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Background
Panu Vartiainen works as a Research Engineer in Nokia Research Center Helsinki. He first joined NRC as a trainee in 2000, and has been working there full-time since 2002. He got his MSc in Computer Science from University of Helsinki in 2003. He works most of the time at his home office in the Finnish countryside, so he has a hands-on experience with remote and mobile work. He has done research related to mobile metadata and context information, mobile collaboration, mobile search and mobile office applications.
Publications
- S. Chande, P. Vartiainen, K. Rämö, Active Notes: Context Sensitive Notes for Mobile Devices, to appear in Mobility Conference 2007 in September 2007
- P. Vartiainen, S. Chande, K. Rämö, Mobile Visual Interaction: enhancing local communication and collaboration with visual interactions. In Proceedings of the 5th international Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (Stanford, California, December 04 - 06, 2006). MUM '06, DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1186655.1186659
- P. Hulsen, E. Vlemmix, P. Vartiainen, J. Leinonen, Multi-Service Models For Non-PC Users. IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics 2004.
- P. Vartiainen, Using Metadata and Context Information in Sharing Personal Content of Mobile Users. Master's Thesis, Dept. of Comp.Sc, Univ. Of Helsinki, C-2003-16.
- S.A. Laakso, K.-P. Laakso, P. Vartiainen, A.J. Saura, Problems with Save. CHI 2001 Conf. Proc., Extended Abstracts, ACM, 2001, pp. 185-186.
Patents
Panu Vartiainen has 4 patents pending, including:
Personal life
Panu has a wife, a 2-year-old daughter, and a dog. He enjoys walking in the nature, swimming, singing solo and in a choir, playing the guitar, and taking part in the activities of his local church.
