Profile
Currenty, I work as a Software Developer for Atostek.
During the 2 years I ran my own business Förger Analytics, I mainly worked on automatic temporal synchronization of different data sources such as accelerometers, videos, touch screen events, and EEG signals. The goal was to streamline the running of scientific experiments, so that less time is needed for data clean-up. The solutions mainly use mobile Android devices (smart watches, phones, tablets) to enable performing experiments in real-life locations outside a laboratory.
I graduated as a Doctor of Science (Technology)
from the Department of Computer Science of
the Aalto University in 2015.
I worked in the research group "Art and Magic" lead by
Professor Tapio Takala.
My previous employments include working for the Paris 8 University in the ICI project. Before that I worked
on the project Social eMotions that is related to social emotions in dance movements [1] [2] [3] which was funded by Kone Foundation.
I have also worked in the project Multimodally Grounded Language Technology.
Research interests
- Computer animation
- Motion capture
- Analysis and synthesis of human motion
- Motion style (both physical and emotional)
Publications
Förger, K. & Himberg, T. & Laroche, J. & Bachrach, A. 2018. FSenSync - A software for enabling collaboration between art and science. In: Hybrid Labs Symposium 2018. HLS 2018. Espoo, Finland. 1 page.
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Himberg, T. & Förger, K. & Niinisalo, M. & Nuutinen, J. & Lehmus, J. 2017. Social eMotions: Exploring Emotional Expression and Contagion in Contemporary Dance. In: 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. ESCOM 2017. Ghent, Belgium. pp. 87-90.
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Förger, K. & Joufflineau, C. & Bachrach, A. 2017. Kinetic predictors of spectators' segmentation of a live dance performance. In: 4th International Conference on Movement
Computing. MOCO ’17. London, UK. 2 pages.
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Himberg, T. & Förger, K. & Bachrach, A. 2017. Four-way mirror game: developing methods to study group coordination. In: 4th International Conference on Movement Computing. MOCO ’17. London, UK. 2 pages.
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Förger, K. 2015. From motion capture to performance synthesis: A data based approach on full-body animation. Aalto University publication series: Doctoral dissertations 90/2015. Aalto University, Finland.
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Förger, K. & Takala, T. 2015. A Motion Style Toolbox. Conf. On Intelligent Virtual Agents, August 26-28, 2015, Delft, The Netherlands. LNCS, Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer International Publishing. pp. 343-347. pdf toolbox download page final publication bibtex
Mäkäräinen, M. & Kätsyri, J. & Förger, K. & Takala, T. 2015. The Funcanny Valley: A Study of Positive Emotional Reactions to Strangeness. Proceeding of the 19th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, September 22-24, 2015, Tampere, Finland. ACM, New York, USA. pp. 175-181. pdf final publication bibtex
Pugliese, R. & Förger, K. 2015. Game Experience When Controlling a Weak Avatar in Full-Body Enaction. Conf. On Intelligent Virtual Agents, August 26-28, 2015, Delft, The Netherlands. LNCS, Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer International Publishing. pp. 418-431. pdf final publication bibtex
Förger, K. & Takala, T. 2015. Animating with style: defining expressive semantics of motion. The Visual Computer. Springer. 13 pages. DOI: 10.1007/s00371-015-1064-4 pdf final publication video bibtex
Kätsyri, J. & Förger, K. & Mäkäräinen, M. & Takala, T. 2015. A review of empirical evidence on different uncanny valley hypotheses: support for perceptual mismatch as one road to the valley of eeriness. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf link to journal bibtex
Förger, K. & Honkela, T. & Takala, T. 2013. Impact of Varying Vocabularies on Controlling Motion of a Virtual Actor. Conf. On Intelligent Virtual Agents, August 29-31, 2013, Edinburgh, UK. LNCS, Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer Berlin. pp 239-248. pdf final publication bibtex
Honkela, T. & Förger, K. 2013. Modeling Action Verb Semantics Using Motion Tracking. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2013. September 10-13, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. LNCS, ICANN 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp 312-318. pdf final publication bibtex
Förger, K. & Takala, T. & Pugliese, R. 2012. Authoring Rules for Bodily Interaction: From Example Clips to Continuous Motions. Conf. On Intelligent Virtual Agents, September 12-14, 2012, Santa Cruz, California, USA. LNCS, Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer Berlin. pp 341-354. pdf final publication video bibtex
Honkela, T. & Kohonen, O. & Laaksonen, J. & Lagus, K. & Förger, K. & Sjöberg, M. & Takala, T. & Valpola, H. & Wagner, P. 2011. Learning Semantics of Movement. Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 17 December 2011, Melia Sierra Nevada & Melia Sol y Nieve, Sierra Nevada, Spain. 4 pages. pdf
Pugliese, R. & Lehtonen, K. 2011. A Framework for Motion Based Bodily Enaction with Virtual Characters. Conf. On Intelligent Virtual Agents, September 15-17, 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland. LNCS, Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer Berlin. pp 162-168. pdf final publication video bibtex
Lehtonen, K. & Takala, T. 2011. Evaluating emotional content of acted and algorithmically modified motions. Conf. on Computer Animation and Social Agents, May 26-28, 2011, Chengdu, China. LNCS, Transactions on Edutainment VI. Springer Berlin. pp 144-153. pdf final publication bibtex
Lehtonen, K. 2010. Algorithmic modifications to the emotional content of motion capture data. Master's thesis. Aalto University, Department of Media Technology.
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