Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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CHI '26Game UX & Player Behavior +2

Radical Gender Neutrality: Agender Euphoria in Gaming and Play Experiences

Agender euphoria is a new term representing the powerful feelings of happiness, joy, and contentment derived from experiences in gender-free embodiments, spaces, and activities. People with and without agender and adjacent identities (e.g., genderless, gender-free, non-binary, gender-apathetic) may have such experienc…

CHI '26Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) & Neurofeedback +2

Capturing Team Cognition: A Multimodal Dataset for Adaptive Collaborative Interfaces

We introduce a multimodal dataset and experimental setup designed to support the development of adaptive collaborative systems. Data were collected from distributed teams working simultaneously across two continents, demonstrating the feasibility of sensing team cognition in geographically dispersed settings. The data…

CHI '26Interactive Data Visualization +3

Evaluation-First Design for Data Visualization Interfaces

Existing frameworks in visualization and HCI emphasize iteration, data grounding, and stakeholder needs; however, they have not fully explored how evaluation might persist across phases, adapt to compressed timelines, and aid stakeholder engagement and elicitation. Building on prior frameworks, we introduce an evaluat…

CHI '26Honorable MentionMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

MindfulAgents: Personalizing Mindfulness Meditation via an Expert-Aligned Multi-Agent System

Mindfulness meditation is a widely accessible and evidence-based method for supporting mental health. Despite the proliferation of mindfulness meditation apps, sustaining user engagement remains a persistent challenge. Personalizing the meditation experience is a promising strategy to improve engagement, but it often…

CHI '25Time-Series & Network Graph Visualization +2

Crowdsourced Think-Aloud Studies

The think-aloud (TA) protocol is a useful method for evaluating user interfaces, including data visualizations. However, TA studies are time-consuming to conduct and hence often have a small number of participants. Crowdsourcing TA studies would help alleviate these problems, but the technical overhead and the unknown…

CHI '25Honorable MentionMultiplayer & Social Games +3

Designed & Discovered Euphoria: Insights from Trans-Femme Players' Experiences of Gender Euphoria in Video Games

Many transgender (and cisgender) people experience gender euphoria -- satisfaction and relief caused by self-actualization and gender congruence -- a term that has been overlooked by the design community. Video games create intense experiences involving identities, bodies, and social interaction, providing opportuniti…

CHI '25Force Feedback & Pseudo-Haptic Weight +2

Perceptions and Preferences: Deaf ASL-Signing Users' Insights on Video Elements, Styles and Layouts

Video components are a central element of user interfaces that deliver content in a signed language (SL), but the potential of video components extends beyond content accessibility. SL videos may be designed as user interface elements: layered with interactive features to create navigation cues, page headings, and men…

CHI '25Game UX & Player Behavior +2

This Game SUX: Why & How to Design Sh@*!y User Experiences

While normative – "good" – game design and user experiences have been established, we look to games that challenge those notions. Intentional frustration and failure can be worthwhile. Through a reflexive thematic analysis of 31 games we identify how intentionally non-normative design choices lead to meaningful experi…

CHI '24Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) & Neurofeedback +2

Is Resistance Futile?: Early Career Game Developers, Generative AI, and Ethical Skepticism

This paper presents a study that examines developer perceptions and usage of generative AI (GAI) in a summer professional development program for game development interns focused on mobile game design. GAI applications are in common usage worldwide, yet the impacts of this technology in game development remain relativ…

CHI '23Visualization Perception & Cognition

How Can Deep Neural Networks Aid Visualization Perception Research?: Three Studies on Correlation Judgments in Scatterplots

How deep neural networks can aid visualization perception research is a wide-open question. This paper provides insights from three perspectives—prediction, generalization, and interpretation—via training and analyzing deep convolutional neural networks on human correlation judgments in scatterplots across three studi…

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