Risto Sarvas, D.Sc.(Tech.)

Contact

Address:
(room 29AD04)
Digital World Research Centre,
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences,
University of Surrey,
Guildford GU2 7XH,
Surrey, UK

Telephone:
+44 1483 684 728
+358 50 384 1553 (Finnish mobile)

Fax:
+44 1483 689 550

E-mail:
risto.sarvas(at)hiit.fi
r.sarvas(at)surrey.ac.uk

Web:
www.hiit.fi/risto.sarvas

I got my doctoral degree from the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in December 2006. My research is on people creating digital media for personal purposes, for friends and family, and for public appeal.

I have worked in the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT since 2001. Currently I'm a postdoc researcher and leading the Self-Made Media research group at HIIT. In 2002-03 I was a visiting scholar in the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Currently I'm a Visiting Research Fellow in the Digital World Research Centre in University of Surrey, UK. 

My doctoral work was on designing metadata for personal media from the users' perspective. The thesis was awarded by the Finnish Information Processing Association, it was also one of the 17 finalists for the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award 2007, and the thesis was one of the two theses from the CS department nominated for the TKK thesis of the year.

Recent Publications

Vihavainen, S., Oulasvirta, A., Sarvas, R. “I Can’t Lie Anymore!”: The Implications of Location Automation for Mobile Social Applications. MobiQuitous 2009, Toronto, Canada. PDF

Lehtinen, V., Näsänen, J., Sarvas, R. “A Little Bit Foolish and Light-Headed” – Older Adults’ Understandings of Social Networking Sites, The 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction 2009, Cambridge, UK. PDF

Sarvas, R. Metatietoa näppäilykuviin, Tietojenkäsittelytiede, numero 28, joulukuu 2008. PDF

Lehmuskallio, A., Sarvas, R. Snapshot Video: Everyday Photographers Taking Short Video-Clips, NordiCHI 2008. PDF

Sarvas, R., Lehmuskallio, A., Lehtinen, V., Näsänen, J., and Vihavainen, S. Snapshot Media: "Kodak Culture" in the 21st Century, CHI 2008 workshop on Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos. PDF

Sarvas, R., Mäntylä, M., and Turpeinen, M. Human-Centric Design of Future Print Media,  PulPaper 2007, Helsinki, Finland. PDF

Vihavainen, S., Sarvas, R., Näsänen, J., Grenman, K. User-Centric Approach for Designing Cross Media Applications in Personal Photography, in the Proceedings of 34th International Research Conference of IARIGAI, Grenoble, France 2007.

Sarvas, R. Designing User-Centric Metadata for Digital Snapshot Photography, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, 2006. PDF

Sarvas, R. and Vihavainen, S. A Holistic View on Future Snapshot Media, Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing Workshop (PICS2006) at UbiComp 2006. PDF

Sarvas, R., Online Media Sharing for the Elderly, Workshop on Future Networked Interactive Media Systems and Services for the New-Senior Communities at UbiComp 2006. PDF

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Blog Posts
Wave High School, Finland (16.2.2009)
Jahuu! Pysyykö Suomi menossa mukana? (22.10.2008)
iPhone ja rottien vallankumous (26.6.2008)
Web 2.0:aa lapsiperheille (8.3.2008)
Morkkis ja myötähäpeä yhteisöpalveluiden arkiset uhat (1.2.2008)
"Paper 2.0" -joululahjavinkki (20.12.2007)
The Paper 2.0 Pamphlet (22.11.2007)
Seniori-Facebook (24.9.2007)

Popular Media

Hopeinen hyökyaalto
ET-lehti, 14/2009
(Seniorit valtaavat netin, NettiET 7.9.2009)

Teknologialaboratorio Suomi, versio 2.0
T-Lehti, 4/2008

Paper 2.0: Let me design my own paper products!
Myllykoski SalesTalk, 2/2008

Henkistä hyvinvointia valokuvista
Duodecim, 8/2008

Yhteisöpalveluiden pitää herättää luottamusta
Tietosuoja, 4/2007

Facebook
Apu, 43/2007

Kuvien jakaminen verkossa vaatii valppautta
Ilkka, 30.7.2007

Sarvas: suomalaiset taitavat näppäilykuvauksen
IT-viikko.fi, 6.6.2007
Digitoday.fi, 7.6.2007

Oheistieto täydentää digikuvaa
Maatilan Pellervo, 1/2007

Metadata järjestää kuvakaaoksen,
MikroPC, 15/2006

Risto Sarvaksen digikuvat pysyvät järjestyksessä
Länsiväylä, 13.12.2006

Metatietoa näppäilykuviin
IT-viikko.fi, 4.12.2006
Digitoday.fi, 4.12.2006

A Picture Says It All - The Immortalidad Project,
Link 3/2006

Mobile Photos, To Be Shared,
Polysteekki 4/2005.