The Center for Ubiquitous Computing will be present this year at ACM MobileHCI’18 with three demos. Make sure to visit! S3: Environmental Fingerprinting with a Credit Card-sized NFC Powered Sensor Board People have become more aware about their environment and pay more attention to conditions, e.g., air quality, and UV light exposure. Conventional technologies for reading environmental conditions are expensive,…
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New study: Semantic networks for enhancement of creativity
Human creativity generates novel ideas to solve real-world problems. This thereby grants us the power to transform the surrounding world and extend our human attributes beyond what is currently possible. Creative ideas are not just new and unexpected, but are also successful in providing solutions that are useful, efficient and valuable. Thus, creativity optimizes the use of available resources and…
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CARE: A Context-Aware Sensor System for Elderly Care (1-year report)
CARE is an assistive healthcare platform developed by the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu. The platform consists of a innovative sensor infrastructure that collects contextual data from nursing environments using the AWARE framework. By applying state of the art machine learning algorithms, the data is converted into understandable information for nurses to use in the daily care…
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Amorphis 360 Experience via Virtual Reality featured in Kaleva
Our research on Virtual Reality (VR) is featured in today’s edition of Kaleva. On the 23rd of September 2017, internationally acclaimed Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis, streamed its 360 Experience concert live, as a 360° video. Simultaneously, almost 30 test subjects took part in the University of Oulu’s distance concert trial, by watching the concert remotely and in real-time, using…
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