Velvet Spors

According to our database, Velvet Spors authored at least 30 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

Gamification towards and alongside equity, diversity and inclusion: Looking back to move forward.

Ana Carolina Tomé Klock, Paula Toledo Palomino, Luiz Antonio Lima Rodrigues, Armando Maciel Toda, Sofia Simanke, Velvet Spors, Brenda Salenave Santana, Juho Hamari

New Media Soc., 2026

Can't See Nature for the Trees: A Literature Review about Virtual Nature for Well-Being.

Bakhtawar Aurangzeb Khan, Velvet Spors, Alfie R. Cameron, Henri Pirkkalainen, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

"Standing Out While Blending In: " Learning from Experts about Designing Fashionable Wearable Experiences.

Shiva Jabari, Asif Shaikh, Çaglar Genç, Velvet Spors, Johanna Virkki, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Roaming with a Robot: Analyzing the Experiences and Understanding the Dimensions of Designing Human-Robot Walking Interactions.

Eshtiak Ahmed, Çaglar Genç, Velvet Spors, Juho Hamari, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Playing Alongside Mushroom: Chasing Play in Human-Mycelium Encounters for More-than-Human Design.

Linas K. Gabrielaitis, Çaglar Genç, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Velvet Spors, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk

Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2026

2025

Exploring Roles and Purposes in More-than-Human Design through a Reflexive Design Studio Experiment.

Çaglar Genç, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Oguz Turan Buruk, Sangwon Jung, Velvet Spors, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 28th International Academic Mindtrek, 2025

Leveling Up Leadership: Emerging Voices and Evolving Practices in the Games & Play Community.

Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Max V. Birk, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Alena Denisova, Aakash Johry, Rakesh Patibanda, Velvet Spors, Xin Tong, Rina R. Wehbe

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2025

Human-Nature Relationships through Video Games: An Exploration of Players' Sense-Making.

Velvet Spors, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Resisting AI Solutionism: Where Do We Go From Here?

Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Velvet Spors, Michael Muller, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Shaowen Bardzell, Rua Mae Williams, Karin Hansson, Ivana Feldfeber

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation.

Juan Pablo Martinez-Avila, Andriana Boudouraki, Harriet R. Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Velvet Spors, Laia Turmo Vidal, Charles Windlin, Houda Elmimouni, Janet C. Read, Jennifer Ann Rode

Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2025

2024

Players, Take (Self-)Care: Bringing Humanistic Psychology into a Game Jam about Mental Health.

Velvet Spors, Imo Kaufman

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2024

Transhuman Communication: Human Augmentation Technologies through Co-Speculation Workshops.

Çaglar Genç, Velvet Spors, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Mattia Thibault, Leland Masek, Juho Hamari

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2024

Envisioning Transhuman Communication Research: Speculative Human Augmentation Technologies and Fictional Abstracts.

Çaglar Genç, Velvet Spors, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Mattia Thibault, Leland Masek, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, 2024

Walking Your Robot Dog: Experiences and Lessons Learned.

Eshtiak Ahmed, Çaglar Genç, Velvet Spors, Juho Hamari, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk

Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2024

Making Sense of Reality: A Mapping of Terminology Related to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, XR and the Metaverse.

Samuli Laato, Nannan Xi, Velvet Spors, Mattia Thibault, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2024

How StarCraft II Players Cope with Toxicity: Insights from Player Interviews.

Samuli Laato, Bastian Kordyaka, Velvet Spors, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the HCI in Games, 2024

"Beavers don't walk on roads": Beaver-play for more-than-human cartographies.

Linas Kristupas Gabrielaitis, Laura op de Beke, Oguz Turan Buruk, Velvet Spors, Ferran Altarriba Bertran

Proceedings of the 8th International GamiFIN Conference, Ruka, Finland, April 2-5, 2024., 2024

Shroom Cards: Playful Exploration of Human Positionalities for More-than-Human Design.

Çaglar Genç, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Sangwon Jung, Velvet Spors, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2024

Ecological In/Congruence: Becoming Sensitised to Nature in Video Games through Humanistic First-Person Research.

Velvet Spors, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Seeding a Repository of Methods-To-Be for Nature-Entangled Design Research.

Oscar Tomico, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Svenja Keune, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Danielle Wilde, Daniel Fernández Galeote, Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Ruut Tikkanen, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Velvet Spors

Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2024

2023

Care-full data, care-less systems: making sense of self-care technologies for mental health with humanistic practitioners in the United Kingdom.

Velvet Spors, Martin Flintham, Pat Brundell, David Murphy

Frontiers Comput. Sci., 2023

Crafting Bodies and Auras: Speculative Designs for Transhuman Communication.

Çaglar Genç, Velvet Spors, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Mattia Thibault, Leland Masek, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, 2023

The Museum is Dreaming: Re-Imagining the Museum through Feminist Values and Data Practices in Design Fiction.

Harriet R. Cameron, Velvet Spors

Proceedings of the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, 2023

Longing to be the Mountain: A Scoping Review about Nature-Centric, Health-Minded Technologies.

Velvet Spors, Samuli Laato, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

Playful Inspiration for a New Wave of Joyful Forest Technology.

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Velvet Spors, Juho Hamari

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2023

2022

Caring systems: making relational, gameful self-care technologies for mental health.

Velvet Spors

PhD thesis, 2022

2021

Respawn, Reload, Relate: Exploring the Self-Care Possibilities for Mental Health in Games through a Humanistic Lens.

Velvet Spors, Imo Kaufman

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

Selling Glossy, Easy Futures: A Feminist Exploration of Commercial Mental-Health-focused Self-Care Apps' Descriptions in the Google Play Store.

Velvet Spors, Hanne Gesine Wagner, Martin Flintham, Pat Brundell, David Murphy

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2020

Plastic Buttons, Complex People: An Ethnomethodology-informed Ethnography of a Video Game Museum.

Velvet Spors, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Harriet R. Cameron, Martin Flintham, Pat Brundell, David Murphy

Proceedings of the CHI PLAY '20: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2020

2019

CHInclusion: Working Toward a More Inclusive HCI Community.

Angelika Strohmayer, Cayley MacArthur, Velvet Spors, Michael J. Muller, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Ebtisam Abdullah Alabdulqader

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019