The HCI group at Tallinn University

18/04/2025

Last chance! And if you are a doctoral student accepted for the Doctoral Consortoum, the European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics will sponsor your registration.

https://transform.tlu.ee/ecce-2025/calls/doctoral-consortium/

23/01/2025

👩‍🎓"After graduating, I returned home to Ukraine, where I now work as a UX Designer. My education helped me secure a 50% salary increase. In Ukraine, the field of web accessibility is still emerging, providing me with ample opportunities to apply my acquired knowledge. The Master's Programme in Human-Computer Interaction degree is rare and comes with a certain level of responsibility. I understand how to create sustainable, efficient technology, and now I must consider how best to apply this knowledge. I highly recommend the HCI program to those who are passionate about technology and eager to learn how to apply it for sustainability. I look forward to meeting you at HCI meetups!" 🤩

📣 Diana Miftakhova is an alumna of the Human-Computer Interaction Master's program, having completed her studies in the spring of 2024. She has since returned to her home country, Ukraine, where she is currently working as a UX designer. Read about Diana's story on our website!

📅 Admissions to Tallinn University's international programmes are now open! Apply today via DreamApply platform and take the first step towards building your future in an exciting new field!

Diana Miftakhova is an alumna of the Human-Computer Interaction Master's program, having completed her studies in the spring of 2024. She has since returned to her home country, Ukraine, where she is currently working as a UX designer.

11/07/2024

📣 Want to study something really cool and combine it with work? Join our micro-degree "𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" and create impactful digital experiences with this cutting-edge course focused on the emerging field of behaviour change design.

🎯 The aim of the micro- degree is to provide knowledge about research design and evaluating digital products that have aim for behaviour change for the people working in industry in a field of design of digital product.

The micro-degree consists of five subjects:
➡ Psychology for Interaction Design
➡ Cognition and Emotion of Digital Media
➡ Interaction Design Methods
➡ Design for Behaviour Change
➡ User Experience Evaluation

⏳ The program starts already in September and is run fully in English! Read more about it and apply!

NB! Info hour August 27th at 15:00 – 16:00. Vladimir Tomberg. Room A-402, Astra house 4th floor, Narva mnt 29, Tallinn. / The aim of the micro-degree is to provide knowledge about research design and evaluating digital products that have aim for behaviour change for the people working in industry ...

11/07/2024

📣 Want to study something really cool and combine it with work? Join our micro-degree "𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" and create impactful digital experiences with this cutting-edge course focused on the emerging field of behaviour change design.

🎯 The aim of the micro- degree is to provide knowledge about research design and evaluating digital products that have aim for behaviour change for the people working in industry in a field of design of digital product.

The micro-degree consists of five subjects:
➡ Psychology for Interaction Design
➡ Cognition and Emotion of Digital Media
➡ Interaction Design Methods
➡ Design for Behaviour Change
➡ User Experience Evaluation

⏳ The program starts already in September and is run fully in English! Read more about it and apply! https://shorturl.at/2XSMv

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19/12/2023

🤝At the beginning of November, a new research project between the Human-Computer Interaction group of Tallinn University, the School of Digital Technologies, and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) started.

🎯The main aim of the 5,5-year project is to set up a Human-Robot Interaction laboratory in Virumaa College which will serve local industry and will help students and teachers to get more familiar with the Human-Robot Interaction topic.

📌Project coordinator from Tallinn University, School of Digital Technologies is Associate Professor of Interaction Design Sonia Sousa. HCI group researcher Mati Mõttus and junior researcher Mustafa Can Özdemir will also contribute to the project. Good luck, colleagues!

Read more about the project in the article below!

At the beginning of November, a new research project between the Human-Computer Interaction group of Tallinn University, the School of Digital Technologies, and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) started. The main aim of the 5,5-year project is to set up a Human-Robot Interaction laboratory....

26/04/2023

🤝 Third year in a row, the students of the Human-Computer Interaction master programme under the supervision of programme’s curator Vladimir Tomberg are conducting their research projects in cooperation with Tallinn Children’s Hospital.
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Third year in a row, the students of the Human-Computer Interaction master programme under the supervision of programme’s curator Associate Professor of Interaction Design Vladimir Tomberg are conducting their research projects in cooperation with Tallinn Children’s Hospital.

30/03/2023

💻The 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing started on the 27th of March at Tallinn University. Read more about the conference and our doctoral student Farhat-ul-Ain's tutorial called “Interaction Design for Behaviour Change”! 📲

The 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing started on the 27th of March at Tallinn University. The international conference mainly focuses on applied computing research and brings together computer scientists, engineers, and practitioners from various backgrounds from all over the world to e...

17/02/2023

UX researchers’ MeetUp: „When Academy meets Industry“

This Wednesday the students of the Human-Computer Interaction master program had a great chance to meet their future colleagues and employers from the industry. While UX design researchers from the most famous companies in the field had an opportunity to share their experiences and get some new ideas about UX in general from the perspective of an academic institution.
UX researchers' meetup at Tallinn University is happening already for the fourth time during this academic year. While the previous 3 meetups were organized for students and alumni of the HCI program to share knowledge, then this last meetup happened to be special. The event brought together HCI students and industrial UX researchers from 20 companies.

UX researcher Hanna-Stella Haaristo from the design agency Velvet had a presentation with the topic: “Design researcher in a design agency - who is that?”. The second talk was presented by our alumna and now Senior User Researcher at Veriff company Maria Vous. Maria’s topic was about building a research mindset in an organization aka “How to sell the need for you and your position?”

To conclude this exciting event with something really practical, lecturer of the School of Digital technologies Mati Mõttus and junior research fellow Mustafa Can Özdemir demonstrated a facial expression analysis tool that HCI students use for usability testing.

We would like to thank everyone for participating. A lot more exciting meetups are coming soon!

15/11/2022

💥 Where are alumni of the School of Digital Technologies today and what do they do? Farshad, who completed his master studies in Human - Computer Interaction, now is doing his PHD in Finland! Read interview on TLÜ website!

Farshad Farahnakian is a Human-Computer Interaction master's programme graduate, who now is completing his PHD in Finland. Moving from Iran to Estonia was challenging in the beginning, but Farshad managed to find his educational and professional path here. While studying in Estonia Farshad got 3rd p...

31/10/2022

🧐 Second HCI Meetup of the season took place last week! Our alumus Carlos shared interesting view and ideas about information architecture, user experience and UX design.
💥While PHD students Garbriela and Farhat talked abot their recent participation in international human-computer interaction conference, which took place in Aarhus, Denmark.