Programme
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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 20:00 |
Welcome cocktail
Location: Foyer Teatro Verdi — Via Palestro, 40, 56127 Pisa PI (Google Maps (opens in a new tab))
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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))
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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 16:00–16:30 |
Closing ceremony
Location: Sala Gerace
Best paper awards and next year edition announcement
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