CHI Extended Abstracts
April 13, 2026
Mijin Choi, Jeongmin Hong
Dreams have been understood a generative source of creative insight, producing associations and narratives that extend beyond waking cognition. Recent HCI research has begun to engage this potential through systems that capture and reinterpret dream content for creative and expressive work. However, existing approaches largely frame dreams as private or therapeutic resources, leaving open how...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 13, 2026
Luca L. Bennardo, Luisa Weber, Jonas Hummel et al.
Workplace stress is a critical factor that undermines employee performance and leads to physical ailments and mental health challenges. Although meditation is widely recognized as an effective stress-reduction strategy, traditional meditation practices are often too time-consuming or complicated to be easily incorporated into professional settings. To address this issue, we introduce StreAM...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 13, 2026
A. Bezabih, M. Golino, Jami Moe-Hartman et al.
Adolescents are disproportionately affected by mental illness exacerbated by developmental vulnerabilities and resource gaps. Meditation offers benefits if integrated effectively into treatment plans as a therapeutic adjunct. Research indicates that meditation skills training in Virtual Reality (VR) has been beneficial for adults, and may yield similar benefits for adolescents. However,...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 13, 2026
M. Pomarlan, Amber Maimon, Shiyao Zhang et al.
Embodied cognition holds that behavior is shaped by the continuous coupling between internal bodily regulation and engagement with the environment. Robots likewise act under dynamically changing internal conditions; yet, such variables are typically hidden implementation details rather than seen as contributors to behavioral organization. We introduce a framework for robotic phenomenology to...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 13, 2026
Xiao Zoe Fang, Duoduo Li, Tian Zhou et al.
Dream engineering is an emerging field within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that uses interactive systems to monitor sleep stages and deliver sensory stimuli to influence dream content for human well-being. Existing systems face two key limitations: 1) for sensing, the absence of deployable systems with laboratory-grade sleep staging capability creates a barrier to translating dream science...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 25, 2025
Mirella Hladký, Mareike Silber, Tomohiro Nagashima
Math anxiety is a widespread issue that affects students’ emotional well-being and math learning. We developed the MindfulMath Tutor, an interactive mindfulness-infused math learning system with a pedagogical agent that provides both cognitive and socio-emotional support, using positive mindful language and breathing exercises. Our experiment with 31 secondary school students (with medium to...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 11, 2024
P. Wang, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee, Rohit Rajesh et al.
Lucid dreaming is a unique state of consciousness where one is aware of dreaming whilst asleep, allowing the dreamer to control their dream content, offering various mental and physical health benefits. Existing research has utilised lab settings with manual induction techniques with researchers to induce lucid dreams, which is costly and time-consuming. Thus, there is a need for an autonomous...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 11, 2024
P. Wang, Rohit Rajesh, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee et al.
Lucid dreaming, characterized by an awareness of being in a dream, offers individuals the ability to control dream content, which leads to various benefits such as entertainment, improved mental well-being, reduced concurrent nightmares, skills enhancement, creative inspiration, and problem-solving. However, manipulating dream content can be challenging and even experienced lucid dreamers may...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 11, 2024
P. Wang, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee, Rohit Rajesh et al.
Lucid Dreaming, a unique state of consciousness whilst asleep where dreamers can engage in volitional actions not limited by the constraints of the physical world and control their dream contents, offers various mental and physical health benefits. Current research combining multiple lucid dreaming induction techniques is often conducted in a lab setting, lacking autonomy by relying on...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 2, 2024
P. Wang, Nathaniel Yung Xiang Lee, Rohit Rajesh et al.
Lucid dreaming is a state in which individuals become aware that they are dreaming, allowing dreamers to actively engage in controlling their dream content and transcending the limitations of the physical world. Lucid dreaming offers various mental and physical health benefits. However, current research combining multiple lucid dreaming induction techniques is often conducted with the...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 19, 2023
Harsh Kumar, Yiyi Wang, Jia-Kai Shi et al.
Teachable self-help techniques, such as mindfulness, can reduce anxiety and improve mental well-being outcomes. However, people lack proper awareness of such techniques. In this work, we explore the design space of using online dissemination channels to help people learn about mindfulness. We investigate the potential benefits of using Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve awareness and...
CHI Extended Abstracts
May 2, 2019
Alexandra Kitson, S. DiPaola, Bernhard E. Riecke
Lucid dreaming, knowing one is dreaming while dreaming, is an important tool for exploring consciousness and bringing awareness to different aspects of life. We present a proof-of-concept system called Lucid Loop: a virtual reality experience where one can practice lucid awareness via biofeedback. Visuals are creatively generated before your eyes using a deep learning Artificial Intelligence...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 20, 2018
Lin Liang, D. Shastri
A key factor that a typical Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) demands of operators is concentration of mind. A focused mind is more effective in controlling a BCI. One way to improve mental concentration is meditation. Past studies have demonstrated the positive effect of long-term meditation (month-long to year-long) on BCI performance. In this study, we examined the impact of short-term...
CHI Extended Abstracts
April 20, 2018
A. Horowitz, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar et al.
Current HCI research overlooks an opportunity to create human-machine interaction within the unique cognition ongoing during dreams and drowsiness. During sleep onset, a window of opportunity arises in the form of Hypnagogia, a semi-lucid sleep state where we begin dreaming before we fall fully unconscious. To access this state, we developed Dormio, the first interactive interface for sleep,...