Antti Oulasvirta
@oulasvirta.bsky.social
Computational models of human behavior. Prof at Aalto University. Group page: http://cbl.aalto.fi
I saw an exciting (or, rather, dystopian) workshop talk by Mark McGill. He gave a much more pessimistic view. In short, companies will control what you see, and it will mean more, not less, advertisements. And ones that are impossible to avoid. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04440?
arxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I saw an exciting (or, rather, dystopian) workshop talk by Mark McGill. He gave a much more pessimistic view. In short, companies will control what you see, and it will mean more, not less, advertisements. And ones that are impossible to avoid. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04440?
Aleksi’s thesis here:
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cb4994...
User-in-the-box here:
github.com/User-in-the-...
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cb4994...
User-in-the-box here:
github.com/User-in-the-...
Learning to Interact: Simulating Users with Reinforcement Learning in Human-Computer Interaction
User simulation in human-computer interaction (HCI) offers a promising means to study user behaviour in silico. However, such simulations have often relied on simplified or separate representations of...
aaltodoc.aalto.fi
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Aleksi’s thesis here:
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cb4994...
User-in-the-box here:
github.com/User-in-the-...
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cb4994...
User-in-the-box here:
github.com/User-in-the-...
We started collaborating with Aleksi some time after the onset of COVID19.
After two years of hard work, we got the first paper, “User in the Box” (UIST’22) accepted.
It still serves as the model for our models. It shows how to learn embodied control policies for HCI tasks using RL
After two years of hard work, we got the first paper, “User in the Box” (UIST’22) accepted.
It still serves as the model for our models. It shows how to learn embodied control policies for HCI tasks using RL
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We started collaborating with Aleksi some time after the onset of COVID19.
After two years of hard work, we got the first paper, “User in the Box” (UIST’22) accepted.
It still serves as the model for our models. It shows how to learn embodied control policies for HCI tasks using RL
After two years of hard work, we got the first paper, “User in the Box” (UIST’22) accepted.
It still serves as the model for our models. It shows how to learn embodied control policies for HCI tasks using RL
It's great to have Per Ola in Helsinki. We go way back. I met him in 2005 at the CHI doctoral colloquium. Since then we have worked on numerous projects on text entry and computational design. And, with Kasper Hornbaek, we wrote the HCI intro book, which took 7 years end-to-end. Time sure flies!
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's great to have Per Ola in Helsinki. We go way back. I met him in 2005 at the CHI doctoral colloquium. Since then we have worked on numerous projects on text entry and computational design. And, with Kasper Hornbaek, we wrote the HCI intro book, which took 7 years end-to-end. Time sure flies!
Yue's path takes her to University of Utah, where she is starting as an Assistant Professor. Congrats Yue!
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Yue's path takes her to University of Utah, where she is starting as an Assistant Professor. Congrats Yue!
One of the highlights of her work is Graph4GUI, a paper involving also Yue's second supervisor Vikas Garg, where we studied GNNs (Graph Neural Networks) as a way to learn layout representations in a controllable way.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
One of the highlights of her work is Graph4GUI, a paper involving also Yue's second supervisor Vikas Garg, where we studied GNNs (Graph Neural Networks) as a way to learn layout representations in a controllable way.
