Ruben Albers

schoolUniversity of Siegenbar_chart#3054 Global Rank

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Relatedness Technologies: An Online Compendium and Systematic Review

Over the past decades, numerous concepts and prototypes for fostering emotional connections across distance (relatedness technologies) have been proposed. This has made it challenging for researchers and designers in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to maintain a comprehensive overview and effectively build on previou…

CHI '241st AuthorConversational Chatbots +2

Let’s Talk About Death: Existential Conversations with Chatbots

Many people prefer not to think about their own death, let alone talk about it. This contributes to fear of death and reduces the acceptance of its inevitability. We hypothesized that talking about one’s own death with a specially designed chatbot reduces fear of death and strengthens the confidence to discuss the to…

DIS '232nd AuthorMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

Designing for Integration: Promoting Self-Congruence to Sustain Behavior Change

People with osteoarthritis or other chronic conditions need to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors, such as physical exercises. Current behavior change technologies primarily seek to motivate this through goal setting, self-monitoring, and rewards. Based on Organismic Integration Theory (OIT), we designed Equi as a t…

CHI '231st AuthorMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Dying, Death and the Afterlife in Human-Computer Interaction. A Scoping Review.

Dying is a universal experience that entails uncertainty, loss, and termination. Often, people face death unprepared and miss out on opportunities to shape their fnal stage of life as well as their afterlife. To better understand how thanato-technology can support the dying and the bereaved, we performed a scoping rev…

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