Senior Researcher
Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group (UIx)
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
Aalto University and University of Helsinki
** Note: Our group is looking for PhDs and summer interns!
Docent (Adjunct Professor)
Computer Science, University of Helsinki
Cognitive Science, University of Jyväskylä
about me
Antti Oulasvirta is currently a Senior Researcher in the Helsinki Institute for Institute for Information Technology HIIT at Aalto University and the co-director of the Ubiquitous Interaction (Uix) group. He received a Ms.A. in Cognitive Science from University of Helsinki in 2001, and Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from University of Helsinki in 2006 under the supervision of Pertti Saariluoma. He was a postgraduate researcher at University of California, Berkeley’s Neuropsychology Lab in 2002-2003 under the direction of Arthur P. Shimamura, an intern in T-Labs in Berlin in 2006, and a postdoctoral scholar at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, in 2007-2008. His research focus lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction, mobile and ubuiquitous computing, and cognitive psychology. Antti Oulasvirta has authored over 20 journal articles and 40 conference articles. He is a recipient of Fulbright Grant for a Junior Scholar in 2006, voted by Finnish professors as one of the most promising young researchers in Finland, and won two best paper nominations at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. He is a docent (adjunct faculty) in University of Helsinki and University of Jyväskylä.
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recent publications
Cui, Y., Oulasvirta, A., & Ma, L. (accepted). Event perception in mobile interaction: Toward better navigation history design on mobile devices. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
Froehlich, P., Oulasvirta, A., Baldauf, M., & Nurminen, A. (accepted). On the move and wired to the world. Communications of the ACM.
Oulasvirta, A., Lehtonen, E., Kurvinen, E., & Raento, M. (in press). Making the ordinary visible in microblogs. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, special issue on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies.
Vihavainen, S., Oulasvirta, A., & Sarvas, R. (2009). "I can't lie anymore!": The implications of location automation for mobile social applications. Proceedings of MobiQuitous.
Oulasvirta, A., Hukkinen, J.,& Schwartz, B. (2009). When more is less: The paradox of choice in search engine use. Proc. SIGIR, ACM Press, New York.
Morrison, A., Oulasvirta, A., Peltonen, P., Lemmelä, S., Jacucci, G., Reitmayr, G., Näsänen, J., & Juustila, A. (2009). Like bees around the hive: A comparative study of a mobile augmented reality map. Proceedings of CHI2009, ACM Press, New York. Best paper award nomination.
Näsänen, J., Oulasvirta, A., & Lehmuskallio, A. (2009). Mobile media in the social fabric of a kindergarten. Proceedings of CHI2009, ACM Press, New York.
Raento, M., Oulasvirta, A., & Eagle, N. (2009). Smartphones: An emerging tool for social scientists. Sociological Methods and Research.
Oulasvirta, A., Estlander, S., & Nurminen, A. (2009). Embodied interaction with a 3D versus 2D mobile map. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 13 (4).
Oulasvirta, A., & Nyyssönen, T. (2009). Flexible hardware configurations for studying mobile usability. Journal of Usability Studies.
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teaching 2010
582660 Usability evaluation [Käytettävyyden arviointi], Spring 2010, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
what's up?
Feb 10: Shared Encounters book out from Springer
Jan 10: ContextLogger2 released
Dec 09: CHI paper committee meeting in Atlanta
Oct 09: Was named an adjunct professor for the Deparment of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. (Adjunct professor is not a paid job, more like a permission to give teaching and supervise theses.)
Oct 09: Organizing a seminar on interactive computing. See this link for speakers & program.
Sep 09: Academy of Finland granted funding for two new projects: Ganzheit and Helsinki Privacy Experiment
Jul 09: Heading for SIGIR in Boston and CSCW2010 PC meeting in Amsterdam.
Jul 09: Our paper briefed in the Communications of the ACM. link
May 09: Named as an adjunct professor for cognitive science at the University of Jyväskylä.
Apr 09: A paper looking at the paradox of choice in search engine use accepted for publication at SIGIR.
Apr 09: Back from CHI where we had two full paper presentations: one on MapLens, another on a study of mobile media at kindergarten.
Feb 09: Published two methodological papers--one on smartphone logging, the other on mobile usability labs. See my publication list for PDFs.
Feb 09: Was invited to the Papers and Notes committee of CSCW2010.
Jan 09: Two full papers accepted to CHI2009. The other got a nomination for the best paper! (see more)
Jan 09: Was invited to program committee of ECCE2009: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, to be held in Helsinki.
Dec 08: Will participate in the Program Committees of Ubicomp'09 and INTERACT'09.
Nov 08: Released a new version of our mobile usability laboratory! (link)
Oct 08: The IJHCS special issue on Mobile HCI is coming out in December! (doi)
Sep 08: I was invited to the committee of CHI 2009 Doctoral Consortium
Aug 08: In Amsterdam for Mobile HCI 2008
Jul 08: At the XXIX International Congress of Psychology in Berlin
Jun 08: Moved back to Helsinki
Apr 08: Wrote a short web essay to summarize my take on "awareness"
Apr 08: Skipping CHI this year, organizing three workshops in the Bay Area (1, 2, 3)
Mar 08: Visiting Prof. K. Anders Ericsson at Florida State University for a week.
Feb 08: Talks coming up at UC Berkeley (BID, ISD), Stanford (HCI), IBM Almaden, PARC (CSL), and FSU (Psych). Topics: Mobile 3D maps, mobile awareness, multi-device work
Jan 08: Visiting Finland 17th - 30th
Nov 07: Upcoming talks at Yahoo! Research, Nokia Palo Alto, and UC Irvine
Nov 07: TEKES (National Technology Agency of Finland) granted funding to project Theseus
Oct 07: The Academy of Finland awarded a four-year grant for "Amoveo", to study the change of social practices in the age of ubicomp. Together with the Systems Usability lab of VTT
Oct 07: Emil Aaltonen Foundation awarded a grant to study interruptions in human-computer interaction, starting June 2008
Aug 07: I relocated to Berkeley for this academic year. Fulbright - Technology Industries of Finland Scholarship is supporting my stay
Apr 07: CHI2007: See my paper on multi-device management and slides. The other full paper, presented by Giulio Jacucci, is here
Apr 07: CHI statistics from the past 15 years
contact
Email:
antti oulasvirta at hiit fi
Mailing address:
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, PO Box 19800, 00076 Aalto University, Finland
Phone:
+358 50 3841561 (8am - 4pm Finnish time)
Office:
1st floor, Spektri, Metsänneidonkuja 4, Otaniemi, Espoo
A311, Department of Computer Science, Exactum, Gustaf Hallströmin katu 2, Helsinki (Office hours Wednesdays at 12am-1pm)
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