Adjunct Professor Denzil Ferreira, at the Centre for Ubiquitous Computing has been awarded funding from the Academy of Finland’s ICT 2023 programme, for project STOP: Sentient Tracking Of Parkinson’s. About STOP: Effective monitoring of patients is technically challenging with wearables due to: 1) battery life is limited to a few hours when sampling and processing data continuously; 2) it is not…
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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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The Center for Ubiquitous Computing participates in the Industry Summit 2017, between the 5-6th of October, at the Oulu City Theater. Ubicomp Researcher Toni Alatalo will be presenting some of the research results from the 6Aika AIA- Open Innovation Platform of Six City Strategy project (A70202) funded by the ERDF and the City of Oulu. Under Alatalo’s guidance, the visitors will…
Continue ReadingWelcome to the “Creative Design Thinking Workshop”, to take place on the 3rd of October 2017 (Tue), from 14:00-16:00, at FabLab Oulu. The workshop will introduce some brainstorming and explore iterations and rapid prototyping techniques to boost creative design thinking, emphasizing on creation of meaning, empathy, and experiences. The event is open to academic and non-academic audiences, and will be instructed…
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