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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SENSATE: Entropy-AWARE Instrumentation for Just-In-Time Anomalous Human Behaviour Interventions
The University of Oulu’s Center for Ubiquitous Computing has been awarded the prestigious Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2018-2023) to provide objective measures for identifying depression and systematically track its course over time. “The goal is to create a novel approach for identifying anomalous human behavior based on systematic behavioral tracking capturing daily data from a patient’s smartphones and other…
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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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UBICOMP is recruiting 2 part-time research assistants- Project STOP
The Center for Ubiquitous Computing (https://ubicomp.oulu.fi) is recruiting 2 part-time Research Assistants to work on Academy of Finland project STOP. DescriptionThe positions are available at the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu (https://ubicomp.oulu.fi), and the successful candidates will work within the Community Instrumentation and Awareness Group, under the scope of project STOP (https://ubicomp.oulu.fi/stop-sentient-tracking-of-parkinsons-funded-by-the-academy-of-finland-ict-2023-programme/), financed by the Academy of Finland. The research will focus on the development of…
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