publications

2025

1. CHI’2026

   

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

   Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, and Bernard Jansen

   Conference on Human Computer Interaction’2026, 2025

   In review, Poster

   Bib

   @article{amin2025pep,
     title = {Introducing Persona Ecosystem Playground (PEP): Generating Behaviorally Grounded Personas from Think-Aloud Data Using LLMs with RAG},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard},
     journal = {Conference on Human Computer Interaction'2026},
     year = {2025},
     note = {In review, Poster},
   }

2. CHI’2026

   

   "Are These AI Personas Really Personas?": Investigating to What Extent LLM-Generated Personas Follow Persona Design Theory

   Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, and Bernard Jansen

   Conference on Human Computer Interaction’2026, 2025

   In review, Poster

   Bib

   @article{amin2025personas_theory,
     title = {"Are These AI Personas Really Personas?": Investigating to What Extent LLM-Generated Personas Follow Persona Design Theory},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard},
     journal = {Conference on Human Computer Interaction'2026},
     year = {2025},
     note = {In review, Poster},
   }

3. OIR

   

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

   Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Angelica Fabillar, and 2 more authors

   Online Information Review, 2025

   In review

   Bib

   @article{amin2025anthropomorphicCAs,
     title = {How to Anthropomorphize Conversational Agents in Information Systems?: A Review of Humanizing Attributes},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Fabillar, Angelica and Sengün, Sercan and Jansen, Bernard},
     journal = {Online Information Review},
     year = {2025},
     note = {In review},
   }

4. UMAP’2026

   

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

   Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Angelica Fabillar, and 2 more authors

   In User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization’2026, 2025

   In review

   Bib

   @inproceedings{amin2025anthropomorphicmetadata,
     title = {How Does Anthropomorphism Affect User Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of Conversational Agents},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Fabillar, Angelica and Sengün, Sercan and Jansen, Bernard},
     booktitle = {User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization'2026},
     year = {2025},
     note = {In review},
   }

5. DIS’2026

   

   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, and Bernard Jansen

   In Designing Interactive Systems’2026, 2025

   In review

   Bib

   @inproceedings{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},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard},
     booktitle = {Designing Interactive Systems'2026},
     year = {2025},
     note = {In review},
   }

6. IJHCS

   

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

   Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jansen, and 2 more authors

   International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2025

   Published

   Bib HTML

   @article{amin2025genai_harmful,
     title = {Generative AI Personas Considered Harmful? Examining the Risks of Algorithmic User Representations in HCI Design},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard and Shin, Joongi and Kim, Dong Hun},
     journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Studies},
     year = {2025},
     note = {Published},
   }

7. CHI’2026

   

   The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Generative AI in Personas: A Systematic Review of 81 Research Manuscripts

   Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Farhan Ahmed, and 3 more authors

   In Conference on Human Computer Interaction’2026, 2025

   Accepted

   Bib

   @inproceedings{amin2025generative_review,
     title = {The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Generative AI in Personas: A Systematic Review of 81 Research Manuscripts},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Ahmed, Farhan and Tervola, M.H. Sonja and Sethi, Sankalp and Jansen, Bernard},
     booktitle = {Conference on Human Computer Interaction'2026},
     year = {2025},
     note = {Accepted},
   }

8. UMAP’2026

   

   "One Metric to Rule Them All?": Proposing A Quantitative Framework for Persona Set Diversity Measurement Toward Inclusive User Representation

   Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, and Bernard Jansen

   In User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization’2026, 2025

   In review

   Bib

   @inproceedings{amin2025diversity_personas,
     title = {"One Metric to Rule Them All?": Proposing A Quantitative Framework for Persona Set Diversity Measurement Toward Inclusive User Representation},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization'2026},
     note = {In review},
   }

9. AICCSA’25

   

   Using AI for User Representation: An Analysis of 83 Persona Prompts

   Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, and Bernard Jansen

   In ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2025

   Published

   Bib HTML Slides

   @inproceedings{salminen2025ai_representation,
     title = {Using AI for User Representation: An Analysis of 83 Persona Prompts},
     author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard},
     booktitle = {ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications},
     year = {2025},
     note = {Published},
   }

10. AICCSA’25

    

    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, and 3 more authors

    In ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2025

    Published

    Bib HTML

    @inproceedings{alqadi2025religious_personas,
      title = {Representing Religious Practices via AI-Generated Personas: A Case Study of Ramadan Behaviors from Four Predominantly Muslim Countries},
      author = {Alqadi, Leen and Jung, Soon-gyo and Amin, Danial and Alabed, Amani and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard},
      booktitle = {ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications},
      year = {2025},
      note = {Published},
    }

11. UMAP’2026

    

    On the Need for Computational Resources for the Scientific Benchmarking of Data-Driven Personas

    Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, and Bernard Jansen

    In User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization’ 2026, 2025

    In review

    Bib

    @inproceedings{salminen2025computational_resources,
      title = {On the Need for Computational Resources for the Scientific Benchmarking of Data-Driven Personas},
      author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard},
      booktitle = {User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization' 2026},
      year = {2025},
      note = {In review},
    }

12. AH’25

    

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

    Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, Soon-gyo Jung, and 1 more author

    In Augmented Humans’2025, 2025

    Published, Poster

    Bib HTML Poster

    @inproceedings{salminen2025llm_hci,
      title = {The Use of Large Language Models in HCI: A Critical Analysis of Synthetic Users},
      author = {Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jung, Soon-gyo and Jansen, Bernard},
      booktitle = {Augmented Humans'2025},
      year = {2025},
      note = {Published, Poster},
      url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3745900.3746108},
    }

13. CHI’25

    

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

    Sankalp Sethi, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, and 1 more author

    In Extended Abstracts of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

    Published, Extended Abstract

    Bib HTML

    @inproceedings{sethi2025lexical_diversity,
      title = {"When AI Writes Personas": Analyzing Lexical Diversity in LLM-Generated Persona Descriptions},
      author = {Sethi, Sankalp and Salminen, Joni and Amin, Danial and Jansen, Bernard},
      booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      year = {2025},
      note = {Published, Extended Abstract},
      url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599.3719712},
    }

2024

1. CRC Press

   

   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 Jansen, and 2 more authors

   In Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models: A Scientific Perspective, 2024

   In press, Accepted

   Bib

   @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},
     author = {Amin, Danial and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard and Kaate, Ilkka and Akhtar, Waleed},
     booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence \& Large Language Models: A Scientific Perspective},
     publisher = {CRC Press},
     year = {2024},
     note = {In press, Accepted},
   }

2021

1. ICASE’21

   

   The Role of National Centers in Sustainable Development of Pakistan

   Najam Naqvi, Faaiz Ahmed, Usama Ahmed, and 2 more authors

   In International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering, 2021

   Published

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{naqvi2021sustainable_development,
     title = {The Role of National Centers in Sustainable Development of Pakistan},
     author = {Naqvi, Najam and Ahmed, Faaiz and Ahmed, Usama and Amin, Danial and Malik, Faizaan},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
     note = {Published},
   }

2. ICASE’21

   

   Role of Private-Public Partnerships in Creation of Space Awareness and Outreach in Pakistan

   Najam Naqvi, Faaiz Ahmed, Usama Ahmed, and 2 more authors

   In International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering, 2021

   Published

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{naqvi2021public_private,
     title = {Role of Private-Public Partnerships in Creation of Space Awareness and Outreach in Pakistan},
     author = {Naqvi, Najam and Ahmed, Faaiz and Ahmed, Usama and Amin, Danial and Malik, Faizan},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
     note = {Published}
   }

2017

1. ICASE’17

   

   Role of subject matter experts in creating awareness through space technology education and popularization (STEP): World space week celebrations — A case study

   Najam Naqvi, Faaiz Ahmed, Usama Ahmed, and 1 more author

   In International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering, 2017

   Published

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{naqvi2017experts_awareness,
     title = {Role of subject matter experts in creating awareness through space technology education and popularization (STEP): World space week celebrations — A case study},
     author = {Naqvi, Najam and Ahmed, Faaiz and Ahmed, Usama and Amin, Danial},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering},
     year = {2017},
     publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
     note = {Published},
   }

2. ICASE’17

   

   Unification of traditional and scientific pedagogy in Space Technology Education and Popularization (STEP): Space summer school—A case study

   Najam Naqvi, Faaiz Ahmed, Usama Ahmed, and 1 more author

   In International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering, 2017

   Published

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{naqvi2017traditional_scientific,
     title = {Unification of traditional and scientific pedagogy in Space Technology Education and Popularization (STEP): Space summer school—A case study},
     author = {Naqvi, Najam and Ahmed, Faaiz and Ahmed, Usama and Amin, Danial},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Aerospace Science and Engineering},
     year = {2017},
     publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
     note = {Published},
   }