Kai Tuuri

I am a researcher and a teacher with a strong interest in sound-related issues of communication and interaction. I have over ten years of working experience at the University of Jyväskylä. During the recent years, I have worked as a project-researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems. Now, with my PhD studies completed, I am looking for job opportunities for doing post-doc research.

I hold a PhD in musicology and a MA in music education. In my PhD thesis I outlined a method for utilising embodied meanings of gestural communication in designing user interface sounds. The subject of my dissertation is highly cross-disciplinary and more related to the studies of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) than to the traditional music studies. I did this study while participating in research projects (GEAR2 & GEAR3, funded by TEKES) concerning user interface design from the perspectives of non-speech sounds and haptics. In these projects, research was done in the context of case studies – in close interaction with the industrial partners.

In case you are interested, my PhD thesis is available on the university's web archive [follow this link]. You can also take a look at my other academic writings [see the list of publications].

During 2000-2006, I worked as a lecturer for multimedia studies and project-based learning in Departments of Computer Science and Information Systems (2000-2004) and Arts and Culture Studies (2004-2006). Within these periods, I took part in numerous different projects of interactive multimedia application development on the basis of assignments from industry and other types of organisations.