Danial AminHead of AI and Data, Illusian Ventures · Doctoral researcher, University of Vaasa

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18 published or accepted and 16 under review, 2025–2027, generated from papers.bib — 14 with a DOI, 38 co-authors. Every entry carries its BibTeX. Citation counts as of 2026-09-20.

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202711 items

  • 01

    “Thanks for the Tour, Professor!”: How Do Avatar Realism and Spatial Immersion Affect Users' Experience of a Virtual Lab Tour?

    Xinyi Tu, Francesco Biondani, Danial Amin, Angelica Fabillar, Thi Thu Trang Xuan, Huma Bano Adeel, Sonja M.H. Tervola, Carlo Berlingeri, Franco Fummi, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 02

    Beyond Observation: Leveraging Moderator Nudges as Signals for Usability Issues During a User Study on Educational AI Chatbot

    Danial Amin, A. Rustom, Ilkka Kaate, Thi Thu Trang Xuan, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 03

    Beyond the Average User: Developing Percentile-Based Extreme Personas and Evaluating the Limits of Conversational Reliability

    Rajat Patil, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, H. Makkonen, Waleed Akhtar, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 04

    Can Empirically Grounded, LLM-Assisted Personas Support Stakeholder Understanding and Alignment? A Case Study in Soil Health

    Bojan Blažica, Maja Topole, Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Marko Debeljak

    In review

  • 05

    Disambiguating Persona: A Conceptual Framework for Persona Research in HCI

    Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, A. Baki Kocaballi, Lene Nielsen, Mirjana Prpa, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 06

    Getting User Insights Quickly: Comparing AI Personas Versus Spreadsheets for Survey Analysis Under Time Constraints

    Bernard J. Jansen, Leen Alqadi, A. Rustom, Danial Amin, Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen

    In review

  • 07

    Goal-Directed, Role-Based, Engaging, or Proto Personas?: Investigating the Use and Applicability of Design Paradigms for LLM-Generated Personas

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 08

    It Is Not Just Where You Look: Gaze Organization in Human and Deepfake Political Personas

    Ilkka Kaate, D. N. Tshilemba, Joni Salminen, Thi Thu Trang Xuan, Huma Bano Adeel, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 09

    Personas for Policy-Making: Investigating How an Interactive Multi-Persona System Can Help Address Policy Dilemmas

    Danial Amin, M. Faizan, Joni Salminen, Ilkka Kaate, Huma Bano Adeel, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 10

    Scaling Empathy Comes with a Concern: A Systematic Review and Workflow Taxonomy for LLM-Assisted Persona Generation from Unstructured Data

    A. R. Asadi, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen, H. Said

    In review

  • 11

    Stereotypes in the Eye of the Beholder: Investigating How Design and Software Development Professionals Perceive Stereotypes in User Personas

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Ilkka Kaate, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

202617 items

  • 12

    “Half My Survey Data Is Bad; The Problem Is, I Can't Tell Which Half”: Evaluating the Validatability of Large-Scale Survey Data Using 176 Algorithmically Generated Personas

    Bernard J. Jansen, Marwan Akari, Safa Amin, Soon-gyo Jung, Danial Amin, Joni Salminen

    HT

  • 13

    "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, Thi Thu Trang Xuan, Huma Bano Adeel, Sonja M.H. Tervola, Carlo Berlingeri, Franco Fummi, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    IUI1 cit.

  • 14

    “Sounds Like a Lot of Tech Guys I Know”: How Professionals and Large Language Models Judge Stereotypes in User Personas

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Ilkka Kaate, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 15

    AI Representing Personas Representing User Groups: Applying the Agency Theory to Examine Interaction Challenges of Conversational Personas as Decision-Making Tools

    Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Ilkka Kaate, Thi Thu Trang Xuan, Jinan Y. Azem, Kholoud Aldous, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen

    DSS1 cit.

  • 16

    Assessing Inter-Rater Agreement Among Large Language Model Judges: Evidence from Persona Evaluation Across Educational Risk Contexts

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    TFSCAccepted

  • 17

    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

    CHI40 cit.

  • 18

    Do LLMs Know How Many Personas to Generate? A Benchmarking Study in Customer Segmentation

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    AICCSAAccepted

  • 19

    From Priming Modalities to Educational AI Chatbot Engagement: A Study of 67 Learners

    Thi Thu Trang Xuan, Joni Salminen, Ilkka Kaate, Farhan Ahmed, Danial Amin, Rajat Patil, Soon-gyo Jung, Jinan Y. Azem, Bernard J. Jansen

    IJHCI2 cit.

  • 20

    How Can Tensions in Sustainability Transitions Be Made Visible?: Challenging the Actor-Centered Ecosystem Approach through Persona-Based Modeling

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Farhan Ahmed, Emillia Zemskova, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 21

    How Does Anthropomorphism Affect User Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of Conversational Agents

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Angelica Fabillar, Sercan Sengün, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 22

    Introducing Persona Ecosystem Playground (PEP): Generating Behaviorally Grounded Personas from Think-Aloud Data Using LLMs with RAG

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    CUI

  • 23

    Large language models (LLMs) in human-computer interaction: Using LLM-generated personas to model everything from minority views to entire ecosystems

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen, Ilkka Kaate, Waleed Akhtar

    CRC Press2 cit.

  • 24

    PersonaBase: A Formative Evaluation Study of Computational Resources for Data-Driven Personas

    Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Ilkka Kaate, Bernard J. Jansen

    HT

  • 25

    PersonaBase: Computational Resources for Advancing the Research and Practice of Data-Driven Personas

    Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Ilkka Kaate, Bernard J. Jansen

    NordiCHIAccepted

  • 26

    Proposing a Quantitative Framework for Persona Set Diversity Measurement as a Pathway to Inclusive User Representation

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    IEEE Access

  • 27

    Reconceptualizing the Persona Perception Scale for Non-Human Personas: A Formative Validation Study

    Joni Salminen, Lene Nielsen, Farhan Ahmed, Thi Thu Trang Xuan, Rajat Patil, Ilkka Kaate, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen

    NordiCHIAccepted

  • 28

    What Principles Do Researchers Apply When Using LLMs to Create Personas?: A Review of Prompt Design for AI-Generated Personas from Fairness and Technical Perspectives

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Ilkka Kaate, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

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  • 29

    "When AI Writes Personas": Analyzing Lexical Diversity in LLM-Generated Persona Descriptions

    Sankalp Sethi, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen

    CHIExtended Abstract16 cit.

  • 30

    Generative AI Personas Considered Harmful? Examining the Risks of Algorithmic User Representations in HCI Design

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen, Joongi Shin, Dong Hun Kim

    IJHCS18 cit.

  • 31

    How Is AI Used for User Representation?: An Analysis of 83 Persona Prompts

    Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen

    AICCSA6 cit.

  • 32

    How to Anthropomorphize Conversational Agents in Information Systems?: A Review of Humanizing Attributes

    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Angelica Fabillar, Sercan Sengün, Bernard J. Jansen

    In review

  • 33

    Representing Religious Practices via AI-Generated Personas: A Case Study of Ramadan Behaviors from Four Predominantly Muslim Countries

    Leen Alqadi, Soon-gyo Jung, Danial Amin, Amani Alabed, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen

    AICCSA3 cit.

  • 34

    The Use of Large Language Models in HCI: A Critical Analysis of Synthetic Users

    Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen

    AHPoster9 cit.