Virpa-D, a joint project between universities and businesses, aims at developing world-class user experiences for the users of business premises in order to improve work productivity and drive easier and healthier day-to-day activities.
The companies and universities participating in the project form an ecosystem which develops new scalable user services for the real estate and business premises sectors.
The project is based on learning by experimenting, and on close cooperation between the various parties. In addition, the project commissions research in future needs of user services, user experience design, business models, data collection and analysing, and digital platforms architecture.
Goal
The real estate ecosystem produces significant value for companies, research institutes, the society, and real estate services customers. The project supports the development and commercialization of open digital platform services that support a change in the working culture.
The services can then be offered for companies and consumers. At the heart of these solutions is improving user experience. This brings added value, drives engagement in the company, and brings business benefits. One of the most important operational principles is exporting the new ecosystem services to the international market.
Tampere University provides the project with R&D expertise in the following areas: user satisfaction assessment and recommendations related to the use with a recommender system, user data analysis, intelligent furniture in an intelligent building and building interfaces.
The study of building user interfaces is based on studies carried out on various user interface modalities such as haptic (touch-based) user interfaces. The user interface research in the Virpa D project is led by Professor Markku Turunen.
Funding source
Business Finland, M-Brain Insight Oy, Newsec Asset Management Oy, Tieto Finland Oy, Valossa Labs Oy
Contact persons
Markku Turunen
Professor
markku.turunen [at] uta.fi
+358 40 533 9689
Jarmo Lehto
Project Coordinator, CEO at Jalecon Oy
jarmo.lehto [at] jalecon.com
+358 40 833 1131