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Marion Boberg

Senior Researcher - Organic User Interfaces
Nokia Research Center - Tampere

I joined Nokia in November 2007, just before finishing my PhD related to mobile phone and Identity. I did my Phd in Psychology in joint supervision between the University of Caen in France and The University of Joensuu in Finland, which means that I graduated from both universities at the same time. I was born and raised in a small village in Normandy called Honfleur, and moved to Finland in 2002.

I am mostly interested in people, and more specifically in user experience and design. So far I have been involved in many projects related to Avatar, Image Space, playfulness involving tasks such as understanding, creating and measuring user experience.

Research Interests

  • Psychology
  • User Experience
  • Playful Experience
  • Self expression and Avatars
  • Communication Behaviors
  • Online/Offline Social Interactions
  • User-Centered Design
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Usability

Publications

PhD Thesis

Boberg, M. 2008. 'Mobile phone and Identity: a comparative study of the representations of mobile phone among French and Finnish adolescents', Ph.D. Thesis. University of Joensuu.

Papers

Arrasvuori J., Boberg M., Holopainen J., Korhonen H., Lucero A., Montola M. (Forthcoming). Applying PLEX Framework in Designing for Playfulness. In Proc. of DPPI'11.

Walsh R., Boberg M., Arrasvuori J., Korhonen H., Walsh T. 2010. Introducing Game and Playful Experiences to other Application Domains through Personality and Motivation Models. In Proc. of IEEE International Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference (ICE-GIC).

Arrasvuori, J., Boberg, M., Korhonen, H., 2010. Understanding Playfulness - An Overview of the Revised Playful Experience (PLEX) Framework, In Proc. of Design & Emotion 2010 conference.

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

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. In Proc. of MindTrek '09. ACM, 94-97.

Boberg, M., Ollila, E.M.I., Piippo, P. 2008. 'Designing Avatars' In Proc. of DIMEA 2008. 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment & Arts, 10-12 September 2008, Athens, Greece.

Patents

Co-inventor of 4 pending patents.