Sanna Kuoppamäki
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Om mig
I am an Assistant Professor in Technology in Health Care and a Docent in Technology and Health. With a PhD in sociology and experience in interdisciplinary research, I investigate the user-centered design of AI technologies for health and well-being.
My research explores use and design of interactive technologies for healthy ageing with application areas in social robotics, wearable technologies and mobile 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 or children, 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 inspired by social practice approach, media and communication studies and participatory design methodologies.
My research has been published in journals such as Telematics and Informatics, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 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:
Current projects:
- Sleeping Soundly: Interactive sonic technologies to support sleep for healthy living (co-PI, Digital Futures Demonstrator Project, 2026-2027)
- Robots as Welfare Technologies and Actors for Elderly Care: A Nordic Model for Integration of Advanced Assistive Technologies (ROBOWELL) (co-PI, NORDFORSK, 2025-2029)
- AI-driven platform care (CareQuAI) (PI, FORTE/MYBL, 2025-2027)
- Use of Conversational AI for digital mindfulness (LugnAI) (PI, Digital Futures, 2023-2025, 2026-2027)
- Enhancing older adults' physical activity through inclusive design of interactive wearable sensor devices
(Age-Wear) (PI, Kamprad Family Foundation, 2024-2026)
Past projects:
- Adaptive Intelligent Homes (co-PI, Digital Futures, 2024-2025)
- Advanced Adaptive Intelligent Systems (co-PI, Digital Futures, 2021-2024)
- Personalised companion robot for open domain dialogue in long-term elderly care(co-supervisor, 2022-2024)
- Designing AI technology for interdependence with sighted guiding companions (co-supervisor, 2022-2024)
- BCONNECT@HOME – Being Connected at Home: Making use of digital devices in later life (2019-2020)
- Digital Home: Life transitions and digital domestic practices in later life (PI, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Post-doctoral project, 2019-2020)
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Kurser
Entreprenörskap i Teknik och hälsa (CM2008), examinator, kursansvarig
Industriell marknadsföring (HU1801), lärare, examinator
Sociokulturella perspektiv på innovativa teknologier (CM2010), kursansvarig, examinator