The virtual lab specifically focuses on researching and developing remote digital services such as telerehabilitation, virtual home care and digital client and patient guidance with technology companies and multidisciplinary researchers.
Our aim is to develop user-driven and human-driven technology solutions and services for social and health care and to strengthen related knowledge.
The lab will offer an innovative research and learning environment with products from over twenty health and wellbeing technology companies.
For teachers and students:
- learning environment, independently or under the guidance of a lab expert
- multidisciplinary project work
- guided practice
- theses
For health and well-being technology companies:
- usability evaluation and usability testing in simulated (test bed) and real (Living Lab) environments together with service providers and end users
- product development and testing services for products and software at different stages of product development
- showroom and pop-up space
For social and healthcare service providers:
- development of services using service design tools
- presentations and trials of health and well-being technology
implementation advice and user training
- We tailor our services according to the needs of our customers.
Our strength is cooperation and joint development, as expert work and as expert-led student work, in a wide-ranging and multi-professional manner. We have available the expertise, research and development and training environments and students of all Tampere University of Applied Sciences degree programs.
We offer you our expertise:
- health and wellness technology regulation
- product development and quality management determining customer and user needs and requirements service
- design and co-development
- pedagogical competence and educational use related to the use and implementation of health and wellness technology devices and software.
The Lab offers an innovative research, development and learning environment through solutions from several technology companies. The latest technology is represented by an immersive 360-degree cylinder space, where the user can be surrounded by 360 video or image material and which can be used, for example, in the development of service concepts, educational content, remote connections or virtual experiences.
