2025W

• Bachelor thesis informatics and business informatics / 193.070 / PR
• Scientific Research and Writing / 193.052 / SE
• Seminar for Master Students in Media and Human-Centered Computing / 180.775 / SE
• User Research Methods / 193.167 / VU
• Wellbeing Technologies / 193.185 / PR

2026S

• Bachelor thesis informatics and business informatics / 193.070 / PR
• Digital Making / 193.213 / PR
• Digital Making / 193.211 / VU
• Scientific Research and Writing / 193.052 / SE
• Socio-Technical Systems / 193.149 / VU
• Wellbeing Technologies / 193.185 / PR
• Wellbeing Technologies / 193.184 / VU

• Technology Expanding Access
  2026 – 2030 / Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Self-Explanatory Visual Analytics for Data-Driven Insight Discovery
  2020 – 2023 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

2025

• How I Use My Body: The Bodily Feedback Quality Scale / Eska, B., Loerakker, M. B., Niess, J., & Woźniak, P. W. (2025). How I Use My Body: The Bodily Feedback Quality Scale. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 9(4), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1145/3770657
• Beyond Quantitative Goals: Design for Qualitative Goals and their Quantitative Subgoals / Sas, C., Lolla, S., Agapie, E., Niess, J., Woźniak, P. W., & Gouveia, R. (2025). Beyond Quantitative Goals: Design for Qualitative Goals and their Quantitative Subgoals. In BCS HCI ’25: Proceedings of the 38th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference (pp. 32–37). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/BCSHCI2025.5
• Give and Take: Perceptions of a Conversational Coach Agent in Fitness Trackers MHCI014 / Loerakker, M. B., Stefanidi, E., Niess, J., Eßmeyer, T., & Woźniak, P. W. (2025). Give and Take: Perceptions of a Conversational Coach Agent in Fitness Trackers MHCI014. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(5), Article MHCI014. https://doi.org/10.1145/3743718
• Supporting Communication and Well-being with a Multi-Stakeholder Mobile App: Lessons Learned from a Field Study with ADHD Children and their Caregivers / Stefanidi, E., Wagener, N., Chatzakis, I., Woźniak, P. W., Ntoa, S., Margetis, G., Rogers, Y., & Niess, J. (2025). Supporting Communication and Well-being with a Multi-Stakeholder Mobile App: Lessons Learned from a Field Study with ADHD Children and their Caregivers. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), Article CSCW177. https://doi.org/10.1145/3711075
• TogetherReflect: Supporting Emotional Expression in Couples Through a Collaborative Virtual Reality Experience / Wagener, N., Albensoeder, D. C., Reicherts, L., Woźniak, P. W., Rogers, Y., & Niess, J. (2025). TogetherReflect: Supporting Emotional Expression in Couples Through a Collaborative Virtual Reality Experience. In N. Yamashita, V. Evers, & K. Yatani (Eds.), CHI ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–16). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713642
• The Framework of the Lived Experience of Metrics: Understanding the Purposes and Activities of Self-Tracking Metrics / Loerakker, M. B., Jarsve, T., Niess, J., & Woźniak, P. W. (2025). The Framework of the Lived Experience of Metrics: Understanding the Purposes and Activities of Self-Tracking Metrics. In CHI ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713650
• PromptMap: An Alternative Interaction Style for AI-Based Image Generation / Adamkiewicz, K., Woźniak, P. W., Dominiak, J., Romanowski, A., Karolus, J., & Frolov, S. (2025). PromptMap: An Alternative Interaction Style for AI-Based Image Generation. In T. Li, F. Paternò, & K. Väänänen (Eds.), IUI ’25: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 1162–1176). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712150
• Situated Artifacts Amplify Engagement in Physical Activity / Keppel, J., Strauss, M., Haliburton, L., Weingärtner, H., Dominiak, J., Faltaous, S., Gruenefeld, U., Mayer, S., Woźniak, P. W., & Schneegass, S. (2025). Situated Artifacts Amplify Engagement in Physical Activity. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 2959–2974). https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735690
• The Dual Model for Everyday Stress Technology: Understanding the Lived Experience of Data-Driven Stress / Bakås, S., Woźniak, M. P., Herstad, J., Woźniak, P. W., & Niess, J. (2025). The Dual Model for Everyday Stress Technology: Understanding the Lived Experience of Data-Driven Stress. In CHI ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2025, Japan. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713174
• The Office Awakens: Building a Mobile Desk for an Adaptive Workspace with RolliDesk / Dominiak, J., Walczak, A., Sałata, A. J., Romanowski, A., & Woźniak, P. W. (2025). The Office Awakens: Building a Mobile Desk for an Adaptive Workspace with RolliDesk. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 3635–3646). https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735799
• A design space for reconfigurable interactive desktop environments (RIDEs) / Dominiak, J., Wysokińska, A., Bentvelzen, M., Romanowski, A., & Woźniak, P. W. (2025). A design space for reconfigurable interactive desktop environments (RIDEs). BEHAVIOUR & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 44(15), 3701–3726. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2024.2447920
• Tensions in Personal Informatics: Considering Product Design and Academic Responsibility / Loerakker, M. B., Wagener, N., Stefanidi, E., Niess, J., & Woźniak, P. W. (2025). Tensions in Personal Informatics: Considering Product Design and Academic Responsibility [Poster Presentation]. 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan. https://doi.org/10.34726/11630
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• CharmInk: Interactive Personalisable Charms Based on E-ink Displays / Walczak, A., Dominiak, J., Sałata, A. J., Schmidt, A. G., Grudzień, K., & Woźniak, P. W. (2025). CharmInk: Interactive Personalisable Charms Based on E-ink Displays. In DIS ’25 : Companion : Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference : Designing for a Sustainable Ocean (pp. 279–283). https://doi.org/10.1145/3715668.3735612
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• Towards a Research Agenda for Including Children and their Care Ecosystems in HCI / Stefanidi, E., Silva, L. M., Cagiltay, B., Eriksson, E., Woźniak, P. W., & Niess, J. (2025). Towards a Research Agenda for Including Children and their Care Ecosystems in HCI. In IDC ’25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (pp. 1225–1227). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3734465
• A Comparative Study of How People With and Without ADHD Recognise and Avoid Dark Patterns on Social Media / Mildner, T., Fidel, D., Stefanidi, E., Woźniak, P. W., Malaka, R., & Niess, J. (2025). A Comparative Study of How People With and Without ADHD Recognise and Avoid Dark Patterns on Social Media. In CHI ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–17). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713776
• PuppetVR: Towards Supporting Pretend Play through VR Storytelling for Neurodivergent Children / Schmidt, A. G., Tauritis, D., Niess, J., Woźniak, P. W., & Stefanidi, E. (2025). PuppetVR: Towards Supporting Pretend Play through VR Storytelling for Neurodivergent Children. In IDC ’25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (pp. 895–903). https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3731502

2024

• Zooming In: A Review of Designing for Photo Taking in Human-Computer Interaction and Future Prospects / Wysokińska, A., Strömel, K. R., & Woźniak, P. W. (2024). Zooming In: A Review of Designing for Photo Taking in Human-Computer Interaction and Future Prospects. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(ISS), 597–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3698150
• TeenWorlds: Supporting Emotional Expression for Teenagers with their Parents and Peers through a Collaborative VR Experience / Evropi Stefanidi, Wagener, N., Augsten, D., Augsten, A., Reicherts, L., Wozniak, P. W., Schöning, J., Rogers, Y., & Niess, J. (2024). TeenWorlds: Supporting Emotional Expression for Teenagers with their Parents and Peers through a Collaborative VR Experience. In VRST ’24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. VRST ’24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Trier, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641825.3687754
• MoodShaper: A Virtual Reality Experience to Support Managing Negative Emotions / Wagener, N., Kiesewetter, A., Reicherts, L., Wozniak, P. W., Schöning, J., Rogers, Y., & Niess, J. (2024). MoodShaper: A Virtual Reality Experience to Support Managing Negative Emotions. In DIS ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 2286–2304). https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661570
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• ProtoBricks: A Research Toolkit for Tangible Prototyping & Data Physicalization / Dominiak, J., Walczak, A., Stefanidi, E., Adamkiewicz, K., Grudzień, K., Niess, J., & Woźniak, P. W. (2024). ProtoBricks: A Research Toolkit for Tangible Prototyping & Data Physicalization. In DIS ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 476–495). https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661573
• Requirements and Attitudes towards Explainable AI in Law Enforcement / Herrewijnen, E., Loerakker, M. B., Vredenborg, M., & Woźniak, P. W. (2024). Requirements and Attitudes towards Explainable AI in Law Enforcement. In DIS ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 995–1009). https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661629
• MoodGems: Designing for the Well-being of Children with ADHD and their Families at Home / Stefanidi, E., Wassmann, J. L. B., Woźniak, P. W., Spellmeyer, G., Rogers, Y., & Niess, J. (2024). MoodGems: Designing for the Well-being of Children with ADHD and their Families at Home. In IDC ’24: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 480–494). https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3655795
• Technology which Makes You Think: The Reflection, Rumination and Thought in Technology Scale / Loerakker, M. B., Niess, J., & Woźniak, P. W. (2024). Technology which Makes You Think: The Reflection, Rumination and Thought in Technology Scale. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 8(2), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3659615
• Narrating Fitness: Leveraging Large Language Models for Reflective Fitness Tracker Data Interpretation / Strömel, K. R., Henry, S., Johansson, T., Niess, J., & Woźniak, P. W. (2024). Narrating Fitness: Leveraging Large Language Models for Reflective Fitness Tracker Data Interpretation. In CHI ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2024, United States of America (the). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642032
• Exploring User Expectations and Perceived Creepiness in AI: A Study on Furhat and ChatGPT / Jarsve, T., Malkomsen, E. R., Woźniak, P. W., & Niess, J. (2024). Exploring User Expectations and Perceived Creepiness in AI: A Study on Furhat and ChatGPT. In NordiCHI ’24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI ’24), Uppsala, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685428
• AMoRE: Four Perspectives on Talking About and Experiencing Robots / Jarsve, T., Jacobsen, R., Soma-Jestilä, R., Woźniak, P. W., & Niess, J. (2024). AMoRE: Four Perspectives on Talking About and Experiencing Robots. In NordiCHI ’24: Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI ’24), Uppsala, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685342
• Screenless Interactive Tabletop Gaming with Capacitive Surface Sensing / Adamkiewicz, K., Dominiak, J., Walczak, A., Romanowski, A., & Woźniak, P. W. (2024). Screenless Interactive Tabletop Gaming with Capacitive Surface Sensing. In CHI ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, United States of America (the). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642654
• Light Me Up! Ambient Light Increases Heart Rate and Perceived Exertion during High-Intensity Virtual Reality Exergaming / Wagener, N., Dänekas, B., Loerakker, M. B., Woźniak, P. W., & Niess, J. (2024). Light Me Up! Ambient Light Increases Heart Rate and Perceived Exertion during High-Intensity Virtual Reality Exergaming. In NordiCHI ’24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 1–6). https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685427