Paulo Bala

53 papers A* 3A 4B 6C 13Misc 4Journal 6Unranked 16
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 — conf
"It's Often Feeling Nothing...": Evaluating LLMs for Mental Health Literacy Interventions with College Students.
ICIDS (2)
José Pedro Vieira Sousa, Pedro F. Campos, Paulo Bala
2025 Misc conf
Combining Interactive Narratives and Augmented Reality to Promote Engagement between Children and Nature.
IDC
Luís Francisco Fernandes, Paulo Bala, Sandra Câmara Olim, Pedro F. Campos, Mara Dionisio
2025 A conf
Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Companion Volume)
Beatriz Severes, Ana O. Henriques, Rory Stuart Clark, Paulo Bala, Anna R. L. Carter, Rua Mae Williams, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
2025 J jnl
Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia.
CoRR
Beatriz Severes, Ana O. Henriques, Rory Stuart Clark, Paulo Bala, Anna Carter, Rua Mae Williams, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
2025 B conf
DreamScape: Fostering Financial Cognition through a Serious Game.
Creativity & Cognition
Ana Santos, Constança Freitas, Paulo Bala, Pedro F. Campos, Mara Dionisio
2025 A conf
En-join: Speculative LLM Play for Energy Community Engagement and Sustainability Awareness.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (Companion Volume)
Luiz Sachser, Andrés Isaza-Giraldo, Anna Jiskrová, Vanessa Cesário, Pedro F. Campos, Lucas Pereira, Paulo Bala
2025 Misc conf
Evaluating Mystiria: Insights from a Pilot Study on Intergenerational Collaborative Gameplay for Climate Change Awareness.
IDC
Joana Spínola, Lígia Gonçalves, Pedro F. Campos, Mara Dionísio, Paulo Bala
2025 — conf
Exploring the Impact of Transmedia Storytelling on Financial Literacy: A Pilot Evaluation with Young Adults.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Constança Freitas, Ana Santos, Pedro F. Campos, Paulo Bala, Mara Dionisio
2025 — conf
Football Games as Proxsituated Visualizations in eXtended Reality.
MindTrek
Paulo Bala, David Olim, Miguel Ribeiro, Baltasar Sousa, Pedro F. Campos, Mara Dionisio
2025 B conf
Making Sense of Our Data: Exploring Well-Being Self-Tracking Through Creative Collaboration.
Creativity & Cognition
Beatriz Severes, Paulo Bala, Patricia Piedade, Eduardo Gomes, Augusto Esteves, Mary Barreto
2025 J jnl
Meta-Evaluating Local LLMs: Rethinking Performance Metrics for Serious Games.
CoRR
Andrés Isaza-Giraldo, Paulo Bala, Lucas Pereira
2025 — conf
Meta-evaluating the Effects of Social Preferences on NPC-evaluators in an Energy Community Game.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Andrés Isaza-Giraldo, Paulo Bala, Anna Jiskrová, Luiz Sachser, Pedro F. Campos, Lucas Pereira
2025 Misc conf
Mystiria: An Intergenerational Game for Climate Literacy and Collaborative Action.
IDC
Joana Spínola, Pedro F. Campos, Lígia Gonçalves, Mara Dionísio, Paulo Bala
2025 — conf
Social Anxiety in VR-CBT: Insights for College Students.
GALA
Élton Camacho, Pedro F. Campos, Paulo Bala
2025 J jnl
Speculating Migrant Possible Worlds through Magic Machines.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Valentina Nisi, Paulo Bala, Vanessa Cesário, Shuhao Ma, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2025 — conf
Visualizing the Ledger: Teaching Blockchain as Design Material.
CHItaly
Paulo Bala, Sabrina Scuri, Catia Prandi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Valentina Nisi
2024 — conf
Being Water: Collaborating with an LLM in an Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) as Speculative Aesthetics.
ICIDS (2)
Rafaela Nunes, Terhi Marttila, Andrés Isaza-Giraldo, Paulo Bala, Pedro F. Campos
2024 C conf
CBT-Darts: Identifying Cognitive Distortions in an Immersive VR Game.
IMX
Élton Camacho, Pedro F. Campos, Paulo Bala
2024 — conf
College Tales: Pilot Study on Large Language Models Generated Narratives for Mental Health Literacy.
MindTrek
José Pedro Vieira Sousa, Pedro F. Campos, Paulo Bala
2024 C conf
Financial DreamScape: Puzzle Narrative Games for Financial Education.
IMX
Ana Santos, Constança Freitas, Paulo Bala, Pedro F. Campos, Mara Dionisio
2024 — conf
FitFest: Designing a Narrative-driven Exergame to Engage Active Seniors in Physical Activity.
MindTrek
Eva Freitas, Hildegardo Noronha, Cíntia França, Elvio Gouveia, Paulo Bala, Pedro F. Campos, Mara Dionísio
2024 — conf
Interactive Digital Storytelling Navigating the Inherent Currents of the Diasporic Mind.
ICIDS (1)
Valentina Nisi, Paulo Bala, Miguel Pessoa, Stuart James, Nuno Nunes
2024 — conf
Prompt-Gaming: A Pilot Study on LLM-Evaluating Agent in a Meaningful Energy Game.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Andrés Isaza-Giraldo, Paulo Bala, Pedro F. Campos, Lucas Pereira
2024 J jnl
Stories as Boundary Objects: Digital Storytelling with Migrant Communities for Heritage Discourses.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Paulo Bala, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2024 — conf
Where's the Finance?: A Transmedia Storytelling Experience to Engage Young Adults in Financial Educational Content.
ICIDS (2)
Constança Freitas, Ana Santos, Paulo Bala, Pedro F. Campos, Mara Dionísio
2023 A conf
"Before gentrification, we claim for habitation": Eliciting Values and Assets through Cultural Heritage Storytelling.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Valentina Nisi, Paulo Bala, Hollie Bostock, Vanessa Cesário, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2023 J jnl
"Connected to the people": Social Inclusion & Cohesion in Action through a Cultural Heritage Digital Tool.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Valentina Nisi, Paulo Bala, Vanessa Cesário, Stuart James, Alessio Del Bue, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2023 — conf
Inclusive Digital Storytelling: Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality to Re-centre Stories from the Margins.
ICIDS (1)
Valentina Nisi, Stuart James, Paulo Bala, Alessio Del Bue, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2023 A* conf
Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography.
CHI
Paulo Bala, Pedro Sanches, Vanessa Cesário, Sarah Leão, Catarina Alexandra Rebelo Rodrigues, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Valentina Nisi
2023 A conf
Uncovering Gig Worker-Centered Design Opportunities in Food Delivery Work.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Shuhao Ma, Paulo Bala, Valentina Nisi, John Zimmerman, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2022 C conf
Writing with (Digital) Scissors: Designing a Text Editing Tool for Assisted Storytelling Using Crowd-Generated Content.
ICIDS
Paulo Bala, Stuart James, Alessio Del Bue, Valentina Nisi
2021 C conf
Amnesia in the Atlantic: An AI Driven Serious Game on Marine Biodiversity.
ICEC
Mara Dionísio, Valentina Nisi, Jin Xin, Paulo Bala, Stuart James, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2021 A* conf
Dynamic Field of View Restriction in 360° Video: Aligning Optical Flow and Visual SLAM to Mitigate VIMS.
CHI
Paulo Bala, Ian Oakley, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2021 Misc conf
Square peg, round hole: A case study on using Visual Question & Answering in Games.
CHI PLAY
Paulo Bala, Valentina Nisi, Mara Dionisio, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Stuart James
2020 — —
Leveraging eXtented Reality & Human-Computer Interaction for User Experi- ence in 360◦ Video.
Paulo Bala
2020 C conf
Staying on Track: a Comparative Study on the Use of Optical Flow in 360° Video to Mitigate VIMS.
IMX
Paulo Bala, Ian Oakley, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes
2020 C conf
Tale of T(r)ails: The Design of an AR Comic Book for an Animal Welfare Transmedia.
ICIDS
Mara Dionisio, Paulo Bala, Sarah Oliveira, Valentina Nisi
2020 C conf
Tell a Tail 360$^{\circ }$: Immersive Storytelling on Animal Welfare.
ICIDS
Paulo Bala, Mara Dionisio, Tânia Andrade, Valentina Nisi
2020 C conf
Tell a Tail: Leveraging XR for a Transmedia on Animal Welfare.
ICEC
Paulo Bala, Mara Dionisio, Sarah Oliveira, Tânia Andrade, Valentina Nisi
2020 — conf
VR Open Scores: Scores as Inspiration for VR Scenarios.
NIME
Raul Masu, Paulo Bala, Muhammad Ahmad, Nuno N. Correia, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes, Teresa Romão
2019 A* conf
"When the Elephant Trumps": A Comparative Study on Spatial Audio for Orientation in 360º Videos.
CHI
Paulo Bala, Raul Masu, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes
2019 J jnl
Lucid Peninsula, a Physical Narrative Art Installation Comprising Interactive 360° Virtual Reality Components.
Int. J. Creative Interfaces Comput. Graph.
Valentina Nisi, Mara Sofia Dionisio, Paulo Bala, Tom Gross, Time's Up, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2018 C conf
Cue Control: Interactive Sound Spatialization for 360° Videos.
ICIDS
Paulo Bala, Raul Masu, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes
2018 — conf
Visually Induced Motion Sickness in 360° Videos: Comparing and Combining Visual Optimization Techniques.
ISMAR Adjunct
Paulo Bala, Dina Dionisio, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes
2017 C conf
Evaluating User Experience in 360º Storytelling Through Analytics.
ICIDS
Paulo Bala, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes
2017 B conf
Evaluating the influence of location and medium applied to mobile VR storytelling.
MUM
Paulo Bala, Mara Dionisio, Rui Trindade, Sandra Câmara Olim, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes
2017 B conf
Fragments of laura: incorporating mobile virtual reality in location aware mobile storytelling experiences.
MUM
Mara Dionisio, Paulo Bala, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes
2017 C conf
Step by Step: Evaluating Navigation Styles in Mixed Reality Entertainment Experience.
ACE
Mara Dionísio, Paulo Bala, Valentina Nisi, Ian Oakley, Nuno Nunes
2016 C conf
IVRUX: A Tool for Analyzing Immersive Narratives in Virtual Reality.
ICIDS
Paulo Bala, Mara Dionisio, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes
2016 C conf
Transmedia Storytelling for Exposing Natural Capital and Promoting Ecotourism.
ICIDS
Mara Dionisio, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Paulo Bala
2015 B conf
DreamScope Catcher: A Touch Sensitive Interface to Catch Dreams.
ITS
Mara Dionisio, Paulo Bala, Rui Trindade, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Time's Up
2015 — conf
Keyewai: Looking at Cooperation in a Holographic Projection Screen.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Paulo Bala, Lucilia Noóbrega, Guilherme Neves, Laís Lopes, Joana Morna, João Camacho, Cristina Freitas
2015 B conf
Lucid Peninsula: DreamScope - An Interactive Physical Installation.
Creativity & Cognition
Mara Dionisio, Paulo Bala, Rui Trindade, Valentina Nisi, Julian Hanna, Time's Up