University of Siegen

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Speaking Through Chatbots or Text: How Format Shapes Information Agreement, Reactance , Environmental Awareness, and Trust

Recent advances in large language models suggest that conversational agents (CAs) equipped with environmental knowledge are a promising way to promote environmental awareness. However, so far it remains unclear whether information provided by a CA outperforms static text in increasing agreement, decreasing reactance,…

CHI '26Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +2

Finding a Home for Voice Assistants: A Domestication Calculus Across Three Years and Thirty Households

HCI has explored voice assistant (VA) use across various social settings, highlighting their impact on personal and familial dynamics. Yet, the progressive domestication of these devices over time and their longer-term impact on relationships remain underexplored. We present findings from a three-year study of 30 hou…

CHI '26Online Dating Platform Design +2

“My Parents’ Expectations Were Overwhelming”: Online Dating Romance Scams Targeting Minors in Iran Through Exploitation of Parental Pressure

Minors are at risk of myriad harms online, yet online dating romance scams are seldom considered one of them. While research on romance scams in Western countries finds victims to be predominantly middle-aged, it is unknown whether minors in geographic regions with cultural norms around teenage marriage are uniquely s…

CHI '26Volunteer Coordination & Crowdsourced Disaster Relief +2

The Work to Make Soldiers Work: Civilian Engagement in Support of the Ukrainian Army

Since February 2022 the Ukrainian army has been resisting the Russian invasion; this defense would have been less effective without material and logistical support from civil society. While HCI and CSCW have examined ICT in crises, little addresses how civilian–military cooperation is enacted in interstate war and how…

CHI '26Privacy by Design & User Control +3

"Talking about privacy always feels like opening a can of worms.": How Intimate Partners Navigate Boundary-Setting in Mobile Phone Without Words

Mobile phones, as simultaneously personal and shared technologies, complicate how partners manage digital privacy in intimate relationships. While prior research has examined device-access practices, explicit privacy-rule negotiation, and toxic practices (e.g., surveillance), little is known about how couples manage d…

CHI '26Empowerment of Marginalized Groups +2

From Distribution to Contribution: Negotiating Justice Policies in Grassroots FOSS Communities

Fairness is a recurring challenge in grassroots digital infrastructures, where collective action depends on volunteer contributions. This paper presents a study of Foodsharing.de, a grassroots FOSS platform with 185,000 members rescuing and redistributing surplus food. Drawing on 25 interviews and long-term activist i…

CHI '26Content Moderation & Platform Governance +2

Silencing \& Surging: A Layered Ecology of Algorithmic Repression and Resistance in the Gaza Escalations

During the 2023–ongoing Gaza war, Palestinian advocacy on social media has faced rapid removals, downranking, and account sanctions. In this contribution, we offer a layered analysis of how people endure and counter this repression across affective, mechanistic, and material dimensions. Using patchwork ethnography ove…

CHI '26Social Robot Interaction +2

Mediating Urban Social Encounters – Co-Design of Robotic Street Furniture with Adolescents

With the ongoing shift into the digital, spontaneous social encounters in public spaces are becoming challenging for adolescents. This study explores how robotic street furniture could facilitate meaningful adolescent social interaction. In a focus group and a theater-based co-design workshop, fourteen adolescents env…

CHI '26Conversational Chatbots +2

Conversing with Objects toward Fluid Human and Artificial Identities during Life Transitions

People's identities change during life transitions (e.g., studying abroad). They bring everyday objects that embody memories and reflect their identities during such moves. To assist in these transitions, we ask how people's human identities could be supported by their objects through an artificial agent. This paper p…

CHI '26Best PaperParticipatory Design +3

From Using to Infrastructuring: Grassroots VPN-Building in Iran’s Women–Life–Freedom Movement

States increasingly weaponize digital infrastructures through censorship and surveillance. Iran represents an acute case of this broader global pattern. We study how citizens sustain connectivity and agency during Iran’s Women--Life--Freedom (WLF) protests. Based on 21 interviews with citizens and digital activists in…

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