I am an HCI researcher designing technologies that support well-being, reflection, agency, and meaningful everyday interaction.
I combine media studies, psychology-oriented HCI, and human-centered design methods to understand how digital systems can help people express emotions, reflect on experiences, and stay in control of their data and decisions.
My work explores the intersection of human-centred design, everyday technologies, and personal well-being and health, across both home and workplace contexts. These three pillars represent the main directions of my current and past research, with selected publications highlighting each area.
I design interactive experiences that help people understand emotions, reflect on personal challenges, and build everyday self-care practices.
I study how technologies support and shape human-human and human-technology relationships across everyday, family, and care contexts.
I explore how intelligent and networked technologies such as social robots and smart homes change everyday routines and society, including through longitudinal studies of technology use.
In October 2025, I became groupleader of the Personal Pervasive Computing (PPC) group in the division society at OFFIS, an institut for informatics. I lead a group of four PhD students here, and together we study how people use everyday digital technologies at home and how these technologies shape daily routines, family/household relationships, and society. The group focuses on enabling understandable and accepted digital interactions, strengthening citizens’ control over their data and digital rights, and addressing social, ethical, and ecological challenges to support healthy and sustainable living.
I began my academic career at the University of Bremen in November 2019, focusing on novel interaction techniques for virtual reality (VR). My research soon narrowed to designing VR solutions aimed at well-being and self-care. I felt honored to be supervised by Johannes Schöning from the HCI Lab in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and by Yvonne Rogers from UCL in London, UK.
I successfully defended my PhD in June 2024, after which I took on the role of postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen. In Novemer 2024, I moved to the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in SaarbrĂĽcken, Germany, where I continued my postdoctoral research at the Sensorimotor Interaction Group. This role allowed me to broaden my research scope to include haptics, tangibles, and additionally focus on psychological aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI). During the summer of 2025, I was also fortunate to have been a visiting researcher at the Artifical Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRLab) at Cornell Tech, New York, led by Angelique Taylor. The AIRLab's research combines AI, Mixed Reality (MR), robotics and healthcare. During this time, I explored thow AI can help young adults in dealing with negative thoughts and promoting positive self-talk, and how AR could facilitate the handover of a patient between Emergency Medical Services (EMS) - the medical first responders at the scene of accident - and the Emergency Department in the hospital.
While my extended academic network span multiple labs from different continents, I have especially strong connections with Jasmin Niess from the University of Oslo, who has been my mentor for many years. Together, we explore technologies for well-being and features that make technology creepy. I also work a lot together with Pawel W. Wozniak from TU Wien, Austria, in the field of personal informatics.
I contribute to the HCI community through program committee work, including chair roles spanning paper, workshop or proceedings chair for diverse conferences. I like organising events and workshops, taking part in PhD or search committees, and regularly volunteer for reviewing.
Throughout my academic career, I have been fortunate to receive several awards and honors that recognize my contributions to the field of HCI. In 2026, I was awarded with the Honorable Mention Best Paper Award for our paper on "The Misalignment of Technology, Democracy, and Design: A Scoping Review", a prestigious recognition which is awarded to the top 4% of total submissions of the ACM DIS conference. Similarly, in 2024, I was honored with the another Honorable Mention Best Paper Award for the paper "MoodShaper", in which we explored the design of VR for emotion regulation purposes inspired from real psychological methods.
Additionally, I was awarded with the Best Doctoral Consortium Presentation Award at IEEE VR, 2023. This award was presented to honor the originality and significance of my PhD endeavour about designing VR applications for well-being and self-care, which I won compared to 16 other candidates that year.
Additionally, I have been honored with nine awards for exceptional peer reviews at several conferences, including CHI, IUI, MobileHCI, DIS, IDC and CHI Play. Further, I have secured various grants, such as the MMM Grant for creating feedback loops for using physical and mental health data gathered by smartwatches from the University of Bremen in 2022/2023.
These recognitions underscore my dedication to high-quality research. I am deeply appreciative of the support I have received and remain committed to pursuing excellence in all my academic endeavors.
This is a curated list of my publications, sorted by year of publication. You can also check out my Google Scholar Profile for a comprehensive overview of my publications.
In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC), 2026.
The Misalignment of Technology, Democracy, and Design: A Scoping Review
In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS), pages 2595-2612, 2026.
Reflective Motion and a Physical Canvas: Exploring Embodied Journaling in Virtual Reality
In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '26), 2026. Workshop Organising Paper.
In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), 2025.
Haptic Redirection: Modulating Hand Movement Speed with Vibrotactile Feedback
In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer (MuC), 2025.
In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS), pages 2237-2254, 2025.
In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025.
In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2025.
Tensions in Personal Informatics: Considering Product Design and Academic Responsibility
Publication listed on Google Scholar, 2025.
* authors contributed equally. In 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '24), October 9--11, 2024, Trier, Germany.
DIY Digital Interventions: Behaviour Change with Trigger-Action Programming
In (Journal) Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
MoodShaper: A Virtual Reality Experience to Support Managing Negative Emotions
In Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2024.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2024.
Exploring Mobile Devices as Haptic Interfaces for Mixed Reality
In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pages 1--17, 2024.
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI Adjunct 2024), October 13--16, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden. Late-Breaking Work (LBW)
Making Space for Self-Care: Designing Virtual Reality Applications to Empower Everyday Well-Being
In Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2024.PhD Dissertation
SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges
In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pages 1--17, 2023.
VeatherReflect: Employing Weather as Qualitative Representation of Stress Data in Virtual Reality
In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS), pages 446--458, 2023.
[DC] Fostering Well-Being with Virtual Reality Applications
In 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pages 965--966, 2023.Doctoral Consortium
Letting It Go: Four Design Concepts to Support Emotion Regulation in Virtual Reality
In 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pages 763--764, 2023.Extended Abstract
Mood worlds: A virtual environment for autonomous emotional expression
In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pages 1--16, 2022.
In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pages 558--569, 2022.
In Human-Computer Interaction 2021 (INTERACT), Bari, Italy, August 30--September 3, 2021, Proceedings, Part IV 18, pages 262--283. Springer, 2021.
Reflecting on Emotions within VR Mood Worlds
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pages 256--260, 2021.Workshop at CHI 2021
Enhancing VR Experiencces with Smartwatch Data
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction ’21 (CHI), 2021. Workshop at CHI 2021
Investigating effects and user preferences of extra-and intradiegetic virtual reality questionnaires
In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), pages 1--11, 2020.
Mitigating the Negative Impacts when Designing Educational VR Applications for Children
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction ’21 (CHI), 2021. Workshop at CHI 2020
Symmetric Evaluation: An Evaluation Protocol for Social VR Experiences
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction ’21 (CHI), 2021. Workshop at CHI 2020
