Research
Affiliations
The activities and knowledge creation at Software Engineering go beyond the traditional boundaries. We support the growth of different initiatives and promote collaboration beyond our limits. Therefore we are the home of the Mixed Reality Group and establish active cooperation with various initiatives such as Turku Game Lab and Flavoria®.
Mixed Reality Group
The Mixed Reality Group researches various aspects of augmented and virtual reality. Mobile applications and gamified services are developed in close cooperation with companies and organizations. The group’s members have both academic and industry experience.
Key people: Teijo Lehtonen, Kaapo Seppälä.
Turku Game Lab
Research in game development and gamification is conducted in Turku Game Lab and SwEng. Turku Game Lab is a joint project between Turku University of Applied Sciences and University of Turku, funded by the technology industry’s hundred-year history foundation.
Key people: Jouni Smed.
Flavoria®
Since their inception in 2018, Software Engineering contributes to the research, technical development and maintenance of Flavoria‘s research laboratory Aistikattila and the Flavoria Research Restaurant.
Key people: Tuomas Mäkilä, Lauri Koivunen.
On-going Projects
The Software Engineering Laboratory runs variety of research and development projects with both competitive external funding and university basic funding. Our current project portfolio consists of the following projects:
| Name | Period | Funders | Description |
| Intimacy in Data-driven Culture IDA | 2020 – 2025 | Academy of Finland | The IDA project analyzes the impact of data-driven culture on social roles and relations, as well as the vulnerabilities that it gives rise to. |
| HotDrink | 2012 – 2025 | Basic funding | The project investigates a GUI programming approach, where a GUIs operation is determined by a constraint system. GUIs can be expressed very concisely since most of their behavior is managed by algorithms in the GUI library. Key people: Jaakko Järvi. |
| SusCon (MR Group) | 2020 – 2022 | Business Finland | Sustainable Shipbuilding Concepts project focuses on creating sustainability based value in shipbuilding through designing more sustainable concepts for cruise ships and related systems |
| Digisaapas | 2020 – 2022 | EAFRD | The Improving digital accessibility in recreation services (Digi-SAAPAS) project utilizes previous recreation and nature tourism information. The main goal of the project is the effective implementation of the data collected by municipalities, companies and end users of the information. The goal of the project is to solve the entire flow of information related to recreation, from the input of initial data to the consumer experience. |
| MitViDi | 2022 – 2023 | ERDF | The lack of suitable easy to use measurements or tools, makes it difficult to take the environmental factors into account while planning for public ICT procurements. This hinders the companies from proceeding with green innovation actions, as they do not have a way to highlight the sustainable development goals within ICT procurements. The aim of the MitViDi project is to develop an easy to use grading system, based on existing frameworks to support the public ICT procurements and to build and systematically develop a local Green ICT RDI triple-helix network in Southwest of Finland and in Southeast of Finland, and further build networks on national and international level. |
| ICT-Sote | 2019 – 2022 | Ministry of Education | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam tincidunt tristique urna at pellentesque. Aenean sed volutpat tortor. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus. Cras porta diam nibh, a pulvinar augue fringilla eu. Pellentesque in bibendum nibh. Duis mattis, turpis rhoncus molestie gravida, libero metus sodales lacus, sed tincidunt augue nisi id neque. Ut facilisis pretium ex quis feugiat. Donec condimentum porttitor elit ac rhoncus. Cras tristique varius maximus. |
| Fitech ICT | 2019 – 2023 | Ministry of Education | The Finnish Institute of Technology (FITech) was founded in 2017 by seven Finnish universities of technology, Technology Industries of Finland (Teknologiateollisuus) and the Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK. In December 2019, University of Jyväskylä joined the network university. |
| Full Stack Training | 2018 – 2023 | Ministry of Education | A Full Stack developer is a person who knows the whole range of the modern web world: back-end systems, designing browser applications and user interfaces while understanding the business logic behind the implementation. |
Projects of the Mixed Reality Group can be found at the following link: https://tt.utu.fi/ar/research
Past Projects
The major past projects of the Software Engineering Laboratory are as follows:
| Project name | Period | Funders | Others |
| Hospital Ship Reimagined | 2019 – 2020 | Business Finland Co-creation | |
| Allied ICT Finland | 2018 – 2020 | ||
| Information and Cyber Security in Communication and Software Engineering | Jun 2017 — Sep 2018 | Tekes, F-Secure and UTU | part of NSF co-center in Oulu; works on Advanced Open Source Virtual Machine Introspection Platform |
| ICT Illusions (Tietotekniset harhautukset) | Jan 2017 — Nov 2017 | MATINE (Ministry of Defense). | 80kEur |
| BalticSatApps | Oct 2017 Oct 2020 | Interreg | https://balticsatapps.eu/ |
| Pre-KOD ‘Kyberturvaa ohjelmistollisella diversifikaatiolla’ | Jun 2016 — Nov 2016 | Cybersecurity by software diversification | |
| GESEC (Geospatial business ecosystem in Tanzania) | Oct 2016 — Sep 2018 | ||
| Pre-Gesec (Geospatial ecosystem for location-sensitive decision-making business in Tanzania: a preparatory project) | Jan – Jun 2016 | ||
| CyberTrust: DIMECC’s SHOK program | Apr 2015 — Aug 2017 | 25 MEur project 20 industrial partners; 9 academic partners; Univ. of Turku site leader, and WP4 academic leader. | |
| MATINE-Diversify: ‘Overall software security with low-level code transformation techniques’ | Jan 2014 — Nov 2014 | MATINE (Ministry of Defence) | |
| REPLICA | May 2011 – Dec 2013 | VTT funded research project |
Projects of the Mixed Reality Group can be found at the following link: https://tt.utu.fi/ar/research