| 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 | CHI | Understanding Spatiotemporal-Aware Multimodal Conversational Search in the Outdoor Urban Space. | Jiangnan Xu, Suyeon Seo, Joni Salminen, Michael Saker, Joongi Shin, Alan Chamberlain, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim |
| 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 | Who should set the Standards? Analysing Censored Arabic Content on Facebook during the Palestine-Israel Conflict. | Walid Magdy, Hamdy Mubarak, Joni Salminen |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2023 | TrustCom | Understanding Privacy Concerns in Mobile Health Applications: A Scenario-based Online Survey. | Reham Al Tamime, Ali Farooq, Joni Salminen, Vincent Marmion, Wendy Hall |
| 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 | NordiCHI | "Her Name Was Chloe and She Delivers Stuff to Your Room": A Qualitative Analysis of User Reviews of Hotels Using Robots. | Joni Salminen, Milica Milenkovic |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |