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Best Paper Awards
Microsoft Research is thrilled to celebrate the exceptional work recognized with the Best Paper Awards and Honorable Mentions at CHI 2025. Congratulations to the authors for their groundbreaking contributions and for pushing the boundaries of human-computer interaction.
DreamGarden: A Designer Assistant for Growing Games from a Single Prompt
Sam Earle, Samyak Parajuli, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey
Honorable Mentions
AI-Instruments: Embodying Prompts as Instruments to Abstract & Reflect Graphical Interface Commands as General-Purpose Tools
Nathalie Henry Riche, Anna Offenwanger, Frederic Gmeiner, David Brown, Hugo Romat, Michel Pahud, Nicolai Marquardt, Kori Inkpen, Ken Hinckley
As Confidence Aligns: Exploring the Effect of AI Confidence on Human Self-confidence in Human-AI Decision Making
Jingshu Li, Yitian Yang, Q. Vera Liao, Junti Zhang, Yi-chieh Lee
Exploring Reduced Feature Sets for American Sign Language Dictionaries
Ben Kosa, Aashaka Desai, Alex Lu, Richard E. Ladner, Danielle Bragg
Fostering Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models: The Role of Explanations, Sources, and Inconsistencies
Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Q. Vera Liao, Tania Lombrozo, Olga Russakovsky

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