A5005997758- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- AI in Service Interactions
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Service and Product Innovation
- Research in Social Sciences
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- RFID technology advancements
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Persona Design and Applications
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Human Pose and Action Recognition
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Usability and User Interface Design
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
2010-2021
Tampere University
2019
Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation
2009-2018
Kajaani University of Applied Sciences
2010
University of Jyväskylä
2000-2004
Abstract Robotic telepresence is a potential technology to help alleviating the loneliness of elderly people. The impacts long-term use robots in residential care are not well known. We were interested how using robot influences resident, family members and workers at facility, what challenges solutions there for wider adoption such care. With Double, we arranged series three trials two separate facilities: one 12-week trial private facility successive 6-week public facility. In each trial,...
Consumers often respond positively to social service robots in retail context but less is known about the expectations and success criteria of management retailers for such robots. We have introduced a humanoid robot (Pepper) shopping mall report results workshop, interviews eight consumer customer workshop. The show that stakeholders find important creates warm fun atmosphere as well provides practical help customers workers.
Abstract In this paper, it is argued that e‐learning environments are currently more like ‘buildings’, ie, learning spaces, rather than ‘schools’, places for learning. The concepts originated from architecture and urban design, where they used both to distinguish static spaces inhabited places, importantly, as design objectives. transformation space place supported enabled by social interactions between the (learning) community members. We argue distinction explains some of problems with...
Our everyday environments are gradually becoming intelligent, facilitated both by technological development and user activities. Although large-scale intelligent still rare in actual use, they have been studied for quite a long time, several studies carried out. In this paper, we present user-centric view of based on published research results our own experiences from with concepts prototypes. We analyze acceptance users’ expectations that affect willingness to start using continue them....
Robots have been slowly but steadily introduced to welfare sectors. Our previous observations based on a large-scale survey study Finnish elder-care workers in 2016 showed that while robots were perceived be useful certain telecare tasks, using may also prove incompatible with the care workers' personal values. The current presents second wave of data from 2020, same respondents (N = 190), and shows how these views changed for positive, including higher expectations robotization decreased...
Physical browsing is a user interaction paradigm in which the interacts with physical objects by using mobile terminal to select object for some action. The contain links digital services and information related objects. are implemented tags that readable terminal. We have built system supports selecting touching pointing at them. Our emulates passive sensor-equipped long-range RFID equipped an reader. compared different configurations pointing. Additionally, we evaluated other parameters of...
People tend to respond positively social service robots in field trials public places. Less is known how their perceptions and attitudes evolve if the same robot presented frequently setting novelty effect wears off. We have carried out two first questionnaire surveys start monitoring shopping mall customers' acceptance of a for longer term (three years). The survey concerned idea second physical itself. Especially results "With robot" indicates high socially engaging mall.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to enhance healthcare efficiency and quality. New generative AI (GenAI) large language models (LLM) offer novel opportunities for applications. This study examines management expert perceptions of implementation challenges in wellbeing services counties (WSCs), which are the responsible providers social welfare their region Finland.A qualitative interview was conducted two phases from Nov 2023 Feb 2024. First, 28 participants were interviewed...
The paradigm of visual search was used to investigate how participants looked for a target file among distracter files in an icon-based computer interface. purpose these experiments study the effect icons and spatial grouping on scanning speed. Does identical increase speed? Do themselves speed up when compared with condition which are indicated mere textual labels? Our results showed that both presence their had significant positive Potential applications this research include design...
Telepresence robots have been suggested as a solution to alleviate the loneliness of elderly. In earlier studies, user requirements regarding data quality, connectivity, navigation, and privacy issues listed, but feasible calling practices not established. We studied usage telepresence robot Double in nursing home by an elderly resident her daughters. To enable contact daughters, she could use "Please call me" buttons send text messages daughters' mobile phones. This paper addresses with...
Having a sense of dignity is one the core emotions in human life. Is our dignity, and accordingly also under threat elderly care, especially robotic care? How can care support or challenge The answer will depend on whether it robot-based, robot-assisted, teleoperated that at stake. Further, demands realizations have to be distinguished. respect humans are based inalienable high equal moral standing everyone has. For agents, these take form negative positive duties. robots, they arguably...
In the EU-funded MuMMER project, we have developed a social robot designed to interact naturally and flexibly with users in public spaces such as shopping mall. We present latest version of system during project. This encompasses audio-visual sensing, signal processing, conversational interaction, perspective taking, geometric reasoning, motion planning. It successfully combines all these components an overarching framework using Robot Operating System (ROS) has been deployed mall Finland...
The spatial arrangement of elements such as icons in a computer interface may influence learning the interface. However, effects layout organization on users' information processing is relatively little studied so far. three experiments this paper examined two attributes layouts: grouping by proximity and semantic coherence. Learning was assessed tasks which 30 participants recalled icon-like items' labels, locations, or both series study-recall trials. results show that interacts with task...
Graphical information system (IS) models are used to specify and design IS from several perspectives. Due the growing size complexity of modern systems, critical is often distributed via multiple diagrams. This slows search performance results in reading errors that later cause omissions inconsistencies final designs. We study impact large screens two promising visual integration techniques elision connecting lines can decrease designers' cognitive efforts read conduct a laboratory...