Ilkka Kaate
Postdoctoral researcher
iokaat@utu.fi |
Digital marketing; personas; HCI
- AI representing personas representing user groups: Applying the agency theory to examine interaction challenges of conversational personas as decision-making tools (2026)
- Decision Support Systems
- From Priming Modalities to Educational AI Chatbot Engagement: A Study of 67 Learners (2026)
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
- Large Language Models in Human–Computer Interaction (2026) Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models : A Scientific Perspective Amin, Danial; Salminen, Joni; Jansen, Bernard J.; Kaate, Ilkka; Akhtar, Waleed
- Deepfake user personas for good - from maleficent to helping users (2025) Kaate, Ilkka
- Demographics do not matter? : Exploring the impact of gender and ethnicity on users’ identification with AI-generated personas (2025)
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
- How Can Intelligent Persona Systems Support Online Advertisers’ Daily Work Tasks? (2025) The Design of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence for the Workplace Salminen, Joni; Kaate, Ilkka; Olkkonen, Rami; Yang, Yanwu; Jung, Soon-Gyo; Jansen, Bernard J.
- Is Deepfake Diversity Real? Analyzing the Diversity of Deepfake Avatars (2025)
- Expert Systems with Applications
- The Dilemma of Synthetic Users : Examining the Role of Generative AI in Creating User Personas
(Presentation at the XLV International VAKKI Symposium: Communicational Relations, 2025) (2025) Salminen, Joni; Kaate, Ilkka; Amin, Danial; Jansen, Bernard, J. - The ‘fourth wall’ and other usability issues in AI-generated personas : comparing chat-based and profile personas (2025)
- Behaviour and Information Technology
- When Personas Talk to You : Evaluating the Evolution of User Personas from Static Profiles to Conversational User Interfaces (2025) DIS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference Kaate, Ilkka; Salminen, Joni; Jung, Soon-Gyo; Xuan, Trang Thi Thu; Azem, Jinan Y.; Santos, Joao M.



