Hana Vrzáková

Postdoctoral Researcher,
Docent in Medical Photonics and Collaborative Interaction

My research ambition is to understand and enhance human cognition, performance, and development. To achieve that I specialize in methods for multimodal modeling and nonlinear dynamic systems. The domains of interest include human-computer interaction, social interaction, collaborative learning, and surgical expertise. I have been conducting empirical research since 2010 and have a holistic experience with computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) and human-computer interaction (HCI) research. The application domains of my research span (collaborative) problem solving, computer-supported collaborative learning, source-code reading, subtitles reading, and high-precision motor control, i.e., microsurgery or indoor climbing.

Research groups

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Research Groups

Interactive Technologies, School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland
Microsurgery Training Center, Kuopio University Hospital
Visiting researcher at Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, Japan – Haneishi Lab
Visiting researcher at School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training, University of Central Florida

Projects

MicroDuet: Interpersonal Synchrony in Dual Microsurgical Performance in the Operating Room (Academy of Finland, 2021-2024)
MicroSpectre: Hyperspectral Characteristics of Tumorous and Vital Tissues for Intraoperative Hyperspectral Navigation (Saastamoinen Foundation)
Indoor Climbing: Eye-hand coordination, dynamics, and decision making

Research Areas

Understanding human performance, professionalism, and expertise
Interpersonal synchrony and coordination
Pervasive sensing, multimodal modeling, data science
Human computer interaction (HCI), Computer-supported Collaborative Work (CSCW)

Grants and Awards

2021 – Academy of Finland, Postdoctoral Research grant
2020 – Mobility Research Grant to Japan, Saastamoinen Foundation
2020 – Best Paper Award, ACM Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK’20)
2020 – European Cor Baayen Award (Top Six Honorary Mention Award)
2012 – Best Paper – Honorable Mention, ACM Symposium on Eye-tracking Research and Applications

Keywords

CSCW eye tracking high-precision performance human computer interaction motor control multimodal interaction Nonlinear dynamics social visual attention surgical performance user-centered design (UCD)

Publications

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Research groups

Research Groups

Projects

Research Areas

Grants and Awards

Keywords

Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) in Brain Tumor Surgery – Evidence of Machine Learning-Based Performance

Hyperspectral placenta dataset: Hyperspectral image acquisition, annotations, and processing of biological tissues in microsurgical training

Impact of virtual reality training on mastoidectomy performance: a prospective randomised study

Capturing Sequences of Learners' Self-Regulatory Interactions With Instructional Material During Game-Based Learning Using Auto-Recurrence Quantification Analysis

Detection improvement of gliomas in hyperspectral imaging of protoporphyrin IX fluorescence – in vitro comparison of visual identification and machine thresholds

ETRA '22: 2022 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications Proceending

Eye-Tracking Indicators of Workload in Surgery: A Systematic Review

The feasibility of virtual reality for anatomic training during temporal bone dissection course

Toward Robust Stress Prediction in the Age of Wearables: Modeling Perceived Stress in a Longitudinal Study with Information Workers

Towards Clinical Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) Standards: Initial Design for a Microneurosurgical HSI Database

Modelling Gaze Behaviour in Subtitle Processing: The Effect of Structural and Lexical Properties

Regularity Versus Novelty of Users' Multimodal Comment Patterns and Dynamics as Markers of Social Media Radicalization

EMIP: The eye movements in programming dataset

Experts in Medical Computing: Designing a continuous education program with clinical relevance and industrial applicability

Focused or stuck together: multimodal patterns reveal triads' performance in collaborative problem solving

Looking for a Deal?: Visual Social Attention during Negotiations via Mixed Media Videoconferencing

Affect Recognition in Code Review: An In-situ Biometric Study of Reviewer's Affect

Beyond dyadic synchrony: Multimodal behavioral irregularity predicts quality of triadic collaborative problem solving

Dynamics of Visual Attention in Multiparty Collaborative Problem Solving using Multidimensional Recurrence Quanti¿cation Analysis

I Say, You Say, We Say: Using Spoken Language to Model SocioCognitive Processes during Computer-Supported Collaborative Problem Solving

Machine learning methods in interaction inference from gaze

A Portable System for On-Site Medical Spectral Imaging: Pre-Clinical Development and Early Evaluation

AdaM : adapting multi-user interfaces for collaborative environments in real-time

Augmenting Microsurgical Training: Microsurgical Instrument Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Blink-Based Estimation of Suturing Task Workload and Expertise in Microsurgery

Eye movements in code review

Pupil size as an indicator of visual-motor workload and expertise in microsurgical training tasks."

Spectral Video in Image-Guided Microsurgical Applications: Integrating Imaging Technology into the Clinical Environment and Ergonomic Considerations

Speakers' head and gaze dynamics weakly correlate in group conversation

WTP: Web-Tracking plugin for real-Time automatic aoi annotations

Quiet Eye Affects Action Detection from Gaze More Than Context Length

Heatmap rendering from large-scale distributed datasets using cloud computing

Influential statements and gaze for persuasion modeling

Computational approaches to visual attention for interaction inference

EyeCloud: Cloud Computing for Pervasive Eye-Tracking

Fast and Comprehensive Extension to Intention Prediction from Gaze

Inferential methods in interaction, usability and user experience

That's not norma(n/l): a detailed analysis of midas touch in gaze-based problem-solving

Computational approaches to visual attention analysis for usability and user experience

Hard lessons learned: mobile eye-tracking in cockpits

What do yo want to do next: A novel approach for intent prediction in gaze-based interaction