Category Archives: PhD thesis

A Maximum Lovable Dissertation?

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Pervasive Computing

After the summer holidays, it was again time for another defense of a doctoral thesis in our lab. So today, on the 18th of August, it was MSc (Tech) Laura Hokkanen who was on the hot seat for a good … Continue reading →

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Väitös jaettujen digitaalisten mediasisältöjen kautta tapahtuvasta vuorovaikutuksesta

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Pervasive Computing

Pitkään Tietotekniikan laitoksen IHTE-ryhmässä vaikuttaneen Jarno Ojalan väitöskirja ”Studies of Content-Mediated Interaction: Insights into Activities, Motivations and User Experience Design” tarkistettiin julkisesti Tampereen teknillisessä yliopistossa perjantaina 7.4.2017. Väitöskirjassaan Ojala keskittyi jaettujen digitaalisten mediasisältöjen kautta tapahtuvaan vuorovaikutukseen ja siihen liittyvään käyttäjäkokemukseen … Continue reading →

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Vanishing Point: Marko Leppänen’s doctoral defence 27.2.

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Pervasive Computing

On Friday 27.2. Marko Leppänen defended his work titled “Vanishing Point: Where Infrastructures, Architectures, and Processes of Software Engineering Meet”. For the last time at Pervasive Computing, professor Tommi Mikkonen acted as custos. Marko’s opponent was professor Heikki Saikkonen from Aalto University. Infran, softa-arkkitehtuurin … Continue reading →

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Algorithms, Software design and Project planning, all wrapped into one PhD thesis

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Outi Sievi-Korte

Friday 2.12.2016 was the day for MSc Sriharsha “Harsha” Vathsavayi’s thesis defence. The title of the thesis was “Applying Genetic Algorithms for Software Design and Project Planning”. In practice, Harsha had used said algorithms to automate software design by automatically … Continue reading →

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Rehearsal defence

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Outi Sievi-Korte

The day of one’s thesis defense is a pivotal point in every Ph.D.’s career. It is a day one waits anxiously for  – both as it finally seals the deal on many years of gruesome labor and also because it … Continue reading →

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From Montréal to TC133

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Pervasive Computing

Busy weeks for Jussi Parvainen. Last week was spent in Montréal to present a paper Robust Misalignment Handling in Pedestrian Dead Reckoning by Jayaprasad Bojja, Jussi Parviainen, Jussi Collin, Riku Hellevaara, Jani Käppi, Kimmo Alanen and Jarmo Takala at 2016 … Continue reading →

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Niko Goes Beyond Apps

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Pervasive Computing

MSc Niko Mäkitalo’s doctoral dissertation On Programmable Interactions took place on a sunny Wednesday 15.6. The opponent was Professor Jukka Manner from Aalto University. The leading concept in Niko’s research was programmable interactions. Also, physical proximity and social aspects have played important roles in … Continue reading →

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MA Tanja Walsh defended her doctoral thesis “Online Surveys in Collecting Cross-Cultural Qualitative User Experience Feedback”

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Pervasive Computing

On Friday, 15 April 2016 in Tampere University of Technology Tanja Walsh successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Online Surveys in Collecting Cross-Cultural Qualitative User Experience Feedback”. Prof. Gilbert Cockton (Northumbria University, UK) acted as the opponent. The Custos was Prof. Kaisa Väänänen from … Continue reading →

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Need4Speed Doctoral Symposium in Aulanko

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Pervasive Computing

Need for Speed programme arranged its second annual doctoral symposium and four grad students from the pervasive computing participated in the event. This year, the symposium was held in Aulanko, Hämeenlinna from 9th to 10th of March. As the whole … Continue reading →

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Water simulation thesis behind flooding your virtual city

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Pervasive Computing

While water is often seen in computer games it is often sparsely interacted with. On Friday Timo Kellomäki defended his theses Large-Scale Water Simulation in Games that tackles the immense computational cost of simulating water behaviour from a games perspective. … Continue reading →

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