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  1. Differential Benefits: The Impact of Computer Clubs in Palestine on Volunteers CSCW012

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  2. Exploring Algorithmic Resistance: Responses to Social Media Censorship in Activism

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  3. New Opportunities, Risks, and Harm of Generative AI for Fostering Safe Online Communities

    Article • January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  4. Designing for those who are Overlooked - Investigating long-term Impacts of Social Robotics for People with Advanced Dementia, Caregivers and Relatives in a Secured Care Environment

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  5. The Collaboration Paradox: Confronting Colonial Legacies in South-North Projects

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

    Konstantin Aal

  6. From Singularity to PlurAIverse: Expanding the AI Design Paradigm

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

    Konstantin Aal

  7. "And this is where we fu***d up!" Lessons learned from Participatory Design in Digital Civic Initiatives

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

    Ana Henriques, Konstantin Aal

  8. Envisioning Collaborative Futures: Advancing the Frontiers of Embedded Research

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

    Hugo Nicolau, Ceylan Besevli, Clara Crivellaro, Konstantin Aal, Ana Henriques

  9. Fostering Feminist Community-Led Ethics: Building Tools and Connections

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

    Ana Henriques, Konstantin Aal, Dr Colin M. Gray, Hugo Nicolau

  10. Ethnography at the Edge: Exploring Research Dynamics in Crisis and Conflict Areas

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

    Konstantin Aal, Nina Boulus-Rødje

  11. Shielding or Silencing?: An Investigation into Content Moderation during the Sheikh Jarrah Crisis

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

    Konstantin Aal

  12. Lions out of Bounds? Reflections on Digital Technology and Matristic Design to address Human-Wildlife Conflict

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

    Konstantin Aal

  13. From Surplus and Scarcity toward Abundance: Understanding the Use of ICT in Food Resource Sharing Practices

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  14. Literacy and the Process of Becoming Home: Learnings from an Interactive Storytelling-Initiative

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Ahmad Alkhatib

  15. "We all have skin, we all have blood, we are all human": creating discourse among different conceptualizations of Europe with an interactive art installation

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

    Konstantin Aal

  16. Looking Past the Miracle Box

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  17. Creative Practices for Inclusive Future Smart City Design

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Douglas Schuler, Stacy Vallis, Laura Scheepmaker

  18. Digital Security Story Cards for Women with a Refugee and Migrant Background

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  19. Creative Entrances to Co-Design

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Yasmin Kafai

  20. Speculative Design as a Collaborative Practice: Ameliorating the Consequences of Illiteracy through Digital Touch

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  21. Moving beyond illiteracy: Is wearable and touch-sensitive technology the way to go forward?

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  22. Ethical Future Environments: Smart Thinking about Smart Cities means engaging with its Most Vulnerable

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Franziska Tachtler

  23. Artificially Intelligent Technology for the Margins: A Multidisciplinary Design Agenda

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Shaimaa Lazem, Konstantin Aal, Franziska Tachtler

  24. Coping with Messiness in Ethnography: Authority, Bias and Immersion in ethnographic Fieldwork in the non-Western World

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Shaimaa Lazem, Nina Boulus-Rødje, Anicia Peters, Ann Light

  25. Messy Fieldwork

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Sarah Rüller

  26. Social Technology Appropriation in Dementia: Investigating the Role of Caregivers in Engaging People with Dementia with a Videogame-based Training System

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Daryoush Vaziri, Konstantin Aal

  27. The Social Mile - How (Psychosocial) ICT can Help to Promote Resocialization and to Overcome Prison

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sebastian Taugerbeck, Konstantin Aal

  28. Digital Participation in Prison - A Public Discourse Analysis of the Use of ICT by Inmates

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sebastian Taugerbeck, Konstantin Aal

  29. Finding Language Classes

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  30. Technology at/of the border

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Franziska Tachtler, Eiad Yafi, Konstantin Aal

  31. Designing for Openness in Making

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  32. Reflections on a Design Case Study - (Educational) ICT Intervention with Imazighen in Morocco

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  33. What is participation?

    Article • interactions, April 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  34. Facilitating Collaboration and Social Experiences with Videogames in Dementia

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Daryoush Vaziri, Konstantin Aal

  35. HCI and refugees

    Article • interactions, June 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  36. Exploring the Potential of Exergames to affect the Social and Daily Life of People with Dementia and their Caregivers

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Daryoush Vaziri

  37. Refugees & Technology

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  38. Video-game based Exergames for People with Dementia and Their Caregivers

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Daryoush Vaziri

  39. MobiAssist - ICT-based Training System for People with Dementia and Their Caregivers

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal, Daryoush Vaziri

  40. Refugees & HCI Workshop

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  41. Challenges of CI Initiatives in a Political Unstable Situation - Case Study of a Computer Club in a Refugee Camp

    Article • November 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  42. Bridging (Gender-Related) Barriers

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  43. From computational thinking to computational making

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal

  44. Sewing interest in E-textiles

    Article • June 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Konstantin Aal