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ACM GoodIT 2026 Programme

Wednesday, 2 September

ACM GoodIT 2026 programme for Wednesday, 2 September
Time Session
8:30–17:00 Registration desk open
9:00–10:00

Keynote — Clara Crivellaro (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)

Location: Sala Gerace

Title: Digital Innovation, Social Justice and Transformative Futures

10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–12:30

Special track: CO-GOV-AI

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Diego Casado-Mansilla

  • LLM-Assisted Climate Governance: Benchmarking Urban Transition-Risk Assessments against Municipal Reports - Ye Liu
  • Measuring Agency-in-Use: A Participatory Sensing Protocol for Observing Foreclosure in AI-Enabled Socio-Technical Systems - Claire Emes
  • Community-in-the-Loop Governance for AI-Enabled Learning Analytics in European Schools - A Socio-Technical Framework from the Schoolwise Project - Giancarlo Masi
  • From Citizen Sensors to Accountable Evidence: Governance Design for a Deployed Air Quality Platform - Diego Casado Mansilla
  • Post-Velocity Software Engineering: Assurance Saturation in AI-Enabled Socio-Technical Systems - Alessio Bucaioni
  • The AIMS-Templates: Documenting the multidimensional sustainability of AI systems - Laura State
  • Integrating Large Language Models into Citizen Science data for Equitable and Sustainable Well-being - Chiara Ceccarini
12:30–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–15:30

Special track: Agentic AI for Social Good

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Vincenzo Moscato

  • Graph-Enhanced RAG for Turkish Consumer Rights Legal Advisory - Gamze Tuncay
  • LLM-Guided Genetic Search for the Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling Problem - Roberta Angioni
  • When Fairness Metrics Help Each Other: Look-Ahead Optimization for Multi-Metric Fairness Weighting - James Foulds
  • Verifiable Disaster Storylines and Causal Knowledge Graphs: A Citation-Grounded Pipeline from Heterogeneous Humanitarian Sources - Ivan Decostanzi
  • Curriculum-Trained Vertical Agents for Italian Medical Question Answering - Francesco Di Serio
  • Towards Evidence-Aware LLM Judges for Social Media Nutrition and Health Content - Ilaria Picariello
  • Prompt Before You Train: When Prompt Optimization Outperforms RLAIF for Small Language Models - Ifeoma Adaji
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:00

Main track parallel session

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Andrea Michienzi

  • Digital Engagement, Income Disparities, and Job Seeking in the United States since 2010 - Shaolong Wu
  • Adult Stakeholder Perspectives on Research Ethics for Extended Reality Studies with Children - Juan Pablo Hourcade
  • Making Gender-Inclusive Practices Actionable: Evaluating a Research-Informed Computing Education Toolkit - Alina Berry
  • Auditing Bias in AI-Based Hiring Systems: A Fairness Analysis of Nationality and Gender Discrimination - Martina Ullasci
16:00–17:00

Main track parallel session

Location: Sala Seminari Est

Chair: Pietro Manzoni

  • LM4D: Exploring Telephony-Mediated Access to Language Models for Underserved Communities - Alex Cabral
  • Watching What We Eat: Information Quality and Body Image in Diet-Related YouTube Videos - Maddalena Ghiotti
  • The Dialectical Friction Index: A Metric for Quantifying Algorithmic Sycophancy in Argumentative Dialogues - Ewelina Gajewska
  • "They All Follow the Same Script": Analyzing the Vulnerability-Exploitation Cycle in Financial Sextortion - Claudio E. Palazzi
20:00

Welcome cocktail

Location: Foyer Teatro Verdi — Via Palestro, 40, 56127 Pisa PI (Google Maps (opens in a new tab))

Thursday, 3 September

ACM GoodIT 2026 programme for Thursday, 3 September
Time Session
8:30–17:00 Registration desk open
9:00–10:00

Keynote — Stefania Serafin (Technical University of Denmark)

Location: Sala Gerace

Title: Sonic Universal Design: From Accessibility to Participation

10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–12:30

Special track: Advancing Inclusive and Accessible Technologies

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Ombretta Gaggi

  • Normative Modeling of Tablet Signals for Calibrated Pediatric Dysgraphia Decision Support - Shabnam Sodagari
  • Mid-Air and Pseudo-Touch Interaction for Home-Based Rehabilitation in Rett Syndrome: Evaluation and Field Experience - Yichen Zhong
  • Designing a LLM‑Enhanced Storytelling AAC Tool for Children with Complex Communication Needs - Marta Curreri
  • Towards Automated Accessibility Adaptation of Learning Materials with Compact Large Language Models - Diletta Lelli
  • A Hybrid Light-AI-based Framework for Accessibility Validation - Nicola Leonardi
  • Transforming LaTeX Lecture Notes into Accessible Multimodal Web Pages for Inclusive STEM Learning - Matteo Noro
  • Learning about Web Accessibility with Games - Francesco Magno
12:30–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–15:30

Special track: BANDIT

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Claudio Schifanella

  • Grail: Generalized Retrieval Architecture for Immutable Ledgers - Lennart Almstedt
  • Overview on Blockchain for Accountability in Social Media Content Moderation - Francesco Maggio
  • Blockchain or Not? An Auditable Decision Framework for Organisations - Valentina Gatteschi
  • A Design-Stage Diagnostic Tool for Tokenized Collaborative Economies - Irene Domenicale
  • TATAMI Design Patterns for Tokenomics - Simone Valentini
  • Legally-Relevant Smart Contracts on a Stateful Blockchain - Sowelu Avanzo
  • A Smart Contract Architecture for Patient-Controlled Access to Medical Records - Andrea Michienzi
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:30

Special tracks: Advancing Inclusive and Accessible Technologies + NASMo

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Claudio Palazzi

  • LADar: an LLM-based Tool to Detect Web Accessibility Violations - Forough Majidi
  • Exploring Real-Time Visualizations as Support for Concert experiences for Hearing-Impaired - Stefania Serafin
  • A Distributed Congestion-Aware Traffic Light Signal Controller for Sustainable Urban Mobility - Manuela Montangero
  • On the security and privacy of LLMs in Mobility - Lorenzo Perinello
  • Towards fairer public transit: Real-time tensor fusion of video and audio for fare evasion and fraud detection - Eric Umuhoza
20:30

Gala dinner

Location: La Clessidra — Piazzetta Luciano Lischi, 26/30, Via del Castelletto, 26, 56126 Pisa PI (Google Maps (opens in a new tab))

Friday, 4 September

ACM GoodIT 2026 programme for Friday, 4 September
Time Session
8:30–13:00 Registration desk open
9:00–10:30

WiP track

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Armir Bujari

  • Context Inflation: The Hidden Cost of AI Coding Agents in Real-World Repositories - Tommaso Turchi
  • Culturally Representative AI Voices for Equitable Pediatric Speech Therapy: Design and Preliminary Evaluation - Amy Quarkume
  • Fair Feed Ranking for Participatory Budgeting - Carina Hausladen
  • Towards an Accountability-by-Design Framework for LLM Moderation in Minority Ethnic Communities - Nicholas Micallef
  • A Personalized E-Learning Environment for AI Upskilling in Retail MSMEs: Design, Facilitator Support and Early Usability Validation - Alexandros Yeratziotis
  • Sensing Stress Through Play: A Multimodal Pilot with Wearable Insights - Hsiao-Chun Lin
  • Towards a Methodology to Assess the Impact of LLMs on Recommendations - Alejandro Bellogin
  • Moral Semantics Survive Machine Translation: Cross-Lingual Evidence - Maciej Skorski
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–13:00

Main track parallel session

Location: Sala Gerace

Chair: Manuela Montangero

  • Technological Landscape of Civic Tech: Current Practices and Lessons Learned - Viktoriia Olshanskaia
  • Can AI Effectively Predict Human Judgments of Group Cohesion? - Maryam Aljanobi
  • Caper: Context-Aware Persuasion by Modeling Cognition and Action - Seoyeong Park
  • Agentic AI Meets User-Centered Design: Toward a Framework for Large Language Models as User Twins - Manuel Andruccioli
  • Same Persona, Different Behaviors: Quantifying Persona Conditioning in Large Language Models - Marco Furini
  • From Chemical Noise to Inspection Evidence: LLM-Assisted Feature Engineering for Illicit Food Factory Detection - Hanyun Cheng
  • A Real-time Privacy Nutrition Label Browser Extension - Alexandros Yeratziotis
11:00–13:00

Main track parallel session

Location: Sala Seminari Est

Chair: Pietro Manzoni

  • Energy Processing Diagrams - Victor Zudilin
  • How Wasteful Is Our Personal Computing? - Carson Woods
  • Evaluating Interaction Framings for Communicating Monumental Tree Heritage: A Within-Subject Study Exploiting Conversational Interfaces - Chiara Ceccarini
  • Cross-Device Spectrum Correction for Sustainable Acoustic Monitoring of Everyday Mechanical Equipment - Tashfain Ahmed
  • Uncertainty-Aware Annotation for Reliable Tree Cover Monitoring from Satellite Imagery - Fabian Wölk
  • FedFarm: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Cassava Disease Diagnosis on Smallholder Farmers' Smartphones - Raffaele Bruno
  • Invisible Preventive Health Awareness: A Context-Aware Smart Belt for Posture and Physiological Sensing - Sara Comai
13:00–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–16:00

WiP and PhD tracks

Chair: Catia Prandi

  • Towards Digital Twins for Public Transport and Mobility Infrastructure: a Roadmap on Architectures, Intelligence, and Interaction - Manuel Andruccioli
  • Supporting Caregivers as End-User Developers through Human-Centered Explainable AI in Ambient Assisted Living - Davide Guizzardi
  • Towards a Cross-Cultural Framework for Dark Patterns - Ifeoma Adaji
  • Using Low-Cost Sensors to Quantify the Impacts of Forest Maturity on Microclimate and Air Quality - Omer Inan
  • FireFair: Equity-Adjusted Multi-Agent Triage for Wildfire Ignition Forecasting - Kefei Yan
  • Still Warm: A Digital Game for Players to Address Climate Grief - Alex Cabral
  • ClimateSignal: An Open-Source, Modular IoT Weather Station for Fenceline Community Environmental Justice and Climate Education - Amy Quarkume
16:00–16:30

Closing ceremony

Location: Sala Gerace

Best paper awards and next year edition announcement