Mobile devices

Filming a New Beginning (FNB) – Workshop

The Filming a New Beginning – Workshop for children by children was designed in close design partnership with children and their mothers in Chennai, India. The workshop was part of my Master Thesis in New Media at the Aalto Univeristy … Continue reading

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Filming a New Beginning (FNB) – Master Thesis

The title of my Master Thesis in Art and Design is Filming a New Beginning – Designing a New Media Learning Practice by Building on the Personal Interests of Families in India. The Thesis was written at the Aalto University … Continue reading

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Nokia School Communicator

With the Nokia School Communicator project, the Nokia Research Center aimed to design a low cost and robust hand-held learning device, similar to the One laptop per child, for children in Nokia’s emerging markets, such as India, China, the Middle … Continue reading

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Industrial design for research in tactile interaction design

The industrial design of a handset and 3D patterns for research in tactile, gesture and multimodal interaction design were part of my work during an internship at the Interaction and User Interfaces team, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki from June to … Continue reading

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Nokia.Expand

Nokia.Expand was a project realized during the Product Development Project course held at the Aalto Design Factory from September 2008 to April 2009. The project was sponsored by Nokia and D-Switch, and realized by students of the Aalto University School … Continue reading

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Sanoma Digital My Match

In the context of our International Design Business Management (IDBM) minor, we, a team of two design students, one economics students and one science students, collaborated with Sanoma Digital to design concepts and visions for how value can be added to … Continue reading

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Poster presentation in Bangalore

At the Sustainability in Design: NOW! conference, held from 29 September to 01 October 2010 in Bangalore, India, I presented a paper that was written in collaboration with Brenda Castro Pelayo and Teemu Leinonen in form of a poster. The paper … Continue reading

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Soft Measuring

“In comparison to me, how tall is an elephant?” – Soft measuring is a concept design of a mobile phone application for children to visually compare the sizes of people, animals and objects through taking pictures. A child photographs an … Continue reading

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Mobile Word Game

During a one week workshop by Jürgen Scheible at Media Lab Helsinki, Kristine Visanen and I created a working prototype of a mobile word game. In the game, learners arrange a random set of words into meaningful or playful sentences … Continue reading

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Bean

Bean is a concept design of a mobile device that comes as a pair of twin devices.  Bean is similar to a friendship necklace, where two people own “halves”. Unlike a friendship necklace, Bean displays the real-time locative data of … Continue reading

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