The 1st International Workshop on
User Interface and Experience for Software Engineering
Co-Located with ICSE 2026, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Photo: GenAI
About
User interfaces (UIs) and user experiences (UX) form the foundation of how people interact with modern software systems. With the proliferation of mobile, web, desktop, and multi-modal platforms, designing, implementing, testing, and evolving UIs has become central to modern software engineering. Beyond visual layout and interaction patterns, UI development today spans accessibility, personalization, automation, and seamless integration with backend logic and services. As AI technologies, such as large language models (LLMs), vision-language systems, and intelligent agents, increasingly support or automate UI interactions, a new wave of opportunities and challenges emerges at the intersection of UI/UX and software engineering.
This workshop aims to build a community around UI/UX engineering as a rigorous multidisciplinary research agenda within software engineering. It will highlight the unique challenges of engineering user interfaces, especially in the context of intelligent systems, cross-platform apps, accessibility compliance, and human-centric requirements. Through this forum, we hope to inspire new methodologies, tools, and benchmarks that reflect the evolving nature of UI and its growing impact on software quality, reliability, and user experience.
The primary objectives of this workshop are to:
- Share cutting-edge research and practices in user interface engineering, including designing, developing, testing, repair, evolution, accessibility, and AI-driven interaction.
- Facilitate discussions among researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, including software engineering, HCI, AI, and design communities to address UI/UX challenges with both technical rigor and user-centered focus.
- Shape the research roadmap for UI/UX engineering by identifying foundational questions, bridging gaps in current techniques, and inspiring actionable future directions.
Call for Papers
Submission Link: https://icse2026-uise.hotcrp.com
All papers will be submitted via HotCRP and be reviewed in single-anonymous. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Detailed submission policies and guidelines for UISE 2026 are in line with the ICSE research track Submission Process (https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2026/icse-2026-research-track#submission-process). At least one author of each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper in the workshop.
Note: As per the new ACM policies for open-access publishing, extended abstracts will be free of Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Full Research or Experience Papers
Submission: We invite authors to submit papers (8-page including references) on novel approaches, tools, datasets, or studies.
Short Research or Experience Papers
Submission: We invite authors to submit papers (4-page including references) on novel ideas and positions that have yet to be fully developed.
Extended Abstracts
In addition to regular papers, we also invite extended abstracts (Up to 5-page including references) on position papers, early ideas, or reflections on practical challenges or lessons learned in UI/UX engineering. We see this as an opportunity for authors to promote their work to an interested audience to gather valuable feedback.
Note: Extended abstracts will be proceedings free of Article Processing Charges (APCs).
The topics of this workshop include but are not limited to:
- AI-Enhanced UI/UX in Software Engineering
- UI generation, repair, or transformation
- Intelligent GUI testing
- Agents for GUI automation
- Usability evaluation
- Personalization and accessibility
- Human-in-the-loop UI adaptation and co-design with AI
- UI/UX-Centric Software Engineering
- Methods for UI code analysis, maintenance, and evolution
- Cross-platform UI consistency checking and testing
- UI-driven software testing and test case generation
- Engineering practices for accessibility (A11y)
- UI/UX requirements engineering
- Benchmarks, Tooling, and Methodologies
- UI/UX datasets for learning, testing, or empirical study
- UI/UX metrics for evaluation
- Cross-platform or cross-device frameworks
- Benchmarks and evaluation for UI/UX engineering
- Open-source tools supporting UI/UX in SE workflows
- Emerging Themes and Interdisciplinary Work
- Multimodal or immersive UI systems (e.g., AR/VR, voice/UI hybrids, avionics, etc.)
- Privacy, trust, and ethics in adaptive or personalized UIs
- Integration of HCI and SE methods for UI/UX research
Important Dates
| Paper Submission Deadline | October 20, 2025 (23:59 AoE time) |
| Notification to Authors | November 24, 2025 |
| Camera-Ready Deadline | January 23, 2026 |
| Workshop Date | April 19, 2026 (tentative) |
Organizing Committee
Monash University
University of Central Florida
University of Connecticut
University of California, Irvine
Technical University of Munich
Publicity Chair
