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Sci-Fi-Inspired Interaction and Evaluation of the Memory Orb
No full textThe memory orb is a cylindrical input device for virtual reality, inspired by a science-fiction artifact. This paper extends previous work by presenting a use case, interactions, and a user study directly grounded in a movie scene, guiding the design of hovering, selecting, translating, rotating, and scaling 3D objects. Results show performance comparable to traditional virtual reality controllers and positive user reception, supporting further exploration of this novel, fiction-inspired interface
Mielekkään digipedagogiikan yhteiskehittäminen:laadullinen monimenetelmätutkimus opettajankoulutuksen harjoitteluissa
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Speculative Design Explorations for Sámi Digital Storytelling Futures
No full textGrounded in Sámi and other Indigenous epistemologies that value reciprocity and relational ethics, this poster explores speculative design as an ethical and community-oriented approach to envisioning Sámi digital storytelling futures. Using speculative design as a method of reflection rather than prediction, it presents three speculative design explorations that imagine how technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be shaped through Sámi values of care, reciprocity, and linguistic sovereignty. These concepts are not cultural representations but provocations for dialogue on how Indigenous knowledge systems and digital design might co-evolve. By centring Indigenous agency, data sovereignty, and storytelling protocols, this study contributes to emerging discussions in Indigenous Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Indigenous futurisms, highlighting how technology can act as a relational partner in sustaining living relations with story, place, and language.</p
Influence of image stimuli on design creativity:exploration of generative AI in group ideation
No full textWith the rapid advancement of AI in design, researchers have proposed that generative AI can enhance human creativity in design, particularly through AI-generated images as stimuli. To explore this, we conducted an exercise in a creative design course. The exercise began with an introduction to creative methods, followed by group ideation using a collaborative sketching method. Each participant then received an AI-generated image stimulus tailored to the design task. Finally, participants developed their best ideas and reflected on the process. The reflections were analysed alongside evaluations of the final ideas by external evaluators, who assessed the novelty and usefulness of 18 best ideas and determined their sources of inspiration. Results revealed that participants generally viewed the AI-generated image stimuli as unhelpful or irrelevant for ideation. Evaluators found that group collaboration significantly contributed to the best ideas, while AI-generated stimuli played a minimal role. These findings underscore the critical role of human interaction in collaborative ideation and suggest that AI tools, while promising, require further refinement to support creativity in group settings effectively
Promoting Young People’s Ecosocial Participation Through Socially Engaged Art and a New Materialist Approach
No full textClimate change causes eco-anxiety among young people globally. New approaches are needed to address their well-being. This article discusses a socially engaged art process organized by the On the Frontline of the Climate Crisis research project and the Sosped Foundation in Tampere, Finland, during the summer of 2024. The art process utilizes an art-based action research methodology with reflective analysis, grounded in an ecocultural sustainability orientation. The article explores how socially engaged art and a new materialist approach can promote young people’s ecosocial participation and support them in expressing and processing their eco-anxiety and other difficult eco-emotions. Observations are made about the development of these activities and their impacts, and the broader potential of socially engaged art is discussed. It is pointed out that intra-action with materials and various forms of participation can support young people in coping with difficult eco-emotions. A trusting environment requires effort from facilitators
Älykkään erikoistumisen strateginen hallinta:Muutostoimijuuden, mahdollisuuksien tilojen ja transformatiivisen innovaatiopolitiikan yhteensovittaminen
No full textAluekehityksessä on käynnissä siirtymä, jonka tarkoituksena on muuttaa perinteistä kilpailukykyyn keskittyvää innovaatiopolitiikkaa. Suuntana ovat transformatiivisen innovaatiopolitiikan mukaiset tavoitteet eli ratkaisujen etsiminen yhteiskunnallisesti merkittäviin haasteisiin. Älykkäällä erikoistumisella on tässä muutoksessa keskeinen rooli, sillä taloudellisen kehityksen lisäksi sen tavoitteena on parantaa kestävyyttä, osallisuutta sekä alueellista hyvinvointia.Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan älykkään erikoistumisen strategista hallintaa alueellisen muutoksen välineenä. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää älykkään erikoistumisen strategisen hallinnan roolia muutoksen eri ulottuvuuksien yhteensovittamisessa, sekä selittää, miten strateginen hallinta edistää älykkään erikoistumisen tieteellistä kontribuutiota, ja miten sitä voidaan hyödyntää käytännön toteutuksessa. Tutkimuskysymykset ovat: 1. Mikä on älykkään erikoistumisen rooli transformatiivisen innovaatiopolitiikan toteutuksessa? 2. Mikä on transformatiivisen innovaatiopolitiikan, muutostoimijuuden ja mahdollisuuksien tilojen rooli alueellisessa muutoksessa? 3. Miten strateginen hallinta auttaa edistämään älykkään erikoistumisen toteutusta ja yhdistämään muutoksen eri ulottuvuudet toisiinsa?Artikkeliväitöskirja koostuu neljästä osatutkimuksesta, joista yksi on teoreettinen ja kolme empiiristä. Empiirinen aineisto on kerätty vuosina 2016-2021 kahdesta EU-hankkeesta haastatteluin (N=42). Aineistot on analysoitu teoriaohjaavalla sisällönanalyysillä. Osatutkimusten tuloksia täydennetään ajankohtaisella kirjallisuudella, jonka avulla johdetaan strategisen hallinnan käsite. Strateginen hallinta auttaa selittämään muutostoimijuuden eri ulottuvuuksien, mahdollisuuksien tilojen sekä transformatiivisen innovaatiopolitiikan yhteensovittamisen edellytyksiä ja mahdollisuuksia.Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat, että strategisella hallinnalla on keskeinen rooli älykkään erikoistumisen onnistuneessa toteutuksessa. Roolin tärkeys korostuu etenkin harvaanasutuilla alueilla, joissa toimijuus, verkostomainen yhteistyö sekä institutionaalinen yrittäjyys ovat merkittäviä elementtejä. Strateginen hallinta tekee näkyväksi ja toimii rakennuspalikkana muutoksen eri ulottuvuuksien välillä, vahvistaen alueiden valmiuksia kytkeytyä transformatiiviseen innovaatiopolitiikkaan. Toimijuuden, mahdollisuuksien tilojen, julkisen arvon, ja niihin kytkeytyvien osien vahvistamisen nähdään toimivan ytimenä muutokselle. Tulosten perusteella voidaankin todeta, että strateginen hallinta auttaa selkiyttämään sitä transformaatiota, jossa älykäs erikoistuminen toimii välineenä kestävän ja osallistavan yhteiskunnan rakentamiselle
Interdependence, knowledge and cooperation in cross-border cooperation in the North
Get PDFThis chapter focuses on two scholarly discussions defining the organizational theory of the scholarly community, which are the projectification of society and open innovation in publicly funded programmes (West et al., 2006; Perkmann & Walsh, 2007; Chesbrough, 2019; Mu & Wang, 2022). Discussion on the projectification of society emphasizes effects with positive implications for knowledge production and innovativeness. However, the ad-hoc character of project organizations is seen to limit the formation of connections in different fields (Henning & Wald, 2019).Projectification and open innovations are examined in this chapter from a regional development perspective, and projectification is the starting point for the formation of the organization and its functions. In a case presented in this chapter, the financial instruments of regional development determine the basis for the implementation of innovations, and projectification is a way to support regional development in society. In regional development, the aim is to support the positive development of a certain region with various measures, taking into account processes such as a process transaction and the appropriation of knowledge (Audrechts & Belitski, 2023).The funding authorities of regional development and the European Union's cross-border cooperation programme Interreg Nord are no exception, accepting project plans, supporting regional development, considering and weighing the mutual weight and importance of the applications, and finally choosing the projects they want to finance in their best opinion. The interest of public funding programmes is to examine the effectiveness of the projects, not so much the way in which the projects are organized. Funding programmes based on the European Union's soft methods do not lead to a certain way of organizationEuropean Union's Interreg programmes are tools for regional development. This chapter examines the cross-border cooperation programme Interreg Nord, related to projectification and open innovation from a regional development perspective in the northern regions of Finland, Sweden, and Norway. The chapter analyses how open innovation emerged in the programme during the period 2014–2020 and what regional development themes local actors preferred to build the development of the region on within the framework of the programme. The data consist of Interreg Nord unfunded project applications, and the abstracts of the applications form an entity of data, where the project planners determine what is central to regional development. The analysis indicates that rejected projects aimed to develop the region mostly through the organizational, but also the wider societal, dimension of projectification. The funding instrument limits applicants’ autonomous intervention in regional development, and on the other hand, improves open innovation in the application process
Participatory Approaches to Ethical Design with Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
No full textDigital technologies offer both opportunities and challenges in the development of heritage content in the field of design. Addressing specific cultural aspects and ethical considerations can be achieved through participatory design methods. Based on our previous work with Indigenous Sámi communities in archives and museum contexts, we present a framework that encourages users to approach their work and projects from diverse perspectives. The framework comprises five key aspects that should be viewed with respect to ethical considerations: motivations, community, cultural context, personal reflections and technological choices. Our framework aims to provide a tool for designers, developers and cultural experts collaborating on cultural heritage projects that incorporate technology. The juxtaposition of perspectives allows for the blending of different lenses from the past and future through present-day collaboration in a fruitful and respectful manner
Can large animals direct the fate of the vast arctic soil carbon reserves:a review
Get PDFArctic areas store vast soil carbon reserves that are highly sensitive to be released into the atmosphere due to a warming climate. Large arctic herbivores may shape this sensitivity, but owing to high spatial and temporal variation in their ecosystem effects, the conditions under which herbivores might negate soil carbon losses have remained elusive. Here, we summarize the main pathways by which ungulates may counteract unwanted climatic feedbacks of the ongoing warming. Firstly, they may counteract the climate-induced shrubification; secondly, induce ecosystem state transitions from shrub and moss dominance to grass and forb dominance; and thirdly, contribute to colder winter soil temperatures. In non-permafrost soils, these pathways feed back on climate mostly via herbivory-induced increases in albedo and, potentially, decreased sensitivity to wildfire-induced soil carbon losses. In permafrost soils, herbivores may additionally enhance soil carbon storage as the colder winter soil temperatures, induced by vegetation change and trampling-associated compaction of snow, may prevent permafrost melting under warming. The role of current large animal populations in the first pathway (i.e., counteracted shrubification) is already documented in many parts of the Arctic. Yet, the second and third pathway (i.e., ecosystem state transitions and snow-mediated permafrost feedbacks have only limited occurrence today and would require drastic increases in the number and diversity of herbivores to change arctic climate feedbacks at a larger scale, imposing a high degree of uncertainty on the feasibility of such efforts. Given the alarming trends the arctic carbon stocks are facing, a better understanding of the contribution of large herbivores to the carbon cycle is more urgent than ever before, relevant if introducing animal populations into areas with large carbon reservoirs, and crucial when evaluating the net effect of current animal populations that already counteract shrubification and the warming-induced increase in albedo in many areas
Rose Red Glow:Crossing Borders with Textiles
Get PDFCan textiles, like music, painting, sculpture, and architecture, serve as a universal cultural expression that transcends language, nationality, and borders? Examining northern Finnish textile traditions, particularly in a city of Tornio, by the border to Sweden in Finnish Lapland, and Pechenga (Petsamo in Finnish), a historically significant Arctic region on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, reveal the rich entanglement of trade, migration, and international influences. Inspired by Nils Schillmark’s Strawberry Girl (c. 1782) and Hannu Väisänen’s Schillmark Variations (2021), this study considers how woven textiles, like paintings, capture layers of time and unveil transnational textiles. By viewing woven textiles as material entanglements rather than mere objects, items or representations, we gain a deeper understanding of their role in shaping textile design histories. Woven textiles actively convey and shape knowledge, and cultural memory.Can textiles, like music, painting, sculpture, and architecture, serve as a universal cultural expression that transcends language, nationality, and borders? Examining northern Finnish textile traditions, particularly in a city of Tornio, by the border to Sweden in Finnish Lapland, and Pechenga (Petsamo in Finnish), a historically significant Arctic region on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, reveal the rich entanglement of trade, migration, and international influences.Inspired by Nils Schillmark’s Strawberry Girl (c. 1782) and Hannu Väisänen’s Schillmark Variations (2021), this study considers how woven textiles, like paintings, capture layers of time and unveil transnational textiles. By viewing woven textiles as material entanglements rather than mere objects, items or representations, we gain a deeper understanding of their role in shaping textile design histories. Woven textiles actively convey and shape knowledge, and cultural memory.<br/