University of Torino

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What is Digital Wellbeing? A Leverage Points Framework to Guide Research and Action

While research on digital wellbeing has often focused on mitigating the harms of technology (over)use-especially around screen time-the concept itself remains inconsistently defined. In this paper, we first propose a layered taxonomy that characterizes digital wellbeing across three dimensions: technology scope and us…

CHI '26Behavior Change & Reflection Technology +2

Constructing Everyday Well-Being: Insights from God-Saeng (God生) for Personal Informatics

While Personal Informatics (PI) systems support behavior change, everyday well-being involves more than achieving individual target behaviors. It is shaped by cultural narratives that give actions meaning. In South Korea, the God-Saeng (God生) phenomenon—encompassing disciplined, collective, and publicly documented sel…

CHI '26Best PaperFitness Tracking & Physical Activity Monitoring +2

When Workout Buddies Are Virtual: AI Agents and Human Peers in a Longitudinal Physical Activity Study

Physical inactivity remains a critical global health issue, yet scalable strategies for sustained motivation are scarce. Conversational agents designed as simulated exercising peers (SEPs) represent a promising alternative, but their long-term impact is unclear. We report a six-month randomized controlled trial (N=280…

CSCW '25Governing Platforms / Technology's Role in Governance

Narratives of War: Ukrainian Memetic Warfare on Twitter

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen an intensification in the use of social media by governmental actors in cyber warfare. Wartime communication via memes has been a successful strategy used not only by independent accounts such as @uamemesforces, but also---for the first time in a full-scale interstate war-…

CHI '23Conversational Chatbots +1

Collaborating with a Text-Based Chatbot: An Exploration of Real-World Collaboration Strategies Enacted during Human-Chatbot Interactions

A central problem for chatbots in the customer care domain revolves around how people collaborate with the agent to achieve their own situated goals. The majority of the previous research, however, relied on experiments within artificial settings, rather than on observation of real-world interactions. Moreover, such r…

CSCW '20Teams, Groups, and Creativity

A Gameful Organizational Assimilation Process: Insights from World of Warcraft for Gamification Design

A central process of virtual organization design relates to how newcomers are assimilated into organizational dynamics. Research on organizational assimilation has traditionally investigated “serious” organizational contexts. Nonetheless, video games can offer insights on how such assimilation can be effectively suppo…

CHI '18Participatory Design +1

Reflexive Ethnographies in Human-Computer Interaction: Theory and Practice

This course aims at introducing some key issues in contemporary ethnographic practice, emphasizing the role of the writing style and the epistemic position of the fieldworker in shaping a particular perspective on the observed phenomena. It outlines the theoretical assumptions that lie behind the traditional “realist…

CSCW '18Social Media in the Wild

The Spirit of the City: Using Social Media to Capture Neighborhood Ambiance

Place ambiance has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Despite its importance, ambiance has been crucially overlooked by urban planners and scientists alike, not least because it is difficult to record and analyze at scale. We explored the possibility of using social media data to reliably map the ambiance o…

CHI '18Universal & Inclusive Design +1

Know Thyself: A Theory of the Self for Personal Informatics

Although Personal Informatics stresses the importance of “self”-awareness and “self”-knowledge in collecting personal data, a description of the “self,” to which all these knowledge endeavors are addressed, is missing in the current debate. In this article we first review how the different theoretical assumptions that…

CHI '18Gamification Design

Gamification for Self-Tracking: From World of Warcraft to the Design of Personal Informatics Systems

World of Warcraft (WoW) may be a source of inspiration to enrich the Personal Informatics systems user’s experience and, at the same time, improve gamification design. Through the findings of a four-year reflexive ethnography in WoW, I outline how its game design elements support players in making sense of their own d…

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Personal Informatics & Self-Tracking

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Fitness Tracking & Physical Activity Monitoring

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