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CIE PROJECTS
UBI (UrBan Interactions)
Timo Ojala, professor
MediaTeam, University of Oulu
timo.ojala@ee.oulu.fi
UBI is a large multi-disciplinary research program comprising of multiple subprojects. The main goal of the UBI program is to build a functional prototype of future ubiquitous city in Oulu. This involves deploying new urban computing infrastructure, developing the UBI Open Urban Service Network API and a set of functional prototype applications and services, which are empirically evaluated in form of field trials in true environment of use.
Affective Human-Robot Interaction
Juha Röning, Professor
Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu
juha.roning@ee.oulu.fi
The objective of the project is to develop leading edge solutions for affective human-robot interaction (HRI) in advanced Ubicom environments. An intelligent robot should be able to detect and identify the user in order to personalize its services and guarantee security.
Furthermore, it should recognize user’s emotions to allow affective interaction, and be able to communicate easily with the user to understand given commands by recognizing speech and gestures. The robot should also learn to change its behaviour according to the user and his/her emotional state.
Neo Arena
Kimmo Paajanen
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
kimmo.paajanen@oamk.fi
Neo Arena is an extensive digital media research and development project, where applicable technology and functional content is being developed for a multichannel distribution environment. In addition, Neo Arena tests the commercial feasibility of a multichannel distribution platform and tries to work out the legal prerequisites of multichannel distribution from the point of view of copyrights.
Neo Arena started in 2006. Since those days, there have been over 50 content production, technology and R&D professionals involved. The project is coordinated by Oulu University of Applied Sciences.
Smart Urban Spaces
Tuomo Tuikka
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
tuomo.tuikka@vtt.fi
The SUS project aims to bring suitable design frameworks and urban standards to enable European cities to introduce seamlessly the most advanced mobile technologies in new interoperable eservices. The project brings together committed city organizations to offer pilot sites for the project, technology and service providers as well as researches.
In addition to technology development and integration effort, the main focus is to introduce application demonstrators and piloting the solutions. Eventually, the SUS project aims to provide a European wide technology platform for service development and delivery.
NEWS
The UBI Summer School will commence the UBI-Challenge in June 2010
29th of December 2009The findings of the UBI Pilot 2009 will be employed in the iterative design and implementation of the UBI Pilot 2010. The “2nd Open Ubiquitous City Seminar” to take place on 31.5.2010 will introduce the UBI ...
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