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Towards Interface Design for Parrot-Human Communication: Investigating Parrot Selections of Speech Board Representations

Parrots have shown the ability to interact with tablet-based speech boards to engage in parrot-human communication. However, the influence of speech boards’ interface design on avian usability and, thus, on speech boards’ potential to optimally support parrot-human communication, is yet to be explored. As a first step…

CHI '25Explainable AI (XAI) +2

Labeling Synthetic Content: User Perceptions of Label Designs for AI-Generated Content on Social Media

In this research, we explored the efficacy of various warning label designs for AI-generated content on social media platforms---e.g., \textit{deepfakes}. We devised and assessed ten distinct label design samples that varied across the dimensions of sentiment, color/iconography, positioning, and level of detail. Our e…

DIS '24Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) +1

Children’s perspectives on pain-logging: Insights from a Co-Design Approach

Pain is an essential indicator of health and guides clinical treatments. Logging pain is important in supporting this. However, there is little research into pre-adolescent children’s pain logging tools. Utilising the Bluebells method to engage children as co-designers, we gathered children’s perspectives on pain-logg…

CHI '24Best PaperHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC) +1

Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans

We reflect on the design of a multispecies world centred around a bespoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation as part of an artist-led project. In this paper, we present the project's design process, encompassing various interconnected components,…

CHI '24Honorable MentionTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space

While ethical challenges are widely discussed in HCI, far less is reported about the ethical processes that researchers routinely navigate. We reflect on a multispecies project that negotiated an especially complex ethical approval process. Cat Royale was an artist-led exploration of creating an artwork to engage audi…

CHI '24V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communication Design +1

Understanding Pedestrians’ Perception of Safety and Safe Mobility Practices

Walking is one of the greenest and most common travel modes. However, evidence shows a trend of decreased walking, and safety is a key barrier preventing many people from walking. Additionally, there is a limited understanding of pedestrians’ safe mobility practices and safety perception. Drawing on 449 survey respons…

CSCW '22Citizen Science, Physical Communities, and Civic Engagement; Citizen Science, Physical Communities, and Civic Engagement

Consensus Building in On-Line Citizen Science.

A number of initiatives invite members of the public to perform online classification tasks such as identifying objects or wildlife in images. These tasks are crucial to numerous large-scale Citizen Science projects in different disciplines, with volunteers using their knowledge and online support tools to, for exam…

CSCW '21Honorable MentionPersonal and Mental Health

Co-Designing Personal Health? Multidisciplinary Benefits and Challenges in Informing Diabetes Self-Care Technologies

Co-design is a widely applied design process with well-documented benefits, including mutual learning and collective creativity. However, the real-world challenges of conducting multidisciplinary co-design research to inform the design of self-care technologies are not well established. We provide a qualitative accoun…

DIS '21Conversational Chatbots +1

Chatbots to Support Children in Coping with Online Threats: Socio-technical Requirements

Online threats to children, in the form of cyberbullying, grooming, and sexting, have reached unprecedented and alarming levels. Support is still lacking despite endless efforts by child safety organisations and online safety educational programmes. This is mainly due to children feeling apprehensive in such situation…

DIS '20Technology Ethics & Critical HCI +1

More Than Human Aesthetics: Interactive Enrichment for Elephants

Species-specific aesthetics is an important consideration for interaction designers working with animals. The paper explores the concept of species-specific aesthetics with particular reference to elephants. Applying existing aesthetic dimensions and design principles to the challenge of designing interactive enrich…

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