Research update - Persuasive Technology Lab

Three smartphone screens from the study app: a combined human-robot exercising peer, a human-looking AI peer, and the step-count progression view.

Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2026 for our study on virtual workout buddies

27 October 2026 - by Mauro Cherubini

Our CHI 2026 paper on AI agents and human peers as exercise partners received a Best Paper Award, given to the top 1% of papers at the conference.

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Presentation at DIS’24

10 July 20249 September 2024 - by James Arnéra

This year’s Designing Interactive Systems conference (DIS’24), which took place in Copenhagen, included a presentation on a PET Lab experiment by James Arnéra entitled “Digital, Analog, or Hybrid: Comparing Strategies …

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Our Medium article on supporting collaboration in introductory programming classrooms

26 September 202326 September 2023 - by Lahari Goswami

We are delighted to share our Medium blog post on our recently published paper at ACM CSCW 2023. The article presents ways to support novices’ programming learning in the social …

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Our paper accepted in ACM CHI 2023 Conference

3 March 20233 March 2023 - by Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat

We are delighted to announce that our paper “Changes in Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency in Empirical Studies between CHI 2017 and CHI 2022” has been accepted for presentation at …

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New Paper in Acta Psychologica

21 October 202221 October 2022 - by James Arnéra

Acta Psychologica Volume 230 (October 2022) includes a report on a PET Lab experiment by James Tyler titled “Contemporary self-reflective practices: A large-scale survey”. In this study, we conducted a …