News

Press Coverage 11

• PressNew Open IMU Dataset “StrengthSense” Captures Everyday Movements with 10 Movesense Sensors. 30.10.2025
• PressA multisensory sauna experience in VR. 19.12.2024
• PressGaming gloves and a hugging shirt – Aalto researchers held a smart wearables workshop for Chilean students. 21.11.2024
• PressSmart Wearables courses teach students both design and engineering skills, 29.4.2024
• PressGesture recognition technology shrinks to micro size 27.10.2020
• PressTechnology to guide rehabilitation patients by the hand. Aalto University Magazine 27. 23.10.2020
• PressMultidisciplinary pilot project explored smart textiles and virtual reality in rehabilitation of stroke patients 26.05.2020
• PressArtificial intelligence passes on skills at the workplace
  Prof. Yu Xiao
  Aalto University, April 22, 2020
• Press17 million fund backs 170 projects to develop disruptive solutions to key societal challenges
  Prof. Yu Xiao
  Aalto University, May 22, 2019
• PressAalto's Mobile Cloud Computing group deepens collaboration with IE Business School
  Giancarlo Pastor
  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, January 2019
• PressPlaying sparked an idea how to transfer tacit knowledge
  Prof. Yu Xiao
  Aalto University Magazine, Issue 23, October 2018

Awards 12

• AwardOut paper titled "Virtual Sauna – Evaluating an Immersive Thermal Motion Experience" received the Best Paper Award at ACM IMX 2026.
• AwardOur paper titled "Apparent Thermal Motion in the Forearm" received the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at EuroHaptics 2024.
• AwardAziza Zhanabatyrova is awarded an ELEC funded position by the Aalto ELEC doctoral school
  November 2019
• AwardProf. Yu Xiao receives the Best paper award from MobiQuitous'19, joint work with Tongji University
  November 2019
• AwardGiancarlo Pastor is awarded an MBA scholarship by the Saastamoinen Foundation
  August 2019
• AwardClayton Souza is awarded a ELEC funded position (multidisciplinary research)by the Aalto ELEC doctoral school
  November 2018
• AwardMarius Noreikis is awarded HIIT support funding by the HIIT Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
  August 2018
• AwardGiancarlo Pastor is appointed Adjunct Professor (Entrepreneurship) by the IE Business School
  July 2018
• AwardPetr Byvshev is awarded an ELEC funded position by the Aalto ELEC doctoral school
  May 2018
• AwardGiancarlo Pastor and Truong-An Pham are awarded HIIT travel grants by the HIIT Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
  May 2018
• AwardOur group is awarded Aalto internal seed funding to support mobility of researchers to/from Tongji University and Fudan University
  January 2018
• AwardProf. Yu Xiao received the Young Researcher Award from the Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion
  June 2017

Visits 13

• VisitDiego Pucci, University of Bologna, visits our team from Jan to June 2025
• VisitProf. Qingyuan Gong, Fudan University, visits our team in October 2023
• VisitAziza Zhanabatyrova visits National Institute of Informatics, Japan from August 2023 to October 2023.
• VisitProf. Pascal Mettes, University of Amsterdam, visits our team
  January, 2020
• VisitProf. Yanjun Shi, Dalian University of Technology, visits our team
  May, 2019
• VisitTruong-An Pham visits Carnegie Mellon University
  October - December 2018, US
• VisitGiancarlo Pastor visits IE Business School
  [Feb., May., Sep.] 2019, [Jul., Oct., Dec.] 2018, Spain
• VisitProf. Yang Chen, Fudan University, visits our team
  August- September 2018
• VisitProf. Weixiong Rao, Tongji University, visits our team
  August 2018
• VisitChao Zhu visits the Institute of Automation Shandong Academy of Science
  August 2018, China
• VisitChao Zhu visits NII National Institute of Informatics
  February 2018 - August 2018, Japan
  
• VisitGiancarlo Pastor visits KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
  September 2017, Sweden
• VisitProf. Yong Li, Tsinghua University, visits our team
  July 2017

Invited talks and demo presentations 11

• TalkUser interface for AR/VR
  Teknologia 19
  Yu Xiao
  Messukeskus, Helsinki, Nov 6, 2019
• Talk
  Unleash the power of the crowd for smart mobility
  Hel Tech / Smart Mobility
  Yu Xiao
  Helsinki, June 3, 2019
• Talk
  Career as an entrepreneur
  Excellence brings competitiveness - Doctoral career paths
  Yu Xiao
  Aalto University, May 2019
• Talk
  Virtual reality for physical therapy
  Health and Behavior Data Symposium
  Yu Xiao
  Aalto University, April 2019
• Talk
  3D modelling and AR navigation
  EIT Digital Industry Summer School
  Yu Xiao
  EIT, August 2018
• Talk
  3D modelling and image classification for construction management
  Aalto BIM Digital Design and Construction Summer School
  Yu Xiao
  Aalto University, June 2018
• Talk
  Machine learning tools for education science
  Workshop on Digitalisation and AI in Education
  Petr Byvshev
  University of Helsinki, May 2018
• Talk
  Vehicular fog Computing
  Digi and living breakfast: Autonomous mobility
  Yu Xiao
  Aalto University, January 2018
• Talk
  VR app for physical therapy in chronic pain management
  Digi and experience breakfast: VR and AR
  Yu Xiao, Jyhee Lee and Jouni Ojala
  Aalto University, December 2017
• Talk
  Active project demo
  EIT Digital Finland Innovation Day
  Yuki Sato and Tufail Muhammad
  Aalto University, December 2017
  
• Talk
  Stochastic geometry and low-rank tensor models for vehicular crowdsensing
  Modern Methods in Nonsmooth Optimization
  Giancarlo Pastor
  University of Würzburg, February 2017