Researcher (M.Sc.), project manager, and PhD candidate at
Unit of Human-Centered Technology (IHTE)
Department of Software Systems
Tampere University of Technology
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Twitter (well, not that actively)
I have worked in TUT/IHTE since 2006, with varying duties and responsibilities: mostly doing my doctoral research on Mobile Augmented Reality, project
management, teaching and related "academic activities"
Currently I'm:
DOING RESEARCH:
- Internal project manager and researcher in DIEM -project (one of the Finnish Tekes/TIVIT ICT Shok projects). Our team focuses on studying user experience in mobile mixed reality and interoperable smart environments. Project runs 10/2008-12/2011.
- Setting up new projects...
TEACHING:
- Responsible of the Käyttäjäkeskeisen suunnittelun työkurssi (Project course on user-centered design, applying Contextual Design in R&D projects).
- Responsible of the Käytettävyys ohjelmistoprojektissa (project course on applying user-centered design in software projects.
- Teaching and supervising Demola-groups as part of the TST-1206 course.
- Course coordinator of IHTE's post-grad seminar on Experience-Driven Design
STUDYING: Doing my doctoral thesis research on User Experience in Mobile Augmented Reality: at the moment, writing the introductory part of the thesis.
My research interests vary from content interaction and ubiquitous computing to sociological themes:
- Mixed & augmented reality: especially regarding user experience, users' expectations of consumer-level mobile AR services
- Context awareness, Location-based services
- Collective content & digital life memories
- Novel interaction techniques & multimodal interaction
- Leveraging and facilitating new human and social behavior with the help of technology