Higher Technical Institute

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CHI '26Aging-Friendly Technology Design +1

Values Across Contexts: Understanding How Older Adults Enact What Matters Through Technology

As populations age and technology becomes more pervasive, understanding the alignment between older adults' values and technology design is paramount. More research is needed to understand how older adults’ living contexts shape their values and the use of technology. To address this, through a multi-context study, we…

CHI '26Immersion & Presence Research +2

The Ocular Command Center: How Eye Responses to Luminance, Color, Tunneling, and Visual Suppression Mediate Users' Physiological States in VR

This work introduces the Ocular Command Center framework to investigate how eye responses mediate visual effects on physiology and user experience in virtual reality. In a controlled study (N=40), participants experienced variations in luminance, color temperature, peripheral occlusion, and periodic visual suppression…

CHI '26Honorable MentionGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development

Frontend code, replicated across millions of page views, consumes significant energy and contributes directly to digital emissions. Yet current AI coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, emphasize developer speed and convenience, with energy impact not yet a primary focus. At the same time,…

CHI '26Participatory Design +2

Revisiting Worker-Centered Design: Tensions, Blind Spots, and Action Spaces

Worker-Centered Design (WCD) has gained prominence over the past decade, offering researchers and practitioners ways to engage worker agency and support collective actions for workers. Yet few studies have systematically revisited WCD itself, examining its implementations, challenges, and practical impact. Through a f…

CSCW '25Team Work Makes the Dream Work

Reimagining Multidisciplinary Teams: Challenges and Opportunities for LLMs in Cancer MDTs

Multidisciplinary teams are crucial in tailoring cancer care through collaborative decision-making involving several clinical specialties. The inherent complexity of clinical cases, the increasing abundance of unstructured textual data, and the time restrictions of professionals pose significant challenges to team coo…

CSCW '25Technology's Impact on (Im)migration

Speculating Migrant Possible Worlds through Magic Machines

Migration and technology studies increasingly recognize the importance of incorporating migrant perspectives in design processes. Speculative design methods have emerged as powerful tools for imagining alternative futures, particularly when working with marginalized communities. However, there remains a gap in underst…

CC '25Serious & Functional Games +2

Designing a Digital Game for Natureculture Heritage encounters

Human-computer interaction (HCI) increasingly explores the role of digital games in engaging audiences with cultural heritage. While heritage games exist, few effectively inte- grate participatory, reflective, and speculative storytelling to bridge nature and culture. Moreover, existing methods of- ten lack inclu…

CC '25Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Making Sense of Our Data: Exploring Well-Being Self-Tracking Through Creative Collaboration

Mental health and well-being research increasingly recognizes the potential of data to support preventative care and foster meaningful sensemaking. However, traditional health data visualizations often overlook emotional depth, contextual relevance, and lived experiences. In response, four HCI researchers conducted a…

DIS '25Field Studies +1

A tidalectic reading of landscapes: Multispecies peripatetic ethnography as a method for knowing landscapes.

This study explores multispecies interactions and human-nonhuman synergies in intertidal zones through a novel autoethnographic approach. Multispecies ethnography and posthumanist thinking challenge human-centered perspectives, highlighting the need to embrace diverse temporalities and ways of knowing in ecological re…

DIS '25Haptic Wearables +2

Critter Connect, wearable design for place-based & multisensory species encounters.

This study presents Critter Connect, a wearable device fostering multispecies relationships in natural ecosystems. Grounded in posthuman theory and More-than-Human geography, the work responds to human-centred design limitations, which often overlook non-visual and non-linguistic modes of interaction. It also highligh…

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