Panu has a wife, two daughters, 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.

• Chande, S., Vartiainen, P., and Rämö, K. 2007. Active notes: context-sensitive notes for mobile devices. In Proceedings of the 4th international Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems and the 1st international Symposium on Computer Human interaction in Mobile Technology (Singapore, September 10 - 12, 2007). Mobility '07. ACM, New York, NY, 716-723. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378063.1378185
• 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.

Panu Vartiainen has 4 patents pending, including:

• Active Notes Application
• Control Device For Information Display, Corresponding System, Method And Program Product
• System, Device, Method and Computer Program Product for Using a Mobile Camera for Controlling a Computer