A new agreement signed between TAZ and Tampere University of Technology (TUT) allows our local university to utilize ActionTrack platform in selected research projects.

Researcher Aino Ahtinen, TUT, says: ”We are working on exploring, designing, implementing, evaluating and piloting physically active work habits for our university campus – to be used by every one in our daily work in campus. Increasing even a bit more activity to every workday is the point by which we may prevent illnesses and unwellness. Everyone has heard about walking meetings. Have you tried those? Do you do those regularly? That is only one of the concepts we have been thinking of, and there is much more than that coming! As we are part of pervasive computing lab, we are concentrating on technology-mediated work habits.

For the implementation of a set of concepts to support active work habits we have harnessed ActionTrack platform from Team Action Zone (http://www.taz.fi/), a Tampere-based company in Finland. With ActionTrack we can quickly create fashionable concepts and applications and test them out in an iterative manner, without any programming skills! ActionTrack enables building map-based activities with checkpoints, and the checkpoints can include all kind of multimedia content or almost whatever, and with the system we can provide guidance, rewarding, stories, tasks, exercises and so much more, and we can also collect data about the activities.”

TAZ warmly welcomes TUT to our growing family!

See TUT blog writing on this topic HERE.