HCI Sessions

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TitelDay, local timeSession Chairs
Session 01: Healthcare and EducationMonday, 11 am – 12:30 pmTBA
Session 02: Usable Security & PrivacyMonday, 2 pm – 3:30 pmTBA
Session 03: Human-AI Trust & AgencyTuesday, 11 am – 12:30 pmTBA
Session 04: Embodied Interaction, Movement & WellbeingTuesday, 2 pm – 3:30 pmTBA
Session 05: Human‑Robot InteractionTuesday, 4 pm – 5:45 pmTBA
Session 06: Supporting CreativityWednesday, 9 am – 10 amTBA

Session 01: Healthcare and Education

Day: Monday, 31.08.2026
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Room: LX1203
Session Chair: TBA

Accessibility Engineering for Medical Apps – A Multiple-Case Study Using the Example of the German Market
Katharina Hasenlust, Maja Rother, Rainer Malaka, Anke V Reinschluessel
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820272

A Real-World Data Collection for Emotion Recognition Using Smartwatches and Lessons Learned
Elias Müller, Kirsten Greiner, Ivo Benke, Alexander Maedche
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820282

CollARborate or Compete? Investigating User Experience and Motivation through Social Context and System Modalities of a Serious Math Game
Nick Wittig, Jonas Keppel, Patrick Buczak, Stefan Schneegass
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820257

Einfluss von Vertrauen und Bedürfnisbefriedigung in der Interaktion junger Erwachsener mit KI-Chatbots bei psychischer Belastung
Stefanie Osetrow, Holger Klapperich, Alina Huldtgren
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820256

Exploring Self‑Tracking Practices of Older Adults with CVD to Design LLM‑Enabled Health Data Sensemaking
Duosi Dai, Pavithren V S Pakianathan, Gunnar Treff, Mahdi Sareban, Josef Niebauer, Jan Smeddinck, Sanna Kuoppamäki
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.382028

Towards Data-Enabled Dialogue: Designing for the Use of Patient-Generated Health Data in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Pavithren V S Pakianathan, Hannah McGowan, Rania Islambouli, Jan Smeddinck
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820267

Session 02: Usable Security & Privacy

Day: Monday, 31.08.2026
Time: 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm
Room: LX1203
Session Chair: TBA

“How do Security Threats Affect My Work?” – Software Developers’ Mental Models of IT Security Threats and Mitigation Strategies
Asli Yardim, Anna-Marie Ortloff, Anne Mertens, Carina Wiesen, Alena Naiakshina
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820268

Interactive IT Security Training: Comparing an Attacker-Centric IT Security 2D RPG and Text Policy Training
Sangavi Shanthakumar, Markus Schöps, Tarini Saka, Jens Christian Opdenbusch, Angela Sasse, Marco Gutfleisch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820255

Facilitating Informed Privacy Decisions in Smart Homes: Design Principles for Contextualized Data Permission Justifications
Björn Konopka, Manuel Wiesche
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820259

From Self-Help to Institutional Activation: Bridging the Advice Gap in Cybersecurity Help-Seeking
Jenny Hindrichs, Gunnar Stevens, Sebastian Weiler
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820258

“Let Me Take That Back”: Designing and Testing Unlearning Interfaces for Human-AI Interaction
Justin Szczepaniak, Verena Zimmermann, Karola Marky
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820277

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Session 03: Human-AI Trust & Agency

Day: Tuesday, 01.09.2026
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Room: LX1203
Session Chair: TBA

AI for Science Communication: Evaluating the Visual and Linguistic Representation of Intelligent Virtual Agents on Credibility and Persuasiveness
Sophia Prehn, Linda Graf, Maic Masuch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820254

Personality as Relational Infrastructuring: User Perceptions of Personality-Trait-Infused LLM Messaging
Dominik P. Hofer, David Haag, Rania Islambouli, Jan David Smeddinck
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820280

Effects of Interaction Modality on LLM-Based Information-Seeking
Julia Lansche, Fiona Draxler
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820261

AI FoMO in SME AI Adoption Decisions: A Mixed-Method Approach
Louisa Maria Sauter, Marco Fries
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.382026

Analogies and Metaphors for Agentic AI: How Industry Practitioners Explain Emerging AI Systems
Felix Stundzig, Vincent Heimburg, Manuel Wiesche
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820283

Who Controls the Conversation? User Perspectives On Generative AI (LLM) System Prompts
Anna Neumann, Yulu Pi, Jatinder Singh
https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791726

Session 04: Embodied Interaction, Movement & Wellbeing

Day: Tuesday, 01.09.2026
Time: 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm
Room: LX1203
Session Chair: TBA

From Sensors to Insights: Measurement Quality Considerations for Sensor Studies in Everyday Contexts
Fiona Draxler, Laura Young, Yannik Peters, Frauke Kreuter, Florian Keusch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820284

Design and Evaluation of a Research Toolkit for Real-Time Data Visualization in Group Cycling Classes
Jonas Keppel, Roman Heger, Robert Eustergerling, Marius Knubel, Erik Karger, Donald Degraen, Andrii Matviienko, Stefan Schneegass
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820265

Standtroller: The Autonomous Standing Desk Controller
Luke Haliburton, Teodora Mitrevska, Johannes Kleine, Sven Mayer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820274

Redirected Teleportation: Perception Thresholds for Teleport Locomotion
Thereza Schmelter, Jonas Redepenning, Marc Aurel Störmer, Arnold Schwarz, Kristian Hildebrand
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820260

I Felt Like I Need to Fit in Someone Else’s Body – Understanding Body-Centered UX Design for Online Fashion Shopping
Margarita Osipova, Urszula Kulon, Adithi Mahesh, Olesia Kirillova, Marion Koelle, Eva Hornecker
https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791225

StrikeGuide: Modulating Foot Strikes During Running Using Ambient Auditory Feedback (video)
Bettina Eska, Jonas Körber, Dairen Emmanuel Emmanuel Gonschior, Paweł W. Woźniak, Thomas Kosch
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820264

Session 05: Human‑Robot Interaction

Day: Tuesday, 01.09.2026
Time: 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Room: LX1203
Session Chair: TBA

The Impact of a Third-Party on Trust of a Human-Robot Dyad
Yannic Nicolai Söhngen, Amelie Sepp, Michael Prilla
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820278

A Humanoid Robot Morphology Does Not Always Lead to a Higher Perception of Anthropomorphism and Trust
Yannic Nicolai Söhngen, Enrico Guerra, Michael Prilla
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820279

Emotional Beeps and Blinks: Exploring Emotional Expressiveness in Non-Anthropomorphic Robots Through Sound Design and Color
Ayden Janssen, Rachel Ringe, Lisa Hesselbarth, Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820262

Who Owns the Robot Matters: How Robot Ownership Shapes Belonging and Social Roles in Human Groups
Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange, Marc Hassenzahl
https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3812876

Watched, Judged, Ashamed? How Bystander Reactions Shape Stress, Shame, and Evaluation of a Social Robot in a Public Space (video)
Julia Maria Barenbrock, Kyra Mory, Andre Helgert, Lukas Erle, Ramón-Darius Imort, Gian Luca Dossena, Sabrina Cornelia Eimler
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820270

Session 06: Prototyping & AI‑Assisted Design

Day: Wednesday, 02.09.2026
Time: 09:00 am – 10:00 am
Room: LX1203
Session Chair: TBA

From Design to Code: Exploring LLM-Supported Workflows in Figma Dev Mode
Surbhi Rajpal, Andreas Riener
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820266

Comparing AI-Assisted Authoring by Demonstration to Manual Authoring of Augmented Reality Maintenance Instructions
Valentin Tang Knoben, Jonas Blattgerste, Björn Hein, Christian Wurll
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820275

3D Dreams Are Made of This – Comparing Sketching on XR and Tablet Devices as Input Modalities for 3D Model Generation
Niklas Pfützenreuter, Jonathan Liebers, Roman Heger, Henning Maly, Steven Tischer, Anh Duy Dao, David Goedicke, Stefan Schneegass
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820276

Investigating the Validity of Augmented Reality Simulations for Human-Robot Interaction through Trust
Enrico Guerra, Yannic Nicolai Söhngen, Michael Prilla
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820273

Augmented Reality as a Proxy for Human–Robot Interaction Research: Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures
Enrico Guerra, Esther Anna Semmelhack, Anne Schacht, Michael Prilla
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253

AIKitchen: A Rapid Prototyping Framework for Exploring Dynamic In-context Behavior of Smart Robotic Environments (video)
Carl Oechsner, Jan Leusmann, Xuedong Zhang, Thomas Weber, Andreas Martin Butz, Sven Mayer
https://doi.org/10.1145/3820253.3820269