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Towards Data Science

·Aug 17, 2020

Laila: Ekho Collective’s thoughts

How we created our audiovisual immersive experience, where visitors interact with AI — In my previous blog post talking about our project, I examined how our Ekho Collective’s process of building our immersive installation Laila has changed during COVID-19. Now our project is almost finished, and the tickets are on sale for showings in August 2020 in Helsinki. …

Artificial Intelligence

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Laila: Ekho Collective’s thoughts
Laila: Ekho Collective’s thoughts
Artificial Intelligence

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UX Collective

·Aug 5, 2020

Technology’s duality: entity and environment

Examining our shifting relationship with technology in the time of corona. — In my previous blog post talking about our project, I examined society’s relationship with AI, and how that is reflected in our collective’s immersive art project Laila. …

Immersive Theatre

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Technology’s duality: entity and environment
Technology’s duality: entity and environment
Immersive Theatre

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Towards Data Science

·Dec 5, 2019

AI and Us — an Opera Experience

In my previous post, I detailed how we at the Ekho Collective began our project of building an immersive opera experience for The Finnish National Opera and Ballet. In this post, I discuss what inspires the story we are concocting for our future visitors. Hyperbolic Futures In media, AI is often seen…

Artificial Intelligence

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AI and Us — an Opera Experience
AI and Us — an Opera Experience
Artificial Intelligence

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UX Collective

·Oct 9, 2019

What on Earth did we get ourselves into? — a UX case study

Metaballs, chaos equations, predators and their prey. Contemporary dance, neurological time travel, memories of the future. Potatoes. What does all of this mean? To explain it all to you, we’ll need to travel a few steps back in time, into May 2019… What’s this Neon Green, Cool-Looking Competition Thing? In April 2019, a buzz from the tech…

Design

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What on Earth did we get ourselves into? — a UX case study
What on Earth did we get ourselves into? — a UX case study
Design

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Towards Data Science

·Aug 9, 2019

I Helped Build a Robot that Teaches Sign Language to Children with Autism –This is what I Learned

A pilot study by roboticists and autism therapy providers — A year ago in Spring 2018, I conducted a pilot study of a robot teaching sign language to children with autism. This blog post reflects on the results of the study, and our team’s process of designing the robot. The entire study is available as: Axelsson, M., Racca, M., Weir…

Autism

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Could Robots Teach Sign Language to Children with Autism?
Could Robots Teach Sign Language to Children with Autism?
Autism

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Towards Data Science

·Jul 25, 2019

The Little Robot that Lived at the Library

How we built an emotive social robot to guide library customers to books — The Oodi library Our team at Futurice designed and built a social robot to guide people to books at Helsinki’s new central library, Oodi. Opened in 2018, Oodi is the biggest of Helsinki’s 37 public libraries. It has 10,000 visitors a day, and an estimated 2 million visitors a year (compared to Finland’s…

Robotics

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The Little Robot that Lived at the Library
The Little Robot that Lived at the Library
Robotics

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Towards Data Science

·Jul 8, 2019

The Robotic Influencers of our Future: A Minecraft-playing, Twitch-streaming Robot

How we reached young audiences combining robotics with e-sports — What on Earth? Ever heard of anything like it before? Me neither. The robot was created as part of Futurice’s project with Yle, the national broadcast company of Finland. Yle produces content for TV, radio, and the web. It has a broad reach of older audiences, but has had trouble reaching younger ones…

Gaming

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The Robotic Influencers of our Future: A Minecraft-playing, Twitch-streaming Robot
The Robotic Influencers of our Future: A Minecraft-playing, Twitch-streaming Robot
Gaming

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HackerNoon.com

·Jun 27, 2019

What I Learned During my Brief Existence as a Robot

Made of Metal: Philosophical Discussions between 1st Graders and a Robot — 1,5 years ago I operated an InMoov robot for Guerilla films’ documentary “Outouden laakso” (a reference to the uncanny valley, a concept examining the likeability of humanoid robots), or “Who Made You?”. Yes, spoiler alert, the white humanoid robot shown in the beginning and end of the documentary indeed had…

Robotics

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What I Learned During My Brief Existence as a Robot
What I Learned During My Brief Existence as a Robot
Robotics

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UX Collective

·Dec 21, 2017

Visualising Finnish Arms Export Data: How Open Data can Benefit Society

This blog post is about the Finnish Arms Export Report that Futurice created in collaboration with SaferGlobe. Arms exports is a controversial subject. Opinions are widely diverse among different groups like journalists, peace activists, arms manufacturers, politicians, you and me, and everyone has their own agenda. …

Data Visualization

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Visualising Finnish Arms Export Data: How Open Data can Benefit Society
Visualising Finnish Arms Export Data: How Open Data can Benefit Society
Data Visualization

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Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

·Dec 14, 2017

Learnings from our Robot Croupier at Slush

This blog post is about the InMoov robot, designed as open source by sculptor Gael Langevin and built by Spice Program at Futurice . You can read more about how and why we built this robot here. There’s nothing exciting about a digital blackjack table. All the casinos have it…

Robotics

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Learnings from our Robot Croupier at Slush
Learnings from our Robot Croupier at Slush
Robotics

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Minja Axelsson

Minja Axelsson

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www.minjaaxelsson.com | PhD Student at Cambridge University (Human-Robot Interaction), Artist & Co-Founder at Ekho Collective.

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