Crowd Computing Research Group
At the University of Oulu, Finland
We conduct fundamental and applied research in HCI: Crowd and AI-Assisted Wellbeing, Human-AI Interaction, and Meta-Research
Given the rapid advances in AI, it is critical now to understand the unique ways for humans and computers to collaborate in solving difficult problems.
Three Focus Areas:
Digital Health
We study and develop solutions for tracking, monitoring and helping people with various chronic and challenging medical conditions.
Crowdsourcing
We work with the crowds in many ways: Basic research on how the modern online human subject pools and labour markets operate and applied research where we employ the crowds for applied use cases online.
Meta HCI
We study how the HCI community conducts research: From the way authors cite each other, to how the different research areas that work on the future of computing have evolved over the years.
Here is our awesome team
Simo Hosio
professor, academy research fellow
Digital Health, Crowdsourcing
aku visuri
academy postdoctoral researcher
Mobile Health & Sleep Studies
Jonas Oppenlaender
postdoctoral researcher
Generative AI, Agentic Systems, Creativity, Meta-HCI
Navod Neranjan
postdoctoral researcher (msca fellow)
Machine Learning, Wellbeing
mahmoud badri
doctoral researcher
Crowdsourcing Wellbeing Data
dániel szabó
Doctoral Researcher
Human-AI Interaction
Ali Goodarzi
Doctoral researcher
Human-AI Interaction
Truc Nguyen
Doctoral researcher
Human-AI Interaction, Mental Wellbeing
Henna Ojala
Project researcher
Mobile Health
Seyedehsahar Fatemi Abhari
Research assistant
Mobile Health & Sleep Studies
Jessica Suarez
Research assistant
Conversational Inoculation
Alumni:
- Tinayi Liu
- Sujith Srinivasan
- Dr. Li Junhao
- Bharathi Sekar
- Mohammadreza Sadeghi
- Matthew Utti
- Tanvir Hasan
- Shanaka Niranjan
- Dr. Saba Kheirinejad
- Nazanin Nakhaie Ahooie
- Dr. Ville Paananen
- Mähä Eldamnhory
- Kavindu Magalage
- Achira Hendalage
- Niloofar Meftahi
- Katri Säily
Alumni:
- Dr. Denzil Ferreira
- Dr. Kennedy Opoku Asare
- Dr. Andy Alorwu
- Dr. Sharadhi Suryanarayana
- Joonas Moilanen
- Danial Khaledi
- Piushana Abeygunawardena
- Maha Eldamnhory
- Eetu Huusko
- Sina Kiarostami
- Dr. Elina Kuosmanen
- Fatemeh Soufian Khakestar
- Abu Roman
- Mufrad Mahmud
- Nicholas Hettiarachchige Don
- Aqib Ilyas
Contact us
Visit us at the University of Oulu:
Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 3. Tietotalo 1, Entrance E Linnanmaa 90570 Oulu
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