Tutorials

CHI’23 Course on Cognitive Modeling
Designed for delivery at CHI2022 and CHI2023, CHI2024 by Jussi Jokinen, Antti Oulasvirta and Andrew Howes
The course is designed as a course in introduction to cognitive modeling in Human-Computer Interaction. It introduces students to Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning approaches to cognitive modeling.
Topics covered:

• Fitts’ Law
• Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Model building

6th Computational Interaction Summer School 2022 
By John Williamson, Luis Leiva, Bereket Yilma, Andrew Howes, Nicola Banovik, Antti Oulasvirta & Alexandra Ion
This course takes place at the 6th Summer School on Computational Interaction which was held at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany between 13th and 18th of June 2022. It was organized by the Saarland Informatics Campus and the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics.
The topics and speakers are as follows:

• Bayesian Inference by John Williamson
• Deep Learning by Luis Leiva and Bereket Yilma
• Computational Rationality by Andrew Howes
• Interactive and Explainable AI by Nikola Banovic
• Bayesian Optimization by Antti Oulasvirta
• Geometric Optimization by Alexandra Ion

CHI'19 Course on Computational Interaction with Bayesian Methods
By Nikola Banovic, Per Ola Kristensson, Antti Oulasvirta, John Williamson
The course focuses on optimization and inference and on applying these techniques to concrete HCI problems. The course specifically looks at Bayesian methods for solving decoding, adaptation, learning and optimization problems in HCI.
Topics covered:

• Introduction to Bayesian methods
• Decoding Symbols
• Bayesian Optimization
• Modeling Behavior

2019 Summer School on Computational Interaction
By Antti Oulasvirta, Anna Maria Feit, Jason Jacques, Byungjoo Lee, Nikola Banovic, 
Wanyu(Abby) Liu, Xiang(Anthony) Chen
The course materials during 5th Summer School on Computational Interaction.
The course covers the following topics: 

• Combinational and Bayesian Optimization
• Integer Programming for UI Optimization
• Probabilistic Decoding for Intelligent text entry
• Modeling Human-Computer Synchronized Interactions
• Explainable Gestures
• Information command selection

SIGCHI 2017 Summer School on Computational Interaction
This course took place at the Computational Interaction'17, 
Inference, optimization and modeling for the engineering of interactive systems.
It covers the following topics: 

• Modeling (Computational Rationality, Visual search & menu, Reinforcement learning, and Decision making)
• Exact methods & Integer Programming, Combinatorial Optimization
• Static models & Dynamic models
• Decoding
• HCI & Control Theory