Here is the news of the Persuasive Technology Lab. We regularly write articles about the progress of the research projects.
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- Our Medium article on supporting collaboration in introductory programming classrooms
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 … Read more - A research Blog about MediationBot for Privacy
We’re excited to share our latest Medium blog on how MediationBot is changing the landscape of digital privacy. This article explores how this innovative chatbot mediator addresses multiparty privacy conflicts … Read more - ReproducibiliTea
ReproducibiliTea is a journal club that promotes open and reproducible research practices. The University of Lausanne is one of the institutions that participate in this initiative. - A research paper accepted to ACM CHI 2023 Conference
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 … Read more - ACM SIGCHI Chapter Switzerland meetup ACM CHI Conference#SwissCHI in Hamburg
With 25 accepted papers and more than 26 delegates at the ACM CHI Conference #CHI2023 in Hamburg, the ACM SwissCHI chapter was represented at the premier venue in Human-Computer Interaction. … Read more - Best Paper Award 🏆 in ACM CHI 2023
Thrilled to announce that our paper: “Changes in Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency in Empirical Studies between CHI 2017 and CHI 2022” has received the best paper award at ACM … Read more - Our paper accepted in ACM CHI 2023 ConferenceWe 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 … Read more
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Transparent Quantitative Research as a User Interface Problem
In September 2022, members of the PET Lab Lahari Goswami and Kavous S. Niksirat attended a one-week seminar about Transparent Quantitative Research. The seminar gathered HCI researchers from all over … Read more - New Paper in Acta Psychologica
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 … Read more - Self-Determination Theory in HCI: Shaping a Research Agenda
Last April and May, we participated as part of the chair committee at the CHI’22 Workshop on SDT. The workshop was divided into two sessions: the first one in virtual … Read more - PET Lab at CHI’22
The Self-Determination Theory keeps being part of our research lab interests! This time Gabriela will be present at CHI’22 in New Orleans participating in the organizing committee of the Self-Determination … Read more - PhD Thesis Defense: In the Quest for the Motivation App: Designing Effective Behavior Change Apps Through the Lens of the Self-Determination Theory
On January 27th Gabriela publicly defended her Ph.D. Thesis, becoming the first Pet Lab member to obtain a doctorate degree. The jury was formed by:Prof. Rafael Lalive, présidentProf. Kévin Huguenin, … Read more - A Paper Summary: Careless Participants Are Essential for Security Research
I was reading a paper recently that studied if the use of screener techniques such as attention checks can bias the findings of survey studies. This work addressed surveys in … Read more - Are you being kept in the picture? Fighting against privacy conflicts in the uploading of content on social media without consent
Here is a blog related to our recent lab research about multiparty privacy conflicts (MPCs). The blog was published in HECimpact. Click on this link to read the full article. - How to fight against non-consensual photo sharing on online social networks? A blog article
We have discussed our research about multiparty privacy conflicts (MPCs) on the Swiss website “watson.ch“. Please click this link to read the full article. - The Epic Experimenter Award 2020
Good news! Two PET members, Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat and Evanne Milhomme, were given the Epic Experimenter Award 2020 from HEC-LABEX for their experimental research effort on the Multiparty Privacy Conflict … Read more - Our work on MPCs got accepted and presented in ACM DIS 2021
Kavous presented our paper about the MPC project entitled “I thought you were okay”: Participatory Design with Young Adults to Fight Multiparty Privacy Conflicts in Online Social Networks at ACM … Read more - PETLabbers’ CHI 2021 Experience
ACM CHI is the most prestigious venue in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Due to the travel bans and other restrictions during the COVID-19 era, CHI 2021 was online. Six … Read more - Our work on Agon, a physical activity app based on SDT, got accepted at MobileHCI’21
Gabriela will present our work on Informed Choices, Progress Monitoring and Comparison with Peers: Features to Support the Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness Needs, as suggested by the Self-Determination Theory at … Read more - A Research Talk: “I thought you were okay”: Participatory Design with Young Adults to Fight Multiparty Privacy Conflicts in Online Social Networks [DeSi Seminar]
Exposing other people to online social networks without obtaining their consent can harm their privacy and cause severe consequences! We call this incidence Multiparty Privacy Conflict or MPC. In our … Read more