S³CIX 2026

Professor Mohamed Chetouani

Professor in Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Human Machine Interaction Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Sorbonne University, France

• Machine Learning for Human–Robot Interaction. Vision-Language Grounding, Personalization, and Failure Awareness

Dr Katja Hofmann

Partner Research Manager and co-lead of People Centric AI
Microsoft Research, Cambridge

• Generative AI for Connection and Creativity

Professor Kasper Hornbæk

Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen

• The theory crisis in human-computer interaction

Professor Gustav Markkula

Chair of Applied Behaviour Modelling
Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK

• Interaction in movement. Computational modelling of human road user behaviour

Professor Joanna Emilia Bergström

Associate Professor
Human Centred Computing, Copenhagen University

• Bayesian Modeling of Multisensory Integration in Interactive Movement

Dr Mark Colley

Lecturer
University College London

• Optimizing Interactive Mobility Interfaces with Human Feedback: Multi Objective Bayesian Optimization in Practice

Professor Per Ola Kristensson

Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering
Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

• AI Engineering as Design Engineering
• Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction

Dr. Thomas Langerak

Postdoctoral researcher
Aalto University, Finland

• Introduction to Reinforcement Learning in Interactive Systems: Experience is All You Need
• Teaching Computational Interaction
• Theory in Computational Interaction

Professor Antti Oulasvirta

Professor
Aalto University, Finland

• Computational Rationality: Using Reinforcement Learning to Understand and Predict Interactive Behavior
• Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction
• Teaching Computational Interaction
• Theory in Computational Interaction

Professor Philipp Wintersberger

Professor of Intelligent User Interfaces
Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria

• CR/RL-based Simulated Users with Unity and ML-Agents
• Teaching Computational Interaction
• Theory in Computational Interaction

Dr Miroslav Bachinski

Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction
University of Bergen

• Biomechanical Reinforcement Learning
• Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction

Prof. Dr. Patrick Ebel

Professor
Hasso Plattner Institute

• Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction
• Teaching Computational Interaction
• Theory in Computational Interaction

Dr Johan Engström

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo

Dr Florian Fischer

Postdoc
University of Cambridge

• Biomechanical Reinforcement Learning
• Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction

Dr Arthur Fleig

Junior Research group leader
University of Leipzig

• Biomechanical Reinforcement Learning
• Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction

Dr Helena Anna Frijns

Postdoc
Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria

• Theory in Computational Interaction

Prof Roderick Murray-Smith

Professor
University of Glasgow

• Active Inference and Computational Interaction
• Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction

Dr. Danqing Shi

Postdoctoral researcher
Cambridge University, UK

• Theory in Computational Interaction

Dr John Williamson

Senior Lecturer
University of Glasgow

• Active Inference and Computational Interaction