Best Paper Awards in Human-Computer Interaction

Background : When I started my academic career in the Computational Media and Arts (CMA) Thrust at HKUST in July 2021, I realized that our students had incredibly diverse academic backgrounds ranging from arts, humanities to sciences and engineering. While they, as many other aspiring students and scholars, are eager to explore the beauty of the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), they are often overwhelmed by the daunting amount of papers published in the field. As a result, I started to build this repo of papers that won Best Paper Awards, and I hope this resource could be useful for new comers as well as HCI students and scholars who are interested in learning more from their peers.

Keep in mind that papers that won Best Paper Awards are unnecessarily the ones that have most significant impacts to the field and our societies. Nonetheless, such papers could be examples to learn writing styles, emerging research topics, research methods, or ways of execution.

The list contains the most recently published papers that won Best Paper awards or similar paper awards (e.g. lasting impact awards and honorable mention awards) in the following highly reputable HCI Conferences:
CHI , UbiComp/ISWC/Pervasive/IMWUT , CSCW/PACMHCI , ASSETS , UIST , IUI , DIS

CHI
Year	Award	Title	Authors	Keywords
2021	Best Paper	What Do Hackathons Do? Understanding Participation in Hackathons Through Program Theory Analysis	Jeanette Falk, Gopinaath Kannabiran, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen
2021	Best Paper	Falx: Synthesis-Powered Visualization Authoring	Chenglong Wang, Yu Feng, Rastislav Bodik, Isil Dillig, Alvin Cheung, Amy J Ko
2021	Best Paper	"Can I Not Be Suicidal on a Sunday?": Understanding Technology-Mediated Pathways to Mental Health Support	Sachin R Pendse, Amit Sharma, Aditya Vashistha, Munmun De Choudhury, Neha Kumar
2021	Best Paper	CapContact: Super-resolution Contact Areas from Capacitive Touchscreens	Paul Streli, Christian Holz
2021	Best Paper	RadarNet: Efficient Gesture Recognition Technique Utilizing a Miniaturized Radar Sensor	Eiji Hayashi, Jaime Lien, Nicholas Gillian, Leonardo Giusti, Dave Weber, Jin Yamanaka, Lauren Bedal, and Ivan Poupyrev
2021	Best Paper	Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels	Xiaoyi Zhang, Lilian de Greef, Amanda Swearngin, Samuel White, Kyle Murray, Lisa Yu, Qi Shan, Jeffrey Nichols, Jason Wu, Chris Fleizach, Aaron Everitt, Jeffrey P Bigham
2021	Best Paper	LGBTQ Persons' Pregnancy Loss Disclosures to Known Ties on Social Media: Disclosure Decisions and Ideal Disclosure Environments	Cassidy Pyle, Lee Roosevelt, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Nazanin Andalibi
2021	Best Paper	Increasing Electrical Muscle Stimulation?s Dexterity by means of Back of the Hand Actuation	Akifumi Takahashi, Jas Brooks, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Pedro Lopes
2021	Best Paper	Designing Menstrual Technologies with Adolescents	Marie Louise Juul S?ndergaard, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Madeline Balaam
2021	Best Paper	The Show Must Go On: A conceptual model of conducting synchronous participatory design with children online	Kung Jin Lee, Wendy Roldan, Tian Qi Zhu, Harkiran Kaur Saluja, Sungmin Na, Britnie Chin, Yilin Zeng, Jin Ha Lee, Jason Yip
2021	Best Paper	Building for ?We?: Safety Settings for Couples with Memory Concerns	Nora McDonald, Helena M. Mentis
2021	Best Paper	Oh, Snap! A Fabrication Pipeline to Magnetically Connect Conventional and 3D-Printed Electronics	Martin Schmitz, Jan Riemann, Florian M?ller, Steffen Kreis, Max M?hlh?user
2021	Best Paper	Getting Ourselves Together: Epistemic Burden and Data-centered Participatory Design Research	Jennifer Pierre, Roderic Crooks, Morgan Currie, Britt Paris, Irene Pasquetto
2021	Best Paper	"Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work": Data Cascades in High-Stakes AI	Nithya Sambasivan, Shivani Kapania, Hannah Highfill, Diana Akrong, Praveen Paritosh, Lora M Aroyo
2021	Best Paper	Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design	Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Marie Louise Juul S?ndergaard, Madeline Balaam
2021	Best Paper	U!Scientist: Designing for People-Powered Research in Museums	Mmachi God'sglory Obiorah, James K.L. Hammerman, Becky Rother, Will Granger, Haley Margaret West, Michael Horn, Laura Trouille
2021	Best Paper	?Why lose control?? A Study of Freelancers' Perspectives with Gig Economy Platforms	Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Marta E. Cecchinato, John Rooksby
2021	Best Paper	"That courage to encourage": Participation and Aspirations in Chat-based Peer Support for Youth Living with HIV	Naveena Karusala, David Odhiambo Seeh, Cyrus Mugo, Brandon Guthrie, Megan A Moreno, Grace John-Stewart, Irene Inwani, Richard Anderson, Keshet Ronen
2021	Best Paper	The Ethics of Multiplayer Game Design and Community Management: Industry Perspectives and Challenges	Lucy A. Sparrow, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold
2021	Best Paper	Coupling Simulation and Hardware for Interactive Circuit Debugging	Evan Strasnick, Maneesh Agrawala, Sean Follmer
2021	Best Paper	Impact of Task on Attentional Tunneling in Handheld Augmented Reality	Brandon Victor Syiem, Ryan M. Kelly, Jorge Goncalves, Eduardo Velloso, Tilman Dingler
2021	Best Paper	XRgonomics: Facilitating the Creation of Ergonomic 3D Interfaces	Jo?o Marcelo Evangelista Belo, Anna Maria Feit, Tiare Feuchtner, Kaj Gr?nb?k
2021	Best Paper	Heuristic Evaluation of Conversational Agents	Raina Langevin, Ross J Lordon, Thi Avrahami, Benjamin R. Cowan, Tad Hirsch, Gary Hsieh
2021	Best Paper	Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy	Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, Andr? Panisson, Daniela Paolotti
2021	Best Paper	The Landscape and Gaps in Open Source Fairness Toolkits	Michelle Seng Ah Lee, Jatinder Singh
2021	Best Paper	Understanding Data Accessibility for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	Keke Wu, Emma Petersen, Tahmina Ahmad, David Burlinson, Shea Tanis, Danielle Albers Szafir
2021	Best Paper	How to Evaluate Object Selection and Manipulation in VR? Guidelines from 20 Years of Studies	Joanna Bergstr?m, Tor-Salve Dalsgaard, Jason Alexander, Kasper Hornb?k
2021	Best Paper	Designing Interactive Transfer Learning Tools for ML Non-Experts	Swati Mishra, Jeffrey M Rzeszotarski
2020	Best Paper	PenSight: Enhanced Interaction with a Pen-Top Camera	Fabrice Matulic, Riku Arakawa, Brian Vogel & Daniel Vogel
2020	Best Paper	texSketch: Active Diagramming through Pen-and-Ink Annotations	Hariharan Subramonyam, Colleen Seifert, Priti Shah & Eytan Adar
2020	Best Paper	Designing Clinical AAC Tablet Applications with Adults who have Mild Intellectual Disabilities	Ryan Colin Gibson, Mark D. Dunlop, Matt-Mouley Bouamrane & Revathy Nayar
2020	Best Paper	Robots for Inclusive Play: Co-designing an Educational Game With Visually Impaired and sighted Children	Oussama Metatla, Sandra Bardot, Clare Cullen, Marcos Serrano & Christophe Jouffrais
2020	Best Paper	Mental Models of AI Agents in a Cooperative Game Setting	Katy Ilonka Gero, Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, Qian Pan, James Johnson, Werner Geyer, Maria Ruiz, Sarah Miller, David R. Millen, Murray Campbell, Sadhana Kumaravel & Wei Zhang
2020	Best Paper	Color and Animation Preferences for a Light Band eHMI in Interactions Between Automated Vehicles and Pedestrians	Debargha Dey, Azra Habibovic, Bastian Pfleging, Marieke Martens & Jacques Terken
2020	Best Paper	MRAT: The Mixed Reality Analytics Toolkit	Michael Nebeling, Maximilian Speicher, Xizi Wang, Shwetha Rajaram, Brian D. Hall, Zijian Xie, Alexander R. E. Raistrick, Michelle Aebersold, Edward G. Happ, Jiayin Wang, Yanan Sun, Lotus Zhang, Leah E. Ramsier & Rhea Kulkarni
2020	Best Paper	Critical Race Theory for HCI	Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, Angela D.R. Smith, Alexandra To & Kentaro Toyama
2020	Best Paper	Wrex: A Unified Programming-by-Example Interaction for Synthesizing Readable Code for Data Scientists	Ian Drosos, Titus Barik, Philip J. Guo, Robert DeLine & Sumit Gulwani
2020	Best Paper	Co-Designing Checklists to Understand Organizational Challenges and Opportunities around Fairness in AI	Michael A. Madaio, Luke Stark, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan & Hanna Wallach
2020	Best Paper	Transparency of CHI Research Artifacts: Results of a Self-Reported Survey	Chat Wacharamanotham, Lukas Eisenring, Steve Haroz & Florian Echtler
2020	Best Paper	Wireality: Enabling Complex Tangible Geometries in Virtual Reality with Worn Multi-String Haptics	Cathy Fang, Yang Zhang, Matthew Dworman & Chris Harrison
2020	Best Paper	Touching and Being in Touch with the Menstruating Body	Nadia Campo Woytuk, Marie Louise Juul S?ndergaard, Marianela Ciolfi Felice & Madeline Balaam
2020	Best Paper	Designing Ambient Narrative-Based Interfaces to Reflect and Motivate Physical Activity	Elizabeth L. Murnane, Xin Jiang, Anna Kong, Michelle Park, Weili Shi, Connor Soohoo, Luke Vink, Iris Xia, Xin Yu, John Yang-Sammataro, Grace Young, Jenny Zhi, Paula Moya & James A. Landay
2020	Best Paper	A Design Engineering Approach for Quantitatively Exploring Context-Aware Sentence Retrieval for Nonspeaking Individuals with Motor Disabilities	Per Ola Kristensson, James Lilley, Rolf Black & Annalu Waller
2020	Best Paper	ReFind: Design, Lived Experience and Ongoingness in Bereavement	Jayne Wallace, Kyle Montague, Trevor Duncan, Lu??s P. Carvalho, Nantia Koulidou, Jamie Mahoney, Kellie Morrissey, Claire Craig, Linnea Iris Groot, Shaun Lawson, Patrick Olivier, Julie Trueman & Helen Fisher
2020	Best Paper	Designing and Evaluating Calmer, a Device for Simulating Maternal Skin-to-Skin Holding for Premature Infants	Sabrina Hauser, Melinda J. Suto, Liisa Holsti, Manon Ranger & Karon E. MacLean
2020	Best Paper	On Being Iterated: The Affective Demands of Design Participation	Paul Dourish, Christopher Lawrence, Tuck Wah Leong & Greg Wadley
2020	Best Paper	The Role of Everyday Sounds in Advanced Dementia Care	Maarten Houben, Rens Brankaert, Saskia Bakker, Gail Kenning, Inge Bongers & Berry Eggen
2020	Best Paper	Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics	David R. Glowacki, Mark D. Wonnacott, Rachel Freire, Becca R. Glowacki, Ella M. Gale, James E. Pike, Tiu de Haan, Mike Chatziapostolou & Oussama Metatla
2020	Best Paper	Me vs. Super(wo)man: Effects of Customization and Identification in a VR Exergame	Jordan Koulouris, Zoe Jeffery, James Best, Eamonn O??Neill & Christof Lutteroth
2020	Best Paper	Articulating Experience: Reflections from Experts Applying Micro-Phenomenology to Design Research in HCI	Mirjana Prpa, Sarah Fdili-Alaoui, Thecla Schiphorst & Philippe Pasquier
2020	Best Paper	Designing Trans Technology: Defining Challenges and Envisioning Community-Centered Solutions	Oliver L. Haimson, Dykee Gorrell, Denny L. Starks & Zu Weinger
2020	Best Paper	Connecting Distributed Families: Camera Work for Three-party Mobile Video Calls	Yumei Gan, Christian Greiffenhagen & Stuart Reeves
2020	Best Paper	Creating Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities	Narges Ashtari, Andrea Bunt, Joanna McGrenere, Michael Nebeling & Parmit K. Chilana
2020	Best Paper	Exploring How Game Genre in Student-Designed Games Influences Computational Thinking Development	Giovanni Maria Troiano, Qinyu Chen, Angela Vargas Alba, Gregorio Robles, Michael Cassidy, Eli Tucker-Raymond, Gillian Puttick & Casper Harteveld
2020	Best Paper	Beyond the Prototype: Understanding the Challenge of Scaling Hardware Device Production	Rushil Khurana & Steve Hodges
2020	Best Paper	Techniques for Flexible Responsive Visualization Design	Jane Hoffswell, Wilmot Li & Zhicheng Liu
2020	Best Paper	Trigeminal-based Temperature Illusions	Jas Brooks, Steven Nagels & Pedro Lopes
2020	Best Paper	Design Study "Lite" Methodology: Expediting Design Studies and Enabling the Synergy of Visualization Pedagogy and Social Good	Uzma Haque Syeda, Prasanth Murali, Lisa Roe, Becca Berkey & Michelle A. Borkin
2020	Best Paper	Bug or Feature? Covert Impairments to Human Computer Interaction	John V Monaco
2019	Best Paper	"Occupational Therapy is Making": Design Iteration and Digital Fabrication in Occupational Therapy	Megan Hofmann, Kristin Williams, Toni Kaplan, Stephanie Valencia, Gabriella Han, Scott E Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, Patrick Carrington
2019	Best Paper	"I feel it is my responsibility to stream": Streaming and Engaging with Intangible Cultural Heritage through Livestreaming	Zhicong Lu, Michelle Annett, Mingming Fan, Daniel Wigdor
2019	Best Paper	Guerilla Warfare and the Use of New (and Some Old) Technology: Lessons from FARC??s Armed Struggle in Colombia	Debora, Castro, Leal, Max Kr??ger, Kaoru Misaki, Dave Randall, Volker Wulf
2019	Best Paper	Investigating Slowness as a Frame to Design Longer-Term Experiences with Personal Data: A Field Study of Olly	William Odom, Ron Wakkary, Jeroen Hol, Bram Naus, Pepijn Verburg, Tal Amram, Amy Yo Sue Chen
2019	Best Paper	Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices: Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study	Kevin Doherty, Jose Marcano-Belisario, Martin Cohn, Nikolaos Mastellos, Cecily Morrison, Josip Car, Gavin Doherty
2019	Best Paper	Anchored Audio Sampling: A Seamless Method for Exploring Children's Thoughts During Deployment Studies	Alexis Hiniker, Jon Froehlich, Mingrui Ray Zhang, Erin Beneteau
2019	Best Paper	Unremarkable AI: Fitting Intelligent Decision Support into Critical, Clinical Decision-Making Processes	Qian Yang, Aaron Steinfeld, John Zimmerman
2019	Best Paper	Online grocery delivery services: An opportunity to address food disparities in transportation-scarce areas	Tawanna R Dillahunt, Sylvia Simioni, Xuecong Xu
2019	Best Paper	Voice User Interfaces in Schools: Co-designing for Inclusion With Visually-Impaired and Sighted Pupils	Oussama Metatla, Alison Oldfield, Taimur Ahmed, Antonis Vafeas, Sunny Miglani
2019	Best Paper	Increasing the Transparency of Research Papers with Explorable Multiverse Analyses	Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen, Abhraneel Sarma, Matthew Kay, Fanny Chevalier
2019	Best Paper	Geppetto: Enabling Semantic Design of Expressive Robot Behaviors	Ruta Desai, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka, Stelian Coros, James Lewis McCann, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman
2019	Best Paper	Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data At Scale	Manaswi Saha, Michael Saugstad, Hanuma Teja Maddali, Aileen Zeng, Ryan Holland, Steven Bower, Aditya Dash, Sage Chen, Anthony Li, Kotaro Hara, Jon Froehlich
2019	Best Paper	Touchstone2: An Interactive Environment for Exploring Trade-offs in HCI Experiment Design	Alexander Eiselmayer, Chat Wacharamanotham, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Wendy Elizabeth Mackay
2019	Best Paper	AffinityLens: Data-Assisted Affinity Diagramming with Augmented Reality	Hariharan Subramonyam, Steven Drucker, Eytan Adar
2019	Best Paper	A Translational Science Model for HCI	Lucas Franco Colusso, Ridley Jones, Sean A. Munson, Gary Hsieh
2019	Best Paper	A Tale of Two Perspectives: A Conceptual Framework of User Expectations and Experiences of Instructional Fitness Apps	Ahed Aladwan, Ryan M Kelly, Steven Baker, Eduardo Velloso
2019	Best Paper	Street-Level Algorithms: A Theory At The Gaps Between Policy and Decisions	Ali Alkhatib, Michael Bernstein
2019	Best Paper	Risk vs. Restriction: The Tension between Providing a Sense of Normalcy and Keeping Foster Teens Safe Online	Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Xinru Page, Pamela J. Wisniewski
2019	Best Paper	Protection, Productivity and Pleasure in the Smart Home: Emerging Expectations and Gendered Insights from Australian Early Adopters	Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy, Larissa Nicholls, Paula Arcari, Mel Gregg
2019	Best Paper	Detecting Personality Traits Using Eye-Tracking Data	Shlomo Berkovsky, Ronnie Taib, Irena Koprinska, Eileen Wang, Yucheng Zeng, Jingjie Li, Sabina Kleitman
2019	Best Paper	ReType: Quick Text Editing with Keyboard and Gaze	Shyamli Sindhwani, Christof Lutteroth, Gerald Weber
2019	Best Paper	Data is Personal: Attitudes and Perceptions of Data Visualization in Rural Pennsylvania	Evan Peck, Omar El-Etr, Sofia E Ayuso
2019	Best Paper	PicMe: Interactive Visual Guidance for Taking Requested Photo Composition	Minju Kim, Jungjin Lee
2019	Best Paper	Managing Messes in Computational Notebooks	Andrew Head, Fred Hohman, Titus Barik, Steven Drucker, Robert DeLine
2019	Best Paper	A Framework for the Experience of Meaning in Human-Computer Interaction	Elisa D Mekler, Kasper Hornb?k
2019	Best Paper	Managerial Visions: Stories of upgrading and maintaining the public restroom with IoT	Sarah Fox, Kiley Sobel, Daniela Rosner
2019	Best Paper	Social Play in an Exergame: How the Need to Belong Predicts Adherence	Maximus D. Kaos, Ryan Rhodes, Perttu H?m?l?inen, T.C. Nicholas Graham
2019	Best Paper	"Think secure from the beginning": A Survey with Software Developers	Hala Assal, Sonia Chiasson
2019	Best Paper	"They don't leave us alone anywhere we go": Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia	Nithya Sambasivan, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Laura Sanely Gayt??n-Lugo, David Nemer, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth Churchill, Sunny Consolvo

UbiComp/ISWC/Pervasive/IMWUT
Year	Award	Title	Authors	Keywords
2021	Best Paper	OptoSense: Towards Ubiquitous Self-Powered Ambient Light Sensing Surfaces	Dingtian Zhang,Jung Wook Park,Yang Zhang,Yuhui Zhao,Yiyang Wang,Yunzhi Li,Tanvi Bhagwat,Wen-Fang Chou,Xiaojia Jia,Bernard Kippelen,Canek Fuentes-Hernandez,Thad Starner,Gregory D Abowd
2020	Best Wearable	RFID Tattoo: A Wireless Platform for Speech Recognition	Wang, Jingxian, Chengfeng Pan, Haojian Jin, Vaibhav Singh, Yash Jain, Jason I. Hong, Carmel Majidi, and Swarun Kumar
2020	Best Impact	Actiserv: Activity recognition service for mobile phones	Martin Berchtold, Matthias Budde, Dawud Gordon, Hedda R. Schmidtke and Michael Beigl
2019	Best Paper	Micro-Stress EMA: A Passive Sensing Framework for Detecting in-the-wild Stress in Pregnant Mothers	Zachary D. King, Judith Moskowitz, Begum Egilmez, Shibo Zhang, Lida Zhang, Michael Bass, John Rogers, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Laurie Wakschlag, and Nabil Alshurafa
2019	Best Paper	Alvus: A Reconfigurable 2-D Wireless Charging System	Kazunobu Sumiya, Takuya Sasatani, Yuki Nishizawa, Kenji Tsushio, Yoshiaki Narusue, and Yoshihiro Kawahara
2019	Best Paper	How does a nation walk? Interpreting large-scale step count activity with weekly streak patterns.	Brian Y. Lim, Judy Kay,Weilong Liu
2019	Best Paper	Two Tell-tale Perspectives of PTSD: Neurobiological Abnormalities and Bayesian Regulatory Network of the Underlying Disorder in a Refugee Context	Farhana Shahid, Wasifur Rahman, Anika Binte Islam, Nipi Paul, Nabila Khan, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md Munirul Haque, and A. B. M. Alim Al Islam
2019	Best Impact	SwimMaster: a wearable assistant for swimmer	Marc Bchlin, Kilian Frster, and Gerhard Trster
2019	Best Impact	Recognizing daily activities with RFID-based sensors	Michael Buettner, Richa Prasad, Matthai Philipose, and David Wetherall
2019	Best Impact	Adding GPS-Control to Traditional Thermostats: An Exploration of Potential Energy Savings and Design Challenges	Manu Gupta, Stephen S. Intille, and Kent Larson
2018	Best Paper	Your Apps Give You Away: Distinguishing Mobile Users by Their App Usage Fingerprints	Zhen Tu, Runtong Li, Yong Li, Gang Wang, Di Wu, Pan Hui, Li Su, and Depeng Jin
2018	Best Paper	SoberMotion: Leveraging the Force of Probation Officers to Reduce the Risk of DUI Recidivism	Chuang-Wen You, Ya-Fang Lin, Yaliang Chuang, Ya-Han Lee, Pei-Yi Hsu, Shih-Yao Lin, Chih-Chun Chang, Yi-Ju Chung, Yi-Ling Chen, Ming-Chyi Huang, Ping-Hsuan Shen, Hsin-Tung Tseng, and Hao-Chuan Wang
2018	Best Impact	Flowers or a Robot Army? Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays	Sunny Consolvo, Predrag Klasnja, David W. McDonald, Daniel Avrahami, Jon Froehlich, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Keith Mosher, James A. Landay
2018	Best Impact	Pedestrian Localisation for Indoor Environments	Oliver Woodman, Robert Harle
2018	Best Impact	Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing	Shwetak Patel, Matt Reynolds, Gregory Abowd
2017	Best Paper	Detecting Gaze Towards Eyes in Natural Social Interactions and Its Use in Child Assessment	Eunji Chong, Katha Chanda, Zhefan Ye, Audrey Southerland, Nataniel Ruiz, Rebecca M. Jones, Agata Rozga, and James M. Rehg
2017	Best Paper	LoRa Backscatter: Enabling The Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity	Vamsi Talla, Mehrdad Hessar, Bryce Kellogg, Ali Najafi, Joshua R. Smith, and Shyamnath Gollakota
2017	Best Paper	InvisibleEye: Mobile Eye Tracking Using Multiple Low-Resolution Cameras and Learning-Based Gaze Estimation	Marc Tonsen, Julian Steil, Yusuke Sugano, Andreas Bulling
2016	Best Paper	Discovering Different Kinds of Smartphone Users Through Their Application Usage Behaviors	Sha Zhao, Julian Ramos, Jianrong Tao, Ziwen Jiang, Shijian Li, Zhaohui Wu, Gang Pan, Anind K. Dey
2016	Best Paper	WiFinger: Talk to Your Smart Devices with Finger-grained Gesture	Hong Li, Wei Yang, Jianxin Wang, Yang Xu, Liusheng Huang
2016	Best Paper	EmotionCheck: Leveraging Bodily Signals and False Feedback to Regulate our Emotions	Jean Costa, Alexander T. Adams, Malte F. Jung, Francois Guimbretiere, Tanzeem Choudhury
2016	Best Paper	HemaApp: Noninvasive Blood Screening of Hemoglobin using Smartphone Cameras	Edward J. Wang, William Li, Doug Hawkins, Terry Gernsheimer, Colette Norby-Slycord, Shwetak Patel
2015	Best Paper	From Computational Thinking to Computational Making	Jennifer Rode, Anne Weibert, Andrea Marshall, Konstantin Aal, Thomas von Rekowski, Houda El mimouni, Jennifer Booker
2015	Best Paper	DeepEar: Robust Smartphone Audio Sensing in Unconstrained Acoustic Environments Using Deep Learning	Nicholas Lane, Petko Georgiev, Lorena Qendro
2015	Best Paper	When Attention is not Scarce - Detecting Boredom from Mobile Phone Usage	Martin Pielot, Tilman Dingler, Jose San Pedro, Nuria Oliver
2014	Best Paper	Secure Bootstrapping of Cloud-Managed Ubiquitous Displays	Mohit Sethi, Elena Oat, Mario Di Francesco, Tuomas Aura
2014	Best Paper	The Architecture of Innovation: Tracking Face-to-Face Interactions with Ubicomp Technologies	Chloe Brown, Christos Efstratiou, Ilias Leontiadis, Daniele Quercia, Cecilia Mascolo, James Scott, Peter Key
2014	Best Paper	Money Walks: A Human-Centric Study on the Economics of Personal Mobile Data	Jacopo Staiano, Nuria Oliver, Bruno Lepri, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Michele Caraviello, Nicu Sebe
2014	Best Paper	Intruders Versus Intrusiveness: Teens' and Parents' Perspectives on Home-Entryway Surveillance	Blase Ur, Jaeyeon Jung, Stuart Schechter

CSCW/PACMHCI
Year	Award	Title	Authors	Keywords
2020	Best paper	So-called privacy breeds evil: Narrative Justifications for Intimate Partner Surveillance in Online Forums	Rosanna Bellini, Emily Tseng, Nora McDonald, Rachel Greenstadt, Damon McCoy, Thomas Ristenpart, Nicola Dell
2020	Best paper	CommunityClick: Capturing and Reporting Community Feedback from Town Halls to Improve Inclusivity	Mahmood Jasim, Pooya Khaloo, Somin Wadhwa, Amy X Zhang, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar
2020	Best paper	Decolonizing Tactics as Collective Resilience: Identity Work of AAPI Communities on Reddit	Bryan Dosono, Bryan Semaan
2020	Best paper	How Weve Taught Algorithms to See Identity: Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial Analysis	Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Caitlin Lustig, Kandrea Wade, Jed R Brubaker
2020	Best paper	Between Subjectivity and Imposition: Power Dynamics in Data Annotation for Computer Vision	Milagros Miceli, Martin Schuessler, Tianling Yang
2020	Best paper	Sociocultural Dimensions of Tracking Health and Taking Care	Karthik S Bhat, Neha Kumar
2020	Best paper	Socio-Spatial Comfort: Using Vision-based Analysis to Inform User-Centred Human-Building Interactions	Bokyung Lee, Michael Lee, Alexander Tessier, Pan Zhang, daniel saakes, Azam Khan
2020	Best paper	Piracy and the Impaired Cyborg: Assistive Technologies, Accessibility, and Access	Priyank Chandra
2020	Best paper	They Just Dont Get It: Towards Social Technologies for Coping with Interpersonal Racism	Alexandra To, Wenxia Sweeney, Jessica Hammer, Geoff Kauffman
2019	Best paper	Deconstructing Community-Based Collaborative Design: Towards More Equitable Participatory Design Engagements	Christina Harrington, Sheena Erete, Anne Marie Piper
2019	Best paper	Does Transparency in Moderation Really Matter?: User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit	Shagun Jhaver, Amy Bruckman, Eric Gilbert
2019	Best paper	How Computers See Gender: An Evaluation of Gender Classification in Commercial Facial Analysis Services	Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Jacob M Paul, Jed R. Brubaker
2019	Best paper	How Data Scientists Use Computational Notebooks for Real-Time Collaboration	April Yi Wang, Anant Mittal, Christopher Brooks, Steve Oney
2019	Best paper	Sensing (Co)operations: Articulation and Compensation in the Robotic Operating Room	Amy Cheatle, Steven Jackson, Malte F Jung, Hannah RM Pelikan
2019	Best paper	The Principles and Limits of Algorithm-in-the-Loop Decision Making	Ben Green, Yiling Chen
2018	Best paper	Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks	Richmond Y. Wong, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Ellen Van Wyk, James Pierce, John Chuang
2018	Best paper	Hacking with NPOs: Collaborative Analytics and Broker Roles in Civic Data Hackathons	Youyang Hou, Dakuo Wang
2018	Best paper	Collaborative Problem Solving in an Open-Ended Scientific Discovery Game	Bauer, Aaron, Zoran Popovi_
2018	Best paper	Trust in Data Science: Collaboration, Translation, and Accountability in Corporate Data Science Projects	Samir Passi, Steven J. Jackson
2018	Best paper	Resolvable vs. Irresolvable Disagreement: A Study on Worker Deliberation in Crowd Work	Mike Schaekermann, Joslin Goh, Kate Larson, Edith Law
2018	Best paper	Endorsements on Social Media: An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest	Arunesh Mathur, Arvind Narayanan, Marshini Chetty
2018	Best paper	Making Sense of Group Chat through Collaborative Tagging and Summarization	Amy X. Zhang, Justin Cranshaw
2018	Best paper	We can go anywhere: Understanding independence through a case study of ride-hailing use by people with visual impairments in metropolitan India	Vaishnav Kameswaran, Jatin Gupta, Joyojeet Pal, Sile O'Modhrain, Tiffany C. Veinot, Robin Brewer, Aakanksha Parameshwar, Vidhya Y, Jacki O'Neill
2018	Best paper	I Just Let Him Cry: Designing Socio-Technical Interventions in Families to Prevent Mental Health Disorders	Petr Slovk, Nikki Theofanopoulou, Alessia Cecchet, Peter Cottrell, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Ella Dagan, Julian Childs, Katherine Isbister
2018	Best paper	Domino: A Descriptive Framework for Hybrid Collaboration and Coupling Styles in Partially Distributed Teams	Thomas Neumayr, Hans-Christian Jetter, Mirjam Augstein, Judith Friedl, Thomas Luger
2018	Best paper	Applications of Social Identity Theory to Research and Design in Social Computing	Joseph Seering, Felicia Ng, Zheng Yao, Geoff Kaufman
2017	Best paper	Connected Learning' and the Equity Agenda: A Microsociology of Minecraft Play	Morgan G. Ames, Jenna Burrell
2017	Best paper	Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions	Justin Cheng, Michael Bernstein, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec
2017	Best paper	Data Vision: Learning to See Through Algorithmic Abstraction	Samir Passi, Steven Jackson
2017	Best paper	Defining Digital Self-Harm	Jessica Pater, Elizabeth Mynatt
2017	Best paper	Gender and Cross-Cultural Differences in Social Media Disclosures of Mental Illness	Munmun De Choudhury, Sanket S. Sharma, Tomaz Logar, Wouter Eekhout, Ren Clausen Nielsen
2017	Best paper	Detailing a Spectrum of Motivational Forces Shaping Nomadic Practices	Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Luigina Ciolfi, Breda Gray
2016	Best paper	You Get Who You Pay for: The Impact of Incentives on Participation Bias	Gary Hsieh, Rafa_ Kocielnik
2016	Best paper	Complex Decision-Making in Clinical Practice	Line Silsand, Gunnar Ellingsen
2016	Best paper	Convivial Decay: Entangled Lifetimes in a Geriatric Infrastructure	Marisa Leavitt Cohn
2015	Best paper	Supporting developers' coordination in the IDE	A Guzzi, Alberto Bacchelli, Yann Riche, Arie Van Deursen

ASSETS
Year	Award	Title	Authors	Keywords
2020	Best Student	Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design	Megan Hofmann, Devva Kasnitz, Jennifer Mankoff, and Cynthia L Bennett
2020	Best Paper	Input Accessibility: A Large Dataset and Summary Analysis of Age, Motor Ability and Input Performance	Leah Findlater and Lotus Zhang
2019	Best Paper	Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	Danielle Bragg, Oscar Koller, Mary Bellard, Larwan Berke, Patrick Boudreault, Annelies Braffort, Naomi Caselli, Matt Huenerfauth, Hernisa Kacorri, Tessa Verhoef, Christian Vogler and Meredith Morris
2019	Best Student	Deep Learning for Automatically Detecting Sidewalk Accessibility Problems Using Streetscape Imagery	Galen Weld, Esther Jang, Aileen Zeng, Anthony Li, Kurtis Heimerl and Jon Froehlich
2019	Best Impact	Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques	Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jacob O. Wobbrock
2018	Best Paper	Modeling the Speed and Timing of American Sign Language to Generate Realistic Animations	Sedeeq Al-khazraji, Larwan Berke, Sushant Kafle, Peter Yeung, and Matt Huenerfauth
2018	Best Student	Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design	Cynthia Bennett, Erin Brady and Stacy Branham
2017	Best Paper	Evaluating the Usability of Automatically Generated Captions for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing	Sushant Kafle and Matt Huenerfauth
2017	Best Impact	Providing access to graphical user interfacesnot graphical screens	W. K. Edwards, E. D. Mynatt and K. Stockton
2016	Best Paper	Would You Be Mine: Appropriating Minecraft as an Assistive Technology for Youth with Autism	Kathryn E. Ringland, Christine T. Wolf, LouAnne E. Boyd, Mark S. Baldwin and Gillian R. Hayes
2015	Best Paper	Understanding the Challenges Faced by Neurodiverse Software Engineering Employees: Towards a More Inclusive and Productive Technical Workforce	Meredith Ringel Morris, Andrew Begel and Ben Wiedermann
2015	Best Impact	Designing for dynamic diversity: interfaces for older people	Peter Gregor, Alan F. Newell and Mary Zajicek
2014	Best Paper	Tablet-based activity schedule for children with autism in mainstream environment	Charles Fage, Lonard Pommereau, Charles Consel, milie Balland and Hlne Sauzon

UIST
Year	Award	Title	Authors	Keywords
2020	Best Paper	HandMorph: a Passive Exoskeleton that Miniaturizes Grasp	Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Shan-Yuan Teng, ziwei Liu, Kenji Suzuki, Pedro Lopes
2020	Best Paper	ElaStick: A Handheld Variable Stiffness Display for Rendering Dynamic Haptic Response of Flexible Object	Neung Ryu, Woojin Lee, Myung Jin Kim, Andrea Bianchi
2020	Best Paper	Multi-Modal Repairs of Conversational Breakdowns in Task-Oriented Dialogs	Toby Li, Jingya Chen, Haijun Xia, Tom Mitchell, Brad Myers
2019	Best Paper	TipText: Eyes-Free Text Entry on a Fingertip Keyboard	Zheer Xu, Pui Chung Wong, Jun Gong, Te-Yen Wu, Aditya Nittala, Xiaojun Bi, Jrgen Steimle, Hongbo Fu, Kening Zhu, Xing-Dong Yang
2019	Best Paper	Soft Inkjet Circuits: Rapid Multi-Material Fabrication of Soft Circuits using a Commodity Inkjet Printer	Arshad Khan, Joan Sol Roo, Tobias Kraus, Jrgen Steimle
2019	Best Paper	Photo-Chromeleon: Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures Using Photochromic Dyes	Yuhua Jin, Isabel Qamar, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller
2018	Best Paper	Authoring and Verifying Human-Robot Interactions	David Porfirio, Allison Saupp, Aws Albarghouthi, Bilge Mutlu
2018	Best Paper	Porta: Profiling Software Tutorials Using Operating-System-Wide Activity Tracing	Alok Mysore, Philip J. Guo
2018	Best Paper	RESi: A Highly Flexible, Pressure-Sensitive, Imperceptible Textile Interface Based on Resistive Yarns	Patrick Parzer, Florian Perteneder, Kathrin Probst, Christian Rendl, Joanne Leong, Sarah Schuetz, Anita Vogl, Reinhard Schwoediauer, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Siegfried Bauer, Michael Haller
2017	Best Paper	Triggering Artwork Swaps for Live Animation	Nora S. Willett, Wilmot Li, Jovan Popovic, Adam Finkelstein
2017	Best Paper	Grabity: A Wearable Haptic Interface for Simulating Weight and Grasping in Virtual Reality	Inrak Choi, Heather Culbertson, Mark R. Miller, Alex Olwal, Sean Follmer
2017	Best Paper	AirCode: Unobtrusive Physical Tags for Digital Fabrication	Dingzeyu Li, Avinash S. Nair, Shree K. Nayar, Changxi Zheng
2016	Best Paper	Zooids: Building Blocks for Swarm User Interfaces	Mathieu Le Goc, Lawrence H. Kim, Ali Parsaei, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Pierre Dragicevic, Sean Follmer
2016	Best Paper	Rovables: Miniature On-Body Robots as Mobile Wearables	Artem Dementyev, Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao, Inrak Choi, Deborah Ajilo, Maggie Xu, Joseph A. Paradiso, Chris Schmandt, Sean Follmer
2016	Best Paper	ViBand: High-Fidelity Bio-Acoustic Sensing Using Commodity Smartwatch Accelerometers	Gierad Laput, Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison
2016	Best Paper	proCover: Sensory Augmentation of Prosthetic Limbs Using Smart Textile Covers	Joanne Leong, Patrick Parzer, Florian Perteneder, Teo Babic, Christian Rendl, Anita Vogl, Hubert Egger, Alex Olwal, Michael Haller
2015	Best Paper	Foldio: Digital Fabrication of Interactive and Shape-Changing Objects With Foldable Printed Electronics	Simon Olberding, Sergio Soto Ortega, Klaus Hildebrandt, Jrgen Steimle
2015	Best Paper	Orbits: Gaze Interaction for Smart Watches using Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements	Augusto Esteves, Eduardo Velloso, Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen
2015	Best Paper	Webstrates: Shareable Dynamic Media	Clemens N. Klokmose, James R. Eagan, Siemen Baader, Wendy Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
2014	Best Paper	Sensing Techniques for Tablet+Stylus Interaction	Ken Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Hrvoje Benko, Pourang Irani, Franois Guimbretire, Marcel Gavriliu, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Fabrice Matulic, William Buxton, Andrew Wilson
2014	Best Paper	Expert Crowdsourcing with Flash Teams	Daniela Retelny, Sbastien Robaszkiewicz, Alexandra To, Walter S. Lasecki, Jay Patel, Negar Rahmati, Tulsee Doshi, Melissa Valentine, Michael S. Bernstein
2014	Best Paper	PrintScreen: Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-film Touch-Displays	Simon Olberding, Michael Wessely, Jrgen Steimle

IUI
Year	Award	Title	Authors	Keywords
2020	Best Paper	How Proxy Tasks and Subjective Measures Can Be Misleading in Evaluating XAI Systems	Zana Bu?inca, Phoebe Lin, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Elena L. Glassman
2019	Best Paper	Photo Sleuth: Combining Human Expertise and Face Recognition to Identify Historical Portraits,	Vikram Mohanty, David Thames, Sneha Mehta, and Kurt Luther
2017	Best Paper	UI X-Ray: Interactive Mobile UI Testing Based on Computer Vision	Chun-Fu Chen, Marco Pistoia, Conglei Shi, Paolo Girolami, Joseph Ligman, Yong Wang
2015	Best Long Paper	Binary Space Partitioning Layouts To Help Build Better Information Dashboards	Patrick Hertzog
2015	Best Short Paper	Inferring Meal Eating Activities in Real World Settings from Ambient Sounds: A Feasibility Study	Edison Thomaz, Cheng Zhang, Irfan Essa, Gregory D. Abowd

DIS
Year	Award	Title	Authors	Keywords
2021	Best Paper	A Taxonomy of Sounds in Virtual Reality	Dhruv Jain, Sasa Junuzovic, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair , John R Porter, Chris Yoon , Swetha Machanavajhala, Meredith Ringel Morris
2021	Best Paper	The Overlaps and Boundaries Between Service Design and User Experience Design	Virpi Roto , Jung-Joo Lee , Effie Lai-Chong Law , John Zimmerman
2021	Best Paper	WovenProbe: Probing Possibilities for Weaving Fully-Integrated On-Skin Systems Deployable in the Field	Kunpeng Huang , Ruojia Sun, Ximeng Zhang, Md. Tahmidul Islam Molla , Margaret Dunne, Francois Guimbretiere , Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
2021	Best Paper	"Why are they all obsessed with Gender?"(Non)binary Navigations through Technological Infrastructures	Katta Spiel
2020	Best Paper	Participatory Memory Making : Creating Postcolonial Dialogic Engagements with Namibian Youth	Asnath Paula Kambunga, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Rachel Charlotte Smith
2020	Best Paper	Applying Ability-Based Design Principles to Adaptive Outdoor Activities	Ahmad Alsaleem, Ross Imburgia, Andrew Merryweather, Jeffrey Rosenbluth, Stephen Trapp, Jason Wiese
2020	Best Paper	Co-Designing with Orangutans: Enhancing the Design of Enrichment for Animals	Sarah Webber, Marcus Carter, Wally Smith, Frank Vetere
2020	Best Paper	Pataphysical Software: (Ridiculous) Technological Solutions for Imaginary Problems	Miguel Sicart, Irina Shklovski
2020	Best Paper	Overcoming Reserve - Supporting Professional Appropriation of Interactive Costumes	Michaela Honauer, Danielle Wilde, Eva Hornecker
2019	Best Paper	Foregrounding Everyday Sounds in Dementia	Maarten Houben, Rens Brankaert, Saskia Bakker, Gail Kenning, Inge Bongers, Berry Eggen
2019	Best Paper	Clearing the Smoke: The Changing Identities and Work of Firefighters	Alyssa Rumsey, Christopher A. Le Dantec
2019	Best Paper	MorphIO: Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction	Ryosuke Nakayama, Ryo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi
2019	Best Paper	Design in the HCI Classroom: Setting a Research Agenda	Lauren Wilcox, Betsy DiSalvo, Dick Henneman, Qiaosi Wang
2018	Best Paper	Designing for an other Home: Expanding and Speculating on Different Forms of Domestic Life	Doenja Oogjes, William Odom, Pete Fung
2018	Best Paper	An Annotated Portfolio on Doing Postphenomenology Through Research Products	Sabrina Hauser, Doenja Oogjes, Ron Wakkary, Peter-Paul Verbeek
2018	Best Paper	Words Become Worlds: The LIT ROOM, a Literacy Support Tool at Room-Scale	George J. Schafer, Susan King Fullerton, Ian Walker, Amith Vijaykumar, Keith Evan Green
2018	Best Paper	Towards Materials for Computational Heirlooms: Blockchains and Wristwatches	Mehmet Aydin Bayta_, Aykut Co_kun, Asim Evren Yanta, Morten Fjeld
2018	Best Paper	Roaming Objects: Encoding Digital Histories of Use into Shared Objects and Tools	Anton Fedosov, William Odom, Marc Langheinrich, Ron Wakkary
2016	Best Paper	Probing the Potential of Post-Anthropocentric 3D Printing	Laura Devendorf, Abigail De Kosnik, Kate Mattingly, Kimiko Ryokai
2016	Best Paper	The Tuning of Materials: A Designer's Journey	Elvin Karana, Elisa Giaccardi, Niels Stamhuis, Jasper Goossensen
2016	Best Paper	Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design: Outlining Key Design Strategies and Commitments	Lynn Dombrowski, Ellie Harmon, Sarah Fox
2016	Best Paper	Revealing the Shopper Experience of Using a "Magic Mirror" Augmented Reality Make-Up Application	Ana Javornik, Yvonne Rogers, Ana Maria Moutinho, Russell Freeman
2016	Best Paper	Designing for the Third Hand: Empowering Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment through Creating and Sharing	Amanda Lazar, Raymundo Cornejo, Caroline Edasis, Anne Marie Piper

Note:

The project was initiated by Prof. Mingming Fan , and the content was curated by Mingming Fan , Zikai Alex Wen , and Xiaofu Jin .

When curating this list, we had to search different sources and manually acquire Best Paper information. Thus, it is inevitabe that the list is incomplete. If you spot any mistakes or would like to report a missing Best Paper in these venues, please contact Mingming Fan at mingmingfan AT ust dot hk. Thanks!

If you are interested in Best Paper Awards in the field of Visualization, please check out this following list that I curate: Best Paper Awards in Visualization .

If you are interested in Best Paper Awards in the whole field of Computer Science (CS), Jeff Huang maintains an awesome list .

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