Dr. Ville Mäkelä

Note

In July, 2021, I began my appointment as Assistant Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

I may still be available for collaborations, for example, to supervise theses. If you are interested in working with me, I can be reached at ville.makela@uwaterloo.ca.

This remainder of this page may no longer be up to date.

Research Interests

I am primarily interested in building functional and seamless interactive systems, particularly those that utilize novel ways of interaction to enable users to complete tasks in new and efficient ways. I have mainly worked in the areas of virtual reality, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and games.

I am also interested in developing and evaluating new research methods, for example, those that are conducted remotely and outside of traditional lab environments, such as people's homes.

I actively work with Professor Albrecht Schmidt and Professor Florian Alt.

If you would like to work with me regarding any of the above or related topics, you can contact me via email.

Scientific Activities

Member of Organizing Committees

• PerDis '19, Workshop & Tutorial Chair
• MindTrek ‘21 Track Chair

Program Committees

• CHI (Associate Chair) 2021, 2022
• ICMI 2020
• Mensch und Computer (German HCI Conference) 2019, 2020, 2021
• MindTrek 2021
• PerDis 2019

Reviewer Assignments for Conferences

• CHI (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• CHI PLAY (2021)
• DIS (2020, 2021)
• EICS PACM (2022)
• ICMI (2017, 2018, 2020)
• IEEE VR (2021)
• IMX (2020)
• INTERACT (2021)
• ISS (2018)
• MindTrek (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021)
• MobileHCI (2019)
• PerDis (2019)
• UIST (2020)
• VRST (2021)

Reviewer Assignments for Journals

• ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (2019, 2020)
• Applied Sciences (2019, 2020)
• Future Generation Computing Systems (2017)
• IEEE Pervasive Computing (2021)
• IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2020)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (2018)
• Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (2019)

Theses (Bachelor/Master)

Open

In Progress

Finished

Patents

Ville Mäkelä, Jennifer Marlow, Scott Carter. Systems and methods for peripheral awareness of, and nominal interaction with, a remote meeting using a wearable device

Publications

2022
Download	Nađa Terzimehić, Luke Haliburton, Philipp Greiner, Albrecht Schmidt, Heinrich Hussmann, Ville Mäkelä MindPhone: Mindful Reflection at Unlock Can Reduce Absentminded Smartphone Use In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). ACM. New York, NY, USA. pp 1818-1830. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533575. (bib)
2021
Download	Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä, Sarah Prange, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Robin Piening, Yumeng Zhou, Kay Köhle, Ken Pfeuffer, Yomna Abdelrahman, Matthias Hoppe, Albrecht Schmidt, Florian Alt Remote VR Studies: A Framework for Running Virtual Reality Studies Remotely Via Participant-Owned HMDs ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Volume 28, Issue 6. December 2021. Article No.: 46, pp 1-36. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
Download	Pekka Kallioniemi, Alisa Burova, John Mäkelä, Tuuli Keskinen, Kimmo Ronkainen, Ville Mäkelä, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen Multimodal Warnings in Remote Operation: The Case Study on Remote Driving Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2021, 5, 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5080044 (bib)
Download	Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä, Mariam Hassib, Yomna Abdelrahman, Florian Alt Exploring how Saliency Affects Attention in Virtual Reality In INTERACT '21: Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Bari, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 2021. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. (bib)
Download	Radiah Rivu, Yumeng Zhou, Robin Welsch, Ville Mäkelä, Florian Alt When Friends become Strangers: Understanding the Influence of Avatar Gender On Interpersonal Distance in Virtual Reality In INTERACT '21: Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Bari, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 2021. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. (bib)
Download	Radiah Rivu, Ruoyu Jiang, Ville Mäkelä, Mariam Hassib, Florian Alt Emotion Elicitation Techniques in Virtual Reality In INTERACT '21: Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Bari, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 2021. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. (bib)
Download	Kay Köhle, Matthias Hoppe, Albrecht Schmidt, Ville Mäkelä Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Health Interfaces in VR Shooter Games In INTERACT '21: Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Bari, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 2021. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. (bib)
Download	Elizabeth Bouquet, Ville Mäkelä, Albrecht Schmidt Exploring the Design of Companions in Video Games In Mindtrek '21: Proceedings of the 24th International Academic Mindtrek Conference. Tampere, Finland, June 1 - 3, 2021. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
Download	Albrecht Schmidt, Florian Alt, Ville Mäkelä Evaluation in Human-Computer Interaction — Beyond Lab Studies In CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Yokohama, Japan, May 8 - 13, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Johannes Kleine, Maxine Hood, Florian Alt, Albrecht Schmidt Hidden Interaction Techniques: Concealed Information Acquisition and Texting on Smartphones and Wearables In CHI '21: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Yokohama, Japan, May 8 - 13, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
2020
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Albrecht Schmidt I Don't Care as Long as It's Good: Player Preferences for Real-Time and Turn-Based Combat Systems in Computer RPGs In CHI PLAY'20: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Virtual Event, Canada, November 2-4, 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Radiah Rivu, Saleh Alsherif, Mohamed Khamis, Chong Xiao, Lisa Borchert, Albrecht Schmidt, Florian Alt Virtual Field Studies: Conducting Studies on Public Displays in Virtual Reality In CHI '20: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Honolulu, HI, USA, April 25 - 30, 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
2019
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Vito Gentile, Mohamed Khamis, Salvatore Sorce Supporting Tourism with Public Interactive Displays In PerDis '19: Proceedings of The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. Palermo, Italy, June 12 - 14, 2019. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Juhani Linna, Tuuli Keskinen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen Acceptance and Perceptions of Interactive Location-Tracking Displays In PerDis '19: Proceedings of The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. Palermo, Italy, June 12 - 14, 2019. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Tuuli Keskinen, John Mäkelä, Pekka Kallioniemi, Jussi Karhu, Kimmo Ronkainen, Alisa Burova, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen What Are Others Looking at? Exploring 360° Videos on HMDs with Visual Cues about Other Viewers In TVX '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. Salford (Manchester), United Kingdom, June 05 - 07, 2019. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
Download	Tuuli Keskinen, Ville Mäkelä, Pekka Kallioniemi, Jaakko Hakulinen, Jussi Karhu, Kimmo Ronkainen, John Mäkelä, Markku Turunen The Effect of Camera Height, Actor Behavior, and Viewer Position on the User Experience of 360° Videos In IEEE VR 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). Osaka, Japan, March 23 - 27, 2019. IEEE. (bib)
2018
Download	Mohamed Khamis, Ludwig Trotter, Ville Mäkelä, Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Jens Le, Andreas Bulling, Florian Alt CueAuth: Comparing Touch, Mid-Air Gestures, and Gaze for Cue-based Authentication on Situated Displays In Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 4, Article 174 (December 2018), 22 pages. (bib)
Download	Pekka Kallioniemi, Tuuli Keskinen, Ville Mäkelä, Jussi Karhu, Kimmo Ronkainen, Arttu Nevalainen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen Hotspot Interaction in Omnidirectional Videos Using Head-Mounted Displays In Mindtrek '18: Proceedings of the 22nd International Academic Mindtrek Conference. Tampere, Finland, October 10 - 11, 2018. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Mohamed Khamis, Lukas Mecke, Jobin James, Markku Turunen, Florian Alt Pocket Transfers: Interaction Techniques for Transferring Content from Situated Displays to Mobile Devices In CHI '18: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, QC, Canada, April 21 - 26, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
	Jaakko Hakulinen, Tuuli Keskinen, Ville Mäkelä, Markku Turunen Omnidirectional Video in Museums -- Authentic, Immersive and Entertaining In: Cheok A., Inami M., Romão T. (eds) Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology. ACE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10714. Springer, Cham. (bib)
2017
	Santeri Saarinen, Ville Mäkelä, Pekka Kallioniemi, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen Guidelines for Designing Interactive Omnidirectional Video Applications In INTERACT 2017: Proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Mumbai, India, September 25 - 29, 2017. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. (bib)
	Pekka Kallioniemi, Ville Mäkelä, Santeri Saarinen, Markku Turunen, York Winter, Andrei Istudor User Experience and Immersion of Interactive Omnidirectional Videos in CAVE Systems and Head-Mounted Displays In INTERACT 2017: Proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Mumbai, India, September 25 - 29, 2017. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Tomi Heimonen, Markku Turunen Semi-Automated, Large-Scale Evaluation of Public Displays International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 34(6), 2018 (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Jobin James, Tuuli Keskinen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen "It's Natural to Grab and Pull:" Retrieving Content from Large Displays Using Mid-Air Gestures IEEE Pervasive Computing 16(3), 2017 (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Sumita Sharma, Jaakko Hakulinen, Tomi Heimonen, Markku Turunen Challenges in Public Display Deployments: A Taxonomy of External Factors In CHI '17: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Denver, Colorado, USA, May 6 - 11, 2017. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
2016
	Scott Carter, Jennifer Marlow, Aki Komori, Ville Mäkelä Bringing Mobile into Meetings: Enhancing Distributed Meeting Participation on Smartwatches and Mobile Phones In MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Florence, Italy, September 6 - 9, 2016. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
	Ville Mäkelä, Hannu Korhonen, Jarno Ojala, Antti Järvi, Kaisa Väänänen, Roope Raisamo, Markku Turunen Investigating Mid-Air Gestures and Handhelds in Motion Tracked Environments In PerDis '16: Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. Oulu, Finland, June 20 - 26, 2016. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
	Ville Mäkelä, Scott Carter, Jennifer Marlow MixMeetWear: Live Meetings at a Glance In CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion. San Francisco, California, USA, February 26 — March 2, 2016. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
2015
	Scott Carter, Pernilla Qvarfordt, Matthew Cooper, Ville Mäkelä Creating Tutorials with Web-Based Authoring and Heads-Up Capture IEEE Pervasive Computing 14(3), 2015 (bib)
	Jarno Ojala, Hannu Korhonen, Jari Laaksonen, Ville Mäkelä, Toni Pakkanen, Antti Järvi, Kaisa Väänänen, Roope Raisamo Developing Novel Services for the Railway Station Area through Experience-Driven Design Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal - IxD&A, 25. (bib)
2014
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Tomi Heimonen, Matti Luhtala, Markku Turunen Information wall: Evaluation of a Gesture-Controlled Public Display In MUM '14: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, November 25 - 28, 2014. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
	Matti Luhtala, Tomi Heimonen, Ville Mäkelä, Tuuli Keskinen, Markku Turunen, Santeri Saarinen DYNAMO Sound Engine: Exploring the Aesthetics of Dynamic Sound Interactions In Mindtrek '14: Proceedings of the 18th International Academic Mindtrek Conference. Tampere, Finland, November 4 - 6, 2014. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)
Download	Ville Mäkelä, Tomi Heimonen, Markku Turunen Magnetic Cursor: Improving Target Selection in Freehand Pointing Interfaces In PerDis '14: Proceedings of The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. Copenhagen, Denmark, June 03 - 04, 2014. ACM, New York, USA. (bib)