Remember about CONVERGENCE?
Just before the Education Spring Day, come and see what it is all about after 2 years of running! Join us on 12.05.2025!
Everyone is very welcome to check the demos and posters in Café Toivo (a.k.a. A203c/Yläkuppila, Main Campus, Päätalo, 2nd floor).
Timeline
- 13:30 Open doors and coffee
- 14:00 Short introduction
- 14:15 Research discussions with CONVERGENCE researchers
- 15:00 Demos
- 15:30 Performance
What will I see?
| Doctoral Researcher | Topics |
|---|---|
| Jurgis Peters | Generative AI as Facilitator for Deeply Personal and Transformative Experiences |
| Kalle Lahtinen | Building a Naturalistic and Representative Affective Speech Corpus for the Finnish Language |
| Aska Mayer | ‘Cyberpunk is everywhere’: Experiencing (Alternative) Futures of Human Augmentation Through Game Culture |
| José Siqueira de Cerqueira | Trustworthy LLMs for Ethically Aligned AI-based systems |
| Suman Ghosh | Beyond the Horizon: Reimagining Spatial Narratives Through Verticality and Resistance |
| Albina Rurenko | Biosignals and haptics: exploring alerts and reactions under various cognitive demands |
| Samuel Kujala | Film Acting as a Mixed Reality and Posthuman Embodiment |
| Linas Gabrielaitis | Playing GeoPhilosophy : Planetary chess, toy-models and playable-hypotheses for much-more-than-human design |
| Lotta Ylinen | Can technology offer solutions for young adults’ increasing loneliness? |
| Tippayaporn Pavavimol | ‘Multi-reality in the Wild’: Enhancing Transitions between Realities through the Usage of Different XR Systems |
| Hsiao-Chun Lin | Stress in Motion: Exploring the Connections Between Emotions, Movement Patterns, and Locations |
| Ninja Kajas | Advancing Electronic Skin with Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors (FeFET): A Neuroinspired Approach to Tactile Sensing |
| Henri Pullinen | Exploring views on constructive moderation strategies for online political conversation through social bot design |
| Reza Shafiloo | Multi-stake holder fairness in recommender systems |
| Chia-Hsin Wu | Robots as Companions to Support Life-Long Wellness: Exploring the Design Space of Motivational Physical Activities for Children and Older Adults |
| Parthasaarathy Ariyakulam Sudarsanam | Bridging the semantic gap: Exploring the alignment of audio, visual, and text representations in machine perception |
15:00 Demos →
- Multi-Reality—where physical and virtual worlds converge. This demo will bring our design scenario to life, provide a glimpse into its real-world potential. by Tippayaporn Pavavimol
- Immerse yourself in a VR construction assembly challenge where your cognitive load shifts as you manipulate components and navigate spatial constraints. Feel the impact of haptic alerts as they signal potential collision events, adding an extra layer of awareness to your work task. by Albina Rurenko
- A demo of a LLM-based multi-agent system incorporating Retrieval-Augmented Generation to support developers in creating AI systems that align with legal and ethical guidelines such as the EU AI Act. by José Siqueira
15:30-16:30 Performance
- Modern Mythologies; Installation and Performance. A result of the artistic collaboration between Jurgis Peters and Samuel Kujala
Peters’ interactive art installation uses intentionally flawed AI classification systems to construct contemporary mythologies from viewers’ images and emotional data, revealing the fabricated nature of algorithmic ‘truth’. In a live performance, Kujala relinquishes control to the algorithmic gaze of Peters’ installation, allowing the algorithm’s erroneous and poetic interpretations of his body to become the foundational elements for a corporeal transformation. This technological interaction extends traditional psychophysical approaches to acting, and highlights the use of subverted algorithms as tools for creative expression and critical inquiry. Fellow doctoral researcher Terho Ojell-Järventausta has created a generative sound design for the installation and performance.”
