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In the relational sandbox: Deep democracy and technology Open

Alma Leora Culén, Nicholas Stevens, Jasmin Niess, Sisse Finken, Jason Miklian , et al. · 2025

The Self-Care Technology Process Model (SCTpm): A Framework for Designing VR-Based Self-Care Technology Open

Nadine Wagener, Yvonne Rogers, Jasmin Niess · 2025

A Comparative Study of How People With and Without ADHD Recognise and Avoid Dark Patterns on Social Media Open

Thomas Mildner, Daniel Fidel, Evropi Stefanidi, Paweł W. Woźniak, Rainer Malaka , et al. · 2025

Dark patterns are deceptive strategies that recent work in human-computer interaction (HCI) has captured throughout digital domains, including social networking sites (SNSs). While research has identified difficulties among people to recog…

The Dual Model for Everyday Stress Technology: Understanding the Lived Experience of Data-Driven Stress Open

Sigrid Hoddø Bakås, Mikołaj P. Woźniak, Jo Herstad, Paweł W. Woźniak, Jasmin Niess · 2025

Supporting Communication and Well-being with a Multi-Stakeholder Mobile App: Lessons Learned from a Field Study with ADHD Children and their Caregivers Open

Evropi Stefanidi, Nadine Wagener, Ioannis Chatzakis, Paweł W. Woźniak, Stavroula Ntoa , et al. · 2025

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their caregivers face daily challenges which can adversely affect their well-being, especially regarding communication within their care ecosystems, comprising family, frien…

Why Is It Essential to Address Digital Public Health in an Interdisciplinary Way? Open

Laura Maaß, Hans-Henrik Dassow, Daniel Diethei, Merle Freye, Jasmin Niess , et al. · 2025

Public health requires collaborations across several disciplines to meet population health needs. Increasing technological advancements have accelerated the transformation of public health to digital public health (DiPH), including new dom…

Participatory Approaches for Digital Public Health: Giving Voice to Values Open

Rehana Shrestha, Anke V. Reinschluessel, Jasmin Niess · 2025

This chapter discusses the need for community involvement and stakeholder engagement in the development and implementation of digital public health tools. The advent of digitalization in public health has necessitated an exploration of how…

Envisioning Futures: How the Modality of AI Recommendations Impacts Conversation Flow in AR-enhanced Dialogue Open

Steeven Villa, Yannick Weiß, M. Lu, Moritz Ziarko, Albrecht Schmidt , et al. · 2024

AMoRE: Four Perspectives on Talking About and Experiencing Robots Open

Tora Jarsve, Runa Jacobsen, Rebekka Soma, Paweł W. Woźniak, Jasmin Niess · 2024

ProtoBricks: A Research Toolkit for Tangible Prototyping & Data Physicalization Open

Julia Dominiak, Anna Walczak, Evropi Stefanidi, Krzysztof Adamkiewicz, Krzysztof Grudzień , et al. · 2024

Building tangible interfaces or data physicalizations is a resource-intensive endeavour. There is a need for rapid means to prototype tangibles in order to facilitate research and design. To this end, we designed ProtoBricks: a research to…

Broadening the mind: how emerging neurotechnology is reshaping HCI and interactive system design Open

Christina Schneegass, Max L. Wilson, Jwan Shaban, Jasmin Niess, Francesco Chiossi , et al. · 2024

People are increasingly eager to know more about themselves through technology. To date, technology has primarily provided information on our physiology. Yet, with advances in wearable technology and artificial intelligence, the current ad…

Technology which Makes You Think Open

Meagan B. Loerakker, Jasmin Niess, Paweł W. Woźniak · 2024

Reflection is widely regarded as a key design goal for technologies for well-being. Yet, recent research shows that technologies for reflection may have negative consequences, in the form of rumination, i.e. negative thought cycles. Unders…

Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: The Intricate Relationship Between Cognitive Biases and Dark Patterns Open

Thomas Mildner, Albert Inkoom, Rainer Malaka, Jasmin Niess · 2024

Throughout the past decade, research in HCI has identified numerous instances of dark patterns in digital interfaces. These efforts have led to a well-fostered typology describing harmful strategies users struggle to navigate. However, an …

Office Wellbeing by Design: Don’t Stand for Anything Less Open

Luke Haliburton, Ida Damen, Carine Lallemand, Aino Ahtinen, Jasmin Niess , et al. · 2024

The modern workplace has been optimized towards increasing productivity, often at the cost of long-term worker wellbeing. This systemic issue has been acknowledged in both research and practice, but has not yet been solved. There is a nota…

Narrating Fitness: Leveraging Large Language Models for Reflective Fitness Tracker Data Interpretation Open

Konstantin R. Strömel, Stanislas Henry, Tim Johansson, Jasmin Niess, Paweł W. Woźniak · 2024

While fitness trackers generate and present quantitative data, past research suggests that users often conceptualise their wellbeing in qualitative terms. This discrepancy between numeric data and personal wellbeing perception may limit th…

Listening to the Voices: Describing Ethical Caveats of Conversational User Interfaces According to Experts and Frequent Users Open

Thomas Mildner, Orla Cooney, Anna-Maria Meck, Marion Bartl, Gian-Luca Savino , et al. · 2024

Advances in natural language processing and understanding have led to a rapid growth in the popularity of conversational user interfaces (CUIs). While CUIs introduce novel benefits, they also yield risks that may exploit people's trust. Al…

Designing Data Visualisations for Self-Compassion in Personal Informatics Open

Meagan B. Loerakker, Jasmin Niess, Marit Bentvelzen, Paweł W. Woźniak · 2023

Wearable personal trackers offer exciting opportunities to contribute to one's well-being, but they also can foster negative experiences. It remains a challenge to understand how we can design personal informatics experiences that help use…

ThermoFeet: Assessing On-Foot Thermal Stimuli for Directional Cues Open

Bettina Eska, Jeff-Owens Iyalekhue, Sebastian Günther, Jasmin Niess, Florian Müller · 2023

Thermal feedback has been studied for navigation purposes with directional cues and a variety of other use cases. Yet, to date, systems providing thermal feedback were primarily designed for the upper body, targeting hands and arms in part…

‘That’s when I put it on’: stakeholder perspectives in large-scale remote health monitoring for older adults Open

Magdalena Wróbel-Lachowska, Julia Dominiak, Mikołaj P. Woźniak, Natalia Bartłomiejczyk, Daniel Diethei , et al. · 2023

Towards a Haptic Taxonomy of Emotions: Exploring Vibrotactile Stimulation in the Dorsal Region Open

Steeven Villa, Thuy Duong Nguyen, Benjamin Tag, Tonja Machulla, Albrecht Schmidt , et al. · 2023

The implicit communication of emotional states between persons is a key use case for novel assistive and augmentation technologies. It can serve to expand individuals' perceptual capabilities and assist neurodivergent individuals. Notably,…

Society's Attitudes Towards Human Augmentation and Performance Enhancement Technologies (SHAPE) Scale Open

Steeven Villa, Jasmin Niess, Albrecht Schmidt, Robin Welsch · 2023

Human augmentation technologies (ATs) are a subset of ubiquitous on-body devices designed to improve cognitive, sensory, and motor capacities. Although there is a large corpus of knowledge concerning ATs, less is known about societal attit…

Quantifying Meaningful Interaction: Developing the Eudaimonic Technology Experience Scale Open

Paweł W. Woźniak, Mitch Hak, Elizaveta Kotova, Jasmin Niess, Marit Bentvelzen , et al. · 2023

Recent research has shown that users increasingly seek meaning in technologies and that eudaimonic user experience (UX) is part of everyday encounters with technology. Yet, to date, there is no validated means to assess eudaimonic properti…

VeatherReflect: Employing Weather as Qualitative Representation of Stress Data in Virtual Reality Open

Nadine Wagener, Marit Bentvelzen, Bastian Dänekas, Paweł W. Woźniak, Jasmin Niess · 2023

While personal trackers can collect a vast amount of information about their users, the representation of such data has remained unchanged, with bar charts being the most dominant. However, to build systems that facilitate reflection and s…

MagiBricks: Fostering Intergenerational Connectedness in Distributed Play with Smart Toy Bricks Open

Evropi Stefanidi, Julia Dominiak, Marit Bentvelzen, Paweł W. Woźniak, Johannes Schöning , et al. · 2023

Playing together is crucial to the unique and invaluable bond between grandparents and grandchildren. However, co-located interactions and play can be limited due to time, distance, or pandemic-related restrictions. To facilitate distribut…

Literature Reviews in HCI: A Review of Reviews Open

Evropi Stefanidi, Marit Bentvelzen, Paweł W. Woźniak, Thomas Kosch, Mikołaj P. Woźniak , et al. · 2023

This paper analyses Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) literature reviews to provide a clear conceptual basis for authors, reviewers, and readers. HCI is multidisciplinary and various types of literature reviews exist, from systematic to cri…

SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges Open

Nadine Wagener, Leon Reicherts, Nima Zargham, Natalia Bartłomiejczyk, Ava Elizabeth Scott , et al. · 2023

Reflecting on personal challenges can be difficult. Without encouragement, the reflection process often remains superficial, thus inhibiting deeper understanding and learning from past experiences. To allow people to immerse themselves in …

Do You Mind? User Perceptions of Machine Consciousness Open

Ava Elizabeth Scott, Daniel Peter Neumann, Jasmin Niess, Paweł W. Woźniak · 2023

The prospect of machine consciousness cultivates controversy across media, academia, and industry. Assessing whether non-experts perceive technologies as conscious, and exploring the consequences of this perception, are yet unaddressed cha…

How Instructional Data Physicalisation Fosters Reflection in Personal Informatics Open

Marit Bentvelzen, Julia Dominiak, Jasmin Niess, Frederique Henraat, Paweł W. Woźniak · 2023

The ever-increasing number of devices quantifying our lives offers a perspective of high awareness of one's wellbeing, yet it remains a challenge for personal informatics (PI) to effectively support data-based reflection. Effective reflect…

The Walking Talking Stick: Understanding Automated Note-Taking in Walking Meetings Open

Luke Haliburton, Natalia Bartłomiejczyk, Albrecht Schmidt, Paweł W. Woźniak, Jasmin Niess · 2023

While walking meetings offer a healthy alternative to sit-down meetings, they also pose practical challenges. Taking notes is difficult while walking, which limits the potential of walking meetings. To address this, we designed the Walking…

Children with ADHD and their Care Ecosystem: Designing Beyond Symptoms Open

Evropi Stefanidi, Johannes Schöning, Yvonne Rogers, Jasmin Niess · 2023

Designing for children with ADHD has been of increasing interest to the HCI community. However, current approaches do not adequately involve all relevant stakeholders, and primarily focus on addressing symptoms, following a medical model o…

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