Publications

Peer-reviewed work

Interaction design, workspace awareness and design research methods. The full list is on Google Scholar.

When Chairs Speak: Interpreting Postural Cues as Social Signals in Hybrid Work Liu, L., Wu, T., Cmentowski, S., Hu, J., & Bernhaupt, R. · Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS Companion '26), Singapore · 2026

What's Happening in the Office: Designing Information Displays for Human-Like Experience to Promote Workspace Awareness in Hybrid Work Liu, L., van Essen, H., & Eggen, B. · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 9(7), 1–29 · 2025

Design Exploration of Lightweight Interactions for Awareness-Supporting Technologies in Hybrid Work Liu, L., van Essen, H., & Eggen, B. · IASDR 2025: Design Next, Taiwan · 2025

LiteCo: Illuminating Workspace Awareness and Social Connectedness with Ambient Display in Home Office Xu, Y., Liu, L., & van Essen, H. · CHI '25 Extended Abstracts, 1–8 · 2025 Co-supervised master graduation project.

Let Information Flow Into Awareness: A Design Space for Human-Like Experiences to Promote Informal Communication for Hybrid Work Liu, L., van Essen, H., & Eggen, B. · Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1666–1680 · 2024

An Exploratory Study of How to Design Interventions to Support Informal Communication in Remote Work Liu, L., van Essen, H., & Eggen, B. · Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI), 1–10 · 2022