Keeping Up: IxD Education in the Age of GenAI

NordiCHI in Vaasa, Finland

Sunday, 4 October 2026, 9:30-13:00

A participatory workshop on IxD educators’ experiences, challenges, and needs in the age of GenAI.

Welcome &
Introductions

We'll kick off with a welcome and overview of the workshop's goals, followed by brief participant introductions. Afterward, enjoy a coffee break and informal mingling to get to know each other.

Session 1:
Reflecting on Past Experiences

Participants will engage in small group discussions to reflect on their past experiences. Groups will share discussion points in a plenary discussion.

Session 2:
Imagining Future Directions

Small groups will brainstorm future needs and directions. Then we'll collectively identify themes using affinity diagramming. We'll close with a group wrap-up, next steps, and a group photo.

We want to bring educators together to reflect and learn collaboratively.

Submission guidelines

We warmly invite HCI educators, HCI researchers, and practitioners with experience in IxD education to join this half-day workshop at NordiCHI 2026. Whether you have been actively integrating AI into your teaching, cautiously observing from the sidelines, or somewhere in between, your perspective is welcome here.

To participate, we ask applicants to submit a short position statement (around 300 words) covering:

Your background: your role, institutional context, and the design or HCI courses you are involved with
Your experience: one or two observations or experiences with AI in your teaching or educational context. This can be a challenge, a surprise, an experiment, or an open question.
Your positionality (optional): your current stance or perspective on AI in IxD education, if you have one

We have kept the format intentionally light. The position statement is not a research paper — it is a way for us to get to know you and your context before the workshop, and to help us shape the sessions around the experiences in the room.

Participants will be selected for their diverse backgrounds, institutional contexts, and perspectives to create a productive, varied group of 15–25 participants. Submissions should be sent to zwendy@chalmers.se by 31 August 2026.

Submission

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We'll work together to learn about and identify the needs of IxD educators in the age of GenAI.

Organizers

Wendy Zhou

Lecturer in Interaction Design and Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg.

Martina Vincoli

PhD student in Learning Sciences at ETH Zurich and EPFL.

Jichen Zhu

Professor at the HCI and Design Section, directs the Human-AI Interaction Lab (HAIL) and leads the User eXperience (UX) Design Specialization, at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Thommy Eriksson

Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design and Director of Master’s Programme in Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg.