| 2026 | CHI | "Listen to the Teachers": Research-Based Personas for Translating Classroom Realities into Actionable HCI Design. | Petra Francesca Weixelbraun, Barbara Gbl, Ole Sejer Iversen, Fares Kayali |
| 2025 | CSEDU | Enhancing Learning with Gamification: Empowering Students in Web Development Education. | Patrizia Sailer, Thomas Kremsner, Franz Knipp, Fares Kayali |
| 2023 | FIE | Exploring the Design and Implementation of a Robotic-Coding Camp in Teacher Education. | Pelin Yksel Arslan, Fares Kayali |
| 2023 | FIE | Evaluating Students' Learning Expectations and Concerns in a University Course on Digital Transformations in the Framework of Learning Objective Taxonomies. | Pelin Yksel Arslan, Georg Nhrer, Fares Kayali |
| 2023 | FIE | Analyzing Students' Motivation for Acquiring Digital Competences. | Alexandra Posekany, Georg Nhrer, David Haselberger, Fares Kayali |
| 2021 | FIE | Facilitating Interpersonal Exchange on Digital Transformations by Anchoring a MOOC in a Distance-Learning University Course. | David Haselberger, Matthias Steinbck, Fares Kayali |
| 2019 | FDG | Teaching gameful design. | Fares Kayali, Naemi Luckner, Peter Purgathofer |
| 2019 | FDG | Cologon: a game to foster communication skills in inclusive education. | Matthias Steinbck, Naemi Luckner, Fares Kayali, Michelle Proyer, Gertraud Kremsner |
| 2018 | CHI | Fitter, Happier, More Productive?: The Normative Ontology of Fitness Trackers. | Katta Spiel, Fares Kayali, Louise Horvath, Michael Penkler, Sabine Harrer, Miguel Sicart, Jessica Hammer |
| 2018 | FDG | Design considerations towards long-term engagement in games for health. | Fares Kayali, Naemi Luckner, Peter Purgathofer, Katta Spiel, Geraldine Fitzpatrick |
| 2017 | CHI | "Not another Z piece!": Adaptive Difficulty in TETRIS. | Katta Spiel, Sven Bertel, Fares Kayali |
| 2015 | HealthCom | INTERACCT: Remote data entry system with game-elements for young leukaemia patients. | Konrad Peters, Fares Kayali, Anita Lawitschka, Marisa Silbernagl, Ruth Mateus-Berr, Daniel Martinek, Helmut Hlavacs |
| 2011 | DIGRA | Retro Evolved: Level Design Practice exemplified by the Contemporary Retro Game. | Fares Kayali, Joseph Schuh |
| 2011 | DIGRA | Serious Beats: Transdisciplinary research methodologies for designing and evaluating a socially integrative serious music-based online game. | Fares Kayali, Vera Schwarz, Gerit Gtzenbrucker, Jrgen Pfeffer, Barbara Franz, Peter Purgathofer |
| 2007 | DIGRA | Levels of Sound: On the Principles of Interactivity in Music Video Games. | Martin Pichlmair, Fares Kayali |