Academy of Finland awards a 5-year grant
The Academy of Finland has awarded a five year grant to study "BAD: Bayesian Artefact Design". We will develop methods for artificial design thinking.
Anna Feit defended her dissertation
Her thesis work significantly contributes to understanding modern typing behavior and proposes new mathematical and computational methods for designing novel text input methods. The work formulates a theoretical basis for using exact optimization methods to optimize the problem of assigning symbols to input actions for text input. Therefore, she conducted extensive empirical studies of human…
Opening: Postdoctoral scholar
** Application deadline June 30, 2018. Applications will be reviewed until position is filled ** The User Interfaces group at Aalto University is looking for a postdoctoral scholar for exciting research topics at the intersection of computational sciences and human-computer interaction. The group is funded by a European Research Council (ERC) grant and consists of…
Minisymposium on Machine Learning and HCI: June 12, 2018
A Mini Symposium on Machine Learning for Human-Computer Interaction It is a pleasure to welcome you to a mini symposium on Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction, to be held at Aalto University, on June 12, 2018. The three speakers have signficantly contributed to the development of intelligent user interfaces and will share their experiences and…
Defense of Anna Feit: June 11
Join us on 11.06.2018, 12:00 T2, T-building, Konemiehentie 2, Aalto University The opponent is Shumin Zhai from Google Inc. More information: http://elec.aalto.fi/en/current/events/2018-04-03-004/ Welcome!
ACM SIGCHI Summer School on Computational Interaction in Cambridge, UK
ACM SIGCHI Summer School on Computational Interaction Inference, optimization and modeling for the engineering of interactive systems 27th August – 1st September 2018 University of Cambridge, UK Welcome to the 4th ACM SIGCHI Summer School on Computational Interaction. This year the summer school will be held in the medieval town of…
Student research project papers (Research Project in HCI, Spring 2018)
The grande finale of Research Project in Human-Computer Interaction (ELEC-E7861) took place yesterday, when five students presented their results to faculty and involved companies. Foveated graphics for cloud gaming (Thomas van Gemert) Modeling thermostat use as a POMDP (Ville Ojaniemi) Learnability issues in a video conferencing tool (Viet Ba Mai) Recognizing native language from keystroke…
Project employee: Web development
The User Interfaces group, headed by Assoc. Prof. Antti Oulasvirta and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), is a leading group in the area of modeling and optimization of user interface designs. It has a strong track record in the top venues of HCI, including CHI, UIST, and IUI. The group has previously studied…
Open science practices in our group
open-science-plan-TEMPLATE.pdf Since the beginning of 2018, we have adopted Open Science practices in our group. Why? For reasons related to ethics, quality, and impact. We are mostly funded by taxpayers, in the European context for example by the ERC. We are — morally and increasingly also legally — obliged to make our work as widely…
Yi-Chi Liao from NTU joins the group as a PhD student
Yi-Chi Liao was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) and Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from National Taiwan University in Information Management Department. During the master years, Yi-Chi explored some novel haptic and touch interaction with Professor Bing-Yu Chen and Professor Liwei Chan. In the PhD studies,…