Publications

* supervised students or post-docs

2025

• Veen Wong*, Trisha Shared Pawar, Greta James, James R. Wallace, Cayley MacArthur. Praise with a Raise: Community-based Gameful Research for Supporting Women and Children Experiencing Homelessness. Extended Abstracts of the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2025)
• Ignacio Avellino, Pie-Yi (Patricia) Kuo, Pin Sym Foong, Jason Wiese, Helena M. Mentis, Sean A. Munson, James R. Wallace, Aneesha Singh, Andrew D. Miller, Danial A. Epstein, Francisco Nunes. Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health. Extended Abstracts of the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2025)
• Veen Wong*, Laura Wallace Jarvis*, Chris McNab*, and James R. Wallace. (2025). Bold Sky: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Game Design for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention. Proceedings of the International Conference on Games and Narrative.
• Leila Homaeian*, Vanessa Duong*, Kieko Katsuragawa, James R. Wallace. (2025). Community Support for Aging in Place: A Computational Thematic Analysis of Discussion about Informal Care on Reddit. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (GROUP). 

2024

• Rachel Woo, Daniel Harley, and James R Wallace. 2024. "I'm not alone in that battle": Designing Mobile AR for Mental Health Communication and Community Connectedness. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24).

• Bardwell, G., Ivsins, A., Wallace, J. R., Mansoor, M., & Kerr, T. (2024). “The machine doesn't judge”: Counternarratives on surveillance among people accessing a safer opioid supply via biometric machines. Social Science & Medicine, 116683.

• Leila Homaeian*, Vanessa Duong*, Keiko Katsuragawa, James R. Wallace. Understanding Issues of Supporting Elderly Parents Aging in Place: ​A Topic-Guided Thematic Analysis of r/AgingParents​. Research and Practice in Public Health Sciences Conference. (2024) *Best Talk Award*

• Amandeep Kaur*, James R. Wallace. Using LLMs to Support Qualitative Data Analysis. Research and Practice in Public Health Sciences Conference. (2024)

• Veen Wong*, Greta James, James R. Wallace, Cayley MacArthur. Community-based gamification research for supporting women and children experiencing homelessness. Research and Practice in Public Health Sciences Conference. (2024)

2023

• Ugaya Maza, L*. The Shape of Agency: Fostering Agency in Qualitative Research through Data Visualization. (2023)
• Xiaolin Wei, Nida Khan, Hammad Durrani, Naila Muzaffar, Victoria Haldane, John D. Walley, Kevin Thorpe, Erjia Ge, Shiliang Ge, Warren Dodd, James Wallace, Garry Aslanyan, Audrey Laporte, Muhammad Amir Khan. Effectiveness of digital health interventions in improving non-communicable disease management during the pandemic in rural Pakistan. PLOS ONE. (2023)
• Homaeian, L.*, Duong, V.*, Katsuragawa, K, Wallace, J. Understanding Issues of Supporting Elderly Parents Aging in Place: A Topic-Guided Thematic Analysis of Two Reddit Communities. 2023 AGE-WELL Conference.
• Gauthier, R.* and Wallace, J.R. Advancing Public Health through Computational Thematic Analysis. Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH @ CHI 2023). 
• Wallace, J.R. Reconsidering Impact in HCI: Bridging HCI Design Research and Public Health Science. Bridging HCI and Implementation Science for Innovation Adoption and Public Health Impact (CHI 2023 Workshop). 
• Gauthier, R.*, Catherine Pelletier, Laurie-Ann Carrier, Miss Maude Dionne, Ève Dubé, Samantha Meyer, and Wallace, J.R. Agency and Amplification: A Comparison of Manual and Computational Thematic Analyses by Public Health Researchers. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2023. 

2022

• Woo, R.*. "I'm not alone in that battle": Designing Immersive Visualizations for Community Awareness and Connectedness. 2022
• Wada, M.*, and Wallace, J.R. Designing Technologies for Self-care: Describing the Lived Experiences of Individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis. (2022) Human Factors in Healthcare.
• Gauthier, R.* Computational Thematic Analysis of Online Communities. 2022. 
• Bomfim, Marcela*, Wong, Erin*, Liang, Paige*, and Wallace, J.R. Design and Evaluation of Technologies for Informed Food Choices. (2022) Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (ToCHI).  
• Homaiaen, Leila*, Wallace, J.R., and Scott, S.D. Handoff and Deposit: Designing Temporal Coordination in Cross-Device Transfer Techniques for Mixed-Focus Collaboration. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2022 (CSCW 22). 
• Bomfim, Marcela*. A Recipe for Food Literacy: Designing and Evaluating Technologies for Informed Food Choices. 2022.
• Homaiaen, Leila*. Interaction Design for Mixed-Focus Collaboration in Cross-Device Environments. 2022.
• Gauthier, R.*, and Wallace, J.R. Reflections on Our Human-Centred Qualitative Data Science Journey. 2022. 
• Gauthier, R.*, and Costello, M.J., and Wallace, J.R. "I Will Not Drink With You Today": A Topic-Guided Thematic Analysis of Addiction Recovery on Reddit. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 22). 
• Gauthier, R.*, and Wallace, J.R.  The Computational Thematic Analysis Toolkit. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2022. 

2021

• Stephanie Aboueid, Samantha B. Meyer, James Wallace, Ashok Chaurasia. Latent classes associated with the intention to use a symptom checker for self-triage. PLoS ONE. 2021. 
• Chan, T.*, Gauthier, R.*, Suarez, A.*, Sia, N.*, Wallace, J.R. Merlynne: Motivating Peer-to-Peer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a Serious Game. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2021.
• Reetz, A. Valtchanov, D. Barnett-Cowan, M., Hancock, M., and Wallace, J.R. Nature vs. Stress: Investigating the Use of Biophilia in Non-Violent Exploration Games to Reduce Stress. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2021. 
• S Aboueid, SB Meyer, JR Wallace, S Mahajan, T Nur, A Chaurasia. Use of symptom checkers for COVID-19-related symptoms among university students: a qualitative study. BMJ Innovations. 
• Homaeian, L. Wallace, J.R., Scott, S.D. Joint Action Storyboards: A Framework for Visualizing Communication Grounding Costs. CSCW 2021 Proceedings of the ACM 2021. (in-press)
• Aboueid, S., Meyer, S., Wallace, J., Mahajan, S., Chaurasia, A. Young adults’ perspectives on the use of symptom checkers for self-triage and self-diagnosis: a qualitative study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 

2020

• Chan, T.*, McMurray, J., Levy, A.-M., Wallace, J., Sveistrup, H. (2020). Post-Hackathon Learning Circles: Supporting Lean Startup Development. Hallman Lecture Series, University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON, Canada. 
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  Bomfim, M.*, Kirkpatrick, S., Nacke, L., Wallace, J. Food Literacy while Shopping: Making Informed Food Decisions with a Situated Gameful App (2020). ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA. *Honourable Mention*
• Chan, T.*, McMurray, J., Levy, A.-M., Wallace, J., Sveistrup, H. (2020). Post-Hackathon Learning Circles: Supporting Lean Startup Development.  Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA. ~30% acceptance rate.

2019

• M. Tahai*, James R. Wallace, Christian Eckhardt, Kryzztof Pietroszek. Scalebridge: Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Difficulty Proportional Reasoning Game for Children. 2019 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications. 2019
• Ben Selwyn-Smith, Craig Anslow, Michael Homer, James R. Wallace. (2019) Co-located Collaborative Block-Based Programming. 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)  
• Marina Wada*. Exploring Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Needs in Shared Decision Making: A Qualitative User Needs Study. Master's Thesis. 2019.
• Robert P Gauthier*, Mary Jean Costello, James R. Wallace. (2019) Understanding Addiction Recovery Communities on Reddit: A Thematic Analysis Driven by Topic Modelling. Human Factors Inter-University Workshop. 
• Marina Wada*, James R. Wallace. Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Engaging in Shared Decision Making: An Exploratory User Needs Study. (2019) Human Factors Inter-University Workshop.  
• Leila Homaeian*, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Visualizing Communication Grounding Costs in Collaborative Environments. (2019) Human Factors Inter-University Workshop.  
• Long Ting Chan*. Leveraging the Proteus Effect to Motivate Emotional Support in a Serious Game for Mental Health. (2019) Human Factors Inter-University Workshop.
• L Homaeian*, N Goyal, J R. Wallace, SD Scott.  Group vs individual: Impact of touch and tilt cross-device interactions on mixed-focus collaboration. (2019) Human Factors Inter-University Workshop. 
• Long Ting Chan*. Leveraging the Proteus Effect to Motivate Emotional Support in a Serious Game for Mental Health. Master's Thesis. 2019.
• Levy, A.-M., McMurray, J., Chan, T.*, Wallace, J., Sveistrup, H. (2019). Building regional health ecosystem capacity: Post-hackathon learning circles to support early co-design of social isolation solutions for older adults.  5th Annual AGE-WELL Conference, Moncton, New Brunswick, October 21-23.
• Zhe Liu*. Modeling Cumulative Arm Fatigue on Large Multi-touch Displays. Master's Thesis. 2019.
• Ben Selwyn-Smith, Craig Anslow, Michael Homer, and Jim Wallace. Co-Located Collaborative Block-Based Programming. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human-Centric Computing.
• Denise Ng*, Josephine McMurray, James R. Wallace, Plinio Morita. What’s Being Used, and Who’s Using it? Barriers to the Adoption of Smartphone Patient Experience Surveys. JMIR Formative Research.  
• Marcela C.C. Bomfim* and James R. Wallace. Engaging Young Adults to Develop Food Literacy. Presented at the Workshop The Body as a Starting Point - Inbodied Design CHI'19 Workshop (CHI 2019).

2018

• Tina Chan*, Marcela Costa C. Bomfim*, Nadia Somani, Dulguunbayar Mungunzagas, Suvdanchimeg Purevsuren, Munkhtulga Baljinnyam, Tergel Nyamlkhavga, Tamir Batmend, Tsendsuren Batsaikhan, Andrea Irvin, Oyun L, Bolorchimeg Dagva, Alex Heikens, James R. Wallace, Plinio P. Morita. LIFEHACK - A Serious Game and Simulation by Mongolian Youth to Educate and Motivate Students to make Healthy Choices in Mongolia. Global Health Students and Young Professionals Summit, 2018.
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  Tina Chan*. Designing for Engagement in Peer-to-Peer Support Using Cognitive Therapy with Gamification and the Proteus Effect. Inter-University Workshop, 2018. Toronto. *Best Talk Award*
• Mila Tahai*. Designing an Adaptive Video Game for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Learning Proportional Reasoning through Play. Master's Thesis, 2018. 
• Mojgan Ghare*, Marvin Pafla, Caroline Wong, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Increasing Passersby's Engagement with Public Large Interactive Displays: A Study of Proxemics and Conation. ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2018). 27% acceptance rate)
• Tina Chan*, Josephine McMurray, Alaaddin Sidamed*, James Wallace. SmartSurveys: Does context influence whether we’ll share healthcare experience data with our smartphone? ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2018 Extended Abstracts (ISS EA 2018).
• Denise Ng*, James R. Wallace, Plinio Morita, Josephine McMurray.  Is Smartphone Application-based Patient Feedback a Good Idea? “It depends.”The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, April 30, 2018
• Marina Wada*, James R. Wallace. Evaluation of User Needs to Build Interactive Shared Decision Support – A Chronic Disease Platform for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. Symposium on Aging Research 2018. 
• Zhe Liu*, Daniel Vogel, James R. Wallace. Applying the Cumulative Fatigue Model Interaction on Large, Multi-Touch Displays. Pervasive Displays 2018. 
• Marcela Bomfim*. Pirate Bri's Grocery Adventure: Teaching Food Literacy through Shopping. Persuasive Technologies 2018 Doctoral Consortium. 
• Long Ting Chan*, James R. Wallace. Changing Peer Support Attitudes with Avatar-based Gamification. International Conference on Persuasive Technologies 2018. 
• Long Ting Chan*, James R. Wallace. Changing Peer Support Attitudes with Avatar-based Gamification. 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health: Understanding, Engaging, and Delighting Users.
• Marcela Bomfim*, James R. Wallace. Pirate Bri's Grocery Adventure: Teaching Food Literacy through Shopping. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA 2018). 40% acceptance rate)
• Long Ting Chan*, James R. Wallace. Changing Peer Support Attitudes with Avatar-based Gamification. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA 2018). 40% acceptance rate)
• Leila Homaeian*,  Goyal, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Group Individual: The Impact of Touch and Tilt Cross-Device Interactions on Mixed-Focus Collaboration. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). 25% acceptance rate)

2017

• 
  James R. Wallace, Saba Oji, Craig Anslow. Technologies, Methods and Values: Changes in Empirical Research at CSCW 1990-2015. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2018). 27% acceptance rate *Honourable Mention*
• Denise Ng. "I would just want to know what's being used, and who's using it": Barriers to the Adoption of SmartSurveys. Master's Thesis, University of Waterloo. 2017.
• Leila Homaeian*, Goyal, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Investigating Communication Grounding in Cross-Surface Interaction. ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2017).  

• James R. Wallace, Steven Houben, Craig Anslow, Andrés Lucero, Yvonne Rogers, Stacey D. Scott. The Disappearing Tabletop: Social and Technical Challenges for Cross-Surface Collaboration. ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2017).  

• Denise Ng*, James R. Wallace, Josephine McMurray, Plinio Morita. : Exploring the Barriers to Smartphone-based Patient Experience Feedback. Waterloo-Wellington Clinical Research and Quality Improvement Symposium (WWCQRI 2017). Poster)

•  Siddhpuria, Keiko Katsuragawa, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. Exploring At-Your-Side Gestural Interaction for Ubiquitous Environments. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2017). 24% acceptance rate)

• Pietroszek*, Luidmila Tahai*, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. Watchcasting: Freehand 3D Interaction with Off-the-Shelf Smartwatch. IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI 2017). 
• James R. Wallace, Ariel Weingarten*, Edward Lank. Subtle and Personal Workspace Requirements for Visual Search Tasks on Public Displays. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). 25% acceptance rate)

2016

• Leila Homaeian*, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Designing Multi-Surface Environments to Support Collaborative Sensemaking. Presented at the Cross-Surface Workshop, ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016).  

• Victor Cheung and James R. Wallace. Felines, Foragers, and Physicists: Supporting Scientific Outreach with Multi-Surface and Multi-Space Games. ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016). 28% acceptance rate)
• Victor Cheung and James R. Wallace. Quantum Cats: The Demo. ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Demonstrations (ISS 2016).
• Craig Anslow, Pedro Campos, Andrés Lucero, Laurent Grisoni, Mirjam Augstein, James Wallace. Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces (CMIS): Walls, Tables, Mobiles, and Wearables. ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016). 
• Keiko Katsuragawa, Krzysztof Pietroszek*, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank.: Freehand Pointing with a Smartwatch in a Ubiquitous Display Environment. International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2016). 27% acceptance rate)
• Keiko Katsuragawa, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. Gestural Input Using a Smartwatch. International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2016). 27% acceptance rate)
• James R. Wallace, Nancy Iskander*, Edward Lank. Creating Your Bubble: Personal Space and Around Large Public Displays. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). 23.4% Acceptance rate)
• Joon Lee, Evan Ribey*, James R. Wallace. A web-based data visualization tool for the MIMIC-II database. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 

2015

• Krzysztof Pietroszek*. 3D Pointing with Everyday Devices: Speed, Occlusion, Fatigue (2015). PhD Thesis. University of Waterloo.
• Thomas Huijbregts*, James R. Wallace. TalkingTiles: Supporting Personalization and Customization in an AAC App for Individuals with Aphasia. ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2015). 24% Acceptance rate)
• Krzysztof Pietroszek*, Liudmila Tahai*, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. 3D Interaction with Networked Public Displays Using Mobile and Wearable Devices. PD-Apps: 2nd Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Creating Pervasive Public Display Networks.
• Krzysztof Pietroszek*, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. Tiltcasting: 3D Interaction Large Displays using a Mobile Device. UIST 2015 (23.6% Acceptance rate)
• 
  Anastasia Kuzminykh, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott, Edward Lank. How to Measure Social Presence: The Role of Speech Patterns. Graphics Interface Posters 2015. *Best Poster Award*
• Stacey D. Scott, T.C. Nicholas Graham, James R. Wallace, Mark Hancock, Miguel Nacenta. "" Collaboration: Applying Remote Group Awareness Techniques to Collocated Settings. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2015. 
•  Huijbregts*, James R. Wallace. The Effectiveness of the TalkingTiles Augmentative and Alternative Communication App​ in Improving Communication for Individuals with Aphasia: A Study at the Aphasia Institute in Toronto. Fourth Annual Knowledge Integration Symposium. 

2014

• Krzysztof Pietroszek*, Anastasia Kuzminykh, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. : A Discount 3D Interaction Technique for Public Displays.  2014 
• James R Wallace, Daniel Vogel, Edward Lank. Effect of Bezel Presence and Width on Visual Search. Pervasive Displays 2014
• James R Wallace, Daniel Vogel, Edward Lank. The Effect of Interior Bezel Presence and Width on Magnitude Judgement. Graphics Interface 2014