Kristiina Karvonen

B.A. (Art History), M.A. (Cognitive Science), D. Sc. Tech. (Telecommunications Software),  Group leader,  USec research group
Post-doctoral Reseacher, Future Internet Research Programme Manager
Coordinator for research exchange programme FuNeSoMo
Photographer's muse
Street address: Technopolis Innopoli 2, 3rd floor,
Tekniikantie 14, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Mail address: Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT,
P.O.Box 19215 00076 AALTO Finland
Phone:+358 9 470 28362  Mobile: +358 50 3841 624
Email: firstname.lastname(at)hiit.fi

Research Interests

With a background in telecommunications, cognitive science and the arts, I am interested in investigating how people use and experience the Internet. I currently mainly work in the area of usable security, but I am also into anything to do with human-computer interaction, usability and user experience in general. My current main research interests include elements of human trust translated to online environments and how people can manage their privacy and security, designing secure user interfaces and enhancing and enabling secure user experience and behaviour. I also teach usable security at Aalto School of Science.

Recent activities

January 12, 2012 FuNeSoMo January call launched. Applications to and from US & Finland. Apply now!

August 25. 2011 FuNeSoMo September call launched. New applications for research exchange to US are accepted. See FuNeSoMo project pages for more info.

March 10, 2011 Attending as a panelist a very nice and interesting EIT workshop on usable security and privacy at Darmstadt, hosted by CASED.

February 15, 2011 Organizing as program chair one-day seminar on Future Internet SHOK results.

October 16, 2010 participating in a workshop on Friend and Family-based Security at NordiCHI 2010 In Reykjavík, Iceland.

October 12, 2010 panelist in discussion on Human Rights and Computer Science in Turku. The other panelists were Jyrki J. Kasvi from the Finnish parliament and Harri Kivistö from the Finnish Pirate Party.

September 30, 2010 our workshop paper on making reputation information more usable was presented at ACM Recommender Systems conference in Barcelona, Spain.

September 8, 2010 presenting at  Mobile HCI 2010 demo session in Lisbon, Portugal and conducting user study while there.

August 13-20, 2010 taking part on the workshop on Urban informatics at DIS 2010 and conduct some user studies on trust during my stay at Aarhus University.

Projects

• Future Networks, Society and Modeling (FuNeSoMo) 01/2011- (coordinator, researcher)
• ICT SHOK FI SRA 2nd year 06/2009 -
  
  • WP 6 Security (researcher)
  • WP5 Dissemination and International Collaboration (wp leader)
• FICNIA Finland-ICSI Center for Novel Internet Architectures 09/2007- 02/2011 (coordinator)
• OtaSizzle User studies related to privacy awareness and management (with CSE) 01/2010 -
• VIBE - HIIT internal project (with COMNET) 2010-11
• Nordic-Finnish collaboration on Usable Security, Privacy and Trust 2010-11

Teaching in study year 2011-2012

• T-110.5220 Information Security and Usability spring 2012 term III and IV at CSE, Aalto University

Short CV

My background is in Cognitive Science, from the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki. I am also an art historian from the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki. Previously, I have worked in the arts world, initially as museum guide, then as art writer and exhibition producer in the Helsinki region - in Kiasma, Didrichsen, Hvitträsk, Design museum, and as lecturer in the Art History department of University of Helsinki. After finishing my doctoral studies on telecommunications software, I now work at HIIT, leading my research group USec working on Usable security, privacy and trust and managing the Future Internet research programme.

Publications (on a separate page)