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  1. WigglyEyes : Inferring Eye Movements from Keypress Data

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  2. EyeFormer: Predicting Personalized Scanpaths with Transformer-Guided Reinforcement Learning

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  3. SIM2VR: Towards Automated Biomechanical Testing in VR

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Florian Fischer

  4. Understanding Human-AI Workflows for Generating Personas

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  5. Real-time 3D Target Inference via Biomechanical Simulation

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  6. Heads-Up Multitasker: Simulating Attention Switching On Optical Head-Mounted Displays

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  7. CRTypist: Simulating Touchscreen Typing Behavior via Computational Rationality

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  8. Supporting Task Switching with Reinforcement Learning

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  9. Graph4GUI: Graph Neural Networks for Representing Graphical User Interfaces

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  10. Palette, Purpose, Prototype: The Three Ps of Color Design and How Designers Navigate Them

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  11. Transforming HCI Research Cycles using Generative AI and “Large Whatever Models” (LWMs)

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giulia Barbareschi, Fiona Draxler, Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Anicia Peters, Elizabeth Churchill, Jie Li

  12. Cognitive Modeling: From GOMS to Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  13. Cooperative Multi-Objective Bayesian Design Optimization

    Article • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  14. DesignQuizzer: A Community-Powered Conversational Agent for Learning Visual Design

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  15. Interactive Personalization of Classifiers for Explainability using Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  16. CHI Course: Introduction to HCI

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  17. Cognitive Modelling: From GOMS to Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  18. Modeling Touch-based Menu Selection Performance of Blind Users via Reinforcement Learning

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  19. Amortized Inference with User Simulations

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  20. UEyes: Understanding Visual Saliency across User Interface Types

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  21. Computational Assistance for User Interface Design: Smarter Generation and Evaluation of Design Ideas

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  22. CoColor: Interactive Exploration of Color Designs

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  23. Describing UI Screenshots in Natural Language

    Article • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  24. AUIT – the Adaptive User Interfaces Toolkit for Designing XR Applications

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Kaj Grønbæk

  25. How Suitable Is Your Naturalistic Dataset for Theory-based User Modeling?

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Aurélien Nioche

  26. Computational Rationality as a Theory of Interaction

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  27. Rediscovering Affordance: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  28. Investigating Positive and Negative Qualities of Human-in-the-Loop Optimization for Designing Interaction Techniques

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  29. Cognitive Modelling: From GOMS to Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  30. Robust and Deployable Gesture Recognition for Smartwatches

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Utkarsh Kunwar

  31. Learning GUI Completions with User-defined Constraints

    Article • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  32. Modeling Gliding-based Target Selection for Blind Touchscreen Users

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  33. How We Swipe: A Large-scale Shape-writing Dataset and Empirical Findings

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Sunjun Kim

  34. Inverse Foraging

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  35. Conversations with GUIs

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  36. Responsive and Personalized Web Layouts with Integer Programming

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  37. RL4HCI: Reinforcement Learning for Humans, Computers, and Interaction

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  38. Touchscreen Typing As Optimal Supervisory Control

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  39. Adapting User Interfaces with Model-based Reinforcement Learning

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  40. An Adaptive Model of Gaze-based Selection

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  41. Improving Artificial Teachers by Considering How People Learn and Forget

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Aurélien Nioche

  42. Interactive Layout Transfer

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    jingzhou du, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  43. Understanding Visual Saliency in Mobile User Interfaces

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, jingzhou du

  44. Human Strategic Steering Improves Performance of Interactive Optimization

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  45. Press'Em: Simulating Varying Button Tactility via FDVV Models

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Sunjun Kim

  46. GRIDS: Interactive Layout Design with Integer Programming

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  47. Optimal Sensor Position for a Computer Mouse

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  48. How We Type: Eye and Finger Movement Strategies in Mobile Typing

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  49. Button Simulation and Design via FDVV Models

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Sunjun Kim

  50. AutoGain: Gain Function Adaptation with Submovement Efficiency Optimization

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  51. Cloud Gaming with Foveated Video Encoding

    Article • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  52. Individualising Graphical Layouts with Predictive Visual Search Models

    Article • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, January 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  53. It's time to rediscover HCI models

    Article • interactions, June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  54. Exploring performance of thumb input for pointing and dragging tasks on mobile device

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  55. May AI?

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  56. Computer-supported form design using keystroke-level modeling with reinforcement learning

    Article • March 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  57. One Button to Rule Them All

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  58. Aalto Interface Metrics (AIM)

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  59. Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  60. Impact Activation Improves Rapid Button Pressing

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  61. Moving Target Selection

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Sunjun Kim

  62. Approaching Engagement towards Human-Engaged Computing

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Ann Light, Huatong Sun

  63. Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, William G. Chase Professor of Psychology Neil Charness

  64. AdaM

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  65. Familiarisation

    Article • March 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  66. Control Theoretic Models of Pointing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  67. Designing Mobile Interactions for the Ageing Populations

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, William G. Chase Professor of Psychology Neil Charness

  68. What Is Interaction?

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  69. Evaluation of Prototypes and the Problem of Possible Futures

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  70. Inferring Cognitive Models from Data using Approximate Bayesian Computation

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  71. Modelling Learning of New Keyboard Layouts

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  72. WatchSense

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  73. User Interface Design with Combinatorial Optimization

    Article • Computer, January 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  74. Towards Ability-Based Optimization for Aging Users

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  75. Nine questions for HCI researchers in the making

    Article • interactions, June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  76. Can computers design interaction?

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  77. Sketchplore

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  78. How We Type

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  79. Rethinking Mobile Interfaces for Older Adults

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, William G. Chase Professor of Psychology Neil Charness

  80. Principles, Techniques and Perspectives on Optimization and HCI

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  81. Text Entry on the Edge

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  82. What to Study in HCI?

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  83. Performance and Ergonomics of Touch Surfaces

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  84. Investigating the Dexterity of Multi-Finger Input for Mid-Air Text Entry

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  85. The Emergence of Interactive Behavior

    Article • April 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  86. Informing the Design of Novel Input Methods with Muscle Coactivation Clustering

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  87. Spotlights

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  88. Demo hour

    Article • interactions, October 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  89. Improvements to keyboard optimization with integer programming

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  90. MenuOptimizer

    Article • October 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta