Portrait of Mats Stafseng Einarsen

Mats Stafseng Einarsen

Hey!

I'm a tech product creator and programmer with a particular interest in travel and the travel industry. I'm also a passionate tourist aiming at joining The Century Club. I like exploring the intersections of art, data, psychology and technology. This page has updates on my personal projects, my professional career stuff is on LinkedIn.

Updates

:: 2024 March
Check out Qaiz. It is a quiz app letting you create any quiz imaginable with AI, then play it live with your friends.
:: 2023 November
We recreated in Virtual Reality an art gallery in Kabul that was destroyed by the Taliban. Visit Gallery Namad. Do check out the new VR redo of glry.xyz too.
:: 2023 July
A small experiment with light, godrays and a generated landscape.
:: 2023 June
Sing your heart out with Is This Thing On?. Another experiment with visualizing microphone input in VR, but this is also an attempt at using high quality models, light and textures in WebVR within the limits given.
:: 2023 March
A synesthetic screamatorium?. This is a little WebVR experience letting you scream in VR and see your screams splattered all over the walls. Try it!
:: 2022
Together with Copyplanet, we made this little exhibition of his work called Clockwork Cosmos. An example of something that should really be tried in VR proper, as the weightlessness adds a lot to the experience.
:: 2021 April
GLRY.xyz is a contemporary art gallery in the metaverse. We pair up with artists and others to launch and promote VR or NFT experiments.
:: 2020
Dish Dragon AI is using data science to improve home cooking. It has an normalized index of 10 million ingredient combinations from half a million online recipes. Try looking up what goes well with avocado, which ingredients makes the best Spaghetti Bolognese or explore if you can make a better Moscow Mule.
:: 2020 September
This is 3d pong using the phone as a paddle with only web tech.
:: 2018
Kindify was an attempt at making research on prosocial behavior easily accessible in bite-sized portions for UX professionals who wants to nudge people to behave better in their social products. Here's an interview with me about it.
:: 2018
Leaving booking.com and the bkng group after 10 years. Here's some publications from that effort that I've co-authored:

Where to go on your next trip? Optimizing travel destinations based on user preferences
J Kiseleva, MJI Mueller, L Bernardi, C Davis, I Kovacek, ...
Beyond movie recommendations: Solving the continuous cold start problem in e-commerce recommendations
J Kiseleva, A Tuzhilin, J Kamps, MJI Mueller, L Bernardi, C Davis,
User engagement through topic modelling in travel
A Noulas, MS Einarsen
:: 2013 April
Is your AB-testing just chasing statistical ghosts? is a small article about false positives when running a large amount of online experiments