Panu Akerman

Senior Researcher
Tampere

Background

Graduated from the Technical University of Tampere in 2001 with the major in software technology. Working for Nokia over 10 years, and over 7 years in Nokia Research Center. In Nokia Research Center I have been working with topics ranging from communication protocols, programming languages, compilers, and virtual machines to collaboration systems and social media, with recent interest on ubiquitous systems. I'm doing my PhD studies at the Technical University of Tampere.

Research Interests

Current Research Interest

Communication, self-expression and social media with ubiquitous technology
Public interaction with ubiquitous technology
Context-awareness in mobile and ubiquitous communication
Development of ubiquitous systems

Research Projects

Social surface

Multitouch table allowing communciation by free drawing and pictures between two tables.

Burn-2-Share

Public display system allowing direct sharing of pictures with pico projector

Earlier Research Projects

ActivePlace

enterprise social media system allowing rich, informal and always-on group connection.

Publications

Sketching with strangers: in the wild study of ad hoc social communication by drawing Åkerman, P., Puikkonen, A., Huuskonen, P., Virolainen, A., Häkkilä, J. Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing