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EMS hand prop: Leveraging the loss of sense of agency caused by electrical muscle stimulation to make hands serve better as virtual objects EMS手道具：利用电肌肉刺激导致的代理感丧失，使手更好地充当虚拟物体

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103715

Jianhui Yan , Jiesi Zhang , Haoqiang Hua , Wenxuan Wu , Hongnan Lin , Qiwei Xiong , Jianxiu Jin , Lin Shu

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Designwise: Design principles for multimodal interfaces with augmented reality in internet of things-enabled smart regions Designwise：在支持物联网的智能区域中具有增强现实的多模式界面的设计原则

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103663

Joo Chan Kim , Karan Mitra , Saguna Saguna , Christer Åhlund , Teemu H. Laine

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Do voice agents affect people’s gender stereotypes? Quantitative investigation of stereotype spillover effects from interacting with gendered voice agents 语音代理会影响人们对性别的刻板印象吗？与性别语音代理互动的刻板印象溢出效应的定量研究

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103683

Madeleine Steeds , Marius Claudy , Benjamin R. Cowan , Anshu Suri

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To ‘errr’ is robot: How humans interpret hesitations in the speech of a humanoid robot “errr”是机器人：人类如何解释人形机器人说话时的犹豫

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103681

Xinyi Chen , Yao Yao

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MorphGUI: Real-time GUIs customization with large language models MorphGUI：使用大型语言模型的实时gui定制

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103695

Tommaso Calò, Andrea Sillano, Luigi De Russis

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Investigating diverse Trace motion patterns as informative cues in the far periphery 研究不同的轨迹运动模式作为远周的信息线索

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103716

Fangli Song , Xinyi Gao , Wei Wang

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Beyond content: Multimodal emotional responses predict online moral contagion across laboratory and real-world contexts 超越内容：多模态情绪反应预测实验室和现实环境中的在线道德传染

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103689

Rui Li , Xu Liu , Yipeng Yu , Waxun Su , Yueqin Hu

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3D timelines in VR: Adaptive speed for 3D data navigation on a concave timeline VR中的3D时间轴：凹时间轴上3D数据导航的自适应速度

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103672

Gary Perelman, Marcos Serrano, Aurélien Marchal, Emmanuel Dubois

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Persuasive explanations for recommender systems: how explanations can influence users’ choices? 推荐系统的说服性解释：解释如何影响用户的选择？

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103720

S.M.Tahsinur Rahman , Dominik Siemon , Tuukka Ruotsalo

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Strategic misdirection: Attempts to protect privacy with made-up email addresses 策略性误导：试图用编造的电子邮件地址来保护隐私

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103599

Sharmin Ahmed , Emilee Rader , Sameer Patil

{"title":"Strategic misdirection: Attempts to protect privacy with made-up email addresses","authors":"Sharmin Ahmed , Emilee Rader , Sameer Patil","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People are often asked to provide their email addresses for identification, authentication, or communication purposes. In many such circumstances, people provide made-up email addresses instead of their own. To understand why people provide made-up email addresses, we interviewed 20 people who reported doing so. We found that the participants provided made-up email addresses to avoid information overload and protect privacy. The participants chose to provide made-up email addresses based on several factors, such as the context, personal benefits and risks, past experiences, and verification requirements. When composing made-up email addresses, the participants employed several common patterns based on their mental models of email address formats and threat models for undesirable uses of their email addresses. The participants reported using these patterns strategically to navigate the social expectations to comply with such requests and to avoid embarrassment from being perceived as deceptive. We connect our findings to email privacy more broadly through the theoretical perspectives of boundary regulation, communication privacy management, contextual integrity, social desirability, and interdependent privacy. Our insight points to design and regulatory suggestions to address the interdependent privacy issues resulting from made-up email addresses and to help users deal more effectively with email overload and email marketing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54955,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human-Computer Studies","volume":"208 ","pages":"Article 103599"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145840204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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