Program
OzCHI 2025 will take place over five days. The full conference program can be found below. Download program as a PDF
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29 November |
Sunday 30 November |
Monday 1 December |
Tuesday 2 December |
Wednesday 3 December |
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| Workshops | Main conference | |||
| Doctoral Consortium | ||||
| Saturday | ||||
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Morning 09:00 – 12:30 |
WS1 Crafting Connections: Building Wellbeing and
Community in the PhD journey Block H70, Room 3020 |
WS3 The Role of XR, Spatial, and Physical
Interaction in Remote Multimodal Communication: Emotional Well-Being in Older Adults Block H70, Room 1080 |
WS5 Robots in the wild: Methodological Exploration
of Robots in Everyday Environments Block H70, Room 1100 |
WS2 AI-Driven Co-Design in Health and
Care: Exploring Challenges, Opportunities and Innovations Block H70, Room 1160 |
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Afternoon 13:30 – 17:00 |
WS6 Moving Together with Robotics : A workshop on
Co-embodied Human-Robot Interaction to Inspire Movement Block H70, Room 1100 |
WS7 Engaging human and non-human perspectives in
crisis resilience: Designing AI-supported Immersive Technologies for Inclusive Decision-Making Block H70, Room 3020 |
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| Morning 09:00 – 12:30 |
DCDoctoral Consortium Block H70, Room 3020 |
WS9 Advancing Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Online Safety Research Block H70, Room 1160 |
WS10 Empathic Entanglements : Designing
with and for Robot Others Block H70, Room 1100 |
WS11 Epistemic Injustice in and through
AI Block H70, Room 1080 |
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| Afternoon
13:30 – 17:00 |
WS8 Framing and facilitating Participatory Design
for Greater Impact Block H70, Room 1140 |
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| Monday | ||
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Except where noted, all talks and presentations are being held in the Auditorium (Block H70, Room B2010).
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| Opening & Welcome | 09:00 – 09:15 | |
| Opening performance | 09:15 – 09:30 | |
| Keynote: Duncan Brumby | 09:30 – 10:30 | |
| Morning Tea | 10:30 – 11:00 | |
| Paper Session 1: AI Agents & Design Futures
Session Chair: Martin Tomitsch |
11:00 – 11:50 | |
| Co-creating vocal imaginaries with Conversational AIs: Pelin Karaturhan, Claire Glanois, Jonas Fritsch | 11:00 | |
| Imagining Design Workflows in Agentic AI Futures: Samangi Wadinambiarachchi, Jenny Waycott, Yvonne Rogers, Greg Wadley | 11:10 | |
| Voice, Embodiment, and the Relational Roles of AI Agents in Sci-Fi Films: Implications for Representing the More-than-Human: Adrian Wong, Xinyan Yu, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Joel Fredericks | 11:20 | |
| “A little bit of a life raft” – Exploring the Use and Experiences of ChatGPT as a Support Tool among Adults with ADHD: Anika Pinto, Emily Quilter, Jerusaa Vasikaran, Sarah Koerner, Tefkros Chimonas, Esther Nielsen, Paul Marshall, Kenton O'Hara | 11:30 | |
| Q&A | 11:40 | |
| Paper Session 2: Conversational Agents & Recommender Systems
Session Chair: Marta Rey-Babarro |
11:50 – 12:30 | |
| Understanding User Preferences for Interaction Styles in Conversational Recommender System: The Predictive Role of System Qualities, User Experience, and Traits: Raj Mahmud, Shlomo Berkovsky, Mukesh Prasad, A. Baki Kocaballi | 11:50 | |
| Evaluating User Experience in Conversational Recommender Systems: A Systematic Review Across Classical and LLM-Powered Approaches: Raj Mahmud, Yufeng Wu, Abdullah Bin Sawad, Shlomo Berkovsky, Mukesh Prasad, A. Baki Kocaballi | 12:00 | |
| Conversational Agents That Don’t Pretend to Care: Co-Designing Mediator Roles in Digital Healthcare Interventions: Mengyan Hou, Janine Porter-Steele, Sarah Balaam, Vivian Chiu, Sandie McCarthy, Chelsea Dobbins, Stephen Viller | 12:10 | |
| Q&A | 12:20 | |
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | |
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LBW Showcase
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13:30 – 14:20 1 minute each |
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| Paper Session 3: Perception & Interfaces
Session Chair: Phillip Gough |
14:30 | LBW/Demo 14:30 – 16:00
Block H70, Room 3190
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| Designing Drone Interfaces to Assist Pedestrians Crossing Non-Signalised Roads: Guixiang Zhang, Yiyuan Wang, Marius Hoggenmüller | 14:30 | |
| Reducing Perceived Waiting Time with Peripheral Visual Motion: Directional and Device-Specific Effects: Kenjiro Ogawa, Satoshi Nakamura, Shota Yamanaka, Ryota Nakamura | 14:40 | |
| Hugging Suit: Designing and Evaluating a Pneumatic System for Remote Haptic Experiences: Russian Wu, Luke Hespanhol, Marius Hoggenmüller, Hannes Waldschütz, Eva Hornecker | 14:50 | |
| Seeing Isn’t Believing: How Visual Illusions Distort Color Selection: Sari Kobayashi, Satoshi Nakamura | 15:00 | |
| Q&A | 15:10 | |
| Afternoon Tea | 15:20 – 15:50 | |
| Paper Session 4: Privacy & Trust
Session Chair: Baki Kocaballi |
15:50 – 16:40 | |
| Unplug, Mute, Avoid: Investigating smart speaker users' privacy protection behaviours in Saudi Homes: Abdulrhman Alorini, Yufeng Wu, Abdullah Bin Sawad, Mukesh Prasad, A. Baki Kocaballi | 15:50 | |
| Factors of Trust for Successfully Adopting Social Robots on the Campus: Dániel Szabó, Aku Visuri, Ville Paananen, Achira Handelage, Kavindu Ravishan, Emma Kirjavainen, Koji Yatani, Simo Hosio | 16:00 | |
| Enhancing Privacy and Trust in Domestic Robots Through Real-Time Feedback and Intervention Interfaces: Jiayang Xu, Marius Hoggenmüller, Xinyan Yu | 16:10 | |
| "AI that’s so good it almost seems human:" Risk and Hype Cycles of AI and Chatbots in Mobile Mental Health Apps: Katherine di Bona, Kiran Ijaz, Naseem Ahmadpour | 16:20 | |
| Q&A | 16:30 | |
| CHISIG AGM | 16:40 – 17:40 | |
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Welcome event
Chau Chak Wing Museum
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18:00 – 20:00 | |
| Tuesday | ||
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| Paper Session 5: Aging and Inclusive Design
Session Chair: Diego Muñoz |
09:00 – 09:50 | |
| Designing Inclusive Digital Spaces for Older Adults: The Role of Facilitation, Trust, and Emotional Safety: Yasamin Asadi, Kellie Vella, Margot Brereton, Alessandro Soro, Bernd Ploderer, Rachael Leigh Cook | 09:00 | |
| Supporting Social Interaction: Insights for Technology Designs to Foster Community Participant in Mild Dementia: Dominic Afuro Egbe, Margot Brereton, Bernd Ploderer, Andrew A. Bayor | 09:10 | |
| Beyond Monitoring: Older Adults Using Wearable Activity Trackers for Active Health Management and Behaviour Change: Elsy Garcia, Wei Zhao, Ryan M. Kelly, George Buchanan, Jenny Waycott | 09:20 | |
| Bleed Between the Lines: Barriers and Approaches to Personalisation in Menstrual Tracking for Marginalised Users: Freya Sambain, Tara Capel, Bernd Ploderer | 09:30 | |
| Q&A | 09:40 | |
| Paper Session 6: Accessibility, Education & Wellbeing
Session Chair: Jessica Korte |
09:50 – 10:40 | |
| Toward Dialogue: Longitudinal Shifts in Computing Students’ Discourse Through Sustained Engagement with People with Diverse Support Needs: Julia Hermann, Aysegül Dogangün | 09:50 | |
| Kanak: Automating the Generation of Accessible STEM Materials for Blind and Low-vision Students: Hari Palani, Rudaiba Adnin, Shivangee Nagar | 10:00 | |
| Indonesian Wellbeing Technology Kits of International Students in Australia: Opportunities for Legowo-Informed Design: Agata Filiana, Tara Capel, Daniel Johnson, Bernd Ploderer |
10:10 | |
| Towards Accessibility 2:0 in Higher Education – Evaluating Orientation and Comprehension of Accessibility Requirements with Undergraduate HCI Students: Ann-Kathrin Kubullek, Luca Zimmer, Thi Tuyet Mi Ly, Aysegül Dogangün | 10:20 | |
| Q&A | 10:30 | |
| Morning Tea | 10:40 – 11:00 | LBW/Demo 10:40 – 12:00
Block H70, Room 3190
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| Paper Session 7: Future of Work & Healthcare
Session Chair: Kenton O'Hara |
11:00 – 11:50 | |
| Investigating the Role of a Gamified Educational Programs for Resilience in Healthcare Leadership: Nicole Chen, Angelina Nguyen, Karla Tran, Hannah Yuan, Nicole King, Sandra Warburton, Audrey P Wang, Soojeong Yoo | 11:00 | |
| Investigating the effects of neurofeedback on knowledge workers' perceptions of self-accomplishment, focus and task performance: Teodora Mitrevska, Charlotte Kobiella, Julia Feckl, Sophia Sakel, Andreas Martin Butz, Christina Schneegass | 11:10 | |
| Can We Prevent "Text Neck" Using Only a Smartphone? Real-Time Neck Angle Estimation and a Serious Game as a Case Study: Kento Watanabe, Satoshi Nakamura | 11:20 | |
| Get a Room: Natural Backchannel Communication in Hybrid Meetings: Frederik Hirschmann, Johannes Kepler, Thomas Neumayr, Gianluca Schiavo, Johannes Schönböck, Mirjam Augstein | 11:30 | |
| Q&A | 11:40 | |
| Paper Session 8: Immersive Environments and Applications
Session Chair: Joshua Newn |
11:50 - 12:40 | |
| Effects of Customisation of AI Shopping Assistant on VR Retail: Andrew Wong, Yinshu Zhao, Wenge Xu, Nilufar Baghaei | 11:50 | |
| Safe but Silent? The Gendered Impact of Personal Space Bubbles (PSBs) in the Metaverse: Wenjin Zhu, Callum Parker | 12:00 | |
| Age-Related Differences in Immersive Experience During a Balance Task with VR Illusions: Achintha M. Abayasiri, Taylor J. M. Dick, Antonio Padilha Lanari Bo, Nilufar Baghaei | 12:10 | |
| XRGait: Immersive Gait Training Visualization with Integrated Sensing: Faisal Zaman, Nadia Pantidi, Jacob Young, Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos, Tom Trengrove, James Drown, Jonathan Lee | 12:20 | |
| Q&A | 12:30 | |
| Lunch | 12:40 – 13:40 | |
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Provocations
Delvin Varghese - What is impact in HCI?
Florian Nachreiner - From User Needs to Master Algorithms: Redefining Design Practice in an AI-Driven Future
Amanda Pitcher and Sakib Jalil - The Death of Craft: What Design Thinking Got Wrong and What It's Costing Us
Glenda Caldwell - Beyond the Lab: Preparing HCI for Real-World Human-Robot Collaboration
Brandon Syiem - Are You Mistreating Your Ordinal Data?
Debate panel: Mary Lou Maher, Marcus Foth, Marcus Carter, Jeni Paay
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13:40 – 15:40 | |
| Afternoon Tea | 15:40 – 16:00 | |
| Student Design Competition Presentations & Judging | 16:00 – 16:50 | |
| Dinner: The Loft, Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf | 18:00 – 21:00 | |
| Wednesday | ||
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Except where noted, all talks and presentations are being held in the Auditorium (Block H70, Room B2010).
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| Paper Session 9: Games and Play
Session Chair: Stephen Viller |
09:30 – 10:20 | |
| On the Impact of Augmented Reality Game Mechanics on the Player Experience in Remote Multiplayer Gameplay: Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe, Heide Lukosch, James Everett, Stephan Lukosch | 09:30 | |
| Evaluating Time in Play and Temporal Satisfaction: Time-Centric Language in Video Game User Reviews on Steam: Thomas Byers, Martin Gibbs, Bjørn Nansen | 09:40 | |
| Designing for Children’s Nature Play and Place Attachment: An Observational Study in Early Childhood Education Centre: Chimi Om, Kellie Vella, Tshering Dema, Bernd Ploderer, Yanxia Li, Karen Murcia, Margot Brereton | 09:50 | |
| Systems Intelligence Design Opportunities for Esports Teams: Satu Jumisko Pyykko, Eveliina Toivonen, Hermanni Salomaa, Perttu Leppä, Heidi Kerkola, Harri Rintala | 10:00 | |
| Q&A | 10:10 | |
| Morning Tea | 10:20 – 10:40 | |
| Paper Session 10: Systems, Methods & Tools
Session Chair: Sarah Diefenbach |
10:40 – 11:30 | |
| Ethics Pondscape: A pedagogical tool for building ethics reflexivity in students: Ajit G. Pillai, Yidan Cao, Xuefei Li, Phillip Gough, Naseem Ahmadpour | 10:40 | |
| The Cassandra Method: Using Dystopian Visions to Inform Responsible HCI Design and Evaluation: Daniel Ullrich, Eva Bischoff, Sarah Diefenbach | 10:50 | |
| Co-designing Smart Cities: a Case Study in the New Zealand Context:
Jessica Turner, Ben E Jones, Aluna Everitt, Jemma L König |
11:00 | |
| Making Cents of CBDC: Perceptions, Drivers, and Barriers to CBDC Adoption in New Zealand: Jennifer Ferreira, Connor Chartier, Michaela Cluett, Sukriti Kushwaha, Humza Qureshi | 11:10 | |
| Q&A | 11:20 | |
| Closing Keynote: Elizabeth Churchill | 11:30 – 12:30 | |
| Closing Ceremony | 12:30 – 13:00 | |
| Afternoon Tea | 13:00 – 14:00 | |