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human-computer interaction, affective computing, ubiquitous & mobile computing, AR/VR/MR

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Biography

I am a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher with a background in Cognitive Science.

Currently: I am a (tenured) research scientist at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), within the Distributed & Interactive Systems (DIS) group. I am also an Assistant Professor (part-time) at Utrecht University, within the Multimedia group. At CWI DIS, I lead the research area on Affective Interactive Systems (AIS). I am also affiliated with the AI, Media, and Democracy Lab, where I lead Human-AI Interaction research focusing on AI transparency in media. I am also currently Chair of CHI Nederland (CHI NL), the local Dutch SIGCHI chapter which we reinstated in August, 2020.

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.

RESEARCH

- Affective Interactive Systems: I combine advances in sensing and actuation, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence to augment human cognitive, affective, and social interactions.

- Trustworthy Human-AI Interaction: Despite all the benefits AI brings, the surge in fake media poses serious threats to a well functioning democratic society. As such, within the AI, Media, and Democracy Lab, a current focus is on designing and building transparent and trustworthy AI, using the EU AI Act as a point of departure.

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Employment (3)

Universiteit Utrecht: Utrecht, NL

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Utrecht University

Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Research Scientist (Distributed & Interactive Systems)
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Abdallah El Ali

Utrecht University: Utrecht, NL

2024-09-01 to present | Assistant Professor (part-time) (Institute for Information and Computing Sciences)
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Rethinking the Alignment of Psychotherapy Dialogue Generation with Motivational Interviewing Strategies

Main Conference
2025 | Conference paper | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9798891761964
Contributors: Xin Sun; Xiao Tang; Abdallah El Ali; Zhuying Li; Pengjie Ren; Jan de Wit; Jiahuan Pei; Jos A. Bosch
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Utrecht University

Dark Haptics: Exploring Manipulative Haptic Design in Mobile User Interfaces

2025-04-26 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3719704
Contributors: Chenge Tang; Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj; Hongbo Liu; Christina Schneegass; Gijs Huisman; Abdallah El Ali
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Haptic Biosignals Affect Proxemics Toward Virtual Reality Agents

2025-04-26 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713231
Contributors: Simone Ooms; Minha Lee; Ekaterina R. Stepanova; Pablo Cesar; Abdallah El Ali
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Physiological Responses to Affective Virtual Coach Design in a VR Fear of Heights Consultation

2025-04-26 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3719715
Contributors: Shu Wei; Abdallah El Ali; Pablo Cesar; Daniel Freeman; Aitor Rovira
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SIG PhysioCHI: Human-Centered Physiological Computing in Practice

2025-04-26 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3716289
Contributors: Teodora Mitrevska; Benjamin Tag; Monica Perusquia-Hernandez; Arinobu Niijima; Ludwig Sidenmark; Erin Solovey; Abdallah El Ali; Sven Mayer; Francesco Chiossi
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Envisioning Ubiquitous Biosignal Interaction with Multimedia

2024-12 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3701571.3701609
Contributors: Ekaterina R. Stepanova; Alice C. Haynes; Laia Turmo Vidal; Francesco Chiossi; Abdallah El Ali; Luis Quintero; Yoav Luft; Nadia Campo Woytuk; Sven Mayer
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MobiTouch: Enhancing Pneumatic Wearable Haptics with Vibrotactile Actuation

2024-12 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3701571.3703370
Contributors: Mark Kruijthoff; Abdallah El Ali; Himanshu Verma; Sebastian Günther; Kaspar Jansen
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PhysioCHI: Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI

2024-05-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3636286
Contributors: Francesco Chiossi; Ekaterina R. Stepanova; Benjamin Tag; Monica Perusquia-Hernandez; Alexandra Kitson; Arindam Dey; Sven Mayer; Abdallah El Ali
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ShareYourReality: Investigating Haptic Feedback and Agency in Virtual Avatar Co-embodiment

2024-05-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642425
Contributors: Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj; Wo Meijer; Monica Perusquia-Hernandez; Gijs Huisman; Abdallah El Ali
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Technological Innovation in the Media Sector: Understanding Current Practices and Unraveling Opportunities

2024-05-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3637147
Contributors: Simone Ooms; Pablo Cesar; Abdallah El Ali; Davide Ceolin; Laura Hollink; Manel Slokom; Eric Pauwels; Valentin Robu; Han La Poutre
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User Experience Design Professionals’ Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence

2024-05-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642114
Contributors: Jie Li; Hancheng Cao; Laura Lin; Youyang Hou; Ruihao Zhu; Abdallah El Ali
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Transparent AI Disclosure Obligations: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How

2024-05-02 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3650750
Contributors: Abdallah El Ali; Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj; Sophie Morosoli; Laurens Naudts; Natali Helberger; Pablo Cesar
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Augmenting Media Experiences with Affective Haptics

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2024-03-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1145/3645315
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Contributors: Simone Ooms; Thomas Röggla; Pablo Cesar; Abdallah El Ali
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Utrecht University

Is that My Heartbeat? Measuring and Understanding Modality-Dependent Cardiac Interoception in Virtual Reality

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3320228
Contributors: Abdallah El Ali; Rayna Ney; Zeph M. C. van Berlo; Pablo Cesar
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Group Synchrony for Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
2023-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2023.3265433
Contributors: Patrícia Bota; Tianyi Zhang; Abdallah El Ali; Ana Fred; Hugo Plácido da Silva; Pablo Cesar
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Affective Driver-Pedestrian Interaction: Exploring Driver Affective Responses toward Pedestrian Crossing Actions using Camera and Physiological Sensors

2023-09-18 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3580585.3607168
Contributors: Shruti Rao; Sabrina Wirjopawiro; Gerard Pons Rodriguez; Thomas Röggla; Pablo Cesar; Abdallah El Ali
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Designing with Biosignals: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions for Integrating Physiological Signals in Human-Computer Interaction

2023-07-10 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3563703.3591454
Contributors: Ekaterina R. Stepanova; John Desnoyers-Stewart; Alexandra Kitson; Bernhard E. Riecke; Alissa N. Antle; Abdallah El Ali; Jeremy Frey; Vasiliki Tsaknaki; Noura Howell
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BreatheWithMe: Exploring Visual and Vibrotactile Displays for Social Breath Awareness during Colocated, Collaborative Tasks

2023-04-19 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3585589
Contributors: Abdallah El Ali; Ekaterina R. Stepanova; Shalvi Palande; Angelika Mader; Pablo Cesar; Kaspar Jansen
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FeelTheNews: Augmenting Affective Perceptions of News Videos with Thermal and Vibrotactile Stimulation

2023-04-19 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3585638
Contributors: Simone Ooms; Minha Lee; Pablo Cesar; Abdallah El Ali
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Reflecting on Hybrid Events: Learning from a Year of Hybrid Experiences

2023-04-19 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3583181
Contributors: Alberta A Ansah; Adriana S Vivacqua; Sailin Zhong; Susanne Boll; Marios Constantinides; Himanshu Verma; Abdallah El Ali; Alina Lushnikova; Hamed Alavi; Sean Rintel et al.
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Few-shot Learning for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition using Physiological Signals

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2022.3165715
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Understanding and Designing Avatar Biosignal Visualizations for Social Virtual Reality Entertainment

Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2022 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517451
Part of ISBN: 9781450391573
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Weakly-supervised Learning for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition using Physiological Signals

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3158234
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Investigating Affective Responses toward In-Video Pedestrian Crossing Actions using Camera and Physiological Sensors

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
2022-09-17 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3543174.3546842
Contributors: Abdallah El Ali
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Ethical Self-Disclosing Voice User Interfaces for Delivery of News

4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
2022-07-26 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3543829.3544532
Contributors: Abdallah El Ali
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Abdallah El Ali

AC-WGAN-GP: Augmenting ECG and GSR Signals Using Conditional Generative Models for Arousal Classification

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781450384612
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Abdallah El Ali

Are we breaking bubbles as we move? Using a large sample to explore the relationship between urban mobility and segregation

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
2021 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101585
Part of ISSN: 0198-9715
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CEAP-360VR: A Continuous Physiological and Behavioral Emotion Annotation Dataset for 360 VR Videos

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2021.3124080
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Empathic Interactions in Automated Vehicles #EmpathicCHI

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781450380959
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Abdallah El Ali

Investigating the Relationship between Momentary Emotion Self-Reports and Head and Eye Movements in HMD-Based 360$^∘$ VR Video Watching

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781450380959
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MEEC: Second Workshop on Momentary Emotion Elicitation and Capture

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781450380959
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Abdallah El Ali

RCEA-360VR: Real-Time, Continuous Emotion Annotation in 360$^∘$ VR Videos for Collecting Precise Viewport-Dependent Ground Truth Labels

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781450380966
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Abdallah El Ali

SensiBlend: Sensing Blended Experiences in Professional and Social Contexts

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
2021 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3460418.3479268
Part of ISBN: 9781450384612
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Abdallah El Ali

CorrNet: Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition for Video Watching Using Wearable Physiological Sensors

Sensors
2021-12-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/s21010052
Part of ISSN: 1424-8220
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Designing Real-Time, Continuous Emotion Annotation Techniques for 360° VR Videos

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2020 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3334480.3382895
Part of ISBN: 9781450368193
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MEEC: First Workshop on Momentary Emotion Elicitation and Capture

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2020 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3334480.3375175
Part of ISBN: 9781450368193
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RCEA: Real-Time, Continuous Emotion Annotation for Collecting Precise Mobile Video Ground Truth Labels

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2020 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3313831.3376808
Part of ISBN: 9781450367080
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ThermalWear: Exploring Wearable On-Chest Thermal Displays to Augment Voice Messages with Affect

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2020 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3313831.3376682
Part of ISBN: 9781450367080
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CorrFeat: Correlation-Based Feature Extraction Algorithm Using Skin Conductance and Pupil Diameter for Emotion Recognition

2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3340555.3353716
Part of ISBN: 9781450368605
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DeepSleep: A Ballistocardiographic Deep Learning Approach for Classifying Sleep Stages

Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3341162.3343758
Part of ISBN: 9781450368698
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Measuring and Understanding Photo Sharing Experiences in Social Virtual Reality

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3290605.3300897
Part of ISBN: 9781450359702
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NaviBike: Comparing Unimodal Navigation Cues for Child Cyclists

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3290605.3300850
Part of ISBN: 9781450359702
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Abdallah El Ali

Uncovering Perceived Identification Accuracy of In-Vehicle Biometric Sensing

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications: Adjunct Proceedings
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3349263.3351506
Part of ISBN: 9781450369206
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Watching videos together in social virtual reality: An experimental study on user's QoE

2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
2019 | Conference paper
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Beyond Halo and Wedge: Visualizing out-of-View Objects on Head-Mounted Virtual and Augmented Reality Devices

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3229434.3229438
Part of ISBN: 9781450358989
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Measuring, Understanding, and Classifying News Media Sympathy on Twitter after Crisis Events

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3173574.3174130
Part of ISBN: 9781450356206
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Abdallah El Ali

RadialLight: Exploring Radial Peripheral LEDs for Directional Cues in Head-Mounted Displays

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3229434.3229437
Part of ISBN: 9781450358989
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All about Acceptability? Identifying Factors for the Adoption of Data Glasses

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025749
Part of ISBN: 9781450346559
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EyeSee360: Designing a Visualization Technique for out-of-View Objects in Head-Mounted Augmented Reality

Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Spatial User Interaction
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3131277.3132175
Part of ISBN: 9781450354868
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Face2Emoji: Using Facial Emotional Expressions to Filter Emojis

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3027063.3053086
Part of ISBN: 9781450346566
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