Sustainable Innovation in Practice: Documenting the Processes, Methods and Perspectives of Low-Tech DesignersSustainability is becoming a key focus in HCI. The low-tech design approach, emerging outside traditional HCI frameworks, focuses on creating simpler artifacts, fostering user autonomy, and minimizing environmental impacts. Although it offers a tangible route toward sustainability for citizens and industry, low-tech d…2025RDRémi Duhamel et al.ESTIASustainable HCIEcological Design & Green ComputingDIS
Changing Perspective on Data in Designing for Active EnvironmentsSmart solutions provide increasing quality and availability of data. This brings new challenges for designers as it offers novel design opportunities and interlaces disciplines. At the same time, physical inactivity is a big societal challenge and dedicated urban planning and design can contribute to more active lifes…2024LRLoes van Renswouw et al.Technical University EindhovenGeospatial & Map VisualizationSmart Cities & Urban SensingSustainable HCIDIS
Manipulative Design and Older Adults: Co-Creating Magic Machines to Understand Experiences of Online ManipulationManipulative designs --- i.e., dark patterns --- have pervaded online interactions in most sectors from e-commerce to social media, banking, and healthcare. Understanding how individuals experience and cope with online manipulation is essential to support evolved design practices and regulatory measures. Yet studies o…2024LCLorena Sanchez Chamorro et al.University of LuxembourgDark Patterns RecognitionDIS
''My Mother Told Me These Things are Always Fake" - Understanding Teenagers' Experiences with Manipulative DesignsManipulative and deceptive design practices are ubiquitous, impacting technology users in various ways across several domains. Certain groups are likely more susceptible to these impacts but have not received sufficient attention yet. In this paper, we seek to characterize one such understudied group, describing teena…2024LCLorena Sanchez Chamorro et al.University of LuxembourgDark Patterns RecognitionOnline Identity & Self-PresentationDIS
Grand Challenges in SportsHCIThe field of Sports Human-Computer Interaction (SportsHCI) investigates interaction design to support a physically active human being. Despite growing interest and dissemination of SportsHCI literature over the past years, many publications still focus on solving specific problems in a given sport. We believe in the b…2024DEDon Samitha Elvitigala et al.Monash UniversityGame UX & Player BehaviorSerious & Functional GamesMental Health Apps & Online Support CommunitiesCHI
Optimizing the Use of the Sentence Completion Survey Technique in User Research: A Case Study on the Experience of E-ReadingSentence completion, originally a semi-projective psychological technique, has been used as an effective and lightweight user research method in user experience (UX) design. More information is yet still needed to understand how different sentence stems probe users’ insights, thereby providing recommendations for effe…2022CLCarine Lallemand et al.University of LuxembourgUser Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation)CHI
Exploring the Design Space of InterActive Urban Environments: Triggering Physical Activity through Embedded TechnologyPromoting healthy lifestyles is an essential endeavor for public health. The design of active urban environments can be an effective medium to nudge people into moving. With technology increasingly integrated into our daily lives, designers have access to more data than ever. In this pictorial, we explore the design s…2021LRLoes van Renswouw et al.Technical University EindhovenSmart Cities & Urban SensingSustainable HCIHuman-Nature Relationships (More-than-Human Design)DIS
Aesthetic of Friction for Exercising Motivation: a Prototyping JourneyDespite an intention to exercise, it remains a challenge for many people to establish a workout routine over a period of time. Amongst identified barriers and enablers to exercise, getting dressed for a workout is considered as one of the tipping points of actually going. Implementing the Aesthetic of Friction in this…2021AHAlynne de Haan et al.Technical University EindhovenGamification DesignFitness Tracking & Physical Activity MonitoringDIS
The Office Jungle: Exploring Unusual Ways of Working through Bodily ExperimentationsModern office environments foster sitting, a major public health risk, with physical inactivity being the fourth cause of death worldwide. This provocative pictorial presents the design explorations and bodily experimentations culminating in The Office Jungle, a critical and speculative redesign of the office environm…2021IDIda Damen et al.Technical University EindhovenKnowledge Worker Tools & WorkflowsParticipatory DesignDIS
Crafting On-Skin Interfaces: An Embodied Prototyping JourneyThis pictorial presents a design exploration of On-Skin Interfaces for recreational running. By integrating principles of interaction design, art and psychology, we explore the design of unconventional interfaces that facilitate the intuitive understanding of biofeedback and physiological-related information. We explo…2021JRJuan Restrepo-Villamizar et al.Technical University EindhovenHaptic WearablesOn-Skin Display & On-Skin InputDIS
Laina: Dynamic Data Physicalization for Slow Exercising FeedbackThe increased popularity of recreational sports, like running, led to the development of numerous technologies supporting people in their training. However, in their current form and interaction, these take a rather standardized approach focusing on quantified data tracking displayed through screens or audio. In this…2021DMDaphne Menheere et al.Technical University EindhovenShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic MaterialsData PhysicalizationDIS
Understanding Walking Meetings: Drivers and BarriersThere is increased interest in reducing sedentary behavior of office workers to combat the negative health effects of prolonged sitting. Walking meetings offer a promising solution to this problem as they facilitate a physically active way of working. To inform future development of technologies supporting these type…2020IDIda Damen et al.Technical University EindhovenNotification & Interruption ManagementWorkplace Wellbeing & Work StressCHI
Meeting Designers Where They Are: Using Industry Events as a Research Venue for HCI and Design Methods DevelopmentThere is much work in the CHI community about the 'industry-academia divide', and how to bridge it. One key crossover between HCI/UX scientists and practitioners is the development and use of tools and methods—boundary objects between academia and practice. Among other forms of collaboration, there is an underdevelope…2020DLDan Lockton et al.Carnegie Mellon UniversityParticipatory DesignPrototyping & User TestingCHI
Security – Visible, Yet Unseen? How Displaying Security Mechanisms Impacts User Experience and Perceived SecurityAn unsolved debate in the field of usable security concerns whether security mechanisms should be visible, or blackboxed away from the user for the sake of usability. However, tying this question to pragmatic usability factors only might be simplistic. This study aims at researching the impact of displaying security m…2019VDVerena Distler et al.University of LuxembourgAlgorithmic Transparency & AuditabilityPrivacy by Design & User ControlPrivacy Perception & Decision-MakingCHI
Acceptability and Acceptance of Autonomous Mobility on Demand: the Impact of an Immersive ExperienceAutonomous vehicles have the potential to fundamentally change existing transportation systems. Beyond legal concerns, these societal evolutions will critically depend on user acceptance. As an emerging mode of public transportation [7], Autonomous mobility on demand (AMoD) is of particular interest in this context. T…2018VDVerena Distler et al.University of LuxembourgAutomated Driving Interface & Takeover DesignMotion Sickness & Passenger ExperienceCHI