Ville Mäkelä Ph.D.

Ville Mäkelä Ph.D.

Dr. Ville Mäkelä is a postdoctoral researcher at the Usable Security and Privacy group in the research institute Cyber Defence und Smart Data (CODE). He conducts research in many areas of human-computer interaction (HCI). At UniBw, he is working on usable security topics, like detecting and dealing with social engineering attacks. Beyond that, Dr. Mäkelä also conducts research in areas like virtual reality, ubiquitous and mobile computing, and games. Within these areas, he is particularly interested in novel research methodologies that do not require traditional user testing in the lab.

 

Related Links

• Google Scholar
• DBLP

 

Scientific Activities

Member of Organizing Committees

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

 

Program Committees

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

 

Reviewer Assignments for Conferences

• CHI (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
• CHI PLAY (2021)
• DIS (2020, 2021)
• ICMI (2017, 2018, 2020)
• IEEE VR (2021)
• IMX (2020)
• INTERACT (2021)
• ISS (2018)
• Mensch und Computer (2019, 2020, 2021)
• MindTrek (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021)
• MobileHCI (2019)
• PerDis (2019)
• UIST (2020)

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)

 

 

Publications

2023

	Rivu Radiah, Pia Prodan, Ville Mäkelä, Pascal Knierim and Florian Alt. How Are Your Participants Feeling Today? Accounting For and Assessing Emotions in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of Mensch Und Computer 2023. MuC '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Ken Pfeuffer, Jan Obernolte, Felix Dietz, Ville Mäkelä, Ludwig Sidenmark, Pavel Manakhov, Minna Pakanen and Florian Alt. PalmGazer: Unimanual Eye-Hand Menus in Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction. SUI '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä and Florian Alt. Challenges in Virtual Reality Studies: Ethics and Internal and External Validity. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2023. AHs '23. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
2022
	Yasmeen Abdrabou, Radiah Rivu, Tarek Ammar, Jonathan Liebers, Alia Saad, Carina Liebers, Uwe Gruenefeld, Pascal Knierim, Mohamed Khamis, Ville Mäkelä, Stefan Schneegass and Florian Alt. Understanding Shoulder Surfer Behavior Using Virtual Reality. In Adjunct Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. [Download Bibtex]
	Yasmeen Abdrabou, Sheikh Radiah Rivu, Tarek Ammar, Jonathan Liebers, Alia Saad, Carina Liebers, Uwe Gruenefeld, Pascal Knierim, Mohamed Khamis, Ville Mäkelä, Stefan Schneegass and Florian Alt. Understanding Shoulder Surfer Behavior and Attack Patterns Using Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces. AVI '22. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Ville Mäkelä, Jonas Winter, Jasmin Schwab, Michael Koch and Florian Alt. Pandemic Displays: Considering Hygiene on Public Touchscreens in the Post-Pandemic Era. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI ‘22. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Laura Goetz, Radiah Rivu, Florian Alt, Albrecht Schmidt and Ville Maekelae. Methods for Autobiographical Recall in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction:. NordiCHI '22. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Yasmeen Abdrabou, Sheikh Radiah Rivu, Tarek Ammar, Jonathan Liebers, Alia Saad, Carina Liebers, Uwe Gruenefeld, Pascal Knierim, Mohamed Khamis, Ville Makela, Stefan Schneegass and Florian Alt. Understanding Shoulder Surfer Behavior and Attack Patterns Using Virtual Reality. In Adjunct Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. SOUPS '22. USENIX Association, [Download Bibtex]
2021
	Ville Mäkelä, Johannes Kleine, Maxine Hood, Florian Alt and Albrecht Schmidt. Hidden Interaction Techniques: Concealed Information Acquisition and Texting on Smartphones and Wearables. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI'21. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Albrecht Schmidt, Florian Alt and Ville Mäkelä. Evaluation in Human-Computer Interaction – Beyond Lab Studies. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI'21 EA. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Radiah Rivu, Ruoyu Jiang, Ville Mäkelä, Mariam Hassib and Florian Alt. Exploring Emotions and Emotion ElicitationTechniques in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. INTERACT '21. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. [Download Bibtex]
	Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä, Mariam Hassib, Yomna Abdelrahman and Florian Alt. Exploring how Saliency Affects Attention in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. INTERACT '21. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. [Download Bibtex]
	Radiah Rivu, Yumeng Zhou, Robin Welsch, Ville Mäkelä and Florian Alt. When Friends become Strangers: Understanding the Influence of Avatar Gender On Interpersonal Distance Between Friends in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. INTERACT '21. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. [Download Bibtex]
	Radiah Rivu, Ville Mäkelä, Sarah Prange, Sarah Delgado Rodriguez, Robin Piening, Yumeng Zhou, Kay Köhle, Ken Pfeuffer, Yomna Abdelrahman, Matthias Hoppe, Albrecht Schmidt and Florian Alt. Remote VR Studies – A Framework for Running Virtual Reality Studies Remotely Via Participant-Owned HMDs. [Download Bibtex]
2020
	Ville Mäkelä, Rivu Radiah, Saleh Alsherif, Mohamed Khamis, Chong Xiao, Lisa Borchert, Albrecht Schmidt and Florian Alt. Virtual Field Studies: Conducting Studies on PublicDisplays in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '20. ACM, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex] [Video]
2018
	Ville Mäkelä, Mohamed Khamis, Lukas Mecke, Jobin James, Markku Turunen and Florian Alt. Pocket Transfers: Interaction Techniques for Transferring Content from Situated Displays to Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '18. ACM, New York, NY, USA. [Download Bibtex]
	Mohamed Khamis, Ludwig Trotter, Ville Mäkelä, Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Jens Le, Andreas Bulling and 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, 2018, 174:1–174:22. [Download Bibtex]
	Mohamed Khamis, Ludwig Trotter, Ville Mäkelä, Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Jens Le, Andreas Bulling and 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, 2018, 174:1–174:22. [Download Bibtex]