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Antti Oulasvirta is an Associate Professor at Aalto University where he leads the User Interfaces research group. He was previously a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland university. He received his doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, after which he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Information in University of California-Berkeley in 2007-2008 and a Senior Researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT in 2008-2011. During his postgraduate studies in 2002-2003, he was an exchange student at UC Berkeley's Neuropsychology Lab and did an internship at T-Labs in Berlin in 2006. He was awarded the ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020) for research on computational design of user interaces.

Dr. Oulasvirta has served as an associate editor for International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, as a column editor for IEEE Computer, and he frequently participates in the paper committees of HCI conferences, including the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). His work has been awarded the Best Paper Award and Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI twelve times between 2008 and 2018. He has held keynote talks on computational user interface design in NordiCHI'14, CoDIT'14, EICS'16, and IHCI'17.

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  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • Human-computer interaction
  • User interfaces
  • Human factors
  • Human performance
  • Interactive AI
  • computational design
  • Computational modeling
  • Cognitive modeling

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  • AgentForge: A Flexible Low-Code Platform for Reinforcement Learning Agent Design

    Fernandes Junior, F. & Oulasvirta, A., 2025, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2025). Porto: SciTePress, Vol. 1. p. 351-358 8 p. (ICAART).

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  • Chartist: Task-driven Eye Movement Control for Chart Reading

    Shi, D., Wang, Y., Bai, Y., Bulling, A. & Oulasvirta, A., 26 Apr 2025, CHI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 1167

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  • Collaborative AI Arena

    Prada, R., Oulasvirta, A., Pfau, T. & Bui, B., 22 Sept 2025, HHAI 2025 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Pedreschi, D., Milano, M., Tiddi, I., Russell, S., Boldrini, C., Pappalardo, L., Passerini, A. & Wang, S. (eds.). IOS Press, p. 477-479 3 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 408).

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  • DxHF: Providing High-Quality Human Feedback for LLM Alignment via Interactive Decomposition

    Shi, D., Cheng, F., Weinkauf, T., Oulasvirta, A. & Mennatallah, E.-A., 2025, Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. ACM, 14 p.

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  • Evaluating Attention Management Systems for Dynamic Monitoring Tasks

    Gasse, A., Lingler, A., Lorenz, M., Oulasvirta, A., Wintersberger, P. & Ebel, P., 23 Jun 2025, CHIWORK 2025 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work. ACM, 6 p. 14. (CHIWORK 2025 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work).

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  • AU: Artificial User

    Oulasvirta, A. (Principal investigator), Bai, Y. (Project Member), Kompatscher, J. (Project Member), Wang, M. (Project Member), Langerak, T. (Project Member), Du, Y. (Project Member) & Wang, R. (Project Member)

    01/10/202430/09/2029

    Project: EU Horizon Europe ERC

  • Subjective Functions: Subjective Functions

    Oulasvirta, A. (Principal investigator), Putkonen, A.-M. (Project Member), Wen, X. (Project Member), Li, F. (Project Member), Wang, R. (Project Member), Luo, X. (Project Member), Shin, J. (Project Member) & Hegemann, L. (Project Member)

    01/09/202331/08/2027

    Project: RCF Other

  • -: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence

    Oulasvirta, A. (Principal investigator)

    01/01/202331/12/2026

    Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding

  • FCAI: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)

    Oulasvirta, A. (Principal investigator) & Jiang, Y. (Project Member)

    01/01/202231/12/2022

    Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding

  • -: Aalto-R2B-Design.AI-IES

    Oulasvirta, A. (Principal investigator)

    17/06/202130/04/2023

    Project: Business Finland: New business from research ideas (TUTLI)