INTERACTION DESIGN x RESEARCH



Full Conference Papers/Pictorials

︎Russian (Ruo-Xuan) Wu, Tim Moesgen, Myung Jin (MJ) Kim, Xinyan Yu, Naoki Kameyama, Anusha Withana, Marius Hoggenmueller, and Luke Hespanhol. 2026. Speculating the Impacts of Mediated Social Touch Technology. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’26), June 13–17, 2026, Singapore, Singapore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3812947


︎🏆 Best Paper: Tim Moesgen, Donald Degraen, Antti Salovaara, and Yu Xiao. "Virtual Sauna–Evaluating an Immersive Thermal Motion Experience." In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, pp. 231-243. 2026. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3788851.3805006 


︎Yang, Mengshi, Tim Moesgen, Ruochen Hu, Yen Hang Zhou, Zhining Li, Min Hua, and Antti Salovaara. "
"Our Secret Language": Co-Creating and Ritualizing Affective Haptics in Long-Distance Relationships." In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-22. 2026. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772318.3790278


︎Yang, Mengshi, Ruochen Hu, Yen Hang Zhou, Zhining Li, and Tim Moesgen. "Crafting Remote Intimacy: Designing Onni for Affective Haptic Communication Across Distance." In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp. 1-14. 2026. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3731459.3774486


︎Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Sylvia Janicki, Tim Moesgen, Noura Howell, Karen Anne Cochrane. 2025. Queer/Crip Body Mapping: Expressing Dynamic Bodily Experiences with Data. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25), July 5–9, 2025, Madeira, Portugal. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735438

︎🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention: Tim Moesgen, Hsin-Ni Ho, Yu Xiao. 2024. Apparent Thermal Motion on the Forearm. In: Kajimoto, H., et al. Haptics: Understanding Touch; Technology and Systems; Applications and Interaction. EuroHaptics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14768. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70058-3_5 

︎Tim Moesgen, Ramyah Gowrishankar, and Yu Xiao. 2024. Designing Beyond Hot and Cold – Exploring Full-Body Heat Experiences in Sauna. In Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24), February 11–14, 2024, Cork, Ireland. ACM, New York. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3623509.3633364

︎🏆 Best Presentation: Tim Moesgen, Antti Salovaara, Emmi Pouta, Rebecka Pyykkö, and Yu Xiao. 2022. Vibrotactile Motion Guidance for Stroke Rehabilitation: A Comparative Study. In 2022 6th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI 2022). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3545729.3545759  

︎Felix Anand Epp, Tim Moesgen, Antti Salovaara, Emmi Pouta, and İdil Gaziulusoy. 2022. Reinventing the Wheel: The Future Ripples Method for Activating Anticipatory Capacities in Innovation Teams. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22), June 13–17, 2022, Virtual Event, Australia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3534570

Journal Papers

︎an Pham, Truong, Tim Moesgen, Sanni Siltanen, Joanna Bergström, and Yu Xiao. "ARiana: Augmented Reality Based In-Situ Annotation of Assembly Videos." IEEE Access 10 (2022): 111704-111724. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9925238



Book Chapters


︎Sanchez, Camilo, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Antti Salovaara, Felix A. Epp, and Tim Moesgen. "Peering through Time: Harnessing Anticipation in More‑than‑Human Design." In More-Than-Human Design in Practice. Taylor & Francis, 2025.


Extended Abstracts/Demos

︎ Tim Moesgen, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Esa Vikberg, Henry Hsu, Pia Johansson, and Yu Xiao. "Demonstrating Virtual Sauna–Experiencing Thermal Motion through Wearable Haptics for VR." In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-6. 2026. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772363.3799108


︎Esa Vikberg, Yu-Han Tseng, Tim Moesgen, Ramyah Gowrishankar, and Yu Xiao. 2024. ThermoTouch: Exploring a modular design of a programmable wearable thermo-haptic device. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences Workshops (IMXw '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 122–126. https://doi.org/10.1145/3672406.3672423



︎Andalibi, N., Marcu, G., Moesgen, T., Mullin, R., & Forte, A. 2018. Not Alone: Designing for Self-Disclosure and Social Support Exchange After Pregnancy Loss. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3170427.3188473




Organized Conference Workshops

︎”Speculating the Future(s) of Mediated Social Touch Technology” at World Haptics Conference 2025, Suwon, South Korea. Russian (Ruo-Xuan) Wu (University of Sydney), Tim Moesgen (Aalto University), Myung Jin (MJ) Kim (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Donald Degraen (University of Canterbury), Hsin-Ni Ho (Kyushu University), Luke Hespanhol (University of Sydney), Marius Hoggenmueller (University of Sydney), and Anusha Withana (University of Sydney).


︎Moesgen, Tim, Felix Anand Epp, Antti Salovaara, Emmi Pouta, and Camilo Sanchez. "Hands-on Introduction to Futures Thinking and Foresight with the Future Ripples Method." In Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, p. 20. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3547522.3558902



Magazine and Newspaper Articles

︎”Designing for Uncertain Futures: An Anticipatory Approach”. In Interactions Magazine. November 2023 Link ︎


︎“Speculative futuring meets AI — Experiences from an AI-enabled co-futuring workshop”. Blog Post. March 2023 Link ︎


︎”Brian”. Demo Hour. In Interactions Magazine. 2019 Link ︎

︎“Osnabrücker entwickelt App für Frauen mit Fehlgeburten“. In Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. 2018 Link ︎




Exhibitions

︎ Nordica Scent Diffuser. At Helsinki Design Week. 2020    

︎ Cona Sustainable Luminair. At Tampere Architecture and Design Week. 2020      

︎ Brian. At EMAF (European Media Art Festival). 2017  


 
Award

︎Honorable Mention. For ”CoNa - A Sustainable Luminaire”. Luminord Design Competition. Helsinki. 2020



Radio Interview

︎”Osnabrücker Student entwirft App für Frauen mit Fehlgeburten“. OS Radio. 2018

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