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I study how people use computers when they are in a shared physical venue. This includes situations where a computer-mediated environment is used to support a planned event or tools which are used to support face-to-face interaction, like large public displays. The former has been the topic of my Ph.D. work, where an idea of hybrid interaction is presented to address the complexity of maintaining both a physical and digital performance.
During 2018-2020, I hope to
| Nelimarkka M., Salovaara A., Semaan B., Jacucci G. (2017): Theory-Driven Collocated CMC. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17 |
| Nelimarkka M., Kuikkaniemi K., Salovaara A., Jacucci G. (2016): Live Participation. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '16 |
| Vepsäläinen J., Savolainen P., Ojala J., Rienzo A., Nelimarkka M., Kuikkaniemi K., Tarkoma S., Jacucci G. (2016): Web-Based Public-Screen Gaming: Insights from Deployments. IEEE Pervasive Computing |
| Nelimarkka M., Lehtinen V., Ukkonen A., Kuikkaniemi K., Jacucci G. (2015): Threading and conversation in co-located chats. Computers in Human Behavior |
| Nelimarkka M., Kuikkaniemi K., Jacucci G. (2014): A Field Trial of an Anonymous Backchannel Among Primary School Pupils. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Supporting Group Work |
| Kuikkaniemi K., Lehtinen V., Nelimarkka M., Vilkki M., Ojala J., Jacucci G. (2013): Designing for presenters at public walk-up-and-use displays. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction |
One of the 2010s scientific booms is around computational methods for social science research. My work in computational social sciences has focused on media, communications, and, politics, in particular, within Finland. My approach takes advantage of my background not only in computer science but as well, in social sciences, and aim to integrate with the existing theories in those fields.
During 2018, I will aim to
| Nelimarkka M., Sund R. (2017): Viestinnän mittaaminen big datan avulla. Procomma |
| Laaksonen S., Nelimarkka M., Tuokko M., Marttila M., Kekkonen A., Villi M. (2017): Working the fields of big data: Using big-data-augmented online ethnography to study candidate–candidate interaction at election time. Journal of Information Technology and Politics |
My focus in learning technologies has been their ability to support social knowledge construction and avoid traditional knowledge distribution - the mainstream of most massive open online courses (MOOCs).
| Nelimarkka M., Hellas A. (2018): Social Help-seeking Strategies in a Programming MOOC. Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - SIGCSE '18 |
| Nelimarkka M., Salovaara A., Semaan B., Jacucci G. (2017): Theory-Driven Collocated CMC. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17 |
| Nelimarkka M., Vihavainen A. (2015): Alumni & Tenured Participants in MOOCs. Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale - L@S '15 |
| Nelimarkka M., Kuikkaniemi K., Jacucci G. (2014): A Field Trial of an Anonymous Backchannel Among Primary School Pupils. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Supporting Group Work |
| Nelimarkka M., Suomela R. (2007): Wireless Education Platform - an Open Source Way to Create Mobile Education. Computers and Advanced Technology in Education |