Strategies for Fostering a Genuine Feeling of Connection in Technologically Mediated Systems

ER Stepanova, J Desnoyers-Stewart, K Höök… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Human connection is essential for our personal well-being and a building block for a well-
functioning society. There is a prominent interest in the potential of technology for mediating …

Partially blended realities: Aligning dissimilar spaces for distributed mixed reality meetings

JES Grønbæk, K Pfeuffer, E Velloso, M Astrup… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mixed Reality allows for distributed meetings where people's local physical spaces are
virtually aligned into blended interaction spaces. In many cases, people's physical rooms …

Promoting reality awareness in virtual reality through proxemics

D Medeiros, R Dos Anjos, N Pantidi… - 2021 IEEE Virtual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Head-Mounted Virtual reality (VR) systems provide full-immersive experiences to users and
completely isolate them from the outside world, placing them in unsafe situations. Existing …

FluidMeet: Enabling Frictionless Transitions Between In-Group, Between-Group, and Private Conversations During Virtual Breakout Meetings

E Hu, MAR Azim, S Heo - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
People often form small conversation groups during physical gatherings to have ad-hoc and
informal conversations. As these groups are loosely defined, others can often overhear and …

Openmic: Utilizing proxemic metaphors for conversational floor transitions in multiparty video meetings

E Hu, JES Grønbæk, A Houck, S Heo - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Turn-taking is one of the biggest interactivity challenges in multiparty remote meetings. One
contributing factor is that current videoconferencing tools lack support for proxemic cues; ie …

ExposAR: Bringing augmented reality to the computational thinking agenda through a collaborative authoring tool

MS Lunding, JES Grønbæk, KEK Bilstrup… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
There is a growing focus on computational thinking (CT) in terms of supporting children's
understanding of everyday technologies. But unlike other technologies, Augmented Reality …

Sounds Good? Fast and Secure Contact Exchange in Groups

F Putz, S Haesler, M Hollick - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Trustworthy digital communication requires the secure exchange of contact information, but
current approaches lack usability and scalability for larger groups of users. We evaluate the …

ThingShare: Ad-Hoc Digital Copies of Physical Objects for Sharing Things in Video Meetings

E Hu, JES Grønbæk, W Ying, R Du, S Heo - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In video meetings, individuals may wish to share various physical objects with remote
participants, such as physical documents, design prototypes, and personal belongings …

When friends become strangers: Understanding the influence of avatar gender on interpersonal distance in virtual reality

R Rivu, Y Zhou, R Welsch, V Mäkelä, F Alt - IFIP conference on human …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we investigate how mismatches between biological gender and avatar gender
affect interpersonal distance (IPD) in virtual reality (VR). An increasing number of VR …

KirigamiTable: Designing for proxemic transitions with a shape-changing tabletop

JE Grønbæk, MK Rasmussen, K Halskov… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A core challenge in tabletop research is to support transitions between individual activities
and team work. Shape-changing tabletops open up new opportunities for addressing this …