Selected publications

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Aebli, A., Silberstein-Bamford, F. & Bamford, J. S. (2025). What Keeps Them Invested? Social Identity and Group Formation in Blockchain. Frontiers in Blockchain, 8: 1530186. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2025.1530186.

Aebli, A., Silberstein-Bamford, F. & Bamford, J. S. (2025). Navigating Organisational Tensions in Blockchain Communities. SocArXiv. Available at https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qf2mr_v4.

Aebli, A. & Silberstein-Bamford, F. (2024). Bridging the Gap: Users’ Sense-Making of a Historical Crisis in Crypto. Journal of Digital Social Research, 6(3): 206-228. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i3.33355.

Gamification, Human-Centred AI, and Ethics

Couto Teixeira, M., Aebli, A., Klein, S. & Tschopp, M. (2025). “It’s Mysterious, Bodiless and Omniscient, like a God”: Exploring Users’ Perceptions of Synthetic Relationships in a Mental Health App. CONVERSATIONS 2025, 9th International Symposium on Chatbots and Human-centred AI (forthcoming in Springer LNCS).

Niksirat, K. S., Goswami, L., Rao, P. S. B., Tyler, J., Silacci, A., Aliyu, S., Aebli, A., Wacharamanotham, C. & Cherubini, M. (2023). Changes in Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency in Empirical Studies between CHI 2017 and CHI 2022. CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580848.

Niksirat, K. S., Goswami, L., Rao, P. S. B., Tyler, J., Silacci, A., Aliyu, S., Aebli, A., Wacharamanotham, C. & Cherubini, M. (2023). Criteria Definition for Research Ethics, Openness, and Transparency. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/N25D6.

Niksirat, K. S., Goswami, L., Rao, P. S. B., Tyler, J., Silacci, A., Aliyu, S., Aebli, A., Wacharamanotham, C. & Cherubini, M. (2023). Navigating Data Transparency and Ethics. DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2z7ar.

Aebli, A. (2022). Interaction with Persuasive Systems. In D. Buhalis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.

Aebli, A. (2022). ICT and Wellbeing. In D. Buhalis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.

Aebli, A. (2019). Tourists’ Motives for Gamified Technology Use. Annals of Tourism Research, 78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.102753.

Aebli, A., Volgger, M. & Taplin, R. (2021). A Two-Dimensional Approach to Travel Motivation in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2021.1906631.

Volgger, M., Taplin, R. & Aebli, A. (2021). Recovery of Domestic Tourism during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Experimental Comparison of Interventions. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 48, 428-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.07.015

Beier, M. & Aebli, A. (2016). Who Uses Mobile Apps Frequently on Vacation? Evidence from Tourism in Switzerland. In A. Inversini und R. Schegg (Hrsg.). Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, 2016, p. 549-562. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Pagel, S. & Aebli, A. (2015). Are User-generated Photos Able to Attract More Attention? e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR), Vol. 11, No. 5/6, 2015, http://ertr.tamu.edu?

Research in Progress

Youth Financial Wellbeing: How Trading Platforms, Investment Communities, and Web3 Finfluencers Shape Young Audiences’ Financial Values and Practices.

Epistemologies of Researching Blockchain and Other Politically Charged Technologies.

‘Performativity of Trust’: Ritualised Behaviour and the Creation of Value in Crypto Communities.

Negotiating Gendered Economic Agency in Crypto Finance: Discourses, Platforms, and Practices.

“Who Governs Whom?” An Ethnography of Discursive Meaning-Making and the Politics of Blockchain Governance in the Wake of a Major Breakdown – Insights from the Balancer V2 Protocol Hack.