Crowd Computing Research Group Conducts Research in Two Core Domains:

Digital Health; We study solutions for human wellbeing, in e.g. domains such as sleep, different forms of pain, or mental wellbeing.

Human-Computer Interaction; We investigate interaction between humans and AI, as well as meta-HCI (the science of conducting HCI science)

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Selected Publications

2026

Szabo D, Yang C, Visuri A, Oppenländer J, Sekar B, Yatani K & Hosio S (2026)
Conversational Inoculation to Enhance Resistance to Misinformation
Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26), to appear

Li J, Ahooie NN, Paananen V, Visuri A, Szabo D, Kuutila M, Yatani K, Mäntylä M, Hosio S (2026)
Breaking Down the Reading Barriers of Medical Literature with an LLM-Powered Browser Extension
Behaviour & Information Technology (BIT),  to appear

Alorwu A, Van Berkel N, Moilanen J, Sharmila P, Meftahi N, Yatani K, Visuri A & Hosio S (2026)
Crowd-Powered Discovery of Mental Health Self-Care Techniques in Higher Education
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), to appear

Kaltenhauser A, Arnéra JP, Unger A, Ppali S, van Berkel N, Tag B, Glassman EL, Sengers P, Hosio S & Oppenlaender J (2026)
Meta-HCI: Practising Reflection in HCI Research
A Meet-Up at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26)

2025

Ali M, van Berkel N, Tag B, Paananen V, Oppenlaender J, Yatani K, Hosio S (2025)
Investigating Mental Wellbeing Self-Care in Higher Education Using BERTopic Modeling
Discover Mental Health

Li J, Huusko E, Ahooie NN, Kuutila M, Huotala A, Mäntylä M & Hosio S (2025)
CredTwi: Investigating Social Media Credibility with a Browser Plugin
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI)

Oppenlaender J, Malacria S, Fang X, van Berkel N, Chevalier F, Yatani K & Hosio S (2025)
Meta-HCI: First Workshop on Meta-Research in HCI
A workshop organized at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘2025)

Oppenlaender J & Hosio S (2025)
Keeping Score: A Quantitative Analysis of How the CHI Community Appreciates Its Milestones
Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘2025)

Shixian G, Inayoshi R, Yang CL, Sramek Z, Umeda Y, Kasahara C, Sato AJ, Hosio S & Yatani K (2025)
Beyond the Dialogue: Multi-chatbot Group Motivational Interviewing for Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) Management
Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘2025)

Djernæs HB, Jacobsen RM, Hosio S & Van Berkel N (2025)
Visual Augmentations for Ultrasound Assessment Training of Medical Students
Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘2025)

Zheng J, Wang X, Hosio S, Xu X & Lee LH (2025)
LMLPA: Language Model Linguistic Personality Assessment
Computational Linguistics (2025)

2024

Alorwu A, van Berkel N, Visuri A, Suryanarayana SA, Yoshihiro T & Hosio S (2024)
Monetary Valuation of Personal Health Data in the Wild
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103241

Mourelatos E, Simonen J, Hosio S, Likhobaba D, Ustalov D (2024)
How has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped behavior in crowdsourcing? The role of online labor market training
Journal of Business Economics (JBE) – https://doi.org/10.1007/s11573-024-01196-6

Wester J, Pohl H, Hosio S & Van Berkel N (2024)
“This Chatbot Would Never…”: Perceived Moral Agency of Mental Health Chatbots
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW) – https://doi.org/10.1145/3637410

Kuutila M, Kiili C, Kupiainen R, Huusko E, Li J, Hosio S, Mäntylä M, Coiro J, Kiili K (2024)
Revealing complexities when adult readers engage in the credibility evaluation of social media posts
Computers in Human Behaviour (CHB) – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108017

2023

Kuosmanen E, Huusko E, Van Berkel N, Nunes F, Vega J, Goncalves J, Khamis M, Esteves A, Ferreira D & Hosio S (2023)
Exploring Crowdsourced Self-Care Techniques: A Study on Parkinson’s Disease
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103062

Kheirinejad S, Visuri A, Suryanarayana S & Hosio S (2023)
Exploring mHealth Applications for Self-Management of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Survey of Features and Benefits
Heliyon – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16586

Paananen V, Kiarostami S, Lee LH, Braudt T, Hosio S (2023)
From Digital Media to Empathic Spaces: A Systematic Review of Empathy Research in Extended Reality Environments
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) – https://doi.org/10.1145/3626518

Kheirinejad S, Visuri A, Ferreira D & Hosio S (2022)
“Leave Your Smartphone Out of Bed”: Quantitative Analysis of Smartphone Use on Sleep Quality
In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing – https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-022-01694-w

2022

Kuosmanen E, Visuri A, Kheirinejad S, van Berkel N, Koskimäki H, Ferreira D & Hosio S (2022)
How Does Sleep Tracking Influence Your Life? Experiences from a Longitudinal Field Study with a Wearable Ring*
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (Mobile HCI ’22) – https://doi.org/10.1145/3546720
* Best Paper Honourable Mention Award

Asare KO, Moshe I, Terhorst Y, Vega J, Hosio S, Baumaister H, Pulkki-Råback L & Ferreira D (2022)
Mood ratings and digital biomarkers from smartphone and wearable data differentiates and predicts depression status: A longitudinal data analysis
Pervasive and Mobile Computing – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2022.101621

Alorwu A, Visuri A, van Berkel N & Hosio S (2022)
(Re)using Crowdsourced Health Data: Perceptions of Data Contributors
IEEE Software – https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2021.3117684

 

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Funded Projects

EMPOWER: Empowering Mental Wellbeing through Multi-Agent Conversational AI (Simo Hosio, 2026-2028; Infotech Oulu)

SleepVention: Academy Research Fellow (Aku Visuri, 2023-2027) + research costs: A Data-driven recommender platform for improving sleep and wellbeing through digital tracking and interventions

AIM: Academy Research Fellow (Simo Hosio, 2022-2027) + research costs: Crowdsourcing Clinically Relevant, Non-Biased Datasets for Medical Artificial Intelligence

Academy of Finland & JSPS Bilateral Mobility Funding between University of Oulu (Finland) and University of Tokyo (Japan): Culturally Adaptive Conversational Agents for Mental Health Self-Care in Higher Education

CRITICAL: An Academy of Finland (Strategic Research Council) project on Technological and Societal Innovations to Cultivate Critical Reading in the Internet Era

GenZ: Generation Z and beyond: Co-evolution of human capabilities and intelligent technologies in the 21st century (GenZ)

ICON: Interventions and Contextual Understanding for Low Back Pain Research(Simo Hosio & Denzil Ferreira, 2020-2023; Biocenter Oulu)

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