Tampere University

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Can’t See Nature for the Trees: A Literature Review about Virtual Nature for Well-Being

Human well-being is inseparable from environmental context, with nature long recognized for its restorative potential. As everyday life becomes increasingly mediated by technology, access to nature is reconfigured through digital media. Virtual nature is often proposed as a tool for supporting well-being, yet the assu…

CHI '26Mid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +2

Which is Warmer, the Cake or the Oven? Unlocking Thermal Conductivity for Virtual Reality Interaction

Thermal feedback has the potential to enrich immersive interaction, yet its role in material discrimination remains underexplored. We designed and evaluated a conductivity model that simulates transient heating and cooling profiles based on material properties of an object. Thirty-eight participants used a Meta Quest…

CHI '26Game UX & Player Behavior +3

Understanding the Dynamics of Trust in Location-Based Games as Hybrid Spaces: The Players' Perspective

Location-based games (LBGs) merge digital play with physical environments, creating hybrid spaces that require players to navigate complex trust dynamics. Despite their global popularity, LBGs introduce unique challenges around fairness, safety, and privacy, spanning interactions among players, game systems, local com…

CHI '26Participatory Design +2

Scaling Care-fully: Uncovering Labours of Care When Scaling Participatory Design in the Public Sector

Participatory design (PD) is readily applied in HCI to address complex sociotechnical challenges. However, PD faces ethical and practical concerns when it comes to scaling, i.e., extending its depth, scope or span. We extend the current understandings of scaling PD by applying feminist care ethics through Joan Tronto'…

CHI '26Social Robot Interaction +2

Roaming with a Robot: Analyzing the Experiences and Understanding the Dimensions of Designing Human-Robot Walking Interactions

Walking is an essential aspect of daily life, while walking with companions offers numerous benefits. Recently developed mobile robots, through their ability to navigate challenging terrains, open new possibilities for outdoor walking companionship. Yet, little is known about how such companions shape the human walkin…

CHI '26Emotion Recognition & Detection +4

SYNAPSE: A Sociotechnical Taxonomy of Bioadaptive Media

With advances in biosensing and artificial intelligence, we are seeing fast developments of recursive biocybernetic closed-loop systems. These media technologies adapt the content in real-time based on users’ psychophysiological input, with the goal of modulating users' affective responses. However, existing research…

CHI '26Haptic Wearables +2

“Standing Out While Blending In:” Learning from Experts about Designing Fashionable Wearable Experiences

This study examines fashionability in computational fashion wearables (CFWs) through the reflective accounts of ten academic researcher–designers. While wearables are often studied for technical functions, fashionability, a key to adoption and sustained use, has received less attention. Using semi-structured interview…

CHI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +3

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Creation of Interactive Story Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling

An interactive vignette is a visual storytelling medium that lets the audience role-play a character and interact with non-player characters (NPCs) and the digital environment. Yet, the authoring complexity of interactive vignettes has obstructed their adoption in everyday storytelling, which builds on immediacy. We i…

CSCW '25Perspectives on VR

Towards Immersive Mixed Reality Street Play: Understanding Co-located Bodily Play with See-through Head-Mounted Displays in Public Spaces

We are witnessing an upcoming paradigm shift as Mixed Reality (MR) See-through Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) become ubiquitous, with use shifting from controlled, private settings to spontaneous, public ones. While location-based pervasive mobile games like Pokémon GO have achieved success, the embodied interaction of…

CSCW '25Collaborating in Virtual Environments

Are We in This Together? Investigating the Relationship of Avatar Customisation, Social Presence, and Communication Outcomes in Collaborative Embodied Virtual Reality

Social virtual reality (VR) enables embodied interactions with others within 3D environments. There has been a growing amount of research on avatar appearance and its influence on social presence and user behaviour, including communicative outcomes. As the focus has often been on the effects of avatar-related intraper…

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Environment, Sustainability & Ecological Design

Human-Nature Relationships (More-than-Human Design)

Games, Entertainment & Gamification

Game UX & Player Behavior

Haptic, Force & Physical Feedback

Haptic Wearables

Ethics, Fairness, Social Justice & Inclusion

Technology Ethics & Critical HCI

Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality (XR)

Immersion & Presence Research