Mauri Kaipainen

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Mauri Kaipainen (b. 1957, Port Arthur, Ontario)

Mauri Kaipainen works as professor of new media at Tallinn University, where he is responsible for the international master program Interactive Media and Knowledge Environments (IMKE). In addition, he is associate researcher at the Center of Knowledge and Innovation Research, Helsinki School of Economics. Kaipainen studied education, musicology and cognitive science at the University of Helsinki and earned his PhD 1994 from the same university. His approach to interactive media is based on the view to cognition as explorative activity of the embodied mind in its material, social and informational environment, often conceivable as knowledge environments. Building on the findings of cognitive psychology and systems sciences, Kaipainen uses bottom-up metadata, or soft ontologies, and nature-like computational models as his core methodologies.