NRC's Interaction Core Technology Center performs strategic and long-term research on usability and user interfaces, new human practices and design, multimedia and personal content technologies, immersive communication, collaboration and community technologies. Interaction CTC teams are located in Helsinki and Tampere, Finland.
To create enjoyable and effective innovations for interaction with the physical and digital world through understanding human practices and behaviors.
Develop rich interactive and collaborative technologies with intuitive services to meet professional and social desires of being connected to groups and communities.
Team Leader: Jari Tuhkanen
We explore societal and cultural trends as well as human practices and behaviors. Based on the knowledge gained in the exploratory social scientific research we design and demonstrate attractive and acceptable interactive application, service and product concepts. Our work focuses on content-centric communities, citizen journalism and mobile games.
Team Leader: Jaakko Lehikoinen
We research the essentials of a rich communication experience. We identify the user perception corner stones when providing technologies to experiencing presence and closeness in communication. We develop mobile technologies to enable the experience of being together and the feeling of 'being there' whether in a remote location or a virtual environment.
Team Leader: Martin Schrader
We create multimodal and multi-device UI paradigms and technology enablers for effortless human interaction with heterogeneous environments and device systems. Our ambition is to make it possible for everybody to understand and interact with all relevant aspects of environments and devices. All modalities and interaction technologies will be considered, special attention being paid to voice and language UI technologies.
Team Leader: Jari Kangas
Carry out world-class research in content representation and innovative E2E mobile multimedia technologies, applications and services to master multimedia value chains.
Team Leader: Mauri Väänänen
Provide unparalleled technology enablers and application concepts for making Nokia devices the number one choice for digital content and media experience.
Team Leader: Kari Laurila
