Markku Turunen
Professor (Interactive Technology),Ph.D., Docent (Adjunct Professor)
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Markku TurunenProfessor (Interactive Technology),Ph.D., Docent (Adjunct Professor) |
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I am a Professor of Interactive Technology working at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tampere. I am leading the Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction research group. The group studies speech-based and multimodal interaction and mobile and ubiquitous systems as a part of the Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction (TAUCHI).
I supervise students preparing their M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis on human-computer interaction and user interface software development (in particular on my own research areas, see below).
My research interests include many aspects of multimodal and spoken user interfaces, including multimodal and spoken dialogue systems, and novel user interfaces for mobile and pervasive computing applications. My goal is to study what kind of software solutions do novel interaction require and how it can be evaluated. One practical result of this work is the Jaspis architecture. Currently, my main interests include embodied and spatial interaction (e.g., gestures), user experience evaluation, and interactive lightning, for example. To the date, I have participated in 25 externally funded research projects.
I'm a member of the board of the Finnish Information Processing Association. I have been a board member of the Finnish Society for Computer Science, a managing committee member of the COST 278 (Spoken Language Interaction In Telecommunication) action, and a member of board (2001-2002) and chairman (2003-2004) of the Tampere Information Processing Association (PITKY), and a vice member of the Kites ry (a language technolgy association).
I received a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Tampere in 2004. The title of my PhD dissertation is Jaspis - A Spoken Dialogue Architecture and its Applications. It has been awarded as the best computer science doctoral thesis in Finland in 2004 by the Finnish Information Processing Association on the recommendation of the Finnish Society for Computer Science. You can find more information from the dissertation page.
In addition, I'm an Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Interaction Technology at the University of Tampere.
I received a M.Sc in computer science from University of Tampere in 1998. My M.Sc. thesis topic was Speech control in 3D-interfaces (translated from Finnish). It has been awarded as the best computer science master's thesis in Finland in 1998 by the Finnish Society for Computer Science.
More than 90 publications on spoken and multimodal interaction and pervasive computing.
A brief CV is available.
My personal interests include photography, literature (history in particular), movies/home-theater/htpc, music, beers, wines and computer/video games. I like most art-house movies, and (computer-)animated movies. My favorite music genres include all genres of progressive rock, some genres of jazz (fusion, free, hard bop) and otherwise inspiring music (experimental, alternative, post-rock), in particular if they include progressive/jazz elements. I love good beers and wines, in particular so-called "special beers". I like to find local breweries, especially micro-breweries and hand-crafted/real ales when I'm travelling. I'm a founding member of several beer and wine associations, including Tampere beer-culture pages. I like to cook, and in particular use beer and wine in cooking. My favourite games are those which I can play with my children (e.g. Lego-games and Kinect/Wii/Move-games).
Address:
University of Tampere
School of Information Sciences
Tampere Unit for Computer Human Interaction
Pinni-B, 2nd floor, room 2126
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
Phone:
+358 40 533 9689 (Mobile)
+358 3 3551 6070 (Fax)
Internet:
markku.turunen@sis.uta.fi
http://www.cs.uta.fi/~mturunen/english.html
