Program

Overall Conference Schedule

The conference program can also be found here


Start Mon 22-Sep Tue 23-Sep Wed 24-Sep Thu 25-Sep
08:00 Registration Registration Registration Registration
09:00 Workshops + DC Opening Embodied and Situated Interaction Understanding and Enhancing Mobile Interaction
09:30 Opening Keynote
10:00
10:30 Coffee Break 1
11:00 Workshops + DC AI, Smart Systems & Urban Contexts XR Experiences Industry Perspective
11:30 Panel
12:00
12:30 Lunch Lunch + Townhall
13:00
13:30
14:00 Workshops + DC Privacy, Dark Patterns & Digital Consent Health, Wellbeing & Behavior Change Closing Keynote
14:30
15:00 Closing
15:30 Coffee Break 2
16:00 Workshops + DC Mobile & Wearable Interaction Banquet
16:30
17:00
17:30 Minute Madness
18:00 Posters + Demos Reception
18:30
19:00
19:30
20:00
20:30
21:00
21:30

Workshops Schedule (Monday, September 22nd)

All workshops will be held concurrently following the schedule below:

Workshop 1: MobiCHAI’25 – 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Cognitive Augmenting and Cognition-Altering Technologies using Human-Centered AI
Full-Day Workshop - 09:00-17:30 (Regency Room II)

Workshop 2: From Apps to Action: Which New Possibilities Emerge When We Connect Mobile Apps Through Shortcuts
Half-Day Workshop - 14:00-17:30 (Regency Room I)

Workshop 3: Workshop on Societal Effects of AI in Mobile Social Media
Full-Day Workshop - 09:00-17:30 (Bay Room II)

Workshop 4: ODISI: On-Device Intelligence for Smart Interactions
Half-Day Workshop - 09:00-12:30 (Regency Room I)

Workshop participation is also possible without an accepted WS submission.
However, registration is mandatory. Registrations can be modified via mail: mobilehci-reg@acm.org


Room Assignments

  • Main Conference: Grand Ballroom
  • Workshops: Regency Room and Bayroom
  • Doctoral Consortium: Bayroom
  • Posters and Demos Reception: Lawn Area

room assignment


Adjunct Proceedings (Open Access via ACM DL)

Accepted Papers


Tuesday, 23 September — AI, Smart Systems & Urban Contexts

  • Navigating the Digital Marketplace: Understanding the E-Commerce Adoption Journey of Emergent Users in India
    Amrit Singh, Vansh Bothra, Anirban Sen, and Dipanjan Chakraborty

  • "Nuisance is Better Than Nothing?": Exploring How Pedestrians and Cyclists Perceive Automated E-Scooter Alerts in Shared Spaces
    Hiruni Kegalle, Danula Hettiachchi, Jeffrey Chan, Flora Salim, and Mark Sanderson

  • Contextra: Detecting Object Grasps With Low-Power Cameras and Sensor Fusion On the Wrist
    Nathan DeVrio, Roger Boldu, Eric Whitmire, and Wolf Kienzle

  • Enhancing Smart Home User Experience: A Study of Everyday Objects for Smart Home Control
    Michael Chamunorwa, Heiko Müller, and Susanne Boll

  • SafeScreen: Evaluating a Screen-Detecting Smartphone Camera App under Benign and Adversarial Use
    Shaun Macdonald, Md Shafiqul Islam, Andras Bodrogai, James Finlow, Fiona Colquhoun, John Williamson, and Mohamed Khamis

Tuesday, 23 September — Privacy, Dark Patterns & Digital Consent

  • European Users' In-Depth Privacy Concerns with Smartphone Data Collection
    Florian Bemmann, Maximiliane Windl, Tobias Knobloch, and Sven Mayer

  • Understanding User Prioritization and Comprehension of Smartphone Permissions
    Manila Devaraja and Sameer Patil

  • User Understanding of Privacy Permissions in Mobile Augmented Reality: Perceptions and Misconceptions
    Viktorija Paneva, Verena Winterhalter, Franziska Augustinowski, and Florian Alt

  • "An Ad Posing as Medical Advice": User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps
    Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni Troiano, Johanna Gunawan, Herman Saksono, and Casper Harteveld

  • Mind Games! Exploring the Impact of Dark Patterns in Mixed Reality Scenarios
    Luca-Maxim Meinhardt, Simon Demharter, Michael Rietzler, Mark Colley, Thomas Mildner, and Enrico Rukzio

Tuesday, 23 September — Mobile & Wearable Interaction

  • ScanRing: Hybrid Authentication System in a Ring Device Using a Distance Sensor and an IMU Sensor
    Kai Miyashita, Takashi Amesaka, Shogo Hanayama, Takumi Yamamoto, and Yuta Sugiura

  • SwipeSense: Exploring the Feasibility of Back-of-Device Swipe Interaction Using Built-In IMU Sensors
    Neel Shah, Benedict Leung, Mariana Shimabukuro, and Ali Neshati

  • ThumbSwype: Thumb-to-Finger Gesture Based Text-Entry for Head Mounted Displays
    Rishav Banerjee, Shariff Faleel, Omang Baheti, Khalad Hasan, and Pourang Irani

  • Self-Distillation Based Multi-task Learning Model for Stylus Input Latency Compensation
    Kuangyu Liu, Fangjie Hou, Xinyi Zhang, Jianlin Li, Zuobin Ning, Xuecheng Wu, and Shunli Mao

Wednesday, 24 September — Embodied and Situated Interaction

  • From Pegs to Pixels: A Comparative Analysis of the Nine Hole Peg Test and a Digital Copy Drawing Test for Fine Motor Control Assessment
    Dominik Schön, Thomas Kosch, Martin Schmitz, Sebastian Günther, Max Mühlhäuser, and Florian Müller

  • UbiLearn: Supporting English-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners in Reflecting on Conversations Using a Smartwatch
    Riku Arakawa, Manami Nakagawa, and Hiromu Yakura

  • Surrogate Avatar: Enhancing Situated Co-Presence and User Mobility in Symmetric Telepresence Conversations
    Sheng-Cian Lee, Yi-Lien Chang, Chiu-Hsuan Wang, Bing-Yu Chen, and Liwei Chan

  • Artwork Accessibility for People with Low Vision through Augmented Reality Mediated by Mobile Devices
    Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, and Sergio Mascetti

  • Understanding the Experiences of People With and Without Vision Impairments When Using Mobile User Interface Alternative Color Modes
    Sarah Andrew and Garreth Tigwell

Wednesday, 24 September — XR Experiences

  • You're making things AR-kward: Exploring Augmented Reality In-the-Wild
    Helen Stefanidi, Jan-Hendrik Sünderkamp, Markus Tatzgern, Alina Itzlinger, and Alexander Meschtscherjakov

  • Investigating Hand-Bound Pads for AR Input Using Hand-Tracking Only
    Camille Dupré, Emmanuel Pietriga, Olivier Gladin, Stéphanie Rey, Houssem Saidi, and Caroline Appert

  • Between Bulky Suits and Isolated, Deserted Landscape: Measuring the User Experience of Astronaut-Drone Interaction
    Jean Vanderdonckt, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, and Romain Maddox

  • Two-Point Discrimination of Vibrotactile Stimuli on the Forearm
    Jan Willms, Adrien Chaffangeon Caillet, Marco Kurzweg, and Katrin Wolf

  • JettingPointer: Enabling Skin-to-Pointer Midair Touch Interaction on Minimal Wearables Using Integrated Airflow Haptic Cues
    Yuan-Ling Feng and Liwei Chan

Wednesday, 24 September — Health, Wellbeing & Behavior Change

  • Using Nonverbal Cues in Empathic Multi-Modal LLM-Driven Chatbots for Mental Health Support
    Matthias Schmidmaier, Jonathan Rupp, Cedrik Harrich, and Sven Mayer

  • E-litter: Nudging Email Usage Behavior One Byte at a Time
    Cheryl Siy, Gihong Do, Kihoon Jung, Kwan Hong Lee, and John Kim

  • 'Give and Take': Perceptions of a Conversational Coach Agent in Fitness Trackers
    Meagan Loerakker, Evropi Stefanidi, Jasmin Niess, Thomas Mildner, and Paweł W. Woźniak

  • iBreath: Usage of Breathing Gestures as Means of Interactions
    Mengxi Liu, Passant ElAgroudy, Daniel Geißler, Deepika Gurung, Hymalai Bello, Bo Zhou, Sizhen Bian, and Paul Lukowicz

  • Gamified Physical Activity App for Students at Universities: Results of Five Development Loops
    Julia Müller, Jan Spilski, and Thomas Lachmann

Thursday, 25 September — Understanding and Enhancing Mobile Interaction

  • Learning to Type on Mobile Keyboards: A Theory on the Formation of Spatial Memory
    Andreas Komninos, Ioulia Simou, and John Garofalakis

  • Unpacking Micro Data Videos: Key Elements and Design Practices in Minute-Long Data Videos for Mobile Usage
    Samar Sallam, Yumiko Sakamoto, Anuradha Herath, Julia Petrie, Mariana Brussoni, John Jacob, and Pourang Irani

  • Examining Input Modalities and Visual Feedback Designs in Mobile Expressive Writing
    Shunpei Norihama, Shixian Geng, Kakeru Miyazaki, Arissa J. Sato, Mari Hirano, Simo Hosio, and Koji Yatani

  • From Overwhelmed to Overview: Understanding Smartphone Users' Preferences and Expectations in Relieving Notification Overload via Text Summarization
    Uei-Dar Chen, Peng-Jui Wang, Yi-Chi Lee, Yong-Han Lin, Yu-Ling Chou, and Yung-Ju Chang

  • On-Device Interaction Mining
    Deniz Arsan, Carl Guo, Muhammad Rizky Wellyanto, Erik Ji, Jerry Talton III, and Ranjitha Kumar

Others — Online Only (No date)

  • How Problematic Are Suspenseful Interactions?
    Alarith Uhde

  • A Balancing Act: Navigating Effort, Sustainability, Explainability, and Disconnection in Personal Informatics Ecologies for Physical Activity
    Ahed Aladwan

  • Surveying Phone Anxiety Patterns, Perceptions, and Coping
    Florin-Alexandru Bursuc and Henning Pohl

  • Us-Reflection: Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions
    Sophia Sakel, Isabel Wanderwitz, Albrecht Schmidt, and Nađa Terzimehić

  • FlowRing: Integrated Microgesture and Surface Interaction Ring for Versatile XR Input
    Ishan Chatterjee, Jiexin Ding, Anandghan Waghmare, Joseph Breda, Yuquan Deng, Bo Liu, Yuntao Wang, and Shwetak Patel

  • Informing the Design of Mobile and Wearable Technology for Noise Sensitivity
    Emani Hicks, Sohyeon Park, Avery Mavrovounioti, Weijie Du, Jialou Hu, Kade Na, Nathan Serrano, Rafael Carrillo Munoz, Elizabeth Ankrah, Aehong Min, Jazette Johnson, and Gillian Hayes

Demo Papers


  • ChemVR-AI: An Immersive Virtual Reality Laboratory with Pedagogical Agents
    Rishi Jain, Swayanshu Rout, Gargi Srivastava

  • CANViz: Low-Cost Data Capture and Visualization of Automotive Signals
    Kalani Murakami, Alexandre L. S. Filipowicz, David A. Shamma

  • AI-Enhanced Landmark Recognition For Self-Guided Tour Application Using Large Language Models
    Pronab Karmaker, Danai Korre, Muhammad Habib ur Rehman, Massoud Khodadadzadeh

  • GUI-based Design System for Dynamic Light Performances with Portable Swarm Robots
    Takumi Nishimura, Kunihiro Kato, Takashi Ohta

  • Interactive Guidance for Self-Acquisition of Ultrasound Images by Hemophilic Patients
    Dragan Ahmetovic, Claudio Bettini, Marco Colussi, Stefano Giacoia, Roberta Gualtierotti, Matteo Manzoni, Sergio Mascetti, Flora Peyvandi

  • CamIO in the Browser: a Cross-Platform Audio Label Tool for Tactile Graphics
    Dragan Ahmetovic, James Coughlan, Giorgio Dal Santo, Khadija Ezrouri, Matteo Manzoni, Sergio Mascetti

  • Be Smart-phone Zombie!: Guidance Display for Texting While Walking Using Striped Pattern and High-Speed Projection
    Ryusuke Miyazaki, Shio Miyafuji, Hideki Koike

  • Surrogate Avatar: Enhancing Situated Co-Presence and User Mobility in Symmetric Telepresence Conversations
    Sheng-Cian Lee, Yi-Lien Chang, Chiu-Hsuan Wang, Bing-Yu Chen, Liwei Chan

  • Medylan: An Inclusive Medical Interpretation Agent Solving Language and Culture Barriers
    Aoi Minamoto, Zitao Zhang, Zhidao Wang

  • RehbeCa in Action! A Demo of Innovative Mobile Cervical Rehabilitation
    Iosune Salinas-Bueno, Pau Martínez-Bueso, Maria Teresa Arbós-Berenguer, Maria Francesca Roig-Maimó, Ramon Mas-Sansó

Doctoral Consortium


  • From Monocular Smart Glasses to Asymmetric VR to Immersive AV: Tailored Interaction Designs for Social Mixed Reality
    Amal Yassien

  • Redesigning Smartphone Permission Managers for User-Centered Privacy Management
    Manila Devaraja

  • Virtual Reality in Endoscopic Neurosurgery Training and Education
    Mostafa Alaa

  • Investigating a Technological Approach for Facilitating Awareness Between People with Noise Sensitivity and Their Care Networks
    Emani Hicks

  • Designing Reproductive Health Apps with Users in Mind: A Femtech Case Study
    Nidhi Nellore

  • From Awareness to Action: Extended Reality Systems for Earthquake Preparedness, Evacuation, and Rescue
    Rajashekhar V S

  • Intimate Interfaces: Reimagining User Experiences with FemTech mHealth Apps
    Ghada Alsebayel

Late Breaking Work


  • Tracing: The Forgotten Task of ISO 9241
    Maria Francesca Roig-Maimó, Ramon Mas-Sansó, and Scott MacKenzie

  • From Brick to Click: Comparing LEGO Building in Virtual Reality and the Physical World
    Viktorija Paneva, Maximilian David, and Jörg Müller

  • An Evaluation Framework for Synthetic Touch Gestures – A Deeper Dive
    Marvin Bachert and Marc Hesenius

  • SnapTunes: An Introductory Cross-device Application for Collaborative Music Production
    Ian Jeffery, Ethan Kim, Afroza Sultana, May Yu, David Wiebe, Jack Morrissey, and Ali Mazalek

  • Four Replications of a User-Defined Gesture Study with Smart Rings
    Jean Vanderdonckt and Radu-Daniel Vatavu

  • What is Extreme in Human-Computer Interaction Research?
    Radu-Daniel Vatavu and Jean Vanderdonckt

  • Distributing In-Vehicle Interactions Across Devices with Insights into Drivers' Behavior, Preferences, and Usability
    Laura-Bianca Bilius, Mihail Terenti, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, and Jean Vanderdonckt

  • Progressive Sentences: Combining the Benefits of Word and Sentence Learning
    Nuwan Janaka, Shengdong Zhao, Ashwin Ram, Ruoxin Sun, Sherisse Tan Jing Wen, Danae Li, and David Hsu

  • SweePix! A Machine Learning Driven Gallery Cleaning App Adapted to User Behavior
    Hatice Şahin İppoliti, Christian Bender-Saebelkampf, and Larbi Abdenebaoui

  • Unified Screening of Multiple Hand-Related Neurological Disorders via Classification of Stylus Drawings
    Takuro Watanabe, Koji Fujita, and Yuta Sugiura

  • LayEv: Advancing the Review-lution with Interactive Visualization of Systematic Evidence Synthesis
    Luca Hilbrich, Alexander Kalus, and Katrin Wolf

  • Are You With Me? Visualized Teleportation in Asymmetric VR-MR Collaboration
    Amal Yassien, Tarek Soliman, and Slim Abdennadher

  • Comparative Evaluation of Visual Obfuscation Methods for Protecting Private Information in Screen Sharing
    Rimi Makita, Mizuki Ishida, Kaori Ikematsu, and Yuki Igarashi

  • DroDelivery: User-Centered Concepts for Intent-Based Communications of a Delivery Drone in Public Spaces
    Shiva Nischal Lingam, Sebastiaan Petermeijer, Mohammad Obaid, and Marieke Martens

  • Collaborating with LLMs Through a Voice and Graphical User Interface
    Lenja Sorokin, Khanh Huynh, Malin Eiband, Lukas Stappen, and Jeremy Dillmann

  • E-static Sensors: Leveraging Triboelectricity for Enabling Gesture-based Interactions with Everyday Textiles
    Ramyah Gowrishankar, Clayton Leite, Henry Mauranen, and Yu Xiao

  • SynVoice: Integrating Synlogic Interactions into Asynchronous Voice Messaging
    Saki Fujimura and Jun Rekimoto

Industrial Perspectives


  • From Automation to Intention: Finding Focus and Fulfillment in a Mobile, AI-Driven World
    Jie Li and Alexandra Diening

  • Prototyping an Indoor Navigation App with Off-the-Shelf Components to Support Blind and Low-Vision Visitors in a Greek Hospital
    Damianos Dumi Sigalas, Georgios Papadoulis, Angeliki Kalliampetsou, Emil Valchinov, Christos Sintoris, and Aris Dermitzakis