Queen Mary University of London

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CHI '26Music Composition & Sound Design Tools +2

Visualising Pianists' Touch: Transcribing Expressive Piano Performance from Audio to Piano Key Motion

Detailed measurements of piano key motion capture touch, timing, and dynamic control, providing crucial performance insights. Such expressive gestures are overlooked in MIDI, which only records pitch onset, duration, and velocity. Here, we introduce a novel transcription technique that directly maps audio from express…

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

Interpretive Cultures: Resonance, randomness, and negotiated meaning for AI-assisted tarot divination

While generative AI tools are increasingly adopted for creative and analytical tasks, their role in interpretive practices,where meaning is subjective, plural, and non-causal, remains poorly understood. This paper examines AI-assisted tarot reading, a divinatory practice in which users pose a query, draw cards through…

CHI '26Game UX & Player Behavior +2

From Breakups to Lethargy: Player Accounts of Third Variables Affecting Video Game Playtime and Wellbeing

Time spent playing video games (playtime) is not strongly correlated with wellbeing. However, quantitative studies often overlook `third variables' that confound this relationship---risking masked true effects or spurious associations. In this mixed-methods study, we first conducted a qualitative template analysis of…

CHI '26Participatory Design +3

Reimagining Data Work: Participatory Annotation Workshops as Feminist Practice

AI systems depend on the invisible and undervalued labor of data workers, who are often treated as interchangeable units rather than collaborators with meaningful expertise. Critical scholars and practitioners have proposed alternative principles for data work, but few empirical studies examine how to enact them in pr…

CHI '26Creative Collaboration & Feedback Systems +2

Tracing Creativity: A Design Space For Creative Activity Traces in HCI

Creativity tools are a cornerstone of HCI, with systems for video, music, writing, and design deeply embedded in modern creative practice. Yet one key element of these systems remains undertheorized: the role of activity traces. Activity traces are the records of creator data, including artifact iterations, annotation…

CHI '26Game UX & Player Behavior +2

Video Game Archaeology as Hauntological Practice: A Collaborative Autoethnography in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree

Video game archaeology is a relatively new field. This can involve studying players through the traces they leave in digital game worlds, though only limited work of this kind exists. Furthermore, the potential of these methods to record ephemeral play experiences for preservation purposes has not been widely explored…

DIS '25Best PaperSustainable HCI +1

Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe

Houseplants are increasingly being used as part of interactive systems that aim to foster pro-environmental concern and awareness of more-than-human life. Yet such interventions rely on conflicting and untested assumptions about how people relate to houseplants. We therefore studied domestic plant care in 11 purposefu…

CHI '25Identity & Avatars in XR +1

Exclusion Rates among Disabled and Older Users of Virtual and Augmented Reality

This paper examines the levels of exclusion encountered by disabled and older users of consumer-level VR and AR technology and identifies methods formed by people with diverse access needs to circumvent encountered barriers to use. First, we estimate exclusion rates for a selection of nine immersive experiences of VR…

CHI '25Role-Playing & Narrative Games +1

Archaeological Gameworld Affordances: A Grounded Theory of How Players Interpret Environmental Storytelling

Environmental storytelling is a design technique commonly used to convey narrative through assemblages of content in video games. To date there has been limited empirical work investigating how and on what basis players form interpretations about game environments. We report on a study in which participants (N=202) pl…

CSCW '24Session 3d: Teens in the Digital Age: Safety, Creativity, and Well-Being

“Actually I Can Count My Blessings”: User-Centered Design of an Application to Promote Gratitude Among Young Adults

Regular practice of gratitude has the potential to enhance psychological wellbeing and foster stronger social connections among young adults. However, there is a lack of research investigating user needs and expectations regarding gratitude-promoting applications. To address this gap, we employed a user-centered desig…

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Creative Tools & Content Creation

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