Pekka Kallioniemi's research while affiliated with Tampere University and other places

... This arms race between the toxic communicators and self-teaching algorithms is still ongoing, but at the moment it seems that the virulent humans have an upper hand. It is commonly understood that the lack of understanding of basic human emotions makes it difficult for algorithms to detect and remove hate speech efficiently, and machines have hard time understanding for example racial histories and power dynamics (Kallioniemi, 2021). ...

... The authors in [53] and [54] use driving simulations to test the performance of a haptic feedback system that predicts a collision (i.e., to compensate for communication delays) and generates additional torque on the remote station steering wheel. Similarly, driving simulations are used to test the performance of mitigation techniques, such as the predictive display in [48], or the work in [55], where the driver's situational awareness is enhanced with the use of multi-modal feedback (visual, auditory, and haptic). The authors in [55] use a Unity-based custom-built simulator for an armored personnel carrier, and studied the effect of different combinations of feedback (e.g., visual and haptic clues to determine the slipperiness of the road). ...

... Emmasbox is one example tackling such issue by placing an interactive food station in a major European airport baggage carousel area as an public display which provides food packages [2], through their findings that majority of tourists are looking for gastronomic pleasure in travels. The Finnish You is an example highlighting passengers waiting time by an interactive storytelling mobile application while educating them about the Finnish culture [4]. Other studies proposed integrated services to assist travel planning-for hotels, attractions, and routing based on crowd sourced data from social media, reviews of hotels, Flickr images, and Uber taxi costs between places [20]. ...

... CVEs enable collaboration and interaction in a shared VE between users who may either use the same physical work space or remotely connect through the internet [13]. [24]. In their CityCompass VR application two users move through a virtual city and alternate between the roles of tourist and guide. ...

... In addition, Mäkelä, Keskinen, Mäkelä, Kallioniemi, Karhu, Ronkainen, Burova, Hakulinen, and Turunen (2019) found that the use of attention guiding elements must be carefully considered in terms of their frequency of presentation and degree of guidance. ...

... PD workshops included theatre play activities, guided by theatre teachers familiar with the practice. [92,93] utilized dramatized scenarios, inspired by Bollywood method [18], for facilitating cross-cultural communication and collaboration online among children. Bollywood method has originally aimed at facilitating the design process, particularly usability evaluation, in India, lowering the threshold for participants for giving critical feedback [18]. ...

... They tracked participants' head movements and described the use of spatial statistical analysis approaches like Space-Time Cubes and Getis Ord Gi * statistics to evaluate motion data. Keskinen et al. (2019) investigated whether camera height, proximity to subjects, and viewer position impacted experience. Their findings indicate a natural and optimal height of approximately 1.5 m, hitting a comfortable zone for both seated and standing viewers. ...

... To address these questions, we developed an application, called The Finnish You, which generates a personal and unique storyline to guide travelers through local brands and shops in the airport. To strengthen our findings, and in contrast to a preceding study held in lab settings [5], we extracted data from a challenging real-world context and observed the usage of such an application in a field study with 15 travelers of different nationalities. Our findings indicate that interactive storytelling is a promising strategy to present local culture and lifestyle in an easy-to-receive manner, and, at the same time, persuade travelers to visit local shops and explore shopping possibilities. ...

... Direct VR studies include research on prototypes -like novel controllers [14,86] or head-mounted displays [63,69] -and interaction techniques [42], but also software applications like games or learning experiences [13,15,74]. Users' experiences and performances in VR have been also frequently investigated [1,27,44,60,77,79] i.e., experiences like presence, but also negative effects like cybersickness [17,19,47]. ...

... PD workshops included theatre play activities, guided by theatre teachers familiar with the practice. [92,93] utilized dramatized scenarios, inspired by Bollywood method [18], for facilitating cross-cultural communication and collaboration online among children. Bollywood method has originally aimed at facilitating the design process, particularly usability evaluation, in India, lowering the threshold for participants for giving critical feedback [18]. ...