Publications

Kaisa Väänänen (previously Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila)

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Peer-reviewed scientific articles (conference and journal papers)

2024

Nur Samancioglu, Raul Castano de la Rosa, Kaisa Väänänen. (2024) Aligning Smart Home Technology Attributes with Users’ Preferences: A Literature Review. Intelligent Buildings International TIBI. Article ID: TIBI (2418648). https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2024.2418648
Salla Jarske, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Aino Ahtinen, Jari Varsaluoma, and Kaisa Väänänen. (2024) How Could Social Robots Support Societal Participation? Findings from Five Design Workshops with Young People. International Journal of Social Robotics. In press.
Chia-Hsin Wu, Aino Ahtinen, and Kaisa Väänänen. (2024) Social Robots as Physical Education Instructors for Primary School Pupils: Exploration of Child-Robot Interaction at a Summer Camp. Proceedings of International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR’24. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI), Springer. Forthcoming.
Sujithra Raviselvam, Peter Lovei, Renee Noortman, Thomas Olsson, Kaisa Väänänen and Mathias Funk. (2024) Rollercoasters and Research: Applying Data-Enabled Design to a Semi-Public Context. In Frontiers in Human Dynamics, section Digital Impacts. Accepted in July 2024, in press.
Maria Hartikainen, Guna Spurava, and Kaisa Väänänen. Human-AI Collaboration in Smart Manufacturing: Key Concepts and Framework for Design. In Proceedings of Hybrid Human AI (HHAI 2024) Conference, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, June 2024.
Guna Spurava, Jari Varsaluoma, and Kaisa Väänänen. The Challenges of Meaningful Youth E-participation in Political Decision-making in Finland. Interacting with Computers, 2024, iwae028, https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwae028.
Salla Jarske, Kirsikka Kaipainen, and Kaisa Väänänen. “Maybe it knows more than us” – Exploration of social robots as climate communicators to foster climate hope in adolescents. In Social Robots With AI:Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods, Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2024, Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press.
Saara Ala-Luopa, Thomas Olsson, Kaisa Väänänen, Maria Hartikainen, and Jouko Makkonen. Trusting Intelligent Automation in Expert Work: Accounting Practitioners’ Experiences and Perceptions. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 1-29.
Kaisa Väänänen, Ashley Colley, and Jonna Häkkilä. Towards Adaptive AI Explanations with Tangible User Interfaces. Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2024 Workshops co-located with the 29th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2024), Greenville, South Carolina, USA, March 18, 2024. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3660/
Jarno Ojala, Anton Fedosov, Thomas Olsson, Kaisa Väänänen, and Marc Langheinrich. “Shared Online, Made People Envious, Felt Good”: Motivations to Share Non-Media Types of Content Online. International Journal of Social Media and Online Communities (IJSMOC), Vol. 16, Issue 1, IGI Global, 2024.
Saara Ala-Luopa, Thomas Olsson, Sami Koivunen and Kaisa Väänänen. Considerations on Human-AI Collaboration in Knowledge Work – Recruitment Experts’ Needs and Expectations. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-57), January 2024, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA. ScholarSpace.

2023

Ashley Colley, Matilda Kalving, Jonna Häkkilä, and Kaisa Väänänen. Exploring Tangible Explainable AI (TangXAI): A User Study of Two XAI Approaches. OzCHI 2023, Wellington, New Zealand, December 4-6, 2023, ACM.
Jari Varsaluoma, Iikka Pietilä, Kaisa Väänänen and Tiina Rättilä. Experimenting with youth-centred e-participation – the case of the Virtual Council. In Päivi Honkatukia and Tiina Rättilä (Eds.), Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society – Reclaiming the Future. Routledge, 2023, ISBN 9781032384481.
Jouko Makkonen, Maria Hartikainen, Ronnie Nygren and Kaisa Väänänen. User Perceptions of Help Posts in Commu Help Exchange Application. In Proceedings of Academic Mindtrek Conference 2023, Tampere, Finland, October 3-6, 2023. ACM (forthcoming).
Rita Latikka, Atte Oksanen, Nina Savela, Jouko Makkonen, Aki Koivula, Rosana Rubio Hernandez, Fernando Nieto Fernandez, Kaisa Väänänen. Combating loneliness: The role of neighborhood ICT, environmental attractiveness, and a sense of belonging to a local community. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology (JCASP), Wiley, 2023. Open access at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.2717
Jouko Makkonen, Rita Latikka, Rosana Rubio-Hernández, and Kaisa Väänänen. Evaluation of the Roles of Intelligent Technologies in Shared Activity Spaces of Neighborhood Communities. Proceedings of Interact 2023, Springer.
Emilia I. Barakova, Kaisa Vaananen, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Panos Markopoulos. Benefits, Challenges and Research Recommendations for Social Robots in Education and Learning: A Meta-Review. Proceedings of he 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2023.
Chia-Shin Wu, Aino Ahtinen, and Kaisa Väänänen. Walking Outdoor with a Zoomorphic Mobile Robot: Exploration of Robot-Assisted Physical Activities for Older Adults. Proceedings of he 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2023.
Aparajita Chowdhury, Aino Ahtinen, Chia-Hsin Wu, Kaisa Vaananen, Davide Taibi, Roel S. Pieters. Exploring the Personality Design Space of Robots. Personality and Design Implications for Non-Anthropomorphic Wellness Robots. Proceedings of he 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2023.
Maria Hartikainen and Kaisa Väänänen. Towards Human-Centered Design of AI Service Chatbots. HCI International 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer.
Maria Hartikainen, Kaisa Väänänen, and Thomas Olsson. 2023. Towards a Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence Maturity Model. In CHI EA ’23. ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 285, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585752
Aino Ahtinen, Nasim Beheshtian, and Kaisa Väänänen. Robocamp at Home: Exploring Families’ Co-Learning with a Social Robot: Findings from a One-Month Study in the Wild. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2023.
Aino Ahtinen, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Salla Jarske, and Kaisa Väänänen. Supporting Remote Social Robot Design Collaboration with Online Canvases: Lessons Learned from Facilitators’ and Participants’ Experiences. Int J of Soc Robotics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-00966-6

2022

Jouko Makkonen, Rita Latikka, Laura Kaukonen, Markus Laine, and Kaisa Väänänen. Advancing residents’ use of shared spaces in Nordic Superblocks with intelligent technologies. Journal of AI & Society: Special issue on Urban AI: Understanding the Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities, Springer. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01604-x
Anu Lehtiö, Maria Hartikainen, Saara Ala-Luopa, Thomas Olsson, and Kaisa Väänänen. Understanding Citizens Perceptions of AI in the Smart City. Journal of AI & Society: Special issue on Urban AI: Understanding the Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities, Springer. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01589-7
Ashley Colley, Kaisa Väänänen, Jonna Häkkilä. Tangible Explainable AI – an Initial Conceptual Framework. Accepted to MUM 2022, November 27-30, 2022, Proceedings of International Conference of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’22, ACM.
Maria Hartikainen, Kaisa Väänänen, Anu Lehtiö, Saara Ala-Luopa, and Thomas Olsson. 2022. Human-Centered AI Design in Reality: A Study of Developer Companies’ Practices : A study of Developer Companies’ Practices. Proceedings of Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI ’22). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 55, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3546677
Kirsikka Kaipainen, Salla Jarske, Kaisa Väänänen. Identifying Opportunities for Social Robots in Youth Services: A Case Study of a Youth Guidance Center. Robophilosophy 2022, proceedings published by Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Applications with IOS Press.
Kirsikka Kaipainen, Salla Jarske, Jari Varsaluoma, Kaisa Väänänen. Adolescents’ Perceptions of the Role of Social Robots in Civic Participation: Exploratory Study. International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022, ACM.
Iikka Pietilä, Jari Varsaluoma, Miia Lähde, and Kaisa Väänänen. eParticipation for Supporting Societal Participation Self-efficacy and Lowering the Thresholds of Societal Participation: Case Virtual Council. CHI 2022 Extended Abstracts, ACM.

2021

Thomas Olsson and Kaisa Väänänen. How Might Design Practice Change in the AI Era? Interactions Magazine, July/August 2021, ACM, https://doi.org/10.1145/3466154
Väänänen Kaisa, Sankaran Supraja, Lopez Marisela Gutierrez, and Zhang Chao. (2021) Editorial: Respecting Human Autonomy through Human-Centered AI. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4. DOI=10.3389/frai.2021.807566.
Schmidt A., Giannotti F., Mackay W., Shneiderman B., Väänänen K. (2021) Artificial Intelligence for Humankind: A Panel on How to Create Truly Interactive and Human-Centered AI for the Benefit of Individuals and Society. In: Ardito C. et al. (eds) Human-Computer-Interaction – INTERACT 2021. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12936. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_32
Aparajita Chowdhury, Aino Ahtinen, Roel S. Pieters, and Kaisa Vaananen. (2021) ”How are you today, Panda?” – Affectiveness, Playfulness and Relatedness in Human-Robot Collaboration in the Factory Context. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), Aug 08 – Aug 12, 2021. IEEE.
Pietilä, I., Kallio, J., Varsaluoma, J., & Väänänen, K. (2021) Youths’ digital participation in the early phases of COVID-19 lockdown. EGOV2021 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2021 conference and Proceedings of the Electronic Participation 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2021. Link to publisher. Winner of the best paper award.
Iikka Pietilä, Niina Meriläinen, Jari Varsaluoma, and Kaisa Väänänen (2021) Citizen-centric socio-cognitive model for societal participation. EGOV2021 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2021 conference and Proceedings of Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Posters, Workshops, and Projects. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org 2021.
Iikka Pietilä, Nina Meriläinen, Jari Varsaluoma and Kaisa Väänänen. (2021). Understanding youths’ needs for digital societal participation: towards an inclusive Virtual Council. Behaviour & Information Technology, Taylor & Francis, April 2021.
Iikka Pietilä, Jari Varsaluoma, Niina Meriläinen, and Kaisa Väänänen. (2021) Understanding the youth’s user needs for inclusive eParticipation. Proceedings of ECCE 2021, European Conference for Cognitive Ergonomics, ACM.
Päivi Heikkilä, Anita Honka, Eija Kaasinen, and Kaisa Väänänen. (2021) Quantified Factory Worker: Field Study of a Data-Driven Feedback Application Supporting Well-being at Work. Cognition, Technology & Work, 2020, Springer.

2020

Aparajita Chowdhury, Aino Ahtinen, Roel Peeters and Kaisa Väänänen. (2020) User Experience Goals for Designing Industrial Human-Cobot Collaboration: A Case Study of Franka Panda Robot. Proceedings of NordiCHI 2020 conference (virtual), Tallinn, Estonia, October 2020, ACM.
Nasim Beheshtian, Aino Ahtinen, Sina Moradi, Kalle Kähkönen, Markus Laine and Kaisa Väänänen. (2020) GreenLife: A Persuasive Social Robot to Enhance the Sustainable Behavior in Shared Living Spaces. Proceedings of NordiCHI 2020 conference (virtual), Tallinn, Estonia, October 2020, ACM.
Kirsikka Kaipainen, Salla Jarske, Jari Varsaluoma, Elina Hildén, Aino Ahtinen, Kaisa Väänänen. (2020) Persuading Youth in Civic Participation with Social Robots: What is Appropriate. Robophilosophy conference, https://conferences.au.dk/robo-philosophy/, IOS Press.
Kaisa Väänänen, Aleksi Hiltunen, Jari Varsaluoma and Iikka Pietilä. (2020) CivicBots – Chatbots for Supporting Youth in Societal Participation. Proceedings of CONVERSATIONS 2019: Third International Workshop on Chatbot Research, 2020, Springer.
Jeongeun Lee, Kirsikka Kaipainen and Kaisa Väänänen. (2020) Local Foodie: Experience Design of a Mobile Augmented Reality Application to Encourage Tourists’ Local Food Consumption. Proceedings of Academic Mindtrek 2020, January 2020, Tampere, Finland, ACM.
Jukka Holm, Kaisa Väänänen and Anas Battah. (2020) User Experience of Stereo and Spatial Audio in 360° Live Music Videos. Proceedings of Academic Mindtrek 2020, January 2020, Tampere, Finland, ACM.

2019

Li, H., Häkkilä, J., Väänänen, K. (2019) Towards a Conceptual Design Framework for Emotional Communication Systems for Long-Distance Relationships. ArtsIT 2019 – 8th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation, November 6-8, 2019, Aalborg, Denmark, Springer.
Eghbali, P., Väänänen, K., Jokela, T. (2019) Social Acceptability of Virtual Reality in Public Spaces: Experiential Factors and Design Recommendations. 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’19, Pisa, Italy, November 2019, ACM.
Jokela, T., Ojala, J., Väänänen, K. (2019) How People Use 360-Degree Cameras. 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’19, Pisa, Italy, November 2019, ACM. Best paper award.
Holm, J., Väänänen, K. & Remans, M. M. R. (2019) User Experience Study of 360° Music Videos on Computer Monitor and Virtual Reality Goggles. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation, July 2019, IEEE, p. 81-87.
Olsson, T., Jarusriboonchai, P., Wozniak, P., Paasovaara, S., Väänänen, K., and Lucéro, A. (2019) Technologies for Enhancing Collocated Social Interaction: Review of Design Solutions and Approaches. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. February 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-019-09345-0
Hilden, E. and Väänänen, K. Communicating User Insights with Travel Mindsets and Experience Personas in Intra-City Bus Context. (2019) INTERACT 2019, the 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cyprus, September 2019, Springer.
Pietilä, I., Varsaluoma J. and Väänänen, K. (2019) Understanding the Digital and Non-digital Participation by the Gaming Youth. INTERACT 2019, the 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cyprus, September 2019, Springer.

2018

Nurkka, P., Väänänen, K. (2018) Understanding the customer benefits of customisation: Case surfboard. Strategic Design Research Journal, ISSN 1984-2998. December 2018.
Hildén, E., Väänänen, K., Chistov, P. (2018) Travel Experience Toolkit: Bus-Specific Tools for Digital Service Design. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’18, ACM, 2018.
Paasovaara, S., Väänänen, K., Malapaschas, A., Olshannikova, E., Olsson, T., Jarusriboonchai, P., Hošek, J., Mašek, P. (2018) Playfulness and progression in technology-enhanced social experiences between nearby strangers. Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI’18, ACM, 2018.
Li, H., Häkkilä, J., Väänänen, K. (2018) Review of unconventional user interfaces for emotional communication between long-distance partners. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’18). ACM, NY, USA, Article 18, 2018.
Heikkilä, P., Honka, A., Mach, S, Schmalfuss, F., Kaasinen, E., Väänänen, K. (2018) Quantified Factory Worker – Expert Evaluation and Ethical Considerations of Wearable Self-tracking Devices. Proceedings of Academic Mindtrek conference, ACM, 2018.
Hildén, E., Väänänen, K., Syrman, S. (2018) Modeling Bus Travel Experience to Guide the Design of Digital Services for the Bus Context. Proceedings of Academic Mindtrek conference, ACM, 2018.
Jokinen, J-P., Nieminen, M., Hildén, E., Väänänen, K., Syrman, , Kostiainen, J. Cooperative Strategies and Operating Conditions for Platform Based Living Labs on the Markets of Transportation Services. 25^th ITS World Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 17-21 September 2018.
Hildén, E., Väänänen, K., Jokinen, J.-P., Syrman, S. Conducting Studies on Intra-City Bus Travel Experience: Insights and Lessons Learned in Living Lab Bus Project. 25^th ITS World Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 17-21 September 2018.
Kaipainen, K., Ahtinen, A., Chowdhury, A., Väänänen, K. Experiential and Contextual Factors of Social Robots as Public Servants. In MobileHCI’18 workshop: The 4th PubRob Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces (PubRob 2018). September 2018, Barcelona. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rpetrick/events/pubrob/2018/
Hildén, E, Väänänen, K. Bus Travel Experience – in the Crossroads of Service and Experience Design. In the workshop in CHI’18 on Experience Design meets Service Design – Method Clash or Marriage? April 2018, Montreal, Canada. https://blogs.aalto.fi/xdsd/proceedings/

2017

Hildén, E., Ojala, J., Väänänen, K. A Co-design Study of Digital Service Ideas in the Bus Context. Proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interact’17, Springer, 2017.
Fedosov, A., Ojala, J., Olsson, T., Väänänen, K. and Langheinrich M. From Travel Plans to Magic Wands: A Cross-Domain Study of Practices and Privacy Requirements for Sharing Emerging Types of Online Content. Proc. 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work – Exploratory Papers, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (ISSN 2510-2591), 2017.
Hilden, E., Ojala, J., Väänänen, K. Development of Context Cards: A Bus-Specific Ideation Tool for Co-design Workshops. Proceedings of Academic Mindtrek’17, ACM, 2017.
Ahtinen, A., Andrejeff, E., Harris, C., Väänänen, K. Let’s Walk at Work – Persuasion through the Brainwolk Walking Meeting App. Proceedings of Academic Mindtrek’17, ACM, 2017.
Eghtebas, C., Väänänen, K., Meyer, J., Pfeiffer, T., Pai, Y. S., Lukosch, S. A Model of Social Acceptability for Human Augmentation Technologies. In Amplify, a Workshop on Amplification and Augmentation of Human Perception in CHI 2017. https://www.hcilab.org/amplify-chi17/proceedings/
Ahtinen, A., Väänänen, K. Persuasive Design of Outdoors Walking Meetings: Supporting Different Mindsets. In NatureCHI, a workshop on Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature at MobileHCI 2017. http://naturechi.net/

2016

Vermeeren, A., Roto, V., Väänänen, K. Design-inclusive UX research: design as a part of doing user experience research. Behaviour & Information Technology, 35:1, 21-37, 2016.
Aromaa, S., Väänänen. K. Suitability of virtual prototypes to support human factors/ergonomics evaluation during the design. Applied Ergonomics, Vol. 56, September 2016, 11–18, Elsevier.
Kuusinen, K. Väätäjä, H., Mikkonen, T., Väänänen, K. Towards Understanding How Agile Teams Predict User Experience. In Larusdottir, MK, Cajander, A, Gregory, P, Cockton, G (Eds), Integrating User Centred Design in Agile Development, Springer, London, 2016.
Fu, Y., Karhu, M., Väänänen, K. Integrated Learning through an Intensive Course on User Experience. Projects in Progress at the 12th International CDIO Conference, Turku University of Applied Sciences,Turku, Finland, June 12 -16, 2016, CDIO.
Mäkelä, V., Korhonen, H., Ojala, J., Väänänen, K., Raisamo, R., Turunen, M. Investigating Mid-Air Gestures and Handhelds in Motion Tracked Environments. Proceedings of Pervasive Displays, PerDis’16, ACM, 2016.
Jokela, T., Väänänen, K., Pour Rezaei, P. Natural Group Binding and Cross-Display Object Movement Methods for Wearable Devices. Proceedings of MobileHCI’16, ACM, 2016.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson, T., Lundgren-Lyckvi, S., Väänänen., K. Let’s Take Photos Together: Exploring Asymmetrical Interaction Abilities on Mobile Camera Phones. Proceedings of MobileHCI’16, ACM, 2016.
Ahtinen, A., Andrejeff, E., Vuolle, M., Väänänen, K. Walk as You Work – User Study and Design Implications for Mobile Walking Meetings. Proceedings of NordiCHI’16, ACM, 2016.
Jokela, T., Pour Rezaei, P., Väänänen, K. Using Elicitation Studies to Generate Collocated Interaction Methods. Adjunct Proceedings of MobileHCI’16, ACM, 2016.
Ahtinen, A., Andrejeff, E., Vuolle, M., Väänänen, K. Walk as You Work – User Study and Design Implications for Mobile Walking Meetings. Proceedings of NordiCHI’16, ACM, 2016.
Hilden, E., Ojala, J., Väänänen, K. User Needs and Expectations for Future Traveling Services in Buses. Adjunct Proceedings of NordiCHI’16, ACM, 2016.
Hokkanen, L., Väänänen, K. Focusing on User Experience and Business Models in Startups: Investigation of Two-dimensional Value Creation. Proceedings of Mindtrek’16, ACM, 2016.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Malapaschas, A., Olsson, T., Väänänen, K. Social display – We can see what you are doing on your mobile device. CSCW ’16 Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. ACM, 53-56, 2016.
Väänänen, K., Ojala, J., Hilden E., Karlsson, MA., Wallgren, P., Turunen, M. Improving Attractiveness of Public Transportation with Interactive Experiences. Proceedings of NordiCHI’16, ACM, 2016.
Ahtinen, A., Andrejeff, E., Väänänen, K. Brainwolk – A Mobile Technology Mediated Walking Meeting Concept for Wellbeing and Creativity at Work. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia conference, MUM’16, ACM, 2016.
Lehtiniemi, A., Ojala, J., Väänänen, K. Socially Augmented Music Discovery with Collaborative Playlists and Mood Pictures. 5 Nov 2016, Interacting with Computers, Oxford Journals.
Hokkanen, L., Kuusinen, K., Väänänen, K. Minimum Viable User eXperience: A Framework for Supporting Product Design in Startups. proceedings of International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2016), Springer, 2016, 66-78.
Mayer, J., Jones, Q., Hiltz, R., Barkhuus, L., Väänänen, K. Supporting Opportunities for Context-Aware Social Matching: An Experience Sampling Study. Proceedings of CHI’16, ACM, 2016.
Olsson, T., Jarusriboonchai, P., Paasovaara, S., Ojala, J., Olshannikova, E., Malapaschas, A., Väänänen, K. How to Evaluate the Social Effects and User Experience of Systems Enhancing Collocated Interactions? Proceedings of CHI 2016 workshop on Proxemic Mobile Collocated Interactions. https://proxemicmci.wordpress.com/position-papers/
Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson, T., Malapaschas, A., Väänänen, K. Increasing Collocated People’s Awareness of Mobile User’s Activities: Field Trial of Social Display. Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaboraive work, CSCW’16, ACM, 2016.

2015

Ojala, J., Korhonen, H., Laaksonen, J., Mäkelä, V., Pakkanen, T., Järvi, A., Väänänen, K., Raisamo, R. Developing Novel Services for the Railway Station Area through Experience-Driven Design. Journal of Interaction Design and Architecture, IxDA. 25, 2015, 73-84.
Henze, N., Olsson, T., Schneegass, S., Sahami Shirazi, A., Väänänen, K. Augmenting Food with Information. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’15, ACM, 2015.
Hokkanen, L., Kuusinen, K., Väänänen, K. Early Design Drivers in Startups: Elements of Minimum Viable User eXperience. Proceedings of International Conference on Product- Focused Software Process Improvement (Profes 2015). Springer, 217-224, 2015.
Ahtinen, A., Poutanen, J., Vuolle, M., Väänänen, K., Peltoniemi, S. Experience-Driven Design of Ambiences for Future Pop-Up Workspaces. Proceedings of Ambient Intelligence conference, AmI’15, Springer, 2015.
Hokkanen, L, Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. UX Work in Startups: Current Practices and Future Needs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2015), Springer International Publishing, 81-92, 2015.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson, T., Prabhu, V., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. CueSense: a Wearable Proximity-Aware Display Enhancing Encounters. Proceedings (Extended Abstract) of CHI’15, ACM, 2015.
Olsson, T., Jarusriboonchai, P., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Towards Wearable Displays Aiming to Enhance Social Interaction. CHI’15 workshop on Mobile Collocated Interactions. CHI, Seoul, April 19, 2015. http://www.funkydesignspaces.com/mobile_collocated/position-papers/
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Olsson, T., Häkkilä, J. Towards Deeper Understanding of User Experience with Ubiquitous Computing Systems: Systematic Literature Review and Design Framework. Proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interact’15, Springer, 2015.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Social Displays on Mobile Devices: Increasing Collocated People’s Awareness of the User’s Activities. Proceedings of MobileHCI’15, ACM, 2015.

2014

Ojala, J., Mate, S., Curcio, I., Lehtiniemi, A. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Automated Creation of Mobile Video Remixes: User Trial in Three Event Contexts. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia conference, MUM’14, ACM, 2014.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson, T., Ojala, J. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Opportunities and Challenges of Mobile Applications as “Tickets-to-Talk”: A Scenario-Based User Study. Proc. Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia conference, MUM’14, ACM, 2014.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson, T. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User Experience of Proactive Audio-Based Social Devices: a Wizard-of-Oz Study. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’14, ACM, 2014.
Ventä-Olkkonen, L., Häkkilä, J. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Exploring the Augmented Home Window – User Perceptions of the Concept. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’14, ACM, 2014.
Sahar, F., Kujala, S. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Identifying the User Experience Factors of a Multi-Component Sports Product. Proceedings of Mindtrek’14, ACM, 2014.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Ojala, J., Laaksonen, J., Korhonen, H., Pakkanen, T. and Raisamo, R. Experience-Driven Design of Traveler Services in the Smart City. Workshhop on Making Places: Visualization, Interaction and Experience in Urban Space, in NordiCHI’14 conference, Helsinki, October 26th, 2014. http://futurecities.up.pt/site/submittedpapers/?title=Making%20Places%20%E2%80%93%20Workshop&back=5407
Ojala, J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. and Olsson, T. User-Created Content as Mediator of Co-located Social Experiences. Workshhop on Interactions and Applications for See-Through Technologies, in NordiCHI’14 conference, Helsinki, October 27th, 2014. http://seethroughworkshop2014.icg.tugraz.at/
Prabhu, V., Olsson, T, Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. and Jarusriboonchai, P. How Can Wearables Support Co-Located Social Interaction? Workshhop on Interactions and Applications for See-Through Technologies, in NordiCHI’14 conference, Helsinki, October 26th, 2014. http://seethroughworkshop2014.icg.tugraz.at/
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Heikkinen, J, Mäkinen, E., Farooq, A, Evreinov, G., Raisamo, R. User Experience and Expectations of Haptic Feedback in In-Car Interaction. Proc. Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’14, ACM, 2014.

2013

Vihavainen, S., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., The Implications of Mobile Notifications for User Experience of a Social Network Service. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), Vol 7, No 2, 2013.
Palviainen, J., Kuusinen, K, Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Designing for Presence in Social Television Interaction. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’13, ACM, 2013.
Ojala, J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Lehtiniemi, A. Six Enablers of Instant Photo-Sharing Experiences in Small Groups Based on the Field Trial of Social Camera. Proceedings of Advances in Computer Entertainment, ACE’13, Springer, 2013.
Rantala, J., Suhonen, K., Müller, S., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Lantz, V., Raisamo, R. User Experiences of Mobile Audio Conferencing with Spatial Audio, Haptics and Gestures. Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI ’13, ACM, 2013.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Suhonen, K., Laaksonen, J., Kildal, J., Ahmaniemi, T., Tahiroglu. User Experience and Usage Scenarios of Audio-Tactile Interaction with Virtual Objects in a Physical Environment. Proceedings of Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, DPPI’13, ACM, 2013.
Palviainen, J., Suhonen, K., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Aaltonen, T., Leppänen, T. Exploring Usage Scenarios on Social Devices — Balancing Between Surprise and User Control. Proceedings of Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, DPPI’13, ACM, 2013.
Olsson, T., Väänänen-Vainio- Mattila, K., Saari, T., Lucero, A., Arrasvuori, J. Reflections on Experience-Driven Design: a Case Study on Designing for Playful Experiences. Proceedings of Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, DPPI’13, ACM, 2013.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson, T. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Roles, Scenarios and Challenges of Social Devices. Proceedings of SofTec, 2nd Workshop on Computer Mediated Social Offline Interactions, in association of Ubicomp’13, Zürich, Switzerland, September 8th, 2013, ACM.
Heikkinen, J., Mäkinen, E., Lylykangas, J., Pakkanen, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. and Raisamo, R. Mobile Devices as Infotainment User Interfaces in the Car: Contextual Study and Design Implications. Proceedings of MobileHCI’13, ACM.
Saarinen, P., Partala, T. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Little Backpackers – Studying Children’s Psychological Needs in an Interactive Exhibition Context. Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC’13, ACM.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Häkkilä, J., Cassinelli. , Müller, J. Rukzio, E. and Schmidt, A. Experiencing Interactivity in Public Spaces. Workshop description in Extended Abstracts of CHI’13.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Olsson, T., Palviainen, J. and Jarusriboonchai, P. Social Devices as a New Type of Social System: Enjoyable or Embarrassing Experiences? CHI’13 In workshop on Experiencing Interactivity in Public Spaces (EIPS), Paris, France, April 28th, 2013. http://www.cs.tut.fi/ihte/EIPS_workshop_CHI13/
Palviainen, J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. and Peltola, H. Social Devices – A Laboratory Study on User Preferences of Device Proactivity. (EA) of CHI’13, ACM.
Olsson T, Lagerstam E, Kärkkäinen T, Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila K. Expected User Experience of Mobile Augmented Reality Services: A User Study in the Context of Shopping Centers. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012, Springer.

2012

Jarusriboonchai, P., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Using Mobile Technology to Bring Families Together: The Design of a Family History Concept to Motivate Face-to-Face Communication. International Journal of Mobile HCI, April 2012, IGI Global.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Haustola, T., Häkkilä, J., Karukka, J., Kytökorpi, K. 2012. Exploring Non-Verbal Communication of Presence between Young Children and Their Parents through the Embodied Teddy Bear. Proceedings of AmI’12 (International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence), Pisa, November 2012, Springer.
Olsson, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Saari, T., Arrasvuori, J., Lucero, A. Playful Experiences as Targets in Concept Design. In Workshop of How to Utilize User Experience Goals in Design? in NordiCHI’12, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 15th, 2012.https://sites.google.com/site/uxgoals2012/
Saarinen, P., Partala, T. and Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Visualize Your Spatial Experience (VYSE): A Method and a Case Study in an Exhibition Center. NordiCHI’12, ACM, October 2012.
Suhonen, K., Mueller, S., Rantala, J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Raisamo, R. and Lantz, V. Haptically Augmented Remote Speech Communication: A Study of User Practices and Experiences. NordiCHI’12, ACM, October 2012.
Kuusinen, K. And Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. How to Make Agile UX Work More Efficient: Management and Sales Perspectives. Proc. NordiCHI’12, ACM, October 2012.
Lucero, A., Boberg, M., Malinen, S., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Studying Localized Mobile Media Content Use. MindTrek’12, Tampere, Finland, October 2012, ACM.
Lucero, A., Boberg, M., Malinen, S., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Studying Localized Mobile Media Content Use. MindTrek’12, Tampere, Finland, October 2012, ACM.
Suhonen, K, Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. and Mäkelä, K. User Experiences and Expectations of Vibrotactile, Thermal and Squeeze Feedback in Interpersonal Communication. Proc. BCS HCI’12.
Suhonen, K., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Martin Schrader, Monika Pölönen, Marja Salmimaa, and Pasi Saarikko. Two User Studies on Creation and Evaluation of Use Scenarios for Mixed Reality Communication. Proc. International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 588-595.
Ahmet, Z., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Mobile Service Distribution From the End-User Perspective – The Survey Study on Recommendation Practices. A Case Study paper (long) in CHI’12, May 2012, ACM.
Obrist, M., Roto, V., Vermeeren, A., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Law, E., Kuutti, K., Buie, E. In Search of Theoretical Foundations for UX Research and Practice. A Work-in-Progress paper in Extended Abstracts of CHI’12, May 2012, ACM.
Reponen, E., Koponen, T., Keränen, J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. The Whole World under Your Feet: Field Trial of Embodied Browsing of Geotagged Content. Proc. Tangible and Embodied Interaction, TEI’12, February 2012, ACM.

2011

Kujala, S., Roto, V., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Sinnelä, A., Karapanos, E. UX Curve: A Method for Evaluating Long-Term User Experience. Journal Interacting with Computers, made online July 2011.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Suhonen, K., Gonsalves, T., Schrader, M. and Järvenpää, T. Carpe Diem: Exploring User Experience and Intimacy in Eye-Based Video Conferencing. Proc. of Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, MUM’11, December 2011, ACM.
Roto, V., Väätäjä, H., Jumisko-Pyykkö, S., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Best Practices for Capturing Context in User Experience Studies in the Wild. Proc. MindTrek 2011, September 2011, ACM.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Wäljas, M. How Do Users Find Out What’s New: A Study of Change Indicators in Mobile Services. MindTrek 2011, September 2011, ACM.
Ahmet, Z., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Face to Face Makes a Difference – Recommendation Practices of Users of Mobile Services. A paper in Research in the Large 2: App Stores, Wide Distribution Channels & Big Data in Research. Workshop at UbiComp 2011, Sept 18, Beijing, China.
Paasovaara, S., Paldanius, M., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Saarinen, P., Häkkilä, J.
The Secret Life of My Dog – Design and Evaluation of Paw Tracker Concept. of MobileHCI 2011, Stockholm, September 2011, ACM.
Jarusriboonchai, P., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. How Can Technology Bring Families Together: Exploring User Needs and Design Qualities. A workshop paper in the workshop Mobile Family Interaction: How to use mobile technology to bring trust, safety and wellbeing into families. To be presented in Mobile HCI, Stockholm, August 30th, 2011.
Olsson, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Expected User Experience of Mobile Augmented Reality Services. A workshop paper in the workshop Mobile Augmented Reality: Design Issues and Opportunities, in Mobile HCI, Stockholm, August 30th, 2011.
Kujala, S., Roto, V., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Sinnemäki, A. Identifying Hedonic Factors in Long-Term User Experience. Proceedings of DPPI’11, Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Milan, June 22th-25th, 2011, ACM.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Palviainen, J., Pakarinen, S., Lagerstam, E., Kangas, E. User Perceptions of Wow Experiences and Design Implications for Cloud Services. Proc. DPPI’11, Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Milan, June 22th-25th, 2011, ACM.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Wäljas, M. Towards User-Centered Mashups: Exploring User Needs for Composite Web Services. Proceedings (work-in-progress) in CHI ‘11, ACM, 2011.
Paldanius, M., Kärkkäinen T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Juhlin, O., Häkkilä, J. Communication Technology for Human-Dog Interaction: Exploration of Dog Owners’ Experiences and Expectations. Proceedings of CHI 2011, ACM.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Kaasinen, E., Roto, V. User Experience in the Cloud: Towards a Research Agenda. A workshop paper in CHI’11 workshop Interaction in the Cloud. http://lister.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmsdengl/cloud.htm

2010

Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Wäljas, M. Evaluating User Experience of Cross-Platform Web Services with a Heuristic Evaluation Method. International Journal of Art and Technology (IJART), V3 N4 2010.
Arrasvuori, J., Korhonen, H., Väänänen-Vainio-Matttila, K. Analysing User Experience of Personal Mobile Products through Contextual Factors. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’10, ACM.
Vartiainen, E., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User Experience of Mobile Photo Sharing in the Cloud. Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’10, ACM.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Saarinen, P., Wäljas, M., Hännikäinen, M., Orsila, H., Kiukkonen, N. User Experience of Social Ad Hoc Networking: Findings from a Large-Scale Field Trial of TWIN. Proceedings Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM’10, ACM.
Arrasvuori, J., Korhonen, H., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Exploring Playfulness in User Experience of Personal Mobile Products. Proceedings of OzCHI’10, ACM, 2010.
Vermeeren, A, Lai-Chong Law, E., Roto, V., Obrist, M., Hoonhout, J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User Experience Evaluation Methods: Current State and Development Needs. Proceedings of NordiCHI’10, ACM, 2010.
Wäljas, M., Segerståhl, K., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Cross-Platform Service User Experience: A Field Study and an Initial Framework. Proceedings of MobileHCI’10, ACM, 2010.
Segerståhl, K., Kotro, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Pitfalls in Persuasion: How do Users Experience Persuasive Techniques in a Web Service? Proceedings of Persuasive Technologies 2010, Springer Verlag.
Korhonen, H., Arrasvuori,J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Let Users Tell the Story: Evaluating User Experience with Experience Reports. Proceedings CHI 2010 (work-in-progress), ACM, 2010.
Kärkkäinen T., Vaittinen, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. I Don’t Mind Being Logged, but Want to Remain in Control: A Field Study of Mobile Activity and Context Logging. Proceedings of CHI 2010, ACM, 2010.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Wäljas, M., Ojala, J., Segerståhl, K. Identifying Drivers and Hindrances of Social User Experience in Web Services. Proceedings of CHI 2010, ACM, 2010.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Palviainen, J. Playful Experiences at Work. In MobileHCI’10 workshop Please Enjoy! http://playfulmobilehci.wordpress.com/position-papers/, Lissabon, 7.9.2010.

2009 and older

Kaasinen, E., Roto, V., Roloff, K., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Vainio, T., Maehr, W., Joshi, D., Shestra, S. User Experience of Mobile internet – Analysis and Recommendations. Journal of Mobile HCI, Special issue on Mobile Internet User eXperience, IGI Global, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2009.
Kujala, S., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Value of Information Systems and Products: Understanding the Users’ Perspective and Values. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 9, 4, 2009.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Segerståhl, K. A Tool for Evaluating Service User eXperience (ServUX): Development of a Modular Questionnaire. In User Experience Evaluation Methods in Product Development (UXEM’09) Workshop in Interact’09 conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 25th, 2009.
Roto, V., Obrist, M., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User Experience Evaluation Methods in Academic and Industrial Contexts. In User Experience Evaluation Methods in Product Development (UXEM’09) Workshop in Interact’09 conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 25th, 2009.
Roto, V., Rantavuo, H., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Evaluating User Experience of Early Product Concepts. Proceedings of international conference on Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, DPPI’09, Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, ACM, 2009.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Wäljas, M. Developing an Expert Evaluation Method for User eXperience of Cross-Platform Web Services. Proceedings of Mindtrek’09, ACM 2009.
Olsson, T., Ihamäki, P., Lagerstam, E., Ventä-Olkkonen, L., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User Expectations for Mobile Mixed Reality Services. Proceedings of ECCE’09 (European Conference for Cognitive Ergonomics), ACM, 2009.
Heikkinen J., Olsson T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila K. Expectations for User Experience in Haptic Communication with Mobile Devices. Proc. of MobileHCI 2009, ACM, 2009.
Vainio, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Kaakinen, A., Kärkkäinen, T., Lehikoinen, J. User Needs for Metadata Management in Mobile Multimedia Content Services, Proceedings of Mobility’09, ACM, 2009.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Wäljas, M. Development of Evaluation Heuristics for Web Service User Experience. A Work-in-Progress paper in Proceedings of CHI’09, ACM, 2009.
Käpylä, J., Kaasinen, E., Lönnqvist, A., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Usability as a driver of customer productivity in mobile business services. Proceedings of the International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD), 4th Edition on: Intellectual Capital Management and Innovation Capacity, February 17-18, 2009, Glasgow, UK.
Palviainen, J., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User Experience in Machinery Automation. Proc. of HCI International, Springer, 2009.
Olsson, T., Toivola, H., Wäljas, M., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Lehikoinen, J. Collective Content as a Facilitator of Community Interaction: A User Study of Four Close-Knit Communities. Proc. of HCI International, Springer, 2009.
Kärkkäinen, T., Kaakinen, A., Vainio, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Design Guidelines for Managing Metadata for Personal Content on Mobile Devices. Proceedings of MUM’08, 7th ACM International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. ACM, 2008.
Olsson, T., Soronen, H., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User Needs and Design Guidelines for Mobile Services for Sharing Digital Life Memories. Proceedings of MobileHCI 2008, Human computer interaction with mobile systems and services conference, Amsterdam, ACM, 2008.
Olsson, T., Toivola, H., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Exploring Characteristics of Collective Content – a Field Study with Four User Communities. Work-in-progress paper in CHI’08 proceedings, Florence, April 2008, ACM.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Roto, V., Hassenzahl, M. Towards Practical User Experience Evaluation Methods. Accepted to the 5th COST294-MAUSE Open Workshop on Meaningful Measures: Valid Useful User Experience Measurement (VUUM 2008), L-C Law, Effie & Bevan, Nigel & Christou, Georgios & Springett, Mark & Larusdottir, Marta. (2008). Valid Useful User Experience Measurement. 18th June, 2008, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. ISBN 9782917490020.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Väätäjä, H. Towards a Life Cycle Framework of Mobile Service User Experience. In 2nd Mobile Internet User Experience (MIUX) workshop, September 2nd, 2008, Amsterdam (in MobileHCI’08 conference).
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Oksman, V. and Vainio, T. Exploring the User Experience Factors in Designing Successful Mobile Internet Services for Business Use. In Workshop of Mobile Internet User Experience, Mobile HCI 2007, Singapore, September 9^th, 2007. http://wiki.research.nokia.com/index.php/MIUX-Program
Olsson, T., Lehtonen, M., Pavel, D., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. User-Centered Design of a Mobile Application for Sharing Life Memories. User-centered design of a mobile application for sharing life memories. Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems (Mobility ’07). ACM, 524-531.
Vilpola, I., Kouri, I., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Rescuing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises from Inefficient Information Systems – A Multi-disciplinary Method for ERP System Requirements Engineering. Proceedings of the HIICCS-40, IEEE Computer Society, 2007.
Vilpola, I., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Salmimaa, T. Applying contextual design to ERP system implementation. Extended abstracts of CHI’06, ACM, 2006.
Jumisko-Pyykkö, S, Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. The Role of Audiovisual Quality in Mobile Television. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop in Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics, Scottsdale, USA, January 2006, IEEE.
Vilpola, I., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Towards a Usability Approach to an ERP System Implementation. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation (ECITE 2005), Turku, Finland, 29-30 September, 2005. Edited by Dan Remenyi, Academic Conferences Limited Reading, UK (2005), 511-520.
Jumisko, S., Ilvonen, V., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. The Effect of TV Content in Subjective Assessment of Video Quality on Mobile Devices. Proceedings of IST/SPIE conference on Mobile Multimedia, San Jose, CA, USA, January 2005, IEEE.
Koskela, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. Towards Smart Home Environments: Empirical Evaluation of Three User Interfaces. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, London, 2004.
Koskela, T., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Lehti, L. Home Is where Your Phone Is: Usability Evaluation of Mobile Phone UI for a Smart Home. Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2004, Glasgow, UK, September 13-16, 2004, ACM.
Ruuska-Kalliokulju,S., Schneider-Hufschmidt,M., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. von Niman,B. Shaping the Future of Mobile Devices. in ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 2000, and in proceedings of Mobile HCI 2001, ACM.
Ruuska,S., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. Contextual Research for Technological Innovation -Satisfying User Needs in the Design of Mobile Communication Devices. Proceedings of HCI International’99 Conference, München, August 1999, Springer.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K., Ruuska S. User needs for Nokia mobile communication devices: Requirements gathering and analysis through Contextual Inquiry. proceedings of Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices, May 21-22, 1998, University of Glasgow, 113-120.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K., Haataja,S. Mobile Communication User Interfaces for Everyone. Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics 21B, Design of Computing Systems: Social and Ergonomic Considerations, (Eds.) Smith, M.J., Salvendy, G., Koubek, R.J. Elsevier, August 1997, 815-819.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. Procedure and results of the first MOMENTS user tests. Proceedings of ACTS Mobile Telecommunications Summit, Aalborg, Denmark, Oct. 1997, 888-893.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. Usability requirements of mobile multimedia services in MOMENTS. Proceedings of ACTS Mobile Telecom Summit, Granada, Spain, Nov. 1996, 333-339.
Burrill,V., Evans,G., Fokken,D., Väänänen, K. The Lust to Explore Space: The Attractiveness of Interactive Video within Multimedia Applications. Computers & Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 5, November 1994, 675-683.
Väänänen,K., Schmidt,J. User Interfaces for Hypermedia: How to Find Good Metaphors? Conference Companion of CHI’94 Proceedings, ACM, Boston, USA, April 1994, pp. 263-264.
Väänänen, K. Interfaces to hypermedia: Communicating the structure and interaction possibilities to the users. Computers and Graphics, 17 (3), 1993, 219-228.
Väänänen,K. Metaphor-Based User Interfaces for Hyperspaces. Proceedings of International Workshop on Methodological Issues of Hypertext-based User Interfaces, GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, July 13-14, 1993 (published by Springer-Verlag in 1994).
Väänänen,K. ShareME: A Metaphor-based Authoring Tool for Multimedia Environments. Proceedings of Vienna HCI’93, Vienna, September 1993, Grechenig,T., Tscheligi,M. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 733, Springer-Verlag, September 1993, 39-50.
Väänänen,K. Multimedia Environments: Supporting Authors and Users with Real-world Metaphors. A short paper in Adjunct Proceedings of INTERCHI’93, ACM, Amsterdam, April 1993, 99-100.
Väänänen,K., Henderson,D. Testing Acceptance and Usability of Multimedia in Man-Machine Communication: A Case Study and Guidelines. Proc. of HCI International’93, Orlando, Florida, August 1993, Smith,M.J., Salvendy,G. (Eds.), Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics 19A, Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Case Studies, Elsevier, August 1993, 450-455.
Väänänen,K. Interfaces to Hypermedia: Communicating the Structure and Interaction Possibilities to the Users. Proceedings of 2nd EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Multimedia, EUROGRAPHICS Technical Report, May 1992, also in Computers & Graphics, Vol. 17, No.3, 1993, pp. 219-228.
Väänänen,K. Hübner,W. ShareME: Shared Multimedia Environments – Some Issues in Interaction in Distributed Multimedia Environments. Proceedings of HCI’92, Monk, Diaper, Harrison (Eds.), People and Computers VII, Cambridge University Press, September 1992, 369-388.
Böhm,K., Hübner,W., Väänänen,K. GIVEN: Gesture-based Interactions in Virtual Environments – A Toolkit for Interactions in 3D Environments. Proceedings of Interfaces to Real and Virtual Worlds, Montpellier, France, IC2, March 1992, 243-254.

Non-refereed scientific articles, including (lightly reviewed) workshop papers

Matilda Kalving, Kaisa Väänänen, Thomas Olsson. Creativity in the Imperfections: GenAI as a Disruptive Inspiration. In NordiCHI’24 workshop on Designing with AI at NordiCHI2024 (Uppsala, Sweden), https://hci.uib.no/ws/designing_with_ai, https://hci.uib.no/pubs/designing_with_ai/creativity_in_imperfection.pdf
Passant Elagroudy, Jie Li, Kaisa Väänänen, Paul Lukowicz, Hiroshi Ishii, Wendy E. Mackay, Elizabeth F Churchill, Anicia Peters, Antti Oulasvirta, Rui Prada, Alexandra Diening, Giulia Barbareschi, Agnes Gruenerbl, Midori Kawaguchi, Abdallah El Ali, Fiona Draxler, Robin Welsch, and Albrecht Schmidt. 2024. Transforming HCI Research Cycles using Generative AI and “Large Whatever Models” (LWMs). In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 584, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3643977
Dimitra Dritsa, Loes van Renswouw, Sara Colombo, Kaisa Väänänen, Sander Bogers, Arian Martinez, Jess Holbrook, and Aarnout Brombacher. 2024. Designing (with) AI for Wellbeing. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 465, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3636282
Susanne Boll, Kaisa Väänänen, Nic Bidwell, Marc Hassenzahl, Robin Neuhaus. A Human-Computer Interaction Perspective to Drive Change towards Sustainable Future (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 23092, October 2023), https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/19185/
Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen and Kaisa Väänänen. Personalizing Robot Avatars – Opening the Discussion. 2022, Mensch und Computer 2022: Workshopband. Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
- https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/39625
Häkkilä, J., Väänänen, K., Löchtefeld, M., Ahtinen, A., Kaipainen, K., Rehm, M., Paananen, S., Hannula, P. & Colley, A. User experience and social interaction with robots. Workshop in Mensch und Computer 2022: Workshopband. Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI).
- https://dl.gi.de/bitstream/handle/20.500.12116/39104/WS-13-1_User%20Experience%20and%20Social%20Interaction%20with%20Robots.pdf
Siiri Paananen, Emma Eckhoff, Jonna Häkkilä, Aino Ahtinen and Kaisa Väänänen. Customizing Social Assistant Robots – Concepting Functionalities and Aesthetics. 2022, Mensch und Computer 2022: Workshopband. Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
- https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/39623
Kaipainen, K., Jarske, S., Ahtinen, A. & Väänänen, K. Physical appearance drives design: Insights from co-designing a citizens’ initiative robot with high school students. Mensch und Computer 2022: Workshopband. Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI).
- https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/39624
Kirsikka Kaipainen, Salla Jarske, Aino Ahtinen and Kaisa Väänänen. Physical appearance drives design: Insights from co-designing a citizens’ initiative robot with high school students. In workshop on User Experience and Social Interaction with Robots, Mensch und Computer 2022, Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-7, 2022. https://laplandrobotics.com/muc_workshop/
Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen and Kaisa Väänänen. Personalizing Robot Avatars – Opening the Discussion. In workshop on User Experience and Social Interaction with Robots, Mensch und Computer 2022, Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-7, 2022. https://laplandrobotics.com/muc_workshop/
Siiri Paananen, Emma Eckhoff, Jonna Häkkilä, Aino Ahtinen and Kaisa Väänänen. Customizing Social Assistant Robots – Concepting Functionalities and Aesthetics. In workshop on User Experience and Social Interaction with Robots, Mensch und Computer 2022, Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-7, 2022. https://laplandrobotics.com/muc_workshop/
Kaisa Väänänen, Saara Ala-Luopa, Anu Lehtiö, Thomas Olsson. Towards Human-Centered AI that Respects Human Autonomy and Sustainability. In NordiCHI 2020 Workshop on Respecting Human Autonomy through Human-Centered AI, October 2020. https://sway.office.com/b7kcCzg0kRJkGGPm?ref=Link
Supraja Sankaran, Chao Zhang, Marisela Gutierrez Lopez, and Kaisa Väänänen. 2020. Respecting Human Autonomy through Human-Centered AI. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (NordiCHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 134, 1–3. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420098
Kaisa Väänänen and Thomas Olsson. Teaching Human-Technology Interaction students to design AI applications in a multidisciplinary context. In workshop on “Teaching HCI for AI: Co-design of a Syllabus” organized by SIGCHI Italy, July 7th, 2020. http://sigchitaly.eu/en/hci4ai-syllabus/
Väänänen, K., Kaipainen, K., Ahtinen, A., and Varsaluoma, J. A Model for Student Assignments for Environmental, Social and Economic Sustainability in HCI Courses. Second International Workshop on Computing+Sustainability+Education (CompSusEd’19), Lappeenranta, June 2019. http://www.ict4s.fi/compsused/
Väänänen, K., Pohjola, H., Ahtinen. (2019) Exploring the User Experience of Artificial Intelligence Applications: User Survey and Human-AI Relationship Model. In CHI’19 workshop Where is the Human? Bridging the Gap Between AI and HCI (AI-HCI 2019), May 4th, 2019, Glasgow.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K., Väätäjä, H., Vainio, T. Opportunities and Challenges of Designing the Service User eXperience (SUX) in Web 2.0. In Saariluoma, P. and Isomäki, H. (Eds.), Future Interaction Design II, Springer, 2009.
Nieminen-Sundell, R., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. Usability Meets Sosiology for Richer Consumer Studies, in Keinonen, T., Lindholm,C., Kiljander, H. (Eds.): Mobile Usability, How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone. McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K., Ruuska,S. Designing Mobile Phones and Communicators for Consumers’ Needs at Nokia , in Eric Bergman (Ed.), Information Appliances and Beyond: Interaction Design for Consumer Products, Morgan Kaufmann, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. (Reproduced partly in Preece, Rogers, Sharp: Interaction Design, beyond human-computer interaction, Wiley, 2002.)
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. Enticing users into mobile services, Advance – Information magazine from Nokia Research Center, September 1997, pp. 4-6.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K., Nieminen-Sundell,R. Kommunikointi ja Käytettävyys Kotona, proceedings of KAMU (Finnish National Multimedia Programme) – final seminar, November 1997.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. Aiming at MOMENTS result validity through a complete set of research methods, proceedings of ACTS mobile summit 1998, Rhodes, June 1998.
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. The future of mobile communities: evolution towards continuous presence, in Matt Jones (Ed.): ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, May-June 2002, p. 9-9.
Tscheligi,M., Väänänen, K. Metaphors in User Interface Development: Methods and Requirements for their Efficient Support, in Benyon,D. and Palanque,P. (Eds.): Critical Issues in User Interface Systems Engineering, Springer-Verlag, 1995.
Hübner,W. Väänänen,K. Shared Multimedia Environments – ShareME – An Authoring Tool for Multimedia Information Environments on Distributed NeXT Workstations, Computer Graphik Topics, Vol. 4, 4, 1992, pp. 8-9.
Henderson,D. Väänänen,K. ShareME: A Two-phase Usability Study of a Multimedia Environment – Guidelines for Developers with Limited HCI Experience, Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV) Technical Report No. 63/92, ZGDV, Darmstadt, October 1992.
Hübner,W., Burrill,V. Väänänen,K. Advanced User Interfaces for 3D and Multimedia Interaction, Proc. of Dagstuhl Workshop on Multimedia System Architectures and Applications, November 1992, Published in Multimedia System Architectures and Applications, Encarnacao,J.L., Foley,J. (Eds.), ZGDV Report No. 71/93, October 1993 and a book by Springer-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-540-57413-1.
Encarnacao,J. Hübner,W., Väänänen,K. Autorenwerkzeuge fuer Multimediale Informationssysteme, it-Schwerpunktheft Multimedia 2/93 , April 1993, pp. 31-38.
Kirste,T., Väänänen,K., Zhang,J. HyperFunk: Mobile Informationssysteme mit metapherbasierter Anwenderführung, Computer Graphik Topics, Vol. 6, 5/94, pp. 11.-13.
Encarnacao,J.L., Dingeldein,D., Peters,R., Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila,K. Benutzergerechte Multimediasysteme (user-centered multimedia systems), Proceedings of 50. International research event of Deutsche Telecom AG, Kleinheuback, September 1995.

Publications intended for professional communities

Olsson, T., Väänänen, K. How might AI change design practice? Interactions Magazine, ACM, June/July 2021 (forthcoming).

Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, K. and Vilminko, S. (Eds.) Landmarks for the user experience in the cloud Printed by PreMedia Helsinki Ltd. Helsinki, Finland 2013. ISBN 978-952-93-2753-9 (PDF).

Publications intended for the general public

Peltoniemi, S., Poutanen, J., Vuolle, M., Vartiainen, M., Ahtinen, A., Horstia, J., Palomäki, E., Salonius, H., Sivunen, A. & Väänänen, K. Pop up -kehittämismalli tuottavaan tietotyöhön, 15 Jun 2017 Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. 128 p.

Doctoral thesis

Väänänen,K. User Interface Metaphors for Information Authoring, Visualization and Navigation in Multimedia Environments. A PhD (Dr.-Ing.) dissertation at Technical University of Darmstadt, published by Shaker Verlag, May 1995. 270 pages. ISBN 3-8265-0751-7.

Patents and invention disclosures

US patent 12913549 (2016): Method and apparatus for generating a virtual interactive workspace. Juha Henrik Arrasvuori, Jaakko Keränen, Hannu J Korhonen, Andrés Lucero, Tero Jokela, Marion Boberg, Jussi Pekka Holopainen, Erika Piia Pauliina Reponen, Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila.
Patent 6879997 (2005): Synchronously shared online documents. Pekka Ketola, Tea Liukkonen-Olmiala, Petri Ruutikainen, Kaisa Vaananen-Vainio-Mattila, Satu Kalliokulju
Patent EP1111884A3 (2001): A method and a device for reminding of an unanswered call. Pekka Ketola, Tea Liukkola-Olmiala, Petri Ruutikainen, Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila.