People

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/

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.

I am the primary contact for these practical matters on the centre campus:

• hardware and software acquisitions for laboratories
• Approvals for laboratory reservations
• Chemical acquisition and supervision of use in the computing unit on the centre campus.
• Varjo software license administration

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

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

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

TAUCHI Research Center: 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

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