Lassi A. Liikkanen

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Currently visiting Stanford university, meetings by appointment in Cordura Hall, R110
Mail: HIIT, POBox 19800, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland

Interests and expertise:
Design: user-centred conceptual design, design for user experience, the innovation process
Music cognition: interaction, memory for music, involuntary musical imagery (earworms).

Current projects:
Musiquitous (Ubiquitous music in Finland, 2009-2012)
Theseus I/II (User-centred design process and methods, user psyhology, 2008-2011)
Emokeitai (affective, augmented mobile communication 2009-2011) and
LUTUS (creative practices in design, 2010-2012)

Teaching organized previously:
Design idea generation and structured methods for the fuzzy front-end, Psychology of Creativity, Cognitive modelling

Recent publications: 2010

• Åman and Liikkanen (2010) A Survey of Music Recommendation Aids. In Proc. of Workshop on Music Recommendation And Discovery (WOMRAD), at ACM RecSys conference. Barcelona, Spain. September 26, 2010 [Full text PDF].
• Liikkanen and Lahdensuo (2010) Observing the Mobile Music Phenomenon: One in Nine Commuters is Wired. In Proc. of the Designing Information Systems 2010. Århus, Denmark, 18-20.8.2010 [Full paper PDF]
• Yamabe T., Kosunen I., Ekman I.., Liikkanen L.A., Kuikkaniemi K. , Nakajima T. (2010) Biofeedback Training with EmoPoker: Controlling Emotional Arousal for Better Poker Play. Paper to be presented at Fun & Games 2010. Leuven, Belgium. 15 - 17 September 2010.
• Liikkanen (2010) Defining Creativity in Conceptual Design as Negotiation of Crucial Constraints. Presentation at FISCAR'10 [Abstract PDF]
  
• Notkola, Koskela, Liikkanen (2010) Designing a board game as a vehicle for multicultural education. Poster presentation at FISCAR'10. [Abstract PDF]
  
• Saariluoma, Kujala, Kuuva, Kymäläinen, Leikas, Liikkanen & Oulasvirta (2010) Hyvän vuorovaikutuksen suunnittelu. Teknologioteollisuus: Helsinki. [Info and orders here]
  
• Liikkanen (2010) deCO.COde - Design Cognition for Conceptual Design. Doctoral Dissertation, Aalto University [PDF]
  
• Liikkanen L., & Perttula M. (in press, 2010) Inspiring Design idea generation – Insights from a memory search perspective. Journal of Engineering Design. [DOI link]
  

• Liikkanen (2009) Results from a HIIT 10th Anniversary 2009 Infrastructural Satisfaction Survey . Internal report, HIIT: Finland. Full text PDF
  
• Liikkanen et al. (2009) ElectroEmotion – A Tool for Producing Emotional Corpora Collaboratively. In Proc. ACII 2009 [Full text PDF]
  
• Liikkanen et al. (2009) Time constraints in design idea generation. In Proc. of ICED'09. [Full text PDF]
  
• Liikkanen, L. (2009) How the mind is easily hooked on musical imagery. Proc. of ESCOM 2009. [Full text PDF]
  
• Liikkanen L. (2009) Extreme-user approach and the design of energy feedback systems. In Proc. of EEDAL 2009 [Full text PDF]
  
• Liikkanen L., & Perttula M. (2009) Exploring problem decomposition among novice designers. Design Studies. [Full text PDF] [DOI link]
  

Please see my extensive publications list at my homepage http://iki.fi/lassial

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Last updated: 3 Aug 2010

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