Freelance user interface and interaction designer. 2003.03 - ongoing

• Tykki (under development)

  User interface design for Intranet type of system for TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Center. Modification of Plone - open source content management system based on Zope platform.

• Imaginary journey

  User interface design and implementation for media artist Heidi Tikka's 'Imaginary journey' project. It is a photo diary about an imaginary trip made by a mother and a son. It is a part of the Ideologia II Nordic art biennale in Göteborg.

STUDIES

PhD candidate in Media Lab, Helsinki University of Arts and Design (UIAH), 2003-ongoing.

Projects:
- 'Immediate Impressions' project
The 'Immediate Impressions' project was an experimental attempt to collect people's impressions and comments about the conference sessions during The Good, The Bad and The Irrelevant conference, September 3-5 2003, University of Art and Design Helsinki. We designed and developed a software tool that enabled people to collaboratively comment on the conference sessions using a web camera.

- 'Celebrate.uiah.fi' project (http://celebrate.uiah.fi)
'Celebrate.uiah.fi' project is an online collection of people's (Finns and people currently living in Finland) stories, drawings and photos describing celebrations of the most important festivals for their families. The initial version of the project will be realized through workshops in Caisa International Cultural Centre and Kontupiste where the stories will be made and uploaded to the web by participants and online 'Celebrate.uiah.fi' portal open for anyone to participate throughout the year 2004.

Publications:

• Leinonen T., Kligyte G. (2003). FLE Software - Open Source and Free Software for Collaborative Knowledge Building and Design. In B. Wasson (Ed.), Community Events: Communication and Interaction publication (pp. 162-163) of International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2003 conference) June 14-18 in Bergen, Norway.


• Leinonen T., Kligyte G. (2003). The European CSCL Community Website. In B. Wasson (Ed.), Community Events: Communication and Interaction publication (pp. 189-190) of International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2003 conference) June 14-18 in Bergen, Norway


• Leinonen T., Kligyte G., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. (2003). Fle3 software: Bringing Knowledge Building and Collaborative Design to the Classroom. In B. Wasson (Ed.), Community Events: Communication and Interaction publication (pp. 193-194) of International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2003 conference) June 14-18 in Bergen, Norway


• Leinonen, T., Kligyte. G. (2002): Future Learning Environment for Collaborative Knowledge Building and Design . Proceedings of the DYD02 - Development by Design: 2nd International Conference on Open Collaborative Design of Sustainable Innovation. December 1-2, Bangalore, India. http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/


• Rubens, W., Dean, P., Leinonen, T., Kligyte, G., Lakkala M., Rahikainen M. et al., (2003). Innovative Technologies for Collaborative Learning. An ITCOLE project funded by The European Commission in the Information Society Technologies (IST) framework; IST-00-III.2 'School of Tomorrow' brochure.


• Leinonen, T., Kligyte, G., Toikkanen, T., Pietarila, J., Dean, P. (2003). Learning with Collaborative Software - A guide to Fle3. An ITCOLE project funded by The European Commission in the Information Society Technologies (IST) framework; IST-00-III.2 'School of Tomorrow' brochure.

HONORS

2003 - Finnish Cultural Foundation grant
2000 - Member of the Student Jury and Grand Jury in Europrix Multimedia 2000 contest.
Working on evaluation of student submissions, co-creation of catalogue content, evaluation and selection of the winners of the competition.
www.europrix.org