VISCI Tools: Tools for virtual collaborative innovation

VISCI Tools aims to produce and demonstrate solutions that can directly benefit the partner companies of the project and public organizations. It is anticipated that the solutions can be disseminated more widely to Finnish industry and society:

- improved ICT-enabled processes for collaborative knowledge sharing and creation in the geographically dispersed pilot organizations

- tested prototypes for virtual collaboration spaces and tools, based on open source software

- new managerial principles for virtual collaboration, that together with the virtual spaces and tools enable the novel processes

- ideas for new service concepts and business models for the service providers of the virtual collaboration tools and spaces

- empirical data for the scientific, multidisciplinary analyses and publications in the sister project VISCI.

VISCI Tools project will produce multidisciplinary research data that will be analyzed further and published as the academic results in its sister project VISCI. However, the mutual dependence between data and analysis is high – in practice, the scientific results like Doctoral Dissertations and journal articles are shared between VISCI and VISCI Tools. We expect a multiplication of these academic outputs as result of the parallel, self-reinforcing structure of basic and applied research.


VISCI Tools project:
Project Leader: Professor Riitta Smeds, Aalto University School of Science and Technology

Scientific leaders:
Professor Riitta Smeds, Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Dr Kristiina Kumpulainen, Finnish National Board of Education & CICERO Learning
Professor Petri Myllymäki and Professor Patrik Floréen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)

Project coordinator:
Päivi Pöyry-Lassila, Aalto University School of Science and Technology (paivi.poyry-lassila(at)tkk.fi)