Students | Abdallah El Ali

Current students

2023+: Xin Sun (PhD student - University of Amsterdam) || From Aligned Models to Trusted Interfaces: Explainable Health Intervention and Transparent Health Communication
2025: Holly Zhang (UvA / CWI) || The Hidden Lives of Avatars
2025: Zofia Samsel (Internship - NAIST / CWI / SFU) || Shared Virtual Awe Experiences and Physiological Synchrony
2025: Zhongxue Liu (NAIST / CWI) || Animal-assisted Therapy in Virtual Reality
2024: Ang (Leon) Li (Internship - Uppsala Unversity / INRIA / CWI / NAIST) || Rethinking the Sense of Agency and Embodiment Measures in Virtual Reality
2024: Amber Kusters (Msc Human–Computer Interaction - Utrecht University) || Multimodal Visualization of AI System Disclosures
2024: Daniel Bariche (Msc HCI - KTH) || Interaction Techniques for Audio Spaces

Alumni

2024: Chenge (Matteo) Tang (Msc Industrial Design - TU Delft) || The Dark Side of Haptics: Exploring Deceptive Haptic Design in Interfaces
2024: Mark Kruijthoff (Msc Industrial Design - TU Delft) || Mobile Touch: Responsive Wireless Tactile Communication for Portable Pneumatic Wearables
2024: Shu Wei (Visiting PhD student - University of Oxford) || Internship || Context-aware facial expressions for virtual humans for VR mental health therapy
2024: Ofelya Aliyeva (Msc Social Psychology - University of Amsterdam) || Internship || Voice AI trust perception in news consumption
2024: Zohrab Sarabian (Msc Industrial Design - TU Eindhoven) || Integration of Olfactory Stimuli in a Virtual Reality Experience for People with Dementia
2024: Renske Bootsma (Msc Human-Computer Interaction - Utrecht Uni) || Biomusic for Empathy Facilitation
2024: Andreas Vogl (Bsc Media Informatics - LMU Munich) || Social Audio Spaces
2024: Lian Wu (Msc Artifical Intelligence - TU Delft) || Characterizing Physiological Responses Toward Human and AI-generated True and Fake News
2023: Zhuowen Tan (Msc Industrial Design - TU Delft) || Understanding How Trace Visualizations Influence Exploration Behaviors in VR
2023: Karthikeya Venkatraj (Msc Industrial Design - TU Delft) || Share Your Reality: The effects of haptic feedback on virtual avatar co-embodiment
2023: Clint van Leeuwen (Msc Industrial Design - TU Delft) || AffectiveAir: Exploring pneumatic affective haptics on the shoulder
2022-2023: Simone Ooms (Msc Industrial Design - TU/e) || Designing and Evaluating Haptic Avatar Biosignals for Social Virtual Reality
2018-2022: Tianyi Zhang (PhD student - CWI / TU Delft) || On Fine-grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video: How to Trade Off Recognition Accuracy with Annotation Complexity?
2022: Simone Ooms (Msc Industrial Design- TU/e) || Internship || Haptic stimulation of News Videos
2022: Rayna Ney (Msc Cognitive Science - UvA) || Internship || Interoception in XR
2022: Tong Xue (Visiting PhD student - Beijing Institute of Technology) || Investigating Continuous Emotion Annotation Techniques for Video Watching in 360 HMD-based Virtual Reality
2022: Shalvi Palande (Msc Interaction Technology - U Twente) || Breathe with me - Designing and Evaluating Wearable Visual and Vibrotactile Displays for Colocated Breathing Synchronization
2022: Mihir Kapadia (Msc Electrical Engineering - TU Delft) || Few-Shot emotion recognition using intelligent voice assistants and wearables: Learning from few samples of Speech and Physiological Signals
2021: Sueyoon Lee (Msc Industrial Design Engineering - TU Delft) || Designing and Evaluating Avatar Biosignal Visualization Techniques in Social Virtual Reality
2021: Sabrina Wirjopawiroi (Msc Artificial Intelligence - TU Delft) || Super-resolution to enhance low-resolution thermal facial expression images for facial emotion recognition
2020: Andrei Furdui (Msc Artificial Intelligence - UvA) || Intelligent Data Augmentation for Physiological Signals using Conditional Generative Attention Models
2019: Liam Ashby (Msc Behavioral Data Science - UvA) || The New Domain of Automotive Biometric Privacy: The Link Between Privacy Concerns and Privacy Behaviours
2019: Xingyu Yang (Msc Industrial Design Engineering - TU Delft) || Thermotion: An exploration of facilitating emotion perception with wearable thermal displays
2018: Shashank Rao (Msc Artificial Intelligence - TU Delft) || DeepSleep: A sensor-agnostic approach towards modelling a sleep classification system
2016: Rieke Von Bargen (Bsc Informatics - Uni Oldenburg) || Wearable Vibro-tactile Pedestrian Navigation
2013: Michael Wolbert (Msc Information Science - UvA) || Improving the Waiting Time Experience Through a Pervasive Collaborative NFC-enabled Mobile Game
2013: Patrick Mast (Msc Artificial Intelligence - UvA) || Applying Sequence Alignment Techniques to Give Personalized Travel Suggestions
2013: Bardia Khalesi (Msc Artificial Intelligence - UvA) || Using Social Network Analysis Techniques on Foursquare data for Location-Based Recommendations
2011: Theresa Kriese (Msc Information Science - UvA) || Measuring User Experience of User-defined Cross-domain Motion Gestures
2011: Haska Steltenpohl (Bsc Information Science - UvA) || Visualizing Route Information on Mobile Devices
2010: Sicco van Sas (Bsc Artificial Intelligence - UvA) || Generating route recommendations using geotagged Flickr photos and sequence alignment
2009: Jan Overgoor, Philo van Kemenade, Bastiaan van der Weij (Bsc Artificial Intelligence - UvA) || Narranotation: Mobile storytelling using a context-free grammar