Research                                     

Research and teaching in the School are intended to respond to the increasing demands for information technology in today's society. The School offers teaching and engages in research on the development of new technology and information services based on research findings. Research conducted focuses on the methods and techniques of information organization, processing and use. Research in the School enjoys international respect and appreciation.

Research centers

The School of Information Sciences hosts three research centers:

• CIS Research Center for Information and Systems
• TAUCHI Tampere Unit for Computer Human Interaction
• TRIM Tampere Research Center for Information and Media

TAUCHI research center conducts a research program called Human and information technology (old department page). The professor responsible for the program is prof. Roope Raisamo. The program is part of Human and technology research program at UTA.

For publications see UTA's electronic database of research publications.

New doctoral dissertations

- FORTHCOMING 2 June 2012 Ms. Saraleena Aarnitaival, dissertation in Information Studies and Interactive Media on Maahanmuuttajanaiset työelämätietoa etsimässä. Tutkimus kotoutumisen tietokäytännöistä (in Finnish). An abstract in English.

- 20 January 2012 Mr. Andro Kull,  A Method for Continuous Information Technology Supervision: The Case of the Estonian Financial Sector  

- 10 December 2011 Ms. Anne Puustelli, Bayesian Methods in Insurance Companies´ Risk Management

- 9 December 2011 Mr. Toni Vanhala, Towards Computer-Assisted Regulation of Emotions

- 18 November 2011 Ms. Outi Räihä, Genetic Algorithms in Software Architecture Synthesis 

- 21 October 2011 Mr. Antti Kuusisto, Modal Fragments of Second-Order Logic

- 3 September 2011 Mr. Preben Hansen, Task-based Information Seeking and  Retrieval in the Patent Domain. Processes and Relationships

- 5 August 2011 Mr. Raimo Hälinen, An Evaluation method for Virtual Learning Applications

- 18 June 2011 Mr. Paavo Arvola, The Role of Context in Matching and Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval

- 20 May 2011 Mr. Mikko Ahonen, Designing an Information System for Open Innovation - Bridging the Gap between Individual and Organisational Creativity

- 6 May 2011 Ms. Maire Heikkinen, Small  Closed Virtual Communities.  Case: Power and Support from the Net -  Rehabilitation courses for people with multiple sclerosis

- 15 April 2011 Mr. Pertti Korhonen,  Lentokalustohankintojen suorien vastakauppojen toteutus ja kaluston ylläpito lentokaluston keskuskorjaamoilla (The implementation of direct counter-trade in aviation equipment acquisition and the maintenance of equipment at central maintenance depot)

School's Doctoral Dissertations and Licentiate Theses from 2001 (pdf)

Tampere University Dissertation database contains c. 1350 dissertations since 1999.

Research evaluations

The research conducted in the School has been evaluated by two external assessments:

In 2007 Computer Sciences research in Finland was assessed by an international group of experts for the Academy of Finland. 

In 2004 the research output of all UTA disciplines was evaluated. The full report is here (pdf).

UTA research pages

The research pages of the University of Tampere