| 2026 | CHI | Creating and Evaluating Personas Using Generative AI: A Scoping Review of 81 Articles. | Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Farhan Ahmed, Sonja M. H. Tervola, Sankalp Sethi, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2026 | CHI | From Generation to Simulation: Responsible Use of AI Personas in Human-Centered Design and Research. | A. Baki Kocaballi, Mirjana Prpa, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2026 | CHI | Messy Methods and Moderation in User Tests. | Lene Nielsen, Sara Marie Ertner, Bernard J. Jansen, Joni Salminen |
| 2026 | IUI | "Pathways to the Metaverse": Exploring the User Experience Mechanisms Driving Technology Acceptance in Virtual Lab Visits with an LLM-powered Avatar. | Xinyi Tu, Francesco Biondani, Danial Amin, Angelica Fabillar, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Huma Bano Adeel, Sonja M. H. Tervola, Carlo Berlingeri, Franco Fummi, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2025 | AICCSA | Representing Religious Practices via AI-Generated Personas: A Case Study of Ramadan Behaviors from Four Predominantly Muslim Countries. | Leen F. Al Qadi, Soon-Gyo Jung, Danial Amin, Amani Alabed, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2025 | AICCSA | Using AI for User Representation: An Analysis of 83 Persona Prompts. | Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2025 | CHI | When Scales Fail to Measure Up: How Not to Measure Social Media Privacy-Findings of a Representative Survey in 16 Countries. | Habiba Farzand, Ali Farooq, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2025 | CHI | What is User Engagement?: A Systematic Review of 241 Research Articles in Human-Computer Interaction and Beyond. | Bernard J. Jansen, Kathleen W. Guan, Joni Salminen, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Soon-Gyo Jung |
| 2025 | CHI | "Seriously, I'm Okay With Criticism": Assessing Participants Emotional Reactions During Participatory User Sessions via EEG Hyperscanning Analysis. | Leen F. Al Qadi, Safa R. Amin, Alah Omar, Lynne M. Fraser, Jinan Y. Azem, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2025 | CHI | "When AI Writes Personas": Analyzing Lexical Diversity in LLM-Generated Persona Descriptions. | Sankalp Sethi, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2025 | IUI | "You Always Get an Answer": Analyzing Users' Interaction with AI-Generated Personas Given Unanswerable Questions and Risk of Hallucination. | Ilkka Kaate, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Essi Hyhnen, Jinan Y. Azem, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2024 | CHI | Deus Ex Machina and Personas from Large Language Models: Investigating the Composition of AI-Generated Persona Descriptions. | Joni Salminen, Chang Liu, Wenjing Pian, Jianxing Chi, Essi Hyhnen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Kiss up, Kick down: Exploring Behavioral Changes in Multi-modal Large Language Models with Assigned Visual Personas. | Seungjong Sun, Eungu Lee, Seo Yeon Baek, Seunghyun Hwang, Wonbyung Lee, Dongyan Nan, Bernard J. Jansen, Jang-Hyun Kim |
| 2024 | HCI | Neurosymbolic AI for Personalized Sentiment Analysis. | Luyao Zhu, Rui Mao, Erik Cambria, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2024 | NordiCHI | Getting Emotional Enough: Analyzing Emotional Diversity in Deepfake Avatars. | Ilkka Kaate, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Nina Rizun, Aleksandra Revina, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2024 | NordiCHI | Investigating Persona Viewing Behavior: An Eye-Tracking Study on Portrait-Format Persona Profile. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2023 | HCI | How Can Natural Language Processing and Generative AI Address Grand Challenges of Quantitative User Personas? | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Hind A. Al-Merekhi, Erik Cambria, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2023 | HCI | The Choice of a Persona: An Analysis of Why Stakeholders Choose a Given Persona for a Design Task. | Joni Salminen, Sercan Sengn, Joo M. Santos, Soon-Gyo Jung, Lene Nielsen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2023 | ISNCC | Measuring Engagement Through Remote Interactions of Customers: Introducing METRIC. | Jinan Y. Azem, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2022 | CHI | Personas: New Data, New Trends. | Lene Nielsen, Bernard J. Jansen, Joni Salminen, Jos L. Abdelnour-Nocera, Soon-Gyo Jung |
| 2022 | CHI | Use Cases for Design Personas: A Systematic Review and New Frontiers. | Joni Salminen, Kathleen Wenyun Guan, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2022 | IUI | Developing Persona Analytics Towards Persona Science. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2022 | NordiCHI | Intentionally Biasing User Representation?: Investigating the Pros and Cons of Removing Toxic Quotes from Social Media Personas. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2022 | NordiCHI | Creating More Personas Improves Representation of Demographically Diverse Populations: Implications Towards Interactive Persona Systems. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Lene Nielsen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | CHI | Persona Analytics: Implementing Mouse-Tracking for an Interactive Persona System. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | CHI | Instilling Knowledge Claims of Personas from 346 Research Articles. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Kamal Chhirang, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | CHI | Picturing It!: The Effect of Image Styles on User Perceptions of Personas. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Joo M. Santos, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Kamel, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | CHI | Towards a Measurement Scale of Organizational Readiness for Personas. | Joni Salminen, Lene Nielsen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | ECSCW | The Problem of Majority Voting in Crowdsourcing with Binary Classes. | Joni Salminen, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Kamel, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | ETRA | Implementing Eye-Tracking for Persona Analytics. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | HCI | Suggestions for Online User Studies - Sharing Experiences from the Use of Four Platforms. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | INISTA | Taking Back Control of Social Media Feeds with Take Back Control. | Joni Salminen, Juan Corporan, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | Interact | Think-Aloud Surveys - A Method for Eliciting Enhanced Insights During User Studies. | Lene Nielsen, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2021 | Interact | Helping Professionals Select Persona Interview Questions Using Natural Language Processing. | Joni Salminen, Kamal Chhirang, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | CHI | Things Change: Comparing Results Using Historical Data and User Testing for Evaluating a Recommendation Task. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Dianne Ramirez Robillos, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | CHI | The Ethics of Data-Driven Personas. | Joni Salminen, Willemien Froneman, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | CHI | A Literature Review of Quantitative Persona Creation. | Joni Salminen, Kathleen W. Guan, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | CHI | Analyzing Demographic Bias in Artificially Generated Facial Pictures. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | CHI | Personas and Analytics: A Comparative User Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness for a User Identification Task. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Sercan Sengn, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | CHI | The Effect of Experience on Persona Perceptions. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Joo M. Santos, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | CHI | Designing Prototype Player Personas from a Game Preference Survey. | Joni Salminen, Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | HCI | A Template for Data-Driven Personas: Analyzing 31 Quantitatively Oriented Persona Profiles. | Joni Salminen, Kathleen W. Guan, Lene Nielsen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | HCI | Rethinking Personas for Fairness: Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability in Data-Driven Personas. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | HCI | Enriching Social Media Personas with Personality Traits: A Deep Learning Approach Using the Big Five Classes. | Joni Salminen, Rohan Gurunandan Rao, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | IUI | Giving Faces to Data: Creating Data-Driven Personas from Personified Big Data. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | IUI | Explaining Data Driven Personas to End Users. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | IUI | The effect of numerical and textual information on visual engagement and perceptions of AI-driven persona interfaces. | Joni Salminen, Ying-Hsang Liu, Sercan Sengn, Joo M. Santos, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | LREC | A Multi-Platform Arabic News Comment Dataset for Offensive Language Detection. | Shammur A. Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen, Joni Salminen |
| 2020 | NordiCHI | Four Types of Toxic People: Characterizing Online Users' Toxicity over Time. | Raghvendra Mall, Mridul Nagpal, Joni Salminen, Hind A. Al-Merekhi, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | WWW | Investigating Toxicity Across Multiple Reddit Communities, Users, and Moderators. | Hind A. Al-Merekhi, Bernard J. Jansen, Haewoon Kwak |
| 2020 | WWW | Statistical Modeling of Harassment against Reddit Moderators. | Hind A. Al-Merekhi, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2020 | WWW | Are These Comments Triggering? Predicting Triggers of Toxicity in Online Discussions. | Hind A. Al-Merekhi, Haewoon Kwak, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2019 | CHI | The Challenges of Creating Engaging Content: Results from a Focus Group Study of a Popular News Media Organization. | Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2019 | CHI | Creating Manageable Persona Sets from Large User Populations. | Bernard J. Jansen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen |
| 2019 | CHI | Personas Changing Over Time: Analyzing Variations of Data-Driven Personas During a Two-Year Period. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2019 | CHI | Detecting Demographic Bias in Automatically Generated Personas. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2019 | CHI | Analyzing Hate Speech Toward Players from the MENA in League of Legends. | Sercan Sengn, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Peter Mawhorter, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2019 | CHIIR | Online Hate Ratings Vary by Extremes: A Statistical Analysis. | Joni Salminen, Hind A. Al-Merekhi, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Kamel, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2019 | CHIIR | Design Issues in Automatically Generated Persona Profiles: A Qualitative Analysis from 38 Think-Aloud Transcripts. | Joni Salminen, Sercan Sengn, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2019 | ICWSM | View, Like, Comment, Post: Analyzing User Engagement by Topic at 4 Levels across 5 Social Media Platforms for 53 News Organizations. | Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | CHI | Analyzing Advertising Labels: Testing Consumers' Recognition of Paid Content Online. | Jeff Johnson, Manoj Hastak, Bernard J. Jansen, Devesh Raval |
| 2018 | CHI | Findings of a User Study of Automatically Generated Personas. | Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | CHI | Persona Perception Scale: Developing and Validating an Instrument for Human-Like Representations of Data. | Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, Joo M. Santos, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | CHI | "Is More Better?": Impact of Multiple Photos on Perception of Persona Profiles. | Joni Salminen, Lene Nielsen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | CHIIR | Automatic Persona Generation (APG): A Rationale and Demonstration. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | CHIIR | Fixation and Confusion: Investigating Eye-tracking Participants' Exposure to Information in Personas. | Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen, Jisun An, Soon-Gyo Jung, Lene Nielsen, Haewoon Kwak |
| 2018 | ICWSM | Assessing the Accuracy of Four Popular Face Recognition Tools for Inferring Gender, Age, and Race. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | ICWSM | Automatically Conceptualizing Social Media Analytics Data via Personas. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni O. Salminen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | ICWSM | Anatomy of Online Hate: Developing a Taxonomy and Machine Learning Models for Identifying and Classifying Hate in Online News Media. | Joni Salminen, Hind A. Al-Merekhi, Milica Milenkovic, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2018 | WWW | What We Read, What We Search: Media Attention and Public Attention Among 193 Countries. | Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2017 | AICCSA | Leveraging Social Analytics Data for Identifying Customer Segments for Online News Media. | Bernard J. Jansen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak |
| 2017 | CHI | Persona Generation from Aggregated Social Media Data. | Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Moeed Ahmad, Lene Nielsen, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2017 | OZCHI | Who are your users?: comparing media professionals' preconception of users to data-driven personas. | Lene Nielsen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2016 | AICCSA | Validating social media data for automatic persona generation. | Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2016 | AICCSA | Some commericial concerns of Amazon's community forums: The case of the Kindle. | Allie Whitman, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2016 | CHI | Shop Together, Search Together: Collaborative E-commerce. | Yanjun Gao, Madhu C. Reddy, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2016 | CHI | An Analysis of Cognitive Learning Context in MOOC Forum Messages. | Jian-Syuan Wong, Bart Pursel, Anna Divinsky, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2016 | IJCAI | Detecting Rumors from Microblogs with Recurrent Neural Networks. | Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Prasenjit Mitra, Sejeong Kwon, Bernard J. Jansen, Kam-Fai Wong, Meeyoung Cha |
| 2015 | CHI | A Taxonomy for Classifying Questions Asked in Social Question and Answering. | Zhe Liu, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2015 | ICDM | Correlation of Brand Mentions in Social Media and Web Searching Before and After Real Life Events: Phase Analysis of Social Media and Search Data for Super Bowl 2015 Commercials. | Partha Mukherjee, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2014 | CHI | Predicting potential responders in social Q&A based on non-QA features. | Zhe Liu, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2014 | CHI | Linking external and internal search: investigating the site searching patterns of referred searchers. | Adan Ortiz-Cordova, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2013 | CHI | Understanding the specificity of web search queries. | Carolyn Theresa Hafernik, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2013 | CHI | The gender-brand effect of key phrases on user clicks in sponsored search. | Partha Mukherjee, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2013 | CSCW | Factors influencing the response rate in social question and answering behavior. | Zhe Liu, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2012 | ER | An Integrated Conceptual Model to Incorporate Information Tasks in Workflow Models. | Sandeep Purao, Wolfgang Maass, Veda C. Storey, Bernard J. Jansen, Madhu C. Reddy |
| 2010 | CHI | Classifying web queries by topic and user intent. | Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth |
| 2010 | CHI | Real time search user behavior. | Bernard J. Jansen, Gerry Campbell, Matthew Gregg |
| 2010 | CHI | Gender demographic targeting in sponsored search. | Bernard J. Jansen, Lauren Solomon |
| 2010 | CHI | Gen X and Ys attitudes on using social media platforms for opinion sharing. | Bernard J. Jansen, Kate Sobel, Geoff Cook |
| 2010 | WWW | Smart marketing or bait & switch: competitors' brands as keywords in online advertising. | Mark A. Rosso, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2009 | CHI | Predicting query reformulation during web searching. | Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink |
| 2009 | CHI | Micro-blogging as online word of mouth branding. | Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Kate Sobel, Abdur Chowdury |
| 2009 | CHI | Influences of mood on information seeking behavior. | Mimi Zhang, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2007 | CHI | The effect of brand awareness on the evaluation of search engine results. | Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang |
| 2007 | WWW | Determining the user intent of web search engine queries. | Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink |
| 2007 | WWW | Understanding web search via a learning paradigm. | Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Keith Smith, Danielle L. Booth |
| 2007 | WWW | Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results. | Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Investigating the relevance of sponsored results for web ecommerce queries. | Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Viewing online searching within a learning paradigm. | Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Keith Smith, Danielle L. Booth |
| 2006 | KDD | How to Define Searching Sessions on Web Search Engines. | Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Vinish Kathuria |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback. | Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2003 | CHI | The impact of automated assistance on the information retrieval process. | Bernard J. Jansen, George K. Kroner |
| 2003 | SMC | Designing automated help using searcher system dialogues. | Bernard J. Jansen |
| 2003 | SMC | Web searching agents, what are they doing out there? | Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Jan O. Pedersen |
| 1999 | IUI | A Software Agent for Performance Improvement of Existing Information Retrieval Systems. | Bernard J. Jansen |
| 1999 | SIGCSE | Digital video in education. | Todd Smith, Anthony Ruocco, Bernard J. Jansen |
| 1998 | ICCCN | A Proxy Server Experiment : an Indication of the Changing Nature of the Web. | Richard Howard, Bernard J. Jansen |