The report of VIPP regarding decision No. 123445 was accepted on December 9th, 2011.
Research Council: Research Council for Culture and Society
Call: Tutkijatohtorin projekti
Publications on Reseda.
New blog: http://blogs.aalto.fi/oopa/
Visiting Professor Martin Eppler (University of St. Gallen) will give an open lecture titled
on Monday, February 15 at 16.15 – 17.30 in room C350 (Töölö Campus, Main Building).
Professor Eppler is one of the top international professors invited by Aalto University to offer a course open to all Aalto students this spring. His course “Knowledge Communication & Visualization” is lectured in January-February. All Aalto faculty and students interested in the power of visuals are WELCOME to attend the lecture and discuss knowledge communication and knowledge sharing.
Leena Louhiala-Salminen (at hse dot fi)
Professor (acting), International Business Communication
Moderator: Suvi Kitunen
09.30-10.00 Opening by Antti Raike and Suvi Kitunen: Practical issues (wlan, webcasting etc.)
10.00-10.30 Kirsikka Vaajakallio: Designing with colours
Kirsikka will ground her presentation to her personal experiences as being a color blind person in the color coded world. Thus the presentation will highlight the “users” perspective instead of the designers’ view and try rather to promote discussion than provide academic knowledge.
10.30-11.00 Discussion: How to select the colour chart for the interface
11.00-11.30 Sonja Iltanen-Tähkävuori: Colours, aesthetics, and values
Values are connected to the visual elements of products in at least two ways: designers’ values may become visible in the products, and visual elements may have consequences that raise ethical questions. In this presentation, design of patient clothing is discussed from these perspectives.
11.30-12.00 Discussion: Colours and values
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-13.30 Akira Sano: Computer Vision (CV) and the future of imaging
Computer vision (CV) is a technology of recognition and analysis images by computers. If computer can watch and recognize images as human do, the possibility of imaging will expand dramatically. Especially in these days, Augmented Reality (AR) has a big progress. I will introduce CV and AR technology and applications, and show some applications which I made.
13.30-13.45 Discussion
13.45-14.30 Markku Hauta-Kasari: Applications of Spectral Colour Research
In my presentation I will introduce the spectral color research at the University of Eastern Finland from the application point of view. I will show industrial applications in which the spectral color is key technology to solve the color related task. Also the research center called InFotonics Center Joensuu at the University of Eastern Finland will be introduced.
14.30-15.00 Discussion
15.00-15.30 BREAK
15.30-16.00 Lecture by Harald Arnkil: Colours in context
Colour exists only in context, but we are still able to name and conceptualize colour in our heads. How is this done and how accurately can we remember colours? Colour also seems to change constantly in juxtaposition with other colours and with changes in lighting, but we are still able to identify objects by their colour in widely varying situations. In order to fully understand colours’ relativity and constancy, we need to address human ecology and evolution.
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Conclusion by Jussi Lohijoki and Antti Raike: How to visualise the film post-production manual?
Registration: Join the LeMill group for Seeing Red
Read the paper of the final day before the fourth symposium session, please: Blue or Red? Exploring the Effect of Color on Cognitive Task Performances
09.30-10.00 Opening: Antti Raike
10.00-10.30 Markku Reunanen: Subcultural visual practices
The presentation deals with the visual language of the underground community known as the demoscene. Starting from the 1980s the scene has reflected the technology, society and popular culture of its time. The developments have all contributed to the audiovisual artifacts produced by the community, and here we will look into some of those factors.
10.30-11.00 Discussion:
11.00-11.30 Tommi Jantunen: On the perception of allegedly word-like units in signed language
The talk demonstrates two experiments dealing with sign (cf. word) perception in signed language. The results of the experiments indicate that there exists a categorical difference between what the sign is argued to be in (and by) the linguistic theory and what the sign actually appears to be on the basis of perceptual experiments. Consequences of this conflict are outlined.
11.30-12.00 Discussion
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-13.30 Philip Dean: Digital photography, perception and colour management
13.30-14.00 Discussion: Reproduction of colours
14.00-14.30 Antti Raike and Jyrki Messo: Results of colour naming test
14.30-15.00 Discussion:
15.00-15.30 BREAK
15.30-16.00 Lauri Ahonen: Lessons of eye-tracking
The speech will present the foundation of the eye tracking. The basic physiology behind the eye movements will be introduced but focus is in the today’s eye tracking methods. Examples of the existing systems for eye tracking will also be listed
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Conclusion
Registration: Join the LeMill group for Seeing Red
Read the paper of the second day before the second symposium session, please: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Users’ Perceptions of a Webpage: With a Focus on the Cognitive Styles of Chinese, Koreans and Americans
09.15-10.00 Opening: Antti Raike
10.00-10.30 Raija Talvio: Film production workflow and post production
How to keep the story alive through pre production, production and post production – and is this possible? The different forms the story takes before it reaches the screen.
10.30-11.00 Discussion: How to visualise film production
11.00-11.30 Anna Heiskanen: Film production manual fort the students and staff
Post production workflow has gone through rapid change and keeps on changing. Presenting up-to-date material to the students is a challenge as seems to be understanding the process to the students. So this opportunity for understanding visualizing this maze of phases is very much appriciated.
11.30-12.00 Discussion: The use of film production manual
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-13.45 Simo Vanni: Visual cortex: one for all and all for one
A single neuron in the visual cortex is sensitive to stimulation not only locally, within classical reseptive field (CRF), but also to stimulation outside the CRF. This extra-CRF sensitivity modulates neural responses, and we have proposed a hypothesis that this modulation render neural responses to distinct visual objects more independent throughout the visual system. This hypothesis connects the well known psychological and physiological principles of contextual modulation to efficient coding of sensory information, and is in line with a view that the hierarchical system of visual cortices comprise a functionally homogenous, but multidimensional network of representations, reflecting learned regularities in the visual environment.
13.45-14.15 Discussion:
14.15-14.45 Samu Mielonen: Data visualisation & colour blindness
14.45-15.00 Discussion:
15.00-15.30 BREAK
15.30-16.00 Markus Koskela: Content-Based Video Analysis
Digital video has become commonplace both in professional use and in various consumer products, and the capturing, storing, and transmitting of digital video has steadily become easier and more cost-effective. However, the current methods for the analysis and semantic representation of the video content are considerably less mature. In this talk, I will introduce the research done at Aalto University ICS Department on content-based video analysis, and present some applications such as automatic video summarization and mobile augmented reality.
16.00-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Conclusion
Registration: Join the LeMill group for Seeing Red
Read the paper of the first day before the first symposium session, please: Measuring visual clutter
The Seeing Red symposium and workshop will be held on January 12th, 14th, 19th, and 21st at Aalto University School of Art and Design (former TAIK), Hämeentie 135 C, Helsinki, Finland. Researchers, doctoral students, and MA students working on thesis: Welcome!
09.15-10.00 Opening and discussion for the program: Suvi Kitunen and Antti Raike
10.00-10.30 Michihito Mizutani: Principles of Interaction design
10.30-11.00 Tarmo Toikkanen: Agile prototyping
When creating innovative software solutions, they cannot be specified in advance. Traditional linear development models do not work, so iterative and agile methods are needed. This talk will present an R&D method that is used design and create software solutions that truly deliver what their target audience needs.
11.00-11.30 Prototyping with Rasmus Vuori, Jyrki Messo, Markku Reunanen and Tarmo Toikkanen
11.30-12.00 Prototyping continues
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-13.30 Rasmus Vuori: Narrative inertia
13.30-14.00 Discussion: Emotion colours
14.00-14.30 Prototyping continues
14.30-15.00 BREAK
15.00-15.30 Prototyping continues
15.30-16.00 Discussion & demos
16.00-16.30
16.30-17.00 Conclusion
Dr Tommi Jantunen is a Postdoctoral Researcher and the leader of the project 3BatS financed by the Academy of Finland (2010-2012). He received his MA in General Linguistics in 2001 (University of Helsinki) and his doctoral degree in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) in 2008 (University of Jyväskylä, JyU). He has previously worked both as a lecturer (2005-2009) and as an assistant (2004) in FinSL at the JyU, as a lecturer at the Humanities Polytechnic/Sign Language Interpreter Degree Programme (2003-2004), and as a Sign Language researcher at the Finnish Association of the Deaf (1998-2002). His research areas cover the history and change of FinSL, FinSL lexicon, and FinSL grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax). In the current project he investigates critically certain well-established assumptions concerning signed language and its linguistic research.
Lauri Ahonen received his M.Sc. in Technology in the spring of 2009. His current field of study is cognitive fatigue and its relation to human physiology. Lauri is interested in the research of the human senses, their neurology and relation to cognition. He also finds interaction with information systems and usability issues fascinating. A collective term for his interests is neuroergonomics. Lauri’s work focuses, due to technical background, designing research paradigms. He is currently employed as a research engineer at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (Työterveyslaitos). He is responsible for the technical engineering in research paradigms. Furthermore, he will participate as a student in a teaching programme for a degree in innovation management, when the programme starts in the spring of 2010. Lauri’s future plans are to pursue a Ph.D. degree abroad, possibly in an industrial project.
Three symposium days are open for all, but registration and a small preliminary work will be required. The workshop on Tuesday, January 19th is closed. We will organise a video stream for all four days and the presentations will be published on SlideShare. Participants and presenters are encouraged to join LeMill for discussions. The name of our LeMill group is “VIPP workshop and symposium 2010: Seeing Red“. Make a LeMill account before joining the group, please.
http://lemill.net/community/groups/vipp-workshop-and-symposium-2010-seeing-red
Registration for Jan 12th, 14th, and 21st, 2010: Join the LeMill group for Seeing Red
I had to cancel – or rather postpone – this year’s symposium due to eye-tracking tests that took place from Oct 15th to Dec 2nd 2009. Eye-tracking tests were made by Tobii equipment of TKK at Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi. Total of 67 participants with 15 different native languages were tested with the set of 35 pictures that included the six proposals made by 6 designers. After the eye-tracking test each participant made the colour naming test. Thus we are able to analyse both the data of eye-tracking tests and the data of the colour naming test in the next workshop in January 2010. The January workshop is also the third VIPP symposium.
The participants were from Asia, Europe, and Latin America between the ages of 22 and 63, with 31 males and 36 females using total of 15 languages as mother tongues. All of the participants had experience browsing webpages, and all were living in Finland during the test. The participants had following 14 languages as native languages:
The youngest participant was 22 years and the oldest was 63 years. After the eye-tracking tests 7 participants made the colour naming test at Media Lab, TAIK. The “new” languages in these test were
Thus the total set of languages in colour naming test is 17 languages.
Eye-tracking movement was measured based on eye-tracking metrics using Tobii equipment. The main measurements used in eye-tracking research are “fixation” and “saccades.” These are defined by Dong & Lee (2008) as follows:
Several other eye-tracking metrics are also commonly used:
Modern eye-tracking equipment makes it possible to track and analyse the process of visual perception that is an essential part of a user’s interaction with an interface. Research in eye movement has flourished with major advances in both eye-tracking technology and the psychological theories that link eye-tracking data and cognitive processes. Eye tracking provides insight into a user’s cognitive strategies and allows identifying unconscious patterns. Cowen, Ball, and Delin (2002) claimed that eye movement data can augment data obtained through user testing by providing more specific information about a user’s cognitive processes. Most of the work in this area is focused on research in psychology and physiology and explores how the human eye operates and what this can reveal about perceptual and cognitive processes. Salvucci (1999) has stated that eye movements provide a rich and informative window into a person’s thoughts and intentions.
Participants were given brief instructions after they arrived in the experiment room. They were told that the purpose of the test was to clarify how people using different languages might use different search strategies while seeking film post production information. They were informed that an eye-tracking device would be used in the test and that it would not directly come into contact with them. In the experiment, their eye movements would be recorded, and the recorded results would be used only for the research and not for evaluating users. They were encouraged to relax during the test.
After being seated in front of the monitor and eye-tracking device, participants were informed of the details of the experiment, including how the eye-tracking device would work and what they would be asked to do during the experiment. After instruction the participants’ eyes were calibrated in relation to the screen of the monitor on which the photograph was to be presented in the end of test set of pictures. After calibration several pictures were shown to participants, and they were asked to freely look at the each picture to find film production related pages. The task was to determine how people actually view a webpage when specifically searching film post production information and thus to reveal their natural viewing pattern. The colour naming test was made after the participants’ eye movements were recorded.
DfA workshop 2009, the PROGRAMME. Lectures are open for all!
Wednesday 21.1.2009
10-11 Workshop in practice: introductions of the participants, agreements for the outcomes etc.
11-12 Introduction: Collaboration in DfA and projects improving accessibility (Antti)
12-12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Päivi Rainò: SYKE-PULSE – a different project in Dfa. Visualizing rhythm and music for the deaf and hard of hearing.
13.30-15.00 Presentation of the participant: Suvi Kitunen’s pre-assignments exposed.
Programme ends, but participants should continue working with own texts and an assignment given by Antti
Thursday 22.1.2009
10-12 Marketta Kyttä: Theory of affordances and softGIS methodology in person-environment research
12-12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-17.00 Presentations of the participants, pre-assignment exposed:
– Joanna Saad-sulonen
– Tarja Toikka
– Hans Põldoja
– Kati Heljakka
– Batsirai Chivhanga
– Juhani Tenhunen
Friday 23.1.2009
10-12 Sonja Iltanen: Aesthetics in DfA and special needs design
12-12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Discussion and conclusions
Welcome to listen (and watch) the lectures!
