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Robots have recently gained popularity in customer service. Especially social robots are nowadays utilized in healthcare, elderly homes and schools. Although it is crucial to design social robots according to well-defined user experience goals, research ...

Social robots are entering our workplaces, homes, medical and educational systems in assistive and collaborative roles. In our research, we have investigated the use of a social robot Pepper as an interactive icebreaker host to create a positive ...

This article uses the concepts of habitus and way of life to analyze cultural and socioeconomic factors related to the lives of drug users who utilize a Finnish dark web site. It draws on a set of 9300 posts on that site, Sipulitori, to understand the ...

Traditional recommendation systems have limited possibilities to optimise business value in editorial decision making in news production, as they select the recommendations only from the content whose production has been decided editorially in the daily ...

Healthcare emphasizes the importance to treat each healthcare user as a unique individual. This paper reports a case study, where we asked healthcare professionals to rationalize their work practices and the role of information technology (IT) once they ...

Crowdfunding is increasingly hailed as enabler of entrepreneurial activities in emerging economies, but micro-entrepreneurs in such countries often lack the required knowledge and skills to adopt crowdfunding activities. This paper provides insights on ...

Playability is an ambiguous term that is often used but seldom defined. Used by researchers, practitioners, journalists, and players alike, the term has remained unclear due to different interpretations and definitions. We aim to provide clarity on this ...

Video game genre classification has long been a focusing perspective in game studies domain. Despite the commonly acknowledged usefulness of genre classification, scholars in the game studies domain are yet to reach consensus on the game genre ...

This paper examines how the demographic attributes and extra-game habits of players of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) predict the accumulated capital of their avatars. An online survey (N=905) was conducted amidst the players ...

The implementation of games in architecture and urban planning has a long history since the 1960s and is still a preferential tool to foster public participation and address contemporary spatial - and social - conflicts within the urban fabric. Moreover,...

Game development is often considered to be a community-based industry, where social networks and flow of information are vital to both individual and company development. The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) works to promote and support ...

This paper describes the process and results of bringing responsive and scalable technical documentation to smart glasses to support industrial maintenance. Development and testing was done in four development cycles to discover how maintenance ...

Food is an essential part of travel experience. Consumption of locally produced food while traveling has the two-fold benefit of providing insight into the local culture and increasing the sustainability of tourism. However, finding local food often ...

Immersive journalism has been touted to revolutionize journalism due to its ability to afford a multi-modal engrossing experience. However, hardly any experiments have been conducted whether consumers' satisfaction and consequent intentions to use ...

In our work on scent technology, we have come across technology that can be used, in a limited way, to achieve scent transfer. In this paper, we document the scent transfer demonstration that we constructed for a science fair in 2018.

Scent transfer ...

360° music videos are becoming prevalent in music entertainment. Still, academic studies of the 360° live music experience covering both audio and visual experience are scarce. In this paper, we present a study of user experience of stereo and spatial ...

There has been a growing awareness of Artificial Intelligence's (AI) inherent biases, limitations, and the challenges in overcoming them. As AI is integrated into to all things technical, there is a valid concern over its diversity, inclusiveness, and ...

Innovation Challenges is a new course offered for the whole Tampere university community by Y-kampus entrepreneurship and innovation services, for the first time in fall 2019. Innovation Challenges offers practice-based cases that allow students to ...

In this work, I report the preliminary results and further research design of the study on coding errors in the first year of Data Science Minor course. The larger aim of the project is the analysis of changes in the amount, type, and complexity of ...

Virtual reality (VR) has become an important tool for providing immersive and collaborative teleprensence experiences. The technology has the possibility of bringing people in different geographical places together in an immersive way and makes sharing ...

In this paper, we aim to research how a choice of a gamification medium influences the users' psychological and behavioral experiences which are also gamification outcomes. We discuss gamification, its components, persuasive systems, cognitive ...

Projected walk-through fogscreens can be used to render user interfaces, but lack inherent tactile feedback, thus hindering the user experience. This study examines this by investigating wireless wearable vibrotactile feedback on mid-air hand gesture ...

In this workshop, the participants bring their own research topics and concepts to create small games with the game making tool - Construct 3. We invite the participants of Academic Mindtrek to think about and experiment with how, for instance, figures ...

This workshop will collect experts and stakeholders from all fields of human-robot interaction: both social and industrial applications and uses of robotics are of interest as far as they have human in the loop. The workshop will present recent and ...