Last Friday, February 8th 2013, Raine Kajastila defended successfully his dissertation on eyes-free user interfaces. Opponent prof. Stephen Brewster asked questions almost two hours in the public defense that was followed by 45 people. Raine did tackle all the questions and managed to convince prof. Brewster that he has wide understanding on multimodal user interfaces, in particular on gestural input and 3D sound output.

Raine has invented and developed methods to control mobile devices in situations where looking at the device is not possible or dangerous. Such occasions are when driving a car, walking on the street, or biking. Moreover the eyes-free user interfaces work for visually impaired people and enable to construct devices that has no visual display. Read more:

Raine Kajastila: Interaction with eyes-free and gestural interfaces.

Before and after the public defence. Prof. Stephen Brewster, Dr. Raine Kajastila, and prof. Tapio Lokki.