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Webinar on Automatic Coordination of Construction Actors 鈥 ACTOR
ACTOR is a Finnish R&D project aiming to increase construction productivity and decrease carbon emissions through process automation. The first ACTOR webinar on November 3, 2022, introduces the project and its consortium and discusses construction productivity killers and ways to overcome them.
A healthy dose of usability
Digital health services have emerged as cost-efficient options for healthcare, but better user experience is needed to ensure inclusive digitalisation.
Aalto student team won gold at the 6th European Students 3D audio competition
Pietari Nurmi, Kamila Kondraciuk, Mia Savo and Teodors Kerimovs won the gold medal in the Audio Drama / Documentary / Soundscapes category. The winning project was the Spatial Audio Book "Hansel and Gretel".
AI boosts usability of paper-making waste product
Lignin, a side product of wood pulping, is funnelled into new bioproducts with the help of AI
Space utilization rate pilot has started
Space utilization rates on Otaniemi campus will be researched during autumn 2022.
Designing sustainable societies through trust
A broad understanding of digital technologies is of utmost importance in the information era. How do we make sure that humans stay in the loop in a socially sustainable way as societies become ever more digitalised?
Unite! Summer School offered hands-on take on machine learning
The Unite! Summer School on Human-Centered Machine Learning in August 2022 attracted over 60 students for two weeks at Aalto University.
Summer School Alum story: 鈥淣ever before have I learned so much in two weeks鈥
With 35 students from 16 different countries, this summer鈥檚 Digital Business Master Class by Aalto University Summer School taught the students all things digital business and allowed them to collaborate on real-life business cases by partnering companies.
Safety is on everyone鈥檚 mind
Welcome to the first lecture of the autumn 2022 Internet Forum lecture series on Tuesday 13 September starting at 5.15 p.m.
Boosting MEP works productivity with design for installation and prefabrication
In his doctoral research, Tuomas Valkonen delves deep into the design requirements and challenges of Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) prefabrication.
Unite! fosters open science and builds a community of open science support persons
Unite! universities explored emerging perspectives about new open science practices, principles and goals at the Open Science Summer School that took place at Aalto University on 7-9 June, 2022.
Saving energy with smart building services engineering
The donation for the teaching and research in smart building services engineering and smart buildings has accelerated the development of the field and inspired new students.
Grants from Matti Lehti fund for the year 2022 awarded
The Matti Lehti fund has been donated to develop and encourage research, teaching and studies on digital information society in the School of Business
Five-year funding granted for digitalisation in water research
The DigiVesi project enables a significant leap in information management and programming expertise for all Finnish water engineering while also reinforcing the sector's international competitiveness.
Inside the Quartet takes the audience to the virtual world of string quartets
Professional acoustics and sound specialists have been involved in implementing the virtual reality installation that will be on display in Hanover and Helsinki in May and at Our Festival in J盲rvenp盲盲 and Tuusula in July.
Blockchains uphold data platform cooperation
Research has shown that a blockchain supports the transparency of data and the integrity of data in traffic between different platforms in an Internet of Things environment, thereby stabilising collaboration among platforms.
Tableau offered students lessons in data analytics
Students from Aalto University and the University of Turku competed against each other in a business analysis challenge
A lighter path to exercise
The psychology of motivation coupled with mixed reality games can get kids moving
Researchers investigated the size of 1 000 popular websites 鈥 more than tenfold differences within categories
In just ten years, the size of mobile pages has increased tenfold. Some online stores have already understood that less is more, says Professor Jukka Manner, who led the research.
PhotoRobot gives objects third archival dimension
How can you transfer a ceramic object onto a computer screen three-dimensionally? By photographing it all over from a 360-degree angle and digitising its shape. This work can be performed by the PhotoRobot, a multi-camera system for 360 spins and 3D, which is snapping away at Aalto University鈥檚 new Space 21 facility.
