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Spectral Mass

filettm1 — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:45:04 +0000

Spectral Mass is an EEGLAB Extension (formerly called plugin) used to compute the probability that two EEG datasets are similar in terms of both power (ERSP in EEGLAB terms) and coherence (ITC). It is open source (GPL), hence comments and additions to the code are welcome. The details of this method are discussed in an upcoming paper.

Download Version 0.1

This is the first release of the extension and has been used to test the effectiveness of the extension. This release has been tested only on one dataset and might contain various bugs. As will be discussed in the article, this extension calculates a single p-value, representing the combined probability of a difference in EEG activity between two conditions.

Development Versions

If you want to contribute or have access to the latest code you can visit our github repository: https://github.com/HIIT/spectralmass

Installing the plugin

The plugin can be installed by uncompressing its zip file in your eeglab13_x/plugins folder. A spectralmass0.1 folder should be created within, containing all extension files.

Step-by-step guide

Using the command "which eeglab" should show the folder in which eeglab is currently installed:

>> which eeglab
/Users/marco/Documents/MATLAB/eeglab13_2_2b/eeglab.m

This means that the plugins folder is located, in my case, it the "eeglab13_2_2b" folder. The zip file should then be uncompressed in:

/Users/marco/Documents/MATLAB/eeglab13_2_2b/plugins/

This is enough to allow eeglab to load the plugin on startup. The correct behaviour can be verified by looking the eeglab output on launch:

>> eeglab
[...] (other plugins being loaded)
EEGLAB: adding "spectralmass" v0.1 (see >> help eegplugin_spectralmass)

This indicates that the plugin was loaded correctly and is ready for use.

Using the plugin

This version of the extension requires two datasets to be loaded in memory. This can be done by loading existing eeglab datasets as follows:

It is also possible to load datasets in other formats. Spectral Mass requires our datasets to be already event-locked (number of epochs > 1) and already loaded in memory (they appear in the datasets menu). Instructions on how to segment data are provided in the EEGLAB tutorial.

The Spectral Mass plugin can be now started from the "Tools" menu.

This will load the main window. The settings depend on the lenght of your time locking window (this window size was chosen to match the event-locking in Countering Countermeasures: Detecting Identity Lies by Detecting Conscious Breakthrough). The upper and lower frequencies can also be adjusted, depending on your experimental setup (these settings were used to analyse RSVP data presented at a 100ms SOA, hence our upper frequency bound stops at 8 Hz).

Pressing "ok" will start the procedure. This will load show the time-frequency difference between the two conditions and start the randomisation process. This might take long, depending on the number of randomisation samples you chose in the previous step.

After the procedure is complete, you should see the calculated p-value in Matlab's output:

Spectral Mass p-value (difference between LIEN2F-S1_Probe-Long.set and LIEN2F-S1_Catch1-Long.set): 0.598
>>

In this case, no significant difference was found between the two datasets.

The Functional Area of the Thumb on Mobile Touchscreens

jebergst — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:55:48 +0000

Where the thumb can reach on a touchscreen surface? The benefit of this model is that you can estimate the thumb functional area quickly and without extensive user experiments.

The model predicts the functional area of the thumb on mobile touchscreens, and can inform

Designers of where to place the input elements
Evaluators of the grips that cover given screen positions
Adaptive interfaces of the thumb reach given current grip

The model takes 1) user hand size, 2) grip, and 3) device size as an input. Given statistics or other reference, or even an intuition as to these, the model provides the functional area of the thumb.

The paper to appear in CHI 2014, Toronto

http://www.hiit.fi/u/jebergst/CHI2014_Thumb_functional_area.pdf

Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, J., and Oulasvirta, A. Modeling the functional area of the thumb on mobile touchscreen surfaces. To appear in CHI '14, ACM (2014).

Background

A challenge unique to interaction with mobile touchscreens is that not all of the surface can be reached with the thumb of the hand that holds the device. If an interaction element is beyond the thumb’s immediate reach, the user must change grip in order to reach it. Frequent grip changes can be detrimental to mobile interaction, wherein users must also devote attention to their surroundings. We believe that reaching the interactive elements is important in any one-hand use, because the costs of changing the grip can be surprisingly high, particularly when the other hand would need to be recruited for the task when it is not available. Our model can aid in designing reachable interfaces within the functional area of the thumb.

Procedure and Calculation

The models takes information about the user’s hand size, grip, and device size. You can consult statistics or otherwise estimate the input parameters.

Overview or the protocol:

Obtain or estimate the finger span 's' (the distance between the extended index finger tip and thumb tip) of the target user group by measurement or by consulting anthropometric tables. In the paper the average female finger span was 184.25mm.
Obtain information about the grip, via estimation, direct measurement, or consulting of statistics:
1. Obtain the origin of the grip. This indicates the hand position on the side of the device (the red circle in the Figure above is placed 50mm from the bottom side of the device)
2. Obtain or estimate the hand orientation against the side of the device (α in the Figure above).
3. Measure or estimate the position of the extended index finger's tip on the back of the device (d in the Figure above is 80mm).
Insert parameters in the model (Equation below), rotate according hand orientation (blue line in the Figure above illustrates α = 90◦ and red line α = 110◦), and plot the model output appropriately for the device (Lumia 900 in the example Figure above).

The model for evaluating the functional area of the thumb:

f_y(x) = a_y(x+h)²+s−d(1+a_k)−b_k

(Note: The input parameters to this equation are s and d. You can use α and device dimensions to plot the output in relation to the device. The coefficients a_y, h, a_k, and b_k are provided in the paper and implemented to the tool below, but you can modify those if you have collected user data.)

We also provide a simple Matlab tool for plotting the functional area of the thumb:

Download Plot_Functioanl_Area.m and run in Matlab
Obtain and insert the abovementioned parameters of the user hand size, grip, and device
Click “calculate” to get the prediction given your input

Please note that the plotting tool doens't scale the size of the figure that it plots, so please see the axis to refer to the dimensions of your device. The tool still misses calculation of the grip coverage (see the paper), but we're working on it!

Links and contact

Email Joanna Bergstrom-Lehtovirta: joanna.bergstrom at hiit.fi

Ubiquitous Interaction group at HIIT

Antti Oulasvirta's homepage

HCI group at MPI

YouTube-tutkimus 2013

liikkane — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:06:19 +0000

Siirry tutkimukseen klikkaamaalla tästä

Antti Nurminen's Home Page

nurminen — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:13:23 +0000

Goals and Activities

My long term goal is to create digital 3D worlds with one-to-one mapping with the real world and provide advanced mobile interfaces to them. I have implemented this research with a series of projects from 2001 onward, having the first OpenGL ES based mobile 3D map already in 2003 and the first realistically textured 3D city map in 2004 running on mobile devices.

I'm currently the coordinator of the EU project CultAR and partnering in another EU funded projcet STREETLIFE.

My previous projects include technology for the Finnish Pavilion in Hannover 2000 Expo, which won the Best Pavilion in three consecutive public votings; showrooms for a local mobile operator Radiolinja (Elisa) and Nokia Networks in 2000-2002; 6 EU STREP projects in the last decade; two Academy of Finland projects (Ganzheit and 3DWIKI); some Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation projects such as Between; and various small industry projects.

I've been assistant on computer graphics and animation related courses in Helsinki University of Technology, and had two courses of my own on virtual environments. Currently I have no educational obligations and I tend to give occasional guest lectures on, for example, visualization of geographic information or arrange short summer school courses.

I was in the board of Intelligent Transport Systems and Services 2010-2013.

Research Interests

Mobile 3D Maps: from rendering realistic, static 3D maps to live 3D maps, where content is updated on the fly using optimized networking schemes.

Mixed Reality in general: merging Mobile 3D Maps with Augmented Reality. Also in combination with multimodal interaction with wearables.

UIx Research featured in Technology Review and Engadget!

hoggan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:07:48 +0000

Eve Hoggan, Craig Stewart, Laura Haverinen and Giulio Jacucci (alongside Vuokko Lantz from Nokia Research Center) have published their work on the augmentation of traditional phone calls with haptic interaction in UIST 2012. ForcePhone is a mobile synchronous haptic communication system. During phone calls, users can squeeze the side of the device and the pressure level is mapped to vibrations on the recipient’s device. The pressure/vibrotactile messages supported by ForcePhone are called pressages. The results showed that an additional haptic channel of communication can be integrated into mobile phone calls using a pressure to vibrotactile mapping with local and remote feedback. The longitudinal study showed that such a system has value as a communication channel in real-world settings with users expressing greetings, presence and emotions through pressages.

Engadget article

Technology Review

The paper can be downloaded here

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Research by HIIT featured in Technology Review and Engadget!

hoggan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:05:07 +0000

Researchers at HIIT (Eve Hoggan, Craig Stewart, Laura Haverinen, Giulio Jacucci) and Nokia Research Center have published their paper entitled 'Pressages: Augmenting Phone Calls with Non-Verbal Messages' in UIST 2012.

ForcePhone is a mobile synchronous haptic communication system. During phone calls, users can squeeze the side of the device and the pressure level is mapped to vibrations on the recipient’s device. The pressure/vibrotactile messages supported by ForcePhone are called pressages. The results showed that an additional haptic channel of communication can be integrated into mobile phone calls using a pressure to vibrotactile mapping with local and remote feedback. The longitudinal study showed that such a system has value as a communication channel in real-world settings with users expressing greetings, presence and emotions through pressages.

Engadget article

Technology Review

The paper can be downloaded here

TENURE TRACK OR TENURED POSITION IN INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

peltola3 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:49:58 +0000

Aalto University School of Science invites applications for

TENURE TRACK OR TENURED POSITION IN INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

The position is located at the University's Department of Information and Computer Science (http://ics.aalto.fi/), and is open to outstanding individuals who hold a doctorate and have excellent potential for a successful scientific career. Candidates in the areas of algorithms, logic and complexity are especially welcome.

Detailed information about the position, as well as the application process and its requirements, is provided at http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/jobs/professors/professor_information_and_computer_science/ and http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/tenuretrack2013/. The closing date of the call is October 15, 2012.

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Aalto University (http://www.aalto.fi/en/) is a new university created in 2010 from the merger of the Helsinki University of Technology TKK, Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. The University’s cornerstones are its strengths in education and research, with 20,000 basic degree and graduate students, and a staff of 5 000 of whom 350 are professors.

Deadline:

Monday, October 15, 2012

Employing university:

Aalto University

Jobs:

Job openings

Positions for Postdoc/Master's students in MOBILE MIXED REALITY

nurminen — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:04:46 +0000

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT is looking for postdocs or Master's students in mobile mixed reality. HIIT is developing mobile platforms for advanced visual navigation and browsing tools, incorporating augmented reality and 3D maps.

Multiple positions are open for:

C/C++ programmers for mobile mixed reality applications
Cognitive scientists or usability researchers/students
Signal analysts for spatial sensing

1. Suitable background experience includes computer graphics, computer vision, Linux and Android. Interest in human-computer interactions, augmented reality and virtual environments is a plus. Participation in demo scene or similar activity is highly appreciated.

2. Work would involve field and laboratory experiments. Suitable background includes human-computer interaction design, cognitive sciences and experience from usability studies.

3. Work would involve GPS+inertia sensors/accelometers/magnetometers, programming functionalities, filtering and analyzing data. Suitable background in signal processing, pattern recognition, Matlab.

The work is carried partially within Academy of Finland funded projects 3DWIKI and Ganzheit, but is also supported by EIT ICT Labs Smart Spaces and Digital Cities programs, involving collaboration between European partners in Berlin and Saarbrucken.

The work would primarily be conducted in HIIT (http://www.hiit.fi) with possible division of work with DFKI Saarbrucken/Berlin and Max Planck Institute Saarbrucken.

Please send your application to Dr. Antti Nurminen: antti.nurminen@hiit.fi

The work would start as soon as possible (June 2012), extending potentially to the end of 2012 (stard and end terms can be negotiated). For full consideration, include your CV, example papers/writings, transcript of study records, and a brief letter of interest.

Supervisor's homepages:

Dr. Antti Oulasvirta: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~oantti/
Prof. Giulio Jacucci: http://www.hiit.fi/~gjacucci/

Deadline:

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Employing university:

Aalto University

Jobs:

Job openings

Music Interaction panel at CHI 2012

liikkane — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:19:26 +0000

Follow and comment in real-time: screen.io/chi2012

Panel at ACM SIGCHI 2012 conference:
Music Interaction Research - Let's Get the Band Back Together

Tuesday, May 08, 2012. 09:30-10:50 @ Ball room F

Austin convention center, Austin, Texas.

Audience interactivity

Comment and follow the presentation in real-time from Screen.io : http://screen.io/CHI2012

Join and contribute to music interaction research group in Mendeley:
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1120911/music-interaction-research/

Basics

Theme:
This panel discusses music interaction as a part of digital media research. We consider why music interaction research has become marginal in HCI and how to revive it

Convener:
Lassi A Liikkanen, HIIT, Aalto University, Finland

Panelists:
Christopher Amos, Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, New York, USA
Ed Chi, Google, CA, USA
Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand
J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
David McDonald, University of Washington, WA, USA

Panel position paper PDF

Abstract of ACM DL paper:

The ubiquity of music consumption is overarching. Statistics for digital music sales, streaming video videos, computer games, and illegal sharing all speak of a huge interest in the content. At the same, an incredible amount of data about every day interactions, sales and use, with music is accumulating through new digital services. However, there is an amazing lack of public knowledge about everyday music interaction. This panel discusses the state of music interaction as a part of digital media research. We consider why music interaction research has become so marginal in HCI and discuss how to revive it. Our two discussion themes are: orientation towards design vs. research in music related R&D, and the question if and how private, big data on music interactions could enlighten our understanding of ubiquitous media culture.

Supported by

Project funded by Academy of Finland

Suvi Uski (nee Silfverberg)

stsilfve — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:44:24 +0000

University of Helsinki is the place to find me from Aug 2014

onwards! Thank you HIIT for the last five years.

Telephone: +358 45 634 2709

Email: firstname.lastname(at)gmail.com

Researcher in the Social Interaction and Emotion / Ubiquitous Interaction research group of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.

Post-graduate student at the Department of Social Research (Social Psychology), University of Helsinki and doctoral student at UCIT (Doctoral Program of User-centered information Technology hosted by University of Tampere).

The key area of my expertise is the psychology of online profiles, based on the psychology of self and identity. Self-presentation and impression management together with social norms are the central concepts of my current understanding of online profiles.

My research focuses on automated sharing of behavioral information in social network services. With automated sharing of behavior information the behavior that used to be private is now made visible to others. What kind of psychological and social psychological consequences these technologies induce? Music listening (Last.fm and Spotify), whereabouts (Foursquare and Facebook) and different kinds of social readers are examples of automated sharing of behavior information in social network sercives.

Tutkin sosiaalista mediaa ja sosiaalisen median psykologisia ja sosiaalipsykologisia vaikutuksia. Erityisesti oman käyttäytymistiedon julkaiseminen sosiaalisen median yhteisöpalveluissa ja julkaisemiseen liittyvät psykologiset seuraukset ovat väitöskirjatyöni keskiössä. Palvelut kuten Facebook, Last.fm, Foursquare ja Social Spotify julkaisevat käyttäjiensä käyttäytymistietoja toisille käyttäjille.

Keywords: online profiles, profile work, social network services, social media, social psychology, privacy, behavior, automated sharing, authenticity

Check out my latest article!

Uski, S. and Lampinen, A. (2014). Social norms and self-presentation on social network sites: Profile work in action. New Media & Society, July 17.

Earlier publications:

Vihavainen, S., Lampinen, A., Oulasvirta, A,. Silfverberg, S., Lehmuskallio, A. (2014). The clash of privacy and automation in social media. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 13(1): 56-63.

Tamminen, S., Raita, E., Lehtinen, V., Silfverberg, S. & Ravaja, N. (2012). Teknologian sosiaalipsykologinen tutkimus. Psykologia, 47(5-6): 410-422.

Tukkinen, P., Pohja, M., Segerståhl, K., Silfverberg, S., and Vuorimaa, P. (2012).”Supporting News Reading and Discovery Through Directed Onsite Information Sharing”. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), pp. 367-373.

Silfverbeg, S., Liikkanen., A.L. & Lampinen, A. (2011) “I’ll press play, but I won’t listen”: profile work in a music-focused social network service. CSCW ’11 Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, March 19-23 Hangzhou, China.

Tuukka Ruotsalo

ruotsalo — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:09:44 +0000

About

I'm a post-doc conducting research in the HIIT wide focus area proejct and focused in interactive information retrieval of scientific literature. I'm member of the Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group. Previously I have worked at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, Aalto University, Finland, and Free University of Amsterdam, The N. I hold a Dr.Sc. in Media Technology from Aalto University, Finland.

Research Interests

Interactive Information Retrieval
Human-computer interaction
Search User interfaces
Semantics and Semantic Web

Selected Publications

For a good approximation of all my publications, see my Google Scholar Profile

Keikkatutkimus 2011

liikkane — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:30:42 +0000

Tutkimus keikkakokemuksista - vastaa 26.9.2011 mennessä!

Huomio festarien ja stadion- ja klubikeikkojen kävijät!
Jos kameran tai puhelimen muistiin on viime kesänä tallentunut kuvia bändeistä,
kerro kuvaamisesta meille! Emme etsi ammattikuvaajia, vaan tavallisia ihmisiä,
jotka ovat sattuneet painamaan nappulaa artistin kohdalla.

Vastaamalla voit osallistua Full Steam Records:n tuotepalkintojen arvontaan.

Vastaa täällä: (https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/29566/lomake.html)

Tämä tutkimus on osa Musiquitous-tutkimusprojektia

Vastaava tutkija: Lassi A Liikkanen

27.9.2011 arvonnassa voittivat:
antti.tahvanainen
petri.haapasaari
henri.turunen

HIIT Week around the Bay

lampinen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:16:49 +0000

WEDNESDAY May 4

10 HIIT meet up at Caffe Strada

11 Meeting with Jenna Burrell at the ISchool

(alternatively 11:30 BID Weekly Lunch (CHI 2011 talk rehearsals by BID presenters))

14-16 BID-HIIT Workshop on Participation and Collaboration Online and Offline at Hearst Memorial Mining Building

BID presentations (30 min)
HIIT presentations (30 min)
- HIIT & EIT: Martti Mäntylä, Marko Turpeinen & Olli Pitkänen
- Sizzle
  - Vilma Lehtinen: Interpersonal Disclosure Management in Social Network Services
  - Airi Lampinen: Participation in Social Exhange in a Local Community
- Virtual Economy
  - Juho Hamari: Loss Aversion in Social Games
  - Kai Huotari: TwitterTV
Discussion (60 min)

16-17 Joint Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Series: Research at the Walt Disney Company, 306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium)

THURSDAY May 5

15-17 CalSizzle Workshop with ISchoolers at South Hall 107

Opening words: Anno Saxenian, dean of ISchool
Sizzle & EIT: Martti Mäntylä & Marko Turpeinen & Olli Pitkänen
CalSizzle
- Kai Huotari & Airi Lampinen: Overview of CalSizzle & Kassi
- Kadie Kelly: Oakland Single Parents' Network's Perspective to CalSizzle
- Coye Cheshire: Research Perspective to CalSizzle
- Jen King: 3rd party application privacy in Facebook
Short updates from other continents
- Juho Hamari: AaltoSizzle - research on Kassi badges
- Vilma Lehtinen: NairobiSizzle - user research collaboration in Kenya
Discussion of next steps and collaborations

FRIDAY May 6

For the STS oriented: 9am-6pm The Reinvention of Time: Articulations of the Past and Future in the Scientific Present, Stephens Lounge, MLK Student Union

HIIT Week around the Bay

lampinen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:16:23 +0000

MONDAY May 2

TBA

TUESDAY May 3

TBA

WEDNESDAY May 4

11:30 BID Weekly Lunch & BID CHI 2011 talk rehearsals

BID Workshop with Bjoern Hartmann and others in the afternoon, exact time and program TBA

THURSDAY May 5

15-17 CalSizzle Workshop with ISchoolers at South Hall 107, program details TBA

HIIT Week around the Bay

lampinen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:16:07 +0000

MONDAY May 2

TBA

TUESDAY May 3

TBA

WEDNESDAY May 4

11:30 BID Weekly Lunch & BID CHI 2011 talk rehearsals

BID Workshop with Bjoern Hartmann and others in the afternoon, exact time and program TBA

THURSDAY May 5

15-17 CalSizzle Workshop with ISchoolers at South Hall 107, program details TBA

Study: Music Choices Change When They are Published

lampinen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:02:48 +0000

Giving out information on your music consumption publicly can change it.

A study finds that people are willing to put a lot of effort into maintaining a desirable public image of their music consumption. When information about music listening is published automatically, youth and young adults retain a notion of truth in presenting themselves: they rather change the music they listen to than "cheat" digitally.

Suvi Silfverberg, Lassi A. Liikkanen and Airi Lampinen from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT studied the experience of maintaining a profile in the online music service Last.fm. Twelve Finnish youth and young adults where interviewed on their use of this music-focused social network service and its extension, called "the scrobbler", that publishes information of music listened to by service users.

The researchers found that people make active efforts to control the image their online profile gives of them, especially when their music listening is published automatically. While automated sharing of behavior information provides new opportunities for online music services, it also affects the people listening to music:

"When an online service publishes behavioral information automatically, it is important to give users a chance to express and explain the meanings of their actions. Listening to a song doesn't necessarily mean that one likes it - or wants to be known as the kind of person who does", says Liikkanen.

The study was published in the internationally renowned 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in March in Hangzhou, China. The presented research was conducted as part of the Academy of Finland funded research project Musiquitous (http://musiq.fi). HIIT is a joint institute of Aalto University and University of Helsinki and is located in the capital region of Finland.

The publication is available at http://www.musiq.fi/publications

CHI2011 workshop ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design

lampinen — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:14:19 +0000

CHI2011 workshop ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design

UIx will co-organize a workshop at upcoming CHI2011 conference: "Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design on Saturday, May 7, 2011, in Vancouver, BC, Canada

As our lives are more commonly mediated by information technology, an interactional perspective to how people find and construct privacy in socio-technical interactions has proven effective as a starting point for theoretical and empirical studies of privacy in everyday life in which online interactions have a significant role.

Yet, there remain important open questions regarding how to translate results based on this perspective into design practice. Addressing these questions requires a greater sensitivity to when interactional privacy is applicable, a better understanding of suitable research methods, and more effective means for communicating results to the researcher and practitioner communities. The goal of this workshop is to bring privacy theory and design together.

We seek participants from various domains for a multidisciplinary workshop to share their knowledge and views of both the theory and design of interactional privacy.

We invite 2-4 page submissions in ACM Ext. Abstracts format by January 26, 2011. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

(1) Theoretical and empirical study of interactional privacy.

(2) Ways of designing for interactional privacy.

More information available at http://networkedprivacy.wordpress.com

CHI2011 workshop on Appropriation and Creative Use

asalovaa — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:36:36 +0000

UIx will co-organize a workshop at upcoming CHI2011 conference: "Appropriation and Creative Use: Linking User Studies with Design":

Sunday 8 May 2011, Vancouver, Canada

End users of technology have a significant power in determining how technologies are used, adapted and re-purposed. Over the years, two communities – designers and user researchers – have been working on these topics but have had limited interaction with each other. This workshop provides a forum for the two to meet.

We invite 2-4 page submissions in ACM Ext. Abstracts format by 14 January 2011. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* user research methods that are suitable for gaining understanding about
    different forms of appropriation
* theories and conceptualizations of how appropriations take place, how
    different factors play part in them, and how they can be affected by design choices
* design principles that support appropriation
* approaches that link theories and concepts with design
* critical viewpoints on the prevailing appropriation-related design and
    research practice

More information available at www.hiit.fi/u/asalovaa/chi2011-appropriation

LUTUS 2010-2012

liikkane — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:44:02 +0000

Luovat käytännöt tuotesuunnittelussa - LUTUS
Creative practices in product design

Brief in English
Design work depends on constant flow of creativity. The management of design and innovation and different systematic methods and ideation tools have gained a lot of research attention, but the everyday practices of design work have received much less attention. Recent studies have critiqued the descriptions of e.g. ideation methods, showing that they are typically either disregarded or used in a manner different from their theoretical depictions. The lack of understanding of real-life practices helps sustain suboptimal working approaches, attitudes, and routines. In the LUTUS project, we aim to understand the everyday creative work practices of designers through interviews, field studies and action research. The goal is to advance the understanding of real-life design work, help companies develop their design practices, and advance the education of designers. Research funding is provided by the Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation.

This research is conducted at Aalto University, both Aalto Design Factory and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.

In September 2012, we organized Aalto Studying and Improving Design Practice Symposium 2012

LUTUS-projektissa sovelletaan kognitiivisen suunnittelututkimuksen tutkimusmenetelmiä ammattilaissuunnittelijoiden luovien käytäntöjen tutkimukseen. Taustalla on uusi kolmijakoinen malli suunnittelutyön rakenteesta tutkimuksen, neuvottelun ja rakentamisen kautta. Tämän projektin puitteissa on tarkoitus keskittyä siihen, mitä suunnittelijat todella tekevät, millaisia käytäntöjä he noudattavat ja mitä psykologisia vaikutuksia niillä on. Tämä sen sijaan että ainoastaan arvioitaisiin tiettyjä menetelmiä (kokeellinen tutkimus) tai niiden sääntöjen mukaista noudattamista (sertifiointi), sillä viimeaikaisissa tutkimuksissa on noussut esille selviä ristiriitoja sen välillä miten yrityksissä todella suunnitellaan ja mitä tästä toiminnasta ulkopuolelle viestitään.

Projekti on kiitollinen Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotisjuhlasäätiön rahoitukselle.

Lutus team on a retreat in July 2012

Toteuttajat

Tietotekniikan tutkimuslaitos HIIT ja Aalto Design Factory Aalto-yliopistossa

Lopputyöntekijät
Iris Summanen
Anni Leisti
Jan Nikander

Nousevat tähdet (juniorit)
Miko Laakso, DI

Vilttiketju (senioritutkijat)
Lassi A Liikkanen, TkT
Matti M. Hämäläinen, DI

Alumni
Mikko "K" Koskinen, DI

Projektin tausta

Suomen tulevaisuuden näkymissä tietotyötä tekeviin aloihin kohdistuu suuria odotuksia. Näillä aloilla on huomattavaa potentiaalia uusiin innovaatioihin, tuotteiden ja palveluiden muodossa. Eräs vahva kotimainen alue on tuotesuunnittelu (design) ja tuotekehitys. Viimeaikaisia trendejä tuotekehityksen alalla ovat olleet mm. käyttäjäkeskeinen suunnittelu, käyttäjäkokemus sekä käyttäjäinnovaatiot, joiden odotetaan johtavan entistä paremmin käyttäjän tarpeisiin vastaavien ratkaisuiden kehittämiseen. Odotukset ja niihin perustuvat tavoitteet ovat kuitenkin varsin hataralla pohjalla, jos alan käytäntöjä ei jatkuvasti kehitetä. Yksi keskeisimmistä luovan tietotyön ammattiryhmistä ovat suunnittelijat, joiden päivittäinen toiminta vaikuttaa innovaatiotalouden ylläpitoon. Suomalaisilla yliopistoilla on merkittävä rooli tämän toimialan kilpailukyvyn ylläpitämisessä sekä koulutus että tutkimustehtävien kautta. Suunnittelutapojen ja toiminnan kannalta on keskeistä miten uudet ja vanhat tuotesuunnittelumenetelmät integroituvat suunnittelukäytännöiksi ja edistävät suunnitteluprosessin luovuutta.

Julkaisut | Publications

Nikander, Liikkanen and Laakso (2013) Naturally Emerging Decision Criteria in Product Concept Evaluation. To appear in Proc of ICED'13. Seoul, Korea. 19-22 August.

Leisti-Szymczak A., Liikkanen L., Laakso M. and Summanen I. (2013) Let me do my job - Designers' experiences of collaborating with a client. Proc. of Co-Create 2013. Espoo, Finland. 16-19 June. Pp. 445-456. [Full text PDF]

Summanen I., Liikkanen L., Laakso M. and Leisti-Szymczak A. (2013) Co-developing a new technology for product concept testing with remote users. Proc. of Co-Create 2013. Espoo, Finland. 16-19 June. Pp. 685-696. [Full text PDF]

Laakso M. & Liikkanen L. (2012) Dubious Role of Formal Creativity Techniques in Professional Design. To appear in Proc. of ICDC2012 Full text PDF

Liikkanen L. & Laakso M. (2012) Concept Design as Knowledge Construction - the Case of User-Centered Design. To appear in the Proc. of 12th International Design Conference DESIGN 2012. May 21-24, Dubrovnik, Croatia Full text PDF

Liikkanen L (2012) Design and Innovation in Shanghai. Electronic publication by the author:
http://iki.fi/lassial/articles/design/Designed_in_China

Liikkanen L., Laakso M., Björklund T. (2011) Foundations for Studying Creative design practices. Proc. of DESIRE'11 [Full text PDF]

Laakso, M. & Hassi, L. (2011) Design thinking in the management discourse: Defining the elements of the concept. 18th International Product Development Management Conference, IPDMC.

Björklund, T.A. & Laakso, M. (2011). Idea advancement in new product development – a grassroot perspective. 18th International Product Development Management Conference.

Hassi, L. & Laakso, M. (2011). Making sense of design thinking. In Karjalainen, T-M., Koria, M. & Salimäki, M. (eds.): IDBM papers vol 1 (pp. 50-63). Helsinki: IDBM Program, Aalto University. ISBN 978-952-92-8641-6. PDF here

Hassi, L. & Laakso, M. (2011). Conceptions of design thinking in the management discourse. The 9th International European Academy of Design Conference.

Hassi, L. & Laakso, M. (2011) Conceptions of design thinking in the design and management discourses – Open questions and possible directions for research. 4th World Conference on Design Research, IASDR2011.

28.9. Study: People hesitate to ask help from their community

oulasvir — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:29:42 +0000

People Hesitate to Ask for Help from Their Community, According to New Research

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20100927onlinecommunityresearch

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Spectral Mass

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Installing the plugin

Step-by-step guide

Using the plugin

The Functional Area of the Thumb on Mobile Touchscreens

The paper to appear in CHI 2014, Toronto

Background

Procedure and Calculation

Links and contact

YouTube-tutkimus 2013

Siirry tutkimukseen klikkaamaalla tästä

Antti Nurminen's Home Page

Goals and Activities

Research Interests

UIx Research featured in Technology Review and Engadget!

Research by HIIT featured in Technology Review and Engadget!

TENURE TRACK OR TENURED POSITION IN INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Positions for Postdoc/Master's students in MOBILE MIXED REALITY

Music Interaction panel at CHI 2012

Follow and comment in real-time: screen.io/chi2012

Panel at ACM SIGCHI 2012 conference: Music Interaction Research - Let's Get the Band Back Together

Audience interactivity

Basics

Panel position paper PDF

Abstract of ACM DL paper:

Supported by

Suvi Uski (nee Silfverberg)

Tuukka Ruotsalo

About

Research Interests

Selected Publications

Keikkatutkimus 2011

Tutkimus keikkakokemuksista - vastaa 26.9.2011 mennessä!

HIIT Week around the Bay

HIIT Week around the Bay

HIIT Week around the Bay

Study: Music Choices Change When They are Published

CHI2011 workshop ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design

CHI2011 workshop ”Privacy for a Networked World”: Bridging Theory and Design

CHI2011 workshop on Appropriation and Creative Use

LUTUS 2010-2012

Luovat käytännöt tuotesuunnittelussa - LUTUS Creative practices in product design

Toteuttajat

Julkaisut | Publications

28.9. Study: People hesitate to ask help from their community

People Hesitate to Ask for Help from Their Community, According to New Research

Panel at ACM SIGCHI 2012 conference:
Music Interaction Research - Let's Get the Band Back Together

Luovat käytännöt tuotesuunnittelussa - LUTUS
Creative practices in product design