Lassi A. Liikkanen

Looking for a tenant to a 2 room flat in Hakaniemi, Helsinki, Finland (rental ad)
Please see my homepage and extensive publications list at http://iki.fi/lassial

forename.surname@hiit.fi
Mobile: +358 (0)50 384 1508
Teleph: +358 (0)9 4702 8109 (Aalto int. 2 8109)
Skype: lassial
Receptions by appointment in Pilotti, 1st Floor at Spektri Business park
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

• 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]
  

Last updated: 9 June 2010

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