Research

Current projects

ATLAS:
ATLAS - a map for future service co-development - is a project about analyzing, co-developing, and testing a map of collaborative methods for service development, design and innovation.
It is a joint strategic research project between three major units in the field of Innovation and Service Design: two groups are from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management in the School of Science; SimLab and BIT/IRIS, and the third group comes from the Department of Design (DoD) at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology (TEKES) has granted a 2,5-year funding to the project.

Corinna:
Collaborative innovation in ICT-enabled business processes and business models. Tekes FiDiPro project (2008-2012); partners: HP, NCC, KONE, Finnair, Finnish Saving Banks Association City of Rovaniemi.

GaLA:
GaLA is a Network of Excellence (NoE) for serious games, and it is funded by the European Union in FP7 – IST ICT, Technology Enhanced Learning. GaLA’s motivation stems from the acknowledgment of the potential of serious games (SGs) for education and training and the need to address the challenges of the main stakeholders of the SGs European landscape (users, researchers, developers/industry, educators). GaLA gathers the cutting-the-edge European Research & Development organizations on Serious Games, involving altogether 31 partners from 14 countries all over the EU: Italy, Germany, Austria, Finland, UK, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Portugal, France, Romania and Ireland. The research partners include universities, research centers, and developer and education industries. GaLA started on October 1st 2010, and will last 4 years.

Global School:
Global School is an international research and business network, which internationalizes the Finnish basic education, and creates new business opportunities and global markets for the Finnish education export industry. At the same time, Global School produces new scientific knowledge through international and multidisciplinary research collaboration between international universities in the respective export countries. The research and business network is global, and it consists of Finnish and foreign schools, universities, companies, public sector actors and non-profit organizations. Global School collaborates closely with the learning environments development team of the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation Tekes, and with the Future Learning Finland education export cluster coordinated by Finpro. --

GloVEd:
Global Virtual Education (GloVEd) develops an international collaboration course, where students from four different countries in three different continents solve a real-life business case in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. The project designs the course, technological tools for collaboration in Second Life, collects data and analyzes it in order to further advance global virtual education.

InnoS chool:
Innovations in Architecture, Playful Learning, Education and Services for the Future School. (Tekes, 2007-08, 2008-10).

consortium: TKK SimLab (leader), TKK Architecture, Urban Planning and Design; University of Helsinki, Faculty of Education; University of Lapland, Center for Media Pedagogy. In collaboration: Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara.
City of Espoo, City of Helsinki, City of Rovaniemi, Microsoft Oy, Lappset Group Ltd., Martela, Elisa, Cramo Instant, National Board of Education, Finnish Forest Industries Federation

ISIS
ISIS (2011-2013) is a strategic research project funded by TEKES and Aalto University. It´s research examines collaborative knowledge creation processes in contexts where individuals represent multiple organizations and specializations and have different understandings of key issues.

Margarita:
Successful post-M&A integration of business processes and information systems (Tekes, 2009-2011)

Nokia Siemens Networks, Hewlett-Packard, Aalto University

OPTEK:
The OPTEK Project is a large research endeavour linked closely to the ICTs at School’s Everyday Life Project. Joint research effort is carried out in the multidisciplinary OPTEK Project which is mostly funded by Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation). The research consortium consist of twelwe multidisciplinary research units, 28 enterprises and twenty school projects.

The OPTEK Project aims to study and produce well-founded and lasting solutions to the educational use of ICT in the everyday life of schools. The project will develop models, meta-models, processes and contents which will enable the efficient use of ICT in the study and learning environments of schools.

Pro2Act: suomeksi / in English
Proaktiiviset sopimusprosessit julkisissa hankinnoissa – kumppanuuden ja yhteisinnovoinnin edistäjinä (Tekes, 2010-2013).
Proactive Contracting Processes in Public Procurement – Promoters for Partnership and Co-innovation (Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, 2010-2013)

SUSPROC:
The project 'SUSPROC - Sustainable Building Processes' aims at adopting new processes for eco-efficient building and sustainable built environment. (2009-2010)

VISCI:
VISCI is a four-year (2009-2012) multidisciplinary research project is funded by the Academy of Finland in the MOTIVE research programme. VISCI produces new scientific knowledge via a multidisciplinary research approach focusing on communication, interaction, and enabling technology for the advancement of collaborative innovation in virtual teams. VISCI will develop and test novel technologies that facilitate social interaction and collaborative knowledge creation for learning and innovation.

VISCI Tools:
VISCI Tools is a two-year research project funded by Tekes and the participating companies (KONE Oyj, M-Brain, Lumo Research, MetSta and HaagaHelia). The practical objective of VISCI Tools is to develop and test in a user-centric way novel technologies and the accompanying management processes that facilitate social interaction and collaborative knowledge creation in networked innovation.

aivoSenses:
aivoSenses is a multidiciplinary research project that studies how real-time information of physiological data from the participants affect the interaction in virtual group work situations. aivoSenses is part of the aivoAALTO ('brainWAVE') project in Aalto University.

Finished projects

Information about old projects can be found on their own page.