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Computing Sciences

Tervetuloa Tietotekniikan yksikön blogiin. Olemme Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunnan monitieteinen osaamiskeskittymä, jonka tutkimus- ja opetusalueet kattavat laajasti ICT-aluetta.

Welcome to the blog of the Computing Sciences unit. We are a multidisciplinary hub for research, teaching and learning across a wide range of topics in ICT.

TeknologiaUra – fair in Tampere-talo

TeknologiaUra fair is organized annually in Tampere-talo in mid-November to educate future talents about different career possibilities in technology. TAU and TAMK had a joint stand which Computing Sciences joined to promote local options for higher education to high school, middle school and vocational school students as well as their teachers. The fair had around 30 stands ranging from local manufacturing companies to multinational IT service companies and everything in between.

Multisensory Mixed Fleet Warehouse: Testing Haptics, Scents, and Interactive Maps

Last week we returned to TREDU to run the next round of our Mixed Fleet simulation study, this time with a brand-new twist, multisensory feedback. After building the earlier version of the warehouse simulation and learning a lot from how students interacted with AGVs on screen, we wanted to explore whether adding haptics, scent, and live navigation support could make collaboration with automated vehicles feel more intuitive.

Building My First Mixed Fleet Warehouse Simulation: From Workshop Sticky Notes to a Fully Playable Training Environment

Over the past months, I’ve been quietly working on something that started as a simple co-design workshop idea, a few sketches, and a pile of sticky notes from the Mixed Fleet participants who identified the most challenging human-AGV interaction moments in warehouses. Those early discussions eventually became a fully playable simulation built in Unity, which still feels slightly surreal to admit. And just to clarify, I am not a programmer. This was my first real dive into C#, physics scripting, object orientation, and debugging. The fact that the simulation now runs, turns, signals, and behaves in a way that resembles real warehouse movement is something I’m genuinely proud of.