Selected publications from the past few years
For full publication lists, please check the team members’ Google Scholar pages: for example Thomas Olsson, Sami Koivunen, Joel Kiskola, Saara Luovanranta, Kirsikka Kaipainen.
2026:
2025:
- Joel Kiskola, Henrik Rydenfelt, Thomas Olsson, Lauri Haapanen, Noora Vänttinen, Matti Nelimarkka, Minna Vigren, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Tuukka Lehtiniemi (2025). Generative AI and News Consumption: Design Fictions and Critical Analysis. CHI 2025.
- Thomas Olsson (2025). Ethics for Design Students: A Framework of Ethical Competence to Scaffold Course Planning. SEFI 2025.
- Rebeca Blanco Cardozo, Pedro Ferreira, Matti Nelimarkka, Jesse Haapoja, Michael Hockenhull, Mace Ojala, Juho Pääkkönen, Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Barry Brown, Thomas Olsson, Asko Lehmuskallio, Emilie Mørch Groth, Airi Lampinen (2025). Nordic Perspectives on Algorithmic Systems: Cards as a Playful Intervention into the Crisis of Imagination. Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis.
- Mirja Ilves, Aleksi H Syrjämäki, Thomas Olsson, Joel Kiskola, Poika Isokoski, Anna Rantasila, Gary Bente, Veikko Surakka (2025). Emotion labelling strengthens readers’ emotional responses to online messages. Behaviour & Information Technology, 44(9).
- Lenneke Kuijer, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Nicola J Bidwell, Markus Fiedler, Adrian Friday, Marc Hassenzahl, Carine Lallemand, Matthias Laschke, Dan Lockton, Thomas Olsson, Alexander Raake, Kaisa Väänänen, Eunice R Sari, Gözel Shakeri (2025). Once Upon a Time When HCI Prioritised Environmental Sustainability: Reflections on a Collection of Fictions. CHI Extended Abstracts.
2024:
- Saara Ala-Luopa, Sami Koivunen, Thomas Olsson, Kaisa Väänänen (2024). Considerations on Human-AI Collaboration in Knowledge Work–Recruitment Experts’ Needs and Expectations. HICSS 2024.
- Saara Ala-Luopa, Thomas Olsson, Kaisa Väänänen, Maria Hartikainen, Jouko Makkonen (2024). Trusting Intelligent Automation in Expert Work: Accounting Practitioners’ Experiences and Perceptions. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
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Rūta Šerpytytė, Amir Pakpour Haji Agha, Anne Häkkinen, Bhuvana Sekar, Irena Aleksandra Bakic, Thomas Olsson (2024). Design Research Artefacts for Knowledge Co-creation with Civil Servants Supporting Migrants: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
- Sujithra Raviselvam, Peter Lovei, Renee Noortman, Thomas Olsson, Kaisa Väänänen, Mathias Funk (2024). Rollercoasters and Research: Applying Data-Enabled Design to a Semi-Public Context. Frontiers in Human Dynamics.
2023:
- Joel Kiskola, Thomas Olsson, Anna Rantasila, Aleksi H Syrjämäki, Mirja Ilves, Poika Isokoski, Veikko Surakka (2023). User-centred quality of UI interventions aiming to influence online news commenting behaviour. Behaviour & Information Technology.
- Anna Rantasila, Heli Väätäjä, Joel Kiskola, Thomas Olsson, Aleksi Syrjämäki, Mirja Ilves, Poika Isokoski, Veikko Surakka (2023). Tunteiden, teknologian ja journalismin ristipaineessa: Verkkokommentoinnin moderointi suomalaisissa uutistoimituksissa. Media & viestintä.
- Sami Koivunen, Otto Sahlgren, Saara Ala-Luopa, Thomas Olsson (2023). Pitfalls and tensions in digitalizing talent acquisition: an analysis of HRM professionals’ considerations related to digital ethics. Interacting with Computers, 35(3).
- Thomas Olsson, Olli Pyyhtinen, Anna Rantasila, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Minna Vigren, Johanna Ylipulli, Nitin Sawhney (2023). A User-Centered Lens into Digital Excess: Exploring the Superfluity and Environmental Burden of the Digital World. Computing within Limits.
- Maria Hartikainen, Kaisa Väänänen, Thomas Olsson (2023). Towards a Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence Maturity Model. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
2022:
- Koivunen, S., Ala-Luopa, S., Olsson, T., Haapakorpi, A. (2022) The March of Chatbots into Recruitment: Recruiters’ Experiences, Expectations, and Design Opportunities. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 1-30.
- AH Syrjämäki, M Ilves, P Isokoski, J Kiskola, A Rantasila, T Olsson, G Bente, V Surakka (2022) Emotionally toned online discussions evoke subjectively experienced emotional responses. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications.
- E Olshannikova, E Skenderi, T Olsson, S Koivunen, J Huhtamäki (2022) Utilizing Structural Network Positions to Diversify People Recommendations on Twitter. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction 2022.
- A Rantasila, J Kiskola, T Olsson, AH Syrjämäki, M Ilves, P Isokoski, V Surakka (2022) Outlining Approaches to Improve Online News Commenting with Computationally Aided Comment Moderation. Futures of Journalism, 195-210.
2021:
- Koivunen, S., Olshannikova, E. and Olsson, T. (2021) Understanding Matchmakers’ Experiences, Principles and Practices of Assembling Innovation Teams. Journal of CSCW (ECSCW Contribution). Springer.
- Olsson, T. and Väänänen, K. (2021) How does AI challenge design practice? Interactions magazine, ACM Press.
- Pirkkalainen, H., Olshannikova, E., Olsson, T. and Huhtamäki, J. (2021) Examining Serendipitous Encounters and Self-Determination in Twitter-Enabled Innovation. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. Hindawi.
- Kiskola, J., Olsson, T., Väätäjä, H., Syrjämäki, Aleksi H., Rantasila, A., Isokoski, P., Ilves, M. and Surakka V. (2021) Applying Critical Voice in Design of User Interfaces for Supporting Self-Reflection and Emotion Regulation in Online News Commenting. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
- W van Zoonen, A Sivunen, K Blomqvist, T Olsson, A Ropponen, K Henttonen, M Vartiainen (2021). Factors Influencing Adjustment to Remote Work: Employees’ Initial Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health.
- A Rantasila, H Väätäjä, J Kiskola, T Olsson, A Syrjämäki, M Ilves, P Isokoski, V Surakka (2021). Interdependence and Intervention: News Organizations’ Contradictory Relationships with Online Comments. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.
2020:
- Olsson, T., Jarusriboonchai, P., Woźniak, P., Paasovaara, S., Väänänen K., Lucero A. (2020) Technologies for enhancing collocated social interaction: review of design solutions and approaches. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
- Olsson, T., Huhtamäki, J., Kärkkäinen, H. (2020) Directions for Professional Social Matching Systems. Communications of the ACM.
- Olshannikova, E., Olsson, T., Huhtamäki, J., Paasovaara, S., & Kärkkäinen, H. (2020). From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers’ Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. Hindawi.
- Huhtamäki, J., Olsson, T., and Laaksonen S. (2020) Facilitating Organizational Fluidity with Computational Social Matching. In: Lehtimäki, H. et al. (eds) Society as an Interaction Space: A Systemic Approach. Springer, 2020.
- Huhtamäki, J. and Olsson, T. (2019) Sosiaalinen sovittaminen – “työelämän tinder” tuuppaa tietotyöläisen entistä parempiin verkostoyhteyksiin. In: Jalonen, H. et al. (eds) Arvostustalous – Datasta merkityksellisiä kokemuksia. Vastapaino, 2020.
2019:
- Koivunen, S., Olsson, T., Olshannikova, E. and Lindberg, A. (2019) Understanding Decision-Making in Recruitment: Opportunities and Challenges for Information Technology. In Proceedings of the ACM Group conference 2019.
- Mitchell, R. and Olsson, T. (2019) Facilitating the First Move: Exploring Inspirational Design Patterns for Easing Initiation of Social Encounters. In proceedings of Communities and Technologies 2019. ACM Press.
- Skenderi, E., Olshannikova, E., Olsson, T., and Huhtamäki, J., Koivunen, S. and Huttunen, H. (2019) Investigation of Egocentric Social Structures for Diversity-Enhancing Followee Recommendations. In proceedings of the ExHum workshop in conjunction with ACM Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation And Personalization (UMAP’19).
- Koelle, M., Olsson, T., Mitchell, R., Williamson, J. and Boll, S. (2019) What is (Un)Acceptable? – Thoughts on Social Acceptability in HCI Research. Interactions magazine, ACM Press.
- Olshannikova, E., Olsson, T., Huhtamäki, J. and Peng, Y. (2019) Scholars’ Perceptions of Relevance in Bibliography-based People Recommender System (2019) Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
- Olsson, T., Jarusriboonchai, P., Woźniak, P., Paasovaara, S., Väänänen, K. and Lucero, A. (2019) Technologies for Enhancing Collocated Social Interaction: Review of Design Solutions and Approaches. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2019).
2018 and older:
- Wallbaum T., Matviienko A., Ananthanarayan, S., Olsson, T., Heuten, W. and Boll, S. (2018). Supporting Communication between Grandparents and Grandchildren through Tangible Storytelling Systems. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18).
- Koelle, M., Boll, S., Olsson, T., Williamson, J., Profita H., Kane, S. and Mitchell, R. (2018). (Un)Acceptable!?!: Re-thinking the Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18).
- Olshannikova, E., Olsson, T., Huhtamäki, J., & Kärkkäinen, H. (2017). Conceptualizing Big Social Data. Journal of Big Data, 4(1), 3.
- Paasovaara, S., Jarusriboonchai, P. and Olsson, T. (2017). Understanding collocated social interaction between Pokémon GO players. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM ’17). ACM.
- Mitchell, R. and Olsson, T. (2017). Barriers for Bridging Interpersonal Gaps: Three Inspirational Design Patterns for Increasing Collocated Social Interaction. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T ’17). ACM.
- Jarusriboonchai P., Malapaschas, A., and Olsson, T. (2016) Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Player Mobile Game for Icebreaking Activity. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM.
- Jarusriboonchai, P., Malapaschas, A., Olsson, T. and Väänänen K. (2016). Increasing Collocated People’s Awareness of the Mobile User’s Activities: a Field Trial of Social Displays. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’16). ACM.
- Paasovaara, S. and Olsson, T. (2016) Proximity-Based Automatic Exchange of Data in Mobile Gaming: Studying the Experiences of StreetPass Users. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (p. 26). ACM.
- Paasovaara, S., Olshannikova, E., Jarusriboonchai, P., Malapaschas, A., and Olsson, T. (2016) Next2You: a proximity-based social application aiming to encourage interaction between nearby people. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (pp. 81-90). ACM.
- Jarusriboonchai, P., Olsson T., Lyckvi, S L., and Väänänen K. (2016). Let’s take photos together: exploring asymmetrical interaction abilities on mobile camera phones. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’16). ACM.