Crowd Computing Research Group
At the university of Oulu, Finland
We investigate collective computing, where distributed humans and algorithms address work too challenging for computers alone.
Given the rapid advances in AI, we think it is imperative to identify and harness the unique aspects of human cognition and develop ways for humans and algorithms to collaborate seamlessly across different domains.
Happening Right Now
- Two new publications, both international collaborations in excellent venues, on 1) social media credibility evaluation, in Computers in Human Behaviour (click here) and 2) empathy research in VR, in ACM Computing surveys (click here)
- We organized TOHAI together with the University of Tokyo: Tokyo-Oulu Joint Symposium on Human-AI Interaction! The event took place on Oct 24-25 in Tokyo, Japan -- read more
- Ville and Saba are writing their PhD theses with working titles "Digitizing Spatial Experience for Fostering Empathy" and "End-User Perspectives on Mobile Health Solutions for Pain Management", respectively.
Three Focus Areas:
Digital Health
We study and develop solutions for tracking, monitoring and helping people with variously chronic and challenging medical conditions.
Crowdsourcing
We work with the crowds in many ways: Basic research on how the modern labour markets operate and applied research where we employ the crowds in a plethora of applied use cases online.
Social Computing
We work with different systems that either foster our human behaviours (e.g. empathy) or leverage sociality as a building block in encouraging contributions to open science.
Here is our awesome team
Simo Hosio
Associate professor, academy research fellow
Digital Health, Crowdsourcing
aku visuri
academy postdoctoral researcher
Mobile Health
saba kheirinejad
doctoral researcher
Mobile Health
junhao li
doctoral researcher,
Critical reading skills
ville paananen
doctoral researcher
Spatial empathy
mahmoud badri
doctoral researcher
Crowdsourcing health data
nazanin Nakhaie ahooie
research assistant
Critical reading skills
daniel szabo
research assistant
Social robotics
Niloofar Meftahi
Project researcher
Generative AI in e-learning
Achira Hendalage
Research assistant
Wearable e-health
Kavindu Magalage
Research assistant
Generative AI for Situated Crowdsourcing
Mähä Eldamnhory
Research assistant
Generative AI for Science Communication
alumni...
- Katri Säily
- Dr. Denzil Ferreira
- Dr. Kennedy Opoku Asare
- Achira Hendalage
- Kavindu Magalage
- Dr. Andy Alorwu
- Dr. Sharadhi Suryanarayana
- Joonas Moilanen
more alumni...
- Danial Khaledi
- Piushana Abeygunawardena
- Maha Eldamnhory
- Eetu Huusko
- Sina Kiarostami
- Dr. Elina Kuosmanen
- Dr. Jonas Oppenlaender
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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