This workshop will be held as part of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2026 which will be held 13-17 April 2026 in Barcelona.

The workshop will be held Wednesday, 15 April (in two sessions 2:15-3:45pm and 4:30-6pm).

In this workshop we seek to better understand what we believe to be an under-valued area of AI Ethics: front-end design.  Much ethics discourse revolves around the design of back-end systems, but the design of what users experience at the ‘front-end’ entails many values-laden decisions too. For example, “dark” patterns, distorted data visualization, participation-washing and exclusionary interfaces all fall within the purview of front-end design. Through cross-disciplinary brainstorming and collaborative activities, we aim to map a landscape of ethical user-facing design for AI including best practices, policy considerations, and pressing areas for future research. The workshop will also host a keynote by Professor Ben Shneiderman.

Accepted papers will presenting a project, work-in-progress or commentary that contributes to a deeper understanding of what ethical front-end design for AI is, what issues it raises, or how we can do it better. This might be a demonstration of ethical design in action, or an argument for why some issue should be considered. Accepted papers will be published on arXiv and the workshop website.

Submissions are now closed. Notifications will be sent out on 19 February 2026.

Workshop paper citation:
Peters, D., Hollanek, T., Ahmadpour, N., Calvo, R. A., Chivukula, S. S., Dindler, C., Gray, C. M., Lazem, S., Öz, G., & Piet, N. (2026). Ethics at the Front-End: Responsible User-Facing Design for AI Systems. CHI EA ’26 Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2026.