Sanna Kuoppamäki

Associate professor

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolanhttps://www.kth.se/profile/sannaku

Works for

Health Informatics & Logistics

Unit address

Hälsovägen 11 C

E-mail

sannaku@kth.se

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About me

I am an Associate Professor in Technology in Health Care and a Docent in Technology and Health. My research area is user-centered design of AI and robotic technologies for health and well-being.

My research explores use and design of interactive AI technologies for healthy living with application areas in social robotics, wearable technologies and digital health. In my research, I develop participatory methodologies to design, investigate and evaluate emerging technologies for health and well-being by involving users, such as older adults, children and health care professionals, throughout the design process. I am interested to explore the individual and socially shared practices embedded in the use of new technologies, and the mutual shaping of technologies in everyday life to contribute to more inclusive and transformative technologies. My research is influenced by social practice theory, media and communication studies and participatory design methodologies.

I am a principal investigator in several externally funded research projects, such as Age-Wear: Enhancing older adults' physical activity through inclusive design of interactive wearable sensor devices (Kamprad Family Foundation, 2024-2026), CareQuAI: AI-driven platform care: Promoting equal and inclusive job quality in long-term care (JPI - More Years, Better Lives - FORTE, 2025-2028), and ROBOWELL: Robots as Welfare Technologies and Actors for Elderly Care: A Nordic Model for Integration of Advanced Assistive Technologies (NORDFORSK, 2026-2029). Additionally, I am a co-principal investigator in the EU-project ART4MENTAL: Innovative Community-based Solutions for Youth and Vulnerable Groups (Creative Europe, 2026-2028) and in Kitchen Companion for Healthy Ageing (Kamprad Family Foundation, 2026-2029). I'm a Digital Futures faculty member since 2021, and I regularly attend leading science communication events as a public speaker in Sweden and other Nordic countries.

My research has been published in leading venues in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Digital Health including Telematics and Informatics, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, BMC Health Services Research, Autonomous Robots, International Journal of Social Robotics, and Journal of Medical Internet Research. More information about my work can be found in:

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