University of Trento

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Framing Water: Exploring Tensions between Social Norms and Environmental Sustainability through a Data Physicalization Game

Mountain areas are especially vulnerable to climate change. In recent years, intermittent droughts have forced many Alpine huts to close early or rely on cable cars or helicopters to import water. To raise awareness of water scarcity among hut visitors, we developed Framing Water, a reflective game based on the data p…

CHI '26Honorable MentionSocial & Collaborative VR +2

Looking inside the VR Music Scene: Mapping Platforms, Events and People

Music is increasingly performed and experienced in Social Virtual Reality (Social VR), from VRChat raves to high-production concerts on bespoke platforms. Yet Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) research still focuses mainly on building new VR systems rather than examining the communities that already create and sustain…

CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +3

Plug the Guitar In Before You Put the Headset On: Co-designing a Mixed Reality Collaborative Application with Professional Musicians

Mixed reality (MR) technologies hold promise for distributed musical collaboration, yet the needs of professional musicians remain underexplored. We conducted a set of co-design workshops with 24 professional musicians, organized into six four-piece bands, to envision future MR systems for networked music performance.…

CSCW '25Harassment & Micro-Aggressions

Investigating the Use and Perception of Blocking Feature in Social Virtual Reality Spaces

This study explores the use of `blocking' as a safety tool in social VR platforms, a feature widely implemented to protect users from harassment. Despite its prevalence, little research investigates the reasons users block others and how they perceive the feature. To address this gap, we analyzed discussions from r/VR…

CHI '25Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) +2

“React”, “Command”, or “Instruct”? Teachers’ Mental Models on End-User Development

This paper presents findings from a thinking-aloud protocol exploring mental models in 28 elementary school math teachers during their initial attempt at composing and testing trigger-action rules for a smart tangible educational device. In the study, two sets of event-driven primitives were implemented in an End-User…

CHI '25Honorable MentionAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +1

Unpacking Trust Dynamics in the LLM Supply Chain: An Empirical Exploration to Foster Trustworthy LLM Production & Use

Research on trust in AI is limited to several trustors (e.g., end-users) and trustees (especially AI systems), and empirical explorations remain in laboratory settings, overlooking factors that impact trust relations in the real world. Here, we broaden the scope of research by accounting for the supply chains that AI…

CUI '24Agent Personality & Anthropomorphism +1

Do Your Expectations Match? A Mixed-Methods Study on the Association Between a Robot's Voice and Appearance

Both physical appearance and voice can elicit mental images of what someone and/or something should sound and look like. This is particularly relevant for human-robot interaction design and research since any voice can be added to a robot. Therefore, it is important to give robots voices that match users' expectations…

UBICOMP '23Mixed Reality Workspaces +1

MR Object Identification and Interaction: Fusing Object Situation Information from Heterogeneous Sources

"The increasing number of objects in ubiquitous computing environments creates a need for effective object detection and identification mechanisms that permit users to intuitively initiate interactions with these objects. While multiple approaches to such object detection -- including through visual object detection,…

MOBILEHCI '23Immersion & Presence Research +2

SensCon: Embedding Physiological Sensing into Virtual Reality Controllers

Virtual reality experiences increasingly use physiological data for virtual environment adaptations to evaluate user experience and immersion. Previous research required complex medical-grade equipment to collect physiological data, limiting real-world applicability. To overcome this, we present SensCon for skin condu…

CHI '23Human Pose & Activity Recognition +1

Complex Daily Activities, Country-Level Diversity, and Smartphone Sensing: A Study in Denmark, Italy, Mongolia, Paraguay, and UK

Smartphones enable understanding human behavior with activity recognition to support people’s daily lives. Prior studies focused on using inertial sensors to detect simple activities (sitting, walking, running, etc.) and were mostly conducted in homogeneous populations within a country. However, people are more sedent…

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Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality (XR)

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Data Physicalization

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Music Composition & Sound Design Tools