The Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval) organizes an annual cycle of scientific evaluation tasks in the area of multimedia access and retrieval. The tasks offer scientific challenges to researchers working in diverse areas of multimedia technology. The tasks, which are focused on the social and human aspects of multimedia, help the research community tackle challenges linked to less widely studied user needs. They also support researchers in investigating the diversity of perspectives that naturally arise when users interact with multimedia content. Here, the authors present highlights from the 2016 workshop.