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Alert Now or Never: Understanding and Predicting Notification Preferences of Smartphone Users
Notifications are an indispensable feature of mobile devices, but their delivery can interrupt and distract users. Prior work has examined interventions, such as deferring notification delivery to opportune moments, but has not systematically studied how ...
Enhancing Youth Self-Regulation Through Wearable Apps: Increasing Usage Through Participatory Design in Low Income Youth
Managing attention, progressing towards goals, and monitoring behaviors are elements of self-regulation (SR). SR applications based on contemplative practices such as breath counting have demonstrated gains in field studies but have failed to engage youth ...
Blockchain and Beyond: Understanding Blockchains Through Prototypes and Public Engagement
This article presents an annotated portfolio of projects that seek to understand and communicate the social and societal implications of blockchains, DLTs and smart contracts. These complex technologies rely on human and technical factors to deliver ...
Increasing User Trust in Optimisation through Feedback and Interaction
User trust plays a key role in determining whether autonomous computer applications are relied upon. It will play a key role in the acceptance of emerging AI applications such as optimisation. Two important factors known to affect trust are system ...
“Nah, it’s just annoying!” A Deep Dive into User Perceptions of Two-Factor Authentication
- Karola Marky,
- Kirill Ragozin,
- George Chernyshov,
- Andrii Matviienko,
- Martin Schmitz,
- Max Mühlhäuser,
- Chloe Eghtebas,
- Kai Kunze
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a recommended or imposed authentication mechanism for valuable online assets. However, 2FA mechanisms usually exhibit user experience issues that create user friction and even lead to poor acceptance, hampering the wider ...
Designerly Tele-Experiences: A New Approach to Remote Yet Still Situated Co-Design
- Ferran Altarriba Bertran,
- Alexandra Pometko,
- Muskan Gupta,
- Lauren Wilcox,
- Reeta Banerjee,
- Katherine Isbister
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted processes interaction designers took for granted, challenging some of our most commonplace design practices. Participatory and situated approaches have been impacted the most: where we engaged stakeholders in-person and in-...
Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings
Previous user experience research emphasizes meaning in interaction design beyond conventional interactive gestures. However, existing exemplars that successfully reify abstract meanings through interactions are usually case-specific, and it is currently ...
A Biocentric Perspective on HCI Design Research Involving Plants
HCI researchers increasingly involve plants in their interaction design research, such as using plants as novel interfaces or sensors. While research involving other living entities, namely humans and animals is regulated, there exists no guidance for ...
Two Years or More of Co-speculation: Polylogues of Philosophers, Designers, and a Tilting Bowl
This article investigates new relations with things that are expansive and inclusive of the pluralities and differences within our entanglements with technologies. We do this by extending our commitments to the methodological approaches of material ...
Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology
Technology “demos” have become a staple in technology design practice, especially for showcasing prototypes or systems. However, demonstrations are also commonplace and multifaceted phenomena in everyday life, and thus have found their way into empirical ...
A Scenario-Based Study of Doctors and Patients on Video Conferencing Appointments from Home
Telemedicine systems that involve the use of video conferencing technologies have been available for more than three decades. Yet, they have primarily been used for specialist appointments or within health care facilities. We are now seeing a shift with ...
Evaluating Engagement in Technology-Supported Social Interaction by People Living with Dementia in Residential Care
Technologies can support the well-being of people living with dementia in residential care by fostering meaningful interactions through multimodal and playful features. This article presents the evaluation of A Better Visit, an app that aims at engaging ...