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Antti Salovaara

Docent (adjunct professor)
PhD, cognitive science

Contact Information

antti.salovaara[at]helsinki.fi
+358 50 3360 143
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Starting from September 2019, I am a senior lecturer on interaction design at Aalto University, Department of Design. See my Aalto People profile page.


Short description about my research interests:

I am interested in creativity in knowledge work and the role of ICT use in those processes.

Humans are creative tool users and able to discover novel solutions for practical problems in their work and everyday life tasks. This creative potential remains however scientifically weakly understood.

My background is in human-computer interaction (HCI) and cognitive science. I study repurposive appropriation - the processes by which users discover new purposes of use for technology. This research includes both quantitative and qualitative methods, and particularly field trials on technology prototypes.

In my previous research, I have investigated creativity in knowledge work contexts. This research involved both individual-level studies on creative cognitive processes as well as development of new models and theories for understanding the organizational factors that may hinder or facilitate creativity in information systems use.

CV

Doctoral consortium co-chair for ECSCW 2019.

Late-breaking work co-chair for CHI 2018 and CHI 2019.

Associate chair for CSCW (2018, 2017) and CHI (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) and DIS (2014, 2016 and 2017) papers, CHI 2012 and CHI 2017 work-in-progress (late-breaking work) papers, and NordiCHI 2012 full and short papers.

Associate editor for ECIS2016 in the Information Systems Development track.

Organizer of ECIS2015 workshop "Beyond amount of use: Concepts and constructs for heterogeneous and creative uses of IS".

Workshop chair for NordiCHI2014.

Program committee member in MUM 2012 and MUM 2016 (Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), HCI 2012HCI 2014 and HCI 2016 (British Computer Society HCI conference).

Organizer of CHI2011 workshop "Appropriation and creative use: linking user studies and design"

Co-chair of arrangements at MobileHCI 2006 and arrangements and student volunteers at Pervasive 2010

SIGCHI Finland - member of the board 2004-2015, chairperson 2007-2009, webmaster 2010-2013, treasurer 2014-2015.

Publications

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2018

Jani Merikivi, Antti Salovaara, Matti Mäntymäki, Lilong Zhang (2018). On the way to understanding binge watching and satisfaction: the over-estimated role of involvement. Electronic Markets, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 111–122. [Springer LINK] [SharedIt's view-only camera ready version]

Tapani Rinta-Kahila, Esko Penttinen, Antti Salovaara, Wael Soliman (2018). Consequences of discontinuing knowledge work automation – Surfacing of deskilling effects and methods of recovery. A full paper presented to Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51). [ScholarSpace] [PDF]

2017

Jeffrey Bardzell, Nina Boulus-Rødje, Michael Muller, Antti Salovaara, Alina Krischkowsky, Verena Fuchsberger (2017). Discerning designers’ intentions. Proceedings of 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2017). Panel organized in the conference. Sheffield, UK, 28 August - 1 September. [PDF][EUSSET DL]

Antti Salovaara, Antti Oulasvirta, Giulio Jacucci (2017). Evaluation of prototypes and the problem of possible futures. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), pp. 2064-2077. Denver, CO, 6-11 May 2017. [PDF] [ACM DL Open Access] [SlideShare]

Matti Nelimarkka, Antti Salovaara, Bryan Semaan, Giulio Jacucci (2017). Theory-driven collocated CMC: A study on collocated mediated interaction as a public sphere. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), pp. 4534-4547. Denver, CO, 6-11 May 06 2017. [PDF] [ACM DL]

Antti Salovaara (2017). Gamification of appropriation: Increasing the curiosity for tinkering. A poster presented in CHI2017 workshop on "Designing for curiosity". Denver, CO, 7 May 2017. [Paper] [Poster]

2016

Matti Nelimarkka, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci (2016). Live participation: Augmenting events with audience-performer interaction systems. Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2016), pp. 509-520. Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 June 2016. ACM Press, New York, NY. [ACM authorized free copy]

Jani Merikivi, Matti Mäntymäki, Antti Salovaara, Lilong Zhang (2016). Binge watching television shows: Conceptualization and measurement. Full paper to be presented in ECIS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, June 12-15.

Matti Nelimarkka, Antti Salovaara, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Giulio Jacucci (2016). Collocated interaction as a public sphere. Position paper presented in CSCW 2016 workshop "Collocated Interaction: New Challenges in ‘Same Time, Same Place’ Research", San Francisco, CA, 27 February 2016. [PDF]

2015

Antti Salovaara, Jani Merikivi (2015). IS research progress would benefit from increased falsification of existing theories . A complete research paper presented in the Twenty-Third European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015). [PREPRINT] [AIS el]

Antti Salovaara, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen (2015). Mediated sharing as software developers' strategy to manage ephemeral knowledge. A complete research paper presented in the Twenty-Third European Conference on Information Systems ( ECIS 2015). [PREPRINT][AIS el]

Antti Salovaara (2015). Experiments in measuring heterogeneous and creative use of information systems. A workshop paper presented in ECIS 2015 workshop "Beyond amount of use: Concepts and constructs for heterogeneous and creative uses of IS", Münster, Germany, 25 May 2015. [PDF]

Lassi A. Liikkanen, Antti Salovaara (2015). Music on YouTube: User engagement with traditional, user-appropriated and derivative videos. Computers in Human Behaviour, Vol. 50, pp. 108–124. [ELSEVIER] [AUTHOR COPY]

Antti Salovaara, Kalle Lyytinen, Esko Penttinen (2015). Flexibility vs. structure: How to manage reliably continuously emerging threats in malware protection. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48), pp. 4980-4989. New York, NY: IEEE Computer Society. [PREPRINT] [IEEE]

2014

Antti Salovaara, Jani Merikivi (2014). IS research progress would benefit from increased falsification of existing theories. A paper presented in ICIS 2014 SIG-Phil workshop.

Petteri Nurmi, Antti Salovaara, Andreas Forsblom, Fabian Bohnert, Patrik Floréen (2014). PromotionRank: Ranking and recommending grocery product promotions using personal shopping lists. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (ACM TiiS), Vol. 4, No. 1, Article 1. [PDF] [ACM DL]

2013

Antti Salovaara, Anssi Öörni, Bertta Sokura (2013). Heterogeneous use for multiple purposes: A point of concern to IS use models’ validity. A complete research paper, Proceedings of the Thirty Fourth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013). [PDF] [AIS el]

Antti Salovaara, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen (2013). Software developers' online chat as an intra-firm mechanism for sharing ephemeral knowledge. A complete research paper, Proceedings of the Thirty Fourth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013). [PDF] [AIS el]

2012

Antti Salovaara (2012). Repurposive appropriation and creative technology use in human-computer interaction. PhD thesis, University of Helsinki, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Cognitive Science. Studies in Cognitive Science 3:2012, Unigrafia, Helsinki. [PDF]

Ville Lehtinen, Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara, Petteri Nurmi (2012). Dynamic tactile guidance for visual search tasks. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2012). [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Sourav Bhattacharya, Patrik Floréen, Andreas Forsblom, Samuli Hemminki, Petri Myllymäki, Petteri Nurmi, Teemu Pulkkinen, Antti Salovaara (2012). Ma$$iv€ – An intelligent mobile grocery assistant. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2012). 26-29 June, Guanajuato, Mexico. [PDF] [IEEE DL]

Herkko Hietanen, Antti Salovaara, Kumaripaba Athukorala, Yefeng Liu (2012). <Insert image>: Helping in the legal use of open images. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012), pp. 599-608. Austin, TX, USA, 7-10 May 2012. ACM Press, New York, NY. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

2011

Herkko Hietanen, Kumaripaba Athukorala, Antti Salovaara (2011). What's with the free images? A study of Flickr's Creative Commons attribution images. Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference (MindTrek 2011), pp. 265-268. Tampere, Finland. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Salovaara, Antti Lindqvist, Tero Hasu, Jonna Häkkilä (2011). The phone rings but the user doesn't answer: unavailability in mobile communication. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2011), pp. 503-512. Stockholm, Sweden, 30 Aug - 2 Sept, 2011. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Salovaara, Sacha Helfenstein, Antti Oulasvirta (2011). Everyday appropriations of information technology: A study of creative uses of digital cameras. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol. 62, No. 12, pp. 2347-2363. [PDF] [WILEY]

Mikael Wahlström, Antti Salovaara, Leena Salo, Antti Oulasvirta (2011). Resolving safety-critical incidents in a rally control center. Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 26, No. 1 & 2, pp. 9-37. [TAYLOR&FRANCIS] [ AUTHOR COPY]

Petteri Nurmi, Antti Salovaara, Sourav Bhattacharya, Teemu Pulkkinen, Gerrit Kahl (2011). Influence of landmark-based navigation instructions on user attention in indoor smart spaces. Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI 2011), pp. 33-42. Palo Alto, USA. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Salovaara, Kristina Höök, Keith Cheverst, Michael Twidale, Matthew Chalmers, Corina Sas (2011). Appropriation and Creative Use: Linking User Studies and Design. Workshop organized in CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada, 8 May 2011. CHI2011 Extended Abstracts, pp. 37-40. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Salovaara (2011). Learning about appropriation from information systems research. A position paper presented in CHI 2011 workshop on Appropriation and Creative Use, Vancouver, Canada, 8 May 2011. [PDF]

2010

Antti Salovaara, Asko Lehmuskallio, Leif Hedman, Paula Valkonen, Jaana Näsänen (2010). Information technologies and transitions in the lives of 55-65-year-olds: The case of colliding life interests. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Vol. 68, No. 11, pp. 803-821. [ELSEVIER] [ PREPRINT]

Giulio Jacucci, Peter Peltonen, Ann Morrison, Antti Salovaara Esko Kurvinen, Antti Oulasvirta (2010). Ubiquitous media for collocated interaction. In Katharine S. Willis, George Roussos, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (eds): Shared Encounters, pp. 23-46. London: Springer. [SPRINGER]

2009

Antti Salovaara, Sacha Helfenstein, Mikael Wahlström, Antti Oulasvirta (2009). What explains differences in users' inclination to appropriate technology for unconventional purposes? A preliminary analysis. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2009), pp. 236-239. VTT Symposium series 258, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. [FULL TEXT FROM ACM] [ DRAFT PDF]

Antti Salovaara (2009). Studying appropriation of everyday technologies - a cognitive approach. A Doctoral Consortium paper presented at CHI2009, April 4, 2009, Boston, MA. CHI2009 Extended Abstracts pp. 3141-3144. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY] [POSTER]

Antti Salovaara, Sakari Tamminen (2009). Acceptance or appropriation? A design-oriented critique on technology acceptance models. In Pertti Saariluoma and Hannakaisa Isomäki (eds): Future Interaction Design II, pp. 157-173. London: Springer. [DRAFT PDF]

2008

Antti Salovaara, Mark Perry, Roshanak Zarabi (2008). The fine art of surfacing: practices of use at the tabletop. Workshop paper presented at International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies 2008 (SIMTech 2008), 20-21 November, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. [PDF]

Marije Kanis, Antti Salovaara, Willem-Paul Brinkman (2008). Mundane pleasures in everyday life. Workshop paper presented at International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies 2008 (SIMTech 2008), 20-21 November, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. [PDF]

Antti Salovaara (2008). Inventing new uses for tools: a cognitive foundation for studies on appropriation. Human Technology, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 209-228. [Human Technology OPEN ACCESS]

Antti Salovaara (2008). Struggling with gift-giving obligations: When mobile messages are too laborious to reciprocate. Short paper, in Proceedings of HCI 2008, The 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 83-86. Liverpool, UK, 2-5 September, 2008. Swindon, UK: British Computer Society. [PDF]

Peter Peltonen, Esko Kurvinen, Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci, Tommi Ilmonen, John Evans, Antti Oulasvirta, Petri Saarikko (2008). "It's mine, don't touch": Interactions at a large multitouch display in a city Center. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), pp. 1285-1294. Florence, Italy. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Salovaara, Esko Kurvinen (2008). Nuorten vuorovaikutus inspiroi suunnittelijaa [How teenager communication inspires the product designer]. In Sara Routarinne, Tuula Uusi-Hallila (eds.): Nuoret kielikuvassa: Kouluikäisten kieli 2000-luvulla [Teenagers in a figure of speech: the language among the school-aged in the 2000s], pp. 232-239. Helsinki, Finland: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

2007

Esko Kurvinen, Mia Lähteenmäki, Antti Salovaara, Fabiola Lopez (2007). Are you alive? Sensor data as a resource for social interaction. Journal of Knowledge, Technology & Policy, Vol 20(1). [SPRINGER]

Antti Salovaara (2007). Appropriation of a MMS-based comic creator: From system functionalities to resources for action. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007), pp. 1117-1126. San Jose, CA, April 28-May 4. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Tommi Ilmonen, John Evans, Antti Salovaara (2007). CoMedia: Mobile group media for active spectatorship. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007), pp. 1273-1282. San Jose, CA, April 28-May 4. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Salovaara (2007). What cognitive science has to offer for research on appropriation and end-user development. Position paper presented in CHI 2007 workshop on Science of Design, San Jose, CA, April 29, 2007.

Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara (2007). Active construction of experience through mobile media: a field study with implications for recording and sharing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 11(4), 215-234. Special Issue on Memory and Sharing of Experiences. [SPRINGER] [PDF]

Peter Peltonen, Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci, Tommi Ilmonen, Carmelo Ardito, Petri Saarikko, Vikram Batra (2007). Extending large-scale event participation with user-created mobile media on a public display. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM2007), pp.131-138. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

2006

Kai Kuikkaniemi, Marko Turpeinen, Antti Salovaara, Timo Saari, Janne Vuorenmaa (2006). Toolkit for user-created augmented reality games. A full paper presented in the 5th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2006). Stanford, CA, December 4-6. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Giulio Jacucci, Antti Salovaara, Antti Oulasvirta, Tommi Ilmonen, John Evans (2006). CoMedia: Integrating Context Cues into Mobile Group Media for Spectators. A poster pressnted in the 3rd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (ENACTIVE 2006). Montpellier, France, November 20-21.

Antti Salovaara (2006). Studying appropriation of mobile technologies. A position paper presented In MobileHCI 2006 Doctoral Consortium. Espoo, Finland, September 12. [PDF]

Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Timo Saari, Pekka Kanerva, Esko Kurvinen, Sauli Tiitta (2006). Collective creation and sense-making of mobile media. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2006), pp. 1211-1220. Montreal, Canada, April 21-27. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Salovaara, Antti Oulasvirta, Giulio Jacucci (2006). "The panopticon": a method for observing inter-group interactions. A position paper presented at CHI2006 workshop on Reality testing: HCI challenges in non-traditional environments. [PDF]

2005

Giulio Jacucci, Antti Salovaara (2005). Mobile media sharing in large-scale events - beyond MMS. Interactions, November+December 2005, pp. 32-35. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Esko Kurvinen, Mia Lähteenmäki, Antti Salovaara, Fabiola Lopez (2005). Are you alive? Sensor data as resource for social interaction. Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (DPPI 2005), pp 335-352. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 24-27, 2005. Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara, Risto Sarvas (2005). Supporting the shared experience of spectators through mobile group media. In Proceedings of the 2005 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2005), pp. 207-216. Sanibel Island, FL, November 6-9. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY].

Antti Salovaara, Esko Kurvinen, Giulio Jacucci (2005). On space and place in mobile settings. A position paper accepted to INTERACT2005 conference workshop W12 on Space, place and experience in Human-computer interaction. [PDF]]

Antti Salovaara, Mikael Johnson, Kalle Toiskallio, Sauli Tiitta, Marko Turpeinen (2005). Creative playmakers and their motivations in four multiplayer game communities. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2005), Short papers, pp. 334-337. Valencia, Spain, June 15-17. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY].

Antti Salovaara, Petri Mannonen (2005). Use of future-oriented information in user-centered product concept ideation. In Proceedings of the IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2005). Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3585 (LNCS), pp. 727-740. Rome, Italy, September 12-16. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [AUTHOR COPY] [SPRINGER LINK].

Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara, Thomas Psik, Ina Wagner (2005). Augmented Reality Painting and Collage: Evaluating Tangible Interaction in a Field Study. In Proceedings of the IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2005). Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3585 (LNCS), pp. 43-56. [SPRINGER LINK]

Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara (2005). Ubiquitous computing and the concept of context. In Ghaoui, C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Idea Group Publishing.

2004

Antti Salovaara (2004). Proactive Reasoning in Mobile HCI: Tackling Uncertainty and Appropriate Task Support. HIIT Technical Report 2004-2. [PDF]

Antti Salovaara, Antti Oulasvirta (2004). Six modes of proactive resource management: A user-centric typology for proactive behaviors. In Proceedings of NordiCHI 2004, Short papers, pp. 57-60. Tampere, Finland, October 23-27. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara (2004). A cognitive meta-analysis of design approaches to interruptions in intelligent environments. In Proceedings of CHI 2004, Late breaking results, pp. 1155-1158. Vienna, Austria, April 24-29. New York, NY: ACM Press. [ACM AUTHORIZED FREE COPY]

2003

Sirpa Riihiaho, Hannu Kuoppala, Petri Mannonen, Antti Salovaara (2003). Proaktiivisen tietotekniikan vaikutukset huoltotyöhön [Effects of proactive computing on maintenance work]. Research report HUT-SoberIT-A1, Software Business and Engineering Institute, Helsinki University of Technology. ISBN 951-22-6573-7. [PDF]

Antti Salovaara, Hannu Kuoppala, Marko Nieminen, eds. (2003). Perspectives on intelligent user interfaces - Näkökulmia älykkäisiin käyttöliittymiin. Technical report HUT-SoberIT-C1, Software Business and Engineering Institute, Helsinki University of Technology. ISBN 951-22-6458-7. [PDF]

2002

Antti Salovaara, Heikki Hyötyniemi, Juha Syri (2002). Intelligent information management - The challenges of a SOM-based mail organizer. In Proceedings of Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP'02), pp. 10-18. Oulu, December 2002. ISBN 951-967-4-7.

2001

Juha Syri, Heikki Hyötyniemi, Antti Salovaara (2001). Challenges in early-phase usability evaluation - A case-study of an adaptive telecommunicative agent in Nokia Phones. In Proceedings of The 18th International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication (HFT 2001). Bergen, November 2001.

Juha Syri, Sato Mizobuchi, Fumiko Ichikawa, Antti Salovaara (2001). Searching for a more diversified view of usability. Poster presented in The 1st International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2001). New Orleans, August 2001.