From Deadlocks to Dialogue: Two Contributions at CHI 2026

Cansu Demir participated in the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, where she presented two contributions. In the Human-Centered Explainable AI workshop, she presented her paper “Beyond Explanation: Deadlock Situations as a Stress Test for Human-Centered XAI in Automated Vehicles,” which examines how so-called non-progress situations, where vehicles remain operational but fail to advance, expose the limitations of traditional Explainable AI approaches.

As part of the Student Mentoring Program, she also presented her paper “Cooperative In-Vehicle Intelligent Voice Agents in Level 4 Automation,” which explores voice-based assistant systems to support passengers in highly automated vehicles. Both contributions were additionally presented as posters, providing opportunities for in-depth exchange with the international HCI community.