StudioMind, founded in 2002 and based in Helsinki, Finland, is a multi-disciplinary design agency specializing in creative audiovisual communications, digital engineering and user friendly artificial intelligence.
Our strength is in the ability to integrate digital design and advanced technologies into diverging media solutions to meet the challenging needs of our customers.
Contact us at:
Studio Mind Inc
Kuoretie 8 D
02170 Espoo, Finland
Pasi Karhu, CEO +358 50 377 4875
Mia Marttiini, Chairwoman +358 44 588 1717
email: firstname.surname(at)studiomind.com
News
April 20th, 2009
Studio Mind Inc deliveres Textplorer for Sulake
Textplorer is Studio Minds automatic, visual text and data mining tool. It gives Sulake a better understanding of the opinions and needs of their Habbo-hotel users worldwide. Sulake Corporation is the creator of world’s largest and fastest growing virtual worlds and online community for teenagers. The Habbo online community is currently localized in 31 countries on six continents with 12.1 million monthly visitors (KL Aug 10th 2009).
January 2nd, 2009
A Semantic tool from Studio Mind
Studio Mind has developed an automatic, semantic and visual method for easy and fast finding of relevant information from free text. The intuitive method facilitates quick understanding of large amounts of text in both professional and non-professional use.
October 16th, 2008
Utah Science Center selects Studio Mind's attitude map as their research tool
The Utah Science Center seeks funding for science-based participatory learning project that tackles choice, chance and risk through virtual serious games and experimential exhibits. The project is planned to take place during next year. Studio Mind's interactive attitude map will be used to give young people immediate feedback on their choices and their position among other young people.
September 24th, 2008
Studio Mind's Visitor Map and Match Badge technology are used in Living Lab Innovations Vol.2 conference arranged by Forum Virium Helsinki
August 21st, 2008
Launch of survey about personalized home building with YIT Helsinki-pientalo concept
Helsinki University of Technology Department of Architechture has produced a survey for YIT Group, which is one of the largest building constructors in Finland. Studio Mind provides the survey and analysis technology with their Citizen Participation Map product. The survey is found at
http://yit.studiomind.com/.
April 17th, 2008
Forum Virium Helsinki and Studio Mind Inc. present the Visitor Maps at the Helsinki-Paris Cities as Living Laboraties Seminar in France
February 28th, 2008
Forum Virium Helsinki and Studio Mind Inc. present the Visitor Map concept at the FVH and DIMES ry’s Annual Seminar “Odottava Oranssi –Anticipating Orange” in Vanha Ylioppilastalo, Helsinki
Almost 200 conference visitors filled the profile questionnaire on internet registration and received name badges with personal profile graphics. Each person was put on a similarity map using sophisticated neural network calculations.
Cloud visualizations enable easy realization of the similarities or dissimilarities of the participants according to their answers in the questionnaire. The "butterfly" sector on the badge shows each holder’s opinion compared with the majority’s answers. After the seminar, the visitors may go into the matter in greater detail on internet; the personal visitor maps are already there to be explored individually.
February 18th, 2008
Forum Virium Helsinki commissions the MatchBadge/Visitor Map application from Studio Mind
Forum Virium Helsinki and Studio Mind Inc. have agreed on the delivery of Studio Mind’s MatchBadge questionnaire and visitor mapping application. Instead of traditional name badges, participants will receive graphic badges with personal profile.
Depending on the theme of the event the questionnaire may be, for instance, playful or strictly professional. At all events, the matching badges stimulate social and cultural interactions. This participatory event concept will be used in evaluating conference visitors’ preferences in FVH seminars all over the world.
November 24th, 2007
Scenes of Silence exhibition starts at Heureka accompanied by Studio Mind's Virtual Guesthouse attitude map and discussion forum.
You can participate at
http://heureka.studiomind.com.
September 14th, 2007
Mapping Many Voices: A Platform for Dialogue - Pasi Karhu, Mia Marttiini, and Mikko Myllykoski’s article gets published in the U.S.
An article written by the founders of Studio Mind and Mikko Myllykoski from The Finnish Science Centre is published in the book
Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Articles from the editors, Kathleen McLean and Wendy Pollock, plus 29 other museum and science center field writers provide a plethora of case studies and reflections on visitor contributions, co-expression, and creations in museum exhibitions over the last thirty years. The book is a timely survey of ways museums are incorporating user-contributed content in exhibitions and other media. Studio Mind contributes to ideas of finding and understanding one's own position among other visitors.
August 30th, 2007
Studio Mind will provide added value to Heureka's upcoming exhibition "Dialogue in Silence" starting on November 24, 2007.
Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, will use Studio Mind's Virtual Guesthouse software to gain a better overall understanding of its visitors. At the same time, the software gives the visitors an interactive on-site and internet matchmaking platform, where individual voices can be heard and dialogue is possible, thereby also achieving a better client dedication for Heureka. The exhibition allows visitors to experience the silent world of deaf people and helps them to improve their understanding and attitudes towards hearing impared people.
Studio Mind's visual, personal data mapping technology allows visitors to relate their opinions and experiences to other visitors and their own reference groups, friends, family, classmates etc. The Virtual Guesthouse can easily add value to any exhibition or congress experience around the world. The science centre version of the software will be distributed worldwide by Heureka Overseas Productions.
May 9th, 2007
Launch of survey about the development of Espoo's Suurpelto area using Studio Mind's Citizen Participation Map program
The City of Espoo, Asuntosäätiö and VVO are today launching a www-based survey about Espoo's Suurpelto area in cooperation with the Architecture Unit of the Helsinki University of Technology, using the Citizen Participation Map program developed by Studio Mind.
Espoo's Suurpelto is one of the most significant development and construction projects in the metropolitan region. The survey will map out the views and wishes of the future residents of this “residential area of the millennium”. The survey includes issues like the architectural styles of the buildings, the fittings of the apartments, price considerations, and the services that will be available in the area. The respondents can compare their own choices with the selections of the other participants in the survey on a self-organising map.
The survey is based on Studio Mind's Citizen Participation Map program, which has been expanded with analysis and reporting tools for the responses.
The survey is open 9-27 May 2007.
http://suurpelto.studiomind.net/
May 1st, 2007
Studio Mind has been approved into the Technopolis Ventures incubation program.
Technopolis Ventures Ltd is the largest business incubator in Finland, with upwards of 180 hi-tech and knowledge-based companies all over Finland.
April 18th, 2007
The City of Tampere commissions new, added functionality for the Citizen participation map application, Sulevi.
February 27th, 2007
The Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki region (HOAS) is today opening the Internet-based Tutka survey, using Studio Mind's Citizen Participation Map program. The survey will map out the views of students regarding the characteristics of suitable accommodation.
With the help of the Hoas Tutka, students can influence the construction projects of the future. The results of the survey will be used as reference material for an architectural competition for a HOAS site that will be constructed in 2009 at the Viikki Science Park.
“At Hoas we are interested in the views of our customers. The target group of the survey consists of all young people, especially the current and future Hoas residents. This way we will hopefully get some fresh ideas into the accommodation planning process,” says Heikki Valkjärvi, managing director of Hoas.
The students are encouraged to express their views by the interactive, game-like survey, where they can see themselves in relation to the other respondents, and which differs from traditional questionnaires. The survey is open to everyone and is available on the net until 10 April 2007. The results will be published later in the spring.
http://hoastutka.net
January 16th, 2007
Studio Mind is producing the Click for the Climate map visualization for the British Association for the Advancement of Science [The BA] about the similarities and differences in attitudes towards energy saving in 16 European countries.
Today Studio Mind has received the responses from the 16 European countries that will be used for the map analysis.
The
Click for the Climate is a European-wide campaign by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which encourages everyone to take positive action on the environment.
You can participate in the campaign by filling in a form on the Internet and pledging to reduce your energy consumption. Even the small actions taken in your everyday life can make a difference to global climate change.
December 11th, 2006
PlusKoti Oy commissions the Citizen Participation Map application from Studio Mind
PlusKoti Oy and Studio Mind Inc have agreed on the delivery of Studio Mind's
Citizen participation map application to be used in evaluating home buyers' preferences.
October 29th, 2006
Heureka and Studio Mind Inc present the Visitor Map concept at the 2006 ASTC Annual Conference in USA
Mikko Myllykoski, Experience Director of Heureka the Finnish Science Centre, presents the
Virtual Guest House concept at the international conference of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC). The concept is developed in co-operation with Studio Mind Inc.
Many Voices: Strategies for Multivocal Exhibitions seminar is held at the Louisville Science Center in Kentucky, USA. ASTC will later publish the
Many Voices book, including the article
Match-Making Machine written by Mikko Myllykoski together with Mia Marttiini, the chairwoman of Studio Mind, and CEO Pasi Karhu.
June 22nd, 2006
Studio Mind Inc delivers the Citizen participation map application, Sulevi, for the City of Tampere
February 13th, 2006
The Match Badge technology by Studio Mind Inc is presented at a planning committee for Finland’s EU Presidency
The Match Badge application by Studio Mind Inc is presented at a preparation conference for the Finnish EU Presidency. The presentation is given by Nokia and CKIR research director Veli-Pekka Niitamo. The main theme of his conference talk is the EU-wide
Living Lab research network, which will be published later this fall.
December 30th, 2005
The City of Tampere commissions the Citizen Participation Map application from Studio Mind
The City of Tampere and Studio Mind Inc agree on a software delivery that will improve citizen participation in the decision-making process in Tampere. The neural network powered technology offers the citizens an interactive and illustrative participation tool over the Internet. The application allows the City of Tampere to evaluate the current and future needs of its citizens.
October 17th 2005
Technology created by Studio Mind Inc presented at Citizen Participation seminar
Studio Mind's
Well Being software, based on peer groups, is presented at the "CiPar" -project seminar at the Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR), Helsinki. The development needs for networking Internet communities, multi-channel environments and citizen participation channels are discussed by the Ministry of Justice, TEKES (main public funding organisation for research and development in Finland), YLE (Finnish Brodcasting Company),
University of Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology, m-cult centre for new media culture, Helsinki kaupunginosayhdistysten liitto ry HELKA (Federation of the Associations for Helsinki City Quarters), and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.
August 18th, 2005
Magazine article on Studio Mind's visit to Siggraph 2005, Los Angeles
Mia Marttiini, the chairwoman of Studio Mind, participates in Siggraph 2005, the International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, USA. Siggraph 2005 features over 250 conference stands from six continents and 81 countries, the presentation of 98 research articles, and is visited by 30,000 people. Mia Marttiini's
Emerging Technologies article is published Taloussanomat, ITweek (leading ICT media in Finland) on 8-18-2005.
May 31st, 2005
Studio Mind's Visitor Map presented at Grafia G-Club
A questionnaire and visitor mapping software is developed by Studio Mind Inc for Grafia ry's annual member meeting, the G-Club. Grafia is the association of professional graphic designers in Finland. The mapping and visitor badges are based on artificial intelligence enhanced tehnology. Pasi Karhu, CEO of Studio Mind, also presents other application possibilities of this AI technology. Other presentations and performances are given by Habbo Hotel, Syrup Helsinki and Tonekroup.