Tampere University of Technology
17.12.2011
News
In everyday interaction with devices and technology, users tend to give human attributes to technology. They may react socially to technology as if it were a human or make guesses about its’ intentions, such as “the computer is plotting against me...
17.12.2011
News
The paper presents a part of findings from a study carried out to gain insight on user understanding of smart environments and preferred ways and places for interaction with smart services therein. Here the writers concentrate on qualitative...
17.12.2011
News
The writers studied early user acceptance and experience issues related to smart environments based on interoperability. They present the results of the user study and discuss issues that seem to affect the user experience and acceptance of smart...
2.12.2011
News
DIEM Dissemination Day gathered together around 60 DIEM partners and collaborators to NRC, Ruoholahti. The event wrapped up the results made during the three first DIEM seasons in form of so-called Main Results.
Main Results were first presented by...
8.11.2011
Deliverable
This deliverable shortly describes the user evaluations carried out in DIEM, focusing on evaluation of smart environments and smart services, and validation of the design methods developed in DIEM. The first two evaluations (Tila I and Tila II) are...
20.10.2011
News
Mobile Mixed Reality Work Package participated in the Workshop on Mobile Augmented Reality held at the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), presenting the paper "Expected User...
25.8.2011
News
DIEM General Assembly was held in Ruoholahti on Thursday 18.8. The annual event gathered up around 50 active participators from the partners and associative organizations of the programme.
The GA meeting focused on reviewing the results of 3rd...
26.4.2011
Application
This software, MashReduce is developed for running remote computations in a server grid. The architecture is based on Google's MapReduce which allows to run heavy tasks on parallel using multiple computers. MashReduce is built with web technologies...
20.4.2011
Application
In this demo, N900 device was used to steer simple Lego robot to drive around. This example showed how to use Nokia N900's Maemo platform's DBus interface to get access to accelerometer data and to make a Bluetooth connection with another device....
20.4.2011
Application
Three simple demos were created to explain Qt Quick functionalities via interactive coding as part of a presentation. Example applications are a simple hello world, demonstration about Qt's SIGNALS and SLOTS with QML (Qt Quick and Qt C++ interaction...