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  1. Rethinking HCI Education for the Era of AI

    Article • interactions, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  2. WigglyEyes : Inferring Eye Movements from Keypress Data

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  4. SIM2VR: Towards Automated Biomechanical Testing in VR

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Florian Fischer

  5. Understanding Human-AI Workflows for Generating Personas

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  8. CRTypist: Simulating Touchscreen Typing Behavior via Computational Rationality

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  9. Supporting Task Switching with Reinforcement Learning

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Cognitive Modeling: From GOMS to Deep Reinforcement Learning

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  14. Cooperative Multi-Objective Bayesian Design Optimization

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  15. 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

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  17. CHI Course: Introduction to HCI

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  18. Cognitive Modelling: From GOMS to Deep Reinforcement Learning

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  20. Amortized Inference with User Simulations

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  21. UEyes: Understanding Visual Saliency across User Interface Types

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  23. CoColor: Interactive Exploration of Color Designs

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  24. Describing UI Screenshots in Natural Language

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Kaj Grønbæk

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Aurélien Nioche

  27. Computational Rationality as a Theory of Interaction

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  28. Rediscovering Affordance: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  29. 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

  30. Cognitive Modelling: From GOMS to Deep Reinforcement Learning

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  31. Robust and Deployable Gesture Recognition for Smartwatches

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Utkarsh Kunwar

  32. Learning GUI Completions with User-defined Constraints

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  34. 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

  35. Inverse Foraging

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  36. Conversations with GUIs

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  37. 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

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  39. Touchscreen Typing As Optimal Supervisory Control

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  40. Adapting User Interfaces with Model-based Reinforcement Learning

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  41. An Adaptive Model of Gaze-based Selection

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Aurélien Nioche

  43. Interactive Layout Transfer

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

    jingzhou du, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  44. Understanding Visual Saliency in Mobile User Interfaces

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, jingzhou du

  45. Human Strategic Steering Improves Performance of Interactive Optimization

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Sunjun Kim

  47. GRIDS: Interactive Layout Design with Integer Programming

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  48. Optimal Sensor Position for a Computer Mouse

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

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  50. Button Simulation and Design via FDVV Models

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Sunjun Kim

  51. AutoGain: Gain Function Adaptation with Submovement Efficiency Optimization

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

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  52. 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

  53. 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

  54. It's time to rediscover HCI models

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  56. May AI?

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  58. One Button to Rule Them All

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

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  59. Aalto Interface Metrics (AIM)

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  60. Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  61. Impact Activation Improves Rapid Button Pressing

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

    Sunjun Kim, Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  62. Moving Target Selection

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Sunjun Kim

  63. Approaching Engagement towards Human-Engaged Computing

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta, Ann Light, Huatong Sun

  64. 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

  65. AdaM

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  66. Familiarisation

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  67. Control Theoretic Models of Pointing

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  68. 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

  69. What Is Interaction?

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  70. Evaluation of Prototypes and the Problem of Possible Futures

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  71. Inferring Cognitive Models from Data using Approximate Bayesian Computation

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  72. Modelling Learning of New Keyboard Layouts

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  73. WatchSense

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  74. User Interface Design with Combinatorial Optimization

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  75. Towards Ability-Based Optimization for Aging Users

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  76. Nine questions for HCI researchers in the making

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  77. Can computers design interaction?

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  78. Sketchplore

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  79. How We Type

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  80. 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

  81. Principles, Techniques and Perspectives on Optimization and HCI

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  82. Text Entry on the Edge

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  83. What to Study in HCI?

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  84. Performance and Ergonomics of Touch Surfaces

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

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

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  86. The Emergence of Interactive Behavior

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  87. 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

  88. Spotlights

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  89. Demo hour

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  90. Improvements to keyboard optimization with integer programming

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta

  91. MenuOptimizer

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

    Professor Antti Oulasvirta