Antti Oulasvirta
@oulasvirta.bsky.social
Computational models of human behavior. Prof at Aalto University. Group page: http://cbl.aalto.fi
Launch of the new ELLIS Institute Finland. Excited to be part it!
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Launch of the new ELLIS Institute Finland. Excited to be part it!
One thing I’m especially proud of in our HCI intro book is that it includes an entire section dedicated to Engineering in HCI. As interactive technologies grow more complex, these methods are more important than ever.
academic.oup.com/book/60808
academic.oup.com/book/60808
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
One thing I’m especially proud of in our HCI intro book is that it includes an entire section dedicated to Engineering in HCI. As interactive technologies grow more complex, these methods are more important than ever.
academic.oup.com/book/60808
academic.oup.com/book/60808
Aleksi Ikkala on stage defending his thesis “Learning to Interact: Simulating Users with RL in HCI”, with Per Ola Kristensson as the opponent and Perttu Hämäläinen as the supervisor.
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Aleksi Ikkala on stage defending his thesis “Learning to Interact: Simulating Users with RL in HCI”, with Per Ola Kristensson as the opponent and Perttu Hämäläinen as the supervisor.
Prof Per Ola Kristensson / Cambridge giving a talk on how to design for the emergent properties of human-AI systems at Aalto. Per Ola is the opponent of Aleksi Ikkala who is defending his doctoral thesis on Friday, with Perttu Hämäläinen as the supervisor.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Prof Per Ola Kristensson / Cambridge giving a talk on how to design for the emergent properties of human-AI systems at Aalto. Per Ola is the opponent of Aleksi Ikkala who is defending his doctoral thesis on Friday, with Perttu Hämäläinen as the supervisor.
So proud of our PhD student Yue Jiang, who defended her thesis "Computational Representations for User Interfaces" last Friday, with Brian A. Smith as the opponent.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
So proud of our PhD student Yue Jiang, who defended her thesis "Computational Representations for User Interfaces" last Friday, with Brian A. Smith as the opponent.
Brian A. Smith giving his talk "Computers as Partners in Human Ability" today at Aalto. Impressive work. I especially appreciate his work on creating auditory interfaces that allow blind users play real-time video games like driving. Brian is Yue Jiang's opponent and visiting us today and tomorrow.
October 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Brian A. Smith giving his talk "Computers as Partners in Human Ability" today at Aalto. Impressive work. I especially appreciate his work on creating auditory interfaces that allow blind users play real-time video games like driving. Brian is Yue Jiang's opponent and visiting us today and tomorrow.
Just presented "WigglyEyes: Inferring Eye Movements from Keypress Data" at Ubicomp/ISWC'25.
It's a method that, given keypress data only, infers how users move their eyes when they type. It uses a user simulator for data augmentation.
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
github.com/quintus0505/...
It's a method that, given keypress data only, infers how users move their eyes when they type. It uses a user simulator for data augmentation.
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
github.com/quintus0505/...
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just presented "WigglyEyes: Inferring Eye Movements from Keypress Data" at Ubicomp/ISWC'25.
It's a method that, given keypress data only, infers how users move their eyes when they type. It uses a user simulator for data augmentation.
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
github.com/quintus0505/...
It's a method that, given keypress data only, infers how users move their eyes when they type. It uses a user simulator for data augmentation.
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
github.com/quintus0505/...
Ubicomp'25 starting at Dipoli at Aalto. 793 attendees this year
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Ubicomp'25 starting at Dipoli at Aalto. 793 attendees this year
This is the 2025 cohort of the Ubicomp Doctoral Colloquium. Some of the best PhD students in this area.
We're standing here in front of Dipoli, the beautiful main venue of the conference.
I look forward to hearing about these students as they move on after their PhDs.
We're standing here in front of Dipoli, the beautiful main venue of the conference.
I look forward to hearing about these students as they move on after their PhDs.
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is the 2025 cohort of the Ubicomp Doctoral Colloquium. Some of the best PhD students in this area.
We're standing here in front of Dipoli, the beautiful main venue of the conference.
I look forward to hearing about these students as they move on after their PhDs.
We're standing here in front of Dipoli, the beautiful main venue of the conference.
I look forward to hearing about these students as they move on after their PhDs.
On Friday, @ainiputkonen.bsky.social defended her dissertation on modeling decision-making in naturalistic settings with Prof. Adam Sanborn as the opponent. It has been a joy to watch her grow and emerge as a rigorous and original researcher. Congrats Aini!
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cf8487...
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cf8487...
October 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
On Friday, @ainiputkonen.bsky.social defended her dissertation on modeling decision-making in naturalistic settings with Prof. Adam Sanborn as the opponent. It has been a joy to watch her grow and emerge as a rigorous and original researcher. Congrats Aini!
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cf8487...
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cf8487...
Prof. Adam Sanborn giving a talk on Bayesian Brain without Probabilities at Aalto
October 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Prof. Adam Sanborn giving a talk on Bayesian Brain without Probabilities at Aalto
John R. Platt's Strong Inference 1958 (Science) keeps giving. Reading it this morning I found this gem.
To push forward HCI, we need to do the same: sit down, think, and build models that help us tease out the fundamental questions -- and only then run empirical studies. Not the other way around.
To push forward HCI, we need to do the same: sit down, think, and build models that help us tease out the fundamental questions -- and only then run empirical studies. Not the other way around.
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
John R. Platt's Strong Inference 1958 (Science) keeps giving. Reading it this morning I found this gem.
To push forward HCI, we need to do the same: sit down, think, and build models that help us tease out the fundamental questions -- and only then run empirical studies. Not the other way around.
To push forward HCI, we need to do the same: sit down, think, and build models that help us tease out the fundamental questions -- and only then run empirical studies. Not the other way around.
The textbook is much more comprehensive than any introductory class needs. That's why we offer recommendations in Preface for courses in different contexts: computer science, design, engineering, social sciences, and specialized courses.
Preface here:
introductiontohci.org
Preface here:
introductiontohci.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The textbook is much more comprehensive than any introductory class needs. That's why we offer recommendations in Preface for courses in different contexts: computer science, design, engineering, social sciences, and specialized courses.
Preface here:
introductiontohci.org
Preface here:
introductiontohci.org
Our new textbook isn't just about the essentials of research in HCI, it also offers guidance to those who entertain HCI as their future careers. My own two favorite bits are on how to read a paper critically and selecting HCI problems that matter.
academic.oup.com/book/60808
academic.oup.com/book/60808
September 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Our new textbook isn't just about the essentials of research in HCI, it also offers guidance to those who entertain HCI as their future careers. My own two favorite bits are on how to read a paper critically and selecting HCI problems that matter.
academic.oup.com/book/60808
academic.oup.com/book/60808
📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
August 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola.
In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses:
✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process
✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs
✅ Open access (!)
In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses:
✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process
✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs
✅ Open access (!)
July 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola.
In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses:
✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process
✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs
✅ Open access (!)
In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses:
✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process
✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs
✅ Open access (!)
We had a lovely summer school last week in Paris. Thirty amazing students and postdocs, a week full of keynotes and hands-on lectures on computational methods. State-of-the-art as call as classical topics, ranging from LLM agents to Bayesian inference cixschool2025.isir.upmc.fr
June 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We had a lovely summer school last week in Paris. Thirty amazing students and postdocs, a week full of keynotes and hands-on lectures on computational methods. State-of-the-art as call as classical topics, ranging from LLM agents to Bayesian inference cixschool2025.isir.upmc.fr
John Williamson lecturing about simulator-bases inference at the Comp Int summer school cixschool2025.isir.upmc.fr
June 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
John Williamson lecturing about simulator-bases inference at the Comp Int summer school cixschool2025.isir.upmc.fr
Philipp Wintersberger giving a talk on multitasking and human-AI interaction at Aalto
June 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Philipp Wintersberger giving a talk on multitasking and human-AI interaction at Aalto
Visualizing Knowledge 2025 starting at Aalto
June 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Visualizing Knowledge 2025 starting at Aalto
FailureNotes help designers discover how AI model failure affects interaction downstream:
May 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
FailureNotes help designers discover how AI model failure affects interaction downstream:
Vera gives a compelling argument why this is a very hard problem. It's often impossible to imagine the critical situations where AI fails
May 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Vera gives a compelling argument why this is a very hard problem. It's often impossible to imagine the critical situations where AI fails
Vera Liao giving a talk on the AI sociotecnical gap at FCAI / Aalto
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Vera Liao giving a talk on the AI sociotecnical gap at FCAI / Aalto
Paul Strohmeier giving a talk at Aalto
May 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Paul Strohmeier giving a talk at Aalto