15 Dec 2006 - HIIT researcher Risto Sarvas defended his doctoral thesis Designing User-Centric Metadata for Digital Snapshot Photography at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology. His opponent was professor Walter Bender from MIT Media Lab, USA. The supervisor of the thesis was Professor Reijo Sulonen.

10 Nov 2006 - HIIT researcher Antti Oulasvirta defended his doctoral thesis Studies of working memory in interrupted human-computer interaction in the public dissertation at the Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki. The opponent was Professor Deborah Boehm-Davis from George Mason University and the custos Professor Christina Krause. The supervisor of the thesis was Professor Pertti Saariluoma from University of Jyväskylä.