Exertion Games Lab

Hi CHI attendees,

If you are attending CHI’25 in Japan: we are organizing “Jogging at CHI” again, where we will be jogging around the conference venue to discuss all things SportsHCI while getting some exercise. This is not an official CHI event. We meet after the last paper session on the Tuesday of the conference at the registration desk in your jogging gear, and we will go for a casual jog together! All speeds are catered for. Rain or shine. See the flyer on the right for registration so we know who is coming.

Looking forward to it!

We will present the following works at CHI’25:

Deng, J., Li, Y., Wang, H., Fang, Z., Mueller, F. Sonic Delights: Exploring the Design of Food as An Auditory-Gustatory Interface. CHI 2025. Long paper. ACM. Presentation video.

Wang, H., Deng, J., He, L., Overdevest, N., Wee, R., Wang, Y., Toups Dugas, P., Elvitigala, D., Mueller, F. Towards Understanding Interactive Sonic Gastronomy with Chefs and Diners. CHI 2025. Long paper. ACM. Video. Presentation video.

Cormier, M., Liang, S., Hamilton, B., LaLone, N., Bohrer, R., Toups Dugas, P. This Game SUX: Why & How to Design Sh@*!y User Experiences. CHI 2025. Long paper. ACM. Presentation video.

Liang, S., Cormier, M., Bohrer, R., Toups Dugas, P. Designed & Discovered Euphoria: Insights from Trans-Femme Players’ Experiences of Gender Euphoria in Video Games. CHI 2025. Long paper. ACM. Presentation video. BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION.

Hu, Y., Tang, J., Gong, X., Zhou, Z., Zhang, S., Elvitigala, D., Mueller, F., Hu, W., Quigley, A. Vision-Based Multimodal Interfaces: A Survey and Taxonomy for Enhanced Context-Aware System Design. CHI 2025. Long paper. ACM.

Wang, H., Deng, J., Kong, D., Fang, Z., Luo, H., Pasumarthy, N., Patibanda, R., Abewickrema, S., Fang, X., Elvitigala, D., Mueller, F. GastroConcerto: Towards Designing Auditory Dining System to Enrich Chefs’ Culinary Practices. CHI 2025. Late-breaking work. ACM. Video.

Luo, H., Kari, T., Patibanda, R., Fernanda Montoya, M., Andres, J., Elvitigala, D., Mueller, F. PlantMate: A Bidirectional Touch-Based System for Enhancing Human-Plant Empathy and Pro-Environmental Behavior. CHI 2025. Late-breaking work. ACM. Video.

Zheng, Y., Deng, J., Wang, H., Mueller, F., Pan, X., Gillies, M. immersiTea: Exploring Multisensory Virtual Reality Environments to Enrich Bubble Tea Drinking Experiences. CHI 2025. Late-breaking work. ACM. Video. Presentation video.

van Rheden, V., Liu, S., Luo, H., Elvitigala, D., Mueller, F. BreathCrunch and BellyBreath: Exploring EMS-based Breath Guidance and Enforcement for Meditation and Running. CHI 2025. Interactivity. ACM. Video.

van Rheden, V., Abewickrema, S., Mueller, F., Elvitigala, D. GestureSock: Exploring toe gestures as alternative input method. CHI 2025. Interactivity. ACM. Video.

Toups Dugas, P., Seetharaman, B., Fleming, R., Liang, S., Elvitagala, D., Rode, J., LaLone, N. Mobile Maps Continue to Fail Pedestrians: Synthesised Reflective Auto-Aggro-Ethnographies of Walking. CHI 2025. alt.CHI. ACM. Presentation video.

Sabnis, N., Wittchen, D., Otaran, A., Badmos, F., Liu, S., Saini, A., Regal, G., van Rheden, V., Mueller, F., Nanayakkara, S., Matthies, D., Nachtigall, D., Strohmeier, P., Vidal, L., Elvitigala, D. Walking the Future: Bridging Foot Augmentation into Next Steps of Human Augmentation. CHI 2025. Workshop (organizing). ACM.

Bohrer, R., Liang, S., Cormier, M., Fujii, T., Toups Dugas, P., Williams, R., Ko, A., Seaborn, A., Haimson, O. Transnational lgbTq+ SIG. CHI 2025. Special Interest Group (organizing). ACM.

Liu, S., Ens, B., Semertzidis, N., Lee, G., Mueller, F., Elvitigala, D. Flytrap Hand: Towards Understanding Dark Patterns of Physical Augmentation via Electrical Muscle Stimulation. CHI 2025. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

van Rheden, V., Abewickrema, S., Mueller, F., Elvitigala, D. GestureSock: Exploring toe gestures as alternative input method. CHI 2025. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

Liu, S., Ens, B., Semertzidis, N., Lee, G., Mueller, F., Elvitigala, D. “My Happiness Makes You Smile”: Towards Understanding Telepathic Superpower Design via Brain-Muscle Interfaces. CHI 2025. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

Patibanda, R., Saini, A., Li, X., Chen, Y., van den Hoven, E., Mueller, E. Playing With Yourself: How Electrical Muscle Stimulation Can Turn Your Body Into A Playful Interface. CHI 2025. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

Jialin Deng’s PhD thesis Designing cyber food: towards understanding food-computation integration to enrich human-food interactions has successfully passed the examination and is now online in the Monash repository.

Congratulations Jialin!

Deng, J. Designing cyber food: towards understanding food-computation integration to enrich human-food interactions. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis/dissertation. Monash University. 2025

Rakesh Patibanda’s PhD thesis Body-Actuating Play: Towards Understanding the Design of Play where Users Share Bodily Control with a Computer is now online in the Monash repository.

Congratulations Rakesh!

Patibanda, R. Body-Actuating Play: Towards Understanding the Design of Play where Users Share Bodily Control with a Computer. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis/dissertation. Monash University. 2024

Our article in the “International Journal of Human-Computer Studies” (IJHCS) is now published:

Mueller, F., Buruk, O., Matjeka, L. P., & Saini, A. (2025). Towards understanding the design of playful bodily extensions via body schema and body image. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 103457.

New journal article on “NatureHCI” now published in the Taylor & Francis International Journal of HCI:

Jones, M., Kari, T., Reich, D., Ens, B., Liu, S., Pobee, S. B., & Mueller, F. (2024). Toward a Framework for the Design of Interactive Technology for Nature Recreation. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-21.

Our “WaterHCI” article is now published in the “Foundations and Trends in HCI” series, which publishes 50-100 page monographs written by research leaders”:

Montoya, M., Smith, I., Clashing, C., Patibanda, R., Ananthanarayan, S., Pell, S.J., Mueller, F., WaterHCI: Water in Human-Computer Interaction, Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction. Vol. 18: No. 4, pp 338-412. 2024.

We will present the following works at CHI PLAY 2024 in Tampere, Finland:

Montoya, M., Saini, A., Overdevest, N., Randall, B., Pell, SJ., Mueller, F. Exploring the Design of Playful Devices for Surfing. CHI PLAY 2024. Work in Progress. ACM.

Montoya, M. Towards the Design of PlayfulWater Experiences Using Interactive Technology. CHI PLAY 2024. Doctoral consortium. ACM.

We will be co-organizing a workshop on sports interactions at Ubicomp’24:

Workshop proposal: van Rheden, V., Montoya, M., Elvitigala, D., Meschtscherjakov, A., Mueller, F. Multimodal Sports Interaction: Wearables and HCI in Motion. Ubicomp/IMWUT 2024. Workshop (organizing). ACM.

We are presenting the following works at DIS 2024:

Patibanda, R., Overdevest, N., Nisal, S., Saini, A., Elvitigala, D., Knibbe, J., van den Hoven, E., Mueller, F. Shared Bodily Fusion: Leveraging Inter-Body Electrical Muscle Stimulation for Social Play. DIS 2024. Long paper. ACM.

van Rheden, V., Reidsma, D., Elbaek, L., Lallemand, C., Vidal, L., Matviienko, A., Elvitigala, D., Daiber, F., Zambetta, F., Mueller, F. Why Movement-Based Design!? Exploring Methods and Experiences in MBD. DIS 2024. Workshop (organizing). ACM.

He, L., Wang, H., Goodwin, S., Tag, B., Elvitigala, D. Pedalling into the Future: Towards Enhancing Cycling Experience Using Augmented Reality. DIS 2024. Work-in-progress. ACM.

Saini, A., van den Hoven, E., Mueller, F. PneuExtensio: Designing Pneumatic-based Bodily Extensions to Facilitate Embodiment across Everyday Life Experiences. DIS 2024. Doctoral Consortium. ACM.

Thanks to everyone who attended CHI’24 and helped make it happen!

Nathan and his co-authors received a “Best Paper” award at CHI’24, congratulations!

Semertzidis, N., Vranic-Peters, M., Fang, X., Patibanda, R., Saini, A., Elvitigala, D., Zambetta, F., Mueller, F. PsiNet: Toward Understanding the Design of Brain-to-Brain Interfaces for Augmenting Inter-Brain Synchrony. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Video. Presentation video. BEST PAPER.

Here is our flyer for CHI 2024 with the timings and locations of our presentations (also in PDF format):

We received a Best Paper (top 1%) award at CHI’24:

Semertzidis, N., Vranic-Peters, M., Fang, X., Patibanda, R., Saini, A., Elvitigala, D., Zambetta, F., Mueller, F. PsiNet: Toward Understanding the Design of Brain-to-Brain Interfaces for Augmenting Inter-Brain Synchrony. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Video. Presentation video. BEST PAPER.

We are presenting the following works at CHI 2024 in Honolulu, Haiwai’i, USA:

Deng, J., Overdevest, N., Olivier, P., Mueller, F. From Plating to Tasting: Towards Understanding the Choreography of Computational Food. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Preview video. Presentation video.

Montoya, M., Qiao, H., Sasikumar, P., Elvitigala, D., Pell, S., Nanayakkara, S., Mueller, F. Exploring an Extended Reality Floatation Tank Experience to Reduce the Fear of Being in Water. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Video. Preview video. Presentation video.

Elvitigala, D., Karahanoğlu, A., Matviienko, A., Vidal, L., Postma, D., Jones, M., Montoya, M., Harrison, D., Elbæk, L., Daiber, F., Burr, L., Patibanda, R., Buono, P., Hämäläinen, P., van Delden, R., Bernhaupt, R., Ren, X., van Rheden, V., Zambetta, F., van den Hoven, E., Lallemand, C., Reidsma, D., Mueller, F. Grand Challenges in SportsHCI. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Presentation video.

Mueller, F., Montoya, M., Pell, S., Oppermann, L., Blythe, M., Dietz, P., Marshall, J., Bateman, S., Smith, I., Ananthanarayan, S., Mazalek, A., Verni, A., Bakogeorge, A., Simonnet, M., Ellis, K., Semertzidis, N., Burleson, W., Quarles, J., Mann, S., Hill, C., Clashing, C., Elvitigala, D. Grand Challenges in WaterHCI. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Preview video. Presentation video.

Semertzidis, N., Vranic-Peters, M., Fang, X., Patibanda, R., Saini, A., Elvitigala, D., Zambetta, F., Mueller, F. PsiNet: Toward Understanding the Design of Brain-to-Brain Interfaces for Augmenting Inter-Brain Synchrony. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Video. Presentation video. BEST PAPER.

Wang., Y., O Obie, H., Li, Z., Salim, F., Grundy, J., Mueller, F. GustosonicSense: Towards understanding the design of playful gustosonic eating experiences. CHI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Presentation video.

Wang, P., Xiang, N., Rajesh, R., Loose, A., Semertzidis, N., Mueller, F. LuciEntry: A Modular Lab-Based Lucid Dreaming Induction Prototype. CHI 2024. Late-breaking work. ACM. Video. Preview video. Presentation video.

Wang, H., Deng, J., Mohan, A., Li, Y., Peng, H., He, L., Elvitigala, D., Mueller, F. pic2eat: Facilitating Social Ice-breaking through Collaborative Design of 3D Printed Appetizer. CHI 2024. Late-breaking work. ACM. Preview video. Presentation video.

Overdevest, N., Patibanda, R., Saini, A., van den Hoven, E., Mueller, F. GazeAway: Designing for Gaze Aversion Experiences. CHI 2024. Late-breaking work. ACM. Presentation video.

Wang, P., Rajesh, R., Loose, A., Xiang, N., Overdevest, N., Semertzidis, N., Mueller, F. DreamCeption: Towards Understanding the Design of Targeted Lucid Dream Mediation. CHI 2024. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

Wang, P., Rajesh, R., Loose, A., Xiang, N., Overdevest, N., Semertzidis, N., Mueller, F. LuciEntry: A Modular Lab-Based Lucid Dreaming Induction Prototype. CHI 2024. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

Wang, P., Rajesh, R., Loose, A., Xiang, N., Overdevest, N., Semertzidis, N., Mueller, F. LuciEntry HOME: An Anywhere Lucid Dreaming Induction Prototype. CHI 2024. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

Saini, A., Patibanda, R., Overdevest, N., van den Hoven, E., Mueller, F. PneuMa: Designing Pneumatic Bodily Extensions for Supporting Movement in Everyday Life. Videoshowcase. ACM. Video.

Matviienko, A., Boot, M., Löcken, A., Pfleging, B., Löchtefeld, M., von Sawitzky, T., Savino, G., Sturdee, M., Andres, J., Boyer, K., Brewster, S., Mueller, F. Learning from Cycling: Discovering Lessons Learned from CyclingHCI. CHI 2024. Workshop (organizing). ACM. Website.

Li, Z., Wang, Y., Andres, J., Semertzidis, N., Greuter, S., & Mueller, F. A Design Framework for Ingestible Play. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 2023. 1-39. Presented at CHI 2024. ACM.

We are presenting the following works at TEI 2024:

Saini, A., Patibanda, R., Overdevest, N., van den Hoven, E., Mueller, F. PneuMa: Designing Pneumatic Bodily Extensions for Supporting Movement in Everyday Life. TEI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Video.

Liu, S., Semertzidis, N., Lee, G., Mueller, F., Ens, B. Exploring Superpower Design Through Wi-Fi Twinge. TEI 2024. Long paper. ACM. Video.

Wittchen, D., Sabnis, N., Nachtigall, T., Mueller, F., Strohmeier, P., Elvitigala, D. Foot Augmentation 101: Design your own Augmented Experiences. TEI 2024. Workshop (organizing). ACM. Workshop website.

Our article on “Grand challenges in human-food interaction” has now been published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies:

Mueller, F., Obrist, M., Bertran, F. A., Makam, N., Kim, S., Dawes, C., Marti, P., Mancini, M., Ceccaldi, E., Pasumarthy, N., Claire, S., Jung, K. s., Deng, J., Steimle, J., Krasteva, N., Schwalk, M., Reiterer, H., Wang, H., & Wang, Y. (2023). Grand Challenges in Human-Food Interaction. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 183 (March 2024). Elsevier.

Our journal article in “Human-Computer Interaction” has just been published:

Mueller, F., Kaenel, J., Duckworth, J., Andres, J. (2023). Taking inspiration from becoming “one with a bike” to design human-computer integration. Human-Computer Interaction. 1-26. Taylor & Francis.

Rakesh won the “Best Interactivity Audience Award” at CHI PLAY 2023 in Stratford, Canada, for the work on “Auto-Paizo” games, these are bodily games you can play against yourself through electrical muscle stimulation.

Our extended reality floatation tank for enriched wellness experiences page is now live: https://exertiongameslab.org/fluito-interactive-wellness