RESONOIVA design was founded in 2013 as a company specializing in human-centered technology design. Founder Jukka is a technology-background innovator, entrepreneur, and design enthusiast involved in over 40 granted patents. This website is an evolving collection of past and future milestones on Resonoiva’s journey.
Resonoiva combines technology and user experience to create multi-sensory interfaces — integrating audio, haptic, and visual elements — that truly resonate with the user.
Resonoiva now operates as a brand of Aistipaja Resonoiva Oy in Espoo, Finland, focusing on developing sensory room concepts for everyday mindful work and relaxation.
The Resonoiva story
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Resonoiva was founded in 2013 by Dr. Jukka Linjama. After gaining experience in technology development as a researcher in VTT, specialist in Nokia’s technology unit, and CTO of the haptic technology startup Senseg, timing was right to start indipendently exploring possibilities for human centric innovations. One application area was therapy use where Jukka´s wife had excperience as occupational therapist specialized in sensory integration. The combined knowledge of audio and haptics technology and rehabiliation needs of sensory challenged children enabled creation of concepts of audio cushions that vibrate softly and activate also the sense of touch while listening.
This approach proved to help therapy work e g with autistic children as somehow it provided a means for effectively guiding attention in therapy work. In addition to this, the sound quality on the surface of the cushion was surprisingly good, and this vibration-based sound cushion concept was patented.
In 2015, Resonoiva made a decision to focus entirely on the productization of this patented innovation, starting with Taikofon Therapy Cushion product that provides a new way to enjoy sound as a multisensory experience. The company gained more shareholders and changed its name to reflect its new growth trajectory and focus.
Thus, Flexound was born, a start-up that leads the development of audio-tactile cushion devices towards multi-sensory Flexound Augmented AudioTM solutions integrated into furniture, movie theaters, and vehicles.
The original RESONOIVA design as trade name was acquired by Aistipaja Resonoiva Oy, established in 2016. Parallel to duties with audio-tactile solution development at Flexound, Resonoiva now continues with the multi-sensory innovation effort in a wider scope: developing a sensory room concept that is targeted for every-day mindful work and relaxation.
RESONOIVA design is now a brand of Aistipaja Resonoiva Oy based in Espoo, Finland. Aistipaja offers occupational therapy services targeted for sensory disabled children.
At Aistipaja, RESONOIVA design extends the therapy service scope to related human-centric technology development, consulting and multisensory concept design.