CV Hamed S. Alavi hamed.alavi@unifr.ch

A440 Human-IST InstituteUniversity of FribourgBoulevard de Pérolles 901700 Switzerland__________________________________________________________________

Current Position

Lecturer Human-IST InstituteDepartment of InformaticsUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland

Current Research

FocusHuman-Computer Interaction (HCI)HCI in Architecture and Urban Design Living Lab Research MethodsEditor for ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction, special issue on Human-Building InteractionChair of ACM SIGCHI Chapter in Switzerland (SwissCHI)

Recent Funded Project

~1M CHF Innosuisse July 2018 Health and Productivity in Workplaces through predictive models of Human-Building Interaction

99.5K CHF SNF Spark Nov 2019 Reimagining Artificial Intelligence: Towards Establishing a Sociological Conception of AI

472K CHF SNF NRP 77 Dec 2019 (“Implementation Partner”)Smart homes, Older Adults, and Caregivers: Facilitating Social Acceptance and Negotiating Responsibilities

Mar. 2018Oct. 2018

May 2015Mar. 2018

May. 2014Sep. 2014

Post Doctoral Research

Stays (1) University College LondonInteraction Centre (UCLIC)Advisor: Prof. Yvonne RogersResearch Stay Fully Funded by SNF

(2) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction for LearningAdvisor: Prof. Pierre Dillenburg

(3) The Interactive Institute (TII), Stockholm, SwedenAdvisor: Prof. Brendon Clark

Dec. 2007Feb. 2012

PhD Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)Department of Computer and Telecommunication Sciences Supervisor: Prof. Pierre DillenburgTitle: Ambient Awareness for the Orchestration of Collaborative Problem SolvingKeywords: Ubiquitous Computing; HCI; CSCL; Ambient Interface

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Recent Teaching Activities

(1) “Future User Interfaces”, Master, University of Fribourg, Dep. Computer Science, co-teaching the following parts: Ubicomp, Ambient Interfaces and Statistical Analysis

(2) “Introduction to Visual Computing”, Bachelor, EPFL, Dep. Computer and Telecommunication SciencesResponsible for the project

Spr. 2017Spr. 2019

Spr. 2015Spr. 2016Spr. 2017

Recent Research and

Teaching Awards

CHI 2018 Honourable Mention AwardCHI 2017 Honourable Mention AwardDIS 2017 Honourable Mention AwardBest Teaching Team Award in EPFL, Computer Science, 2015Spotlight Paper of IEEE Transaction on Learning Tech in 2012

Impactful Outreach Activities

(1) An industrial partner has invested ~500K CHF in commercialising the prototyped result of my research called “ComfortBox”– a system of connected devices that monitor health and comfort parameters in office environments, detects the social and physical context, and offers a dialogue with the users that guide them towards healthier and more productive routines.

(2) Several schools in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America have adopted the main product of my PhD research called Lantern– a set of interactive devices distributed in the classroom space, encouraging collaborative learning, by making visible learning information and integrating it in an ambient way into the classroom physical and social environment.

Intellectual Property

Device, system and method for assessing and improving comfort, health and productivity in built environments US Patent

References Yvonne Rogers University College London

Elizabeth Churchill ACM Vice President, Google UX Director

Pierre Dillenburg Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Denis Lalanne Human-IST Institute, University of Fribourg

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Publications by Year

2020

Alavi, Hamed S., Denis Lalanne, and Yvonne Rogers. "The Five Strands of Living Lab: A Literature Study of the Evolution of Living Lab Concepts in HCI." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 27.2 (2020): 1-26.

Alavi, Hamed S., Sailin Zhong, and Denis Lalanne. “Predictive Models of Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentration to Prevent Daily Decay of Productivity and Well-Being in Shared Offices”. CEUR-WS Open Access (IUI’20)

Zhong, Sailin, Hamed S. Alavi, and Denis Lalanne. “Hilo-wear: Exploring Wearable Interaction with Indoor Air Quality Forecast”. AcceptedCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020. Extended Abstract, Accepted

2019

Alavi, Hamed S., Elizabeth F. Churchill, Mikael Wiberg, Denis Lalanne, Peter Dalsgaard, Ava Fatah Gen Schieck, and Yvonne Rogers. "Introduction to human-building interaction (HBI): Interfacing HCI with architecture and urban design." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 26, no. 2 (2019): 6.

Alavi, Hamed S., Himanshu Verma, Jakub Mlynar, and Denis Lalanne. "On the temporality of adaptive built environments." People, Personal Data and the Built Environment, pp. 13-40. Springer, Cham, 2019.

Lee, Hyelip, Seungwoo Je, Rachel Kim, Himanshu Verma, Hamed Alavi, and Andrea Bianchi. "Partitioning open-plan workspaces via augmented reality." Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2019): 1-16.

Alavi, Hamed S., and Farzaneh Bahrami. "Walking in smart cities." Journal of Interactions 26, no. 2 (2019): 66-68.

Alavi, Hamed, Elizabeth Churchill, Mikael Wiberg, Denis Lalanne, Peter Dalsgaard, and Yvonne Rogers. "Human-building interaction: Sketches and grounds for a research program." Journal of Interactions 26, no. 4 (2019): 58-61.

Liu, Can, Hamed S. Alavi, Enrico Costanza, Shumin Zhai, Wendy E. Mackay, and Wendy Moncur. "Rigor, Relevance and Impact: The Tensions and Trade-Offs Between Research in the Lab and in the Wild." CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019. Extended Abstract

Lindley, Siân, Noopur Raval, Hamed S. Alavi, Silvia Lindtner, and Ding Wang. "The Future of Work." CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2019. Extended Abstract

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Lalanne, Denis, and Hamed S. Alavi. "Device, system and method for assessing and improving comfort, health and productivity." U.S. Patent Application 16/348,939, filed September 12, 2019.

Alavi, Hamed S., Denis Lalanne. “Interfacing AI with Social Sciences: the Call for a New Research Focus in HCI”. INTERACT2019, Workshop on Humans in the Loop - Bringing AI & HCI Together

2018

Alavi, Hamed S., Himanshu Verma, Jakub Mlynár, and Denis Lalanne. "The Hide and Seek of Workspace: Towards Human-Centric Sustainable Architecture." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 75. ACM, 2018.

CHI’18 top 5%

Alavi, Hamed S., Elizabeth Churchill, David Kirk, Henriette Bier, Himanshu Verma, Denis Lalanne, and Holger Schnädelbach. "From Artifacts to Architecture." In Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pp. 387-390. ACM, 2018.

Alavi, Hamed S., Himanshu Verma, Jakub Mlynar, and Denis Lalanne. "On the Temporality of Adaptive Built Environments" Chapter proposal, Springer Series of Adaptive Environments, People, Personal Data and the Built Environment.                                   

Alavi, Hamed S., Himanshu Verma, Jakub Mlynar, and Denis Lalanne. "Space-Use Behavior Studies in the Swiss Smart Living Lab" 2018 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems  CHI'18. Workshop Living Labs: Measuring Human Experience in the Built Environment

Villeneuve, Dominic, Tierry Maeder, Hamed S. Alavi, Vincent Kaufmann, Denis Lalanne. “Smart Living Lab: A User Data-Driven Approach”. Book chapter, by EPFL press, under editing.

Verma, Himanshu, Hamed S. Alavi, and Denis Lalanne. “From Substitution to Augmentation: directions for Human-Interaction Design” Chapter proposal, Springer Series of Adaptive Environments, People, Personal Data and the Built Environment. 

Mlynar Jakub, Hamed S. Alavi, Himanshu Verma. “Towards a Sociological Conception of Artificial Intelligence”. Accepted to appear in AGI’18: Eleventh Annual Conference on Artificial General Intelligence.

2017

Alavi, Hamed S., Farzaneh Bahrami, Himanshu Verma, and Denis Lalanne. "Is Driverless Car Another Weiserian Mistake?." In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 249-253. ACM, 2017.

DIS’17 top 5%

Verma, Himanshu, Hamed S. Alavi, and Denis Lalanne. "Studying space use: bringing HCI tools to architectural projects." In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3856-3866. ACM, 2017.

CHI’17 top 5%

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Alavi, Hamed S., Verma, H., Papinutto, M., & Lalanne, D. (2017, September). Comfort: A Coordinate of User Experience in Interactive Built Environments. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 247-257). Springer, Cham.

Brambilla, Arianna, Hamed S. Alavi, Himanshu Verma, Denis Lalanne, Thomas Jusselme, and Marilyne Andersen. "“Our inherent desire for control”: a case study of automation's impact on the perception of comfort." Energy Procedia 122 (2017): 925-930.

Prieto, Luis P., Hamed S. Alavi, and Himanshu Verma. "Strong technology-enhanced learning concepts." In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, pp. 454-459. Springer, Cham, 2017.

Sharma, Kshitij, Hamed S. Alavi, Patrick Jermann, and Pierre Dillenbourg. "Looking THROUGH versus Looking AT: A Strong Concept in Technology Enhanced Learning." In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, pp. 238-253. Springer, Cham, 2017.

Verma, Himanshu, Hamed S. Alavi, and Denis Lalanne. "Rethinking Wearables in the Realm of Architecture." In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 16-23. Springer, Cham, 2017.

Alavi, Hamed S., Elizabeth Churchill, Denis Lalanne. “Th Evolution of Human-Building Interaction: An HCI Perspective”. Journal of Architecture and Interaction Design

2016

Alavi, Hamed S., Denis Lalanne, Julien Nembrini, Elizabeth Churchill, David Kirk, and Wendy Moncur. "Future of human-building interaction." In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3408-3414. ACM, 2016.

Alavi, Hamed S., Elizabeth Churchill, David Kirk, Julien Nembrini, and Denis Lalanne. "Deconstructing human-building interaction." interactions 23, no. 6 (2016): 60-62.

Zufferey Jessica Dehler, Hamed S. Alavi, Łukasz Kidzinsky, and Pierre Dillenbourg. "Gamified Competition Features for Corporate MOOCs: The Battle Mode." Research Track (2016): 223.

Sharma, Kshitij, Hamed S. Alavi, Patrick Jermann, and Pierre Dillenbourg. "A gaze-based learning analytics model: in-video visual feedback to improve learner's attention in MOOCs." In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, pp. 417-421. ACM, 2016.

Before2016

Alavi, Hamed S., and Pierre Dillenbourg. "An ambient awareness tool for supporting supervised collaborative problem solving." IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 5, no. 3 (2012): 264-274.

Spotlight paper

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Alavi, Hamed S.. "Ambient awareness for the orchestration of collaborative problem solving." PhD diss., ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, 2011.

Alavi, Hamed S., Pierre Dillenbourg, and Frederic Kaplan. "Awareness tools for recitation sections." In Proceedings of the Red-Conference: Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society.(Ascona, Switzerland, 7-10 March 2011), pp. 19-34. 2011.

Dillenbourg, Pierre, Guillaume Zufferey, Hamed S. Alavi, Patrick Jermann, Son Do-Lenh, Quentin Bonnard, Sébastien Cuendet, and Frédéric Kaplan. "Classroom orchestration: The third circle of usability." CSCL2011 Proceedings 1 (2011): 510-517.

Alavi, Hamed S., and Pierre Dillenbourg. "Flag: an ambient awareness tool to support informal collaborative learning." In Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work, pp. 315-316. ACM, 2010.

Bachour, Khaled, Hamed S. Alavi, Frédéric Kaplan, and Pierre Dillenbourg. "Low-resolution ambient awareness tools for educational support." (2010).

Alavi, Hamed S., Dillenbourg, P., & Kaplan, F. (2009, September). Distributed awareness for class orchestration. In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp. 211-225). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Best Paper Award

Alavi, Hamed S., Seth Gilbert, and Rachid Guerraoui. "Extensible encoding of type hierarchies." In ACM SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 349-358. ACM, 2008.

Alavi, Hamed S., Mona Mojdeh, and Nasser Yazdani. "A quality of service architecture for IEEE 802.16 standards." In Communications, 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on, pp. 249-253. IEEE, 2005. Harvard

Mojdeh, Mona, Hamed S. Alavi, Nasser Yazdani, and Caro Lucas. "An adaptive bandwidth reservation method for IEEE 802.16 BWA system: Using data mining techniques." In 14th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit. 2005.

Alavi, Hamed S., Pierre Dillenbourg, and Frederic Kaplan. "On the Importance of Spatial Configuration of Information." In 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing.

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