Lancaster University

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150

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#40

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From Sleep Scores to Self-Knowledge: Older Adults’ Experiences with Tracking Sleep Using the Oura Ring

As people age, sleep often becomes lighter, more fragmented, and a source of increasing concern. Smart rings, like Oura, offer a discreet and comfortable means of supporting sleep tracking, yet it remains unclear how older adults engage with the sleep-related insights they provide. Our research investigates how older…

CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +2

StylusPort: Investigating Teleportation using Stylus in VR

With a stylus, users can both sweep sketches across models and pinpoint locations with precision. Building on this dual capability, we explore how teleportation can be integrated into stylus interaction without disrupting the flow of common stylus usage. We introduce two key ideas: flipping the stylus as an intuitive…

CHI '26Eye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +2

Gaze and Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction: A Scoping Review

Multimodal interaction has long promised to make interfaces more intuitive and effective by combining complementary inputs. Among these, gaze and speech form a compelling pairing: gaze provides rapid spatial grounding, while speech conveys rich semantic information. Together, they offer rich cues for understanding use…

CHI '26Hand Gesture Recognition +2

Preshaping Hand Behaviour for Direct and Indirect Manipulation of 3D Objects

Effortless manipulation informs and relies on preshaping: the subconscious posing of the hand before grasping. Virtual environments and the design of interaction techniques alters interaction requirements like contact and reach, forcing behavioural adaptation. We present a comparative study investigating preshaping be…

CHI '26Mixed Reality Workspaces +2

Boundary Switching and Cursor Warping: A Comparative Study of Performance and Comfort in Multi-Display XR Environments

Extended Reality (XR) headsets enable large, reconfigurable multi-display workspaces and support view manipulation, allowing the workspace to reposition itself around the user. Cursor warping similarly reduces traversal distance and pointer search by reinitialising the cursor at defined locations. Yet when both mechan…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Supporting Holistic AI Ethics Literacy Education Through Critical Reflection: Three Recommendations for Fostering Children’s Ethical Growth

With childhood increasingly mediated by AI and marked by children's heightened vulnerabilities, critical reflection emerges as a vital tool for both understanding and strengthening children's ethical reasoning, steering them between uncritical adoption and blanket pessimism about AI. As such, we present outcomes of a…

CHI '26Aging-Friendly Technology Design +1

Cohort Differences in Internet Use Among Older Adults: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

While much has been written on the age-based digital divide, more understanding of the relative importance of factors affecting use of the internet is needed. This paper analyses nationally representative data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to understand older adults’ frequency of using the inter…

CHI '26Immersion & Presence Research +2

The Eye–Head Mover Spectrum: Modelling Individual and Population Head Movement Tendencies in Virtual Reality

People differ in how much they move their head versus their eyes when shifting gaze, yet such tendencies remain largely unexplored in HCI. We introduce head movement tendencies as a fundamental dimension of individual difference in VR and provide a quantitative account of their population-level distribution. Using a 3…

CHI '26Participatory Design +2

Extending the Child-Centered Ethics Framework: Researchers' Reflections on Multiple Projects with Children and Teenagers

In this paper, we use the Child-Centred Ethics framework to critically reflect on the planning, implementation, and impact of twelve (2-4 year) projects with children (ages 2-18 years) in Finland, the UK, India, Japan, and the USA. Our analysis reveals diverse ethical challenges and experiences: adapting materials bas…

CSCW '25Collaborating in Virtual Environments

Robot, Avatar, or Human: The Impact of Partner Representation and Task on the Communication Experience

Avatars and telepresence robots have long received attention for remote communication. However, the specific nature of their physicality, expressiveness, and mobility may affect their usefulness for different tasks. This work compares using an avatar (presented in augmented reality) and a telepresence robot to Face-to…

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Gesture, Body & Motion Interaction

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