Lily Diaz Kommonen

Professor, New Media at Aalto University School of Business

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Aalto University School of Business

In 2015 I was appointed full professor of new media at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. As Head of Research I am responsible for the Doctoral Studies in the Media Lab Helsinki. In the MA studies programme I teach media design research and information visualization design. My research interests are focused in: 1. Annotation software; 2. Virtual networked environments; 3. visualization formats and genres; 4. Combined use of anthropology and new media to promote human-centered design. I work primarily with qualitative methods, including design research. My experience as principal investigator is in European research and development projects in the area of digital technology and cultural heritage. I also developed and teach Dynamic Visual Design, a focus area of study in the Media Lab Helsinki.

Significant research projects include the Raisio Archeology Archive created as part of the Illuminating History Through the Eyes of Media project funded by the Academy of Finland; the Digital Facsimile of the Map of Mexico 1550 project that received First Prize in the Nabi Digital Storytelling International Competition of Intangible Heritage organized by Art Center Nabi in South Korea and UNESCO; the Interactive Virtual Reality Installation of the Pavilion of Finland at the 1900 World Fair in Paris developed as part of the TEKES funded HandsOn project; and the Interactive Virtual Reality Installation of Vrouw Maria, that was awarded a Special Mention of the Jury in the research category of the 2015 Europa Nostra digital cultural heritage competition.

I have written over 70 publications in areas related to art, design, heritage and new media. Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture an anthology published by Routledge in 2015 and co-edited with Ulrik Ekman, Jay David Bolter, Martin Sondegaard and Maria Engberg, is my latest result as an author.

BACKGROUND

I was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Venezuela and Puerto Rico. I attended university in the United States. My educational background is in anthropology (Brandeis University), computer arts (School of Visual Art, NYC), and new media (University of Art and Design Helsinki/UIAH). I am also a graduate of the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Arts in New York. In the arts I have worked as an audio-visual specialist, multimedia designer, and a photographer and camera operator with clients and employers such as Bozell, Inc., Dow Jones, Intel, and Merrill Lynch. I was a Fulbright scholar (Spain, 1990–1991) doing research at the Archive of the Indies in Seville. I came to Finland in 1995 and completed my dissertation about activity theory, design and archaeology in 2001. I have 2 children and a sheep dog.

Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Journal article-refereed, Original research

Hot Stones and Cool Digitals Sustainable Contact Zones for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Finland

Bhowmik, Samir; Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2016 in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTANGIBLE HERITAGE (The National Folk Museum of Korea)
ISSN: 1975-3586

A Holistic User-Centered Approach to Immersive Digital Cultural Heritage Installations: Case Vrouw Maria

Reunanen, Markku; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Horttana, Tommi
2015 in JOURNAL ON COMPUTING AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM))
ISSN: 1556-4673

Light is History: A Community Participated Museum Installation in Helsinki Finland

Bhowmik, Samir; Acharya, Karthikeya; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2013 in THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE INCLUSIVE MUSEUM (Common Ground Publishing)
ISSN: 1835-2014

Introduction to mobile ubiquity in public and private spaces

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Ekman, Ulrik
2011 in DIGITAL CREATIVITY (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD)
ISSN: 1462-6268

ImaNote: A web-based multi-user image map viewing and annotation tool

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Acuna, Blanca; Timonen, Atte
2011 in JOURNAL ON COMPUTING AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM))
ISSN: 1556-4673

Co-construction through Complex Adaptive System

Sayed, Salil; Singh, Abhi; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2010 in JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY INFORMATICS (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM))

Mapa de México 1550: aprovechamiento de las nuevas tecnologías para proteger y difundir el patrimonio cultural

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Castro Pelayo, Brenda
2008 in Boletín Oficial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) México (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM))
ISSN: 0188-462X

Seeking the multicultural in Finland

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2008 in Scandinavian museums and cultural diversity, Museums and Diversity series, Katherine Goodnow and Haci Akman (eds.), Museum of London, Berhahn Books, UNESCO. (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM))

Narrativa digital para sistemas interactivos relacionados con la herencia cultural

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2007 in Cuadernos de Literatura, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontíficia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia. (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM))
ISSN: 0122-8102

Digital Archaeology: Connecting Historical Narratives and Digital Environments

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
1998 in LEONARDO (M I T PRESS)
ISSN: 0024-094X

Simultaneous View of History: The Creation of a Hypermedia Database

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
1995 in LEONARDO (M I T PRESS)
ISSN: 0024-094X

Book section, Chapters in research books

“I did not think about that!” New Media for Stimulating Exhibition Re-interpretation

Macchia, Teresa; Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2016

Cultural theory

Diaz, Lily
2015
ISBN: 9780415743822

Peekaboo, i see you! About observation, surveillance, and human agency in the age of ubicomp

Diaz, Lily
2015
ISBN: 9780415743822

Digital Reconstruction of the Finnish 1900 World Fair Pavilion: Experiences from Creating a Virtual Reality Installation

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Salmi, Anna; Fewster, Derek
2010
ISBN: 978-1-907132-25-4

Digital cultural heritage to support novel activities in the classroom of the future

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Partanen, Lotta
2010
ISBN: 978-94-6091-102-6

Visitors' Voices

Díaz-Kommonen, lily; Salgado, Mariana
2006

Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest in Participatory Design: A Case Study from the CIPHER Project

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2005

Digital Narrative and Collaborative Design in the Chronicles and Legends of the Historic Center of Mexico City.

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2005

A Voice for the Map of México: Chronicles, Legends and Oral Traditions from the Historic Center

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2005

Photogrammetric Reproduction of the Map of México 1550

Nuikka, Milka; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Haggren, Henrik
2004

Soft Ontologies and Similarity Cluster Tools to Facilitate Exploration and Discovery of Cultural Heritage Resources

Avilés-Collao, Jazmin; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Pietarila, Janne; Kaipainen, Mauri
2003

Activity theory and design in the CIPHER project

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2003

Raisio Archaeology Archive: Using Design to Build Collaborations

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2002

Collaborative Frameworks: A Proposal for an Archive in the Studio

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2002

Designing Vector-Based Ontologies: Can Technology Empower Open Interpretation of Cultural Heritage Objects?

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Kaipainen, Mauri
2002

Designing Classification, An Overview of the Illuminating History Project

Raninen, Sami; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2002

Conference proceedings

Visualising ourselves through artifacts and experience

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2017 in Cumulus working papers (Hong Kong Design Institute)
ISBN: 978-952-60-0080-0
ISSN: 1456-307X

'Open narratives' Narrative as collaborative co-creation through collective cultural memory

Sayed, Neha; Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2017 in Cumulus working papers (Hong Kong Design Institute)
ISBN: 978-952-60-0080-0
ISSN: 1456-307X

Participating in infrastructuring The active role of visitors and curators in museum

Macchia, Teresa; Diaz-Kommonen, Lily; D'Andrea, Vincenzo
2014
ISBN: 978-90-78146-05-6

A novel gesture-based interface for a VR simulation: Re-discovering Vrouw Maria

Sen, Ferhat; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Horttana, Tommi
2012
ISBN: 978-1-4673-2563-9

Historical Orchestra: An Interactive Audio/visual Cultural Experience

Sen, Ferhat; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2011
ISBN: 978-1-905952-31-1

The Digital-Signs in the Map of Mexico 1550

Acuna, Blanca; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2010

Role Playing and Collaborative Scenario Design Development

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Salmi, Anna
2009
ISBN: 978-1-904670-16-2

Modern technical documents for global users usability vs. efficient production

Siltanen, Pekka; Tenhunen, Juhani; Stetchi, Rossitza; Díaz, Lily
2009
ISBN: 978 085358 259 5

Semantic Descripitons of Digital Surrogates

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Haggrén, Henrik
2006

Searching knowledge: CinemaSense as a case study in collaborative production of a WWW service in two universities

Raike, Antti; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2006

A voice for the Map of Mexico 1550, chronicles, legends and oral traditions from the historic city center

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily; Haggrén, Henrik
2005

Non-refereed scientific articles

Unrefereed journal articles

New research practices for a new media, editorial

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2011 in Journal of Visual Art Practice (Intellect Publishers)
ISSN: 1470-2029

By chance, randomness and indeterminacy methods in art and design

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2011 in Journal of Visual Art Practice (Intellect Publishers)
ISSN: 1470-2029

Book section

Suomen paviljonki Pariisissa vuonna 1900: digitaalinen rekonstruktio

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Fewster, Derek
2014
ISBN: 978-951-37-6617-7

Re-discovering Vrouw Maria

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Sen, Ferhat; Maras, Svetlana; Reunanen, Markku; Horttana, Tommi; Hovi, Mikko
2012
ISBN: 9516162258/9789516162259

Unrefereed conference proceedings

Developing design education and knowledge for heritage

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2014
ISBN: ISBN 978-975-6339-39-8

Visitors' voices

Salgado, Mariana; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2006

Scientific books (monographs)

Book (editor)

Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Ekman, Ulrik; Bolter, Jay David; Søndergaard, Morten; Engberg, Maria
2015
ISBN: 978-0-415-74382-2

Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches Edited by Miltiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordonez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani, Lily Diaz, IGI Global. Expected date, Novem

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Lytras, Miltiadis; Ordonez de Pablos, Patricia; Damiani, Ernesto
2011
ISBN: 978-1-61520-867-8

FISCAR 2010, Proceedings of the Nordic Conference on Activity Theory and the 4th Finnish Conference on Cultural and Activity Research

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Seitama-Hakkarainen, Pirita
2010
ISBN: 978-952-60-0021-3

Publications intended for professional communities

Published development or research report

Toward Ontology of Digital Affects in New Media

Chen, Hung-Han; Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2016

The Design of Self-Organization Map for Artistic Research

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily; Chen, Hung-Han
2016

Photogrammetric Reproduction of the Map of Mexico 1554

Nuikka, Milka; Haggrén, Henrik; Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2004

Public artistic and design activities

Public contribution to artistic work

Ethnography in the Expanded Field organised by the Graduate Institute for Design and Ethnographic Social Thought (GIDEST) of the New School for Social Research. The Raisio Archeology Archive

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2016

"Digital Facsimile of the Map of Mexico 1550” in the Guadalupe Empress of the Americas exhibition held at the Houston Museum of Natural History, 11 December 2015-5 September 2016

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2015

The Pavilion of Finland at the 1900 World Fair in Paris Architecture on Screen Festival, New York Center for Architecture

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Hovi, Mikko; Miljak, Cvijeta
2015

Of Swords, Sails and Cannon the Sinking of the Princess Hedvig Sofia

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2015

Pro Finlandia exhibition

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Horttana, Tommi; Reunanen, Markku
2014

Pieni Valosinfonia

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2014

The Pavilion of Finland at the 1900 World Fair in Paris, a selection in 32nd edition of the International Festival of Films on Art (Festival International du Film sur l’Art) held in Montreal, Canada.

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Miljak, Cvijeta; Hovi, Mikko
2013

Akseli's Treasures

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Horttana, Tommi; Reunanen, Markku; Hovi, Mikko
2012

Archeovirtual 2012

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Sen, Ferhat; Piirainen, Minna; Hovi, Mikko
2012

Finnish Pavilion at 1900 World Fair in Paris

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Miljak, Cvijeta; Hovi, Mikko; Enström, Toni; Fewster, Derek
2012

Re-discovering Vrouw Maria

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Sen, Ferhat; Maras, Svetlana; Horttana, Tommi; Reunanen, Markku; Hovi, Mikko; Piirainen, Minna; Miljak, Cvijeta; Muttilainen, Jussi; Sillanpää, Heikki; Nikulin, Aleksander
2012

Havis Amanda Mon Amour - Exhibition

Keune, Anna; Kronqvist, Juha; Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2010

Finnish Pavilion 1900

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Fewster, Derek; Alander, Jukka; Luhtala, Matti; Reunanen, Markku; Salmi, Anna; Arvilommi, Lauri
2008

The House of Marcus Lucretius

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Alander, Jukka; Hong, Ji; Kaarto, Pasi; Reunanen, Markku
2008

Universal Forum of Cultures, Monterrey 2007, Mexico

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Timonen, Atte
2007

Koskinen & Suppanen (producer for the video)

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2006

Archaeovirtual 2006

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2006

Ars Electronica, Beta Lounge, Campus Exhibition 2006

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2006

The Two Faces of Mexico

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2006

Keskustelukartta- Conversational Map

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily; Salgado, Mariana
2005

Second International Biennial of Art in Buenos Aires

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2002

Aztecs

Díaz-Kommonen, Lily
2002

Audiovisual material, ICT software

ICT programs or applications

Artistic Research Software Tool based on the Self-Organizing Map

Chen, Hung-Han; Diaz-Kommonen, Lily
2016

ImaNote (Image and Map Annotation Notebook) version 1.0 release.

Diaz-Kommonen, Lily; Reunanen, Markku; Salgado, Mariana; Timonen, Atte
2007

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