Vipul Nair

Ph.D. | Cognition &
Human-Centric AI

Hello

I’m an Informatics researcher, bridging cognitive science, AI, and human-centered technology to study how people process sensory information in real-world interactions. With 8+ years of designing eye-tracking, motion capture, and mixed-methods studies, I advance behavior research through publications, datasets, and global collaborations — turning complex insights into intuitive solutions.

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Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Multimodal Naturalistic Interaction
• Event/Visual/Motion Perception

Education

• PhD Informatics

  University of Skövde, Sweden

• MSc Cognitive Science

  Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India

• BTech Computer Science

  National Institute of Technology Silchar, India

Consulting & Research Services

Strategic advice, cognitive insights based on human-data and scalable solutions—translating research into practical, human-centered technologies across diverse fields. Explore services in detail →

Driving & Streetscapes

Research driver attention, pedestrian behavior, and cues for safer mobility.

Animacy & Virtual Worlds

Build realistic virtual spaces for gaming, training, and human–AI interaction.

Cognitive Media Analytics

Decode audience attention and interpretation using visuospatial cognitive methods.

Social & Cognitive Robotics

Design humanoid robots using human-centered insights and multimodal behavior data.

Human Event Recognition

Recognize and track human actions from video and multimodal data streams.

Behavioral Data Analytics

Process, annotate, and analyze multimodal human data for actionable insights.

Projects

I present a diverse selection of independent, academic, and industry projects that have driven research innovation and real-world solutions. Explore full project portfolio →

Event Ontology

Event Annotation Platform

A knowledge-driven pipeline for cross-domain event annotation and visual attention analysis

2021-01-01

Data Processing

DREAM Data Pipeline

Python-based multimodal data processing for the EU Horizon 2020 DREAM project on robot-assisted autism therapy.

2019-03-31

Publications

I study how people perceive events, visuals, and motion in real-world settings—from how we watch films to how we interact with each other and our environment. Explore full publication archive →

Naturalistic Behavior

A Naturalistic Embodied Human Multimodal Interaction Dataset: Systematically Annotated Behavioural Visuo-Auditory Cue and Attention Data

This naturalistic multimodal dataset captures 27 everyday interaction scenarios with detailed visuo-spatial & auditory cue annotations and eye-tracking data, offering rich insights for research in human interaction, attention modeling, and cognitive media studies.

Vipul Nair

• 2025-05-01

Computational Model

Kinematic Primitives in Action Similarity Judgments: A Human-Centered Computational Model

This study compares human and computational judgments of action similarity, revealing that both rely heavily on kinematic features like velocity and spatial cues and that humans don't rely much on action semantics.

Vipul Nair

• 2023-01-30

Get in Touch

Interested in consultation, collaboration or learning more about my work? I'd love to hear from you!

Reach me directly at: [email protected]