En snabbt föränderlig verklighet kräver effektiva metoder för att utreda vad som rör sig i konsumenters tankar och vad som gör att de väljer ett alternativ framom ett annat. Det gäller såväl val av produkter såsom val av köpkanaler. Det är ingen lätt utmaning för att det finns många faktorer som inverkar på våra dagliga val. Metoder som kan generera relevant kunskap snabbt och effektivt kan således vara värdefulla. En…
Tanya Fahim We live in a highly visual world surrounded and triggered by visual signs, images and movement every single moment. It is claimed that visual media has become central to living a contemporary life. Due to technological development visual communication products are used more than ever in today’s consumption society. Since I work within the visual field my interest in visual communication and media has grown over the years…
Arcada’s Laboratory for Trustworthy AI has had an active spring and summer. At the moment we are engaging both as technical experts in assessments in Netherlands and conducting workshops in Finland. Here are some of the recent highlights in May and June 2022: 16.05.2022 The kick-off of the pilot ‘Assessment for Trustworthy AI’ with the Province of Fryslân, Z-Inspection initiative, and the UBR Rijks ICT Gilde jointly investigating the reliability…
Köp av mat på Internet har ökat avsevärt under Corona-pandemin. Dock är det vissa konsumentgrupper som gör mera köp på nätet än andra. På basen av data insamlad av Detaljhandelns Forskningsstiftelse i Finland analyserar vi de primära pådrivarna för framtida handel med matvaror över nätet. Introduktion Konsumenters shopping på Internet har ökat avsevärt i världen de senast åren. Inom EU-länderna var den genomsnittliga andelen nät-köp, beräknad i termer av köp av…
Jonas Tana, PhD, senior lecturer, Department of Healthcare, Arcada UAS, jonas.tana@arcada.fi The Covid-19 pandemic has directed increasing attention to loneliness due to the implementation of rather extensive social restriction measures to reduce the spread of the virus. These restrictions, such as shutting down restaurants and restricting social interaction, had a negative impact on social connectedness, creating a discrepancy between the actual and desired levels of social relationships for many people…
Arcada is very delighted over the funding decisions made at the Ministry of Education and Culture. Arcada has been granted strategic research funding for the research program “AI driven Nordic Health and Welfare“. The research program will start in late 2020 and go on til summer 2023. The total amount of funding is 625 000 euros. Artifical Intelligence and transdisciplinarity in focus Arcada’s successful application was drawn up by a transdisciplinary…
The PLASTin research project is established for next 2 years to together with wider consortium to develop systemic, and environmentally optimized recycling concepts. The project is focusing on the new knowledge gained about recycling processes and technologies such as sorting, pretreatment, mechanical and chemical treatment and reject handling, and about system level understanding, allowing improved business opportunities based on recycling. The project will focus on certain challenging plastic waste fractions,…
The NURED Project has reached the end of the road! After November 2019 all our activities were wrapped up, and now by the end of February also our administrative tasks are slowly coming to an end. And did we reach the goal? Yes, we most certainly did: Our aligned curriculas for home care nursing in the Baltic Sea Region (16 ECTS, EQF levels 5 and 6) are available for FREE…
Dear readers! We are pleased to, finally, be able to announce that our project final seminar is drawing near! Held at Arcada UAS (Helsinki Finland) 14.11.2019 from 10.00-16.00 local time, there is an option of attending in person OR globally online. So, wherever you may be reading this, you have the possibility to join us! We have chosen to call our seminar “The home-care jigsaw: bridgning the pieces together in…
Dear NURED friends, A lot has been happening in the project recently! All project partners have been working together in workshops in Helsinki at Arcada UAS, where we tried to compile all of our results from the survey that we all have sent out to home care staff in our countries. It was interesting to work like this – together, discussing results and the questions that rose among use regarding…