Welcome to CHI SIRD 2026!
Gender-based online harm has become a global problem due to technological advances and affordances. Despite an increasing interest in designing technical and legal interventions in tackling online harm, the level of online violence against women and girls remains high. Responsible design plays a pivotal role in mitigating technological harms, and it has particularly captured attention in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This workshop aims to use the sociotechnical imaginary framework to bring together HCI researchers, developers, and practitioners across domains and sectors to collectively reflect and envision how responsible design can address gender-based online harm. Through facilitated hands-on activities, participants will explore how new approaches, paradigms, technologies, and mechanisms can be designed and implemented to better understand the responsibility in responsible design. This will also help the HCI community understand how to put responsible design into practice and shape the future of responsible technology that prevents gender-based online harms.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: 12 Feb 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: 19 Feb 2026
Accepted Workshop Proposal: Min Zhang, Arosha K Bandara, Gordon Rugg, Irum Rauf, Dilrukshi Gamage, Bashar Nuseibeh, Silvia Podesta, Wanling Cai, and Sarah Robinson. 2026. Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Responsible Design: A Case for Mitigating Gender-based Online Harm. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778700
This work is supported by the Centre for Protecting Women Online, at The Open University, UK.
