HCI Sessions

TitelDay, local timeSession Chairs
Session 01: UX, Usability, and ParticipationMonday, 11 am – 12:30 pmFiona Draxler
Session 02: AI, Robots, and HumansMonday, 2 pm – 3:30 pmAndrea Beretta
Session 03: AR and VR for Health and User NeedsTuesday, 11 am – 12:30 pmChristina Schneegass
Session 04: Interaction, Modalities, and SensingTuesday, 2 pm – 3:30 pmGiuseppe Sanseverino
Session 05: Mobility and Extended RealityTuesday, 4 pm – 5:45 pmFlorian Michahelles
Session 06: Supporting CreativityWednesday, 9 am – 10:30 amFlorian Bemmann

Session 01: UX, Usability, and Participation

Day: Monday, 01.09.2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Room: 2/N115
Session Chair: Fiona Draxler

LAURA: A Framework for Assessing the Usability of IT Security Policies Based on Learnability, Actionability, Understandability, Relevance, and Abstraction
Mario Hoffmann, Francesca Müller, Arthur Fleig
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743052

A Systematic and Validated Translation of the Perceived Empathy of Technology Scale from English to German
Matthias Schmidmaier, Lukas Schöberl, Jonathan Rupp, Sven Mayer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743082

Towards Adaptive Difficulty and Personalized Player Experience: A Data-Driven Approach Combining Game Analytics, Sensor Data, and Personality Traits
Thinh Duc Tran, Manuel Heinzig, Holger Langner, Marc Ritter
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743070

Anchoring Human-Centeredness in Organizations: A Study on the Current State of UX Vision and UX Strategy
Björn Rohles, Julia Messerschmidt
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743058

Pop-Up Participatory Exhibitions: Combining Ideation, User Research, and Outreach in an Interactive Format
Sarah Thanner, Marie Sautmann, Vitus Maierhöfer, Raphael Wimmer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743067

The Impostor is Among Us: Can Large Language Models Capture the Complexity of Human Personas?
Christopher Lazik, Christopher Katins, Charlotte Kauter, Jonas Jakob, Caroline Jay, Lars Grunske, Thomas Kosch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743057

Session 02: AI, Robots, and Humans

Day: Monday, 01.09.2025
Time: 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm
Room: 2/N115
Session Chair: Max Pascher

Social Robots as Providers of Social Support?
Erik Barsuhn, Bernd-Friedrich Voigt
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743078

Influence of Perceived Danger on Proxemics in Human-Robot Object Handovers
Carl Oechsner, Jan Leusmann, Robin Welsch, Andreas Martin Butz, Sven Mayer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743064

Explained or Certified? Examining the Influence of XAI and AI-Seals on Users’ Trust and Understanding
Natalia Szymczyk, Jessica M. Szczuka, Nicole Krämer, Magdalena Wischnewski
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743072

Bridging Explainability and Interactivity to foster Trust and increase Interpretability in AI-systems
Marco Fries, Louisa Maria Sauter, Julia Nießner, Markus Keyser, Thomas Ludwig
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743053

AI to the Rescue: Supporting Manual Annotation for Dataset Creation
Carina Liebers, Metehan Ertas, Niklas Pfützenreuter, Jonas Auda, Uwe Gruenefeld, Stefan Schneegass
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743086

Session 03: AR and VR for Health and User Needs

Day: Tuesday, 02.09.2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Room: 2/N115
Session Chair: Christina Schneegass

Public Perceptions on Psychological and Social Impacts of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Christopher Katins, Katja Chen, Christopher Lazik, Pascal Knierim, Karola Marky, Thomas Kosch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743079

IVAs’ Future in Therapy: Investigating the Impact of Intelligent Virtual Agents in VR on Psychological Self-Help Exercises and User Satisfaction
Sebastian Rings, Lucie Kruse, Catharina Rudschies, Lara Rolvien, Gesche Schauenburg, Jürgen Gallinat, Ingrid Schneider, Frank Steinicke
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743079

The Stability of Plausibility and Presence in Claustrophobic Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
Joanna Grause, Larissa Brübach, Franziska Westermeier, Carolin Wienrich, Marc Erich Latoschik
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743068

Understanding the Impact of Glaucoma Severities Through Virtual Reality Simulations
Jesse W Grootjen, Sairam Narsimha Reddy Yadla, Sven Mayer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743084

Combining Mixed Reality and 2D Displays for 3D Design: An Exploratory Study to Enhance User Needs
Adrian Schröder, Eike Langbehn
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743066

A Systematic Review of the Impact of a Standardized Embodiment Questionnaire on Virtual Reality Research
Philipp Samuel Fabritius, Jan-Philipp Stein, Lewis L Chuang
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743077

Session 04: Interaction Modalities and Sensing

Day: Tuesday, 02.09.2025
Time: 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm
Room: 2/N115
Session Chair: Giuseppe Sanseverino

MovPad: Feeling Holes and Bumps using a Moving Touchpad
Marco Kurzweg, Jan Willms, Adrien Chaffangeon Caillet, Katrin Wolf
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743071

MindSpace: Improving Relaxation Break and Performance Using a Device Exterting Tactile Sensation of Life-like Breathing Movement with Squeeze-like Deep Touch Pressure on Users’ Upper Chest Area
Misaki Kikuchi, Kanyu Chen, Rebecca Panskus, Dunya Chen, Keiko Okawa, Kai Kunze
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743054

Exploring Foot-Operated Input for Desktop Applications
Nicole Schönwerth, Andreas Schmid, Raphael Wimmer, Niels Henze
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743069

Let the Door Handle It: Exploring Biometric User Recognition Embedded in Doors
Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Lukas Mecke, Ismael Prieto Romero, Melina Bregenzer, Florian Alt
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743075

Can’t (Midas) touch this: An Evaluation of clutching methods for Opportunistic Tangible Interfaces on Interactive Tabletops
Maximilian Thomas Kilger, Elisabeth Philipp, Vitus Maierhöfer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743055

Designing Safer Touch Displays: Digitally Distributing Physical Touch on a Public Display [remote]
Lou Elah Süsslin, Ville Mäkelä, Florian Alt, Linda Hirsch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743083

Session 05: Mobility and Extended Reality

Day: Tuesday, 02.09.2025
Time: 04:00 pm – 05:45 pm
Room: 2/N115
Session Chair: Florian Michahelles

Route2Vec: Enabling Efficient Use of Driving Context through Contextualized Route Representations
Philipp Hallgarten, Thomas Kosch, Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Enkelejda Kasneci
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743056

Diversity and Anticipated Acceptance of Automated Driving: The Impact of the Living Environment and Gender – Establishing Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the QAAD
Klemens Weigl, Mira Scheuvens
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743074

Diverse Future Mobility: The Influence of Gender, Age, Ethics, Empathy, and Perceived Safety on the Anticipated Acceptance of Automated Driving
Alida Eschenlohr, Klemens Weigl
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743051

Driving Together: An Analysis of Passengers’ Needs and Desire for Cooperative Control in Automated Vehicles
Jakob Peintner, Bhavana Malve, Shadan Sadeghian, Andreas Riener
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743061

EMG-based Confirmation of Gaze Selection in Extended Reality
Judith Hartfill, Michael Arz, Frank Steinicke
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743062

Wrist-Powered Touch: Evaluating Smartwatch-Based Touch Gesture Recognition for Interaction in Extended Reality
Pascal Knierim, Jacob Höck, Thomas Kosch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743090

The Effect of Interaction Language on Preferences for Communication Repair Strategies in Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs): A Comparative Study [remote]
Essam Alghamdi, Martin Halvey, Emma Nicol
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743050

Session 06: Supporting Creativity

Day: Wednesday, 03.09.2025
Time: 09:00 am – 10:30 am
Room: 2/N115
Session Chair: Florian Bemmann

Groups and AI: How Access to Generative AI Influences Creative Teamwork
Paul Miles Preuschoff, Raghad Zaghal, Oliver Nowak, Jan Borchers
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743073

Towards Creative VR Workspaces: Investigating Effects of Room Size and Object Presence on Creativity
Johannes Klein, Alexander Kalus, Elisa Valletta, Katrin Wolf, Niels Henze
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743059

Framing, Fixation, Filtering: A Literature Review on Metaphors for Creativity in HCI
Veronika Weiß, Bernhard Preim
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743080

Human-AI Interaction Patterns in Creative Domains and Their Time-Based Visualization
Rebecca Leger, Daniel Buschek
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743081

Beyond “Just” Text: Can an AI-Generated Graphic Novel Enhance the Reading Experience of Non-Native English Readers?
Alice Vitali, Isaac Alpizar-Chacon, Christina Schneegass, Tilman Dingler, Ioanna Lykourentzou
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743076

“What do they think about my idea?”- Co-Designing an E-Participation Tool for Participatory Urban Planning in Germany [remote]
Sonja Mei Wang, Jonathan Seim, Nicola Fricke
https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3743065