Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group

Thigh gaps and filtered snaps: a qualitative study exploring opportunities to mitigate social media harm through content moderation for people with eating disorders

P Shrestha, J Xie, P Delir Haghighi, ML Byrne, S Griffiths, R McNaney

Journal article  |  2026  |  Journal of Eating Disorders

Background: The ubiquity of social media has increased exposure to idealised beauty standards, often unrealistic and harmful. Repe..

A cascade framework for on-device uncertainty-aware event detection on microcontrollers

H Jia, YD Kwon, D Ma, N Pham, L Qendro, T Vu, C Mascolo

Journal article  |  2026  |  Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Pervasive sensing enables diverse wearable event detection (WED) applications, but deploying machine learning models on resource-c..

NarrativeSense: Predicting Affective States in University Students through Smartphone Sensing and Contextual Narratives

Tianyi Zhang, Yan Li, Yihao Ding, Hong Jia, Vassilis Kostakos, Simon D’Alfonso

Journal article  |  2026  |  ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

Mental health challenges are increasingly prevalent among university students, yet often go undetected due to reliance on traditio..

Gaze and Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction: A Scoping Review

Anam Ahmad Khan, Florian Weidner, Jungwoo Rhee, Yasmeen Abdrabou, Andrea Bianchi, Eduardo Velloso, Hans Gellersen, Joshua Newn

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Multimodal interaction has long promised to make interfaces more intuitive and effective by combining complementary inputs. Among ..

Better Assumptions, Stronger Conclusions: The Case for Ordinal Regression in HCI

Brandon Victor Syiem, Eduardo Velloso

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Despite the widespread use of ordinal measures in HCI, such as Likert-items, there is little consensus among HCI researchers on th..

MyTime: Co-Designing a Hybrid Digital Boardgame for Supporting Meaningful Family Life Storytelling

Fangxing Zhao, Wei Zhao, Jenny Waycott, Melissa J. Rogerson

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Autobiographical life storytelling is valuable for older adults to maintain narrative identity and strengthen social bonds. Howeve..

Mapping the Landscape of Affective Extended Reality: A Scoping Review of Biodata-Driven Systems for Understanding and Sharing Emotions

Zhidian Lin, Allison Jing, Ziyuan Qu, Fabio Zambetta, Ryan M. Kelly

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper introduces the notion of affective extended reality (XR) to characterise XR systems that use biodata to enable understa..

Enabling Partial Participation in Remote Meetings

Zhongyi Bai, Nadya Ee Png, Eduardo Velloso

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We propose and explore the concept of Partial Participation, facilitating remote collaborators to contribute to meetings in which ..

Do Entropic Measurements of the Diversity of AI-generated Images Match Human Judgement?

Kazjon Grace, Francisco J Ibarrola, Jody Watts, Shu Takahashi, Parth Bhargava, Eduardo Velloso

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper proposes that the ability to generate diverse outputs in response to a single prompt is necessary for text-to-image mod..

Restoration, Exploration and Transformation: How Youth Engage Character.AI for Fun, Feels and Finding themselves

Annabel Blake, Marcus Carter, Eduardo Velloso

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Young people are among the fastest adopters of generative AI, yet research emphasises adult-designed tools and experiments rather ..