Jonas Oppenlaender

Doctor of Science (Technology)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Human-Computer Interaction

Center for Ubiquitous Computing
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

I am a curiosity-driven Computer Scientist. My current work focuses on meta-research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

Research interests

meta-science
data science
machine learning
artificial intelligence
text-to-image generation
prompt engineering
AI agents
future of work
future of science

Researcher information

Researcher profiles

Professional and community activities

Meta-Research

Jonas Oppenlaender. 2024. Past, Present, and Future of Citation Practices in HCI. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.16526

Jonas Oppenlaender and Simo Hosio. 2025. Keeping Score: A Quantitative Analysis of How the CHI Community Appreciates Its Milestones. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.02456

Jonas Oppenlaender, Sylvain Malacria, Xinrui Fang, Niels van Berkel, Fanny Chevalier, Koji Yatani, and Simo Hosio. 2025. Meta-HCI: First Workshop on Meta-Research in HCI. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706723

Jonas Oppenlaender. 2025. Multi-laboratory experiments are the next big thing in HCI. ACM Interactions, Issue May–June. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3725722

Jonas Oppenlaender, Tahir Abbas, and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2024. The State of Pilot Study Reporting in Crowdsourcing: A Reflection on Best Practices and Guidelines. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 184 (Apr 2024), 45 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3641023

Jonas Oppenlaender and Joonas Hämäläinen. 2023. Mapping the Challenges of HCI: An Application and Evaluation of ChatGPT and GPT-4 for Mining Insights at Scale. https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.05036

Jonas Oppenländer, Falko Glöckler, Jana Hoffmann, and Claudia Müller-Birn. 2017. Bewertung von Reifegradmodellen für ein integriertes Forschungsdatenmanagement für multidisziplinäre Forschungsorganisationen. In E-Science-Tage 2017: Forschungsdaten managen, Jonas Kratzke and Vincent Heuveline (Eds.). heiBOOKS, 53–64. https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/reader/download/285/285-4-79963-1-10-20171219.pdf

Text-to-Image Generation

Creative Crowdsourcing

Jonas Oppenlaender, Rhema Linder, and Johanna Silvennoinen. 2024. Prompting AI Art: An Investigation into the Creative Skill of Prompt Engineering. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (2024), 1--23. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2431761

Aura Kaarivuo, Jonas Oppenländer, Tommi Kärkkäinen, and Tommi Mikkonen. 2024. Exploring emergent soundscape profiles from crowdsourced audio data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 110 (2024), 102-112. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102112

Jonas Oppenlaender, Thanassis Tiropanis, and Simo Hosio. 2020a. CrowdUI: Supporting Web Design with the Crowd. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 4, EICS, Article 76 (6 2020), 28 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3394978

Andy Alorwu, Niels van Berkel, Jorge Goncalves, Jonas Oppenlaender, Miguel Bordallo López, Mahalakshmy Seetharaman, and Simo Hosio. 2020. Crowdsourcing Sensitive Data using Public Displays. Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2020), 16 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01375-6

Simo Hosio, Niels van Berkel, Jonas Oppenlaender, and Jorge Goncalves. 2020. Crowdsourcing Personalized Weight Loss Diets. Computer 53, 01 (Jan 2020), 63–71. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2019.2902542

Simo Hosio, Jaro Karppinen, Niels van Berkel, Jonas Oppenlaender, and Jorge Goncalves. 2018. Mobile Decision Support and Data Provisioning for Low Back Pain. Computer 51, 8 (Aug 2018), 34–43. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.3191250

Jonas Oppenlaender, Elina Kuosmanen, Andrés Lucero, and Simo Hosio. 2021. Hardhats and Bungaloos: Comparing Crowdsourced Design Feedback with Peer Design Feedback in the Classroom. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 570, 14 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445380

Jonas Oppenlaender, Kristy Milland, Aku Visuri, Panos Ipeirotis, and Simo Hosio. 2020. Creativity on Paid Crowdsourcing Platforms. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 548, 14 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376677

Jonas Oppenlaender and Simo Hosio. 2019a. Design Recommendations for Augmenting Creative Tasks with Computational Priming. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 35, 13 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3365610.3365621

Jonas Oppenlaender, Elina Kuosmanen, Jorge Goncalves, and Simo Hosio. 2019. Search Support for Exploratory Writing. In Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2019 (LNCS 11748), David Lamas, Fernando Loizides, Lennart Nacke, Helen Petrie, Marco Winckler, and Panayiotis Zaphiris (Eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 314–336. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29387-1_18

Simo Hosio, Andy Alorwu, Niels van Berkel, Miguel Bordallo López, Mahalakshmy Seetharaman, Jonas Oppenlaender, and Jorge Goncalves. 2019. Fueling AI with Public Displays? A Feasibility Study of Collecting Biometrically Tagged Consensual Data on a University Campus. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 7 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3321335.3324943

Andy Alorwu, Saiph Savage, Niels van Berkel, Dmitry Ustalov, Alexey Drutsa, Jonas Oppenlaender, Oliver Bates, Danula Hettiachchi, Ujwal Gadiraju, Jorge Goncalves, and Simo Hosio. 2022. REGROW: Reimagining Global Crowdsourcing for Better Human-AI Collaboration. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 88, 7 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503725

Jonas Oppenlaender, Naghmi Shireen, Maximilian Mackeprang, Halil Erhan, Jorge Goncalves, and Simo Hosio. 2019. Crowd-powered Interfaces for Creative Design Thinking. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 722–729. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3326553

Jonas Oppenlaender, Maximilian Mackeprang, Abderrahmane Khiat, Maja Vuković, Jorge Goncalves, and Simo Hosio. 2019. DC2S2: Designing Crowd-powered Creativity Support Systems. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article W06, 8 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299027

Jonas Oppenlaender, Aku Visuri, Kristy Milland, Panos Ipeirotis, and Simo Hosio. 2020b. What do crowd workers think about creative work?. In Workshop on Worker-Centered Design: Expanding HCI Methods for Supporting Labor. 4 pages. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10887

Jonas Oppenlaender, Kennedy Opoku Asare, and Simo Hosio. 2018. CampusTracker: Assessing Mobile Workers' Momentary Willingness to Work on Paid Crowdsourcing Tasks. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers (UbiComp '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 648–653. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267550

Jonas Oppenlaender. 2020c. Unterstützung Kreativer Arbeit mit Crowdsourcing. In Mensch und Computer '20, Doktorandenseminar. 5 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/7pmnc

Jonas Oppenlaender. 2020a. Crowd-Powered Creativity Support Systems. In Companion Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS ’20 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 15, 4 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3393672.3398646

Jonas Oppenlaender. 2019b. Supporting Creative Workers with Crowdsourced Feedback. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 646–652. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3326556

Jonas Oppenlaender and Simo Hosio. 2021. Towards a Requester-centered Study on the Use of `Bots' for Completing Tasks. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP '21). AAAI, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://www.jonaso.de/papers/HCOMP21_Crowdsourcing_Bots.pdf

Jonas Oppenlaender. 2021b. Morphological Matrices as a Tool for Crowdsourced Ideation. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP '21). AAAI, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04129

Jonas Oppenlaender. 2020b. Socially Augmented Crowdsourced Collection of Folk Theories. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP '20). AAAI, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://www.humancomputation.com/2020/assets/2020/wip_demos/HCOMP_2020_paper_86.pdf

Jonas Oppenlaender and Simo Hosio. 2019d. Towards Eliciting Feedback for Artworks on Public Displays. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 562–569. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3326583

Jonas Oppenlaender and Simo Hosio. 2019c. Supporting Creative Work with Crowd Feedback Systems. In Proceedings of the DC2S2 Workshop on Designing Crowd-powered Creativity Support Systems. 5 pages. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09204

Jonas Oppenlaender and Simo Hosio. 2019b. Experizone: Integrating Situated Scientific Experimentation with Teaching of the Scientific Method. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article LBW1519, 6 pages. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313043

Jonas Oppenländer, Jesse Josua Benjamin, and Claudia Müller-Birn. 2018. Towards Sociotechnical Management of Intra-Organisational Knowledge Transfer. In Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik. Band 1 (MKWI '18), Paul Drews, Burkhardt Funk, Peter Niemeyer, and Lin Xie (Eds.). 307–313. https://www.jonaso.de/docs/mkwi-shortpaper-final.pdf

Jonas Oppenlaender, Jesse Josua Benjamin, and Claudia Müller-Birn. 2017. Socio-technical Revelation of Knowledge Transfer Potentials. In Proceedings of the 5th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP '17). AAAI, 3 pages. https://www.humancomputation.com/2017/papers/91-hcomp-paper-final.pdf

Contact information

E-mail

jonas.oppenlaender@oulu.fi

Visiting address

ITEE, TS353, University of Oulu

Keywords

human–machine interaction artificial intelligence machine learning Computer science data-intensive digital products and services digitization crowdsourcing