Published: Wednesday 16 January 2019
50 Years of Information Processing Science in Oulu
Reseach and Education in Information Processing Science celebrates its 50 years in Oulu on Friday, January 25th, 2019.
The jubileum seminar is free of charge and ends with coffee and cake. The TOL 50th anniversary exhibition is open all day, and after the seminar you can attend the campus tour at 16:00.
The jubileum dinner includes a festive buffet menu, and even the after party at Teekkaritalo.
The events are in Finnish.
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Published: Thursday 13 December 2018
We are arranging FabLearn Europe 2019 conference in University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland on May 28-29, 2019. The two-day conference brings together international researchers, educators, designers, and makers to discuss and explore digital fabrication in education, making in educational contexts, and hands-on learning for the 21st Century.
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Published: Tuesday 4 December 2018
Published: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Published: Friday 2 November 2018
We would like to invite you to submit to the research track "HCI in a Sharing Society" at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-14, 2019. Please forward this CFP to interested colleagues and students.
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Published: Thursday 4 October 2018
Trainee positions and scholarships for trainees in INTERACT Research Unit, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland) to conduct practical training for two months. The scholarship for trainees is 1500 euros. Maximum of six trainees will receive the scholarship hopefully leading to a master’s thesis on the topic. The applicants are asked to select 1 or maximum of 2 topics that they consider relate most to their expertise and interest.
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Published: Monday 17 September 2018
Published: Monday 18 June 2018
Published: Friday 15 June 2018
For two weeks during 4 - 15.6.2018 we have had two highschool students doing their summer traineeship in the UX Lab where they worked on a game under the supervision of Joni Rajala and Mikko Rajanen. Read more.
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Published: Monday 11 June 2018
As part of our BCI (Brain-Computer Interaction) research initiative, on 8.6.2018 we have presented a "mind reader" Emotiv demo at Nokia. The demo was invited and hosted by Juha Hannula at the Open Day event at Nokia Oulu Garage facility. Emotiv is a commerical BCI system. It consists of a wireless EEG headset with 14 channels and a gyroscope. It can detect facial expressions, psychological states and conscious thoughts. Using the BCI feature the system is able to respond to up to four trained thoughts such as to interact with an object on the screen or a remote device. During the demonstration, the following commands have been trained and used: move upwards (lift), move down, move left, move right, make disapper, rotate clockwise, rotate counter-clockwise, pull and push.
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Published: Wednesday 30 May 2018
INTERACT is one of the research units to receive funding through Academy of Finland profiling of universities. See the news piece and information about the GenZ project
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Published: Wednesday 28 February 2018
INTERACTin tutkijatohtori Heidi Hartikainen Oulun Ylioppilaslehden haastattelussa lasten nettiturvallisuustaidoista!
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Published: Friday 26 January 2018
INTERACT has established a center for transdisciplinary research to support inter- and transdisciplinary research within University of Oulu by
- conducting transdisciplinary research
- studying transdisciplinary research as a phenomenon
- arranging seminars and events that encourage and support transdisciplinary research
Published: Friday 8 December 2017
Leena Ventä-Olkkonen (MSc) defends her thesis "The characteristics and development of urban computing practices. Utilizing practice toolkit approach to study public display network" on December 8, 2017 at 12 o'clock in Lecture Hall L10, University of Oulu Linnanmaa campus.
Opponent: professor Sampsa Hyysalo, Aalto University
Kustos: professor Netta Iivari

Published: Tuesday 5 December 2017
Heidi Hartikainen (Phil.Lic) defends her thesis “Malice in Wonderland: Children, Online Safety and the Wonderful World of Web 2.0” on December 5, 2017 at 12 o'clock in Lecture Hall IT115, University of Oulu Linnanmaa campus.
Opponent: professor Ole Sejer Iversen, Aarhus University
Kustos: professor Netta Iivari
Published: Wednesday 8 November 2017
SIGCHI Finland organizes this year's World Usability Day (WUD) in Oulu together with Interact Research Unit.
The event takes place at University of Oulu, Linnanmaa Campus, TellUs stage on 9th of November time 12.15 - 16.00.
The theme of this year WUD is Inclusion Through User Experience.
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Published: Wednesday 1 November 2017
Published: Tuesday 24 October 2017
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Published: Monday 9 October 2017
Eija Halkola and Dorina Rajanen received grants for post-doctoral studies from Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foudation:
- Eija Halkola: Opettajien rooli kouluverkon infrastrukturoinnissa - teknologiavälitteisen opetuksen kehittäjinä
- Dorina Rajanen: Climate change in the news: a study of how media messages impact the perceptions, emotions, attention, and behavior
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Published: Friday 6 October 2017
The paper "UX Professionals’ Definitions of Usability and UX – A Comparison between Turkey, Finland, Denmark, France and Malaysia" by Dorina Rajanen, Torkil Clemmensen, and Netta Iivari et al. has been awarded the Reviewer's Choice Award of INTERACT 2017. This award is granted to 15% of accepted full papers submissions based on reviewers’ ratings for review. Congratulations Dorina and others!
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Published: Tuesday 26 September 2017
INTERACT Research Unit, Center for Ubiquitous Computing and Martti Ahtisaari Institute, University of Oulu arrange a seminar on Digital fabrication for business and education 15.11.2017, 9.00-16.00 at University of Oulu, Linnanmaa Campus
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Published: Monday 18 September 2017
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Published: Monday 11 September 2017
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Published: Thursday 7 September 2017
A paper written as a result of a Master’s thesis project of Information Processing Science student MSc Juha Häikiö in supervision of Prof. Minna Isomursu has been nominated as the most impactful paper of ACM MobileHCI 2007 at the MobileHCI conference in Vienna, 7th September. The paper is called ”Touch-based user interface for elderly users.” It presents and evaluates implementation of meals-on-wheels service for old adults, which used touch-based user interface technology. The research was carried out in the context of ITEA SmartTouch project in collaboration with VTT.
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Published: Friday 1 September 2017
Tietojenkäsittelytieteen Seura ry palkitsi kunniamaininnalla FM Petteri Ponsimaan (Oulun yliopisto, INTERACT-tutkimusyksikkö) pro gradu -työn Discovering value for health with grocery shopping data.
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Published: Thursday 22 June 2017
Vasiliki Mylonopoulou's paper nominated as one of the best papers in the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 22-24
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Published: Thursday 22 June 2017
LUNO - Lukiolaisista nostetta ohjelmistoalalle - project: Battling the gender segregation on our field by making IT field more interesting for female senior-highschoolers by teaching them programming and designerly thinking as well as giving them more information about our field in general
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Published: Wednesday 7 June 2017
Vasiliki Mylonopoulou's paper in video form!
Gentile, V., & Mylonopoulou, V. (2017, June). Exploiting social comparison using pervasive displays and mobile notifications for reducing energy consumption. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (p. 22). ACM.
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Published: Friday 26 May 2017
Published: Friday 5 May 2017
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Published: Friday 10 February 2017
Check out the videos produced by our PhD students who work hard in CHESS project.
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Published: Monday 31 October 2016
Published: Monday 3 October 2016
Published: Tuesday 6 September 2016
Published: Saturday 20 August 2016
New publications for Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Arto Lanamäki, Netta Iivari and Kari Kuutti!
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Published: Friday 3 June 2016
Our people are on the move and presenting papers: UK (Manchester/IDC, Preston/FabLearn), Turkey (Istanbul/ECIS) and also here in Oulu (PerDis). Kari Kuutti got a paper accepted in 4S/EASST in Barcelona, in August 2016.
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Published: Friday 20 May 2016
Arto Lanamäki, Netta Iivari and Kari Kuutti participate in the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP) in Trento, Italy. Jouni Lappalainen participates the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion (ICSE) in Austin, Texas, USA.
Netta Iivari and Marianne Kinnula got a paper accepted in Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS).
Published: Wednesday 20 April 2016
Our group members got papers accepted in the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP), in the Interaction Design and Children conference, and European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016).
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Published: Tuesday 1 December 2015
Minna Pakanen defending her PhD thesis 18.12.2015 on "Visual design examples in the evaluation of anticipated user experience at the early phases of research and development". Eija Halkola defending her PhD thesis 9.12.2015 on "Participation in infrastructuring the future school - A nexus analytic inquiry".
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Published: Saturday 10 October 2015
Inforte course on Value-Oriented Design for Children and Young People on November 25th-26th at Oulu University. World Usability Day 2015 event on November 12th, 2015 at University of Oulu, Auditorium GO101.
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Published: Tuesday 1 September 2015
Mikko Rajanen has two presentations in Germany, first at Interact 2015 Conference in Bamberg, Germany, and then he talks at FAU, Computer Science Department, Open-Source Software Research Group, in Erlangen-Nurenberg.
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Published: Monday 31 August 2015
Karin Väyrynen and Arto Lanamäki participated at the Int'l Summer School on CSCW in Como, Italy. Two papers were accepted at HICSS 49 Conference: Dorina Rajanen et al. (2016) and Arto Lanamäki et al. (2016). Netta Iivari and Minna Isomursu spoke at Inauguration of Professors at University of Oulu. INTERACT research group co-organized the SCIS 2015 conference and IRIS38 workshop in Oulu.
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