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According to a recent study by HIIT and UC Berkeley researchers, fear of owing a debt of gratitude and a reluctance to ask for help are slowing the success of online services that facilitate joint use, borrowing and exchange of services. People who engage in exchange activities were not as concerned about becoming the target of unfair accusations about being a ‘free rider’.

The Scientific American features section (13/12/12) covers the PSIRP and PURSUIT research projects led by HIIT.
The new Information-Centric Network (ICN) designs propose to make the network more content aware and thus reduce operating costs, improve efficiency, and mitigate attacks against the networks.

- "The PSIRP projects laid the foundations for publish/subscribe style information-centric networking" says professor Sasu
Tarkoma, one of the original proposers of the PSIRP project.

Airi Lampinen will talk about account sharing in the context of social network services. The main emphasis will be on a qualitative study in which altogether sixteen people (eight women and eight men) from eight multi-person households who offer to host strangers viaCouchsurfing.org were interviewed about their experiences with the site.

HIIT MSc Aaron Yi Ding, supervised by Professor Sasu Tarkoma and senior researcher Markku Kojo,  visits Deutsche Telekom Labs in Berlin Germany from September to October of 2012.

Researchers from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM have developed a triumphant solution for predicting responses of breast cancer cells to a set of cancer drugs. The prediction is based on the genomic profiles of the cancer cells. Harnessing genomic profiles of cells in choosing the best treatment is considered the holy grail of personalised medicine.

Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology
starts on November 23, 2012, 3:00 pm at Open Innovation House (OIH), Otaniementie 19, Espoo, with an invited lecture from Professor Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), entitled "Modern Dynamic Kidney Exchanges". Welcome!
 

Researchers at HIIT (Eve Hoggan, Craig Stewart, Laura Haverinen, Giulio Jacucci) and Nokia Research Center have published their paper entitled 'Pressages: Augmenting Phone Calls with Non-Verbal Messages' in UIST 2012.

Researchers at HIIT and Max Planck Institute for Informatics show how computer vision -based hand tracking and vibration feedback on the user’s hand can be used to steer the user’s hand toward an object of interest. A study shows an almost three-fold advantage in finding objects from complex visual scenes, such as library or supermarket shelves.

Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT finish the first longitudinal study on the effects of ubiquitous surveillance in the home.

Kazuho Watanabe received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002, 2004, and 2006, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow and a research associate in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.