Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group

Leveraging social media algorithms to improve eating disorder screening.

Scott Griffiths, Roisin McNaney

Book Chapter  |  2027

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

Open access

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

Asymmetric encounters with AI: Professional designers’ perceptions and integration of AI tools

S Wadinambiarachchi, J Waycott, G Wadley

Journal article  |  2026  |  International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Open access

Emerging generative AI (GenAI) tools, which are known to encompass cultural biases, are anticipated to significantly impact creati..

(Un)Becoming the Museum Visitor: the Value of Playing an (un)Serious Game in a Museum

Nellie Seale, Wally Smith, Melissa Rogerson

Journal article  |  2026  |  Games: Research and Practice

Open access

This article describes and evaluates the use of a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) in a museum, and its impact on the visitor exp..

Auditing TikTok’s recommendations: Understanding the prevalence of misinformation on the platform

Suwani Gunasekara, Saumya Pareek, Ryan M Kelly, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves

Journal article  |  2026  |  International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Grand challenges for distributed mixed reality collaboration: a research agenda

Jens Emil Grønbæk, Adélaïde Genay, Andrew Irlitti, Brandon Victor Syiem, Jarrod Knibbe, Emily Wong, Tiare Feuchtner, Tinghui Li, Zhongyi Bai, Eduardo Velloso

Journal article  |  2026  |  Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction

Open access

In this paper, the authors unpack one of the key promises of mixed reality (MR) – enabling distributed users to collaborate as if ..

Deploying PainPad for Patient Pain Logging in the Hospital: A 6-Year Deployment

D Gooch, L Price, RM Kelly, R Serban, C Aydemir, O Alhalabi, T Leek, M Ramachandran, O Pearce, BA Price

Journal article  |  2026  |  ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction

Open access

Monitoring patients’ pain is essential in clinical contexts, particularly post-surgery. However, collecting pain data is time-cons..

Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps

B Nansen, L Bliss, H Sandberg

Journal article  |  2026  |  Childhood

Open access

Children’s FinTech apps are digital mobile platforms that incorporate features for managing children’s financial activities rangin..

New “Techniques du Corpse”

Tamara Kohn, Hannah Gould, Bjørn Nansen

Book Chapter  |  2026

Shaped by important shifts in the field and a global pandemic, this Handbook provides a fresh look at the anthropology of death. I..

Emotional Power and Communicating about Climate Change: Engaging Urban People with Bushfire

Madeleine Antonellos, Nicola J Bidwell, Sarah Webber

Conference Proceedings  |  2026  |  Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

Open access

Amidst escalating global concern about the intensification of bushfire (wildfire), we investigate how interactive, data-driven art..