The accelerating pace of Valossa Labs Ltd, a spin-off from our Center, has been physically tough. When the team won the Midnight Pitch Fest last summer, a coder fainted after hearing the news. The team was tested again at the end of September when it headed to Silicon Valley to participate in TechCrunch Disrupt event, where hundreds of technology start-ups presented…
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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…
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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…
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In a recent paper we published at Ubicomp 2014 we demonstrate how magnetic fields can be used for communication purposes on smartphones. Specifically, we show how a phone’s magnetometer can be used to capture and decode information that is implicitly encoded in a magnetic field. In this article we provide a high-level description of how our system (Pulse) works. You…
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