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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.

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.

Creative minds in the age of AI: Reflections from the HTI-210 Course

This autumn I took the course Psychology in Human-Technology Interaction at Tampere University. The course introduced many psychological concepts that help us design human-centered technology. Instead of only listening to lectures, the course used creative and active methods. The week’s tasks encouraged us to be creative. We could answer by taking photographs, drawing comics, or recording short podcasts. The idea was that active, hands-on activities and personal reflection help learning, because elaborating and connecting new knowledge to our own experiences strengthens memory.

Walking meetings on the wild side – teacher exchange in Reykjavík University

I returned to Iceland after 16 years to make a teacher exchange in Reykjavik University with Professor Marta Lárusdóttir. I participated in Marta’s Software project management master’s level course for 2 days to introduce canvas-based learning and walking meetings to boost ideation on the students’ projects about agile software development. Arranging walking meeting in October in Iceland could potentially be a complete fiasco due to wild weathers. Read further to find out how everything actually went.