Dr. Antti Oulasvirta

Antti Oulasvirta has been head of the Independent Research Group Human-Computer Interaction  within the Cluster of Excellence since August 2012.

Short CV

Antti Oulasvirta is a Senior Researcher leading the Human-Computer Interaction group. He received his doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, after which he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Information in UC Berkeley in 2007-2008 and a Senior Researcher at HIIT in Finland in 2008-2011. During his postgraduate studies in 2002-2003, he was an exchange student at UC Berkeley's Neuropsychology Lab and did an internship at T-Labs in Berlin in 2006. Dr. Oulasvirta is an associate editor of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, and he serves as a subcommittee chair for the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. He was awarded the Best Paper Award at CHI in 2011, the Best Paper Nomination at CHI in 2009 and 2008 at CHI, and the Best Note Award in 2011 at MobileHCI. He is a Docent (adjunct faculty) of computer science at the University of Helsinki and a docent of cognitive science at the University of Jyväskylä.

Research interests

Human-computer interaction, especially using computational and behavioral sciences to automatize user interface design.

Awards

CHI 2011 Best Paper Award

CHI 2009 Best Paper Honorable Mention

CHI 2008 Best Paper Honorable Mention

Fulbright Junior Scholar Grant 2007-2008

Contact

Dr.  Antti Oulasvirta

Dr. Antti Oulasvirta

Saarland University
Cluster of Excellence
Multimodal Computing and Interaction

Campus E17 Room 2.03
66123, Saarbrücken
Germany

Fon: +49 681 302 71927

Publications

Affiliation

Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken International Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication Cluster of Excellence