UBICOMP is back from Summer holidays. UBICOMP’s “Back to School” Summer Event took place yesterday, August 14th 2024, at Koitelin Residenssi. The event consisted of various group and individual activities, including a guided walking tour through the history of Koiteli, and the Koiteli theme trail targetting collaborative and creative group tasks, while exploring Koiteli’s nature routes. In addition, the UBICOMP…
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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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