Farrukh Sahar is a PhD student at Tampere University of Technology, majoring in User Experience. He has extensive expertise conducting UX research methods and evaluating user experience. His PhD research involves a long-term study of the user experience of a multi-component sports product called Suunto Quest. He has published papers in international journals and conference proceedings and is teaching and reviewing for technical publications.

1. Farrukh Sahar´s Portfolio
Farrukh Sahar
PhD Student
Majors: User Experience
Tampere University of Technology
Human-Centered Technology (IHTE)
Tampere University of Technology
Korkeakoulunkatu 6, P.O. Box 589, 33101
Tampere, Finland Room TF217
Phone: +358 40 3730 157
http://www.cs.tut.fi/ihte/

2. Contents
• As a UX specialist……
• Specialties
• Education
• Professional Experience
• PhD Research Case 1: Long-term User
Experience Evaluation of Suunto Quest
• Publications
• Teaching Roles
• Peer Review Roles
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3. As a UX specialist..
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• I have unique combination of leadership and business development
competencies strengthened with UX professional skills both
specialist and management roles from innovation to end products. I
conceptualize and orchestrate UX strategy that effectively reinforce
user engagement and loyalty and I excel at making UX goals,
innovation, time and technological constraints match with business
challenges.
• I have earned considerable experiences on different
R&D projects during my PhD studies in Finland and
past professional career as a R&D executive in
Pakistan, and as a project assistant in Sweden. I am
an experienced and passionate ICT industry
professional specializing in UX area with excellent
communication skills and ability to work in
multidisciplinary, multi-cultural, and global
organizations.

4. Specialties
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• I have substantial expertise on conducting structured interviews,
semi-structured interviews, paper-based questionnaires, online
questionnaires, usability tests, surveys, electronic diary study,
UX Curve method, user experience (UX) evaluation, long-term
UX evaluation, multi-component products UX evaluation, and
use case testing.
• In addition, during my postgrad studies, I have developed my
personal skills e.g. in task analysis, usability and UX research
methods, UX evaluation and design methods, contextual
inquiries, personas, user scenarios, storyboards, wireframes,
user experience design, PLEX cards, experience driven design,
paper prototyping, focus groups, participant observation,
human-centered design, and project management. These
experiences have polished my abilities to analyze the problems from
users´ perspective in order to provide optimal solutions complied
with users´ requirements.

5. Education
• July, 2011-Present Tampere University of Technology, Finland
PhD student at Dept. of Pervasive computing
Majors: User Experience
• 2007-2009 Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
M.S. in Computer Science
Majors: Usability
GPA 3.8/5
Thesis Grade: 4.0/5
• 2004-2006 University of Balochistan, Pakistan
Master´s in Computer Science
Majors: Computer Sciences
GPA 3.53/4
• 2002-2004 PIMSAT, Pakistan.
BS in Information technology
Majors: Information Technology
GPA 3.9/4
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6. Professional Experience
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• Jan 10 - Sept 10 Research and Development Executive
Combnet Broadband Communications, Pakistan
• My role was to deliver the solutions on projects and coordinate with the project
services team. Execute all elements of the research and project management
process.
• Sept 09 - Nov 09 Project Assistant
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden
• My role was to fulfill the project requirements and perform evaluation after
redesigning the overall system architecture. Leading, controlling and monitoring the
overall execution of the project.
• March 09 - June 09 Project Assistant
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden
• My role was to participate in the designing, execution, analysis, and evaluation of
research project. Provide strategic leadership regarding the use and implementation
of IT.

7. PhD Research Case 1: Long-term
User Experience Evaluation of
Suunto Quest
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• In July, 2011 I started my journey as a PhD student at TUT. During
the Licentiate degree, I have finished a research study with Finnish
company Suunto. The research case is based on long-term UX
evaluation of multi-component product named “Suunto Quest”.
During the Licentiate degree, I have written 2 research papers and
the papers have submitted to the conferences.
The titles of the research papers are:
1) Identifying the User Experience Factors of a Multi-Component
Sports Product.
2) Comparing the Efficiency of Electronic Diary and UX Curve
Methods in Multi-Component Product Study.

8. Publications (1/2)
• Four refereed proceedings
1. F. Sahar, A. Khan, and M. Asim “An investigation on citizen Access to eHealth Services in County
of Blekinge, Sweden”, 2nd International Conference on Business, Technology and Engineering
(ICBTE-2010). Ref: IUIC/ICBTE10/FPAL116.
2. F. Sahar “Web Based Intelligent Decision Support System for Type 2 Diabetes Patients". IACSIT
International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 5, October 2013.
3. S. T. Raza and F. Sahar “An Investigation on Perspective of Usability and Functionality of Mobile
Phones for Elderly". IACSIT International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 3,
June 2013.
4. F. Sahar, S. T. Raza, and M. N. Nasir “Communication Tools in Offshore Development with
Scrum". IACSIT International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 2013.
• Two research papers submitted to the conferences as a first - author
1. Identifying the User Experience Factors of a Multi-Component Sports Product.
2. Comparing the Efficiency of Electronic Diary and UX Curve Methods in Multi-Component Product
Study.
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9. Publications (2/2)
• One accepted workshop paper
1. T. Kymäläinen, F. Sahar and J. Palvianen, ” White knights of the smart city”, Creative-Science
2014 (Shanghai, 30th June - 1st July 2014).
PUBLISHED SHORT BOOK
1. F. Sahar and M. Asim “An investigation on Blekinge County Council eHealth services
requirements of citizens and Blekinge County Council eHealth services Strategy for citizens”, With
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG Dudweiler Landstraße 99 66123 Saarbrücken
Germany.
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10. Teaching Roles
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1. Sept 11 - Oct 11 Teaching Assistant
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• My role was to assist the course IHTE-7106 introduction to human behaviour.
2. Sept 09 - Nov 09 Project Assistant
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden
• My role was to assist the supervision of M.Sc thesis students.
3. March 09 - June 09 Project Assistant
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Ronneby, Sweden
• My role was to assist the supervision of M.Sc thesis students.

11. Peer Review Roles
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1. I acted as a reviewer for “Elsevier, Journal of Network and Computer
Applications” United States of America.
2. I acted as a reviewer for “Hawaii International Conference on Systems
Sciences”, United States of America.

12. Question?...Please contact me
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