University of the West of England

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CHI '26Sustainable HCI +3

Designing to Support Local Stakeholders in Negotiating about Future Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems

HCI has studied food practices and speculative food futures, and drawn on tools to support, for example, decision-making and participatory futuring in relation to food. However, there is little understanding of how quantitatively-grounded tools like interactive simulation models can mediate collaborative reasoning abo…

CHI '26Immersion & Presence Research +3

Virtual Selves, Real Emotions: The Impact of Photorealistic Avatar Personalization on Emotion in Virtual Reality

Embodying photorealistic personalized avatars that closely resemble their users has recently become technologically achievable in virtual reality (VR). While previous work highlighted several benefits of personalization, its impact on emotions, a central VR element, remains underexplored. Given their high production c…

CHI '26AI-Assisted Decision-Making & Automation +2

Sociotechnical Challenge Modeling: A Design Method for Responsible AI in Healthcare and Social Welfare

We present Sociotechnical Challenge Modeling (STCM), a workshop-based design method to help healthcare and social welfare practitioners identify and address sociotechnical challenges in machine learning (ML) deployments. We evaluated STCM in a field experiment with two UK organizations, involving 26 practitioners incl…

UIST '25Honorable MentionForce Feedback & Pseudo-Haptic Weight +1

HydroHaptics: High-Fidelity Force-Feedback on Soft Deformable Interfaces using Hydrostatic Transmission

Soft deformable interfaces offer unique interaction potential through input flexibility and diverse forms. However, force feedback on these devices remains limited, with pneumatic approaches lacking responsiveness and precision, while microhydraulic solutions are constrained to small form factors with limited input.…

DIS '25In-Vehicle Haptic, Audio & Multimodal Feedback +3

It Sounds Squishy: Understanding Cross-Modal Correspondences of Deformable Shapes and Sounds

Computing interfaces are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with systems that engage multiple sensory channels simultaneously. Deformable and shape-changing interfaces offer rich tactile experiences, but there is limited understanding of how they can be combined with other modes of sensory feedback. We systemati…

CHI '24Mid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +1

Squishy, Yet Satisfying: Exploring Deformable Shapes' Cross-Modal Correspondences with Colours and Emotions

Surfaces with deformable and shape-changing properties seek to enhance and diversify tangible interactions with computing systems. However, we currently lack fundamental knowledge and user interface design principles that connect the inherent properties of deformable shapes with our human senses and cognitive associat…

HRI '23Human Pose & Activity Recognition +2

Transformers and Human-robot Interaction for Delirium Detection

An estimated 20% of patients admitted to hospital wards are affected by delirium. Early detection is recommended to treat underlying causes of delirium, however workforce strain in general wards often causes it to remain undetected. This work proposes a robotic implementation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the…

CHI '22Music Composition & Sound Design Tools +2

Studying How Digital Luthiers Choose Their Tools

Digital lutherie is a sub-domain of digital craft focused on creating digital musical instruments: high-performance devices for musical expression. It represents a nuanced and challenging area of human-computer interaction that is well established and mature, offering the opportunity to observe designers' work on high…

CHI '22Data Storytelling +1

Put a Label On It! Approaches for Constructing and Contextualizing Bar Chart Physicalizations

Physicalizations represent data through their tangible and material properties. In contrast to screen-based visualizations, there is currently very limited understanding of how to label or annotate physicalizations to support people in interpreting the data encoded by the physicalization. Because of its spatiality, co…

DIS '21Technology Ethics & Critical HCI +1

“Are We Now Post-COVID?”: Exploring Post-COVID Futures Through a Gamified Story Completion Method

COVID-19 has heavily impacted our lives. To date, the ongoing pandemic continues to cause dramatic societal changes and raises shared sentiments of uncertainty for our future. As such, however, COVID-19 provides opportunities to explore futures through speculative research. Here, we gamify the story completion method…

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Data Visualization & Information Design

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