At the 24th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 2023), which took place in Bordeaux, France, between 24 – 28 July 2023, Xinhui Hu from the Design Research group (DR) was awarded both the Reviewers’ Favourite Award and Young Member’s Best Presentation Award. Xinhui’s paper centers on an innovative Virtual Reality (VR)-based empathy design approach. The research delves into the…
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A hackathon was organized by Ultrahack in Pori, during the Suomi Areena festival on the topic of the Metaverse. This event, which was held between the 27th and 29th of June 2023, aimed to bring together teams that would explore ”The Future of Work in the Metaverse” with their own project ideas. UBICOMP gathered a team of developers consisting of…
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The Philosophy and Mathematics of Situated Agency Conference, is organised by UBICOMP and takes place in Oulu, between June 5-8. The event brings together world-leading thinkers in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, mathematics of cognition, and robotics. Recent advances in computational neuroscience, enactivist cognition and artificial intelligence enable – and also necessitate – profoundly new ways of…
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It is with great joy that we are having the PRINCE final event in Oulu, Finland on Tuesday, 22nd November, 2022. We would like to thank all the beneficiaries and agencies involved for their fruitful and successful collaboration in bringing to fruition the PRINCE project, despite the many obstacles faces due to the COVID pandemic. We look forward to continuing…
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