HCI Deep Dives
oleh Kai Kunze
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Each episode works through one recent HCI paper in about fifteen minutes: what the authors built, how they evaluated it, and what the results do and don't support. Topics span wearable computing, haptics, augmented perception, and affective computing. The conversations are AI-generated from the papers themselves, and every episode links the original work and its DOI.
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- IEEE VR 2025 Blind VR: Comparing Vibrotactile and Skin-Stretch Haptic Feedback for Conveying Spatial Information to Blind VR Users · 14 mnt · Episode 83How can blind users navigate and understand virtual environments? This paper compares two haptic approaches for conveying where virtual objects are located: vibrotactile feedback…
- IEEE VR 2025 Tingling Aftereffects: Presenting Tingling Aftereffects Using Vibro-Thermal Feedback to Enhance Impact Sensation in Virtual Reality · 16 mnt · Episode 82When you hit a baseball hard, you don't just feel the moment of impact—there's a lingering tingle that follows. This paper explores how to recreate that aftereffect in VR to make…
- IEEE VR 2025 Cognitive Load: Cognitive Load Inference Using Physiological Markers in Virtual Reality · 13 mnt · Episode 81How hard is your brain working in VR? This paper presents a machine learning system that predicts cognitive load in real time using behavioral and physiological signals collected…
- IEEE VR 2025 Haptic Dance: Automatic Generation of Haptic Motion Effects Expressing Human Dance · 15 mnt · Episode 80Watching a dance performance engages your eyes and ears—but what if you could also feel the dancer's movements? This paper presents algorithms that automatically convert motion…
- MUC 2025 MindSpace: Improving Relaxation Break and Performance Using Deep Touch Pressure on Users’ Upper Chest Area · 15 mnt · Episode 79Taking a break at work should leave you refreshed—but often it doesn't. MindSpace is a pneumatically controlled haptic device worn on the upper chest that combines two calming…
- AHs 2025 texTENG: Fabricating Wearable Textile-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators · 12 mnt · Episode 70What if your clothes could power your wearable devices? texTENG introduces a maker-friendly framework for creating textile-based triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs)—fabrics that…
- TAFFC 2025 Micro-Expressions: Could Micro-Expressions Be Quantified? Electromyography Gives Affirmative Evidence · 14 mnt · Episode 66Micro-expressions are fleeting facial movements lasting just 40-200 milliseconds that are believed to reveal concealed emotions. But can these subtle expressions actually be…
- TAFFC 2025 Music Emotion: Are We There Yet? A Brief Survey of Music Emotion Prediction Datasets, Models and Outstanding Challenges · 12 mnt · Episode 64Music has long been known to evoke powerful emotions, but can machines truly understand and predict these emotional responses? This survey paper takes stock of the field of music…
- UIST 2025 Imaginary Joint: Proprioceptive Feedback for Virtual Body Extensions via Skin Stretch · 14 mnt · Episode 62Virtual body extensions like wings or tails offer exciting new experiences in VR, but using them naturally—especially parts you can't see, like a tail—requires proprioceptive…
- UIST 2025 eTactileKit: An Open-Source Toolkit for Electro-Tactile Haptic Design · 13 mnt · Episode 60Electro-tactile interfaces—which deliver tactile sensations through electrical stimulation of skin nerves—offer unique advantages like fast response times, thin flexible form…
- VRST 2025 Self-Confrontation in VR: How Seeing Yourself Shapes Motor Skill Reflection · 14 mnt · Episode 58What happens when you watch yourself perform in VR—and then have to critique that performance? This study explored self-reflection in motor skill learning using a Karate training…
- AHs 2025 Pseudo-Heartbeat Feedback for Meditation Support · 12 mnt · Episode 54Can fake heartbeat sounds trick your body into relaxing? This system generates pseudo-heartbeat audio at rates slightly slower than your actual heart rate to induce calm and…
- AHs 2025 Purrfect Pitch: Learning Musical Intervals through Audio-Haptic Feedback · 14 mnt · Episode 56Learning to identify musical pitch intervals usually requires tedious rote practice. Purrfect Pitch offers a new approach: a wearable haptic vest that translates sound into…
- AHs 2025 GazeLLM: Multimodal LLMs incorporating Human Visual Attention · 12 mnt · Episode 52Processing high-resolution video with AI requires massive computational resources. GazeLLM offers an elegant solution inspired by human vision: use eye-tracking to focus only on…
- AHS 2025 Cuddle-Fish: Flying Robots That Are Safe, Huggable Companions · 14 mntTraditional quadrotor drones pose safety concerns with their spinning blades. Cuddle-Fish takes a different approach: a helium-filled soft robot with bio-inspired flapping wings…
- UIST 2025 Kinethreads: Soft Full-Body Haptic Exosuit using Low-Cost Motor-Pulley Mechanisms · 15 mnt · Episode 48Our bodies experience a wide variety of kinesthetic forces as we go about our daily lives, including the weight of held objects, contact with surfaces, gravitational loads, and…
- CHI 2025 A Placebo Concert: The Placebo Effect for Visualization of Physiological Audience Data during Experience Recreation in Virtual Reality · 12 mnt · Episode 47Xiaru Meng, Yulan Ju, Christopher Changmok Kim, Yan He, Giulia Barbareschi, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze, and Matthias Hoppe. 2025. A Placebo Concert: The Placebo Effect for…
- CHI2025 Heartbeat Resonance: Inducing Non-contact Heartbeat Sensations in the Chest · 13 mnt · Episode 46Perceiving and altering the sensation of internal physiological states, such as heartbeats, is key for biofeedback and interoception. Yet, wearable devices used for this purpose…
- CHI 2025 Living Bento: Heartbeat-Driven Noodles for Enriched Dining Dynamics · 16 mnt · Episode 45To enhance focused eating and dining socialization, previous Human-Food Interaction research has indicated that external devices can support these dining objectives and…
- CHI 2025 NeuResonance: Exploring Feedback Experiences for Fostering the Inter-brain Synchronization · 18 mnt · Episode 44When several individuals collaborate on a shared task, their brain activities often synchronize. This phenomenon, known as Inter-brain Synchronization (IBS), is notable for…
