Andrés Lucero

Senior Researcher
NRC Tampere, Finland

I joined Nokia Research Center in September 2008 and I have since been working as a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher, focusing on the design and evaluation of novel interaction techniques for mobile phones and other interactive surfaces.

I got my Masters degree in Visual Communication Design from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), Santiago, Chile. In 2004 I received a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) degree in User-System Interaction from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands, which included a one-year project in Philips Research. In 2009 I completed my PhD at the TU/e on co-designing mixed reality support tools for industrial designers. As part of my PhD work, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TAIK).

Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Design and Research Methods
User-Centered Design (UCD)
User-Driven Innovation
User Experience (UX)
Mixed Reality
Co-Design
Education
Usability

Conferences

Organizing Committee

MobileHCI '12, San Francisco, US
Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces '08, Amsterdam, NL
Persuasive '06, Eindhoven, NL
DPPI '05, Eindhoven, NL
EUSAI 2004, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (NL)

Reviewer

CHI 2007 - Present
MobileHCI 2012
DIS 2012
UIST 2011
NordiCHI 2010
Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2010
ACE 2009
British HCI 2008

Other Information

Invited Talks to Academia and Industry

21.02.12: Experience Design Methods at TUT, Finland
15.02.12: PLEX Cards: an Exercise in Concept Design at NHTV, NL
09.06.11: Social and Spatial Interactions at Swansea University, UK
08.06.11: Social and Spatial Interactions at Bristol University, UK
31.05.11: UX Design and Prototyping at TUT, Finland
16.12.10: Co-Designing Interactive Spaces at UTEM, Chile
03.12.10: Research Workshops in Industry at TAIK, Finland
11.10.10: User-Driven Innovation at NHTV, NL
24.03.10: Cross-Cultural Design at TUT, Finland
19.11.09: Designing Playful Experiences at Nokia, Finland
16.06.09: Co-Designing Interactive Spaces at Demola, Finland
21.05.08: Co-Designing Intuitive Interactions at Nokia Research, FI
05.11.07: Co-Designing Intuitive Interactions at Philips Research, NL
07.09.07: Probes at TU/e, the Netherlands (NL)
14.12.06: Probes at TAIK, Finland
07.11.06: Mood Boarding at TAIK, Finland
09.10.06: Mood Boarding at TAIK, Finland
08.06.06: Competency-Based Education at UTEM, Chile
09.11.05: Mood Boarding Tools at UTEM, Chile
22.12.04: User-System Interaction at UTEM, Chile
22.12.04: Usability Testing at UTEM, Chile

Publications

PhD Thesis

Lucero, A. 2009. Co-Designing Interactive Spaces for and with Designers: Supporting Mood-Board Making. Eindhoven University of Technology.

Journal (2008→)

Lucero, A., Vaajakallio, K. and Dalsgaard, P. 2011. The dialogue-labs method: process, space and materials as structuring elements to spark dialogue in co-design events. CoDesign, Taylor & Francis, 1-23.

Aliakseyeu, D., Lucero, A. and Martens, J. 2009. Users' quest for an optimized representation of a multi-device space. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 13(8), Springer, 599-607.

Papers (2008→)

Lucero, A. and Mattelmäki, T. 2011. Nice to See You Again: Engaging Users in Design To appear in Proc. DPPI'11. ACM.

Arrasvuori, J., Boberg, M., Holopainen, J., Korhonen, H., Lucero, A. and Montola, M. 2011. Applying the PLEX Framework in Designing for Playfulness To appear in Proc. DPPI'11. ACM.

Lucero, A., Holopainen, J. and Jokela, T. 2011. Pass-Them-Around: Collaborative Use of Mobile Phones for Photo Sharing. Proc. CHI '11. ACM, 1787-1796.

Lucero, A., Keränen, J. and Korhonen, H. 2010. Collaborative Use of Mobile Phones for Brainstorming. Proc. MobileHCI '10. ACM, 337-340.

Lucero, A. and Arrasvuori, J. 2010. PLEX Cards: a source of inspiration when designing for playfulness. Proc. Fun and Games '10. ACM, 28-37.

Lucero, A., Keränen, J. and Jokela, T. 2010. Social and Spatial Interactions: Shared Co-Located Mobile Phone Use. Proc. CHI '10. ACM, 3223-3228.

Lucero, A., Boberg, M. and Uusitalo, S. 2009. Image Space: capturing, sharing and contextualizing personal pictures in a simple and playful way. Proc. ACE '09. ACM, 215-222.

Soler, C., Zacarías, A. and Lucero, A. 2009. Molarcropolis: a mobile persuasive game to raise oral health and dental hygiene awareness. Proc. ACE '09. ACM, 388-391.

Lucero, A. and Vaajakallio, K. 2009. Dialogue-labs: creating dialogue in co-design sessions. Proc. DPPI '09. 318-329.

Montola M., Nummenmaa T., Lucero A., Boberg M. and Korhonen H. 2009. Applying game achievement systems to enhance user experience in a photo sharing service. Proc. MindTrek '09. ACM, 94-97.

Aliakseyeu, D., Irani, P., Lucero, A. and Subramanian, S. 2008. Multi-flick: an evaluation of flick-based scrolling techniques for pen interfaces. Proc. CHI '08. ACM, 1689-1698.

Workshop and Other (2008→)

Aliakseyeu, D., Mason, J., Meerbeek, B., van Essen, H., Offermans, S. and Lucero, A. 2011. User Interaction Techniques for Future Lighting Systems. Workshop at INTERACT '11 on User Interaction Techniques for Future Lighting Systems.

Lucero, A. and Jokela T. 2011. Social and Spatial Interactions: Design and Evaluation Challenges. Workshop at MobileHCI '11 on Designing and Evaluating Mobile Systems for Collocated Groups Use.

El Ali, A., Lucero, A. and Aaltonen V. 2011. Multimodal Interaction Design in Collocated Mobile Phone Use. Workshop at MobileHCI '11 on Body, Movement, Gestures & Tactility in Interaction with Mobile Devices.

Hühn, A.E., Khan. V.J., Ketelaar, P., Nuijten, K., van Gisbergen, M. and Lucero, A. 2011. The Effect of Location on Perceived Intrusiveness of Mobile Ads. Proc. CHI Sparks '11.

Patents

Two granted patents plus a few others pending.