Robin Welsch

Nordic pre-CHI

Nordic pre-CHI will take place at Aalto University (Finland) on March 18 and 19, 2026.

For more information:https://www.chi-nordics.eu/nordic-pre-chi-2026/

Registration: www.lyyti.fi/reg/Nordic_p...

The position is fully funded (starting salary 3100 €/month), based at Otaniemi campus (close to Helsinki), with excellent collaboration and mobility opportunities. Applications are reviewed continuously until the position is filled. See more: human-ai-interaction.com/doctoral-res...

We are looking for candidates with strong AI and programming skills, expertise in areas such as quantitative user studies, prototyping or brain imaging, solid data analysis skills (R/Python), and an interest in open science.

We are hiring a full-time Doctoral Researcher in Interactive AI to join the Aalto Engineering Psychology Group at Aalto University, Finland. The position focuses on user studies, prototyping, and interactive AI systems, using psychological theories and methods to improve human–AI interaction.

Tim Zindulka, Sven Goller, Daniela Fernandes, Robin Welsch, Daniel Buschek: The AI Memory Gap: Users Misremember What They Created With AI or Without https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11851 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.11851

Wow! I still can’t comprehend that the ERC has selected AmplifAI.

Screenshot of ACM Journals announcement: TOCHI impact factor rises from 4.8 to 6.6, ranking top quartile in Cybernetics and Information Systems. Editors’ Pick highlights the 2024 paper The AI Ghostwriter Effect on AI-generated text and authorship."

Our article on the AI Ghostwriter Effect is the top editor's pick in today's email by #ACM on the rising impact factor of #TOCHI - cool! 🤩
Available here (open access): doi.org/10.1145/3637...

@florianlehmann.bsky.social @albrechtschmidt.bsky.social @robinwelsch.bsky.social

"'This highlights a crucial issue in human-AI interaction. Potential metacognitive laziness.' By that, researchers mean a dependence on AI assistance, offloading thought processes to the bot and not engaging directly with the tasks that are needed to synthesize, analyze and explain."

Bingo.

Full study: preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... | journal version doi.org/10.1080/1068...

Our pipeline illustrates how text analytics could flag emerging hotspots and guide rapid police deployment at mass events.

Media matters: once coverage began on 4 Jan 2016, sexual-assault reports surged and became markedly longer, consistent with destigmatization and closer documentation.

Spatial heat-maps centre on the cathedral; offense severity falls with distance, matching anomie and broken-windows predictions of normlessness.

We digitised over 1 020 case files for temporal-spatial analysis. Temporal curves peak between 00:30 and 01:00 after the station forecourt was cleared, suggesting a contagion surge precisely when social control was weakest.

That night saw an unprecedented wave of sexual and property offenses around the central station and Cologne Cathedral, a turning point in Germany’s policing and refugee debates.

New article published: a quantitative text-mining analysis of Cologne’s New Year’s Eve 2015 offense reports shows how crime can ripple through crowds.

Great that you like the article! We are working on improving human metacognition in HAI.

And more positions here in our local call:
www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

🎉 Just Published with in TOCHI! "The AI Ghostwriter Effect: When Users Do Not Perceive Ownership of AI-Generated Text But Self-Declare as Authors." Our study explores the complex relationship between humans & AI in text creation. #HCI #AIAuthorship🤖📝 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...