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IUI '26Privacy by Design & User Control +3

Playing with Privacy: Uncovering Everyday Judgments of Data Sensitivity Through an Arcade Machine Interface

Current data protection legal frameworks, including the GDPR, classify “special” categories of personal data that are deemed deserving of higher protection due to their impact on fundamental rights. Yet, these legal abstractions fail to capture how individuals themselves judge sensitivity in everyday digital contexts.…

CHI '26In-Vehicle Haptic, Audio & Multimodal Feedback +2

Belt and whistles - adding lower body collision awareness for MR experiences

Users of Virtual Reality (VR) primarily sense their environment through audiovisual cues. The lack of haptic feedback on their body can make them unaware of virtual obstacles outside their field of view. This lack of sensing can cause the user to unknowingly penetrate virtual objects, breaking the scene’s plausibility…

UIST '25Shape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +2

Ecolor: Synthesis of EInk Microcapsules for Fabricating DIY Displays

Recent HCI research has explored active materials for programmable displays, yet accessibility remains a key challenge. While some programmable materials, such as thermochromic ink, are widely available, others—like electronic ink (EInk)—remain confined to industrial production. Despite its versatility, EInk is rarely…

CHI '25Social & Collaborative VR +1

Text Entry for XR Trove (TEXT): Collecting and Analyzing Techniques for Text Input in XR

Text entry for extended reality (XR) is far from perfect, and a variety of text entry techniques (TETs) have been proposed to fit various contexts of use. However, comparing between TETs remains challenging due to the lack of a consolidated collection of techniques, and limited understanding of how interaction attribu…

UIST '243D Modeling & Animation +2

Rhapso: Automatically Embedding Fiber Materials into 3D Prints for Enhanced Interactivity

We introduce Rhapso, a 3D printing system designed to embed a diverse range of continuous fiber materials within 3D objects during the printing process. This approach enables integrating properties like tensile strength, force storage and transmission, or aesthetic and tactile characteristics, directly into low-cost t…

CHI '24Honorable MentionKnowledge Worker Tools & Workflows +1

CRTypist: Simulating Touchscreen Typing Behavior via Computational Rationality

Touchscreen typing requires coordinating the fingers and visual attention for button-pressing, proofreading, and error correction. Computational models need to account for the associated fast pace, coordination issues, and closed-loop nature of this control problem, which is further complicated by the immense variety…

UIST '22Desktop 3D Printing & Personal Fabrication +1

AirLogic: Embedding Pneumatic Computation and I/O in 3D Models to Fabricate Electronics-Free Interactive Objects

Researchers have developed various tools and techniques towards the vision of on-demand fabrication of custom, interactive devices. Recent work has 3D-printed artefacts like speakers, electromagnetic actuators, and hydraulic robots. However, these are non-trivial to instantiate as they require post-fabrication mechani…

CHI '21Immersion & Presence Research

Locomotion Vault: the Extra Mile in Analyzing VR Locomotion Techniques

Numerous techniques have been proposed for locomotion in virtual reality (VR). Several taxonomies consider a large number of attributes (e.g., hardware, accessibility) to characterize these techniques. However, finding the appropriate locomotion technique (LT) and identifying gaps for future designs in the high-dimens…

CHI '21Shape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials

MorpheesPlug: A Toolkit for Prototyping Shape-Changing Interfaces

Toolkits for shape-changing interfaces (SCIs) enable designers and researchers to easily explore the broad design space of SCIs. However, despite their utility, existing approaches are often limited in the number of shape-change features they can express. This paper introduces MorpheesPlug, a toolkit for creating SCIs…

CHI '19Crowdsourcing Task Design & Quality Control +2

Monotasking or Multitasking: Designing for Crowdworkers' Preferences

Crowdworkers receive no formal training for managing their tasks, time or working environment. To develop tools that support such workers, an understanding of their preferences and the constraints they are under is essential. We asked 317 experienced Amazon Mechanical Turk workers about factors that influence their ta…

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Haptic, Force & Physical Feedback

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