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Is it okay to give a hug? Stories of Compassion and Elevation

A struggling colleague whom you don´t know needs help. Is it okay to give a hug? A distraught husband is visiting his sick wife in a nursing home. Can you offer him a beer?

Category: Publication

Advantages of Open Data: case COVID-19

Access to data is crucial in our society today. Much of the everyday life of individuals is centred around this access to data, from finding out what kind of weather it will be, what meetings will take place tomorrow, and what heartbeat and step count measures were recorded during the last workout.

Category: Publication

Algorithms and their possible threat to public health

Anyone who reads the book, including a pediatrician friend of mine, has decided vaccination is not only not right for their own children but purely reckless.

Category: Publication

Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics 2022

The 18th Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics (SHI 2022) was organized in Tromsø, at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, from August 22nd to 24th 2022.

Category: Research

Taking the Heroes Out or Shaping Paramedic Students’ Resilience to Practice

“Your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash!”

Category: Publication

Challenges around healthy habits and lifestyle – can you teach old dogs new tricks?

A Nordic conference in health behavior change was arranged in collaboration between Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Mälardalen University (MDU) and Folkhälsan in March 2022.

Category: Publication

How can small museums innovate on digitalisation?

The International Museum Day of 2022 carries the slogan ”The Power of Museums”. One sub-theme is ”the power of innovating on digitalisation and accessibility”. And it is truly timely to ponder what this power is all about in relation to the digital.

Category: Research

Inclusion in Human-Robot interaction

Leonardo Espinosa-Leal, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Big Data Analytics. Arcada University of Applied Sciences. leonardo.espinosaleal@arcada.fi

Category: Research

Arcada – A Truly International Experience in Helsinki

Did you know that Arcada University of Applied Sciences (UAS) is the most international UAS in relation to its size in Finland? In fact, there are more than 60 nationalities represented on our campus in Arabianranta.

Category: Education