research.

peer-reviewed conference publications.


No Pie in the (Digital) Sky: Co-Imagining the Food Metaverse

Alexandra Covaci, Khawla Alhasan, Mayank Loonker, Bernardine Farrell, Luma Tabbaa, Sophia Ppali, and Chee Siang Ang. 2023. No Pie in the (Digital) Sky: Co-Imagining the Food Metaverse. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 501, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581305




Mirror Placement Matters in Remote Collaboration

Boyd Branch, Piotr Mirowski, Sophia Ppali, Rocio Von Jungenfeld, Paul Allain, and Christos Efstratiou. 2023. Mirror Placement Matters in Remote Collaboration. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 207, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585798




“I was Holding a Magic Box”: Investigating the Effects of Private and Projected Displays in Outdoor Heritage Walks

Mayank Loonker, Sophia Ppali, Rocio von Jungenfeld, Christos Efstratiou, and Alexandra Covaci. 2022. “I was Holding a Magic Box”: Investigating the Effects of Private and Projected Displays in Outdoor Heritage Walks. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1565–1580. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533468




Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice

Sophia Ppali, Vali Lalioti, Boyd Branch, Chee Siang Ang, Andrew J. Thomas, Bea S. Wohl, and Alexandra Covaci. 2022. Keep the VRhythm going: A musician-centred study investigating how Virtual Reality can support creative musical practice. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 220, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501922




VR Rehearse & Perform - A platform for rehearsing in Virtual Reality

Vali Lalioti*, Sophia Ppali*, Andrew J. Thomas, Ragnar Hrafnkelsson, Mick Grierson, Chee Siang Ang, B. S. Wohl, and Alexandra Covaci. 2021. VR Rehearse & Perform - A platform for rehearsing in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 107, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489896 (*first equal co-author)



other publications.

Performances’ 22: A Workshop on Designing the Performances of the Future at IMX 2022.

Sophia Ppali*, Boyd Branch, Alexandra Covaci, Bea Wohl, and Vali Lalioti. 2022. Performances’ 22: A Workshop on Designing the Performances of the Future at IMX 2022. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX '22), Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 159-162. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20069453.v1

Policy brief: HEartS professional: the Health, Economic and Social impact of COVID-19 on Professionals in the arts: findings and policy implications for cultural recovery.

Williamon, Aaron, George Waddell, Neta Spiro, Rosie Perkins, Caitlin Shaughnessy, Aifric Campbell, Marisa Miraldo, Vali Lalioti, and Sophia Ppali. 2022. Policy brief: HEartS professional: the Health, Economic and Social impact of COVID-19 on Professionals in the arts: findings and policy implications for cultural recovery. In The Pandemic and Beyond. https://doi.org/10.24379/RCM.00002303

VRPassport: Travel the world in Virtual Reality for people with Dementia

Ethan Cheung, Chee Siang Ang, Panote Siriaraya, Sophia Ppali, Kieran Breen, Sarrah Fatima. 2022. VRPassport: Travel the world in Virtual Reality for people with Dementia. In The Future of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction - CHI 2022 Workshop. . https://kar.kent.ac.uk/99778/