ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Mikko Rissanen, Short Curriculum Vitae </TITLE> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name="keywords" content="medical virtual reality, haptics, annotation, vr, training, education, surgery, simulator, skill, simulation, cv"> </HEAD> <BODY color="black" background="white"> <center> <table width="65%" height="70%"> <tr valign="middle"> <td> <DIV ALIGN=right> English / <a href="index_fi.html">Suomi</a> / <a href="index_ja.html">Japanese</a> </DIV> <hr> <DIV ALIGN=right> Last update: September 26th 2007 </DIV> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table> <tr><td> <br> </td><td valign=top> </td></tr> </table> <table> <tr> <td> <img src="nuppiPieni.JPG" align="left"> </td> <td width=80% align=left> <font size=5> Mikko RISSANEN, Ph.D.<br><br> </font size> <p> This was my research website for the 3-year PhD project at </p> <p> <a href="http://http://www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/English/" target="blanc_">Graduate School of Informatics</a>, Kyoto University <p> <br> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <b>Contact information</b><br> Division of Medical Informatics, Kyoto University Hospital<br> Shogoin Kawahara-cho 54,<br> Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8507, JAPAN<br> Phone: +81-75-751-3165, FAX: +81-75-751-3077<br> (E-mail hidden in the <a href="http://www.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mi/member/index_en.shtml" target="blanc_">MedInfo members list</a>... still reading it, occasionally)<br> <br> <b>Education</b> <br> <table> <tr><td>Sep.2007</td><td>Ph.D. in Social Informatics, <a href="http://www.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mi/index_en.shtml" target="blanc_">Division of Medical Informatics</a>, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td><li>Medical virtual reality, <a href="http://www.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mi/research/vrass/" target="blanc_">VRASS project</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td>Nov.2003</td><td>Master of Science in Information Processing Science, <a href="http://www.tol.oulu.fi/" target="blanc_">Department of Information Processing Science</a>, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu</td></tr> <tr><td>May 1997</td><td>High school graduate, <a href="http://www.koulut.kuopio.fi/Lyseo/" target="blanc_">Kuopion lyseon lukio</a>, Kuopio</td></tr> </table> <br> <b>Work</b> <br> <table> <tr><td>Apr.-Sep.2004</td><td>Researcher, Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td><li><a href="http://marisil.org/" target="blanc_">Mobile augmented reality</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td><li>Mobile worker support environments, European Union IST <a href="http://www.mosaic-network.org/" target="blanc_">MOSAIC</a> project.</td></tr> <tr><td>May&nbsp;2000-Mar.2004</td><td>Software engineer, <a href="http://www.sysart.fi" target="blanc_">Sysart Oy</a>, Oulu</td> <tr><td></td><td><li>Product development of <a href="http://www.requeste.com/" target="blanc_">Requeste</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td><li>Part-time work relationship.</td></tr> </table> <br> <b>Military service</b> <br> <table> <tr><td>Jan.-Sep.1998</td><td>240-day military service in The Finnish Defence Forces, Karelia Air Command. Rank: Airman.</td></tr> </table> <br> <b>Languages</b> (in order of appearance) <br> <table> <tr><td>Finnish</td><td>Native (fluent especially in dialect of Savo)</td></tr> <tr><td>English</td><td>Fluent at work and leisure (since 3rd grade)</td></tr> <tr><td>Swedish</td><td>Every Finn has to learn, but no real use so far (junior high school, high school and university)</td></tr> <tr><td>German</td><td>Mostly forgotten, useful when travelling though (junior high school, high school)</td></tr> <tr><td>(Java</td><td>Was quite good when working with Sysart, not totally forgotten yet)</td></tr> <tr><td>Italian</td><td>Not much use, but readable because of Spanish (elementary course in university)</td></tr> <tr><td>French</td><td>For travelling purposes, reading manageable (elementary course in university)</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish</td><td>Castellano, my third best, like it a lot, still using (elementary course in university)</td></tr> <tr><td>Japanese</td><td>Absolutely horrible, but getting slowly better here (elementary course in university)</td></tr> <tr><td>(C++</td><td>Developing simulation systems now...)</td></tr> <tr><td>Chinese</td><td>Mandarin... trying to start, seriously.</td></tr> </table> <br> <b>Reviewed international journal articles</b><br> <UL> <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Visualization of Subtle Force Exertion in Annotation Framework for Simulator-Based Surgical Skill-Transfer, under review at <a href="http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/computer+imaging?SGWID=4-149-70-1127228-0" target="blanc_">Springer Virtual Reality</a> </UL> <b>Reviewed domestic journal papers</b><br> <UL> <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Naoto Kume, Tomohiro Kuroda, Keisuke Nagase and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Annotated VR Simulation Records for Surgical Education - Evaluating the Benefits of Real-Time Visualization of Force Exertion (in Japanese), Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Virtual Reality Society of Japan (<a href="http://www.vrsj.org/main.html" target="blanc_">VRSJ</a>), Vol. 11 No. 4 (Special Issue on Education and Training), December, 2006, pp.527-536. </UL> <b>Reviewed international conference proceedings</b><br> <UL> <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Naoto Kume, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Tomohiro Kuroda, Koji Yoshimura and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Asynchronous Teaching of Psychomotor Skills Through VR Annotations: Evaluation in Digital Rectal Examination, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (<a href="http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_virtual_reality.html" target="blanc_">MMVR</a>), Long Beach, CA, January 30-February 1, 2008. (To appear) <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, A Novel Interface for Simulator Training: Describing and Presenting Manipulation Skill Through VR Annotations, Human-Computer Interaction International (<a href="http://www.hcii2007.org/" target="blanc_">HCII 2007</a>), Beijing, P.R. China, July 22-27, 2007, pp. 523-532. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73335-5_57" target="blanc_">[Available online]</a> <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Naoto Kume, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Toward Visualization of Skill in VR: Adaptive Real-Time Guidance for Learning Force Exertion through the "Shaping" Strategy, Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (<a href="http://www.worldhaptics2007.org/" target="blanc_">WorldHaptics 2007</a>), Tsukuba, Japan, March 22-24, 2007, pp. 324-329. <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4145195" target="blanc_">[Available online]</a> <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Keisuke Nagase and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, A Novel Approach for Training of Surgical Procedures Based on Visualization and Annotation of Behavioural Parameters in Simulators, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (<a href="http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_virtual_reality.html" target="blanc_">MMVR</a>), Long Beach, CA, February 6-9, 2007, pp. 388-393. <a href="http://booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=5205" target="blanc_">[Available online]</a> <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Naoto Kume, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Annotated Surgical Manipulation for Simulator-Based Surgical Skill-Transfer Using SiRE - Simulation Record Editor, 3rd International Symposium on Biomedical Simulation (<a href="http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~medsim06/" target="blanc_">ISBMS 2006</a>), Zürich, Switzerland, July 10-11, 2006, pp. 122-131. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11790273_14" target="blanc_">[Available online]</a> <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Naoto Kume, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Editing Recorded Haptic Data with SiRE - Simulation Record Editor, Eurohaptics (<a href="http://lsc.univ-evry.fr/~eurohaptics/" target="blanc_">EH 2006</a>), Paris, France, July 3-6, 2006, pp. 543-546. <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Naoto Kume, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Interactive Authoring of Example Surgical Procedures from Recorded Physics-Based Simulation, 20th International Congress of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (<a href="http://www.cars-int.org/" target="blanc_">CARS</a>), Osaka, Japan, June 28-July 1, 2006, pp. 154-156. <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Naoto Kume, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Audiovisual Guidance for Simulated One Point Force Exertion Tasks, ACM Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications (<a href="http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~vrcia06/" target="blanc_">ACM VRCIA 2006</a>), Hong Kong, P.R. China, June 14-17, 2006, pp. 365-368. <a href="http://doitest.acm.org/10.1145/1128923.1128989" target="blanc_">[Available online]</a> <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Naoto Kume, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Framework for Annotation of Haptic Data in Simulated Surgical Procedures, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Virtual Systems and Multimedia (<a href="http://belgium.vsmm.org/" target="blanc_">VSMM 2005</a>), Ghent, Belgium, October 3-7, 2005, pp. 647-656. <li><u>M.J. Rissanen</u> and X. Zheng, On Privacy of Famous Users in Active Worlds, Proceedings of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (<a href="http://www.sice.or.jp/~sice2004/" target="blanc_">SICE 2004</a>) Annual Conference, Sapporo, Japan, August 3-6, 2004, pp. 35-38. </UL> <br> <b>International workshop and meeting proceedings</b><br> <UL> <li>Tomohiro Kuroda, <u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Takafumi Terada, Masayuki Harada, Keisuke Nagase and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Haptized Shared VR Based Surgical Simulator - Applying to Vocational Experience, Proceedings of Annual Meetings of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM), Porto, Portugal, June 29-July 1, 2006. (CD-ROM) </UL> <br> <b>Domestic conference proceedings</b><br> <UL> <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Naoto Kume, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Tomohiro Kuroda, Koji Yoshimura, Toshiyuki Kamoto, Osamu Ogawa and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Evaluation of VR Annotation Based Teaching Using a Digital Rectal Examination Simulator, abstract, 7th Conference of Japanese Society for Medical Virtual Reality (JSMVR), Tokyo, August 31-September 1, 2007, p. 33. <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Naoto Kume, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Keisuke Nagase and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Preserving Evaluation-Critical Features of Demonstrative Haptic Manipulation in Surgical VR, Proceedings of the 26th Joint Conference of Medical Informatics (JCMI), Sapporo, November 1-3, 2006, pp. 1157-1160. <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Naoto Kume, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Keisuke Nagase and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Usability Evaluation of an Editor for Recorded Haptic Manipulation, Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ), Sendai, September 7-9, 2006, pp. 205-206. <li>Yoshihiro Kuroda, <u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Koji Yoshimura, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Toshiyuki Kamoto, Hiroshi Oyama, Osamu Ogawa, Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Recording Doctor's Manipulation During Rectum's Examination on Palpation Simulator based on Interaction of Multiple Elastic Bodies (in Japanese), abstract, 6th Conference of Japanese Society for Medical Virtual Reality (JSMVR), Osaka, September 1-2, 2006, p. 42. <li>Yoshihiro Kuroda, <u>M. Rissanen</u>, Koji Yoshimura, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Toshiyuki Kamoto, Hiroshi Oyama, Osamu Ogawa, Hiroyuki Yoshihara, A Study of VR-based Skill Teaching System for Prostatic Palpation (in Japanese), 25th Conference of the Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology (JAMIT), Kyoto, July 21-22, 2006. (CD-ROM) <li><u>M.J. Rissanen</u>, Y. Kuroda, N. Kume, M. Nakao, T. Kuroda and H. Yoshihara, Method for Interactive Editing of Recorded Physics-based VR Simulation, 50th Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE), Kyoto, May 10-12, 2006, pp. 661-662. <li><u>Mikko J. Rissanen</u>, Naoto Kume, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Annotation Framework for Simulated Surgical Manipulation, Proceedings of the 6th Conference of SICE System Integration (SI), Kumamoto, December 16-18, 2005, pp. 791-792. <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Naoto Kume, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Visualization of Force in Annotated Simulation Record for Palpation Training (in Japanese), abstract, 5th Conference of Japanese Society for Medical Virtual Reality (JSMVR), Tokyo, September 30-October 1, 2005, p. 14. <b>(Recommendation award)</b> <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Naoto Kume, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda and Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Dynamic Pressure Visualization for Mimicking Simulated Palpation of the Aorta, Proceedings of the 46th Conference of Japan Ergonomic Society, Tokyo, June 11-12, 2005, pp. 110-111. </UL> <br> <b>Theses</b><br> <UL> <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Virtual Reality Based Teaching of Psychomotor Skills: Annotation Model for Asynchronous Communication in Dynamic Virtual Environments, Doctoral thesis, Kyoto University, September 2007. <li><u>Mikko Rissanen</u>, Differences in Support for Cooperation and Collaboration in Virtual Environment: Observations in Active Worlds (in Finnish), Master's thesis, University of Oulu, November 2003. </UL> <br> <hr> <center> Copyright(C) 2005-2007 Mikko Rissanen, all rights reserved.<br> </td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </BODY> </HTML>