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Altered virtual reality self-representations can augment human capabilities by exploiting the Proteus effect. For example, previous work has shown that embodying an avatar that signifies super-intelligence, Einstein, enhanced the users’ performance in ...

When facilitating mental health interventions, therapists typically involve clients in discussion within a room containing seating and a table. We argue that digital technologies can be leveraged to encourage physiological, multisensory experiences for ...

This paper explores the design space of collaborative video editing through a series of design workshops with video editors. Collaborative video editing can be supported by adding awareness features or other well-known collaborative features found in ...

Large amounts of multimedia data are constantly digitized and stored in archives. Accurate search and annotation tools are essential for the fast retrieval of archival records by archivists, scientists, and the general public. The complexity of ...

The personal computer (PC) has been around for more than 35 years by now. Today, we find early adopters of the PC who have been using computers at home for 25 or 30 years and are now themselves in their eighties or nineties. Despite this there is still ...

This paper explores how the smartphone's form could be designed to help users establish more intentional usage patterns. A research through design approach that was based in design fiction principles resulted in three design proposals and scenarios, the ...

Geriatrics research has highlighted the importance of managing routine health and fitness for older adults to improve their quality of life. Correspondingly, public health organizations have given specific guidelines on recommended levels of physical ...

Ubiquitous wearable and mobile technologies generate vast amounts of data from sensors and self-logging applications. This data creates opportunities to better understand people’s behavior and inform research on intimate topics such as menstruation. ...

Feature importance is an approach that helps to explain machine learning model predictions. It works through assigning importance scores to input features of a particular model. Different techniques exist to derive these scores, with widely varying ...

Algorithmically generated personas can help organizations understand their social media audiences. However, when using algorithms to create personas from social media user data, the resulting personas may contain toxic quotes that negatively affect ...

Interactive information dashboards can help both specialists and the general public understand complex datasets; but interacting with these dashboards often presents users with challenges such as understanding and verifying the presented information. ...

Personas represent distinct user types. However, while online user data can be demographically and behaviorally heterogeneous, most studies generate less than ten personas, regardless of how heterogeneous the data is. Because all persona creation ...

This paper continues a trend that looks at smart plugs as a means to promote more sustainable and pro-environmental behaviors via, e.g., just-in-time feedback information delivered at the source of consumption (i.e., the plug). We provided a video of ...

Interactive systems can support and mediate collaborative content selection by providing various modes of control to multiple users at once. However, less is known on how exactly the distribution of control among multiple users influences social ...

Driving an electric car relies on physical, digital, and human infrastructure. However, the charging infrastructure along with breakdowns and the work that people do to recover, that is, infrastructuring, remain understudied in HCI. In this paper, we ...

Cryptocurrencies have the potential to improve financial inclusion. However, the technology is complex to understand and difficult to use. Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) can play a vital role in improving accessibility by identifying and overcoming ...

Several efforts have been made to use technology to encourage people to buy more environmentally sustainable food. However, only a small amount of research has attempted to understand the roles of technology in food shopping by incorporating ...

Carbon calculators have been put forth as a tool to motivate sustainable behaviour change in people. However, the approach of “just” presenting numbers to communicate climate footprints has not been found to be an effective strategy. In this paper, we ...

Using organic materials for interactive products has gained attention during the past few years. Among them, mycelium, the vegetative part of the mushroom, is a promising material and explored by only distinct examples in HCI. This paper adopts a ...

We increasingly see smart energy technology moving into peoples’ homes, designed to support householders in strategically managing different forms of energy conservation. Often, design visions for such technologies assume householders will accept smart ...

There have been repeated calls for developing time-sensitive discourses in HCI and design research, and for re-examining engagement with power. In response, we explore the relationship between time and decision making in design processes in order to ...

Design-after-design focuses on facilitating the re-purposing and re-design of an artefact by its users. In this article, we explore the challenges of designing for design-after-design through a research-through-design experiment set up in an ...

Metaphorical design is a Participatory Design technique suitable for problem setting and concept development. The technique can be particularly constructive when designing (computer) systems in an already digitalized environment. In such contexts, ...

A crucial issue in Participatory Design is to bring together and ensure knowledge dissemination among large groups of diverse stakeholders. This can be especially hard to accomplish if co-located activities are not feasible. Digital services could ...

Bullying is a serious problem concerning us all. The problem has already been tackled within HCI research, including different design and technology-based interventions, some of which strongly advocate human agency, social responsibility, action taking, ...

The Maker Movement is a social and material movement aspiring to lower the barriers to participation in technology construction. Material engagement, learning, and collaboration are important values in the maker movement. Aspiring to further the ...

Supporting the study of child-drone interaction in domestic spaces is a difficult endeavour, but of value to the development of this robotic platform. This paper presents an autoethnographic study, serving as an exploratory first-person method to ...

Emergent readers are young children who are beginning their journey towards literacy; they enjoy shared reading both at school and at home, and maybe they are already able to read and write their own names. We involved emergent readers aged 4 to 6 ...

Augmented Reality (AR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) are increasingly used in industry to digitize processes and enhance user experience by enabling real-time interaction with both physical and virtual objects. In this context, HMD provide access to ...

Extended-Reality (XR) devices are packed with sensors that allow tracking of users (e.g., behaviour, actions, eye-gaze) and their surroundings (e.g., people, places, objects). As a consequence, XR devices pose significant risks to privacy, security, ...