Hi! My name is Abdallah (or Abdo for short). I am a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher with a background in Cognitive Science. I am a (tenured) research scientist at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), within the Distributed & Interactive Systems (DIS) group. I am also on the executive board (adjunct treasurer) for CHI Nederland (CHI NL), where I handle events, web, and social comms.
I lead research efforts within the area of Affective Interactive Systems (AIS). Previously, I did my Postdoc at the HCI Oldenburg lab, part of the Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems group at the University of Oldenburg / OFFIS (Germany). I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), working at the (former) Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group.
My research combines advances in Human-Computer Interaction, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence to measure, infer, and augment human cognitive, affective, and social interactions. Focus areas:
- Data Acquisition: Systems for acquiring affective and behavioral data and labels across real and virtual environments
- Machine Intelligence: Systems that can sense, recognize, and react to our affective and behavioral states
- Augmentation: Systems that can enhance or modify our physical / virtual bodies and sensory perception across human-machine and human-human interactions
M.Sc. student at a Dutch university interested in HCI, AI, and/or IxD? Check out the Students page and get in touch.
NEWS
- Gave talk on "Affective Interactive Systems" part of CWI-INRIA research collaboration
- Will serve as CHIWORK '24 as Conversations Chair
- ISMAR '23 Journal paper cond. accepted on cardiac interoception in VR
- AutoUI '23 paper cond. accepted on affective driver-pedestrian interaction during actual driving
- IJHCI paper accepted on video to simulator for affective driver-pedestrian interaction
- CHIWORK 2023 workshop on hybrid was a success!
- DIS 2023 workshop accepted on designing with biosignals in HCI. Submissions by June 1 (AoE)!
- Paper on group synchrony metrics and physiological emotion recognition accepted at IEEE TAFFC
- Will serve as SIGs Co-Chair for CHI 2024
- Gave HCI guest lecture to Innovations in Journalism students at Leiden Univeristy
- Will attend the Assistive Augmentation WS at Augmented Humans 2023
- Two CHI 2023 LBWs accepted: BreathWithMe and FeelTheNews
- Will have a CHIWORK conversation on Affective Augmentation Systems with Andrew Kun
- Interactions blog piece accepted on the future of hybrid work
- CHI 2023 SIG accepted on reflecting on hybrid events
- Giving a research talk on Affective Augmentation Systems at Digital Interactions Lab at UvA
- Giving guest lectue on "Human-Machine Interaction" for the Biomimicry course at UvA
