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About me

Professor in Human-Centered Design (of information technology), specializing in:

Social Technology — Sustainable Design of ICT — Digital Ethics

My research and teaching relate to the design of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services with a critical voice, mindful of digital ethics and sustainability. I'm specializing in communication and collaboration applications and generally "social technologies" that aim to enhance social interactions of various forms. I want to contribute to building a future where ICT services and socio-technical futures are imagined, built, and used with consideration of diverse values, cultures, and user groups. I'm a user-centered interaction/UI designer and a computer scientist by training and a great enthusiast of behavioral and social sciences. 

Please find a short introduction video here (presented in Finnish, with subtitles in English).

I have the great privilege of leading the Technology x Social Interaction Research group at Tampere University. Please check the page for further info on collaboration opportunities, available thesis topics, etc.

For up-to-date publications, please see my Google Scholar profile.

Responsibilities

I'm leading the "Technology x Social Interaction" research group at Tampere University, working with inspirational scholars across the fields of design, computer science, and behavioral & social sciences. Recently, I've been the Principal Investigator in Business Finland project Big Match, the PI of an internally funded Fairness in Social Matching Systems project, the co-PI in the Academy of Finland project Emotions in Digital Media (EmoDiM), a work package leader in ERDF project on Human-Centered AI (KITE), and involved in a number of other externally funded projects, such as Future of Remote/Hybrid Work. 

Teaching: I'm the responsible professor coordinating the Human-Technology Interaction studies in the Master's program of Computing Sciences. I'm also actively involved in offering and developing the new Sustainable Digital Life Master's program.

Concerning doctoral training, I serve as a supervisor and a planning group member in the Doctoral Programme of Humans and Technologies. 

I am or have been the responsible teacher for the following courses:

• SDL.530 Sustainable Design
• SDL.600 Technology-Mediated Sociality and Communication
• TAYJ12 Ethics of Technology 
• HTIS85 Methods in Human-Centered Design

In addition, I'm teaching in the Introduction to Sustainable Digital Life MOOC and a Finnish basic course on information sciences (Johdatus tietojenkäsittelytieteisiin).

Thesis supervision: I'm gladly supervising master's and doctoral theses in relation to my research interests. Please see this page for further info and preliminary topic ideas.

Affiliations and memberships:

I'm affiliated with the Computing unit in the faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, as well as the Tampere HTI community.

I have been developing my professorial expertise in the nurturing atmosphere of the New Social Research programme at Tampere University. From 2017 to 2021, NSR was a bold endeavor to create interdisciplinary social scientific competence relevant for the 21st century academia. 

I'm actively involved in Rajapinta, a scientific community focused on digital social sciences and interdisciplinary Internet research.

Field of expertise

The overarching goals of my research are (1) to understand how Information and Communication Technologies shape and condition social behavior and collaboration; (2) to envision and design novel ICT prototypes that could sustainably enhance various forms of human sociality. I'm a user interface designer and a (very soft) computer scientist by training and a great enthusiast of the social sciences. The fields I mainly publish in are Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work. I've published over 120 scientific papers in international journals and conferences, including ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and Communications of the ACM. I regularly serve as an Associate Chair in ACM SIGCHI flagship conferences CHI and CSCW, and I actively serve as a reviewer in journals, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Interacting with Computers, and Human-Computer Studies.

Research areas and topics (as keywords): social technologies, computer-supported cooperative work, socio-technical systems design, professional social matching, computer-mediated communication, enhancing collocated social interaction, people-nearby applications, social computing, social extended reality.

(Topics I've studied in the past: mobile augmented reality, collective use of user-generated content, early online communities, haptic human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, proactive and context-aware systems, playful applications of ICT).

Technology: I'm interested in various emerging technologies, particularly People Recommender Systems, new Digital Media services, Recruitment & HR technology, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. Rather than developing such technology, I focus on the user-centric, cultural, and societal requirements as well as designing service concepts and user interfaces.

Methodology: my research is mainly qualitative by nature, aiming to make sense of and conceptualize unexplored phenomena and gain user-centric insight into the behavioral and social effects of new ICTs. We often follow the research through design approach, critically investigating existing design conventions in an attempt to design new, more sustainable social user experiences and to encourage ethical and socially sustainable design of technological services. I've also utilized computational social science approaches like network analysis and computational analytics methods based on machine learning. 

I'm well familiar with both the Centrum and Hervanta campuses of Tampere University. Before the merger of the local universities in 2019, I was an Associate Professor at University of Tampere and before that an Adjunct Professor and Post-doctoral Researcher at Tampere University of Technology. 

About me

My profile and full CV is here: https://research.tuni.fi/kaisa-vaananen/

About me

MA in Digital Culture from the University of Turku and doctoral Researcher at Tampere University in the Doctoral Programme of Humans and Technologies. In my dissertation research, I'm studying human-AI interaction and configuration in expert work, domain experts' expectations and experiences of AI, trust in AI and domain expert user experience. 

About me

https://homepages.tuni.fi/grigori.evreinov/index.htm

Research topics

mental and augmented visualization, intelligent gaze control & new gestalt principles, perceptual skill transfer, magnetic forces & phenomena, stick-slip, selective stimulation of human receptors (including electrical current) affecting on human-data/technology interaction. 

Research unit

TAUCHI

Research fields

different phenomena (physical, chemical and physiological) which are possible to exploit in HCI (mental and augmented visualization, intelligent gaze control & new gestalt principles, perceptual skill transfer, magnetic forces & phenomena, stick-slip, selective stimulation of human receptors etc affecting on human-data/technology interaction. 

About me

I am a Post Doctoral University Researcher developing Intelligent Multimodal Systems to enhance haptic feedback in a wide range of applications and environments. My core research interests involve designing and studying haptic signal mediation in vibrotactile actuation as well as developing passive and active mediation techniques to revolutionize haptic / multimodal interaction in 2D / 3D virtual environments.

Responsibilities

• Tampere Institute of Advance Studies Fellow [2022-2024], 
• Various Project development and coordination [AMICI, AEE, Huawei, HUMOR, MIVI, Fukoku, AAC]
• MMI System Design & Development, 
• Human Centered Multimodal Interaction Research, 
• Partner Interaction, 
• Teaching / Project Work (HTI HI 520).

Field of expertise

• System development & deployment 
• Software Engineering 
• Electrical Engineering 
• Multimodal Interaction Systems 
• Novel Haptic Interaction Techniques 
• Haptic Mediation 
• Human Technology Interaction

Alternate description

More details Available at Personal Webpage HERE 

Research topics

• Multimodal Communication
• Human Technology Interaction
• Haptic System Interaction and Efficiency 

Research fields

• Computer Science
• Electronics Engineering
• Haptics
• Human Technology Interaction
• Signal Processing
• Mechatronics

Responsibilities

I am responsible for the Human-Technology Interaction research infrastructure in the ITC Faculty. I am also the coordinator of the Staff Scientist network at the ITC faculty and the immediate supervisor of our laboratory engineers laboratory managers, etc.

In research I am active in the projects of the research group on Emotions, Sociality and Computing.

Research fields

Human-Technology Interaction

Research topics

User experience, sustainable mobility, social robotics, societal participation of youth

Research fields

Human-technology interaction

About me

Doing research on human technology interaction

Field of expertise

Pattern recognition, signal processing, human technology interaction

About me

I am a creative and adventurous researcher. I study novel designs' effects on user-experience, and how to do design that questions current designs. The application area for my study is computer-mediated communication. I especially enjoy ideating within a team, and I do my best to not be blinded by my own ideas. I am a Doctoral Researcher starting from fall of 2019, and before that I was a Researcher and Research assistant. I got my Master's in 2018 in Human Technology Interaction in this university. I am also a Designer (BA) 2015, and 2011 Artesan of design.

About me

Researcher and teacher interested in human-technology interaction, with special expertise on the applied use of eye tracking in interfaces.  

Responsibilities

Teaching:
- Usability Evaluation Methods
- Methods in Human-Centered Design 

Teacher tutor for Human-Technology Interaction (HTITLY ) module in the Master's Programme in Computing Sciences 

Supervisor of Master's theses on topics related to my expertise and research interests (see my google scholar profile). 

Researcher in the Speechreading project "Katse huulioon?", in collaboration with University of Oulu. 

Field of expertise

Eye tracking, gaze-controlled interfaces, human-computer interaction (HCI), gaze-based HCI, usability user, experience, accessibility, user/human-centered design (UCD/HCD), animal-computer interaction (ACI)

Research unit

https://research.tuni.fi/tauchi/

About me

Since 2014, I’ve been involved in several research projects that aim to encourage and facilitate interactions between people through technology. Currently, I am interested in exploring new types of professional social matching services that are based on Big Social Data analysis.

Research fields

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Computer Interaction

About me

I am broadly interested in Human-Technology Interaction, including novel user interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, emerging and display technologies, 3D displays, multisensory and multimodal interaction, artificial intelligence, etc.

I am a co-inventor of the FogScreen. 

I have also been a visiting scholar for a total of 4½ years at UCSB Four Eyes Lab, most recently on 9/2017 - 12/2018. 

Responsibilities

Senior Research Fellow

TAUCHI Research Center 

Field of expertise

I research mixed reality, novel user interfaces, novel displays, AI, and their applications. 

I have invented several multimodal extensions for HMDs. Proof-of-concept prototypes of mid-air tactile feedback for a mid-air fogscreen (Sand et al. 2015) and for an HMD (Sand et al. 2015) enable to touch and feel synthetic 3D objects while interacting with them. A super-wide FOV optical design for HMDs (Rakkolainen et al. 2016; Rakkolainen et al. 2017) can cover even the full human FOV. Recently we have significantly extended the FOV of a standard VR viewer (Rakkolainen et al. 2017 ). We also invented a visual feedback system for HMDs, which surpasses the eye and its lens, sending light directly to retina (Koskinen et al. 2017), PTZ superzoom + 360° camera, and illumination for 360° cameras. 

We have also refined the previous gestural AR/VR interface (Rakkolainen 2003) with new UI concepts together with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). They enable embedded VR viewing and easy use of 3D UIs for smartphones (Rakkolainen et al. 2016 ).

Research unit

TAUCHI Research Center

Research fields

Computer science

Responsibilities

I am responsible for the Centre for Immersive Visual Technologies (CIVIT) research infrastructure in the ITC Faculty. I also work as a researcher in projects in the Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction (TAUCHI).

Field of expertise

Human-computer interaction, multisensory interfaces, haptics, olfaction, virtual reality.

About me

– Doctoral researcher, Doctoral Programme in Interactive Technology

– MSc in Media Technology (2011), Gjøvik University College, Norway

– Interests in HCI, mid-air gestural interaction, interaction design for gestural interface

Research topics

Touchless gestural interaction

Research unit

Research group for emotions, sociality and computing ESC

About me

Researcher and teacher interested broadly in Human-Technology Interaction and specially in information visualization

Responsibilities

Supervision

- I supervise theses related to information visualization, data graphics, user interfaces, and usability

Field of expertise

information visualization, data graphics, user interfaces

Research unit

https://research.tuni.fi/tauchi/

About me

I'm a doctoral researcher, recevied Ph.D. in 2008

Responsibilities

• conducting high-quality research
• supporting other researchers by developing experiment tools

Field of expertise

• eye tracking for human-compuer interaction
• software development

Research fields

• human-computer interaction
• human-vehicle interaction

About me

Hello,

I am a Doctoral Researcher at the Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction (TAUCHI). My research focuses on designing and developing interactive solutions for emergent and remote users. Currently, I'm working on the KITE Project (Kaupunkiseudun Ihmiskeskeiset Tekoälyratkaisut - a rough translation would be Urban User-Centered Artificial Intelligence​) exploring the usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Tampere. I have been involved in the development of AI-based chatbots for small companies as a potential use-case for low-cost adaptation of AI technologies 

My academic research is on designing and developing Voice User Interfaces in Semi-Public Spaces, especially for the elderly population. I'm exploring use-cases and solutions to deploy Voice Assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home in semi-public spaces and study their implications in terms of interaction, user experience, privacy and trust.

Responsibilities

Human-Centerd Design, Human Centered Artificial IntelligenceI, Voice Assistants, AI-powered Chatbots

About me

Ph.D. in Cognitive Science