Welcome and Chairs' Intro

Poster Madness

eHenna: A Topology-Centered Taxonomy of Geometry-Defined Finger Input on Skin-Drawn Conductive Interfaces
Nuwan T. Attygalle

From Usability Heuristics to Human–AI Interaction: A Comparative Analysis of 30-Years of Design Guidelines
Nikolaos Avouris, Christos Sintoris

Gesture Interaction: From 2D Multi-stroke to 3D Dynamic Gestures with Contact-Based and Contactless Devices
Nuwan T. Attygalle, Joanna Galloway, Nacera Latreche, Nathan Magrofuoco, Paolo Roselli, Alaa Sahraoui, Arthur Sluÿters, Nicolas Szelagowski, Jean Vanderdonckt, Guillaume Van Issum, Donatien Grolaux, Thanh-Diane Nguyen

Inducing Neutral Affective States in HCI Experiment Participants
Ioannis Lykouras, Ioulia Simou, Andreas Komninos

Mapping Gestures Performed with Tangible Cubes to System Commands
Nacera Latreche, Bert Schiettecatte

Non-Euclidean Portals in VR: A Demo of Seamless Room-Scale Navigation Beyond Physical Boundaries
Alkinoos Alyssandrakis, Damianos Dumi Sigalas, Kostantinos Moustakas

Predictive Models of Typing Performance in Novel Keyboards
Ioulia Simou, Andreas Komninos

ReelPeel: Inquiry under Algorithmic Feeds via Hold-to-Enter In-Feed Evidence Inspection
Alison Durst, Kai Jannsen, Jonas Nils Boerschmann, Johannes Moritz, Rijak Singh Malhotra, Dr. Julia von Sommoggy, Dr. Jana Rueter, Katharina Sieferle, Saber Zerhoudi, Prof. Dr. Eva M. Bitzer

Usability and user evaluation techniques and toolkits

Session Chair: [tbd]

EFR–GVA EvalKit: An Evaluation Framework for the Design and Development of Interactions between Emergency First Responders and Generative Voice Agents

Rodrigo Gutiérrez Maquilón, Daniele Pretolesi, Georg Regal, Manfred Tscheligi

VideoAlign: A Toolkit to Make Video Analysis Accessible to HCI Practitioners

João Marcelo Evangelista Belo, Keyne Oei, Anna Maria Feit

Beyond Do-They-Look-the-Same? to Do-They-Behave-The-Same?: Similarity Analysis and Assessment Across Interactive Critical Systems Behaviours

José Creissac Campos, Philippe Palanque, Daniel Rodriguez Hernando, Célia Martinie, Sandra Steere

UXTracker: A Tool for Conducting and Analyzing Longitudinal User Experience Studies

Willian Garcias Assuncao, Prof. Luciana Zaina, Dr. Joelma Choma

Interactions techniques design and evaluation

Session Chair: [tbd]

CapCrown: Enhancing Smartwatch Interaction by Detecting Fingers when Rotating the Crown Using Capacitive Sensing

David Petersen, Marvin Reuter, Matthias Böhmer

Controlling Semantic Consensus and Lexical Density in Image-Based Evaluations for Mobile Input Methods

Andreas Komninos, Ioulia Simou, John Garofalakis

BeatriXR: Comprehensive and Adaptive Feedforward Support for Guidance in Virtual Reality

Valentino Artizzu, Kris Luyten, Gustavo Alberto Rovelo Ruiz, Lucio Davide Spano

SpineSense: An Interactive System for Cervical Spine Monitoring and Clinician-Oriented Summaries using COTS Earables

Mr. Garvit Chugh, Dr. Suchetana Chakraborty, Dr. Sandip Chakraborty

Designing Fatigue-Aware VR Interfaces via Biomechanical Models

Harshitha Voleti, Charalambos Poullis

Eliciting, proving and testing requirements

Session Chair: [tbd]

Proving Use Requirements of Interactive Systems with Remote Monitoring and Control Capabilities

Michael D. Harrison, Paolo Masci, José Creissac Campos

Gestural Annotation of User Interface Requirements in Crowd Elicitation

Andrew Arnita, Emilio Insfran, Nuwan T. Attygalle, Jean Vanderdonckt

RaDIA: Visual Analytics for Systematic Sample Association in Nuclear Weapon Test Verification Workflows

Kris Luyten, Stian Verherstraeten, Dr. Christophe Gueibe, Gustavo Alberto Rovelo Ruiz

Doctoral Consortium Session

Session Chair: [tbd]

Welcome Event

Context-awareness supporting techniques

Session Chair: [tbd]

Infrastructure-Free Indoor Occupancy Estimation via Passive BLE Scanning

Venkata Srikanth Varma Datla, Alessandro Aiuti, Alba Bisante, Gabriella Trasciatti, Stefano Zeppieri, Prof. Emanuele Panizzi

A Framework Supporting Context-Awareness for Transitional Cross-Reality Applications

Sarah Claudia Krings, Enes Yigitbas, Dr. Stefan Sauer

What AI for Engineering interactive systems?

Panelists: Margaret Burnett, Elisabeth André, Fabio Paternó, Philippe Palanque, Luis A. Leiva

Moderator: Lucio Davide Spano

Engineering IoT applications

Session Chair: [tbd]

Evaluating the Use of Augmented Reality and 2D Interfaces for Diagnosing IoT-based Habitable Smart Spaces by Non-Expert Users

Giannis Kanellopoulos, Ioulia Simou, Andreas Komninos

Towards a Generative AI-Driven Environment for the Specification and Evaluation of IoT Software Systems Requirements

Sabrina Rocha de Souza, Claudio Miceli de Farias, Prof. Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Guilherme Travassos

Gestural interaction development toolkits

Session Chair: [tbd]

𝜇Poly: a First Microgesture Toolkit

Adrien Chaffangeon Caillet, Aurélien Conil, Vincent Lambert, Charles Bailly, Alix Goguey, Laurence Nigay

Turning Gesture Sequences into Gesture Composition by Macro-Instructions: Definition, Framework, and Application in Smart Home

Nuwan T. Attygalle, Jean Vanderdonckt, Vik Parthiban

Resource-Efficient Gesture Recognition through Convexified Attention

Daniel Schwartz, Dario Salvucci, Yusuf Osmanlioglu, Richard Vallett, Genevieve Dion, Professor Ali Shokoufandeh

Engineering human-AI collaboration

Session Chair: [tbd]

Exploring Human-AI Collaboration in E-Textile Design: A Case Study on Flex Sensor Placement for Shoulder Motion Detection

Zhuchenyang Liu, Yao Zhang, Yalan He, Hilla Paasio, Changyi Li, Dr. Guna Semjonova, Dr. Yu Xiao

Exploring the Dynamics of Authoring Interactive VR Environments: Human Collaboration vs. AI Assistance

Enes Yigitbas, Alessio Dell’Aquila

Continuous Behavioral Synthesis for Adaptive Health Dashboards: An LLM-Mediated Architecture Integrating Explicit Preference, Spatial Reorganization, and Attention Allocation Signals

Tiziano Santilli, Mina Alipour, Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam

Learning to Nudge: Affect-Aware Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Energy Conservation

Mina Alipour

Context-Mediated Domain Adaptation in Multi-Agent Sensemaking Systems

Anton Wolter, Leon Haag, Vaishali Dhanoa, Niklas Elmqvist

From Embeddings to Exploration: Engineering Interactive Latent Space Visualizations for AI Model Sensemaking

Sebe Vanbrabant, Jarne Thys, Gilles Eerlings, Kris Luyten, Gustavo Alberto Rovelo Ruiz, Davy Vanacken

Lab Tours (Optional)

Social Dinner

Engineering UI adaptation

Session Chair: [tbd]

Comparative Analysis of Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for UI Adaptation

Mina Alipour, Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam

Investigating EEG-Derived Cognitive Load Signals for Adaptive Interfaces

Saravanakumar Duraisamy, Nuwan T. Attygalle, Parvin Emami, Jean Vanderdonckt, Luis A. Leiva

Development techniques and tools

Session Chair: [tbd]

OOPrompt: Reifying Intents into Structured Artifacts for Modular and Iterative Prompting

Tengyou Xu, Detao Ma, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen

Automatically Generating Visual Modeling Environments

Hugo A da Gião, Jácome Cunha, Rui Pereira, José Miguel Pereira Vilaça, PhD

XARP: A Human-First and Agent-Ready Extended Reality Toolkit in Python

Arthur Caetano, Radha Kumaran, Kelvin Jou, Tobias Höllerer, Misha Sra

Async/await is an Effective Paradigm for Event Management of User Interfaces

Donatien Grolaux, Thanh-Diane Nguyen, Jean Vanderdonckt

A Persona-Augmented Multi-Agent System for Varied Narrative Generation

Andrea Sillano, Giuseppe Arbore, Luigi De Russis

Guiding End Users Towards Software Reuse: An Evaluation of Automated Assistance in Block-Based Programming

Anne-Marie Rommerdahl, Jeremy Alexander Ramírez Galeotti, Dimitrios Dafnis, Nasifa Akter, Anahide Silahli, Dr. Thiago Rocha Silva

User training development frameworks

Session Chair: [tbd]

WebXRIT - A lightweight Interaction Toolkit to create Virtual Reality Training Applications for WebXR with Unity

Tino Hentschel, Jan Neuhöfer, Markus Dresel, Ove Brent Klasen, Philipp Goldbach, Nicole Jochems

Beyond monkey using: how to identify and model training needs of interactive critical systems operators using an ontology connected with task models

Mr. Théo Saubanère, Célia Martinie, Eric Barboni, Philippe Palanque, Erwann Poupart, Sandra Steere