Program - The 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered Recommender Systems

The 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered Recommender Systems (HCRS@TheWebConf 2026) will be held as a half-day session on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 10:00–13:30 (GST, UTC+4), held online (meeting link to be announced).

The program features two keynote talks, an oral session with six talks, and the Best Paper Award announcement. All times are in Gulf Standard Time (GST, UTC+4).

Program Schedule

Time	Event
10:00–10:10	Opening Remarks from Co-Chairs
10:10–10:40	Keynote Talk #1 — Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University), followed by Q&A
10:40–11:10	Keynote Talk #2 — Zhaochun Ren (Leiden University), followed by Q&A
11:10–12:22	Oral Presentations (6 talks)
12:22–12:40	Best Paper Award & Closing Remarks

Oral Presentation Order

Each oral talk is allocated 12 minutes (presentation + Q&A).

Oral Presentations | 11:10–12:22

Time	Paper
11:10–11:22	Post-Training Fairness Control: A Single-Train Framework for Dynamic Fairness in Recommendation Weixin Chen, Li Chen, Yuhan Zhao
11:22–11:34	RecoWorld: Building Simulated Environments for Agentic Recommender Systems 🏆 Best Paper Fei Liu, Xinyu Lin, Hanchao Yu, Mingyuan Wu, Jianyu Wang, Qiang Zhang, Zhuokai Zhao, Yinglong Xia, Yao Zhang, Weiwei Li, Mingze Gao, Qifan Wang, Lizhu Zhang, Benyu Zhang, Xiangjun Fan
11:34–11:46	STCRank: Spatio-temporal Collaborative Ranking for Interactive Recommender System at Kuaishou E-shop Boyang Xia, Ruilin Bao, Hanjun Jiang, Jun Wang, Wenwu Ou
11:46–11:58	Orthogonal Meta-learning Boosted Bayesian Optimization for Uncertain Multi-Objective Recommendation Hongxu Wang, Yingpeng Du, Zhu Sun, Lu Zhang, Tiantian He, Yew-Soon Ong
11:58–12:10	From Aggregation to Selection: User-Validated Distributed Social Recommendation Jingyuan Huang, Dan Luo, Zihe Ye, Weixin Chen, Minghao Guo, Yongfeng Zhang
12:10–12:22	Human-Centered Agentic Orchestration for Educational Recommendations: A Multi-Agent Framework Prioritizing Learner Agency and Well-being Naina Chaturvedi, Ananda Gunawardena

See the full list of accepted oral and poster papers on the Accepted Papers page.