HAMED ALAVI
h.alavi@uva.nl
DESIGN, DATA, INCLUSION
With a PhD in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and having completed a post-doctoral research stay at University College London (UCL), I am currently a tenured assisstant professor and a founding member of the Digital Interaction Lab at the University of Amsterdam. In addition to my academc activities, I led a start-up company for eight years with a global impact in the field of educational technologies.
My current research explores the evolving relationship between humans and built environments as they increasingly incorporate new form of intelligence and interactivity, contemplating how we might co-create inclusive spaces that reflect and shape our collective values, identities, and ways of being—across both architectural and urban dimensions.
More about me (full CV)
Recent publications and News ︎:
CHI’25 [Best Paper Award] What Do We Design for When We Design" Smart Buildings"?-A Scoping Review of Human Experience Design Research in Buildings
DIS’25 [Accepted Full Paper] Designing Multisensory Biophilic Futures
SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT (selected)
Full publication list here
Journal Articles & Preprints
- Alavi, H. S., Churchill, E. F., Wiberg, M., Lalanne, D., Dalsgaard, P., Fatah gen Schieck, A., & Rogers, Y. (2019). Introduction to human-building interaction (hbi) interfacing hci with architecture and urban design. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 26(2), 1-10.
- Alavi, H. S., Lalanne, D., & Rogers, Y. (2020). 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), 1-26.
- Bagheri, S., Good, J., & Alavi, H. S. (2024). Visual and acoustic discomfort: A comparative study of impacts on individuals with and without ADHD using electroencephalogram (EEG). Building and Environment, 264, 111881.
- Zhong, S., Chwalek, P., Perry, N., Ramsay, D., Miller, C., Lalanne, D., Alavi, H & Paradiso, J. A. (2025). Sensors and Sensibilities: Exploring Interactions for Habitat Comfort with an Environmental-Physiological Sensing Eyewear in the Wild. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 103510.
- Ypenga, J., Sukel, M., & Alavi, H. S. (2023). Fence detection in Amsterdam: transparent object segmentation in urban context. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1143945.
Book Chapters & Essays
- Alavi, H. S., Churchill, E. F., Wiberg, M., Lalanne, D., Dalsgaard, P., Fatah gen Schieck, A., & Rogers, Y. (2019). Human-building interaction: sketches and grounds for a research program. interactions, 26(4), 58-61.
- Alavi, H. S., Verma, H., Mlynar, J., & Lalanne, D. (2019). On the temporality of adaptive built environments. People, Personal Data and the Built Environment, 13-40.
- Alavi, H. S., & Bahrami, F. (2019). Walking in smart cities. interactions, 26(2), 66-68.
- Alavi, H. S., Bahrami, F., Verma, H., & Lalanne, D. (2017, June). Is Driverless Car Another Weiserian Mistake?. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 249-253).
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Conference Proceedings- Alavi, H. S., Verma, H., Mlynar, J., & Lalanne, D. (2018, April). The hide and seek of workspace: Towards human-centric sustainable architecture. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-12).
- Alavi, H. 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). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Mlynar, J., Bahrami, F., Ourednik, A., Mutzner, N., Verma, H., & Alavi, H. (2022, April). AI beyond deus ex machina–Reimagining intelligence in future cities with urban experts. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-13).
- Alavi, H., & Mlynar, J. (2024, July). Dangers of Designing with Data. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 153-156).
- Rao, S., Rogers, K., Good, J., & Alavi, H. (2025, April). What Do We Design for When We Design" Smart Buildings"?-A Scoping Review of Human Experience Design Research in Buildings. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-23).
- Zhong, S., Rosset, L., Papinutto, M., Lalanne, D., & Alavi, H. S. (2022). Binaural audio in hybrid meetings: Effects on speaker identification, comprehension, and user experience. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1-24.
- Zhong, S., Lalanne, D., & Alavi, H. (2021, May). The complexity of indoor air quality forecasting and the simplicity of interacting with it–A case study of 1007 office meetings. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-19).
Datasets
- , ... & Paradiso, J. A. (2024). A dataset exploring urban comfort through novel wearables and environmental surveys. Scientific data, 11(1), 1423.
