Academic Program

9:00 REGISTRATION OPENS

10:00 – 10:20 INTRODUCTION

10:20 – 11:00 POSTERS AND DEMO SESSION

Posters (in alphabetical order):

• Abstraction in Action: Designing Avatar Representations for Reflective Movement Practice by Saliha Akbas, Kemal Kuscu, Terry Eskenazi and Asım Evren Yantac
• Academic Sandbox Games: Towards Ethical Human / Non-Human Knowledge Production Through Gameful Research Practices by Lea Stöter
• Addressing Prior Knowledge Challenges in Level-Based Educational Games: An Artificial Neural Network-Inspired Framework by Yuqian Zhao
• Designing Accessible Educational Services: A Human-Centered Framework from Sub-Saharan African Student Communities by Moses Nderemani
• ESFY: A Gamified Digital Phenotyping System for Self-Monitoring of Psychological Distress by Jana Zakai and Sultan Alharthi
• Extended reality in training to operate in hazardous environments – a pilot study for CBRN training in military context by Mikko Salminen, Tuuli Haataja, Andrea D’Angelo, Federica Genna, Giampaolo Santini, Michele Sesana and Sara Siddi
• Inclusive Card Play in Later Life: Understanding Social Dynamics and Gambling Stigmas by Mirkka Forssell, Markku Turunen and Lobna Hassan
• Inclusive Molecular Sketching: Accessibility Barriers in AI-Driven Protein Biodesign Workflows by Raphael Kim and Jiwei Zhou
• Perception of Robot Personality Traits Based on its Design and Behavior: Study on QTrobot in Educational Human-Robot Interaction with University Students by Theshani Marambe, Aino Ahtinen and Aparajita Chowdhury
• Playbour Camps and Virtual Sweatshops by Beste Demircan, Xinyi Tu, Wu Li and Mattia Thibault
• Speculative Design and Playable Cities: Co-designing a Mindshift in Sustainable Urban Mobility through Urban Gamification by Selin Agic, Laura Chambers, Vincenzo Idone Cassone and Mattia Thibault
• The Role of Good Design in Fostering Autonomy for Individuals with Reduced Mobility in Beach Environments by Ada Luz Rivera Picado and Cristal Denise Rivera Picado

Demos (in alphabetical order):

• AI-driven adaptive website content for digital well-being by Shanaka Badde Liyanage Don, Nicholas Hettiarachchige Don and Aku Visuri
• ecoAIware: Exploring Public Awareness of Generative AI’s Environmental Footprint Through Participatory Data Physicalizations by Anniek Jansen and Supraja Sankaran
• NaviNord: A Multisensory Virtual Reality Application for Measuring Spatial Navigation Memory in Complex Environments by Elpida Bampouni, Niko Väkiparta, Nannan Xi and Juho Hamari

11:00 – 11:40 PAPER TRACK: GAMES AND GAMIFICATION

Chairs (in alphabetical order):

• Juho Hamari (Tampere University)
• Benedikt Morschheuser (University of Bamberg)

Papers and Pictorials (in alphabetical order):

• Development and Validation of the General-Purpose PlayfulQuest Scale: Investigating Playfulness in Dating App Use by Kai Tuuri and Jukka Vahlo
• Gage to Engage: Fueling Collaboration by Pia Niemelä, Jenni Hukkanen, Jaakko Rajala and Pasqueline Dantas Scaico

11:40 – 11:50 BREAK

11:50 – 12:30 PAPER TRACK: TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Chairs (in alphabetical order):

• Muhterem Dindar (Tampere University)
• Mohammad Khalil (University of Bergen)

Papers and Pictorials (in alphabetical order):

• Gamified reflection: How interaction design shapes student engagement with prompts by Annique Smith, Daniel Fernández Galeote, Nikoletta Zampeta Legaki and Juho Hamari
• Stress Less, Research More: Mitigating Technostress Among Doctoral Researchers by Sarthak Giri and Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 14:40 PAPER TRACK: FICTIONAL, SPECULATIVE AND CRITICAL FUTURES (1 OF 2)

Chairs (in alphabetical order):

• Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk (Tampere University)
• Ahmet Börütecene (Linköping University)
• Çağlar Genç (Tampere University)
• Renee Noortman

Papers and Pictorials (in alphabetical order):

• A cosmopolitical compass to challenge the future development of robotics by Nicolas Marechal
• Endlessly Patient, Never Judgmental, or Flexibly Opinionated: Imagining a Future of Meaningful Conversations With Technology by Robin Neuhaus, Matthias Laschke, Ronda Ringfort-Felner and Marc Hassenzahl
• No Screens Allowed In Rheta: Using A Fictional World To Teach Physical Interaction Design by Ahmet Börütecene and Niklas Rönnberg

14:40 – 14:55 BREAK

14:55 – 15:40 PAPER TRACK: FICTIONAL, SPECULATIVE AND CRITICAL FUTURES (2 OF 2)

Papers and Pictorials (in alphabetical order):

• Feminist Food Futures: Speculative Utopias for Technology-Supported Nutrition Care by Daisy O’Neill, Regan L. Mandryk, Olena Pastushenko, Eva Deckers, Stephan Wensveen and Max V. Birk
• Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Digitally Altered Minds in 2050: Functions, Citizens, and Societal Dichotomies by Terho Ojell-Järventausta, Anatolii Belousov, Mila Bujić, Joseph Macey and Juho Hamari

15:40 – 15:55 BREAK

15:55 – 17:00 PAPER TRACK: ROBOTS AND AI IN EVERYDAY LIFE% AND DATA FOR GOOD^

Chairs % (in alphabetical order):

• Sumita Sharma (University of Oulu)
• Yixiao Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Grace Eden (University of Tartu)
• Biju Thankachan (Tampere Universities)

Chairs ^ (in alphabetical order):

• Daniel Fernández Galeote (Tampere University)
• Kostas Karpouzis (Panteion University)
• Zampeta Legaki (Tampere University)

Papers and Pictorials (in alphabetical order):

• Exploring Perceptions of Robot Facial Expressions in Service Interactions by Emma Kirjavainen, Celia Nieto Agraz, Ashley Colley, Heiko Mueller, Susanne Boll and Jonna Häkkilä %
• Understanding How Consumers Behave When Encountering Manipulative Patterns: From Awareness to Recognition and Reactions by Laura Havinen, Duong Dang, Juho-Pekka Mäkipää and Tomi Pasanen ^
• “I’d love a microchip in my brain because there would be no homework.” – School Children Reimagine the Future of Education with Emerging Technologies by Priyanka Sebastian, Sumita Sharma, Netta Iivari, Marianne Kinnula, Charu Monga and Aakash Gautam %

17:00 -> SOCIALISING AND NETWORKING