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Matti Nelimarkka from HIIT just presented early work on classifying online civic engagement tools in the Internet, Policy and Politics conference organized by the Oxford Internet Institute. This work was conducted together with researchers from UC Berkeley and developed from the California Report Card project.

Matti describes this research on this 15 minutes video:

Have you ever been worried about you mobile phone's or table's energy consumption? Do you need to charge your device every night, perhaps even in the middle of the day? It is generally known that large screens and continuous network connections eat our phones' battery faster than we really want. Our goal in the Carat project is to survey and analyze what else could be going bad in our phones' matters.

The Digital Content Communities group at HIIT, Aalto and the Communication Research Center at University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Science will examine how social media and traditional media interplay in the next Finnish Parliament elections in Finland. The aim is to combine big data approaches, such as network analysis, and qualitative methods, such as interviews and ethnography, in this research.

PhD student Kiran Garimella, with collaborators from QCRI and UMich, studied romantic relationship breakups on twitter.

HIIT postdoctoral fellow Nikolaj Tatti gave a tutorial in ECML PKDD 2014 on information theory, MDL, and statistics.

Polina Rozenshtein received the best student paper award in ECML PKDD 2014, for the paper "Discovering dynamic communities in interaction networks", co-authored with Nikolaj Tatti and Aristides Gionis.

Eric Malmi, a doctoral student in Aalto, made a study on analyzing the lyrics of Finnish hip-hop artists. The post attracted a lot of attention and, among other, Eric gave an interview to a national radio station.

What are mechanisms that determine how humans influence each other in social networks? Can we predict who will react in an input signal to the network and through which connections?

The Broadcast Education Association has released a special issue of the Journal of Broadcasting; Electronic Media, titled Old Against New, or a Coming of Age? Rethinking Broadcasting in an Era of Electronic Media. The issue was guest edited by HIIT alumna Airi Lampinen along with R. Stuart Geiger from UC Berkeley and Stacy Blasiola from University of Illinois at Chicago.

User-generated free-form gestures for authentication: security and memorability