an Interactive Tabletop Simulator
By Jiyeon Lee, Jiwon Kang, Gyeonghun Min, Kyung Yun Choi
Best Video at AutomotiveUI '25: 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Self-supervised Learning for Detecting Local Contextual Anomalous Gaze Patterns of Individual Drivers in Level 3 Automated Driving
By Huy Thanh Phan, Yueteng Yu, Rafael Cirino Gonçalves, Jonny Kuo, Sebastien Glaser, Mohammed Mamdouh Zakaria Elhenawy, Ronald Schroeter, Ashish Bhaskar
Best Poster at AutomotiveUI '25: 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Enhancing Cyclist Safety in the EU: A Study on Lateral Overtaking Distance Across Seven Scenarios Using Lab and Crowdsourced Methods
By Giovanni Sapienza, Pavlo Bazilinskyy
Open Data Award at AutomotiveUI '25: 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Pedestrian Planet: What YouTube Driving from 233 Countries and Territories Teaches Us About the World
By Md Shadab Alam, Marieke H. Martens, Pavlo Bazilinskyy
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '25: 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

SOH Illusion: Misunderstandings of EV Battery State of Health and Methods to Promote Understanding
By Kylie R. Lin, Joey Li, Jehan Sparks, Alexandre L. S. Filipowicz, David A. Shamma, Laura A. Libby
Honorable Mention at AutomotiveUI '25: 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

SPAT: Situational Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior Perception in Traffic Scale
By Hatice Şahin İppoliti, Mark Colley, Debargha Dey, Philipp Wintersberger, Shadan Sadeghian, Andreas Löcken, Andrii Matviienko, Azra Habibovic, Heiko Müller, Andrea Hildebrandt, Susanne Boll
Best Paper at AutomotiveUI '25: 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

You're making things AR-kward: Exploring Augmented Reality In-the-Wild
By Helen Stefanidi, Jan-Hendrik Sünderkamp, Markus Tatzgern, Alina Itzlinger, Alexander Meschtscherjakov
Honorable Mention at MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Understanding the Experiences of People With and Without Vision Impairments When Using Mobile User Interface Alternative Color Modes
By Sarah Andrew, Garreth W. Tigwell
Honorable Mention at MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Two-Point Discrimination of Vibrotactile Stimuli on the Forearm
By Jan Willms, Adrien Chaffangeon Caillet, Marco Kurzweg, Katrin Wolf
Honorable Mention at MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

ThumbSwype: Thumb-to-Finger Gesture Based Text-Entry for Head Mounted Displays
By Rishav Banerjee, Shariff AM Faleel, Omang Baheti, Khalad Hasan, Pourang Irani
Honorable Mention at MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Give and Take: Perceptions of a Conversational Coach Agent in Fitness Trackers
By Meagan B. Loerakker, Evropi Stefanidi, Jasmin Niess, Thomas Eßmeyer, Paweł W. Woźniak
Honorable Mention at MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

European Users' In-Depth Privacy Concerns with Smartphone Data Collection
By Florian Bemmann, Maximiliane Windl, Tobias Knobloch, Sven Mayer
Honorable Mention at MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Contextra: Detecting Object Grasps With Low-Power Cameras and Sensor Fusion On the Wrist
By Nathan DeVrio, Roger Boldu, Eric Whitmire, Wolf Kienzle
Best Paper at MobileHCI '25: 27th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Data Can Speak for Itself: Quality-guided Utilization of Wireless Synthetic Data
By Chen Gong, Bo Liang, Wei Gao, Chenren Xu
Best Paper at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

You Only Render Once: Enhancing Energy and Computation Efficiency of Mobile Virtual Reality
By Xingyu Chen, Xinmin Fang, Shuting Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Liang He, Zhengxiong Li
Best Artifact Award - Honorable Mention at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Object Reconstruction via mmWave Surface Normal Estimation
By Laura Dodds, Tara Boroushaki, Kaichen Zhou, Fadel Adib
Best Paper Nominee at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Satori: In-band Analog Backscatter for Audio Transmission
By Yang Zou, Xin Na, Yimiao Sun, Yande Chen, Yuan He
Best Paper Nominee at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

ARIA: Optimizing Vision Foundation Model Inference on Heterogeneous Mobile Processors for Augmented Reality
By Chanyoung Jung, Jeho Lee, Gunjoong Kim, Jiwon Kim, Seonghoon Park, Hojung Cha
Best Paper at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

High-resolution mmWave Imaging using Metasurface and Diffusion
By Yida Wang, Yu Lu, Yuxuan Zhou, Yifei Shen, Lili Qiu, Zeyuan Lai, Yi-Chao Chen, Hao Pan, Juntao Zhou, Dian Ding, Mei Wang, Guangtao Xue, Qian Zhang
Best Artifact Runner Up at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

AutoDroid-V2: Boosting SLM-based GUI Agents via Code Generation
By Hao Wen, Shizuo Tian, Borislav Pavlov, Wenjie Du, Yixuan Li, Ge Chang, Shanhui Zhao, Jiacheng Liu, Yunxin Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Yuanchun Li
Best Artifact at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Poster: PeekXR: Understanding Privacy Leakages from Eye Gaze in Extended Reality
By Chuyang Peng, Mutahar Ali, Habiba Farrukh
Best Poster Runner Up at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Hopter: a Safe, Robust, and Responsive Embedded Operating System
By Zhiyao Ma, Guojun Chen, Zhuo Chen, Lin Zhong
Best Poster Runner Up at MobiSys '25: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

HPDC '25: The 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

Out-of-Core Parallel Spatial Join Outperforming In-Memory Systems: A BFS-DFS Hybrid Approach
By Lyuheng Yuan, Da Yan, Akhlaque Ahmad, Jiao Han, Saugat Adhikari, Yang Zhou
Best Paper HPDC 2025 at HPDC '25: The 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

DocEng '25: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2025

Improving Lightweight Named Entity Recognition in Handwritten Documents by Predicting Pyramidal Histograms of Characters
By David Villanova-Aparisi, Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Verónica Romero, Moisés Pastor-Gadea
Best Student Paper at DocEng '25: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2025

Exploiting Query Reformulation and Reciprocal Rank Fusion in Math-Aware Search Engines
By Besat Kassaie, Andrew Kane, Frank Wm. Tompa
Best Paper at DocEng '25: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2025

SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Pick Me: Judging Sample Quality with Binary Decision Diagrams
By Tobias Heß, Aaron Molt, Sabrina Böhm, Sebastian Krieter, Thomas Thüm
Best Research Paper Candidate at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Exploring Variability Modeling Challenges in UVL with a Dataset from the Restaurant Industry
By José Miguel Horcas, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes
Best Research Paper Candidate at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Investigating the Effects of T-Wise Interaction Sampling for Vulnerability Discovery in Highly-Configurable Software Systems
By Tim Bächle, Erik Hofmayer, Christoph König, Tobias Pett, Ina Schaefer
Best Artifact at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

Software Variability as a New Dimension of Computational Thinking: an Exploration
By Jesús Moreno-León, David Romero-Organvídez, Gregorio Robles, David Benavides
Best Research Paper at SPLC '25: 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference

FOGA '25: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII

Diversity-Preserving Exploitation of Crossover
By Johannes Lengler, Tom Offermann
Honorable Mention Award for Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII at FOGA '25: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable GA for Data Clustering
By Liam Gaeuman, Andrew M. Sutton
Best Paper Award for Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII at FOGA '25: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVIII

ASIACCS '25: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Adversarial Fog: Exploiting the Vulnerabilities of LiDAR Point Cloud Preprocessing Filters
By Yuna Tanaka, Kazuki Nomoto, Ryunosuke Kobayashi, Go Tsuruoka, Tatsuya Mori
Best Paper Award at ASIACCS '25: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time Implementations
By Moritz Schneider, Daniele Lain, Ivan Puddu, Nicolas Dutly, Srdjan Capkun
Best Paper Award at ASIACCS '25: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

C&C '25: Creativity and Cognition

Content Authenticities: A Discussion on the Values of Provenance Data for Creatives and Their Audiences
By Caterina Moruzzi, Ella Tallyn, Frances Liddell, Billy Dixon, John Collomosse, Chris Elsden
Best Paper Award at C&C '25: Creativity and Cognition

SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

GINGER: Grounded Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
By Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog
Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Do LLMs Memorize Recommendation Datasets? A Preliminary Study on MovieLens-1M
By Dario Di Palma, Felice Antonio Merra, Maurizio Sfilio, Vito Walter Anelli, Fedelucio Narducci, Tommaso Di Noia
Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

WARP: An Efficient Engine for Multi-Vector Retrieval
By Jan Luca Scheerer, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts, Gustavo Alonso, Omar Khattab
Best Paper Award at SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Verification of Incomplete Graph Unlearning through Adversarial Perturbations
By Kun Wu, Wendy Hui Wang
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Brain Effective Connectivity Estimation via Fourier Spatiotemporal Attention
By Wen Xiong, Jinduo Liu, Junzhong Ji, Fenglong Ma
Best Student Paper Runner-Up, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Taming Recommendation Bias with Causal Intervention on Evolving Personal Popularity
By Shiyin Tan, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Zhen Wang, Xingtong Yu, Manabu Okumura
Best Student Paper Award, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

SIGEM: A Simple yet Effective Similarity based Graph Embedding Method
By Masoud Reyhani Hamedani, Jeong-Seok Oh, Seong-Un Cho, Sang-Wook Kim
Best Paper Honorable Mention, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Monitoring Robustness and Individual Fairness
By Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, Konstantin Kueffner, Kaushik Mallik, David Pape
Best Paper Runner-Up, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Improving Group Robustness on Spurious Correlation via Evidential Alignment
By Wenqian Ye, Guangtao Zheng, Aidong Zhang
Best Paper Award, Research Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

HtFLlib: A Comprehensive Heterogeneous Federated Learning Library and Benchmark
By Jianqing Zhang, Xinghao Wu, Yanbing Zhou, Xiaoting Sun, Qiqi Cai, Yang Liu, Yang Hua, Zhenzhe Zheng, Jian Cao, Qiang Yang
Runner up, Best paper, Datasets and Benchmarks Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

A Guide to Misinformation Detection Data and Evaluation
By Camille Thibault, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, Taylor Lynn Curtis, James Zhou, Florence Laflamme, Luke Yuxiang Guan, Reihaneh Rabbany, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
Runner up, Best paper, Datasets and Benchmarks Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

When Heterophily Meets Heterogeneity: Challenges and a New Large-Scale Graph Benchmark
By Junhong Lin, Xiaojie Guo, Shuaicheng Zhang, Yada Zhu, Julian Shun
Best paper, Datasets and Benchmarks Track at KDD '25: The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

ICS '25: 2025 International Conference on Supercomputing

DIMPLES: Distributed Influence Maximization for Pandemic pLanning on Exascale Systems
By Marco Minutoli, Reece Neff, Naw Safrin Sattar, Hao Lu, John Feo, Henning Mortveit, Anil Vullikanti, Dawen Xie, Mandy L Wilson, Gregor von Laszewski, Parantapa Bhattacharya, S M Ferdous, Ananth Kalyanaraman, Michela Becchi, Madhav Marathe, Mahantesh Halappanavar
Best Paper Award at ICS '25: 2025 International Conference on Supercomputing

CI '25: Collective Intelligence Conference

Deliberative Polling in Sub-Saharan Africa Paper
By Alice Siu, Estelle Ciesla, Joshua Goodwin
Best Paper Award at CI '25: Collective Intelligence Conference

ICER '25: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Needles in a Haystack: Student Struggles with Working on Large Code Bases
By Anshul Shah, Thomas Rexin, Anya Chernova, Gonzalo Allen-Perez, William G. Griswold, Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj
Best Paper Award at ICER '25: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Real-time Scientific Visualization and Interactive Steering for High-Performance Computing Simulations
By Thomas Marrinan, Andres Sewell, Victor A. Mateevitsi, Steve Petruzza, Jifu Tan, Dimitrios K. Fytanidis, Michael E. Papka
Best Visualization at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

A Pre-Processing Framework for Securing LLM-RAG Interfaces Against Information Leakage
By Ronald H Davies, Krish Sanghvi, Rahul Nalam, Rajiv Ramnath
Best Student Poster at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Combating Underutilization with the Jobstats Job Monitoring Platform
By Jonathan Halverson, Josko Plazonic
Best Poster at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

OpenSHMEM Performance on Bluefield-3 Data Processing Units (DPUs)
By Michael Beebe, Benjamin Michalowicz, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Yong Chen, Wendy Poole, Steve Poole
Best Student Short Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Text Representations for Property Prediction of Organic Molecules Using RoBERTa
By Dana O'Connor, Sunny Sun, Paola A. Buitrago
Best Short Paper Applications & Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

T3-CIDERS: Train-the-Trainer and Community Building to Increase Cyberinfrastructure Adoption in Cybersecurity Research and Education
By Wirawan Purwanto, Mohan Yang, Peng Jiang, Shanan Chappell Moots, Masha Sosonkina, Hongyi Wu
Best Full Paper Workforce Development, Training, Education & Community at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Automating HPC Software Compilation, Deployment, and Error Resolution through an LLM-based Multi-Agent System
By Sean Mondesire, Emmanuel Nsiye, Bulent Soykan, Glenn Martin
Best Full Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

ML Field Planner: Analyzing and Optimizing ML Pipelines For Field Research
By Joe Stubbs, Sowbaranika Balasubramaniam, Samuel Khuvis, Sachith Withana, Manikya Swathi Vallabhajosyula, Richard Cardone, Christian Garcia, Nathan Freeman, Carlos Guzman, Beth Plale, Rajiv Ramnath, Tanya Berger-Wolf
Best Full Paper Applications & Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Posits Solve the ``Light Leak' Problem in Computer Graphics
By Arman Singh, Gil Speyer, John Gustafson
Best Student Short Paper Applications & Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

FAIR-CS: Framework for Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations in Online Computing Programs
By Breanna Shi, Thomas Deatherage, Jeanette Schofield, Charles R. Clark, Thomas Orth, Nicholas Lytle
Best Student Full Paper Workforce Development, Training, Education & Community at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Analyzing GPU Utilization in HPC Workloads: Insights from Large-Scale Systems
By Efe Sencan, Dhruva Kulkarni, Ayse Coskun, Kadidia Konate
Best Student Full Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Toward an Education Hub Linking Research Data and Compute to Learning Workflows in the National Data Platform
By Melissa Floca, Kate O'Laughlin, Pedro Ramonetti Vega, Amarnath Gupta, Ilkay Altintas, Manish Parashar
Best Short Paper Workforce Development, Training, Education & Community at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
By Tyler J. Skluzacek, Paul Bryant, A.J. Ruckman, Daniel Rosendo, Suzanne Prentice, Michael J. Brim, Ryan Adamson, Sarp Oral, Mallikarjun Shankar, Rafael Ferreira da Silva
Best Short Paper Systems & System Software at PEARC '25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

The Invisible Participants: How Computing Education Research Fails Students with Disabilities
By Nadia S. J. Morrow, Atayliya Irving, Jasmine McKenzie, Alaina Smith, Juan E. Gilbert
Exemplary Perspective Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Breaking Barriers to Inclusion: Empowering Special Education Teachers with CS Professional Learning
By Jessica Williams, Joanne Barrett, Maya Israel, Debra Kelly Thomas
Exemplary Perspective Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Shaping the Future of K-5 CS: Transforming Education with Equity Driven Framework and Expert Collaboration
By Lien Diaz, Heather Cunningham
Exemplary Work-in-Progress Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

TACTICS: A Statewide Professional Learning Community to Expand CS Education for Students with Disabilities
By Sara B. Frey, Ethan Pan
Best Work-in-Progress Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Boosting Professional Participation in Computing Through Greater and Wider Conference Access
By Sarah Hug, Patricia Morreale, Ann Quiroz Gates, Brianna Rivera, Bianca Alvarez, Heather Thiry
Exemplary Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Inspiring Blind and Low Vision High School Students and their Teachers to Access STEM in College
By Isabela Figueira, Josahandi M. Cisneros, Julieta Lindo, Vinh H. Luong, Stacy M. Branham
Exemplary Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Educator's Implementation and Understanding of Translanguaging and Universal Design for Learning in Teaching Culturally Responsive Computer Science Education
By Summer Wildbill, Cheri Fancsali, Kathryn Hill, Alexandra Adair
Exemplary Work-in-Progress Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Black in the Cloud: Race, Retention, and Representation in Online Computing Programs
By Mika Hurd, Tyler Clark, Rebecca Zarch
Best Work-in-Progress Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Teachers' POUR Evaluation of Computer Science Technologies
By Andrew Bennett, Maya Israel
Exemplary Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Strategies for Increasing Young Women's Participation in Secondary Computer Science Education
By Madeline Haynes, Lisa S. Garbrecht, Carol L. Fletcher, Alejandro Madrigal, Mona Baniahmadi
Exemplary Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Redefining Data Science: Where Transformative Youth Organizing Meets Arts-Based Abolitionist Education
By Raechel Walker, Brady Cruse, Aisha Cora, Cynthia Breazeal
Best Research Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Transforming Perceptions of Black Achievement in Computing Research: A Multi-Institutional Intervention
By Marlon Mejias, Dale-Marie Wilson, Eric Betties, Oluwagbeminiyi Johnson, Felesia Stukes, Gloria Washington, Jody Marshall
Best Experience Report at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

Intersectional Conference Accessibility: A Call to Action
By Bedour Alshaigy
Best Perspective Paper at RESPECT '25: Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology

ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Impersonating the Crowd: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Replicate Human Judgment in Misinformation Assessment
By David La Barbera, Riccardo Lunardi, Mengdie Zhuang, Kevin Roitero
Best Paper Award at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Axioms for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
By Jan Heinrich Merker, Maik Fröbe, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen
Honorable Mention at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Correctness is not Faithfulness in Retrieval Augmented Generation Attributions
By Jonas Wallat, Maria Heuss, Maarten de Rijke, Avishek Anand
Honorable Mention at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

Rethinking Click Models in Light of Carousel Interfaces: Theory-Based Categorization and Design of Click Models
By Jingwei Kang, Maarten de Rijke, Santiago de Leon-Martinez, Harrie Oosterhuis
Honorable Mention at ICTIR '25: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR)

ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Emotions Shape Effort-Reward Choices: Positive Valence Decreases Effort, Except Under High Arousal
By Jamie C. Chiu, Nicholas Budny, Aetizaz Sameer, Persis A. Baah, Dan-Mircea Mirea, Isabel M. Berwian, Yael Niv
Best Student Late Breaking Work at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Estimating the level of ability of English learners using eye movement features during text reading
By Yusuke Oyama, Minoru Nakayama
Best Late Breaking Work Honorable Mention at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Combining Intuitive Gaze-Based Control with EEG-Based Detection of Motor Imagery and Quasi-Movements
By Artem S. Yashin, Yulia G. Shevtsova, Evgeniy P. Svirin, Anatoly N. Vasilyev, Sergei L. Shishkin
Best Late Breaking Work at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Proxy-Based Pre-Training for Eye-Tracking Applications
By David Robert Reich, Cui Ding, Lena Sophia Bolliger, Patrick Haller, Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger
Best Short Paper Honorable Mention at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Imperceptible Gaze Guidance Through Ocularity in Virtual Reality
By Virmarie Maquiling, Li Zhaoping, Enkelejda Kasneci
Best Paper Honorable Mention at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

PupilSense: A Novel Application for Webcam-Based Pupil Diameter Estimation
By Vijul Shah, Ko Watanabe, Brian Moser, Andreas Dengel
Best Short Paper at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

A Framework for Leveraging LLMs for Scene Analysis and Cognitive Processing
By Catarina Moreira, Jeffrey Cockburn, Monica S. Castelhano
Best Paper Award at ETRA '25: 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

HotStorage '25: 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

SnapBPF: Exploiting eBPF for Serverless Snapshot Prefetching
By Stratos Psomadakis, Dimitrios Siakavaras, Chloe Alverti, Symeon Porgiotis, Orestis Lagkas Nikolos, Christos Katsakioris, Konstantinos Nikas, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris
Futurewei Best Paper at HotStorage '25: 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

ByteExpress: A High-Performance and Traffic-Efficient Inline Transfer of Small Payloads over NVMe
By Junhyeok Park, Junghee Lee, Youngjae Kim
Pure Storage Best Paper at HotStorage '25: 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

ICMR '25: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

TourMLLM: A Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Large Language Model for Multitask Learning in the Tourism Domain
By Hiromasa Yamanishi, Ling Xiao, Toshihiko Yamasaki
ICMR 2025 Best Paper Award at ICMR '25: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

SACMAT '25: The 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies

Safety Analysis in the NGAC Model
By Brian Tan, Ewan S. D. Davies, Indrakshi Ray, Mahmoud A. Abdelgawad
Best Paper Runner-Up Award at SACMAT '25: The 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies

Towards Explainable Access Control [BlueSky Paper]
By Gelareh Hasel Mehri, Charles Morisset, Nicola Zannone
Best Paper Award at SACMAT '25: The 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies

FSE '24: 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

BARO: Robust Root Cause Analysis for Microservices via Multivariate Bayesian Online Change Point Detection
By Luan Pham, Huong Ha, Hongyu Zhang
ACM SIGSOFT Best Artifact Award at FSE '24: 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

A Transferability Study of Interpolation-Based Hardware Model Checking for Software Verification
By Dirk Beyer, Po-Chun Chien, Marek Jankola, Nian-Ze Lee
ACM SIGSOFT Best Artifact Award at FSE '24: 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering

DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

LLMs Enable Context-Aware Augmented Reality in Surgical Navigation
By Hamraz Javaheri, Omid Ghamarnejad, Paul Lukowicz, Gregor Alexander Stavrou, FEBS (HPB/SURGONC), Jakob Karolus
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Exposing the Ideology of Large Language Models with Creative Practices
By Michele Cremaschi, Paolo Grigis, Max Dorfmann, Antonella De Angeli
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Ambient Awareness: Experiencing Always-On Displays in the Life of PV Households
By Arjun Rajendran Menon, Jorge Luis Zapico
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Thinking Outside the Data Box: Investigating the Potential of Data Manipulation for Self-Reflection on Personal Data
By Yeohyun Jung, Kwangyoung Lee, Hwajung Hong
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Designing with Decolonial Intent: Towards a Decolonial Archive in Resistance to Epistemicide
By Rob Comber, Cecilia Järdemar, Freddy Tsimba, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Akshata Murdeshwar, Serge Lunyanga
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Research as Care: A Reflection on Incorporating the Ethics of Care in Design Research with People Living with Dementia
By Long-Jing Hsu, Janice Bays, Manasi Swaminathan, Weslie Khoo, Hiroki Sato, Kyrie Jig Amon, Sathvika Dobbala, Min Min Thant, Alex Foster, Kate Tsui, Philip B. Stafford, David Crandall, Selma Sabanovic
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

From Diagrams to Experience: Data Visceralisation of Ecosystem State-and-Transition Models in Virtual Reality
By Adélaïde Genay, Michael James Neylan, Warwick Laird, Thomas Romanis, Katrina Szetey, Anna E Richards, Bernhard Jenny, Tom Chandler
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Towards a Framework for Exploring Synthetic Voices in VUI Design
By Jonas Fritsch, Pelin Karaturhan, Stina Marie Hasse Jørgensen, Ada Ada Ada, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Making the Right Thing: Bridging HCI and Responsible AI in Early-Stage AI Concept Selection
By Ji-Youn Jung, Devansh Saxena, Minjung Park, Jini Kim, Jodi Forlizzi, Ken Holstein, John Zimmerman
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

SiCo: An Interactive Size-Controllable Virtual Try-On Approach for Informed Decision-Making
By Sherry X. Chen, Alex Christopher Lim, Yimeng Liu, Pradeep Sen, Misha Sra
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

IKIWISI: An Interactive Visual Pattern Generator for Evaluating the Reliability of Vision-Language Models Without Ground Truth
By Md Touhidul Islam, Imran Kabir, Md Alimoor Reza, Syed Masum Billah
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Towards Societally Beneficial Personalized Realities: A Conceptual Foundation for Responsible Ubiquitous Personalization Systems
By Jannis Strecker, Simon Mayer, Kenan Bektaş
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

From Temporal to Spatial: Designing Spatialized Interactions with Segmented-audios in Immersive Environments for Active Engagement with Performing Arts Intangible Cultural Heritage
By Yuqi Wang, Sirui Wang, Shiman Zhang, Kexue Fu, Michelle Lui, Ray Lc
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Searching for the Words that "Feel Right": Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)
By Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Pedro Sanches, Jorge Olivares-Retamal
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Values as Problems, Principles, and Tensions in Sociotechnical System Design for Journalism
By Sachita Nishal, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

WovenCircuits: A 3-Step Fabrication Process for Weaving Electric Circuit Layouts in Everyday Artefacts
By Ahmed Awad, Salma Ibrahim, Sara Nabil
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Empowering Sustainable E-Textiles: DIY Biofiber Wet Spinning for Community Material Exploration
By Jingwen Zhu, Megan Wu, Ruth Zhao, Samantha Chang, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Designing for Secondary Users of Intimate Technologies
By Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Joo Young Park, Anupriya Tuli, Deepika Yadav, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Madeline Balaam, Airi Lampinen
Honorable Mention Paper at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Teenagers and the Data Economy: Understanding Their Dreams, Desires and Anxieties with Metaphor Workbooks
By Samuel Barnett, William Odom, Samien Shamsher
Best Pictorial Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Prompt Machine: A Tangible Generative AI Tool for Supporting Children's Learning and Literacy
By Martin Lindrup, Rune Møberg Jacobsen, Joel Wester, Niels van Berkel, Dimitrios Raptis, Peter Axel Nielsen
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Copyrighting Generative AI Co-Creations
By Jeff Huang, Rui-Jie Yew, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

HapticWings: Enhancing the Experience of Extra Wing Motions in Virtual Reality through Dynamic 2D Weight Shifting
By Yingjie Chang, Junyu Chen, Yilong Lin, Xuesong Zhang, Seungwoo Je
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Narrative Motion Blocks: Combining Direct Manipulation and Natural Language Interactions for Animation Creation
By Samuelle Bourgault, Li-Yi Wei, Jennifer Jacobs, Rubaiat Habib Kazi
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe
By Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Patrick G.T. Healey, Sebastian Deterding
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

SONARIOS: A Design Futuring-Driven Exploration of Acoustophoresis
By Ceylan Beşevli, Lei Gao, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Giada Brianza, Orestis Georgiou, Sriram Subramanian, Marianna Obrist
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

"Pray For Green, Play For Green": Integrating Religion into Climate Change Serious Games
By Sai Siddartha Maram, Yash Malegaonkar, Niveditha Dudyala, Mário Escarce Junior, Magy Seif El-Nasr
Best Paper Award at DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

DEMO: Radio Unit Activity Fingerprinting through Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis in O-RAN Networks
By Sreenithya Somavarapu, Harshita Chaudhari, Nour El Houda Aidlaid, Nongnapat Adchariyavivit, Qais Dib, Moinul Hossain, Vijay K. Shah, Md. Tanvir Arafin
Best Poster/Demo at WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

BlindSpot: Efficient Single-Node Selective Jamming for LoRaWAN
By Vincenz Mechler, Frank Hessel, Matthias Hollick, Bastian Bloessl
Best Short Paper at WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

Distributed Multi-Antenna GPS Spoofing Attack using Off-the-Shelf Devices
By Xiang Cheng, Hanchao Yang, Shinan Liu, Yaling Yang
Best Paper Award at WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

ITiCSE '25: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Investigating the Impact of Classroom Structure, Sociality, and Inclusivity on Student Perceptions of Mastery
By Celine Latulipe, Andrew Rosen, Audrey Rorrer, Sri Yash Tadimalla, Sabrin Nowrin, John Fiore, Marlon Mejias, Gene Kwatny, Jamie Payton, Mary Lou Maher
Best Paper at ITiCSE '25: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

EC '25: The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Swap Regret and Correlated Equilibria Beyond Normal-Form Games
By Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran, Natalie Collina, Yishay Mansour, Mehryar Mohri, Jon Schneider, Balasubramanian Sivan
Best Paper Award at EC '25: The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

WEIRD Audits? Research Trends, Linguistic and Geographical Disparities in the Algorithm Audits of Online Platforms - A Systematic Literature Review
By Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh, Aniko Hannak
Honorable Mention at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation
By Jabez Magomere, Shu Ishida, Tejumade Afonja, Aya Salama, Daniel Kochin, Yuehgoh Foutse, Imane Hamzaoui, Raesetje Sefala, Aisha Alaagib, Samantha Dalal, Beatrice Marchegiani, Elizaveta Semenova, Lauren Crais, Siobhan Mackenzie Hall
Honorable Mention at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Auditing the Audits: Lessons for Algorithmic Accountability from Local Law 144's Bias Audits
By Marissa Kumar Gerchick, Ro Encarnación, Cole Tanigawa-Lau, Lena Armstrong, Ana Gutiérrez, Danaé Metaxa
Honorable Mention at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

“You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing
By Haley Lepp, Daniel Scott Smith
Best Paper at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
By Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann, Aleksandra Korolova
Best Paper at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms
By Emma Harvey, Rene F. Kizilcec, Allison Koenecke
Best Paper at FAccT '25: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Co-creating a VR Narrative Experience of Constructing a Food Storage Following OvaHimba Traditional Practices
By Kaulyaalalwa Peter, Isaac Makosa, Selma Auala, Laurinda Ndjao, Donovan Maasz, Uariaike Mbinge, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Best Work-in-Progress Award at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Demonstrating the Screenless Optical Theremin with Tremolo (ScOTT)
By Michael Gancz, Justin Berry, Shu Wei, Kimberly Hieftje, Asher Marks
Demo Honorable Mention at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Immersive Cognitive Training for Job Integration with people with Intellectual Disabilities
By Marta Goyena, Matteo Dal Magro, Martina Merolli, David Barbero García, Carlos Cortés, Marta Orduna, Ainhoa Fernández-Alcaide, María Nava-Ruiz, Jesus Gutiérrez, Pablo Perez, Narciso García
Best Demo Award at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Spoiler Alert! Understanding and Designing for Spoilers in Social Media
By Ville Mäkelä, Kartik Chinda, Irtika Khan
Paper Honorable Mention at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

An AI-driven Music Visualization System for Generating Meaningful Audio-Responsive Visuals in Real-Time
By Jenny Huang, Christoph Johannes Weber, Sylvia Rothe
Best Paper Award at IMX '25: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

EICS '25: The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Comparative Testing of 2D Stroke Gesture Recognizers in Multiple Contexts
By Nathan Magrofuoco, Arthur Sluÿters, Paolo Roselli, Jean Vanderdonckt
Honorable Mention at EICS '25: The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Augmenting graphical modeling workbenches with semantic-aware interactive features
By Théo Giraudet, Arnaud Blouin, Benoit Combemale, Mélanie Bats, Pierre-Charles David
Best Paper at EICS '25: The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering
By Mihail Stoian, Andreas Kipf
SIGMOD Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views
By Nuno Faria, José Pereira
SIGMOD Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?
By Kaisong Huang, Jiatang Zhou, Zhuoyue Zhao, Dong Xie, Tianzheng Wang
SIGMOD Best Paper Award at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

LpBound: Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation Using ℓp-Norms of Degree Sequences
By Haozhe Zhang, Christoph Mayer, Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Dan Olteanu, Dan Suciu
SIGMOD Best Paper Award at SIGMOD/PODS '25: International Conference on Management of Data

ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

CORD: Low-Latency, Bandwidth-Efficient and Scalable Release Consistency via Directory Ordering
By Yanpeng Yu, Nicolai Oswald, Anurag Khandelwal
Best Artifact at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

OptiPIM: Optimizing Processing-in-Memory Acceleration Using Integer Linear Programming
By Jiantao Liu, Minxuan Zhou, Yue Pan, Chien-Yi Yang, Lana Josipović, Tajana Rosing
Best Artifact at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Chimera: Communication Fusion for Hybrid Parallelism in Large Language Models
By Le Qin, Junwei Cui, Weilin Cai, Jiayi Huang
Best Artifact at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

H2-LLM: Hardware-Dataflow Co-Exploration for Heterogeneous Hybrid-Bonding-based Low-Batch LLM Inference
By Cong Li, Yihan Yin, Xintong Wu, Jingchen Zhu, Zhutianya Gao, Dimin Niu, Qiang Wu, Xin Si, Yuan Xie, Chen Zhang, Guangyu Sun
Best Paper at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Precise exceptions in relaxed architectures
By Ben Simner, Alasdair Armstrong, Thomas Bauereiss, Brian Campbell, Ohad Kammar, Jean Pichon-Pharabod, Peter Sewell
Best Paper at ISCA '25: The 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

PASC '25: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

Toward More Usable, Reproducible, and Sustainable Scientific Software: The Impact of User-Centered Design in Research Software Development
By Katherine Arneson, Lijiang Fu, Lisa Gatzke
Best Paper at PASC '25: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

IFL '24: 36th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

Context-Free Binding Grammars
By Björn Lötters, Uwe Meyer
Peter Landin prize at IFL '24: 36th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Destabilizing Iris
By Simon Spies, Niklas Mück, Haoyi Zeng, Michael Sammler, Andrea Lattuada, Peter Müller, Derek Dreyer
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Tree Borrows
By Neven Villani, Johannes Hostert, Derek Dreyer, Ralf Jung
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Principal Type Inference under a Prefix: A Fresh Look at Static Overloading
By Daan Leijen, Wenjia Ye
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Verifying General-Purpose RCU for Reclamation in Relaxed Memory Separation Logic
By Jaehwang Jung, Sunho Park, Janggun Lee, Jeho Yeon, Jeehoon Kang
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Practical Type Inference with Levels
By Andong Fan, Han Xu, Ningning Xie
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

AWDIT: An Optimal Weak Database Isolation Tester
By Lasse Møldrup, Andreas Pavlogiannis
Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI '25: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

IH&MMSEC '25: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

Modality-Agnostic Deepfakes Detection
By Yu Cai, Peng Chen, Jiahe Tian, Jin Liu, Jiao Dai, Xi Wang, Shan Jia, Siwei Lyu, Jizhong Han
Best Student Paper Award at IH&MMSEC '25: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

Effect of Acquisition Noise Outliers on Steganalysis
By Edgar Kaziakhmedov, Jessica Fridrich, Patrick Bas
Best Paper Award at IH&MMSEC '25: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security

IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

"SAM" - School Attachment Monitor for the Assessment of Attachment in Children aged 4-8
By Michael John Saiger, Yara Aleid, Helen Minnis, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Stephen Brewster
Best Demo at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

“Whispers of Hope”: A Narrative-Driven, Immersive, Digital Game to Foster Hope and Emotional Growth in Children
By Devasena Pasupuleti, Zareen Hasna Chowdhury, Shyamli Suneesh, Sreeja Sri Ramoji, Shruti Chandra
Research and Design Challenge Award at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

From Users to Co-Designers: Youth Participation in Understanding Cyberbullying
By Kanishk Verma, Brian Davis, Tijana Milosevic, Rebecca Umbach
Honorable Mention for Best Work-in-Progress at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

"If They Have No Choice, They'll Accept!": How Children and Adolescents Assess Deceptive Designs
By René Schäfer, Sarah Sahabi, Lucia Karl, Sophie Hahn, Jan Borchers
Best Work-in-Progress at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

HopeFix: An AR System for Building Hope Through Toy Repair
By Wenjing Deng, Minxuan He, Xintong Wu, Peixi Sheng, Shuzi Yin, Bingjie Gao, Jiachen Du, Haipeng Mi
Research and Design Challenge Award at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

Beyond the Algorithm: Speculative Approaches to Critical AI Literacies with Diverse Youth
By Sadhbh Kenny, Alissa N. Antle, Gillian Russell, Alexandra Kitson, Annemiek Veldhuis
Honorable Mention at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

Beyond Categories: Towards a Continuum Model to Capture the Characteristics of Neurodiverse Social Play
By Brooke Morris, Alison Oldfield, Oussama Metatla
Honorable Mention at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

The Secret Lives of Children’s Money: Exploring Children’s Financial Interactions in Transitions from Cash to Digital Monies
By Valentina Andries, Cara Wilson, Harvey Everson, Caroline McKinley, Chris Elsden
Best Full Paper at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

On the Good-Enough Effect: Children Reflect on their AI-Generated Portraits
By Irene Zanardi, Shana Dedò, Monica Landoni
Best Pictorial at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

"Hey Curio, Can You Tell Me More?": Children's Information-Seeking and Trust in AI
By Sunhyo Oh, Chao Zhang, Lauren Girouard-Hallam, Zihao Zhou, Halie March, Srushti Jayaramu, Ying Xu
Best Short Paper at IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children

SIGMETRICS '25: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Beaver: A High-Performance and Crash-Consistent File System Cache via PM-DRAM Collaborative Memory Tiering
By Qinglin Pan, Ji Qi, Jiatai He, Heng Zhang, Jiageng Yu, Yanjun Wu
Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award at SIGMETRICS '25: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Adversarial Network Optimization under Bandit Feedback: Maximizing Utility in Non-Stationary Multi-Hop Networks
By Yan Dai, Longbo Huang
Best Paper Award at SIGMETRICS '25: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

DEBS '25: The 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

Impact of Network Topologies on Blockchain Performance
By Vincenzo P. Di Perna, Marco Bernardo, Francesco Fabris, Sebastiao Amaro, Miguel Matos, Valerio Schiavoni
ACM DEBS 2025 Best Student Paper at DEBS '25: The 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

Histrio: a Serverless Actor System
By Luca De Martini, Giorgio Natale Buttiglieri, Alessandro Margara
ACM DEBS 2025 Best Paper at DEBS '25: The 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems

CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

CryptMove: Moving Stealthily through Legitimate and Encrypted Communication Channels
By Md Rabbi Alam, Jinpeng Wei, Qingyang Wang
CODASPY 2025 Best Paper Award at CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Probabilistic Data Structures in the Wild: A Security Analysis of Redis
By Mia Fili?, Jonas Hofmann, Sam A. Markelon, Kenneth G. Paterson, Anupama Unnikrishnan
CODASPY 2025 Best Paper Award at CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Espresso: Robust Concept Filtering in Text-to-Image Models
By Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang, N. Asokan
CODASPY 2025 Best Paper Award at CODASPY '25: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

Beyond the Lens: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries through Amazon Reviews
By Beyond the Lens: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries through Amazon Reviews
WebSci 2025 Best Poster Award at Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions
By How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions
WebSci 2025 Best Paper Honorable Mention at Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

Beyond Sentiment: Examining the Role of Moral Foundations in User Engagement with News on Twitter
By Beyond Sentiment: Examining the Role of Moral Foundations in User Engagement with News on Twitter
WebSci 2025 Best Paper Award at Websci '25: 17th ACM Web Science Conference

SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Mamba-PKD: A Framework for Efficient and Scalable Model Compression in Image Classification
By José Medina, Amnir Hadachi, Paul Honeine, Abdelaziz Bensrhair
Best Poster at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Efficient Scheduling of Weakly-Hard Real-Time Tasks with Sufficient Schedulability Condition
By Victor Gabriel Moyano, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Selma Saidi, Daniel Lüdtke
Best Paper: System Software & Security at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

An Adversarial Model with Diffusion for Robust Recommendation against Shilling Attack
By Thi-Hanh Le, Padipat Sitkrongwong, Panagiotis Andriotis, Quang-Thuy Ha, Atsuhiro Takasu
Best Paper: Software Design & Development at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Language Flavors in the Lusophone World: A BERT-Based Social Media Study of Portuguese in Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique
By Annie Amorim, Gabriel Assis, Laura Ribeiro, Daniel de Oliveira, Aline Paes
Best Paper: Information Systems at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Leveraging Contrastive Learning and Spatial Encoding for Prediction in Traffic Networks with Expanding Infrastructure
By You Xu, Marwan Hassani
Best Paper: Distributed Systems at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

RAGCol: RAG-Based Automatic Video Colorization Through Text Caption Generation and Knowledge Enrichment
By Rory Ward, Dhairya Dalal, Paul Buitelaar, John Breslin
Best Paper: AI & Agents at SAC '25: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

BlendFusion: Procedural 3D Texturing Assistant with View-Consistent Generative Models
By Qinchan Li, Finley Torrens, Kenneth Chen, Qi Sun
Best Poster at I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Foveated Animations for Efficient Crowd Simulation
By Florin-Vladimir Stancu, Tomer Weiss, Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos
Best Student Paper at I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Transform-Aware Sparse Voxel Directed Acyclic Graphs
By Mathijs Molenaar, Elmar Eisemann
Best Paper at I3D '25: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

ACMSE '25: 2025 ACM Southeast Conference

Improving Merge Sort and Quick Sort Performance by Utilizing Alphadev’s Sorting Networks as Base Cases
By Anas Gamal Aly, Anders E. Jensen, Hala Elaarag
Best Short Paper at ACMSE '25: 2025 ACM Southeast Conference

Secure Edge Computing Reference Architecture for Data-driven Structural Health Monitoring: Lessons Learned from Implementation and Benchmarking
By Sheikh Muhammad Farjad, Sandeep Reddy Patllola, Yonas Kassa, George Grispos, Robin Gandhi
Best Full Paper at ACMSE '25: 2025 ACM Southeast Conference

ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Platform Performance Suite (PPS): A Framework for Performance Analysis & Diagnosis of Complex Cyber-physical Systems
By Konstantinos Triantafyllidis, Yuri Blankenstein, Sobhan Niknam, Jos Hegge
Best Industry Paper Award at ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

HeteroBench: Multi-kernel Benchmarks for Heterogeneous Systems
By Hongzheng Tian, Alok Mishra, Zhiheng Chen, Rolando P. Hong Enriquez, Dejan Milojicic, Eitan Frachtenberg, Sitao Huang
Best Artifact Paper Award at ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Introducing GPU Persistent Graphs for Time-sensitive Workflows
By Cyril Cetre, Florian Ferreira, Rémi Barrere, Damien Gratadour
André van Hoorn Best Paper Award at ICPE '25: 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025

Behavioral Homophily in Social Media via Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Reddit Case Study
By Lanqin Yuan, Philipp J. Schneider, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
Best Paper Award at WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025

MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression Using Volume-Tracked Reference Meshes
By Guodong Chen, Filip Hácha, Libor Váša, Mallesham Dasari
Best Reproducible Paper at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

Multimodal User Experience in Extended Reality: Exploring Hand Tracking, Voice, and Passthrough Interactions
By Tanja Kojic, Maurizio Vergari, Maximilian Warsinke, Danish Ali, Sebastian Möller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
Best Workshop Paper at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

uvgVPCCenc: Practical Open-Source Encoder for Fast V-PCC Compression
By Louis Fréneau, Guillaume Gautier, Alexandre Mercat, Jarno Vanne
Best Open Source Software and Dataset Paper at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

Real-time Point Cloud Transmission for Immersive Teleoperation of Autonomous Mobile Robots
By Nunzio Barone, Walter Brescia, Gabriele Santangelo, Antonio Pio Maggio, Ivan Cisternino, Luca De Cicco, Saverio Mascolo
Best Demo Award at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

LTS: A DASH Streaming System for Dynamic Multi-Layer 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes
By Yuan-Chun Sun, Yuang Shi, Cheng-Tse Lee, Mufeng Zhu, Wei Tsang Ooi, Yao Liu, Chun-Ying Huang, Cheng-Hsin Hsu
Best Paper Award at MMSys '25: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2025

ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

SmoothE: Differentiable E-Graph Extraction
By Yaohui Cai, Kaixin Yang, Chenhui Deng, Cunxi Yu, Zhiru Zhang
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Orion: A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Framework for Deep Learning
By Austin Ebel, Karthik Garimella, Brandon Reagen
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

MetaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering
By Weikai Lin, Yu Feng, Yuhao Zhu
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

H-Houdini: Scalable Invariant Learning
By Sushant Dinesh, Yongye Zhu, Christopher W. Fletcher
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Extended User Interrupts (xUI): Fast and Flexible Notification without Polling
By Berk Aydogmus, Linsong Guo, Danial Zuberi, Tal Garfinkel, Dean Tullsen, Amy Ousterhout, Kazem Taram
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

CXLfork: Fast Remote Fork over CXL Fabrics
By Chloe Alverti, Stratos Psomadakis, Burak Ocalan, Shashwat Jaiswal, Tianyin Xu, Josep Torrellas
Best Paper Award at ASPLOS '25: 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

Enabling Virtual Priority in Data Center Congestion Control
By Zhaochen Zhang, Feiyang Xue, Keqiang He, Zhimeng Yin, Gianni Antichi, Jiaqi Gao, Yizhi Wang, Rui Ning, Haixin Nan, Xu Zhang, Peirui Cao, Xiaoliang Wang, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian
Best Student Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

Understanding the Linux Kernel, Visually
By Hanzhi Liu, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu
Best Student Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

SpInfer: Leveraging Low-Level Sparsity for Efficient Large Language Model Inference on GPUs
By Ruibo Fan, Xiangrui Yu, Peijie Dong, Zeyu Li, Gu Gong, Qiang Wang, Wei Wang, Xiaowen Chu
Best Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

CacheBlend: Fast Large Language Model Serving for RAG with Cached Knowledge Fusion
By Jiayi Yao, Hanchen Li, Yuhan Liu, Siddhant Ray, Yihua Cheng, Qizheng Zhang, Kuntai Du, Shan Lu, Junchen Jiang
Best Paper Award of EuroSys 2025 at EuroSys '25: Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems

IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Under the Hood of Carousels: Investigating User Engagement and Navigation Effort in Multi-list Recommender Systems
By Behnam Rahdari, Peter Brusilovsky
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Unequal Opportunities: Examining the Bias in Geographical Recommendations by Large Language Models
By Shiran Dudy, Thulasi Tholeti, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Muhammad Ali, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

One Does Not Simply Meme Alone: Evaluating Co-Creativity Between LLMs and Humans in the Generation of Humor
By Zhikun Wu, Thomas Weber, Florian Müller
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

“You Always Get an Answer”: Analyzing Users’ Interaction with AI-Generated Personas Given Unanswerable Questions and Risk of Hallucination
By Ilkka Kaate, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Essi Häyhänen, Jinan Y. Azem, Bernard J. Jansen
IUI 2025 Honourable Mention Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method
By Nuwan T. Attygalle, Matjaž Kljun, Aaron Quigley, Klen Čopič Pucihar, Jens Grubert, Verena Biener, Luis A. Leiva, Juri Yoneyama, Alice Toniolo, Angela Miguel, Hirokazu Kato, Maheshya Weerasinghe
IUI 2025 Best Paper Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

A picture is worth a thousand words? Investigating the Impact of Image Aids in AR on Memory Recall for Everyday Tasks
By Elizaveta Lukianova, Jae-Yeop Jeong, Jin-Woo Jeong
IUI 2025 Best Paper Award at IUI '25: 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

WSDM '15: Eighth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Sarcasm Detection on Twitter: A Behavioral Modeling Approach
By Ashwin Rajadesingan, Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu
Test of Time at WSDM '15: Eighth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

DFDS '25: Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium

Advancing Event Reconstruction in Network Forensics: Extending and Evaluating SMB Command Fingerprinting
By Jan-Niclas Hilgert, Martin Lambertz
Best Paper at DFDS '25: Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium

WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

How Do Recommendation Models Amplify Popularity Bias? An Analysis from the Spectral Perspective
By Siyi Lin, Chongming Gao, Jiawei Chen, Sheng Zhou, Binbin Hu, Yan Feng, Chun Chen, Can Wang
WSDM 2025 Best Paper Award at WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

ADIST '24: 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Sensing Technology

Intelligent Vehicle Navigation Tests Based on LiDAR
By Xingshu Liu, Yifei Yin, Qian Liu
Best Paper Award at ADIST '24: 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Sensing Technology

Improved sparrow search algorithm for autonomous vehicle path planning
By Tian Ding, Yunfeng Gu, Huihui Gao, Xiaohua Song, Suping Zhao, Yujia Zheng, Song Gao
Best Paper Award at ADIST '24: 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Sensing Technology

ISPD '25: International Symposium on Physical Design

Cypress: VLSI-Inspired PCB Placement with GPU Acceleration
By Niansong Zhang, Anthony Agnesina, Noor Shbat, Yuval Leader, Zhiru Zhang, Haoxing Ren
ISPD Best Paper Award 2025 at ISPD '25: International Symposium on Physical Design

WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

How Do Recommendation Models Amplify Popularity Bias? An Analysis from the Spectral Perspective
By Siyi Lin, Chongming Gao, Jiawei Chen, Sheng Zhou, Binbin Hu, Yan Feng, Chun Chen, Can Wang
WSDM 2025 Best Paper Award at WSDM '25: The Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

Publish on Ping: A Better Way to Publish Reservations in Memory Reclamation for Concurrent Data Structures
By Ajay Singh, Trevor Brown
Distinguished Paper at PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

EVeREST: An Effective and Versatile Runtime Energy Saving Tool for GPUs
By Anna Yue, Pen-Chung Yew, Sanyam Mehta
Distinguished Paper at PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

BerryBees: Breadth First Search by Bit-Tensor-Cores
By Yuyao Niu, Marc Casas
Distinguished Paper, Best Artifact at PPoPP '25: The 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

A Primal-Dual Perspective on Program Verification Algorithms
By Takeshi Tsukada, Hiroshi Unno, Oded Padon, Sharon Shoham
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Data Race Freedom à la Mode
By Aïna Linn Georges, Benjamin Peters, Laila Elbeheiry, Leo White, Stephen Dolan, Richard A. Eisenberg, Chris Casinghino, François Pottier, Derek Dreyer
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Affect: An Affine Type and Effect System
By Orpheas van Rooij, Robbert Krebbers
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Barendregt Convenes with Knaster and Tarski: Strong Rule Induction for Syntax with Bindings
By Jan van Brügge, James McKinna, Andrei Popescu, Dmitriy Traytel
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

TensorRight: Automated Verification of Tensor Graph Rewrites
By Jai Arora, Sirui Lu, Devansh Jain, Tianfan Xu, Farzin Houshmand, Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Mohsen Lesani, Praveen Narayanan, Karthik Srinivasa Murthy, Rastislav Bodik, Amit Sabne, Charith Mendis
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Guaranteed Bounds on Posterior Distributions of Discrete Probabilistic Programs with Loops
By Fabian Zaiser, Andrzej S. Murawski, C.-H. Luke Ong
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Relaxed Memory Concurrency Re-executed
By Evgenii Moiseenko, Matteo Meluzzi, Innokentii Meleshchenko, Ivan Kabashnyi, Anton Podkopaev, Soham Chakraborty
Distinguished Paper Award at POPL '25: The 52nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages