Publications

Chamunorwa, Michael, Müller, Heiko, & Boll, Susanne. (2025). Discovering the Potential of Living Room Objects as Alternative Smart Home Controllers: An Exploration of Secondary Affordances. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, (Accepted May 2025)
Chamunorwa, Michael, Müller, Heiko, & Boll, Susanne. (2025). Enhancing Smart Home User Experience: A Study of Everyday Objects for Smart Home Control Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 5, Article MHCI008 (September 2025), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3743730 .

Chamunorwa, Michael, Müller, Heiko, & Boll, Susanne. (2024). The Hidden Potential: Reimagining Household Items as Smart Home Interfaces. Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 519–522. https://doi.org/10.1145/3701571.3703371

Chamunorwa, Michael, Wozniak, M. P., Krämer, S., Müller, H., & Boll, S. (2023). An Empirical Comparison of Moderated and Unmoderated Gesture Elicitation Studies on Soft Surfaces and Objects for Smart Home Control. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(MHCI), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3604245
Ganjeh, P. S., Chamunorwa, M. B., Parambil Gopal, A., & Mutyala, S. (2023). Vasi-Light: Using Everyday Decorative Items as Smarthome Interfaces. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 565–567. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626705.3631879

Itenge, H., Muashekele, C., Chamunorwa, M. B., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Brereton, M., & Soro, A. (2022). Design and Evaluation of a Social and Embodied Multiplayer Reading Game to Engage Primary School Learners in Namibia. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(6), 1571–1590.
Chamunorwa, Michael, Wozniak, M. P., Vöge, S., Müller, H., & Boll, S. C. J. (2022). Interacting with Rigid and Soft Surfaces for Smart-Home Control. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(MHCI), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546746

Chamunorwa, Michael, Müller, L.-M., Ihmels, T., Diekmann, D., Müller, H., & Boll, S. C. J. (2021). Sweet Spot: Displaying Interaction Areas on Everyday Home Surfaces Using AR. Companion Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, 21–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447932.3490524
Kaiser, J.-N., Marianski, T., Muras, M., & Chamunorwa, M. (2021). Popup Observation Kit for Remote Usability Testing. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 233–235. https://doi.org/10.1145/3490632.3497871

Chamunorwa, M. B., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., & Zaman, T. (2020). Bridging Internet Coverage Gaps among Nomadic Pastoralists in Namibia. Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 179–183. https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395873
Goagoses, N., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., & Chamunorwa, M. B. (2020). The (Potential) Role of Technology for Young Children’s Social-Emotional Learning: During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic. Digital Government: Research and Practice, 2(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3429986

Chamunorwa, M. B., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., & Zaman, T. (2018). An Intermediary Database Node in the Namibian Communities Indigenous Knowledge Management System. Digitisation of Culture: Namibian and International Perspectives, 99–117.
Malherbe, J., Iyahen, E., Engelbrecht, F. A., Chamunorwa, M., & Helmschrot, J. (2018). The Extreme Climate Index (ECI), a Tool for Monitoring Regional Extreme Events. Klaus Hess Publishers.

Helmschrot, J., Malherbe, J., Chamunorwa, M., Muthige, M., Petitta, M., Calmanti, S., … Engelbrecht, F. (2017). Enhancing the Extreme Climate Index (ECI) to Monitor Climate Extremes for an Index-Based Insurance Scheme Across Africa. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2017, GC13D-0811.

Kapuire, G. K., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Stanley, C., Maasz, D., Chamunorwa, M., Møller, R. H., … Gonzalez-Cabrero, D. (2016). Technologies to Promote the Inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge Holders in Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation. International Conference on Culture & Computer Science.
Stanley, C., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Blake, E., Rodil, K., Kapuire, G. K., Maasz, D., & Chamunorwa, M. (2016). Formulating “the Obvious” as a Task Request to the Crowd: An Interactive Design Experience Across Cultural and Geographical Boundaries. Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops-Volume 2, 86–87. https://doi.org/10.1145/2948076.2948122
Chamunorwa, M., & Kapuire, G. K. (2016). Effective Visual Hints in a 3D Virtual Environment for an Indigenous Community. Proceedings of the International Conference on Culture and Computer Science (ICCCS-2016), ACM.

Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Chamunorwa, M., Chivuno-Kuria, S., Kays, R., Immonen, S., Stenhammar, H., … Mendonca, H. (n.d.). A Contemporary Cultural Expression of Marginalised Namibian Youth Through Re-Appropriated Technologies.