Jukka Vanhala

Jukka Vanhala is a professor at the Department of Electronics at Tampere University of Technology and the director of the Kankaanpää Research Unit of Wearable Technology. He received his MSc at the Software Engineering Laboratory in 1985, Licenciate of Technology at the Microelectronics Laboratory in 1990, and doctor of technology at the Electronics Laboratory in 1998, all at TUT. He has been appointed to the professorship of electronics at TUT in 1997 and to the docentship of interactive technology at Tampere University at 2005. His career also includes six years of work in the industry both in Finland (Tele Finland (Sonera), SoftPlan (Nokia), Instrumentation) and in USA (IBM). His expertise is in ambient intelligence, embedded systems and wearable technology.

Publications

Media in the Ubiquitous Era: Ambient, Social and Gaming Media
Media in the Ubiquitous Era: Ambient, Social and Gaming Media
Artur Lugmayr, Helja Franssila, Pertti Näränen, Olli Sotamaa, Jukka Vanhala, Zhiwen Yu. © 2012. 312 pages.
Media in the ubiquitous area is undergoing a tremendous change. Social media and Web 2.0 are applied in ever more diverse practices both in private and public communities and...