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Teemu Ahmaniemi

Principal Scientist
Helsinki, Finland

I joined NRC 1999 after completing master degree in Tampere University of Technology and working two years in biomedial engineering industry. The first years in Nokia I was busy with speech, audio and music releated research topics together with my secondary studies in Tampere Concervatory. Then, I shifted my research topic more into interaction research and started my post graduate studies in Helsinki University of Technology. Recently, I have been concentrating on tactile and audio feedback in touch and gesture interfaces. Key challenges in the work are related to perception of continuous feedback and its influence in the whole interaction process. Most of the work is conducted in collaboration with universities in Helsinki and Tampere.

Research Interests

  • Tactile and deformable interfaces
  • Gesture interaction
  • Haptic and audio feedback
  • Human motor control and learning

Publications

T. Ahmaniemi, "Acquisition of Dynamically Revealed Multimodal Targets," in 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Alicante, Spain, 2011.

K. Salminen, V. Surakka, J. Raisamo, J. Lylykangas, J. Pystynen, R. Raisamo, K. Mäkelä, and T. Ahmaniemi, "Emotional responses to thermal stimuli," presented at the Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces, Alicante, Spain, 2011.

C.-H. Lai, M. Niinim, #228, ki, K. Tahiroglu, J. Kildal, and T. Ahmaniemi, "Perceived physicality in audio-enhanced force input," presented at the Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces, Alicante, Spain, 2011.

E. Hoggan, D. Trendafilov, T. Ahmaniemi, and R. Raisamo, "Squeeze vs. Tilt: A comparative study using continuous tactile feedback," in CHI works in progress, Vancouver, Canada, 2011.

T. Ahola, K. Tahiroglu, T. Ahmaniemi, F. Belloni, and V. Ranki, "Raja - A Multidisciplinary Artistic Performance," in New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Oslo, Norway, 2011.

T. Ahmaniemi, "Effect of Dynamic Vibrotactile Feedback on the Control of Force," Submitted to IEEE Transaction of Haptics, 2011.

J. Rantala, R. Raisamo, J. Lylykangas, T. Ahmaniemi, J. Raisamo, J. Rantala, K. Mäkelä, K. Salminen, and V. Surakka, "The Role of Gesture Types and Spatial Feedback in Haptic Communication," IEEE Transaction of Haptics, pp. PrePrint 1939-1412, 2011.

K. Tahiroglu and T. Ahmaniemi, "The Effect of Haptic Feedback in Vocal Sketching Experiments with a Graspable Interface," in 5th International Haptic and Audio Interaction Design Workshop (HAID), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010.

K. Tahiroglu and T. Ahmaniemi, "Vocal sketching: a prototype tool for designing multimodal interaction," in International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, Beijing, China, 2010.

T. Ahmaniemi, "Gesture Controlled Virtual Instrument with Dynamic Vibrotactile Feedback," in New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2010), Sydney, Australia, 2010, pp. 485-488.

T. Ahmaniemi, J. Marila, and V. Lantz, "Design of Dynamic Vibrotactile Textures," IEEE Transaction of Haptics, vol. 3, pp. 245-256, 2010.

J. Heikkinen, J. Rantala, T. Olsson, R. Raisamo, J. Lylykangas, J. Raisamo, V. Surakka, and T. Ahmaniemi, "Enhancing personal communication with spatial haptics: Two scenario-based experiments on gestural interaction," J. Vis. Lang. Comput., vol. 20, pp. 287-304, 2009.

T. T. Ahmaniemi and V. T. Lantz, "Augmented reality target finding based on tactile cues," presented at the Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.

T. Ahmaniemi, V. Lantz, and J. Marila, "Dynamic audiotactile feedback in gesture interaction," presented at the Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.

T. T. Ahmaniemi, V. Lantz, and J. Marila, "Perception of dynamic audiotactile feedback to gesture input," presented at the Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, Chania, Crete, Greece, 2008.

T. Ahmaniemi, "Influence of Tempo and Subjective Rating of Music in Step Frequency of Running," in International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR 2007, Vienna, Austria, 2007, pp. 183-184.

T. Ahmaniemi, "Vibration as a rhythm excitation in music," in 12th Internation Congress on Sound and Vibration, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.