With the increasing ubiquity of personal devices, social acceptability of human-machine
interactions has gained relevance and growing interest from the HCI community. Yet, there …

The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities explores the question of what it means for a city
to be 'smart', raises some of the tensions emerging in smart city developments and considers …

Cross-device interactions enable ad hoc sharing of content and control in co-located
collaboration. Cross-device research often draws from proxemics theory for designing …

HCI researchers have begun to more systematically study non-digital transient approaches
for displaying information in public space, for example, in the form of chalk infographics …

Bodily play systems are becoming increasingly prevalent, with research aiming to
understand the associated player experience. We argue that a more nuanced lexicon …

Hybrid gifting combines physical artefacts and experiences with digital interactivity to
generate new kinds of gifts. Our review details how gifting is a complex social phenomenon …

Watching others play is a key ingredient of digital games and an important aspect of games
user research. However, spectatorship is not very popular in virtual reality, as such games …

When the collaboration between humans and machines happens in public, the audience
can face difficulties in distinguishing the actual human contribution from the contribution of …

Many people enjoy “vertigo” sensations caused by intense playful bodily activities such as
spinning in circles, and riding fairground rides. Game scholar Caillois calls such …

Cinematic virtual reality (CVR) experiences are increasingly expanding their use of
additional media outside the VR headset, including scenography, spatial sound, and live …