1. User Experience Research Group

2. Projects Mobi Life Mobile Content Communities
Tools for supporting mobile communities
Between
Mobi/ubi services for urban mobility
CONTEXT
Context-aware phones supporting HHI
MobiLife
Mobile services for world/group/self-awareness
Wireless Woodstock Services
Mobile content and services in mass events
DRAMA
Drama/theatre as a user study method
                  
Mobi
Life

3. People Matti Rantanen Antti Salovaara Antti Oulasvirta Sauli Tiitta
Martti Mäntylä
Esko Kurvinen
Giulio Iacucci
Timo Saari

4. HCI at UERG is…

5. future-oriented, 3-10 years time perspective
Taking into account development of technology but also megatrends in the society
Himanen, 2004
Mäntylä, 2004

6. (Yesterday's computers filled rooms …
Adapted from lecture notes by Mäntylä, 2004

7. … and so will tomorrow’s)

8. “beyond the desktop”,

9. consumer-oriented,

10. constructive,
InfoRadar
CONTEXT
CoffeeMug
EventTagger

11. Quasi Experimentation
informed,
Empiria
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology
Concept Design
Low-Fi Prototyping
Quasi Experimentation
High-Fi Prototyping
Field Trials
Hypothesis formation
Test construction
Hypothesis-testing

12. reflective,
Aim for research methodology development also in practically oriented projects
UCPCD
Humanistic Research Strategy
Bodystorming & roleplaying
Trends analysis
Ethnomethodological “resource analysis”
Quasi-experimentation
User data based use situation simulations
ABA …

13. international,

14. and rising academically
Last year
5 journal articles
10 conference articles
2 technical reports
3 popular articles about us
Academic activities
SIGCHI Finland
Reviewing for major conferences & journal

15. Cool stuff going on just now
ARMI
Attentional Resources in Mobile Interaction
Mobile “quasi-experimentation”

16. Cool stuff going on just now
                                           
DRAMA
Interactive theatre about “osa-aikaeläkeläiset” vs. UCPCD

17. Cool stuff going on just now
MC2
Concept innovation

18. Cool stuff going on just now
Wireless Woodstock Services
Neste Rally

19. Cool stuff going on just now
Wireless Woodstock Services
Hultsfred

20. Future: Basic Research
User activities: cognitive resources, opportunities, restrictions
Group activities: contribution of sociology, “shared cognition”, …
Issues:
What makes a pleasurable experience that leads to sustained use? Understand, name, predict …
Ordinary experimental methodology does not apply as conditions cannot be controlled on the field.
We now focus in everyday life of people. What about professional or media-oriented activities?

21. Future: User Informed Design
Individual methods
Process: UCPCD Mk II
Process support
Issues:
User involvement in design?
Difficult
Room for user creativity with the result is still absolutely necessary
Parallelism with technological development
Inclusion of further viewpoints (business design)

22. Future: Constructive Research
Interaction design
Prototyping: lo-fi, hi-fi
Toolkits, software engineering
Issues:
How to realise plentiful opportunities for co- operation within HIIT?
The group’s present strength is not in interaction design (esp. multimodal interaction, novel technologies). Make or buy?
Field test design, execution, analysis – more experience needed in larger scale tests