Elise (Research intern) reports after the summer internship in the group: I had an amazing summer working with Robin and the PysEng team in Finland. I worked on a novel project exploring how humans collaborate with Augmented Humans in Game Theory scenarios. Our research focused on how AI-enhanced abilities might shape cooperation in the near… Continue reading Summer interns 2024
Aalto CS at CHI 2024
Agnes presented her paper on the robustness of the placebo effect! It’s open access here We presented our work on social anxiety and interpersonal distance! Also open access. Other than that there was another paper led by Franziska Babel on robot expectations, a Special Interest group on GenAI for HCI and a workshop on evaluating… Continue reading Aalto CS at CHI 2024
GenAI meets Augmented Reality
Revolutionizing 3D Modeling: Esko Evtyukov’s Real-Time Generation System Esko Evtyukov, a research assistant in the group, has developed a cutting-edge system combining generative AI and Augmented reality. This system allows users to generate detailed 3D models in real-time by describing what they want to see. This means designers, architects, and creatives can now bring their… Continue reading GenAI meets Augmented Reality
We are hiring a doctoral researcher!
Doctoral Researcher in Human-AI Interaction – Aalto Engineering Psychology Group Role: Team & Research: Requirements: Benefits:
New scale on attitudes towards augmented humans (Ubicomp 2023)
Have you ever wondered how to measure what people think about cyborgs? Steeven Villa presented our paper, with Jasmin Niess and Albrecht Schmidt, on developing a questionnaire to measure attitudes toward augmented humans at UbiComp 2023. The paper is published in IMWUT and can be accessed here (open access; open data here and it’s own… Continue reading New scale on attitudes towards augmented humans (Ubicomp 2023)
Honorable mention at CHI Play 2023
Work on locomotion in VR with Reetu Kontio, Markus Laattala and Perttu Hämäläinen and our group won an honorable mention award at CHI Play2023! The paper can be found here (open access).
Summer is over and our foreign students are leaving
Marissa Verbokkem (B.Sc. Student from University of Amsterdam funded by ASci):“I joined the group via the Aalto Science Institute international summer research program. During my time at Aalto, I worked on a research project studying non-verbal social behavior (specifically proxemics) in Virtual Reality (VR). I was involved in a number of different tasks surrounding the… Continue reading Summer is over and our foreign students are leaving
Varjo visit
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This is the new website of the engineering psychology group at Aalto University. Read more about the new group here: https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/psyched-up-for-computer-science