About

Evropi Stefanidi, PhD

Evropi Stefanidi
evropi.stefanidi@tuwien.ac.at
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the HCI Group at TU Wien, Austria .

My research is positioned in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with a strong emphasis on Child-Computer Interaction (CCI). My focus has primarily been on designing innovative technologies aimed at enhancing the well-being and empowerment of both neurotypical and neurodivergent children, along with their families and caregivers.

This has enabled me to gain experience in designing for diverse user needs and interests, including different age groups (e.g., young children, teenagers, older adults), user group constellations (e.g., families, health professionals, teachers), and both neurotypical and neurodivergent (e.g., ADHD) individuals. Central to my approach is a commitment to not only design for users but also with them, actively involving them in the creative process to ensure our solutions resonate with their real-world needs and experiences.

This aligns with my interest in personal and family informatics, exploring the integration of technology into everyday life for improving family dynamics and personal development. My past explorations within the field of HCI have included the development of smart environments, virtual humans, and conversational user interfaces. This diverse range of areas enriches my current work, bringing a multifaceted perspective to supporting varied and inclusive needs through technological innovation.

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

I strive to keep this list current. For the most up-to-date overview of my work, please visit my Google Scholar profile .

(A) Full Papers and Journal Publications

  1. 🏆 Loerakker, M. B., Stefanidi, E., Niess, J., Mildner, T., and Woźniak, P.W., 2025. ‘Give and Take’: Perceptions of a Conversational Coach Agent in Fitness Trackers. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(MHCI), pp. 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3743718
  2. Stefanidi, E., Wagener, N., Chatzakis, I., Woźniak, P.W., Ntoa, S., Margetis, G., Rogers, Y. and Niess, J., 2025. Supporting Communication and Well-being with a Multi-Stakeholder Mobile App: Lessons Learned from a Field Study with ADHD Children and their Caregivers. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), pp. 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3711075
  3. Mildner, T., Fidel, D., Stefanidi, E., Woźniak, P.W., Malaka, R. and Niess, J., 2025, April. A Comparative Study of How People With and Without ADHD Recognise and Avoid Dark Patterns on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713776
  4. Stefanidi, E., Wagener, N., Augsten, D., Augsten, A., Reicherts, L., Woźniak, P.W., Schöning, J., Rogers, Y. and Niess, J., 2024, October. TeenWorlds: Supporting Emotional Expression for Teenagers with their Parents and Peers through a Collaborative VR Experience. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (pp. 1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3641825.3687754
  5. 🏆 Scott, A.E., Reicherts, L., Purohit, A.K., Hossain, E., Stefanidi, E., Wagener, N., Schöning, J., Rogers, Y. and Holzer, A., 2024. DIY Digital Interventions: Behaviour Change with Trigger-Action Programming. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(PACMHCI), pp. 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3676497 – Honorable Mention | top 5%
  6. 🏆 Stefanidi, E., Wassmann, Jonathan L. B., Woźniak, P.W., Spellmeyer, Gunnar, Rogers, Y. and Niess, J., 2024, June. MoodGems: Designing for the Well-being of Children with ADHD and their Families at Home. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 480-494). https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3655795 – Honorable Mention | top 5% & Social Impact Award
  7. Kaltenhauser, A., Stefanidi, E. and Schöning, J., 2024. Playing with Perspectives and Unveiling the Autoethnographic Kaleidoscope in HCI – A Literature Review of Autoethnographies. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642355
  8. Stefanidi, E., Dominiak, J., Bentvelzen, M., Woźniak, P.W., Schöning, J., Rogers, Y. and Niess, J., 2023, June. MagiBricks: Fostering Intergenerational Connectedness in Distributed Play with Smart Toy Bricks. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 239-252). https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3589390
  9. Stefanidi, E., Bentvelzen, M., Woźniak, P.W., Kosch, T., Woźniak, M.P., Mildner, T., Schneegass, S., Müller, H. and Niess, J., 2023, April. Literature Reviews in HCI: A Review of Reviews. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581332
  10. Wagener, N., Reicherts, L., Zargham, N., Bartłomiejczyk, N., Scott, A.E., Wang, K., Bentvelzen, M., Stefanidi, E., Mildner, T., Rogers, Y. and Niess, J., 2023, April. SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580763
  11. Stefanidi, E., Schöning, J., Rogers, Y. and Niess, J., 2023, April. Children with ADHD and their Care Ecosystem: Designing Beyond Symptoms. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581216
  12. Bentvelzen, M., Woźniak, P.W., Herbes, P.S., Stefanidi, E. and Niess, J., 2022. Revisiting Reflection in HCI: Four Design Resources for Technologies that Support Reflection. In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6(1), pp. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517233
  13. Stefanidi, E., Schöning, J., Feger, S.S., Marshall, P., Rogers, Y. and Niess, J., 2022, June. Designing for care ecosystems: a literature review of technologies for children with ADHD. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 13-25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3501712.3529746
  14. Stefanidi, E., Partarakis, N., Zabulis, X., Adami, I., Ntoa, S. and Papagiannakis, G., 2022. Transferring traditional crafts from the physical to the virtual world: An authoring and visualization method and platform. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 15(2), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3484397
  15. Stefanidi, E., Korozi, M., Leonidis, A., Arampatzis, D., Antona, M. and Papagiannakis, G., 2021, June. When children program intelligent environments: Lessons learned from a serious AR game. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 375-386). https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3462463
  16. Diethei, D., Niess, J., Stellmacher, C., Stefanidi, E. and Schöning, J., 2021, May. Sharing heartbeats: motivations of citizen scientists in times of crises. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445665
  17. Partarakis, N., Patsiouras, N., Evdemon, T., Doulgeraki, P., Karuzaki, E., Stefanidi, E., Ntoa, S., Meghini, C., Kaplanidi, D., Fasoula, M. and Zabulis, X., 2021. Enhancing the Educational Value of Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Traditional Crafts Through Role-Play Gaming. In: Brooks, A., Brooks, E.I., Jonathan, D. (eds) Interactivity and Game Creation. ArtsIT 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73426-8_14
  18. Zabulis, X., Meghini, C., Partarakis, N., Beisswenger, C., Dubois, A., Fasoula, M., Nitti, V., Ntoa, S., Adami, I., Chatziantoniou, A., Bartalesi, V., Metilli, D., Stivaktakis, N., Patsiouras, N., Doulgeraki, P., Karuzaki, E., Stefanidi, E., Qammaz, A., Kaplanidi, D., Neumann-Janßen, I., Denter, U., Hauser, H., Petraki, A., Stivaktakis, I., Mantinaki, E., Rigaki, A., Galanakis, G., 2020. Representation and preservation of Heritage Crafts. Sustainability, 12(4), p. 1461. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12041461
  19. Stefanidi, E., Partarakis, N., Zabulis, X. and Papagiannakis, G., 2020, November. An approach for the visualization of crafts and machine usage in virtual environments. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (pp. 21-25).
  20. Leonidis, A., Korozi, M., Kouroumalis, V., Poutouris, E., Stefanidi, E., Arampatzis, D., Sykianaki, E., Anyfantis, N., Kalligiannakis, E., Nicodemou, V.C. and Stefanidi, Z., 2019. Ambient intelligence in the living room. Sensors, 19(22), p. 5011. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19225011
  21. Stefanidi, E., Arampatzis, D., Leonidis, A. and Papagiannakis, G., 2019. BricklAyeR: A platform for building rules for AmI environments in AR. In: Gavrilova, M., Chang, J., Thalmann, N., Hitzer, E., Ishikawa, H. (eds) Advances in Computer Graphics. CGI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11542. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22514-8_39
  22. Zabulis, X., Meghini, C., Partarakis, N., Kaplanidi, D., Doulgeraki, P., Karuzaki, E., Stefanidi, E., Evdemon, T., Metilli, D., Bartalesi, V., Fasoula, M., Tasiopoulou, E., Beisswenger, C., 2019. What is needed to digitise knowledge on Heritage Crafts? MEMORIAMEDIA Review, 4(1), pp. 1-25.
  23. Stefanidi, E., Foukarakis, M., Arampatzis, D., Korozi, M., Leonidis, A. & Antona, M., 2019. ParlAmI: A Multimodal Approach for Programming Intelligent Environments. Technologies, 7(1), p. 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies7010011
  24. Arampatzis, D., Doulgeraki, M., Giannoulis, M., Stefanidi, E. and Patkos, T., 2019, May. EduBAI: An Educational Platform for Logic-Based Reasoning. In: MacIntyre, J., Maglogiannis, I., Iliadis, L., Pimenidis, E. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2019. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 559. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19823-7_39
  25. Stefanidi, E., Korozi, M., Leonidis, A., & Antona, M., 2018. Programming Intelligent Environments in Natural Language: An Extensible Interactive Approach. In the Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA 2018). https://doi.org/10.1145/3197768.3197776
  26. Stefanidi, E., Korozi, M., Leonidis, L., Doulgeraki, M., & Antona, M., 2018. Educator-Oriented Tools for Managing the Attention-Aware Intelligent Classroom. In the Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2018) (pp. 72-77). IARIA.

(B) Other Publications (Short Papers, Posters, Workshops)

  1. Schmidt, A.G., Tauritis, D., Niess, J., Woźniak, P.W. and Stefanidi, E., 2025. PuppetVR: Towards Supporting Pretend Play through VR Storytelling for Neurodivergent Children. In Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (pp. 895-903).
  2. Stefanidi, E., Silva, L.M., Cagiltay, B., Eriksson, E., Woźniak, P.W. and Niess, J., 2025. Towards a Research Agenda for Including Children and their Care Ecosystems in HCI. Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (pp. 1225-1227).
  3. Stefanidi, E., 2023, June. Designing for "Positive" Technology Removal? Ethical Considerations for Participatory Approaches with Children and their Care Ecosystem. Workshop on Participatory Approaches to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies for Children, at the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.
  4. Wagener, N., Stefanidi, E., and Reicherts, L., 2023. Supporting Collaborative Reflection for Teenagers Through Shared Emotional Expression in Virtual Reality. Workshop on Integrating Individual and Social Contexts into Self-Reflection Technologies, at the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  5. Stefanidi, E., 2022, June. Improving the digital well-being of neurotypical & neurodivergent children considering their care ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 668-671). https://doi.org/10.1145/3501712.3538830
  6. Stefanidi, E. and Niess, J., 2022. Designing for Inclusion with Children with ADHD and their Care Ecosystem. Workshop on Co-designing with Mixed-ability Groups of Children to Promote Inclusive Education, at the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.
  7. Stefanidi, E., Niess, J., and Rogers, Y., 2022. Designing for Children with ADHD and their Care Ecosystem: Understanding Complexities. Workshop on Designing Ecosystems for Complex Health Needs, at the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  8. Stefanidi, E., Korozi, M., Leonidis, A., Niess J., Rogers, Y. and Schöning, J., 2021. Empowering Children with ADHD/ASD within Intelligent Environments. Workshop on Designing Games for and with Children, at the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.
  9. Stefanidi, E., Dominiak, J., Bentvelzen, M., Romanowski, A., Feger, S., Woźniak, P., Schöning, J., and Niess, J., 2021. Smart Tangibles: Fostering Connectedness Across Geographic Boundaries. Workshop on Smart Toys++: Exploiting the Social Connectedness for Playing and Learning, at the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.
  10. Stefanidi, E., Partarakis, N., Zabulis, X., Zikas, P., Papagiannakis, G., & Thalmann, N.M., 2021. TooltY: An approach for the combination of motion capture and 3D reconstruction to present tool usage in 3D environments. In: Thalmann, N.M., Zhang, J.J., Ramanathan, M., Thalmann, D. (eds) Intelligent Scene Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71002-6_10
  11. Stefanidi, E., Arampatzis, D., Leonidis, A., Korozi, M., Antona, M. and Papagiannakis, G., 2020. MagiPlay: An Augmented Reality Serious Game Allowing Children to Program Intelligent Environments. In: Gavrilova, M., Tan, C., Chang, J., Thalmann, N. (eds) Transactions on Computational Science XXXVII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61983-4_9
  12. Stefanidi, E., Leonidis, A., Partarakis, N. and Antona, M., 2019. CasandRA: A screenplay approach to dictate the behavior of virtual humans in AmI environments. In HCI International 2019–Late Breaking Posters: 21st HCI International Conference (pp. 57-66). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30712-7_8
  13. Stefanidi, E., Doulgeraki, M., Korozi, M., Leonidis, A., & Antona, M., 2016. Designing a Teacher-Friendly Editor for Configuring the Attention-Aware Smart Classroom. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40542-1_43