Congratulations to Jakob Rogstadius for this great distinction. CrisisTracker, an open-source platform built in collaboration by the University of Oulu, the University of Madeira, IBM Research, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute, has won the “Tech Challenge” award by USAID and Humanity United. The Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention emerged in response to an initiative issued by US President Barack Obama, and…
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Denzil Ferreira who has just defended his PhD. His opponent was Andrew Campbell (Darthmouth College), and his pre-examiners Ceclia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) and Florian Michahelles (ETZ Zurich). Denzil’s thesis was entitled AWARE: A mobile context instrumentation middleware to collaboratively understand human behaviour. You can read more about his thesis in this post. Photo: Denzil (middle) is posing with…
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Public displays offer communities a window to information. But they also offer researchers a window into understanding communities. Over the past few years, research at the University of Oulu led by the Ubioulu consortium has investigated a number of ways in which public displays can be more than just “displays”. In this article we summarise some of our most exciting…
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We have developed multiple tools to visualise and analyse urban mobility on a city scale (links to live demos at the end of the post). Tools to visualise urban mobility In our work we engaged with the city of Oulu’s traffic control centre responsible for day-to-day traffic management, but also with the environmental agency responsible for long-term transport planning in…
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