my publications
On a mission to understand human interactions with technology, and along the way, develop more trustworthy and sustainable designs and technologies. Here's a list of my recent work.
On Designing Visceral Encounters with Synthetic Intimate Imagery
A Gómez Ortega, HU Genç, W van der Maden, R Comber, A Lampinen, M Balaam
DIS 2026 Full Paper Will be available soon🏆 The Bots of Persuasion: Examining How Conversational Agents' Linguistic Expressions of Personality Affect User Perceptions and Decisions
HU Genç, H Gu, C Degachi, E Niforatos, S Chandrasegaran, T Dingler, H Verma
“Are Compliments Bad Now?”: Comparing LLMs and Human Interpretations of Gender Microaggressions in the Workplace
CL Rojas, HU Genç, A Bozzon, S Colombo
CHI 2026 Full Paper Will be available soonPersuasion in Pixels and Prose: The Effects of Emotional Language and Visuals in Agent Conversations on Decision-Making
HU Genç, S Chandrasegaran, T Dingler, H Verma
CHI 2025 Full Paper PDFSurrendering to Powerlesness: Governing Personal Data Flows in Generative AI
A Gomez Ortega, HC Morales Ornelas, HU Genç
CHI 2025 Full Paper PDFSelective Trust: Understanding Human-AI Partnerships in Personal Health Decision Making Process
S van Arum, HU Genç, D Reidsma, A Karahanoğlu
CHI 2025 Full Paper PDFFrom Silence to Dialogue: Boosting Collocated Social Interactions with Technology
HU Genç, A Coskun
NordiCHI 2024 Full Paper PDFOn the effectiveness of creating conversational agent personalities through prompting
H Gu, C Degachi, HU Genç, S Chandrasegaran, H Verma
CIKM 2023 Workshop Paper PDF🏆 How sustainable is your menu? Designing and assessing an interactive artefact to support chefs’ sustainable recipe-planning practices
A Coskun, HU Genç, A Coskun
Mind the Whisper: Enriching Collocated Social Interactions in Public Places through Audio Narratives
HU Genç, D Erdem, Ç Yıldırım, A Coskun
DIS 2022 Full Paper PDFGestural interaction in the kitchen: Insights into designing an interactive display controlled by hand specific on-skin gestures
C Beşevli, HU Genç, A Coşkun, T Göksun, Y Yemez, O Özcan
The Design Journal 2022 Journal Paper PDFA Study into Designing an Ambient Water Bottle that Supports Users' Water-intake Tracking Practices
A Coskun, M Yildiz, H Yilmazer, HU Genç
The Design Society 2021 Journal Paper PDFKNOBIE: A Design Intervention for Supporting Chefs’ Sustainable Recipe Planning Practices
HU Genç, H Yilmazer, A Coskun
TEI 2021 Late-breaking Work PDFDesigning for social interaction in the age of excessive smartphone Use
HU Genç, A Coskun
CHI 2020 Full Paper PDFChildren in 2077: Designing children's technologies in the age of transhumanism
OO Buruk, HU Genç, et al.
CHI 2020 Extended Abstracts PDFStop wasting, start tasting! Design speculations for reducing food waste in the hospitality sector
HU Genç, M Yıldız, H Yılmazer, A Coşkun
DIS 2019 Work in Progress PDFAre we 'really' connected? understanding smartphone use during social interaction in public places
HU Genç, F Gökşen, A Coşkun
NordiCHI 2018 Paper PDFGROW: a smart bottle that uses its surface as an ambient display to motivate daily water intake
G Kaner, HU Genç, SB Dinçer, D Erdoğan, A Coşkun
CHI 2018 Extended Abstracts PDF