Institute of Occupational Safety Engineering, TUT

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Institute of Occupational Safety Engineering, TUT

• Established 1974
• Staff about 20 persons
• Safety management, risk management and ergonomics
  are the main areas of research and education
• Students about 130 with major/minor in
  occupational safety engineering
• About 60 doctoral students

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Jukka Vanhala, TTY/Elektroniikka

• Personal Electronics Group, PEG
• prof. Jukka Vanhala
• 20 tutkijaa
• Tampereella ja Kankaanpäässä
• Henkilökohtainen elektroniikka on rajakerros
  ihmisen ja koneen välillä, Human - computer -
  interface, HCI
• Ei pelkästään kuvaruudulla, vaan uudet
  käyttöliittymät
• Kaikki elektroniikka, jota voi katsella, kuulla,
  kosketella - aistia
• UCITssa ollut 5 opiskelijaa, Jaana,Tero, Arto,
  Lasse ja Satu
• Käyttöliittymät
• Käytettävyys
• Älykkäät laitteet ja ympäristöt
• Elektroniikaa!

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Institute of Human-Centered Technology

• Founded on 1.1.2006
• head professor Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila
• In dept. of Information Technology
• Research since 1990s in user-centered design and
  user needs research
• multidisciplinary cooperation with several
  institutes
• 20 researchers and assistants
• One professor in usability
• in 2006, a new professor in psychology
• Strong cooperation with industry

• RESEARCH THEMES
• Human-centered design of machine and automation
  systems
• Customer-centered implementation of Enterprise
  Resource Planning systems
• Measuring the usability and business performance
  of mobile services
• Assessing the experience of audiovisual quality,
  for example, on mobile TV
• User needs in smart environments, for example,
  in smart homes

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Clas-Håkan Nygård, PhD (Work physiology)Professor
in Occupational Health

• University of TampereTampere School of Public
  Health
• Vice director and
• Head of Occupational health group
• Main research topics ageing and work, work
  physiology (stress and strain at work), promotion
  of health and work well-being, technology and
  well-being, ergonomics
• In UCIT supervisor of Reetta Orsila

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Roope Raisamo

• Prof. Roope RaisamoDepartment of Computer
  Sciences University of Tampere, Finland
• 19931998 Instructor and researcher,Dept of
  Computer Science, University of Tampere
• 19961997 Visiting research positions at Digital
  Equipment Corporation (Palo Alto, California
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, 6 months)
• 1998 Professor of Computer Science, University
  of Tampere (field user interface software
  development)
• Leader of the Multimodal Interaction Research
  Group (15 researchers) at TAUCHI

Presently coordinating these projects MICOLE
Multimodal Collaboration Environment for
Inclusion of Visually Impaired Children
(2004-2007)funded by European Union Haptic User
Interfaces  (2004-2007)funded by the Academy of
Finland Multimodal Interfaces for Visually
Impaired Children (2004-2006)funded by Tekes and
NUH
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Kari-Jouko Räihä
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Veikko Surakka

• PhD in Psychology
• Docent in Interactive Technology
• Current position yliassistentti at the
  Department of Computer Sciences
• Also working at the Tampere University Hospital
• Head of the Research Group for Emotions,
  Sociality, and Computing (ESC)
• At present a group of 7 people
• Research focus
• To integrate social-emotional processes as part
  of interactive technology, and to study the
  effects of such processes to man-machine
  interaction
• For example, how emotions and cognitive
  functioning can be regulated by technology
• Multidisciplinary team combining psychology,
  computer science, and engineering science
• Research methods
• Mainly empirical, experimental research at all
  levels of human behavior
• Phenomenological, behavioral, psycho-physiological
  , and neurophysiological