We are excited to announce the selected case studies and workshops for the Industry Track. Please note that the workshops have limited seats. Please register at the earliest to grab your spot through the registration portal.
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Selected Case Studies
A Text Editor that Listens: Designing Voice-First Writing for Indian Courts
Presenters: Astha Khurana, Honey Nair (Adalat AI)
What would a text editor look like if voice came first, not the keyboard? Adalat AI shares how it built one for the Indian Judiciary and design decisions needed to scale to 5,000+ courtrooms. In legal writing, a missing comma may be tolerable, but a wrong acronym or citation can make the document unusable; therefore, transcription accuracy alone was not enough. A case study in letting people write in the language and mode natural to their mental models and environment.
GRIT-AI (Grunt Task Readiness Index for AI)
Presenters: Deepa Bhat & Somya Jain (Microsoft)
Automation by choice, not default
This practical industry case study introduces three responsible AI practices for UX research: AI-powered heuristic evaluation, synthetic users as an early safeguard, and GRIT-AI, a framework for intentional delegation. Through real enterprise examples, it explores how teams can accelerate evaluation, improve consistency, and scale research without sidelining customers or researcher judgment. In a world where AI can do more than ever before, should research be automated simply because it can be?
AffectEQ: Understand how people experience your product
Presenters: Dr. Sanjay Tripathi (AffectEQ)
Developed by Metamind Research Labs, AffectEQ is a human-centric AI research engine that measures how people perceive and interact with digital vis a vis physical interfaces in real time. By synthesizing behavioral metrics, it provides teams with actionable UX insights to evaluate usability and emotional responses.
Selected Workshops
Designing Accessible Cultural Heritage with Open-Source XR
Instructors: Gyanendra Vyas (Inkrid Studios)
Duration: 2 hours
Take a 3D scene from Unreal Engine, Blender or any other tool and turn it into something anyone can explore in a web browser. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn Gaussian Splatting, a new way to capture 3D scenes that look real, and publish your own scene online using free, open-source tools. It is made for beginners, students, artists and developers. No experience needed.
Designing Personalised Interfaces for LLMs: From Generic Prompts to Human-Centred AI Experiences
Instructors: Shrikant Salve & Pratiek Sanklecha (Uniberry)
Duration: 2 hours
Many LLM interfaces still treat personalisation as a matter of better prompting rather than a human-centred design challenge, leaving users to repeat context, face incorrect assumptions, overshare, or remain uncertain about what the system remembers. This interactive workshop introduces a practical method for designing personalised LLM interfaces through a Personalization Charter specifying the user's goals, context, preferences, boundaries, permissions, and memory rules, with participants leaving with a reusable framework and a concrete prototype for more transparent, controllable, and dignified LLM experiences.
Industry
The Industry Track at India HCI 2026 bridges academia and practice. It is a space for practitioners, researchers, and entrepreneurs to share real work: what was built, how it was built, who it was built for, and what it meant for the people it reached.
This year’s conference theme is Design for Dignity. We are not defining it for you. Bring your work and show us what dignity means in your context.
Who Should Submit?
Designers, UX researchers, and product leaders with a documented project to share
Entrepreneurs and start-up founders with an HCI-focused story
Academics working on applied or industry-facing research
Workshop facilitators with a practical methodology to teach
Important Dates:
All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. You can check your local time in AoE .
Submission portal opens
Jun 20, 2026
Submission closes
Aug 10, 2026
Aug 24, 2026 (updated new deadline)
Authors will be notified of the decision
September 28, 2026
Submission Categories
Industry Case Study
20 min presentation + 10 min Q&A
A documented account of an HCI-focused project with real, measurable outcomes. Present what you built, the decisions you made, the trade-offs you navigated, and what you learned.
Important: Selected presenters may be invited to participate in a curated Panel Discussion.
Eligibility
Active UX practitioner, researcher, or design leader based in India
Project with tangible, documented outcomes realised in 2025 to 2026
Innovation frameworks or methodologies developed during the same period
Interactive Workshop
45 to 90 minutes
Lead a hands-on session that teaches a practical HCI skill, method, or tool. Strong proposals have a clear learning outcome and a concrete activity, not just a discussion agenda.
Format Options
Skill-building or methodology sessions
Tool demonstrations
Collaborative design activities
Start-up Showcase
15 min + 5 min Q&A
A platform for start-ups to share their HCI-focused product, their design decisions, and their journey so far.
Eligibility
Indian start-ups founded in 2020 or later
HCI or UX-focused product or service
Demonstrable user traction or early market validation
Submission Format
Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact details.
Abstract
Please include a short abstract (150–250 words) summarising your case study, workshop, or showcase alongside your full submission.
The abstract should give reviewers a clear, quick sense of the work before they go into the full materials:
What the project or session is,
Who it was for, and
What makes it relevant to Design for Dignity.
Think of it as a preview, not a synopsis, it should help us understand what we're about to read, not replace the need to read it.
A strong abstract briefly covers the context, the core idea or outcome, and why it matters to the theme. Save the details, data, and reflection for the full submission.
For Case Studies and Start-up Showcase, clearly describe:
Project context,
Goals,
Methodology,
Outcomes,
Impact, and
Key lessons or challenges.
For Workshops, include:
Learning objectives,
Session structure, and
What participants will leave with.
All submissions to be made through the India HCI 2026 CMT submission portal.
Review
All submissions will be reviewed by an expert panel of industry and HCI practitioners. Selected submissions will present at India HCI 2026, IIT Hyderabad.
For queries, write to the Industry Track Co-Chairs at: industry.indiahci@gmail.com
A Note from the Co-Chairs
The industry does not often get asked to account for dignity. It gets asked about growth, retention, and engagement metrics. We think that is a gap worth closing, and we think the people best placed to close it are practitioners who are already doing this work, often without a stage for it.
If that is you, we would like to hear from you. And if you are not sure whether your work qualifies, reach out. The worst we will say is not yet.
Karthi Subbaraman & Thomas Grey Manih.
Industry Track, India HCI 2026
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