University of Turku

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When Personas Talk to You: Evaluating the Evolution of User Personas from Static Profiles to Conversational User Interfaces

The development of persona systems provides a possibility for end users to interact with different persona modalities. In a 54-participant randomized controlled experiment, we compare two persona interaction modalities, document and dialogue personas, both generated using AI approaches from survey data. Overall, dialo…

IUI '25Human-LLM Collaboration +2

"You Always Get an Answer": Analyzing Users' Interaction with AI-Generated Personas Given Unanswerable Questions and Risk of Hallucination

We investigated the presence and acceptance of hallucinations (i.e., accidental misinformation) of an AI-generated persona system that leverages large language models for persona creation from survey data in a 54-user within-subjects experiment. After interacting with the personas, users were given a task to ask the p…

IUI '24Explainable AI (XAI) +2

VMS: Interactive Visualization to Support the Sensemaking and Selection of Predictive Models

To compare and select machine learning models, relying on performance measures alone may not always be sufficient. This is particularly the case where different subsets, features, and predicted results may vary in importance relative to the task at hand. Explanation and visualization techniques are required to support…

CHI '23Role-Playing & Narrative Games +1

Resemblance of religion and pervasive games: A study among church employees and gamers

Previous research suggests that the experience and practices related to gaming and extended realities, and religion and spiritualism, share similarities. In this study, we explore how both the employees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (n=156) and pervasive game players (n=98) perceive and make sense of these connec…

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University of Turku

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Finland · Europe

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2023-2025

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AI & Machine Learning Interaction

Human-LLM Collaboration

Voice Interaction & Conversational Systems

Conversational Chatbots

Data Visualization & Information Design

Interactive Data Visualization

Games, Entertainment & Gamification

Role-Playing & Narrative Games

Ethics, Fairness, Social Justice & Inclusion

Technology Ethics & Critical HCI