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  1. Playing Through Tough Times: Exploring the Relationship between Game Aspects and Coping Strategies during Difficult Life Challenges

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alena Denisova, Sahar Mirhadi

  2. PACMHCI V8, CHI PLAY, October 2024 Editorial

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alena Denisova, Julian Frommel

  3. Towards Democratisation of Games User Research: Exploring Playtesting Challenges of Indie Video Game Developers

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alena Denisova

  4. Evaluating Interactive AI: Understanding and Controlling Placebo Effects in Human-AI Interaction

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alena Denisova

  5. Games and Play SIG: Connecting Games Research to the Broader HCI Context

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alena Denisova

  6. From Pixels to Play: Opportunities and Challenges of a Diverse and Democratized Games Industry

    Article • interactions, February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Pejman Babaei, Alena Denisova

  7. ChallengeDetect: Investigating the Potential of Detecting In-Game Challenge Experience from Physiological Measures

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alena Denisova

  8. Comparing Measures of Perceived Challenge and Demand in Video Games: Exploring the Conceptual Dimensions of CORGIS and VGDS

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicholas Bowman, Alena Denisova

  9. Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Simone Kriglstein, Alena Denisova

  10. The Challenge of Evaluating Player Experience in Tabletop Role-Playing Games

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alena Denisova