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DFPulse: The 2024 Digital Forensic Practitioner Survey

This paper reports on the largest survey of digital forensic practitioners to date (DFPulse) conducted from March to May 2024
resulting in 122 responses. The survey collected information about practitioners’ operating environments, the technologies they
encounter, investigative techniques they use, the challenges they face, the degree to which academic research is accessed and
useful to the practitioner community, and their suggested future research directions. The paper includes quantitative and qualitative
results from the survey and a discussion of the implications for academia, the improvements that can be made, and future research
directions

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I think I don’t feel sick: Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Demand and Cybersickness in Virtual Reality using fNIRS

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–
28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany.

Virtual Reality (VR) applications commonly use the illusion of self motion (vection) to simulate experiences such as running, driving, or fying. However, this can lead to cybersickness, which diminishes the experience of users, and can even lead to disengagement with this platform. In this paper we present a study in which we show that users performing a cognitive task while experiencing a VR rollercoaster reported reduced symptoms of cybersickness. Furthermore, we collected and analysed brain activity data from our participants during their experience using functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS): preliminary analysis suggests the possibility that this technology may be able to detect the experience of cybersickness. Together, these results can assist the creators of VR experiences, both through mitigation of cybersickness in the design process, and by better understanding the experiences of their users.

 

User-Centred Repair: From Current Practices to Future Design

Damla, Kilic & Neelima Sailaja:

From the kitchen to the bathroom, homes are now equipped with various technological devices like smart vacuums, intelligent mirrors, digital thermostats, wearables, and voice-controlled assistants such as Amazon Alexa. This surge in ubiquitous technologies contributes to the growing concern of electronic waste, or e-waste, globally. Research focuses on developing strategies for e-waste reduction, and is considering a range of approaches on governmental, industrial and societal levels. To gain a comprehensive understanding of smart device repair, our research was structured into several distinct tasks, each supported by semi-structured interviews, each tailored to explore different facets of repair behaviours and decision-making. A total of fifteen one-on-one study sessions were conducted as part of this research. The study’s findings will be presented in three primary sections, each shedding light on distinct aspects of repair practices and decision-making. Along with the aforementioned results around current repair practices, repair decision making drivers and future expectations, our paper offers two significant contributions to human-computer interaction (HCI) research and practice. First, we place our findings in a broader context, anchoring them within the existing body of literature on HCI, repair practices, and the IoT. Second, we leverage our findings along with wider literature to conclude our paper with a set of design recommendations that align with current actual user practice around IoT repair; is inclusive of user expectations around every day reparability in future IoT; and enables user decision making around IoT repair thereby making IoT reparability an accessible and equitable process.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Volume 14718 LNCS, Pages 52 – 712024 12th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2024, held as part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024Washington29 June 2024through 4 July 2024: DOI10.1007/978-3-031-59988-0_4