Hybrid meetings limit inclusion for remote participants. The Hybridge experimental system provides different interfaces for remote and room endpoints, focusing on improving inclusion via shared spatiality and remote agency. In-room participants see ...

Imagine being able to send a personalized embodied agent to meetings you are unable to attend. This paper explores the idea of a Dittoan agent that visually resembles a person, sounds like them, possesses knowledge about them, and can represent them in ...

UX designers and researchers who work with AI/ML face different kinds of challenges throughout the design process. Though close collaborations with AI/ML developers and data scientists could address some of these challenges, such interdisciplinary ...

UX research practitioners analyze qualitative data to comprehend users' needs and synthesize design implications for software systems. Collaborating with multiple stakeholders is inevitable for these professionals and adds additional pressure to their ...

Professional and personal lives are undergoing a shift from physical to virtual meetings. While this offers numerous advantages, such as increased spatial autonomy, it also poses risks to the social bonds among employees, families, and friends. Even ...

Security Operations Centres (SOCs) are specialised facilities where security analysts leverage advanced technologies to monitor, detect and respond to cyber incidents. However, the increasing volume of security incidents has overwhelmed security analysts, ...

Physiological synchrony plays an important role in measuring collaboration and performance within teams. However, there has been little investigation into awareness of physiological synchrony and its impact on the collaboration and performance. In my ...

Providing accessible videos is crucial for enabling access to a diverse audience. However, creating and distributing such videos demands significant effort and technical expertise. While several commercial platforms offer all-in-one solutions with a ...

This study examined how to design tools that build independence with Blind or Visually Impaired (BVI) children and their families. Beyond core academics, BVI children require instruction on independent living skills, with their curriculum necessitating ...

This project shares research into collaborative distributed work by undergraduate researchers, as part of a larger investigative team, conducted with the Corpus & Repository of Writing (Crow). This study tests the “Constructive Distributed Work (CDW)” ...

This research focuses on understanding the design collaboration process through students’ reflections on working with professional clients to design interfaces. This utilizes a qualitative approach to analyze collaboration between students and clients ...

Character design in games involves interdisciplinary collaborations, typically between designers who create the narrative content, and illustrators who realize the design vision. However, traditional workflows face challenges in communication due to the ...

This study is part of a broader project exploring the integration of Mixed Reality (MR) in fostering prosocial behaviors among children, particularly focusing on interpersonal synchrony (IPS) and its impact on collaboration. IPS, the coordination of ...

This work presents an argument to shift our research focus away from quick fixes for negative interactions in online communities. Providing functions such as report, block, and mute to players as a primary defense allows us to treat some of the symptoms,...

The success of any design or research project that deals with complex issues depends on the development of a shared understanding of the domain(s) in question, between all stakeholders. Recognizing the value of knowledge from various sources such as ...

In whiteboard-based remote communication, the seamless integration of drawn content and hand-screen interactions is essential for an immersive user experience. Previous methods either require bulky device setups for capturing hand gestures or fail to ...

Adolescence is a period of growth and exploration, marked by influential relationships with peers and parents. These relationships are essential for teenagers’ well-being, highlighting the need to support their interpersonal interactions. Emotional ...

Advancing virtual reality technologies are enabling real-time virtual-face to virtual-face communication. Hand tracking systems that are integrated into Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) enable users to directly interact with their environments and with each ...

Requirements are often incomplete or imprecise. Especially when innovation is a pronounced aspect of product development, sufficiently refined requirements can only be obtained by leveraging engineering knowledge gained through the exploration of ...

Sustainability has become a key characteristic of modern systems. Unfortunately, the convoluted nature of sustainability limits its understanding and hinders the design of sustainable systems. Thus, cooperation among a diverse set of stakeholders is ...