Research Groups
Finnish Information Retrieval Expert Group (FIRE)
FIRE is a group of Finnish researchers and post-graduate students in Information Retrieval. FIRE members pursue basic and applied research on all aspects of information storage and retrieval, including bibliographic, text and multimedia databases, database design and reorganization, and document management. Much of FIRE's empirical research is based on the test collections (both text and picture documents) at the Information Retrieval Lab of the Department. FIRE organizes informal research meetings and seminar. FIRE is open to researchers and post-graduate students interested in IR.
For further information about the group and its activities, contact Prof. Jaana Kekäläinen.
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Games Research Lab
A multidisciplinary team, combining approaches from several mutually complimentary academic disciplines.
Special focus on socio-cultural research in 1) Player research (2) Game
research & analysis, 3) Game design (with intermediate areas, like
player experience research).
Includes also application of game studies into education and
future-oriented research into design of services, applications and
technologies.
For further information about the group and its activities, contact Prof. Frans Mäyrä.
Research Group on Information and Media Practices (RIME)
RIME was founded in spring 2009 by integrating the research groups on information and records management, information seeking, and co-development of social and technological innovation research. RIME focuses on information and media practices by which individuals, groups and organizations process information during the various phases of its life cycle. The main activities constitutive of information and media practices include information seeking, use, organization, management and storage for future use. RIME conducts both academic basic research and applied research. Examples of the current research themes include the use of social media in information seeking, information literacy and information intensive interaction in work communities.
For further information about the group and its activities, contact Prof. Reijo Savolainen.
