Autumn 2020

Friday 11.9.2020 9:15 – 10:45, Zoom

• Rucha Tulaskar – “Virtual learning experiences of university students –
  an ongoing study during COVID-19 pandemic”
  Opponent: Ekaterina Olshannikova
• Antti Sand – “What to expect when graduating?”

Friday 9.10.2020 9:15 – 10:45, Zoom

• Toni Pakkanen – lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis
  “Supporting Eyes-Free Human–Computer Interaction with Vibrotactile Haptification”

Friday 13.11.2020 9:15 – 10.45, Zoom

• Patrick Coe – research plan
  “Exploration of High Definition and Volumetric Haptics”
  Opponents: Antti Sand and  Vera Remizova
• Alisa Burova – research plan
  “An Exploration of Virtual Environments to Enable
  Efficient Industrial Collaboration: Digital Content
  Evaluation and Development”
  Opponents: Johanna Peltola and Zhenxing Li
  

Friday 11.12.2020 9:15 – 10.45, Zoom

• Joel Kiskola – status report on
  “Designing Online Discussion Platform of the Future: Qualities of Goodness”
  Opponents: Ekaterina Olshannikova and Rucha Tulaskar
• Georgina Guillem Mandujano – status report on
  “Gamification as an enabler of sustainable consumption”
  Opponent: Alisa Burova

Spring 2020

Friday 17.1.2020 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Hanna Heinonen – a Mindtrek paper
  “Scalable and responsive information for industrial maintenance work – developing XR support on smart glasses for maintenance technicians”
  Opponent: Deepa Vasara
• Tero Avellan – a Mindtrek poster
  “AI for ALL: Defining the What, Why, and How of Inclusive AI”
  Opponent: Hanna Venesvirta
• Antti Sand – a Mindtrek poster
  “Tactile Feedback on Mid-Air Gestural Interaction with a Large Fogscreen”
  Opponent: Zhenxing Li

Friday 14.2.2020 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Saara Ala-Luopa – research plan
  “Trust in AI technology in expert decision-making”
  Opponent: Sami Koivunen
• Ekaterina Olshannikova – status report
  “Exploring Serendipity and Diversity in Professional Social Networking”
  Opponent: Biju Thankachan

Friday 13.3.2020 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• CANCELLED

Friday 17.4.2020 9:15 – 10:45, Zoom

• Johanna Peltola – research plan
  “Finding the Right Words: An Exploration of Natural Language in
  Conversational Agents for Adolescent Mental Health Support”
  Opponents: Zhenxing Li, Joel Kiskola
• Vera Remizova – update on research plan
  “Touchless Gestural Interfaces for Co-located Multi-User Interaction
  with Large and Walk-Through Displays”
  Opponent: Saara Ala-Luopa

Friday 15.5.2020 9:15 – 10:45, Zoom

• Biju Thankachan – “Researcher’s Toolkit – Beyond Academic Books”
  Opponent: Tero Avellan
• Deepa Vasara – status update on
  “Haptic Responses to Emotional Stimulation”
  Opponent: Juhani Linna

Autumn 2019

Friday 23.8.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Deepak Akkil: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis
  “Gaze Awareness in Computer- Mediated Collaborative Physical Tasks”

Friday 11.10.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Zhenxing Li – a new study:
  “Gaze-based Kinesthetic Interaction for Virtual Reality”
  Opponent: Antti Sand
• Joel Kiskola – research plan:
  “Applying Critical Design Methods to Enhance Online Discussion Quality”
  Opponent: Ekaterina Olshannikova

Friday 8.11.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Hanna Heinonen – research plan
  “X Reality in Technical Communication”
  Opponent: Tero Avellan
• Biju Thankachan:
  “Voice Interaction and Voice Assistants – Alexa and Mycroft” –
  Experiences from Summer School at TU Dresden
  Opponent: Juhani Linna

Friday 13.12.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Georgina Guillen – research plan:
  “Gamification as an enabler of sustainable consumption”
  Opponent: Vera Remizova
• Sami Koivunen – a paper in ACM GROUP 2020 conference
  “Understanding Decision-Making in Recruitment:
  Opportunities and Challenges for Information Technology”
  Opponent: Joel Kiskola

Spring 2019

Friday 11.1.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Ekaterina Olshannikova: “Exploring Different Structural Positions on Twitter Networks for People Recommender Systems — Tampere merging universities use-case”
• Antti Sand – status report: “Novel Spatial User Interfaces Employing Mid-Air Tactile Feedback”

Friday 8.2.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Tomi Nukarinen: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis “”Assisting Navigation and Object Selection with Vibrotactile Cues”

Friday 8.3.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Biju Thankachan – status report: “Gamified and Text-Free User Interfaces for Disadvantaged Users”
• Sami Koivunen – research plan: “Opportunities and Requirements for Computational Professional Social Matching”

Friday 12.4.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Juhani Linna – Research plan updates &
  PerDis’19 paper “Acceptance and Perceptions of Interactive Location-Tracking Displays”
  Opponent: Ekaterina Olshannikova

Friday 10.5.2019 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, PINNI B1029-30 LOUNGE

• Tero Avellan – status report: “Designing and Adopting Intelligent Interactive System to Augmentative and Alternative Communication”
  Opponent: Csaba Kertész
• Toni Pakkanen – status report: “Supporting Distracted User Interaction with Haptification of User Interfaces”
  Opponent: Antti Sand

Autumn 2018

Friday 14.9.2018 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Sumita Sharma: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis “Collaborative Educational Applications for Underserved Children: Experiences from India”

Friday 12.10.2018 9:15 – 10:45, PINNI B1029-30 LOUNGE

• Toni Pakkanen – status report: Supporting Distracted User Interaction with Tactile Haptification of User Interfaces

Friday 9.11.2018 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Tomi Nukarinen – status report: Enhancing Navigation and Object Selection with Vibrotactile Cues in Human-Technology Interaction
  Opponent: Arttu Viljakainen
• Zhenxing Li – status report: Gaze with kinesthetic interaction
  Opponent: Juhani Linna

Friday 14.12.2018 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Arttu Viljakainen – research plan: “Improving the usability of map based command and control systems”
  Opponent: Antti Sand
• Csaba Kertész – status report: “Artificial Intelligence Development with Online Communities for Robotics”
  Opponent: Tomi Nukarinen

Spring 2018

Friday 12.1.2018 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Deepak Akkil: The search for non-parametric equivalent of ANOVA
• Sumita Sharma and Biju Thankachan:
  “INTERACT 2017 Mumbai Fieldtrips: Ethnographic experiences in the wild”

Friday 9.2.2018 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Deepa Vasara, status report
  Opponents: Juhani Linna and Tero Avellan
• Pekka Kallioniemi, “There and Back Again – a PhD Journey”
  Opponents: Biju Thankachan and Ekaterina Olshannikova

Friday 9.3.2018 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Ville Mäkelä:  lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis “Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of Gesture-Controlled Displays in Ubiquitous Environments”

Friday 13.4.2018 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Pekka Kallioniemi:  lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis “Collaborative Wayfinding in Virtual Environments” (this talk will be in Finnish)

Autumn 2017

Friday 8.9.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

The POSTIT Sharing Session!
Our doctoral students share their productivity do’s and don’ts

• Tomi Nukarinen: “Digital learning system”
• Antti Sand: “Cards and Stacks – the Trello approach to task management”
• Toni Pakkanen: “Utilizing cloud and syncing software while working with several computers”
• Ekaterina Olshannikova: “Collaborative Writing and Publishing with Overleaf & Zotero”
• Sumita Sharma: “The disasters of two-country-research”
• Deepak Akkil: “How Mendeley saved me 4 hours”
• Pekka Kallioniemi: “Time management”

Friday 13.10.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Ekaterina Olshannikova:
  “Utilizing Big Social Data to support interdisciplinary collaboration
  among knowledge workers”
  Opponents: Antti Sand and Pekka Kallioniemi
• Tero Avellan:
  “Designing and Adopting Intelligent Interactive System
  to Augmentative and Alternative Communication”
  Opponents: Santeri Saarinen and Ville Mäkelä

Friday 10.11.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI B2031 SIMSPACE

• Antti Sand: “Multimodal Spatial User Interfaces”
  Opponents: Vera Remizova and Sumita Sharma

Friday 8.12.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI B2031 SIMSPACE

• Ahmed Farooq:  lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis “Developing techniques to provide haptic feedback for
  surface based interaction in mobile devices”

Spring 2017

Friday 13.1.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• CANCELLED

Friday 10.2.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Sumita Sharma and Silvia Rubio:
  CityCompass Deepalaya Demo –
  “Collaborative language learning with Indian children”
• Deepa Mathew presents research plan titled:
  “Tactile/Haptic Responses to Emotional Stimulation”
  Opponents: Zhenxing Li and Csaba Kertész

Friday 10.3.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Lectio praecursoria rehearsal by Jani Lylykangas:
  “Regulation of Human Behavior by Vibrotactile Stimulation”
• Csaba Kertész presents a paper titled
  “Long-term Evaluation of Heavy Users of a Domestic Social Robot”
  Opponents: Juhani Linna and Deepa Mathew

Friday 21.4.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B0016

• Hanna Venesvirta presents a paper titled
  “Emotional tagging and sharing for lifelogging”
  Opponents: Biju Thankachan and Tomi Nukarinen
• Deepak Akkil presents a paper titled
  “Comparison of Gaze and Mouse Pointers for Video-based Collaborative Physical Task”
  Opponents: Lauri Immonen and Toni Pakkanen

Friday 12.5.2017 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Zhenxing Li gives a status report titled
  “Haptic simulation with nonlinear soft materials: Challenges and methods” (tentative title)
  Opponent: Juhani Linna
• Tomi Nukarinen presents his research plan titled
  “Designing Intuitive Haptics for Mobile Interaction”
  Opponent: Deepa Mathew

 

 

Autumn 2016

Friday 9.9.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Vera Remizova presents her research plan titled
  “Touchless Gestural Interaction”
  Opponents: Santeri Saarinen and Toni Pakkanen
• Biju Thankachan presents his research plan titled
  “Text-Free User Interfaces in Mobile Devices for
  Low-literate Rural Community Health Volunteers”
  Opponents: Juhani Linna and Tomi Nukarinen

Friday 14.10.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Susanna Paasovaara presents two conference papers
  “Proximity-Based Automatic Exchange of Data in Mobile Gaming:
  Studying the Experiences of StreetPass Users”
  Opponents: Tomi Nukarinen and Hanna Venesvirta
  and
  “Outlining the Design Space of Playful Interactions Between Nearby Strangers”
  Opponents: Csaba Kertész and Juhani Linna

Friday 11.11.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Lauri Immonen presents his research plan titled
  “Using new technology to improve computer-assisted learning”
  Opponents:Biju Thankachan and Zhenxing Li
• Ville Mäkelä presents a paper titled
  “A Taxonomy of External Factors in Public Display Deployments:
  Adapting from the “Oh Shit!” Moments”
  by Ville Mäkelä, Sumita Sharma, Jaakko Hakulinen,
  Tomi Heimonen, and Markku Turunen
  Opponents: Deepak Akkil and Santeri Saarinen

Friday 9.12.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Deepak Akkil will give a talk titled
  “Gaze or Touch: Comparison of Interaction Techniques for
  Agent-Based Early-Childhood Learning Application”
  Opponents: Lauri Immonen
• Toni Pakkanen will present a paper titled
  “Interaction with WebVR 360° Video Player –
  Comparing Three Interaction Paradigms”
  Opponents: Antti Sand and Tomi Nukarinen

Spring 2016

Friday 12.2.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Juhani Linna presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Socio-Technical Issues of Novel User Interfaces in Industrial Environments”
  Opponents: Hannu Korhonen and Vera Nekrasova
• Sumita Sharma gives a conference pre-presentation titled
  “Promoting Joint Attention with Computer Supported Collaboration in Children with Autism”
  Opponents: Pekka Kallioniemi and Ville Mäkelä

Friday 11.3.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Ahmed Farooq will give a talk titled
  “Tactile feedback and signal mediation for touchscreen based interaction”
  Opponents: Csaba Kertész and Antti Sand
• Zhenxing Li presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Haptic rendering for efficient and accurate simulation of deformable soft objects”
  Opponents: Xu Lin and Santeri Saarinen

Friday 8.4.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Deepak Akkil presents a full CHI paper titled
  “Gaze Augmentation in Egocentric Video Improves Awareness of Intention”
  Opponents: Jani Lylykangas and Jari Kangas

Friday 13.5.2016 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Matti Luhtala presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “SmartLab – digitaalisten kuntapalveluiden ihmiskeskeinen suunnittelu” (this talk will be in Finnish)
  Opponents: Jarno Ojala and Toni Pakkanen
• Katariina Tiitinen presents a poster titled
  “Opportunities and needs for logged usage data analytics of complex industrial systems”
  Opponents: Sumita Sharma and Hanna Venesvirta

 

Autumn 2015

Friday 11.12.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Deepak Akkil will give a status update on his doctoral research titled
  “Gaze enriched egocentric video for collaboration”
• Toni Pakkanen will give a status update on his doctoral research titled
  “Supporting Distracted User Interaction with Tactile Haptification of User Interfaces”

Friday 13.11.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Vera Nekrasova presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Real-time recognition of dynamic sign language gestures from video stream”
  Opponents: Susanna Paasovaara and Toni Järvenpää
• Xu Lin presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Computerized Psychotherapies for the Treatment of Specific Fears”
  Opponents: Santeri Saarinen and Hanna Venesvirta

Friday 9.10.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Jarno Ojala presents a plan for doctoral research, titled
  “Social User Experiences in Content Sharing – A Theoretical Design Framework”
  Opponents: Deepak Akkil and Csaba Kertész
• Jani Lylykangas gives a talk about his doctoral research, titled
  “Tactile stimulations for touch-based behavioral regulation and interface design in HTI”

Friday 11.9.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Ville Mäkelä presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Gestural Information Exchange in Ubiquitous Displays”
  Opponents: Pradthana Jarusriboonchai and Sumita Sharma
• Santeri Saarinen presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Assisting Teachers With Data Analysis Of Educational Software”
  Opponents: Hanna Venesvirta and Susanna Paasovaara

 

Spring 2015

Friday 8.5.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Tuuli Keskinen: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis
  “Vuorovaikutteisten järjestelmien käyttäjäkokemuksen arviointi haastavissa olosuhteissa”
  (“Evaluating the User Experience of Interactive Systems in Challenging Circumstances”)
  Please note, this talk will be in Finnish!

Friday 10.4.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Toni Järvenpää presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Characterization methods for emerging display technologies
  as tools for verifying acceptable viewing ergonomics”
  Opponents: Ville Mäkelä
• Susanna Paasovaara presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Proximity-based playful social interaction”
  Opponents: Pekka Kallioniemi and Toni Pakkanen

Friday 13.3.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Adewunmi Obafemi Ogunbase: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis
  “Pedagogical design and pedagogical usability of web-based learning environments:
  comparative cultural implications from Africa and Europe”

Friday 13.2.2015 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Csaba Kertész presents a plan for doctoral research titled
  “Community driven artificial intelligence development for Sony AIBO”
  Opponents: Antti Sand and Santeri Saarinen
  – http://aiboplus.sourceforge.net
  – http://www.aibo-life.org

 Friday 9.1.2015 9:15 – 10:45 – CANCELLED

2014

Friday 12.12.2014 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2077 (in TRIM premises)

• Hannu Korhonen: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis
  “Evaluating Playability of Mobile Games with the Expert Review Method”

Friday 14.11.2014 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Katri Salminen: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis
  “Emotional Responses to Friction-based, Vibrotactile, and Thermal Stimuli”

Friday 10.10.2014 9:15 – 10:45, TAUCHI, B2031 SIMSPACE

• Jussi Rantala: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis
  “Spatial touch in presenting information with mobile devices”

Friday 12.9.2014 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, B0016

• Sumita Sharma presents doctoral research titled
  “Designing embodied learning experiences in the classroom for marginalized school children in India”
  Opponents: Pekka Kallioniemi and Ville Mäkelä
• Deepak Akkil presents doctoral research titled
  “Gaze enriched video calling : Enhancing multimodal remote collaborations”
  Opponents: Jussi Rantala and Matti Luhtala

Friday 9.5.2014 9:15 – 10:45 at TRIM, Pinni B2077

• Hanna Venesvirta presents plan of doctoral research titled
  “A new prototype for technology mediated nonverbal communication”
• “Binocular and Monocular Augmentations for Different Distances on See-Through Near-Eye Displays”
  by Toni Järvenpää, Katja Suhonen, Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö and Marja Salmimaa.
  A conference pre-presentation by Toni Järvenpää, NRC
  Opponent: Jarno Ojala

Friday 11.4.2014 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, SimSpace B2031

• Outi Tuisku: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis “Face Interface” (“Kasvokäyttöliittymä”).
  Please note: the talk will be in Finnish.

Friday 14.3.2014 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, SimSpace B2031

• Toni Pakkanen presents doctoral research titled “Haptification of Mobile User Interfaces: From Design to Benefits”

Friday 14.2.2014 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, SimSpace B2031

• A conference pre-presentation by Jussi Rantala: “Preferences for Touch Gestures in Audio-Tactile Communication”
  Opponents: Pradthana Jarusriboonchai and Katri Salminen
• “Conference presentations revisited – Observations about POSTIT seminars”,
  by Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö

2013

Friday 13.12.2013 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, B0016

• CANCELLED

Friday 8.11.2013 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, B0016

• A conference pre-presentation by Jarno Ojala
  Opponents: Matti Luhtala and Jani Lylykangas
• A conference pre-presentation titled “User Experiences of Mobile Audio Conferencing with Spatial Audio, Haptics and Gestures” by Jussi Rantala
  Opponents: Hannu Korhonen and Pradthana Jarusriboonchai

Friday 18.10.2013 9:15 – 10.45 at TAUCHI, B0016

• Pradthana Jarusriboonchai presents a plan for a doctoral research titled “Interaction with Social Devices among Familiar Strangers in Co-located Situations”
  Opponents: Jarmo Palviainen and Hanna Venesvirta

Friday 13.9.2013 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, B0016

• “‘AIE-Studio’ – a Pragmatist Aesthetic Approach for Procedural Sound Design”
  A conference pre-presentation by Matti Luhtala.
  Opponents: Jarno Ojala and Ismo Rakkolainen

Thursday 16.5.2013 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, B0016

• Mirja Ilves: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of doctoral thesis “Human responses to machine-generated speech with emotional content” (please note, the talk will be in Finnish)
• Katri Salminen: travel report

Friday 12.4.2013 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, B3136

• “Cold or Hot? How Thermal Stimuli are Related to Human Emotional System?”
  A conference pre-presentation by Katri Salminen.
  Opponents: Jussi Rantala and Hannu Korhonen.
• “Improving evaluation honesty and user experience in e- learning by increasing evaluation cost and social presence”
  A conference pre-presentation by Juha Leino.
  Opponents: Antti Sand and Janne Bergman.

Friday 8.3.2013 9:15 – 10:45

• CANCELLED

Friday 8.2.2013 9:15 – 10:45 at IHTE

• Jussi Rantala’s presentation of doctoral research: “Spatial haptic interaction with hand-held mobile devices”.

Friday 11.1.2013 9:15 – 10:45 at TAUCHI, B2077

• CANCELLED

2012

Friday 14.12.2012 9:00 – 10.30 at IHTE, Tietotalo TB224

• Pekka Kallioniemi presents a plan for doctoral thesis
  Opponents: Heli Väätäjä, Teija Vainio

Friday 9.11.2012 9:15 – 10.45 at TAUCHI, B0016

• Tomi Heimonen: lectio praecursoria rehearsal of the doctoral thesis “Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces for Mobile Web Search”.

Friday 14.9.2012 at 9:15 – 10.45 at TAUCHI, B1029

• Location-based crowdsourcing of hyperlocal news – Dimensions of participation preferences.
  In Proceedings of GROUP 2012, Florida, October 2012. ACM. A conference prepresentation by Heli Väätäjä, IHTE
• Readers’ motivations to participate in hyperlocal news content creation. A poster prepresentation by Heli Väätäjä.
  Opponents for both presentations: Tuuli Keskinen, TAUCHI and Jarno Ojala, IHTE.

 

Friday 8.6.2012 at 9.15 – 10.45 at TAUCHI, B1029

• “SymbolChat: Picture-based Communication Platform for Users with Intellectual Disabilities”.
  A conference pre-presentation by Tuuli Laivo.
  Opponents: Katri Salminen (TAUCHI) and Joona Laukkanen (TAUCHI).
  

Friday 11.5.2012 at 9.15 – 10.45 at IHTE, Konetalo K739

• “Experiences of Social Mobile Applications Utilizing Haptic Feedback”.
  A plan for doctoral thesis by Jani Heikkinen, IHTE.
  Opponents: Heli Väätäjä (IHTE) and Toni Pakkanen (TAUCHI).

2011

Friday 13.5.2011 at 9.15-10.45 at TAUCHI, Pinni B1084

• Ting-Ray Chang, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland: a conference pre-presentation on “Three User-Driven Innovation Methods for Co-Creating Cloud Services”. To be presented in Interact 2011.
  Opponents: MA Katri Salminen and MSc Jussi Rantala, TAUCHI.
• Toni Pakkanen, TAUCHI: an overview of a visit to Stanford University around 1.1.2011 – 30.4.2011

8.4.2011

• Jani Lylykangas: a conference pre-presentation “Designing Tactile Feedback for Piezo Buttons”. To be prented in CHI 2011.
  Opponents: Janne Bergman, Nokia Research Center and Jarno Ojala, Human Centered Technology, TUT
• Wisit Jirattigalachote, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University: “Portable Haptic System for Motion Training”

11.3.2011

• Yanqing Cui: a plan for doctoral thesis called “Facilitating on-line social networking services on mobile devices”
  Opponents: Hannu Korhonen and Ahmed Farooq

14.1.2011

• Seminar opening by Prof. Veikko Surakka
• Dr. Teija Vainio gave an overview of her doctoral thesis “Applying Urban Planning and Design Principles into the Design of Mobile Multimodal Navigation Aids”

2010

17.12.2010

• Joona Laukkanen presented his plan for a doctoral thesis “Novel Interaction Techniques for the Modern Desktop Environment”
  Opponents: Ahmed Farooq and Roope Raisamo
• Veikko Surakka: Introduction to changes in the seminar (e.g. time schedule, places) starting from the Spring 2011

8.10.2010

• Seminar opening by Veikko Surakka
• Presentation by Janne Bergman and Janne Vainio, Nokia Research Center: Interacting with the Flow
• NordiCHI pre-presentation by Poika Isokoski: Motor Efficiency of Text Entry in a Combination of a Soft Keyboard and Unistrokes
  Opponents: Toni Pakkanen and Jenni Anttonen

12.11.2010

• Jenni Anttonen’s presentation of doctoral research: “Emotion-related changes in the heart, body, and mind”

10.9.2010

• Tomi Heimonen’s presentation of his doctoral thesis called “Facilitating Mobile Web Search: Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces for Supporting Result Evaluation”

21.5.2010

• Toni Vanhala’s conference pre-presentation: “Virtual proximity and facial expressions of computer agents regulate human emotions and attention”. To be presented in CASA 2010, Saint-Malo, France, May 31 – June 2.
  Opponents: Hannu Korhonen and Jenni Anttonen
• Toni Pakkanen and Jukka Raisamo: Highlights from 3DUI, VR and Haptic Symposium

9.4.2010

• Tomi Heimonen’s overview of doctoral thesis: “Facilitating Mobile Web Search: Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces for Supporting Result Evaluation”

12.3.2010

• Dr. Michael Rohs from Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin: Mobile augmented reality.

22.1.2010

• Tuuli Laivo, Juho Hella, Jaakko Hakulinen, Tomi Heimonen: User Expectations and User Experience of Multimodal Applications – Methodology and Case Studies
  Moderator for discussion: Markku Turunen

2009

13.11.2009

• Katri Salminen, plan for doctoral thesis: “Haptics: A new potential method for mainstream mobile technology to convey social and emotional information”
  Opponents: Outi Tuisku and Mirja Ilves
• Jussi Rantala, plan for doctoral thesis: “Haptic communication using mobile devices”
  Opponents: Jarmo Kauko (NRC) and Toni Vanhala

9.10.2009

• Janne Bergman, Nokia Research Center: Hands on Music – Physical Approach to Interaction with Digital Music
• Juho Hella: Multimodal Interaction with Speech and Physical Touch Interface in a Media Center Application
  Opponents: Jenni Anttonen and Rami Saarinen

18.9.2009

• Seminar opening, Veikko Surakka
• Title: Haptics for Movement Retraining in Medical Applications
  Presenter: Pete Shull from Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory, Stanford University
• Katri Salminen: a brief conference report from ACII 2009

8.5.2009

• Päivi Majaranta’s lectio praecursoria rehearsal: “Text entry by gaze”.

17.4.2009

• Dr. Tembalethu Jama Ndwe from the University of Cape Town, Department of Electrical Engineering: “Usability engineering of an Interactive Voice Response system in low literacy users”

13.3.2009

• Conference pre-presentation: Fast Gaze Typing with an Adjustable Dwell Time, Päivi Majaranta, Ulla-Kaija Ahola, Oleg Špakov
  Opponents: Outi Tuisku and Henna Heikkilä
• Conference pre-presentation: Disambiguating Ninja Cursors with Eye Gaze, Kari-Jouko Räihä, Oleg Špakov
  Opponents: Tomi Heimonen and Harri Rantala

6.2.2009

• Riitta Lahtinen ja Rus Palmer: “Haptiisit ja hapteemit: Tapaustutkimus kuurosokean henkilön kosketukseen perustuvan kommunikaation kehityksestä.”

2008

9.1.2008

• Outi Tuisku’s plan for doctoral thesis called “Facial Control over Computers”
  Opponents Yulia Gizatdinova and Jenni Anttonen

12.12.2008

• Yulia Gizatdinova’s lectio praecursoria rehearsal for her doctoral thesis defense on “Automatic Detection of Face and Facial Features from Images with Facial Expressions”
  Opponents: Outi Tuisku and Päivi Majaranta

14.11.2008

• Henna Heikkilä’s plan for doctoral thesis: “Design and implementation of an object-based drawing application for gaze control”.

10.10.2008

• Jenni Anttonen’s conference pre-presentation: “Measuring bodily responses to virtual faces with a pressure sensitive chair”
  Opponents: Henna Heikkilä and Rami Saarinen
• Hannu Korhonen’s conference pre-presentation: “Pervasive Mobile Games – a New Mindset for Players and Developers”

12.9.2008

• Seminar opening by Veikko Surakka
• Yulia Gizatdinova: Doctoral thesis presentation on “Automatic Detection of Face and Facial Features from Images with Facial Expressions”

11.4.2008

• Oleg Spakov’s rehearsal for lectio praecursoria on his doctoral thesis “iComponent – Device-Independent Platform for Analyzing Eye Movement Data and Developing Eye-Based Applications”

9.5.2008

• Oleg Spakov’s thesis defense, so there is no seminar

14.3.2008

• Outi Tuisku’s conference pre-presentation: “Now Dasher! Dash Away! Longitudinal Study of Fast Text Entry by Eye Gaze”
  Opponents: Henna Heikkilä & Yulia Gizatdinova
• Katri Salminen’s conference pre-presentation: “Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Haptic Stimulation”
  Opponents: Jani Lylykangas & Jukka Raisamo
• Tomi Heimonen’s conference pre-presentation: “Comparing the User Experience of Web Search User Interface Designs”
  Opponents: Jenni Anttonen & Katri Salminen

8.2.2008

• Steve Vickers and Howell Istance from School of Computing, De Montfort University: RApid GAze-Based Interaction Techniques (RAGABITS) for on line games and virtual communities intended for users with severe motor impairments

11.1.2008

• Jenni Anttonen: Research ethics – Specific issues related to HCI research

2007

9.11.2007

• Erno Mäkinen: a doctoral thesis presentation called “Face Analysis Techniques for Human-Computer Interaction”

12.10.2007

• Pasi Välkkynen (VTT): a doctoral thesis presentation called “Physical Selection in Ubiquitous Computing”
• Jenni Anttonen and Toni Vanhala: a brief conference report from the second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2007) held in Lisbon, Portugal.

14.9.2007

• TAUCHI seminar opening by Veikko Surakka
• Oleg Spakov: a doctoral thesis presentation called “iComponent – Device-Independent Platform for Developing Eye-Based Applications”

8.6.2007

• Art Karshmer: “Designing Curb Cuts for the 21st Century: Computer-Based Tools to Support the Visually Impaired”

13.4.2007

• Harri Siirtola: lectio praecursoria of the doctoral thesis “Interactive Visualization of Multidimensional Data.

11.5.2007

• Antti Pasanen and Aatu Lehtovaara: “An overview of the translation experiments in the EYE-to-IT project”.
• CHI conference report by Jenni Anttonen

9.2.2007

• Anssi Kainulainen: research plan for doctoral thesis “Ambient audio awareness support”.
  Opponents: Mirja Ilves and Tomi Heimonen.
• Yulia Gizatdinova: a progress report of her doctoral work.

2006

6.11.2006

• Jaakko Hakulinen gave a lectio praecursoria.

13.10.2006

• Jukka Raisamo presented his research plan for doctoral thesis called “Interaction Methods in Haptic Environments”.
  Opponents: Yulia Gizatdinova and Katri Salminen.

15.9.2006

• TAUCHI seminar opening by Veikko Surakka
• Toni Pakkanen presented his research plan for doctoral thesis called “Design and evaluation methods for immersive mobile mixed-reality applications”.
  Opponents: Jaakko Hakulinen and Jani Lylykangas.

2.6.2006

• Ekaterina Vasilyeva from the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä gave a presentation “Feedback Adaptation in Web-based Applications.”

12.5.2006

• Aulikki Hyrskykari gave a lectio praecursoria of her doctoral thesis “Eyes in Attentive Interfaces: Experiences from Creating iDict, a Gaze-Aware Reading Aid”.
  -Comments and general discussion.
• Tomi Heimonen presented a report from the CHI 2006 conference.

7.4.2006

• Toni Vanhala presented his research plan with the title “A Physiology-based Attentive System for Socio-Emotional Computing”.
  Opponents: Jenni Anttonen and Jukka Raisamo.
• Päivi Majaranta presented news from the ETRA conference.

10.3.2006

• Tomi Heimonen presented his research plan for doctoral thesis called “Facilitating Information Access on Mobile Devices”.
  Opponents Anssi Kainulainen and Ivan Tugoy.

13.1.2006

• Ivan Tugoy presented his research plan for doctoral thesis called “Developing a Framework for Semantically Augmented Information Management”.
  Opponents: Yulia Gizatdinova and Toni Vanhala.
• Erno Mäkinen gave a seminar report on Pattern Recognition in Human-Computer Interaction.

2005

11.11.2005

• Jaakko Hakulinen gave a doctoral thesis presentation with the title “Software tutors for spoken dialogue systems”.