| 2026 | CHI | Generative AI in Game Development: A Qualitative Research Synthesis. | Alexandru Dan Ternar, Alena Denisova, Joo Miguel Cunha, Annakaisa Kultima, Christian Guckelsberger |
| 2025 | CHI | Emotionally Challenging Games Can Satisfy Older Adults' Psychological Needs: From Empirical Study to Design Guidelines. | Min Zhou, Xiaolan Peng, Binjie Liu, Alena Denisova, Soumya C. Barathi, Zhuying Li, Xurong Xie, Jin Huang, Feng Tian |
| 2024 | CHI | Games and Play SIG: Connecting Games Research to the Broader HCI Context. | Regan L. Mandryk, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Alena Denisova, Guo Freeman, Daniel Johnson |
| 2024 | CHI | Evaluating Interactive AI: Understanding and Controlling Placebo Effects in Human-AI Interaction. | Steeven Villa, Robin Welsch, Alena Denisova, Thomas Kosch |
| 2024 | FDG | Session details: Workshop on Eudaimonia in Digital Games. | Tom Cole, Alena Denisova, Jo Iacovides |
| 2023 | CHI | Comparing Measures of Perceived Challenge and Demand in Video Games: Exploring the Conceptual Dimensions of CORGIS and VGDS. | Alex Flint, Alena Denisova, Nick D. Bowman |
| 2023 | CHI | ChallengeDetect: Investigating the Potential of Detecting In-Game Challenge Experience from Physiological Measures. | Xiaolan Peng, Xurong Xie, Jin Huang, Chutian Jiang, Haonian Wang, Alena Denisova, Hui Chen, Feng Tian, Hongan Wang |
| 2023 | FDG | The Challenge of Evaluating Player Experience in Tabletop Role-Playing Games. | Antonios Liapis, Alena Denisova |
| 2023 | FDG | Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools. | Antonios Liapis, Christian Guckelsberger, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld, Simone Kriglstein, Alena Denisova, Jeremy Gow, Mike Preuss |
| 2022 | CHI | The Effects of a Soundtrack on Board Game Player Experience. | Timea Farkas, Alena Denisova, Sarah Wiseman, Rebecca Fiebrink |
| 2021 | CHI | "Whatever the Emotional Experience, It's Up to Them": Insights from Designers of Emotionally Impactful Games. | Alena Denisova, Julia Ayumi Bopp, Thuy Duong Nguyen, Elisa D. Mekler |
| 2020 | CHI | A Palette of Deepened Emotions: Exploring Emotional Challenge in Virtual Reality Games. | Xiaolan Peng, Jin Huang, Alena Denisova, Hui Chen, Feng Tian, Hongan Wang |
| 2017 | CHI | Challenge in Digital Games: Towards Developing a Measurement Tool. | Alena Denisova, Christian Guckelsberger, David Zendle |
| 2017 | CHI | Measuring Uncertainty in Games: Design and Preliminary Validation. | Christopher Power, Alena Denisova, Themis Papaioannou, Paul A. Cairns |
| 2015 | CHI | First Person vs. Third Person Perspective in Digital Games: Do Player Preferences Affect Immersion? | Alena Denisova, Paul A. Cairns |