curriculum vitae, antti oulasvirta, PhD

POSITION

Senior Researcher, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT 2008-2011

Docent (Adjunct professor), Cognitive Science, University of Jyväskylä 2008-

Docent (Adjunct professor), Computer Science, University of Helsinki 2009-

EDUCATION

SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow, June 2011

Visiting scholar, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 11/2010-1/2011.

Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, 8/2007-6/2008.

PhD, Cognitive Science. Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, 2006. Title of dissertation "Studies of working memory in interrupted human-computer interaction". Advisor P. Saariluoma. Reviewers K.A. Ericsson and Stuart K. Card. Opponent D. Boehm-Davis (George Mason University).

Graduate Exchange Student, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003. Advisor: Prof. Arthur P. Shimamura, Neuropsychology Lab.

MA, Cognitive Science. Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, 2001.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Consultant (external), Nokia Design, 2006 and 2008.

Participated in the preparation of a survey for New Everyday Information Society for the Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland, 2006.

Research intern, Usability group, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Jan-May 2006.

Usability expert, AtBusiness Communications Ltd., 2000-2001.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

According to SAGE Publications, our paper "Smartphones: An Emerging Tool for Social Scientists", published in Sociological Methods & Research, was the most downloaded article of that journal in 2010.

According to Council of Canadian Academies 2011 Analysis, author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in the field worldwide.

CHI Best Paper Award for a full paper entitled "Ease of juggling: Studying the effects of manual multitasking," written with Joanna Bergstrom-Lehtovirta.

CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention for a full paper paper entitled "Like bees around the hive: A comparative study of a mobile augmented reality map," written with Morrison, A., Oulasvirta, A., Peltonen, P., Lemmelä, S., Jacucci, G., Reitmayr, G., Näsänen, J., and Juustila, A.

CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention for a full paper paper entitled "'It's mine, don't touch!' Interactions at a large multi-touch display in a city centre, written with Peltonen, P., Kurvinen, E., Salovaara, A., Jacucci, G., Ilmonen, T., Evans, J., and Saarikko, P.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Subcommittee Chair for Usability, Accessibility, & User Experience, CHI2012.

Paper committee member: CHI2011, CHI2010, IUI2010, ACM Multimedia 2010 Human-Centered Multimedia Track, CSCW 2010, Ubicomp 2009, ECCE 2010, INTERACT 2009, NordiCHI 2008, Mobile HCI 2006 (short paper chair), CHI 2004 (short papers associate chair), Mobile Learning 2005 and 2006.

Member of the CHI 2009 Doctoral Consortium Committee

Associate Editor for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

Reviewer for journals: International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Interacting with Computers, Human Factors, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, User-Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, IEEE Computer, Human Technology, Psychnology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Human Communication Research, ACM Sigcomm CCR

Reviewer for conferences: ITS2012, CHI2004-2012, DIS2004, CSCW2004-2012, MobileHCI2006-7, Mobile Learning 2005-6, DPPI2007, ICIS2008, NordiCHI2008, Pervasive 2009&2011.

Reviewer for books: Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFES); Awareness Systems (Springer).

Workshop organizer and programme committee: "Proactivity and HCI" at NordiCHI'04 in Tampere, "Mobility and Environment" with Nokia Research Palo Alto in 2008, "Mobility and Social Networking" with Berkeley Institute of Design in 2008, and "Mobility and New Media" with School of Information, UC Berkeley, in 2008; "User psychology and interaction design" at XXIX International Congress of Psychology in Berlin 2008, "Mobile Spatial Interaction" at CHI2008 in Italy, "Users' Preferences Regarding Intelligent User Interfaces: Differences Among Users and Changes over Time" at IUI'09 in Florida, "Workshop on Pervasive User Modeling and Personalization" at UMAP'10, Pervasive Intelligence 2011, PETMEI 2011, CeMobGIS2011.

Guest Editor: Special issue on Mobility in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, in print in December 2008. (cfp)

Member of the Network Society Programme Management Group, HIIT.

Board member of UCIT graduate school

Initiator (with Prof. Martti Mäntylä) of a research programme inititative for the Academy of Finland, 2006. The programme will realize as a new programme on ubiquitous communication technologies entitled "MOTIVE". The programme commenced in 2008.

Memberships: ACM, SIGCHI, SIGCHI Finland Chapter, Finnish Psychological Association

TEACHING

University of Helsinki, "Usability evaluation" (Fall 2011)

University of Helsnki, "Human-Computer Interaction" (Spring 2011) link

University of Jyväskylä, TJTAK08 Course on "Käyttäjäpsykologia ja johdatus käytettävyyteen" (Fall 2010)

University of Helsinki, Course on "Usability evaluation" (Spring 2010)

University of Jyväskylä, TJTAK08 Course on "Käyttäjäpsykologia ja johdatus käytettävyyteen" (Spring 2009)

Helsinki University of Technology, T-121.5601 Course on "Usability Evaluation" (Fall 2008) (link)

University of Helsinki, Seminar on "HCI and Personal and Ubiquitous Systems" (Spring 2007) (link)

Helsinki University of Technology, Special course on "Mobile Field Experiments" (2006)

Helsinki University of Technology, Research seminar on "Advances in Mobile Interaction" (2005)

Helsinki University of Technology, Special course on "Mobile Field Experiments" (2004)

Helsinki University of Technology, Special course on "Attentional Resources in Mobile Interaction" (2004)

Helsinki University of Technology, Seminar on "Interruptions and Intelligent Environments" (2004)

TALKS

University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Talk on "Embodied human-computer interaction" (29.6.2011)

SICSA Summer School on Multimodal Interaction and Digital Tourisim, Talk on "Mobility as a challenge for interaction design" (29.6.2011)

University of St. Andrews, Talk on "Embodied human-computer interaction" (28.6.2011)

University of St. Andrews, Talk on "Black Swan vs. Lionel Messi" (23.6.2011)

University of Glasgow, DCS, Talk on "Black Swan vs. Lionel Messi" (21.6.2011)

University of Glasgow, DCS, Talk on "Embodied human-computer interaction" (14.6.2011)

University of Jyväskylä, "Embodied human-computer interaction" (6.6.2011)

HIIT Seminar, Talk on "Black Swan vs. Lionel Messi: Measuring the capacity of the human motor system in unconstrained performance" (28.3.2011)

Mobiilisisältöjen käytettävyys [Usability of mobile contents], AaltoPRO Informaatiosuunnittelija-kurssi (15.3.2011)

Mobile and Pervasive Computing Lab, University of Florida - Gainesville, Talk on "User interfaces and the environment" (4.1.2011)

Department of Psychology, FSU, Colloquium talk on "Investigating intermediate levels of skill in computer use" (16.11.2010)

Mobile Life Center, Stockholm, Talk on "User interfaces and the environment" (27.10.2010)

HIIT Seminar, Talk on "User interfaces and the environment" (1.11.2010)

Nokia Design, Talk on "Flirting with the Wow! Effect" (21.10.2010)

NRC Innovation Center, Talk on "User interfaces and the environment" (28.9.2010)

ETH Zurich, Computer Science Department, Talk on "User interfaces and the environment" (17.9.2010)

SIGCHI Finland Spring Seminar, Talk on "News from Atlanta CHI2010" (28.4.2010)

Theseus network day, Technology Industries Finland, Talk on "Usability evaluation" (8.12.2009)

ICS Forum, Helsinki University of Technology, Talk on "Evaluation of novel information technology in field settings" (23.11.2009)

HIIT-Mobile Life workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, Talk on "Doing IT in the wild" (18.11.2009)

HIIT 10 year anniversary, Talk on "Mikroblogaus" (10.11.2009)

Multidisciplinary cognition research seminar, CICERO network, a talk on "Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT: Doing IT in the wild" (9.10.2009)

Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, A demonstration lecture on "Käyttäjäkokemus" (25.9.2009)

Theseus seminar, NRC Tampere, Talk on "Theseus cases" (25.8.2009)

Theseus seminar, Helsinki, Talk on "Prototyyppien evaluointi" (5.5.2009)

Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, A demonstration lecture on "Automaattinen datan kerääminen käyttäjistä ubiikkijärjestelmissä" (15.4.2009)

Nokia Research Center, Tampere, talk on "Embodied interaction with a 3D vs 2D mobile map" (27.3.2009)

University of Tampere, PUMA seminar talk on "Mobile media in the social fabric of a kindergarten" (26.3.2009)

University of Art and Design Helsinki, Causal Modeling seminar talk on "Quasi-experiments" (18.3.2009)

Human-Centered Technology (IHTE), Tampere University of Technology, Seminar talk on "Ubiikkiteknologian todelliset kasvot" (14.1.2009)

Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, A demonstration lecture on "Interruptions in HCI" (28.10.2008)

SIGCHI Finland seminar, Talk on "Ubiikkiteknologian todelliset kasvot" (16.10.2008)

HIIT Seminar Series, Talk on "Awareness cues: The future of context-awareness" (10.10.2008)

XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Symposium "User psychology and interaction design", Talk on "Fragmentation of user psychological research" (25.7.2008)

Nokia Research Center, Theseus Days, Talk on "Ubicomp from the perspective of cognitive ethnography" (9.6.2008)

Intel Research Portland, People and Practices group, Talk on "Studying mobile use of computers: Tools and methods" (5.5.2008)

IBM Almaden, USER Seminar, Talk on "The trouble with ubicomp: Managing multiple devices in information work" (30.4.2008) (link)

PARC, CSL Colloquium, Talk on "Interaction with 3D mobile maps" (24.4.2008)

Stanford, HCI research group, Talk on "Studying interaction with 3D mobile maps" (3.4.2008)

UC Berkeley, School of Information, ISD Lecture on "Mobile awareness services" (2.4.2008) (link)

Florida State University, Department of Psychology, Guest lecture on "How people overcome interruptions (and when they fail)" (18.3.2008)

UC Berkeley, School of Information, i213 User Interface Design and Development, Guest talk on "Interaction in 4-second bursts: The fragmented nature of mobile interaction" (4.3.2008)

UC Berkeley, Berkeley Institute of Design weekly seminar, Talk on "Studying interaction with 3D mobile maps" (19.2.2008)

UC Irvine, Institute for Software Research + Qualcomm seminar, Talk on "Interpreting and acting on mobile awareness cues" (7.12.2007)

Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, Talk on "Interpreting and acting on mobile awareness cues" (13.11.2007)

Yahoo! Research Berkeley, Brain Jam talk on "Interpreting and acting on mobile awareness cues" (2.11.2007)

UCIT graduate school, Talk on "Contribution in HCI" (19.6.2007)

Havaitseminen ja toiminta tietotekniikan käytössä -seminaari, "Keskeytykset ja häiriöt tietotekniikan käytössä" (16.5.2007)

Tampere University of Technology, Seminar lecture on "Experimental research in HCI" (5.4.2007) (link)

Temple University, Seminar lecture on "On the role of cognition in mobile HCI" (15.3.2007)

Teknologian ihmiskeskeisyys ja käytettävyys- viikko, University of Jyväskylä, Talk on "Käytännön käytettävyystutkimuksen uudet menetelmät" (17.5.2006)

Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Talk on "Mobile Applications for Groups" (2006)

Zentrum Mensch-Maschine-Systeme, TU Berlin, Talk on "Interruptions Research" (2006)

DFKI Saarbruecken, Talk on "Mobile Applications for Groups" (2006)

TU Darmstadt, Talk on "Mobile Applications for Groups" (2006)

The Joint INFWEST.IT Seminar at the University of Jyväskylä, Talk on "Mobile interaction from a user psychological perspective" (21.10.2005)

Michigan State University, Lecture for Media Psychology Seminar on "Mobile Cognition" (2005)

University of Helsinki, Proactive IT Colloquim: Talk on "Design of Proactive IT" (2005)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow, 2011

EIT ICT Labs Smart Spaces TAL, PI3: Pervasive Information, Interaction, & Interfaces, 2011

TEKES, Theseus2, w/ U Jyväskylä and VTT Tampere, 2010-2011

Academy of Finland, "Ganzheit", w/ TTL, 2010-2012

Academy of Finland, "HPE", w/ UH, 2010-2012

TEKES, Theseus, w/ U Jyväskylä and VTT Tampere, 2008-2009

Emil Aaltonen Foundation, "Interruptions in HCI" project, 2008-2009

Academy of Finland, "AMOVEO", w/ VTT, 2008-2011

Nokia Foundation, Visiting Researcher Scholarship, 2006

Fulbright Technology Industries Finland, Grant for a Junior Scholar, 2006

Academy of Finland, "Context Cues", 2006-2009

National Science Foundation, Travel grant, 2005

Academy of Finland, Postgraduate studies abroad grant, 2003

TKK:n tukisäätiö, 2002

HPY Research Foundation

University of Helsinki, Travel stipend for exchange students, 2002

SUPERVISION OF PHD THESES

Liisa Kuparinen, University of Jyväskylä.

Eeva Raita, University of Helsinki.

Airi Lampinen, University of Helsinki.

Antti Salovaara, University of Helsinki.

SUPERVISION OF MASTER'S THESES

Lauri Sumari's Master's thesis, "Interacting with multiple devices in mobile work". Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, October 2007.

Sara Estlander's Master's thesis, "'Where was I again?' Self-location with a 2D and 3D mobile map." Cognitive Science Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, January 2008.

Esko Lehtonen, Master's thesis, "An exploration in microblogging". Cognitive Science Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, May 2008.

Airi Lampinen, Master's thesis, "We are all here! Multiple groups on a social network site". Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, May 2008.

Antti Lindqvist, Master's thesis. Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, December 2010.

Janne Hukkinen, Master's thesis. Cognitive Science Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki. Started September 2008.

Anu Lipponen, Master's thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 2010.

Anu Savolainen, Master's thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki.

Joanna Bergström-Lehtovirta, Master's thesis. Aalto University.

PRE-EXAMINATION OF PHD THESES

Markku Häkkinen, University of Jyväskylä (2010)

Sami Ronkainen, University of Oulu (2009)

Shenghua Liu, University of Jyväskylä (2009)