Amon Rapp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Torino, where he leads the Smart Personal Technology Lab at ICxT. His research is situated within the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and focuses on how people interact with self-tracking technologies, wearable devices, video games, gamified applications, and behavior change systems. He is also interested in qualitative and design research methods as well as in the theoretical and methodological implications of phenomenology and postphenomenology for system design. His work has been published in international journals such as ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Computers & Education, the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and the Information Systems Journal, as well as in international conference proceedings like CHI and CSCW.
Joint Publication
Arianna Boldi, Alessandro Silacci, Marc-Olivier Boldi, Mauro Cherubini, Maurizio Caon, Noé Zufferey, Kévin Huguenin, & Amon Rapp. (2023). Exploring the impact of commercial wearable activity trackers on body awareness and body representations : A mixed-methods study on self-tracking. Computers in Human Behavior, 108036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108036
