Amsterdam University of Applied Science

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CHI '26Honorable MentionVR Medical Training & Rehabilitation +2

CoBreath: Designing a VR-Based Dyadic Biofeedback System to Support Breathing Exercise for Breast Cancer Survivors

Chronic stress and anxiety severely affect breast cancer survivors’ (BCSs) mental health and well-being. Peer support has been shown to enhance psychological empowerment, while biofeedback offers a promising approach to improve physiological relaxation through self-regulation. However, few studies explored combining b…

CHI '26Immersion & Presence Research +2

ASafePlace: User-Led Personalization of VR Relaxation via an Art Therapy Activity

To overcome the lack of deep personalization in standard biofeedback methods, we introduce ASafePlace, a system utilizing an AI-powered, art-therapy-inspired exercise called The Safe Place, to create a personalized VR biofeedback experience. In our system, users sketch a personal sanctuary from memory, which is then t…

DIS '25Full-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +2

MindFlow: Breathing-Integrated Progressive Muscle Relaxation with a Full-Body Self-Avatar in Virtual Reality

Breathing exercises and Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) have complementary effects, making their integration a common practice among relaxation techniques. While numerous virtual reality (VR) exercises support breathing exercises in self-training, integrating breathing support into PMR in VR presents challenges, i…

DIS '25Sustainable HCI +1

Knitting with unknown trees: assembling a more-than-human practice

In this pictorial, we explore alternative ways of knowing urban trees through a more-than-human lens. Using a municipal tree dataset, we focus on “unknown” trees—entries unclassified due to error, decay, or absence—highlighting the limits of quantification and fixed knowledge systems. Urban trees, while critical for e…

CHI '25Best PaperSustainable HCI +1

What Comes After Noticing?: Reflections on Noticing Solar Energy and What Came Next

Many design researchers have been exploring what it means to take a more-than-human design approach in their practice. In particular, the technique of “noticing” has been explored as a way of intentionally opening a designer’s awareness to more-than-human worlds. In this paper we present autoethnographic accounts of o…

HRI '24Special Education Technology +2

Back to School - Sustaining Recurring Child-Robot Educational Interactions After a Long Break

Maintaining the child-robot relationship after a significant break, such as a holiday, is an important step for developing sustainable social robots for education. We ran a four-session user study (n = 113 children) that included a nine-month break between the third and fourth session. During the study, participants p…

HRI '23Collaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +1

Design Specifications for a Social Robot Math Tutor

To benefit from the social capabilities of a robot math tutor, instead of being distracted by them, a novel approach is needed where the math task and the robot's social behaviors are better intertwined. We present concrete design specifications of how children can practice math via a personal conversation with a soci…

CC '22Collaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +1

Designing for self-awareness: supporting students' reflexive interactions based on photos

Educators in professional higher education experience difficulties addressing students’ self-awareness in their courses. The topic is often dismissed by students as ‘vague’ or ‘irrelevant’. This is detrimental for learning since knowing who you are and who you want to be is crucial: it guides behaviour and helps to fe…

DIS '20Shape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +1

Alternative Presents for Dynamic Fabric

In this paper we investigate how a combination of “speculative” design methods can be used to generate theoretical understandings for dynamic, colour-changing fabrics for garments. Specifically, we combine a first-person, autobiographical, research through design (RtD) approach that draws strategies from speculative d…

CHI '20Social & Collaborative VR +1

The Curious Case of the Transdiegetic Cow, or a Mission to Foster Other-Oriented Empathy Through Virtual Reality

Socially aware persuasive games that use immersive technologies often appeal to empathy, prompting users to feel and understand the struggles of another. However, the often sought-after 'standing in another's shoes' experience, in which users virtually inhabit another in distress, may complicate other-oriented empathy…

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