1. University of Jyväskylä Agora Human Technology Center

2. Agora Concept ► Human factors in technology ► Interdisciplinary approach based on top level research ► Research + teaching + business ► Shortening the innovation chain UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

3. The structure for scientific work and network in the Agora Center Advisory Board New innovative, interdisciplinary projects HUMAN Network for Social and Political Sciences and Humanities BOARD TECHONOLOGY Network for Information Technology and Natural Sciences AGORA CENTER UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

4. Research Process at the Agora Center Partner Network Interdisciplinary Network of the Agora Center Private Enterprises Public Sector Others, e.g., associations Innovative Research Projects Feedback Needs & Problems Solutions Innovations Information Education UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

5. Jyväskylä ”Human Technology City” ►150 ICT-enterprises ►ICT employees nearly 5000 ►Other industry increasingly using ICT-technology ►The first Faculty of Information Technology in Finland UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

6. NATIONAL STRATEGY Development of Society and Economics Social and Technological Innovations Preconditions to innovative actions, innovative environments The Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland 2003 UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

7. Faculty of Information Technology ►Founded in 1998 ►Three departments  Department of Mathematical Information Technology  Department of Computer Science and Information Systems  Information Technology Research Institute ► Research and teaching in Computing Science since 1967 ► The amount of full-time staff over 200 ► 1800 basic degree students, 180 postgraduate students ► The largest and oldest faculty on its field in Finland UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

8. ► Simulation and Optimization ► Software Engineering ► Mobile Systems ► Teacher Education (in Mathematical information technology) UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ Specialities in Information Technology ►Information Systems (Information Management and Information Systems Development) ►Electronic Commerce ►Software Business (English programme) ►Digital Media ►User-friendly Information Technology 2006

9. Dimensions of the Knowledge Society PSYKOCENTER research areas = Psychology = Educational research = Humanities = Social Sciences = Sport and Health Sciences = Information Technology = Economics Human Development and Life Span Human – Technology Interaction UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

10. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ ---- Child Research Center ----- Longitudinal research on human life span Infancy Childhood Youth Adulthood Old age --Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia ---- ---- Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development ------------- ----- Finnish Centre for Interdisciplinary Gerontology --------------- Family Research Center--------- ------------- Mukava ----------- 2006

11. Agora Center Laboratories and Environments ► Agora MindTech Laboratory ► Agora Game Laboratory AGL ► Agora Learning Laboratory ALL ► Agora Virtual Environment AVEC ► Agora Industrial IT Center ► Agora Innoroad Laboratory ► Agora User-Psychology Laboratory ► Forum for Social Innovations SIF ► Agora ICT forum UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006

12. Human Technology An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in the ICT Environments  Open Access Online Journal for Interdisciplinary, Innovative Research  Reaches both researchers and companies from all around the world  Editor in Chief: Professor Pertti Saariluoma www.humantechnology.jyu.fi UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ 2006