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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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“Thanks for the Tour, Professor!”: How Do Avatar Realism and Spatial Immersion Affect Users' Experience of a Virtual Lab Tour?
@inproceedings{tu2027avatar_realism, title = {``Thanks for the Tour, Professor!'': How Do Avatar Realism and Spatial Immersion Affect Users' Experience of a Virtual Lab Tour?}, citations = {0}, author = {Tu, Xinyi and Biondani, Francesco and Amin, Danial and Fabillar, Angelica and Xuan, Thi Thu Trang and Adeel, Huma Bano and Tervola, Sonja M.H. and Berlingeri, Carlo and Fummi, Franco and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 02
Beyond Observation: Leveraging Moderator Nudges as Signals for Usability Issues During a User Study on Educational AI Chatbot
@inproceedings{amin2027moderator_nudges, title = {Beyond Observation: Leveraging Moderator Nudges as Signals for Usability Issues During a User Study on Educational AI Chatbot}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Rustom, A. and Kaate, Ilkka and Xuan, Thi Thu Trang and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 03
Beyond the Average User: Developing Percentile-Based Extreme Personas and Evaluating the Limits of Conversational Reliability
@inproceedings{patil2027extreme_personas, title = {Beyond the Average User: Developing Percentile-Based Extreme Personas and Evaluating the Limits of Conversational Reliability}, citations = {0}, author = {Patil, Rajat and Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Makkonen, H. and Akhtar, Waleed and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 04
Can Empirically Grounded, LLM-Assisted Personas Support Stakeholder Understanding and Alignment? A Case Study in Soil Health
@inproceedings{blazica2027soil_health, title = {Can Empirically Grounded, LLM-Assisted Personas Support Stakeholder Understanding and Alignment? A Case Study in Soil Health}, citations = {0}, author = {Blažica, Bojan and Topole, Maja and Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Debeljak, Marko}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 05
Disambiguating Persona: A Conceptual Framework for Persona Research in HCI
@inproceedings{salminen2027disambiguating_persona, title = {Disambiguating Persona: A Conceptual Framework for Persona Research in HCI}, citations = {0}, author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Kocaballi, A. Baki and Nielsen, Lene and Prpa, Mirjana and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 06
Getting User Insights Quickly: Comparing AI Personas Versus Spreadsheets for Survey Analysis Under Time Constraints
@inproceedings{jansen2027quick_insights, title = {Getting User Insights Quickly: Comparing AI Personas Versus Spreadsheets for Survey Analysis Under Time Constraints}, citations = {0}, author = {Jansen, Bernard J. and Alqadi, Leen and Rustom, A. and Amin, Danial and Jung, Soon-gyo and Salminen, Joni}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 07
Goal-Directed, Role-Based, Engaging, or Proto Personas?: Investigating the Use and Applicability of Design Paradigms for LLM-Generated Personas
@inproceedings{amin2027design_paradigms, title = {Goal-Directed, Role-Based, Engaging, or Proto Personas?: Investigating the Use and Applicability of Design Paradigms for LLM-Generated Personas}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 08
It Is Not Just Where You Look: Gaze Organization in Human and Deepfake Political Personas
@inproceedings{kaate2027gaze_deepfake, title = {It Is Not Just Where You Look: Gaze Organization in Human and Deepfake Political Personas}, citations = {0}, author = {Kaate, Ilkka and Tshilemba, D. N. and Salminen, Joni and Xuan, Thi Thu Trang and Adeel, Huma Bano and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 09
Personas for Policy-Making: Investigating How an Interactive Multi-Persona System Can Help Address Policy Dilemmas
@inproceedings{amin2027policy_personas, title = {Personas for Policy-Making: Investigating How an Interactive Multi-Persona System Can Help Address Policy Dilemmas}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Faizan, M. and Salminen, Joni and Kaate, Ilkka and Adeel, Huma Bano and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 10
Scaling Empathy Comes with a Concern: A Systematic Review and Workflow Taxonomy for LLM-Assisted Persona Generation from Unstructured Data
@inproceedings{asadi2027scaling_empathy, title = {Scaling Empathy Comes with a Concern: A Systematic Review and Workflow Taxonomy for LLM-Assisted Persona Generation from Unstructured Data}, citations = {0}, author = {Asadi, A. R. and Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard J. and Said, H.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} } - 11
Stereotypes in the Eye of the Beholder: Investigating How Design and Software Development Professionals Perceive Stereotypes in User Personas
@inproceedings{amin2027stereotypes_perception, title = {Stereotypes in the Eye of the Beholder: Investigating How Design and Software Development Professionals Perceive Stereotypes in User Personas}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Kaate, Ilkka and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2027}, note = {In review} }
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“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
@inproceedings{jansen2026survey_validatability, title = {``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}, citations = {0}, author = {Jansen, Bernard J. and Akari, Marwan and Amin, Safa and Jung, Soon-gyo and Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni}, booktitle = {37th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'26)}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, doi = {10.1145/3800935.3830835}, abbr = {HT'2026}, selected = {false} } - 13
"Pathways to the Metaverse": Exploring the User Experience Mechanisms Driving Technology Acceptance in Virtual Lab Visits with an LLM-powered Avatar
@inproceedings{xini2026meta, title = {"Pathways to the Metaverse": Exploring the User Experience Mechanisms Driving Technology Acceptance in Virtual Lab Visits with an LLM-powered Avatar}, citations = {1}, author = {Tu, Xinyi and Biondani, Francesco and Amin, Danial and Fabillar, Angelica and Xuan, Thi Thu Trang and Adeel, Huma Bano and Tervola, Sonja M.H. and Berlingeri, Carlo and Fummi, Franco and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces'2026}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, abbr = {IUI'2026}, selected = {6}, doi = {10.1145/3742413.3789084}, html = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3742413.3789084} } - 14
“Sounds Like a Lot of Tech Guys I Know”: How Professionals and Large Language Models Judge Stereotypes in User Personas
@article{amin2026stereotype_judges, title = {``Sounds Like a Lot of Tech Guys I Know'': How Professionals and Large Language Models Judge Stereotypes in User Personas}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Kaate, Ilkka and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2026}, note = {In review} } - 15
AI Representing Personas Representing User Groups: Applying the Agency Theory to Examine Interaction Challenges of Conversational Personas as Decision-Making Tools
@article{salminen2025aipersonas, title = {AI Representing Personas Representing User Groups: Applying the Agency Theory to Examine Interaction Challenges of Conversational Personas as Decision-Making Tools}, citations = {1}, author = {Salminen, Joni and Jung, Soon-gyo and Kaate, Ilkka and Xuan, Thi Thu Trang and Azem, Jinan Y. and Aldous, Kholoud and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard J.}, journal = {Decision Support Systems}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, abbr = {DSS'2026}, selected = {5}, doi = {10.1016/j.dss.2026.114633}, html = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2026.114633} } - 16
Assessing Inter-Rater Agreement Among Large Language Model Judges: Evidence from Persona Evaluation Across Educational Risk Contexts
@article{amin2026llm_judges, title = {Assessing Inter-Rater Agreement Among Large Language Model Judges: Evidence from Persona Evaluation Across Educational Risk Contexts}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, journal = {Technological Forecasting and Social Change}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted}, abbr = {TFSC}, selected = {false} } - 17
Creating and Evaluating Personas Using Generative AI: A Scoping Review of 81 Articles
@inproceedings{amin2025generative_review, title = {Creating and Evaluating Personas Using Generative AI: A Scoping Review of 81 Articles}, citations = {40}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Ahmed, Farhan and Tervola, Sonja M.H. and Sethi, Sankalp and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'26)}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, selected = {1}, abbr = {CHI'2026}, doi = {10.1145/3772318.3790608}, html = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3790608}, slides = {https://speakerdeck.com/damin/creating-and-evaluating-personas-using-generative-ai-a-scoping-review-of-81-articles} } - 18
Do LLMs Know How Many Personas to Generate? A Benchmarking Study in Customer Segmentation
@inproceedings{amin2025data_personas, title = {Do LLMs Know How Many Personas to Generate? A Benchmarking Study in Customer Segmentation}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications'2026}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted}, abbr = {AICCSA'2026}, selected = {false} } - 19
From Priming Modalities to Educational AI Chatbot Engagement: A Study of 67 Learners
@article{xuan2026priming, title = {From Priming Modalities to Educational AI Chatbot Engagement: A Study of 67 Learners}, citations = {2}, author = {Xuan, Thi Thu Trang and Salminen, Joni and Kaate, Ilkka and Ahmed, Farhan and Amin, Danial and Patil, Rajat and Jung, Soon-gyo and Azem, Jinan Y. and Jansen, Bernard J.}, journal = {International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, abbr = {IJHCI}, selected = {false}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, doi = {10.1080/10447318.2026.2654818}, html = {https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2026.2654818} } - 20
How Can Tensions in Sustainability Transitions Be Made Visible?: Challenging the Actor-Centered Ecosystem Approach through Persona-Based Modeling
@incollection{amin2026ecosystem, title = {How Can Tensions in Sustainability Transitions Be Made Visible?: Challenging the Actor-Centered Ecosystem Approach through Persona-Based Modeling}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Ahmed, Farhan and Zemskova, Emillia and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2026}, note = {In review} } - 21
How Does Anthropomorphism Affect User Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of Conversational Agents
@article{amin2025anthropomorphicmetadata, title = {How Does Anthropomorphism Affect User Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of Conversational Agents}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Fabillar, Angelica and Sengün, Sercan and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2026}, note = {In review}, selected = {false} } - 22
Introducing Persona Ecosystem Playground (PEP): Generating Behaviorally Grounded Personas from Think-Aloud Data Using LLMs with RAG
@inproceedings{amin2025pep, title = {Introducing Persona Ecosystem Playground (PEP): Generating Behaviorally Grounded Personas from Think-Aloud Data Using LLMs with RAG}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {Conference on Conversational User Interfaces'2026}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, abbr = {CUI'2026}, selected = {3}, doi = {10.1145/3816046.3816269} } - 23
Large language models (LLMs) in human-computer interaction: Using LLM-generated personas to model everything from minority views to entire ecosystems
@incollection{amin2024llm_personas, title = {Large language models (LLMs) in human-computer interaction: Using LLM-generated personas to model everything from minority views to entire ecosystems}, citations = {2}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J. and Kaate, Ilkka and Akhtar, Waleed}, booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence \& Large Language Models: A Scientific Perspective}, publisher = {CRC Press}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, abbr = {CRC Press}, selected = {4}, doi = {10.1201/9781003492252-10}, html = {https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003492252-10} } - 24
PersonaBase: A Formative Evaluation Study of Computational Resources for Data-Driven Personas
@inproceedings{salminen2026personabase, title = {PersonaBase: A Formative Evaluation Study of Computational Resources for Data-Driven Personas}, citations = {0}, author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Kaate, Ilkka and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {37th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'26)}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, doi = {10.1145/3800935.3830833}, abbr = {HT'2026}, selected = {false} } - 25
PersonaBase: Computational Resources for Advancing the Research and Practice of Data-Driven Personas
@inproceedings{salminen2026personabase_nordichi, title = {PersonaBase: Computational Resources for Advancing the Research and Practice of Data-Driven Personas}, citations = {0}, author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Kaate, Ilkka and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI'26)}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted}, abbr = {NordiCHI'2026}, selected = {false} } - 26
Proposing a Quantitative Framework for Persona Set Diversity Measurement as a Pathway to Inclusive User Representation
@article{amin2025diversity_personas, title = {Proposing a Quantitative Framework for Persona Set Diversity Measurement as a Pathway to Inclusive User Representation}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, journal = {IEEE Access}, year = {2026}, note = {Published}, abbr = {IEEE Access}, doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3732878} } - 27
Reconceptualizing the Persona Perception Scale for Non-Human Personas: A Formative Validation Study
@inproceedings{salminen2026persona_perception_scale, title = {Reconceptualizing the Persona Perception Scale for Non-Human Personas: A Formative Validation Study}, citations = {0}, author = {Salminen, Joni and Nielsen, Lene and Ahmed, Farhan and Xuan, Thi Thu Trang and Patil, Rajat and Kaate, Ilkka and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI'26)}, year = {2026}, note = {Accepted}, abbr = {NordiCHI'2026}, selected = {false} } - 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
@article{amin2025prompts_personas_eval, title = {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}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Kaate, Ilkka and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2026}, note = {In review}, selected = {false} }
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"When AI Writes Personas": Analyzing Lexical Diversity in LLM-Generated Persona Descriptions
@inproceedings{sethi2025lexical_diversity, title = {"When AI Writes Personas": Analyzing Lexical Diversity in LLM-Generated Persona Descriptions}, citations = {16}, author = {Sethi, Sankalp and Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems'2025}, year = {2025}, note = {Published, Extended Abstract}, doi = {10.1145/3706599.3719712}, abbr = {CHI'25}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3719712}, html = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719712}, selected = {7} } - 30
Generative AI Personas Considered Harmful? Examining the Risks of Algorithmic User Representations in HCI Design
@article{amin2025genai_harmful, title = {Generative AI Personas Considered Harmful? Examining the Risks of Algorithmic User Representations in HCI Design}, citations = {18}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J. and Shin, Joongi and Kim, Dong Hun}, journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Studies}, year = {2025}, note = {Published}, abbr = {IJHCS}, selected = {2}, doi = {10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103657}, html = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581925002149} } - 31
How Is AI Used for User Representation?: An Analysis of 83 Persona Prompts
@inproceedings{salminen2025ai_representation, title = {How Is AI Used for User Representation?: An Analysis of 83 Persona Prompts}, citations = {6}, author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications}, year = {2025}, note = {Published}, abbr = {AICCSA'25}, doi = {10.1109/AICCSA66935.2025.11315350}, html = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11315350} } - 32
How to Anthropomorphize Conversational Agents in Information Systems?: A Review of Humanizing Attributes
@article{amin2025anthropomorphicCAs, title = {How to Anthropomorphize Conversational Agents in Information Systems?: A Review of Humanizing Attributes}, citations = {0}, author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Fabillar, Angelica and Sengün, Sercan and Jansen, Bernard J.}, year = {2025}, note = {In review}, selected = {false} } - 33
Representing Religious Practices via AI-Generated Personas: A Case Study of Ramadan Behaviors from Four Predominantly Muslim Countries
@inproceedings{alqadi2025religious_personas, title = {Representing Religious Practices via AI-Generated Personas: A Case Study of Ramadan Behaviors from Four Predominantly Muslim Countries}, citations = {3}, author = {Alqadi, Leen and Jung, Soon-gyo and Amin, Danial and Alabed, Amani and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications}, year = {2025}, note = {Published}, abbr = {AICCSA'25}, doi = {10.1109/AICCSA66935.2025.11315204}, html = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11315204} } - 34
The Use of Large Language Models in HCI: A Critical Analysis of Synthetic Users
@inproceedings{salminen2025llm_hci, title = {The Use of Large Language Models in HCI: A Critical Analysis of Synthetic Users}, citations = {9}, author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jung, Soon-gyo and Jansen, Bernard J.}, booktitle = {Augmented Humans'2025}, year = {2025}, note = {Published, Poster}, doi = {10.1145/3745900.3746108}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3745900.3746108}, html = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3745900.3746108}, abbr = {AH'25} }
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