Our group was won a grant from the Academy of Finland to work on the iSCIENCE project during 2015-2018. The funding will enable us to further develop our AWARE smartphone platform. The platform enables scientists to capture, analyse, and share smartphone sensor data. The platform is scalable with plugins installable directly on smartphones in an ad-hoc fashion. AWARE can be used as a standalone mobile…
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Jorge Goncalves who defended his PhD on August 14, 2015. His opponent was Albrecht Schmidt (University of Stuttgart) and his pre-examiners Niki Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University) and Panos Ipeirotis (New York University). Jorge’s thesis was entitled Situated Crowdsourcing: Feasibility, Performance and Behaviours. You can read more about his thesis in this post. Photo: Taken shortly after Jorge’s defense with his opponent. From left: Albrecht Schmidt,…
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The Community Imaging Group at the University of Oulu, along with the City of Oulu, have joined the new Horizon 2020 project Grey and green in Europe: elderly living in urban areas (GRAGE). During the next 48 months a consortium of 10 partners from all over Europe will carry out an interdisciplinary study on the challenges of ageing and sustainable…
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Jayant Venkatanathan who defended his PhD on March 17, 2015. His opponents were Luis Caricco (University of Lisbon) and Jean-Bernard Martens (Eindhoven University of Technology). Jayant’s thesis was entitled Examining the Interplay Between Universal Behavioural Tendencies, Online Social Networks and Social Capital. You can read more about his thesis in this post. Photo: Taken shortly after Jayant’s defense with the members of his jury.…
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