Timo Partala

 

 Assistant professor

 Human-Centered Technology

 Tampere University of Technology

 

 Postal address:

 P.O.Box 589, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland

 

 Visiting address:

 Korkeakoulunkatu 6, Tampere, Konetalo building, 1st floor, room K733

 

 Phone (work): +358-40-849-0855

 Phone (home): +358-50-594-5194

 

 E-mail:

maili

 

 Research interests:

 

 User experience, location-aware systems and navigation, research methods, interaction techniques.

 

 Current teaching (2011-12):

 

 

Education:

 

 2005 Ph.D. in Interactive Technology, University of Tampere

 

Affiliations:

 

2008- Tampere University of Technology

2008 HIIT

2005-2007 University of Oulu, Oulu Southern Institute

1997-2005 University of Tampere

 

 Publications:

 

 International Journals

 

1.        Partala, T., and Surakka, V. Pupil Size Variation as an Indication of Affective Processing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 59, 2003, 185-198. download

 

2.        Partala, T. and Surakka, V. The Effects of Affective Interventions in Human-Computer Interaction. Interacting with Computers, 16, 2004, 295-309. download

 

3.        Partala, T., Surakka, V., and Vanhala, T. Real-time Estimation of Emotional Experiences from Facial Expressions. Interacting with computers, 18 (2), 2006, 208-226. download

 

4.        Partala, T. and Lehtimäki, T. Evaluating Information Network Utilization and Electronic Communication in Enterprises. International Journal on WWW/Internet, 5 (2), 2007, 12-25. download

 

5.        Partala, T. and Kangaskorte, R. The Combined Walkthrough: Measuring Behavioral, Affective, and Cognitive Information in Usability Testing. Journal of Usability Studies, 5 (1), 2009, 21-33. download

 

6.        Sääskilahti, K., Sippola, O., Luimula, M., Yli-Hemminki, J., and Partala, T. Location-aware Communication Techniques in Parallel Learning between the Classroom and the Field. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 20 (1), 2010, 21 – 39. download

 

7.        Luimula, M., Sääskilahti, K., Partala, T., Pieskä, S., and Alaspää, J. Remote Navigation of a Mobile Robot in a RFID-augmented Environment. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 14 (2), 2010, 125 –136. download

 

8.        Partala, T. Psychological needs and virtual worlds: Case Second Life. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69 (12), 2011, 787-800. download

 

9.        Partala, T. and Kallinen, A. Understanding the most satisfying and unsatisfying user experiences: emotions, psychological needs, and context. Interacting with Computers. download

 

 

 International Conference Proceedings

 

10.     Partala, T. Controlling a Single 3D Object: Viewpoint Metaphors, Speed and Subjective Satisfaction. Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of INTERACT'99, Edinburgh, UK, IOS Press, September 1999, 486-493.

 

11.     Partala, T., Jokiniemi, M., and Surakka, V. Pupillary Responses to Emotionally Provocative Stimuli. In Proceedings of ETRA 2000, Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Symposium 2000, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, November 2000, 123-129.

 

12.     Partala, T., Aula, A., and Surakka, V. Combined Voluntary Gaze Direction and Facial Muscle Activity as a New Pointing Technique. In proceedings of INTERACT 2001, Tokyo, Japan, IOS Press, July 2001, 100-107.

 

13.     Laakso, J., Juhola, M., Surakka, V., Aula, A. & Partala, T. (2001). Detection of Electromyographic Events with Neural Networks. In V. Patel et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of MEDINFO 2001, London, UK, August 2001, IOS Press, 489-492.

 

14.     Partala, T. The Combined Walkthrough: Combining Cognitive, Behavioral, and Cognitive Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. In H. Luczak, A. E. Cakir, and G. Cakir (Eds.) Proceedings of WWDU 2002, Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 2002, 458-460.

 

15.     Partala, T. CII: A Taxonomic Model of Innovations in Human-Computer Interaction. In J. Jacko and C. Stephanidis (Eds.) Human-Computer Interaction: Theory and Practice (Part I). Proceedings of HCI International 2003, Crete, Greece, June 2003. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 376-380.

 

16.     Partala, T., Surakka, V., and Lahti, J. Affective Effects of Agent Proximity in Conversational Systems. In Proceedings of NordiCHI 2004, Tampere, Finland, October 2004, ACM Press, 353-356.

 

17.     Partala, T., Surakka, V. and Vanhala, T. Person-Independent Estimation of Emotional Experiences from Facial Expressions. In Proceedings of IUI 2005, San Diego, CA, January 2005, ACM Press, 246-248.

 

18.     Partala, T., Luimula, M., and Saukko, O. 2006. Automatic rotation and zooming in mobile roadmaps. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI'06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 255-258.

 

19.     Luimula, M., Partala, T., Sääskilahti, K, and Saukko, O. 2007. Techniques for Location Selection on a Mobile Device. In Proceedings of  EATIS 2007, Euro-American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems, Faro, Portugal, May 2007.

 

20.     Taari, T. and Partala, T. 2007. Factors affecting the introduction of e-services in small towns. In Proceedings of WWCS 2007, Work With Computing Systems 2007, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2007.

 

21.     Haapala, O., Sääskilahti, K., Luimula, M., Yli-Hemminki, J., and Partala, T. 2007. Parallel Learning between the Classroom and the Field using Location-based Communication Techniques. In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2007, Vancouver, BC, June 2007, 668-675.

 

22.     Partala, T. and Lehtimäki, T. Determining the e-level of an enterprise using the seven factors model. In Proceedings of e-Society 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2007, 122-128.

 

23.     Luimula, M., Sääskilahti, K., Partala, T., and Saukko, O. 2007. A Field Comparison of Techniques for Location Selection on a Mobile Device. In Proceedings of Wireless Computing and Applications 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2007, 162-167.

 

24.     Luimula, M., Sääskilahti, K., Partala, T., Pieskä, S., Alaspää, J., Lof, A. 2007. Improving the Remote Control of a Mobile Robot Using Positioning and Ubiquitous Techniques. In Proceedings of CASE 2007, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Scottsdale, AZ, September 2007, 1027 – 1033.

 

25.     Lehtimäki, T., Partala, T., Luimula, M., and Verronen, P. 2008. LocaweRoute: an advanced route history visualization for mobile devices. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual interfaces, AVI '08, Naples, Italy, May 2008, 392-395.

 

26.     Partala, T., Flink, T., Luimula, M., and Saukko, O. Speed-dependent camera control in 3D mobile roadmaps. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing, IMC 2009, Rostock-Warnemϋnde, Germany, November 2009, 143-154. view

 

27.     Partala, T., Nurminen, A., Vainio, T., Laaksonen, J., Laine, M., and Väänänen, J. Salience of visual cues in 3D city maps. In Proceedings of HCI 2010, Dundee, UK, 2010.

 

 International workshops

 

28.     Isokoski, P., Surakka, V., Juhola, M., Laakso, J., Partala, T, Aula, A., and Illi, M. Affective Computing – Are we there yet? In CHI 2002, Workshop on Physiological Computing, Minneapolis, MI, April 2002.

 

29.     Nurminen, J. K., Karonen, O., Farkas, L. and Partala, T. Sharing the Experience with Mobile Video. IEEE CCNC’09, Workshop on Social TV, Las Vegas, NE, January 2009.

 

 Monographs

 

30.     Partala, T. Inhimilliset tekijät ohjelmoinnissa. Master’s thesis in Finnish. University of Tampere, Department of Computer Science, 1997. 114 pages.

 

31.     Partala, T. Affective information in human-computer interaction. Doctoral dissertation. Dissertations in interactive technology, 1, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Tampere, 2005. 158 pages. download (introduction)

 

32.     Partala, T. Affective information in human-computer interaction (short edition). Saarbrϋcken: VDM Verlag, 2009. 92 pages.

 

Reviewing:

 

Journals: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (2006-7), Psychophysiology (2006, 2008-9), PsychNology (2008), CyberPsychology and Behavior (2009), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (2010-), International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (2010), Journal of Usability Studies (2010), IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2010), Interacting with Computers (2010-).

 

Conferences: CHI 2003-, MobileHCI 2008-, ETRA 2002-4, NordiCHI 2004, IHCI 2007-8, INTERACT 2009.