OxfordCCAI/CHAILD at CHI2026

We are pleased to share exciting presence at CHI2026 Barcelona by OxfordCCAI / CHAILD.

The highlight is the Child-Centred AI-Mediated Collaborative Agency by Design workshop (CAMCAD), led by Dr Vidminas Vizgirda and Dr Isobel Voysey, and supported by many other Oxford and external colleagues.

This workshop brought together researchers, designers, educators, and practitioners to explore how AI applications can be designed to support children and young people in making informed decisions and enacting them meaningfully.

This year’s central theme was collaborative agency. Through this lens, we explored how children and young people can be supported in making and acting on decisions not just as individuals, but in collaboration with others, such as peers, teachers, and parents.

CAMCAD 2026 built on a series of Child-Centred AI workshops at CHI 2023 (Child-Centred AI Design: Definition, Operation, and Considerations) and CHI 2024 (The Second Workshop on Child-Centered AI Design (CCAI)), deepening the community’s engagement with questions of child-centred design in the age of increasingly ubiquitous AI systems.

Please give the workshop report a close read if you are curious what has been discussed: report.

We are also excited to share the CFP of “Agency in Child-AI Interaction special issue in the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction” [https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/331176/agency-in-child-ai-interaction].