Visual Computing and Human Computer Interaction
Visual computing and HCI research focuses on computer systems that perceive the world and augment human perception, with the goal of easing life. Realizing this requires advances in both inverse senses (perception; e.g. computer vision) and forward senses (predictive; e.g. computer graphics, spatial audio, physical simulation), and their eventual combination into an evolving, learning system. Further, the rapid weaving of digital devices and services into the fabric of everyday life places increasing demands for human-computer interfaces and their design to understand human cognition to avoid overloading it. Combined with algorithmic understanding and augmentation of the world, computational models of the mind present opportunities for helping humans achieve their life goals through intelligent coaching, e.g., in sports training, wellbeing, work performance, stress management, and also learning programming.
Professors & Lecturers
Professor Perttu Hämäläinen
games, animation technology, human-computer interaction, gameplay innovation, exercise gamification, procedural animation
Professor Juho Kannala
Computer vision, machine learning
Professor Samuel Kaski
machine learning, probabilistic modelling, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computational medicine, user interaction, brain signal analysis
Lecturer Ari Korhonen
algorithm engineering, software visualisation, web technologies, big data, educational data mining, learning analytics, computing education research, educational technology, digital humanities
Professor Jaakko Lehtinen
computer graphics, physically-based image synthesis, appearance capture, realistic image synthesis
Professor Tapio Lokki
room acoustics, perception, virtual acoustics, 3D sound, psychoacoustics, binaural technology
Professor Lauri Malmi
Computing education research, educational technology, software visualization, gameful learning
Professor David McGookin
multimodal interaction, social media, location-based computing
Professor Lauri Savioja
Room acoustics, virtual acoustics, audio, virtual reality
Lecturer Juha Sorva
computing education research, research on student learning of programming, software visualization, educational technology
Professor Tapio Takala
computer graphics and animation, new interaction technologies, multimodal interaction, social media
Professor Petri Vuorimaa
web services, web applications, web of things