International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Art therapy has been an essential form of psychotherapy to facilitate psychological well-being, which has been promoted and transformed by recent technological advances into digital art therapy. However, the potential of digital technologies has ...

• A longitudinal iterative design process with five professional art therapists.
• A novel AI-infused digital art-making system DeepThInk.
• Results of an evaluation that assists the understanding of AI as a material in art therapy.

• We reviewed 46 articles that investigate the antecedents of UGV viewership.
• We identified 145 antecedents covering two categories of people and video/platform.
• We discovered that most significant determinants belong to human ...

The business ecosystem surrounding user-generated videos (UGVs) is rapidly expanding. However, existing literature on the motivations for UGV consumption presents inconsistencies in findings. This study aims to apply a meta-analytic approach to ...

• Human-likeness is about intrinsic rather than extrinsic qualities of a humanoid robot.
• Human-likeness is not higher for human-looking robots compared to non-human looking robots.
• Human and non-human looking robots are not ...

Design of Artificial Intelligence and robotics habitually assumes that adding more humanlike features improves the user experience, mainly kept in check by suspicion of uncanny effects. Three strands of theorizing are brought together for the ...

• In virtual reality, visitor experience is affected by representational fidelity.
• Reality-based environments show high representational fidelity.
• Virtuality-based environments do not reflect the physical world.
• The reality-based ...

The growing interest in the metaverse has led to a corresponding increase in attention towards virtual reality (VR) exhibitions. Furthermore, with the potential and possibility of a virtual environment without physical and economic constraints, ...

• Stakeholder input is critical when developing technology for unique population groups.
• We held six focus groups with parkinson's disease patients and their family members.
• The most frequently raised pain point was motor-related ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of people worldwide, and its incidence is expected to rise due to the aging of the global population. Individuals with PD present with adverse motor and non-motor ...

• Reviews studies on people-plant engagement in interaction design.
• Offers a qualitative meta-analysis of design research critiquing plants in HCI.
• Discusses ethical/societal implications of using plants with technological devices.

Plants and specifically indoor pot plants have featured as a prominent object in human-computer interaction (HCI) studies for more than two decades. Motivated by recent discourse in posthumanist and entanglement HCI, this paper seeks to ...

• VR cinemas are computer-generated immersive environments for avatar-based viewers.
• They evoke experiences similar to movie theaters: a sense of community or presence.
• VR cinemas can be alternatives to physical ones in enjoyment and ...

Virtual reality cinemas offer computer-generated screening environments that resemble physical-world movie theaters for avatar-based viewers. Reflecting on virtual spectatorship in the context of social isolation, the present study investigates ...

Informing people of health threats is crucial as they may lack situation awareness (SA) of risky situations when they do not have personal experiences or lessons learned from dangerous encounters. In this work, we explored the potential of using ...

• This paper conducts a design study with users to explore the design considerations of creating the immersive experience of a data story in VR.
• This paper designs an interactive VR data story prototype that aims to raise people’s ...

Prosocial behaviours are actions that have a positive impact on others. Those who act prosocially in videogames are more likely to be prosocial after the game. In-game rewards may impact this prosocial transfer to real life but there are mixed ...

• We partially replicated and extended prior novel work, addressing potential confounds
• We explored relationships between game rewards, prosocial behaviour, and reasoning
• We created a prosocial videogame and made the source code ...

• This study proposes a guideline to create a predictive persona by using data-mining predictive algorithms.
• The proposed method aims to improve the accuracy and credibility of personas.
• We discuss the strengths, weaknesses, and ...

A persona is a widely used tool in the design field to help understand users’ needs, experiences, behaviors, and goals. Quantitatively creating personas is gaining importance for its greater representability, objectivity, and fast creative speed. ...

• Designers encode their biases into artifacts. Beauty apps have been found to embed a "programmed masculinity" that is binary, stereotypical, and immutable, leading to a "gender panopticon" that monitors and disciplines men's gender ...

AI-powered face-editing technologies, such as face filters and beauty apps, are widely used for appearance enhancement. However, such tools often perpetuate rigid beauty standards, thereby risking the reinforcement of harmful gender norms. While ...

• A vignette-based survey was designed and conducted among 289 users.
• The GAMEFULQUEST (gameful experience questionnaire) scale was used to measure seven dimensions of gameful experience.
• The measurements of wearable features were ...

With the parallel advancement and evolution of psycho-physiological sensors, haptics, and overall wearable computing, wearable devices have become a mainstay in everyday life. While gaming is one of the most intuitively appealing areas for using ...

We investigate how gender-anonymous voice avatars influence women’s performance in online computing group work. Female participants worked with two male confederates. Voices were filtered according to four voice gender anonymity conditions: (1) ...

• We developed voice avatar creation software that masks gender.
• Voice anonymity in our experiment (N=1362) influenced stereotype threat effects.
• The more voice masking, the better the performance enhancement for women.
• Gender-...

• The implementation of machine learning (ML) solutions is an innovation process.
• Various tactics were employed to innovate in the studied implementation project.
• The boundary between development and real-world use is blurred in ML ...

Artificial intelligence techniques, including machine learning (ML), have shown remarkable test results over the past decade but struggled with the transfer to practical application. The present study applies action research to investigate this ...

• Human-centered approach elicited stakeholder-tailored XAI explanation needs.
• Clinicians and patients have distinct explanation needs.
• Tailoring interfaces were designed based on needs and theoretical frameworks.

Explainable AI (XAI) is increasingly being used in the healthcare domain. In health management, clinicians and patients are critical stakeholders, requiring tailored XAI explanations based on their unique needs. Our study investigates the ...

• Augmentation-oriented VR designs lead to higher augmentation experience.
• Augmentation experience relates positively to key experiential factors, e.g., affect.
• Findings support augmenting users as a design strategy for VR.
• ...

Virtual reality (VR) offers the outstanding possibility to virtually extend human capabilities beyond reality (e.g., telekinesis). Previous work (Sadeghian and Hassenzahl, 2021) has proposed such augmentation as a core design principle of VR by ...

The curvature gain of the redirected walking (RDW) technique can map a straight virtual path to an arced real path, which enables users to real walk in large virtual space. However, the human perceptual abilities for curvature gain are mainly ...

• We perform several studies to explore the human cognition for curvature gain.
• Path curve direction can influence the human perception of curvature gain.
• Consistency of multi-path curve direction affects the sensitivity on postorder ...

In this study, we made predictions on the effects of different interventions by adaptive automation systems designed to prevent mind-wandering while driving. Although cognitive load associated with secondary tasks tends to affect driving ...

• Mind-wandering harms driving performance at the behavioral level
• Simple tasks may induce less cognitive load than mind-wandering itself
• Interventions to prevent mind-wandering incur a significant processing cost

Recently there has been a surge in demand for online video-based learning, and the importance of high-quality educational videos is ever-growing. However, a uniform format of videos that neglects individual differences and the labor-intensive ...

• An attention-based automatic lecture video editing pipeline for personalized videos
• Near-professional quality lecture videos with dramatically reduced editing time
• Effective in video characteristics, learning experiences, and eye-...