Forename Surname
Title of the Dissertation,
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Use the Forced Line Break
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ACADEMIC DISSERTATION
To be presented with the permission of the School of Information Sciences of the University of Tampere, for public discussion in the Pinni auditorium XXXX
on November 22nd, 201X, at noon.
School of Information Sciences
University of Tampere
Dissertations in Interactive Technology, Number XX
Tampere 201X
Academic Dissertation in Interactive Technology
Supervisor: / Professor Veikko Surakka, Ph.D.School of Information Sciences,
University of Tampere,
Finland
Opponent: / Associate Professor Erik Frøkjær, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science,
University of Copenhagen,
Denmark
Reviewers: / Professor Matt Jones, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science,
Swansea University,
Wales, United Kingdom
Dr. Mark D. Dunlop, Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
University of Strathclyde,
Scotland, United Kingdom
The originality of this thesis has been checked using the Turnitin OriginalityCheck service in accordance with the quality management system of the University of Tampere.
Dissertations in Interactive Technology, Number XX
School of Information Sciences
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
FINLAND
ISBN XXX-XXX-XX
ISSN 1795-9489
Juvenes Print ‒ Suomen Yliopistopaino Oy
Tampere 201X
Abstract
This is a document template for the Dissertations in Interactive Technology series. It includes title pages, pre-text sections (abstract, acknowledgements, contents, list of publications (for nippuväikkäri), and author’s research contributions), and the body of the thesis.
By far the easiest way to make sure that your thesis is set according to the guidelines is to start with this template and insert your own text in the appropriate places in the template.
Practical advice on the dissertation preparation process is also given in this template.
Your own abstract should preferably fit on one page, or at most on two pages. It should be readable on its own. This implies that it should not contain citations.
Acknowledgements
This is the very personal part of your dissertation, and you can write here whatever you like. Typically not even the language is checked, unless you ask for it yourself. The acknowledgments are added in the final version, i.e., they are not yet in the version sent to the reviewers.
Although the content of the acknowledgments is entirely up to you, it is customary to start the acknowledgments by thanking those involved in the research, especially your supervisor and co-workers. It is polite to thank the reviewers as well. Similarly, do acknowledge those who funded your research. Other thanks can be given just as you like. Typically the thanks get more personal towards the end of the acknowledgements, with your relatives and closest family thanked last.
Tampere, October 10, 201X
Forename Surname
Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Layout 3
2.1 Basic Settings 3
2.2 Citations and References 6
3 Dissertation Preparation Process 11
3.1 Preparing the Manuscript 11
3.2 Originality Check 13
3.3 Publication Process 13
4 Conclusions 17
References 19
List of Publications
This dissertation is composed of a summary and the following original publications, reproduced here by permission.
I. / Käki, M., Aula, A. (2005). Findex: improving search result use through automatic filtering categories. Interacting with Computers, 17(2), 187‒206. doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2005.01.001 / 82II. / Käki, M. (2004). Proportional search interface usability measures. In Proceedings of the Third Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI ’04, Tampere, Finland), 365‒372. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1028014.1028072 / 91
III. / Käki, M. (2005). Optimizing the number of search result categories. In CHI ’05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’05, Portland, OR, USA), 1517‒1520. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1056808.1056955 / 103
IV. / Käki, M. (2005). Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’05, Portland, OR, USA), 131‒140. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1054972.1054991 / 128
V. / Käki, M. (2005). fKWIC: frequency based keyword-in-context index for filtering web search results. Report D-2005-3, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. (In review for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.) / 139
VI. / Käki, M. (2005). Findex: properties of two web search result categorizing algorithms. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on World Wide Web/Internet (Lisbon, Portugal). / 156
VII. / Tuisku, O., Surakka, V., Gizatdinova, Y., Vanhala, T., Rantanen, V., Verho, J., Lekkala, J. (2011). Gazing and frowning to computers can be enjoyable. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE 2011, Hanoi, Vietnam), 211‒218. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi:10.1109/KSE.2011.41 / 178
VIII. / Tuisku, O., Rantanen, V., Špakov, O., Surakka, V., & Lekkala, J. (Submitted). Pointing and selecting with facial activity. Submitted to Interacting with Computers. / 199
IX. / Tuisku, O., Surakka, V., Rantanen, V., Vanhala, T., Lekkala, J. (2013). Text entry by gazing and smiling. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Article ID 218084, 13 pages. doi:10.1155/2013/218084 / 212
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The Author’s Contribution to the Publications
If you are the sole author of all the articles included in the dissertation, then this section is not needed. Usually, however, at least some of the papers have co-authors, and then you need to explain your role in them.
If the set of authors is (almost) the same in all the papers, then you can probably get away with a fairly generic statement. See Mirja’s dissertation (Ilves, 2013) for an example.
If, on the other hand, the roles of the authors vary a lot, or if there are several papers without co-authors, then you should give a more detailed explanation. Tomi’s dissertation (Heimonen, 2012) provides a good example of this.
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1 Introduction
This document gives guidelines for dissertations that are published in the Dissertations in Interactive Technology series. Chapter 2 gives guidelines on the layout, while Chapter 3 gives advice on the process.
This document is maintained by the editor of the Dissertations in Interactive Technology series. The current editor is Roope Raisamo. He can be contacted by email at .
2 Layout
General rules on page layout are first given in Section 2.1, followed by details on references and citations in Section 2.2.
2.1 Basic Settings
We start with the basics. Body text (Word style “Normal”) is typeset in Book Antiqua 12pt. Headings and other stand-out text is typeset in Trebuchet MS in varying sizes. Spacing in the text is based on the use of styles: there are no empty paragraphs between text paragraphs.
Use the styles of this template in setting up your document. Headings are set using styles “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, etc. Note that there is a tab mark after the chapter or section number (i.e., not a space). Content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) in the title of the dissertation, as well as in chapter and section headings, are set with an initial uppercase letter[1].
This example has heading numbering only up to the second level headings. Feel free to include numbering below that point if you wish. In addition, headings below the second level are not included in the table of contents, you are free to change that if you wish.
Each first level heading is decorated with a graphic consisting of two horizontal lines and a bitmap picture. Its creation is not automatic; instead, you need to copy it manually. Make sure that it is aligned with page margins to the top of the page.
The publications (in a dissertation that is not a monograph) are not mentioned in the table of contents, but are listed in the next page along with page numbers indicating where the articles are located in the book. There is no automatic way of knowing on which pages the articles will appear so you need to insert the page numbers as one of the final steps in preparing the dissertation. The format of the references in the list of publications is the same as in the list of references at the end (see Section 2.2), with one exception: in the list of publications you can also give the location of the conference where a conference paper was presented. List the publications in their logical sequence. Often, but not always, this is the order in which they were published.
The last page of the template contains the list of publications in this series. Contact the series editor to get the last page for insertion in your dissertation. That will guarantee that all the previous publications are mentioned in the list. Send the series editor a version of your thesis as soon as you have it in the form of this template, for checking that it confirms to the house style used in the series.
The number of this publication in the series is mentioned in three places: first page, second page, and the list of publications in the last page. Make sure that the publication number is correct in all these places. In addition you need to update the ISBN number on the second page (see Chapter 3 on how to obtain the ISBN number).
Actual text starts at page 1 (Arabic number). All the preceding pages are numbered using Roman numerals. Thus you need to introduce a section break before the start of the actual text and restart the page numbering. Each new chapter starts on an odd-numbered page. If needed, leave the previous page blank. This is obviously something to do only after the text does not change any more.
The footers on even-numbered and odd-numbered pages are different, so you need to set those separately (as already done in this template).
The template does not use headers. If you wish, you can add them to show titles of chapters (on even numbered pages) and sections (on odd numbered pages); see Aulikki’s dissertation (Hyrskykari, 2006) for examples. Be warned that this does require quite a bit of manual processing and is best done only as the last step when the body text is frozen.
In general, it is recommended that you take a look at previous dissertations in this series for examples on layout. The style has evolved slightly over the years, so the newest dissertations are the best examples in this respect. The editor also appreciates suggestions on how this template document should be modified or extended.
Images and their captions are centered (see Figure 1 for an example). The text “Figure x.” in the caption is in boldface, followed by a space. Do not use abbreviations like “Fig. 1” in the text. When referring to Figure 1, the “F” is in upper case, whereas if you want to for instance talk about “the figure below”, it is not. Thus “Figure 1” is treated as the “name” of the figure and therefore written with a capital F.
Figure 1. A piezoelectric actuator placed under the touchscreen of a mobile device. The actuator is shown in its bent stage (Laitinen & Mäenpää, 2006, Figure 2, © IEEE 2006).
Similarly, captions of tables are placed below the table, with “Table x.” set in boldface. The caption ends with a period. Make sure to keep all the rows in the table on the same page and also on the same page with the caption (see Table 1 for an example).
Kamvar & Baluja (2006) / Kamvar & Baluja (2007) / Church et al. (2007) / Church et al. (2008) / Yi et al. (2008)Adult
(> 20%) / Adult
(> 25%) / Adult (53%) / Adult (61%) / Entertainment (42%)
Entertainment (> 10%) / Entertainment (> 10%) / Multimedia (10%) / Email, messaging & chat (9%) / Technology (5%)
Internet & telecoms
(> 5%) / Internet & telecoms
(> 4%) / Email, messaging & chat (8%) / Search & finding things (7%) / People (3%)
Local services
(> 5%) / Lifestyles/
online communities (> 4%) / Search & finding things (8%) / Entertainment (5%) / Retail (3%)
Games
(> 2%) / Local (> 4%) / Entertainment (8%) / Multimedia (5%) / Travel (3%)
Table 1. The top search query categories in log analysis studies
(based on Heimonen, 2012, p. 74).
2.2 Citations and References
The style of citations and references used in the Dissertations in Interactive Technology series is based on the APA style (American Psychological Association, 2010). For detailed rules and additional examples the reader is referred to the APA Manual (American Psychological Association, 2010). Only the main rules and some examples are given here.
References
A reference consists of the name of the author followed by the year of publication in parentheses. This is followed by the title of the paper (no capitalization of words in the title) that usually ends in a period (unless the title itself ends in a question mark or exclamation mark). Next comes the name of the publication forum and the pages in the publication. The reference ends with the doi or urn address (when available).
Names of journals, books and conference proceedings are written in italics and with uppercase first letters for content words. The publisher’s name and city are given for books and conference proceedings but not for journals.
Below are two example references, one for a journal publication and another for a conference publication.
Kaikkonen, A., Kallio, T., Kekäläinen, A., Kankainen, A., & Cankar, M. (2005). Usability testing of mobile applications: A comparison between laboratory and field testing. Journal of Usability Studies, 1(1), 4–16.
Kammerer, Y., Nairn, R., Pirolli, P., & Chi, E.H. (2009). Signpost from the masses: Learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’09), 625–634. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1518701.1518797
All references should follow these rules:
· If the paper lists several forenames or initials for an author, all the corresponding initials should be given in the reference. There is a space between the initials (preferably a non-breaking space, created in MS Word by clicking “Ctrl+Shift+Space”).