Mini CV

I am a HCI Researcher with a Computer Science background. I received my M.Sc. degree from the University of Tampere in late 1999 and my Ph.D. in May 2004.

After graduation I have served as an "Assistant Professor" (Yliassistentti) in Interactive Techonology at the Department of Computer Sciences until the end of 2006. During the academic year of 2005-2006 I was on leave from the Assistant Professor position because I received a post-doc position in Metz, France. I returned to my work in Tampere in September 2006. From the beginning of 2007 I was the coordinator of the UCIT graduate school until the end of 2010. My title changed from Coordinator to Director of Education in August 2009. In 2010 I was awarded the title of Docent. In 2011-2013 I served as the professor responsible for the Interactive Technology major at the School of Information Sciences. In 2014 I was a Visiting Professor at the HCI lab at KAIST in Daejeon in South Korea. Upon return to Finland in early 2015 I continued the research on tools and techniques for studying differences in picture viewing that I started in Korea. In the recent years I have also worked on scent technology, virtual reality, and dog technology.

Over the years my research activity has been distributed between the the Multimodal Interaction Group (MMIG), the Research Group for Emotions, Sociality, and Computing (ESC), and the Visual Interaction Research Group (VIRG) at TAUCHI. From June 2011 to fall 2020 I was the head of the VIRG research group.

The theme of my thesis work was text input. I am still interested in the topic and will continue to work in that area as much as possible. However, the themes of the Visual Interaction Group, Information Visualization, and many other topics receive more of my attention.

Past teaching

• 2013 Master's Thesis Seminar in Interactive Technology
• 2013 Research Methods in HTI
• 2013 Book Exam in Interactive Technology (the text entry book)
• 2013 Experimental research in Interactive Technology
• 2012 Research Methods in HCI
• 2012 Thesis seminar in Interactive Technology
• 2012 Interaction Techniques
• 2012 Thesis Course (in Finnish)
• 2012 Current Research Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
• 2011 New Interaction Techniques
• 2011 Introduction to Experimental Research in Interactive Technology
• 2011 Current Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
• 2010 Introduction to Experimental Research in Interactive Technology
• 2009 New Interaction Techniques
• 2009 Introduction to Experimental Research in Interactive Technology
• 2007 Seminar on Postmortem Examinations of Theses in Interactive Technology
• 2006 Seminar in Interactive technology (in Finnish)
• 2005 HCI Readings Seminar
• 2004 Research Project in Human Computer Interaction
• 2004 Principles of Object Oriented Programming Languages (in Finnish, exercises)
• 2004 HCI Readings Seminar
• 2004 Performance Analysis of Computer Systems (in Finnish, exercises)
• 2002 Principles of Object Oriented Programming Languages (in Finnish, exercises)
• 2002 Agent Programming (in Finnish, exercises and projects)