EICS 2026 in Patras 🇬🇷: what a fun and interesting week!
The ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2026) brought our community together once again, this time from 30 June to 3 July in Patras, Greece. I could not be prouder of what our Digital Future Lab (UHasselt / Flanders Make) team and colleagues shared there.
From Embeddings to Exploration (LAPEX)
Full paper (PACM HCI), presented by Sebe Vanbrabant, with Jarne Thys, Gilles Eerlings, Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz and Davy Vanacken. It turns static embedding plots into an interactive latent-space explorer, using a VAE as a generative proxy to probe how a black-box classifier behaves in the spaces between the data. See the publication and the interactive poster.
BeatriXR: Comprehensive and Adaptive Feedforward Support for Guidance in Virtual Reality
Full paper (PACM HCI), presented by Valentino Artizzu, together with Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz and Lucio Davide Spano. A modular toolkit plus LLM-assisted decision support for designing feedforward in VR. See the publication and the interactive poster.
RaDIA: Visual Analytics for Systematic Sample Association in Nuclear Weapon Test Verification Workflows
Late-Breaking Work, with Stian Verherstraeten, Christophe Gueibe (SCK CEN) and Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz. A Research-through-Design study spanning national data centres in Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia. See the publication and the interactive poster.
EISEAIT 2026
The 4th edition of our workshop on Engineering Interactive Systems Embedding AI Technologies, which I had the pleasure of co-organising. We also contributed “Words at Work: In-Context Dutch Learning” with Maria Hendrikx and Eva Geurts. The discussions during the workshop were very vivid, and those alone were already worth it. Also check out Seppe Vandenberk his work. See the workshop site and the Words at Work paper.
Doctoral Consortium
Which I was honoured to co-chair, with Sebe Vanbrabant presenting his work among a great cohort of young researchers.
Next stop: EICS 2027 in Toulouse
The community heads to Toulouse, France next. I will co-chair EICS 2027 together with Célia Martinie, with Marco Winckler as Technical Program Chair. I am already looking forward to welcoming everyone there.