Project Details
Description
HIPE (Human-technology interoperability and artificial emotional intelligence) project aims to enhance the capability of the digital systems and services in physical spaces to understand and react to the human behaviour and emotional state. This will improve the competitiviness of the company partners in the global markets and contribute to research advances in HIPE domains.
Our feelings are important to what is an optimal service for us, right now - yet current technologies cannot read and interpret emotions, and the services cannot adapt. In HIPE, we want to provide means for creating emotionally aware, intelligent, and integrated services that can respond to the demand and expectations of their users.
HIPE is a co-innovation project with six companies (Helvar, ISKU, Teleste, Framery, Ambientia and Mall of Tripla), University of Lapland and VTT. Our company partners provide solutions for physical spaces in different application domains. They all see that the novel sensing capabilities and artificial emotional intelligence-based solutions for behaviour analysis and situational awareness have potential to enable totally new services, for both the space operators and the users. Responsive spaces and data-driven services able to to respond in real-time to the changes in human behaviour and environment would open new business models as well as improve competitiviness and revenue.
For such services, the whole pipeline from data to actionable information and actions must be streamlined and modular, which requires research on technologies, analytics methods and service and business model design. The concepts must be tested and optimized in real-life as well as integrated to existing systems. In parallel to the technological development, HIPE will digest and conclude existing regulative information and future trends to help the company partners and their customers to plan and operate in a sustainable, legal and ethical manner in the context of their services.
Our feelings are important to what is an optimal service for us, right now - yet current technologies cannot read and interpret emotions, and the services cannot adapt. In HIPE, we want to provide means for creating emotionally aware, intelligent, and integrated services that can respond to the demand and expectations of their users.
HIPE is a co-innovation project with six companies (Helvar, ISKU, Teleste, Framery, Ambientia and Mall of Tripla), University of Lapland and VTT. Our company partners provide solutions for physical spaces in different application domains. They all see that the novel sensing capabilities and artificial emotional intelligence-based solutions for behaviour analysis and situational awareness have potential to enable totally new services, for both the space operators and the users. Responsive spaces and data-driven services able to to respond in real-time to the changes in human behaviour and environment would open new business models as well as improve competitiviness and revenue.
For such services, the whole pipeline from data to actionable information and actions must be streamlined and modular, which requires research on technologies, analytics methods and service and business model design. The concepts must be tested and optimized in real-life as well as integrated to existing systems. In parallel to the technological development, HIPE will digest and conclude existing regulative information and future trends to help the company partners and their customers to plan and operate in a sustainable, legal and ethical manner in the context of their services.
| Acronym | HIPE |
|---|---|
| Status | Finished |
| Effective start/end date | 1/05/22 → 30/11/25 |
Collaborative partners
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (lead)
- University of Lapland
- Helvar Oy Ab
- Isku Interior Oy
- Teleste Oyj
- Framery Oy
- Ambientia Group Oy
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
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Data-constrained personalization of cognitive state detection with feature-based and foundation models
Tervonen, J., Amparore, E. G., Botta, M., Närväinen, J., Pettersson, K. & Mäntyjärvi, J., 1 Jun 2026, In: User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction. 36, 2, 9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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HIPE Human-technology interoperability and artificial emotional intelligence - Final Report
Järvinen, S., Peltola, J., Närväinen, J., Ballardini, R., Schütte, B., van den Hoven van Genderen, R., Takala, P., Nokelainen, T. & Väre, J., 24 Mar 2026, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. 24 p. (VTT Research Report; No. VTT-R-00200-26).Research output: Book/Report › Report
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Adding Emotional Intelligence to Physical Spaces: Data-Driven Solutions for Measuring, Analysing, and Responding to User Needs and Expectations
Järvinen, S. & Kallio, J., 2025, Emotional Data Applications and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Society . Springer Nature, p. 11-29 19 p. (Law, Governance and Technology Series, Vol. 69).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter or book article › Scientific › peer-review