OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	153
Towards understanding the design of playful bodily extensions via body schema and body image	120
Loving-kindness and walking meditation with a robot: Countering negative mood by stimulating creativity	114
Investigating cognitive workload in concurrent speech-based information communication	102
Editorial Board	95
BackTracer: Improving ray-casting 3D target acquisition by backtracking the interaction history	93
Story-based authentication for mobile devices using semantically-linked images	89
Augmenting outdated museum exhibits with embodied and tangible interactions for prolonged use and learning enhancement	88
Machine learning systems as mentors in human learning: A user study on machine bias transmission in medical training	82
An experimental study on embodiment forms and interaction modes in affective robots for anxiety relief and emotional connection	81
Design with myself: A brain–computer interface design tool that predicts live emotion to enhance metacognitive monitoring of designers	65
Priming users with babies’ gestures: Investigating the influences of priming with different development origin of image schemas in gesture elicitation study	62
Gamification of virtual reality assembly training: Effects of a combined point and level system on motivation and training results	60
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Digital Communication Empathy Scale (DCES)	60
“Should I Introduce myself?”: Asynchronous semi-guided professional introductions for enhanced perceived team effectiveness in new virtual dyadic teams	56
Editorial Board	55
Turn Left Turn Right - Delving type and modality of instructions in navigation assistant systems for people with visual impairments	53
Growing together: An analysis of measurement transparency across 15 years of player motivation questionnaires	51
Graphical features of interactive dashboards have little influence on engineering students performing a design task	49
A framework and serious game for decision making in stressful situations; a fire evacuation scenario	47
Aesthetic semantics: Affect rating of atomic visual web aesthetics for use in affective user experience design	46
How do people evaluate the accuracy of video posts when a warning indicates they were generated by AI?	44
Trails, rails, and over-reliance: How navigation assistance affects route-finding and spatial learning in virtual environments	42
From reader to experiencer: Design and evaluation of a VR data story for promoting the situation awareness of public health threats	42
Designing for social impact: Understanding the social dynamics of interactive projections for public well-being	41

StoryPoint: GenAI-supported domain-specific data story authoring for enterprises	38
Editorial Board	37
Social virtual reality elicits natural interaction behavior with self-similar and generic avatars	37
Exploring enhanced strategies for emotionally-perceptive music recommendations in mid-day sleep induction scenarios	36
“It becomes more of an abstract idea, this privacy”—Informing the design for communal privacy experiences in smart homes	35
Understanding and Streamlining App Switching Experiences in Mobile Interaction	35
Impression transference from AI to human: The impact of AI's fairness on interpersonal perception in AI-Mediated communication	35
Designing an age-friendly conversational AI agent for mobile banking: the effects of voice modality and lip movement	33
The impact of the physical and social embodiment of voice user interfaces on user distraction	33
What you say vs what you do: Utilizing positive emotional expressions to relay AI teammate intent within human–AI teams	33
AF-Mix: A gaze-aware learning system with attention feedback in mixed reality	33
Mitigating knowledge imbalance in AI-advised decision-making through collaborative user involvement	32
Towards interactive customization of multimodal embedded navigation systems for visually impaired people	31
Safeguarding worker psychosocial well-being in the age of AI: The critical role of decision control	31
Uses and gratifications of photo sharing on Instagram	31
Eyes can draw: A high-fidelity free-eye drawing method with unimodal gaze control	29
Corrigendum to ‘“Should I Introduce myself?”: Asynchronous Semi-Guided Professional Introductions for Enhanced Perceived Team Effectiveness in New Virtual Dyadic Teams’ [International Journal of Human	29
Visual aesthetics and user experience: A multiple-session experiment	29
Building blocks for creating enjoyable games—A systematic literature review	29
Editorial Board	28
Conversation-based hybrid UI for the repertory grid technique: A lab experiment into automation of qualitative surveys	27
How do preschoolers interact with peers? Characterising child and group behaviour in games with tangible interfaces in school	27
Editorial Board	27
Interdependence theory in humans’ interaction with automated vehicles: The impact of perceived situational factors on trust and cooperation	27
Toward AI-driven UI transition intuitiveness inspection for smartphone apps	27
Editorial Board	26
Representing patient vital signs with overlapping or serial earcon components	26
Musician-AI partnership mediated by emotionally-aware smart musical instruments	26
Building confidence in the metaverse: Implementation and evaluation of a multi-user virtual reality application for overcoming fear of public speaking	26
Happiness improves perceptions and game performance in an escape room, whereas anger motivates compliance with instructions from a robot agent	26
Event-related potential and oscillatory cortical activities of artistic methodology in information visualization design in human–computer interface	26
Technology futures: Towards understanding how to design awe-inspiring futures	26
Augmented tabletop interaction as an assistive tool: Tidd’s role in daily life skills training for autistic children	26
Evaluating a sonic interaction design based on a historic theatre sound effect	25
Enriching teachers’ assessments of rhythmic Forró dance skills by modelling motion sensor data	25
Understanding the inference and design of haptic experiences	25
MakeNodes: Opening connected-IoT making to people with intellectual disability	24
Fostering children's dispositional autonomy and AI understanding through co-designing AI systems: A learning science perspective	24
Exploring the influence of driver affective state and auditory display urgency on takeover performance in semi-automated vehicles: Experiment and modelling	24
Regional dialect affects older adults’ interaction with computers: Evidence from syntactic alignment in human-computer interaction	23
Designing for curiosity: Understanding player engagement with treasure chest mechanics in open-world games	23
Breaking down barriers: A new approach to virtual museum navigation for people with visual impairments through voice assistants	23
Applying cross-modal plasticity principles in auditory training applications	23
Different adaptation error types in affective computing have different effects on user experience: A Wizard-of-Oz study	23
Impact of example-based XAI for neural networks on trust, understanding, and performance	23
Design approaches to improve user experience: An example of a mobile app prototyping process	23
Editorial Board	22
Advanced modeling method for quantifying cumulative subjective fatigue in mid-air interaction	22
“Sorry, it was my fault”: Repairing trust in human-robot interactions	22
Why people watch user-generated videos? A systematic review and meta-analysis	21

Understanding the user experience of customer service chatbots: An experimental study of chatbot interaction design	21
Engaging with ethics in the HCI design process: A study of ethical design practice in different work contexts	21
How Linguistic Framing Affects Factory Workers' Initial Trust in Collaborative Robots: The Interplay Between Anthropomorphism and Technological Replacement	21
Zens: Designing and evaluating a movement sonification interface to alter body and flexibility perception in Yoga	21
Sensors and Sensibilities: Exploring Interactions for Habitat Comfort with An Environmental-Physiological Sensing Eyewear In the Wild	20
Meet me in VR! Can VR space help remote teams connect: A seven-week study with Horizon Workrooms	20
Young and old users prefer immersive virtual reality over a social robot for short-term cognitive training	20
Understanding digital wellbeing within complex technological contexts	20
Editorial Board	20
Comparison of visitor experiences of virtual reality exhibitions by spatial environment	20
Phishing interrupted: The impact of task interruptions on phishing email classification	19
Congruent Indirect Touch vs. mouse pointing performance	19
Mental health management as a social endeavour: Challenges and opportunities for conversational agent design	19
How do people react to ChatGPT's unpredictable behavior? Anthropomorphism, uncanniness, and fear of AI: A qualitative study on individuals’ perceptions and understandings of LLMs’ nonsensical hallucin	19
Development and validation of a social robot anthropomorphism scale (SRA) in a french sample	19
Human-machine plan conflict and conflict resolution in a visual search task	19
Comparing a friction-based uni-directional treadmill and a slip-style omni-directional treadmill on first-time HMD-VR user task performance, cybersickness, postural sway, posture angle, ease of use, e	19
User judgment of an AI model is biased by its description: A study in a job interview training context	19
Innovation tactics for implementing an ML application in healthcare: A long and winding road	18
The Voice Experience Inventory (VOXI): Validating a consensus-driven instrument for measuring user impressions of computer voice	18
Visualisations with semantic icons: Assessing engagement with distracting elements	18
Editorial Board	18
Effects of secondary task eccentricity and visual salience on attention allocation in multitasking across screens	17
Editorial Board	17
Improving user experience of color palette extraction by using interactive visualization based on hierarchical color model	17
Multi-scent olfactory display with visual and sound interaction	17
ContractMind: Trust-calibration interaction design for AI contract review tools	17
“Transported to a better place”: The influence of virtual reality on the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia	17
Effects of various in-vehicle human–machine interfaces on drivers’ takeover performance and gaze pattern in conditionally automated vehicles	17
Item-level implicit affective measures reveal the uncanny valley of robot faces	17
Estimating human sensitivity to curving of segmented paths within room-size environment	17
Integrating culture in Human–Food Interaction: A study of cultural and creative food experiences and technological interactions	17
A longitudinal study of human–chatbot relationships	16
Examining dual-task interference effects of visual and auditory perceptual load in virtual reality	16
Raising Awareness of Stereotyping Through Collaborative Digital Storytelling: Design for Change with and for Children	16
Limits of speech in connected homes: Experimental comparison of self-reporting tools for human activity recognition	16
A virtual object manipulation method based on eye-gaze selection and head-eye coordination movement	16
‘Address and command’: Two-handed mid-air interactions with multiple home devices	16
Leyenes: A gaze-based text entry method using linear smooth pursuit and target speed	16
DianTea: An augmented performance VR system for enhancing Chinese youth learning about tea-making as an intangible cultural heritage	16
Exploration strategies for tactile graphics displayed by electrovibration on a touchscreen	16
How do young users perceive and respond to AI-generated short-form videos? An exploration of Generation Z’s perceptions, emotional responses, and trust in AI-created video on social media platforms	16
Design for social digital well-being with young generations: Engage them and make them reflect	16
Elicitation and Evaluation of Hand-based Interaction Language for 3D Conceptual Design in Mixed Reality	16
The influence of audio effects and attention on the perceived duration of interaction	16
How do people experience the temporality of everyday life changes? Towards the exploration of existential time in HCI	15
Visualizing speech styles in captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers	15
Operationalizing selective transparency using progressive disclosure in artificial intelligence clinical diagnosis systems	15
A graspable olfactory display for virtual reality	15
Explanations in warning dialogs to help users defend against phishing attacks	15
Convergence of Virtual Reality and Digital Twin technologies to enhance digital operators’ training in industry 4.0	15
So far yet so near: Exploring the effects of immersion, presence, and psychological distance on empathy and prosocial behavior	15
Cognitive abilities predict performance in everyday computer tasks	15
Design and evaluation of AR-based adaptive human-computer interaction cognitive training	14
“What are they not telling me?” Learning machine learning: Understanding the challenges for novices	14
Editorial Board	14
Enhancing user information disclosure intention in dynamic conversations of intelligent recommendation systems based on large language models: A perspective of user gratification and privacy calculus	14
Between immersion and usability: A comparative study of 2D and mixed reality interfaces for remote music making	14
Editorial Board	14
Mixed-reality art as shared experience for cross-device users: Materialize, understand, and explore	14
Perceptions of visual and multimodal symbolic mediated social touch: Role of technology modality, relationship, and task emotional salience	14
Defining a recommendation system to configure personalized assistance for individuals with cognitive impairments due to a traumatic brain injury	13
Investigating crossmodal correspondences between vibrotactile stimuli, colour, and emotions	13
Conversational agents for fostering curiosity-driven learning in children	13
Designing Universal and Intuitive Pictograms (UIPP) – A Detailed Process for More Suitable Visual Representations	13
The role of the visual environment on characteristics of over-ground locomotion in natural and virtual environments	13
The effects of domain knowledge on trust in explainable AI and task performance: A case of peer-to-peer lending	13
Evaluating the effect of displaying team vs. individual metrics on team performance	13
Investigating the use of speech-based conversational agents for life coaching	13
The possibilities of using immersive virtual environments in research on way finding	12
Editorial Board	12
Understanding the challenges of deploying a milestone-tracking application in a cross-cultural context	12
Exploiting linguistic information from Nepali transcripts for early detection of Alzheimer's disease using natural language processing and machine learning techniques	12
Examining the role of volumetric segmentation on movement training in mixed reality	12
Automated strategy feedback can improve the readability of physicians’ electronic communications to simulated patients	12
The Autonomous Vehicle Assistant (AVA): Emerging technology design supporting blind and visually impaired travelers in autonomous transportation	12
PressTapFlick: Exploring a gaze and foot-based multimodal approach to gaze typing	12
Editorial Board	12