Crises often render existing operating toolkits useless, commonly resulting in organisations experiencing a stage of paralysis. Furthermore, an initial crisis…
How do Health Agencies use Instagram for Crisis and Emergency Communication?
Speaker: Aqdas Malik, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University On June 7, participants in the Human-Centred Research and…
Mapping Ecologies of Crisis using Design Thinking: Workshop Outcomes
Led by Prof. Nitin Sawhney and André Santos Friday, July 03, 10:00 – 12:00 (Online) The goal of the workshop was…
Human-centred(?) research and design for agency and empowerment
On Friday 26th June 2020 I participated for the first time in a virtual workshop using Zoom to get together…
Participatory Workshop 2: Mapping Ecologies of Crisis using Design Thinking
Led by Prof. Nitin Sawhney and André Santos Friday, July 03, 10:00 – 12:00 (Online) Outcomes: The goal of the…
Designing Multi-modal Interfaces for Demanding Conditions in Crisis
Speakers: Paula Valkonen, Master of Arts, Aalto University and Dr. Jari Laarni, Principal Scientist, VTT In this session on July 30, 2020, we…
Greetings from the Future: Experiences from a Virtual Workshop
Here we are, living in a moment, where even the students have personal, connected, and mobile live broadcasting studios that…
Rethinking Critical Crisis Themes and Design Directions: Workshop Outcomes
On Friday, June 26, 10 – 12, we kicked off the first participatory workshop in the course led by Prof.…
From Technology-centered to Human-centered
Contact tracing technologies has reached it peak times amid the pandemic. From last weeks’ lectures and readings, we compared different…
Can Physical Tokens take over?
With plenty of articles and discussions relating to contract tracing apps, the physical tokens proposed by EIT arouse my huge…
Participatory Workshop: Rethinking Critical Crisis Themes and Design Directions
Led by Prof. Nitin Sawhney, Dr. Salu Ylirisku and Magdalena Mihalache Friday, June 26, 10:00 – 12:00 (Online) Outcomes: The…
Analyzing the Role of Technology, Design and Data Science in Crisis: Summary of Student Responses
In the second assignment of the Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis Course students analyze the role of Technology, Design…
Data-Driven Approaches to Healthcare Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Speaker: Miika Leminen, Head of Analytics and AI Development at Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) Miika Leminen, Head of Analytics and AI…
A Utopian Experience: Voice-Enabled Service for Crisis
As the next frontier, human-centered mobile services are being developed that offer different user experience and interaction possibilities for use…
The responsibility of the Human-Centred Design: Casual Workers in Tanzania
In March 2020 I participated in a course that was going to change my perspective on work and the impact…
Designing for Healthcare Experiences from a Multi-stakeholder Perspective
Speaker: Prof. Johanna Kaipio, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University On June 23, 2020, we find out more about multi-stakeholder…
Tracing for the people
All over the world contact tracing apps have been developed as digital responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many are designed…
Should contact tracing apps be centralized, distributed, or somewhere in between?
Initially, I was highly skeptical of contact tracing as a solution. However, I very much enjoyed the talk by Karri-Pekka…
Challenges in developing proximity tracking apps
“Contact tracing is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to disease to prevent onward…
Covid-collaboration – joining forces between Helsinki and Tallinn
It has been noted that numerous countries are developing covid-19 applications on national level, while more coordinated or regional solutions…
Mobile technology in Disaster Preparation
Aiding a disaster prone area requires gathering plenty of information from the locals and community, from shadowing, statistics on resources,…
The devil is in the detail
During the lecture this week we heard a presentation about the Ketju contact tracing application. Given the sensitive nature of…
Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing
COVID-19 has changed the world to its core. New normals have been developed and socialization has been transformed into a…
Volunteering, Voluntourism and Why
How do you make people want to volunteer their time and skills? Then, once you’ve done that, how do you…
How might we channel community creativity and willingness to help in the most effective way?
I would love to help but I don’t know how? What can I do to help? Who needs help the…
How does contact tracing of COVID-19 influence human behaviour?
Due to the currently on-going COVID-19 crisis, several different methods have been taken into use to better control the spreading…
On Security, Privacy and Contact Tracing
Speakers: Prof. Janne Lindqvist, Department of Computer Science at Aalto University and Director at the Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security…
Reflecting on Crisis: Summary of Student Responses
The course on Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis has examined the complex interwoven issues around crisis, through readings and…
Internet for Keeping Each Other Genuinely Connected
Imagine that scientists 100 years from now drilling into the ice in the Alpine glaciers. Anything that is happening in…
Pauliina Mattila
Pauliina is a coach and a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology’s Design Factory Melbourne. As part of her role teaches Design Thinking and runs workshops and multi-day trainings around innovation and university-industry collaboration locally to Australian based industries and on a global level spanning from…
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