Metrospective
Multidisciplinary solutions and insights from Metropolia UAS staff and Master's students. Articles, podcasts and videos for the general public and professionals.
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Heikki Laaninen, Jussi Salonen
Making XR easier to approach
Extended reality holds significant potential for game developers and companies, but its technologies and ecosystems can be difficult to navigate. Through Interreg BSG-Go!
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Pamela Spokes
From quick fixes to lasting change: teaching service design to future healthcare leaders
Long before a patient ever meets a healthcare professional, they have already navigated a web of services like appointment letter, directions, parking, and signage. When those services fail, the consequences can ripple through the system. Teaching healthcare professionals to ask better questions, not just find faster fixes, is where long-term change begins.
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Toini Palo, Agnes Xue, Peck Hoon Ong
Episode 2: Students, industry, and user-friendly age-tech
In this episode of the Co-creating learning beyond borders podcast Toini Palo, Agnes Xue and Peck Horn Ong explore the importance of user-friendly age-tech in supporting dignified and autonomous aging, and the wide-range of opportunities the field presents for students from diverse disciplines.
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Janset Shawash
Autonomous mobility in transition: ecosystem, governance and public value
In many forms, autonomous vehicles are already here. The more important question is no longer whether they are coming, but whether they will arrive in a form that is safe, useful, trusted, affordable, and aligned with public value.
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Fayez Bassalat
From empty rooms to digital twins – building a modular robotics testing environment
As robots grow more capable, the need for realistic and repeatable testing environments is growing. Scale Down, a joint initiative of Metropolia UAS and Aalto University, is addressing this demand by developing a modular robotics testing environment.
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Shree Vidya Gurudath, Zinaida Grabovskaia, Harri Hahkala, Antero Vesterinen
From Smart Campus technologies to the Smart Campus ecosystem: what could Metropolia build next?
What does it mean for a university campus to be a Smart Campus and an ecosystem? Is it about having smart buildings, sensors, digital twins and connected systems? Or could it be something broader, an environment where technology, education, research, sustainability and industry collaboration come together in meaningful ways?
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Pamela Spokes
Broken in the same places: the hidden patterns in higher education’s biggest service design challenges
When over 100 university staff members from seven different countries were asked to name one problem in their institution that could be fixed with service design, nobody expected them to give the same answers. Higher education is full of people working hard to make things work, and full of students and staff who feel like things aren't quite right. This article is about what pattern reveals and what it suggests about how Higher Education can finally begin to fix it.
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Eija Raatikainen
Strengthening organisational capacity through peer mentoring in the context of work-based learning in online environments
Mentoring in online-facilitated environments can strengthen organisational capacity by supporting informal learning in the context of everyday work. This article presents an example of peer mentoring in workplace learning, drawing on COMHOM project’s experiences from spring 2026.