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User Interfaces at Aalto University

User Interfaces at Aalto University

Computational interaction: Modeling, optimization, machine learning

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User Interfaces Research Group at Aalto University

“We use computers to make computers easier to use”

The group investigates computational methods for generation and adaptation of user interfaces. Application areas range from classic UIs like keyboards, menus, buttons, and web pages to novel input methods like gestural interaction. Our research includes mathematical and computational modelling of interactive behavior — including human capacities like perception, attention, learning, experience, and motor control — and relevant algorithmic methods such as optimization and machine learning.

Interactive AI research / Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI

The group participates in research on methods for collaborative forms of AI at FCAI. Our research develops models and theories that allow AI to infer human beliefs and abilities from observations and predict the consequences of their actions on humans.

Members

Group Lead Professor Antti Oulasvirta: Modeling, cognitive science, computational methods in HCI

Visiting Professor Roderick William Murray-Smith

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Niraj Dayama: Combinatorial optimization
Dr. Markku Laine: Web engineering
Dr. Aurélien Nioche: Cognitive science
Dr. Suyog Chandramouli: Cognitive modeling and Bayesian methods
Dr. Joongi Shin: Co-design and AI

PhD Students

MSc. Aini Putkonen: Decision-making in interactive systems
MSc. Morteza Shiripour: Layout optimization
MBA Yi-Chi Liao: Physical Interaction
MSc. Lena Hegemann: Design AI
MSc. Michael Aloys Hedderich: Machine learning and NLP
MSc. Danqing Shi: Data Visualization
MSc. João Belo: Mixed Reality

Project Employees

MBA Mukesh Israni (specialist): Business development of Design AI
MSc. Simo Santala
(worker): Layout Optimization
MA Julia Kylmälä
 (lab manager)

Alumni:

Professor Andrew Howes: Cognitive science
Dr. Xiuli Chen: Cognitive science and perceptual psychology
Dr. Julien Gori: Modeling
Dr. Aditya Acharya: Cognitive modeling and deep learning
Dr. Zhenhui Peng: Human-computer interaction and intelligent systems
MSc. Katri Leino: Text entry
Dr. Maria Montoya Freire: now post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University Department of Computer Science
Heidi Hassinen: Computer science
Dr. Luis Leiva: HCI and machine learning
Dr. Kashyap Todi: Intelligent systems
Dr. Jussi P.P. Jokinen: Cognitive science
Dr. Sunjun Kim: Interface technology
Dr. Ai Nakajima: design and machine learning
Dr. Janin Koch: Interaction design, interactive machine learning
Dr. Tuukka Ruotsalo; now at University of Helsinki
Dr. Anna Feit: professor at the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University
Dr. Byungjoo Lee: Mechanical engineering, input devices (KAIST)
Dr. Eve Hoggan: smart material, novel interaction techniques and feedback (Aarhus)
Dr. Kumaripaba Athukorala: Information search (Liberty Insurance)
Dr. Mathieu Nancel: Interaction techniques (INRIA)
Dr. Daryl Weir: Machine learning, modeling, touch (Futurice)

Funding

The group is funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant COMPUTED), Academy of Finland, the Technology Industries of Finland, and FCAI.

News

  • HelsinCHI Symposium 2023

  • AI assistants for design – an AI Magazine paper

  • Two Courses at CHI2023

  • Summer internship positions (application DL Feb 1, 2023)

  • PhD and postdoc positions

  • Three papers presented at UIST 2022

  • Postdocs, research fellows and doctoral students in machine learning and artificial intelligence (16 funded positions

  • Three papers to be presented at CHI’22, incl. two Best Paper Honorable Mentions

  • 6th Summer School on Computational Interaction at Saarbruecken

  • Talk by Dr. Stefano Albrecht on March 28

  • Postdoctoral positions open

  • Creating the perfect teacher: How a cumbersome start with Japanese led to a better self-teaching app

  • Tenure-track position in Creative Technologies

  • Our research on human modeling featured in New Scientist

  • Open postdoc positions

  • Multiple positions for Aalto’s students (RAs, diploma thesis)

  • ELLIS PhD positions: Call for applications

  • 22 positions open at FCAI

  • Doctoral student positions in HCI

  • Simo Santala placed third in the CHI Student Research Competition

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