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HIIT researchers Antti Oulasvirta and Joanna Bergström-Lehtovirta have received the Best Paper Award in the CHI 2011 conference for their paper "Ease of Juggling: Studying the Effects of Manual Multitasking" [http://www.hiit.fi/u/oulasvir/scipubs/chi2011-manualmultitasking.pdf].

This is the first CHI Best Paper Award to a Finnish organization.

Ladatessaan verkkoon digivalokuviaan käyttäjä kohtaa kaksi keskeistä riskiä: Kuvat ja niihin liittyvät tiedot voivat kadota käyttäjältä ikuisiksi ajoiksi palveluntarjoajan toiminnan loppuessa. Toisaalta käyttäjän voi olla vaikea poistaa kuvia, kun ne on kerran verkossa julkaistu. Juuri ilmestyneessä kirjassaan "From snapshots to social media: the changing picture of domestic photography" (Valokuvauksesta sosiaaliseen mediaan: kotivalokuvaus muutoksessa) Risto Sarvas ja David M.

The deadline for summer job applications was Feb 27. The applicants will be contacted later for more details.

15 Dec 2010 - A new method retrieves information to data glasses about people and objects a person is looking at. Equipment including an eye tracker implements machine learning methods and infers from context and gaze direction what the viewer may be interested in, to learn more about. For instance, a researcher may learn about scientific results of a researcher passing by and singles may see on their data glasses the relationship status of a person they meet.

19 Oct 2010 - HIIT-Aalto researchers have received a top cited article award. Petteri Kaski, Patric Östergård and Olli Pottonen were awarded for the article "The Steiner quadruple systems of order 16" published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. The article performs a complete classification of the Steiner systems S(3,4,16).

Read the awarded article »