Max V. Birk

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Unpacking Norms, Narratives, and Nourishment: A Feminist HCI Critique on Food Tracking Technologies

Food tracking applications (apps) can provide benefits (e.g., helping diagnose food intolerances) but can also create harm (e.g., facilitating disordered eating). However, food tracking apps—viewed as a women’s health issue, and critically examined through the lens of feminist HCI—are absent from the discourse of soci…

CHI '24CorrespondingGame UX & Player Behavior +2

Tunnel Runner: a Proof-of-principle for the Feasibility and Benefits of Facilitating Players' Sense of Control in Cognitive Assessment Games

Cognitive assessment games attempt to improve cognitive assessment's experience and data quality by implementing game-like features, e.g., points and narratives. However, cognitive games maintain the repetitiveness and restricted control common in traditional cognitive assessment tasks, which thwart players' sense of…

CSCW '213rd AuthorCrowds and Data Work

Using Worker Avatars to Improve Microtask Crowdsourcing

The future of crowd work has been identified to depend on worker satisfaction, but we lack a thorough understanding of how worker satisfaction can be increased in microtask crowdsourcing. Prior work has shown that one solution is to build tasks that are engaging. To facilitate engagement, two methods that have receive…

CHI '215th+ AuthorSerious & Functional Games +1

Serious Snacking: A Survival Analysis of how Snacking Mechanics Affect Attrition in a Mobile Serious Game

Many serious games are most effective when played regularly; however, little is known about how individual game elements support player adherence over time. This work draws on evidence from existing frameworks and game design theories as well as from the design of casual games to investigate how individual game mecha…

CHI '192nd AuthorGame UX & Player Behavior +1

Healthy Lies: The Effects of Misrepresenting Player Health Data on Experience, Behavior, and Performance

Game designers use a variety of techniques that mislead players with the goal of inducing play experience. For example, designers may manipulate data displays of player health—showing they have less health than they actually do—to induce tension. While commonly used, players make decisions based on in-game data displa…

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