Experience
Here is an overview of the wide experience base Improventions builds its deliverables on:
Programming
Product Development
Jidobooks the world's first actually easy bookkeeping service (as Chief Technology Officer)
Move Correctly automated human posture and joint mobility assessment with Kinect (as Chief Technology Officer)
Visual Kinect de Bugger recording and analysis tool (as Chief Improvention Officer)
Research Prototyping
Kinect 2 based research prototype for learning traditional Indian dances (as Freelancer)
Kinect 2 based finger tracker for researching human performance surgical box trainers (as Freelancer)
Kinect 2 based research prototype for studying kinesthetic learning (as Freelancer)
Concept Development
Inventions: Top 6 patents
User research field visits
(e.g. task analysis)
- Steel mill in The Netherlands
- Thermal power plant in Sweden
- Assembly plant in Switzerland
- Robotic assembly solution integrator's workshop in Finland
- Power grid control room in India
- Automotive safety system assembly line in Sweden
- Power grid control room in Oman
- Power grid control rooms in United Arab Emirates
- Personal trainer gyms in Singapore
- Urology teaching classroom in Japan
Research: Top 6 papers
Lessons learned from using personas and scenarios for requirements specification of next-generation industrial robots (as Scientist)
Research work utilized by leading research labs
- Americas: MIT, Stanford, University of Maryland, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Toronto, Rice University, Honeywell Advanced Technology Labs, Human Centered Solutions, University of Minnesota, University of British Columbia, University of Ottawa...
- Europe: Kings’ College London, University College London, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Technische Universität München, University of Bremen, Aalborg University, University of Stuttgart, University of Notre Dame, Aalto University, Technische Universität Dresden, Chalmers University of Technology, Hewlett-Packard Italy Innovation Center, ABB Corporate Research, University of Oulu...
- Asia: Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Osaka University, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, China Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology, Kyoto University...
Employment Background
ABB Group, Sweden, a multi-national Fortune 300 company group
Jidobox, Singapore, startup
Sysart, Finland, a leading Finnish software firm
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
COSMIC innovation centre, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland
Almae Matres
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland
Previous Research Collaborators
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan