Danial Amin

Fairness in Generative AI, FaAct Human Computer Interaction, User Representation, Personas for Social Good, GenAI Personas, Global South

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University of Vaasa

Espoo, Finland

+358 46 802 4062

news

Nov 06, 2025 I recently presented our work in progress at Quant UX Conference, a conference focused on bringing QuantUX researchers from both industry and academia together. read slides here
Oct 17, 2025 My first lead-author article, exploring the challenges of Generative AI personas, has just been published in the International Journal of Human–Computer Studies (IJHCS). The paper highlights twenty critical challenges that researchers and practitioners in the HCI community may face when working with Generative AI personas. read here
Oct 09, 2025 The article on Synthetic Users is published in Augmented Humans 2025 Proceedings on October 9, 2025. read here
Jun 15, 2025 I graduated from Rennes School of Business as an MBA graduate with distinction under the French Excellence Scholarship Program for Climate Change 2023-2024. read here

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selected publications

  1. IJHCS
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    Generative AI Personas Considered Harmful? Examining the Risks of Algorithmic User Representations in HCI Design
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jansen, and 2 more authors
    International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2025
    Published
  2. CHI’2026
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    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Generative AI in Personas: A Systematic Review of 81 Research Manuscripts
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Farhan Ahmed, and 3 more authors
    Conference on Human Computer Interaction’2026, 2025
    In review
  3. IUI’2026
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    "One Metric to Rule Them All?": Proposing A Quantitative Framework for Persona Set Diversity Measurement Toward Inclusive User Representation
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, and Bernard Jansen
    2025
    In review
  4. CRC Press
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    Large language models (LLMs) in human-computer interaction: Using LLM-generated personas to model everything from minority views to entire ecosystems
    Danial Amin, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jansen, and 2 more authors
    In Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models: A Scientific Perspective, 2024
    In press
  5. CHI’25
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    "When AI Writes Personas": Analyzing Lexical Diversity in LLM-Generated Persona Descriptions
    Sankalp Sethi, Joni Salminen, Danial Amin, and 1 more author
    In Extended Abstracts of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025