Sanna Kuoppamäki- PhD
- Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sanna Kuoppamäki
- PhD
- Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Introduction
I am an Assistant Professor in Technology in Health Care, with a PhD in sociology and experience in interdisciplinary research in the development of user-centric digital technologies for health and well-being. My research interests include digital and social inclusion, social robotics for health and well-being, digital media and communication studies, and ethical AI.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
May 2019 - December 2020
January 2019 - May 2019
January 2018 - December 2018
Education
September 2015 - February 2018
University of Jyväskylä
Field of study
- Sociology
Publications
Publications (42)
A lack of social support can hinder older adults’ digital inclusion. This chapter examines the connection between social and digital inclusion by focusing on the process of acquiring social support for digital technology use among older adults in Finland. Building on the concept of warm expert, the chapter shows that acquiring support for digital t...
Background: Mindfulness-based interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in improving bodily and emotional well-being. However, only a few studies have explored individual differences in the application and use of digital mindfulness among adults aged ≥65 years. Voice-guided mindfulness technologies can increase the accessibility of mindf...
This study explores the development and usability of a Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot designed to support mindfulness practice for older adults. In a pre-study, 15 older adults used a commercially available mindfulness app with recorded human guidance for three weeks. Qualitative feedback revealed key design themes including voice, person...
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Throughout our lives, we interact daily in conversations with our friends and family, covering a wide range of topics, known as open-domain dialogue. As we age, these interactions may diminish due to changes in social and personal relationships, leading to loneliness in older adults. Conversational companion robots can alleviate this issue by provi...
Companion robots are aimed to mitigate loneliness and social isolation among older adults by providing social and emotional support in their everyday lives. However, older adults’ expectations of conversational companionship might substantially differ from what current technologies can achieve, as well as from other age groups like young adults. Th...
Background Wearable cardiovascular technologies constitute a promising avenue for self-directed home-based prevention and rehabilitation interventions for older adults at risk. In patients with congestive heart failure, it was recently shown that synchronized stepping to the diastole of the heartbeat during walking (diastolic stepping) increases st...
BACKGROUND
Wearable devices with real-time feedback (WRF) provide increasing opportunities to enhance adherence and improve performance in rehabilitation through collecting and processing health-related data. Real-time feedback from the device is expected to result in a more dynamic, coordinated and synchronous rhythmic activity. However, age-speci...
BACKGROUND
Mindfulness-based interventions have been demonstrated to be an effective method to improve bodily and emotional well-being, but few studies have explored individual differences and heterogeneity in the self-perceived benefits of digital mindfulness among older adults aged 65 and above. Although voice-based mindfulness technologies can i...
Voice Agents (VAs) are touted as being able to help users in complex tasks such as cooking and interacting as a conversational partner to provide information and advice while the task is ongoing. Through conversation analysis of 7 cooking sessions with a commercial VA, we identify challenges caused by a lack of contextual awareness leading to irrel...
Conversational agents (CA) are increasingly used to manage and coordinate household chores and everyday activities at home. However, these technologies should be adaptive to age-specific characteristics in order to be considered beneficial for the ageing population. This study presents a participatory design of a conversational agent to provide cog...
Background:
New social alarm solutions are viewed as a promising approach to alleviate the global challenge of an aging population and a shortage of care staff. However, the uptake of social alarm systems in nursing homes has proven both complex and difficult. Current studies have recognized the benefits of involving actors such as assistant nurse...
This work aims to provide initial guidelines towards developing companion robots with large language models (LLMs) to be part of everyday lives of older adults. Using iterative participatory design (co-design) approaches, we analyze the challenges of applying LLMs for multi-modal open-domain dialogue, deriving from older adults' (one-to-one) intera...
Background
Technologies such as social alarm systems contain expectations about how they should be integrated and used in practice. These expectations, also called technology scripts, usually fail to consider all the complexity in care practice. Shifting the focus from technology scripts to care practice, this paper examines how a social alarm syst...
Background
Welfare technology has been launched as a concept to accelerate digital transformation in care services, but the deployment of these technologies is still hindered by organisational resistance, lack of infrastructure, and juridical and ethical issues. This paper investigates decision-making among municipal actors in the application and d...
Assistive technologies can significantly increase older adults' independent living if these technologies are designed to meet their needs and abilities. This study investigates conditions and present possibilities for assistive technology to provide physical and cognitive support to older adults in a specific domestic task, which is cooking a meal...
Seeking effective approaches to integrate technology into formal healthcare professionals’ daily works has been acknowledged as challenging. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent research concerning the implementation of personal emergency response systems (PERSs), with the focus on the routine use of PERS...
Older adults are an active but a heterogeneous group of digital technology users. Their digital inclusion and active engagement with digital technologies are influenced by social inclusion and connectedness with other people. This paper discusses the connection between digital and social inclusion by focusing on digital mobile practices and social...
Methods to involve users in design have long been used to create relevant content and increase the accuracy of product development. Demographic trends have raised the issue of the needs and demands of older people, especially with regard to digitization. In contrast to the high number of publications discussing the importance of involving people in...
As older adults become active users of digital technologies, digital activity among this age group is increasingly associated with life stage factors. This paper discusses the understanding of life stage as explanatory factors in older adults’ digital engagement by exploring the association between life transitions and digital domestic practices in...
Digital technologies are an inherent part of consumer environments today. This dissertation investigates older adults’ usage of digital technologies by focusing on the role of age and life course stage in digital consumption in Finland. The dissertation applies theories of technology adoption and use, generations, and life course to examine older a...
Research to date suggests that older adults engage with digital technologies less frequently than young adults. Studies typically focus on chronological age, ignoring the effects of life course factors on the adoption and use of digital technologies. By utilising multiple triangulation, the article investigates the role of age and life course stage...
Aiempien tutkimusten perusteella eri-ikäiset suomalaiset toivovat asumiseltaan samankaltaisia asioita. Yhtenäisiä asumisen toiveita on selitetty kulttuurisidonnaisilla normeilla, jotka perustuvat paitsi virallisiin säädöksiin myös vähitellen normaaleiksi muodostuneisiin käsityksiin. Normit luovat yksilöille ymmärrystä siitä, mitä asumiselta tulisi...
Väestön ikääntymisen ja palveluympäristöjen digitalisoitumisen seurauksena varttuneista kuluttajista on tullut yhä tärkeämpi kohderyhmä digitaalisille palveluille ja tuotteille. Ikääntyvien kuluttajien tarpeita, toiveita ja palveluiden käyttötottumuksia ei kuitenkaan usein oteta huomioon yritysten liiketoiminnassa, markkinoinnin suunnittelussa tai...
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Previous studies on ageing consumers have mainly focused on chronological age and generational values or studied ageing and consumption with cross-sectional data. Few quantitative studies exist that examine the effect of age together with life course on consumption using longitudinal data. To bridge this gap, the article examines ageing and attitud...
Older adults are becoming an important market segment for all internet-based services, but few studies to date have considered older adults as online shoppers and users of entertainment media. Utilising the concept of life course, this article investigates the use of mobile technologies for online shopping and entertainment among consumers aged 55...
In previous studies, problem gambling was found to have many adverse consequences, including crime. However, links between crime and problem gambling have been studied relatively little. To fill this gap, we collected problem gamblingrelated police reports from the Finnish National Police Information System. Fiftyfive problem gambling-related crime...
The aim of this study is to examine the connection between gambling and criminal activity in the National Finnish Police Register. First, a method was created that enabled the search for gambling-related police reports in the National Finnish Police Register. The method is based on finding gambling-related police reports by using gambling-related h...
This study examines the reporting and not reporting of child victimization to the police. The study focuses on comparing the police reports of child victimization to the Finnish Child Victim Survey (FCVS) to find out the kind of violence that is reported to the police and the kind that is not. A total number of 242 police reports of 12-year-old vic...
This study focuses on the asylum-seeking process and the procedures of the Finnish police and the Finnish Border Guard authorities. The asylum-seeking process refers to the legislative process in which a foreigner applies for asylum, i.e., international protection, in Finland. The asylum-seeking process involves many different authorities, starting...
Viranomaiset kohtaavat monia haasteita havaitessaan epäilyn lapseen kohdistuneesta väkivallasta. Epäily aloittaa monivaiheisen prosessin, jossa ovat mukana poliisit, sosiaalityöntekijät, syyttäjät, lääkärit, tuomarit sekä koulun ja päiväkodin henkilökuntaa. Tämän tutkimuksen kohteena on viranomaisten työ, jota lapsiin kohdistuvien väkivalta- ja hyv...
Viranomaiset kohtaavat monia haasteita havaitessaan epäilyn lapseen kohdistuneesta väkivallasta. Epäily aloittaa monivaiheisen prosessin, jossa ovat mukana poliisit, sosiaalityöntekijät, syyttäjät, lääkärit, tuomarit sekä koulun ja päiväkodin henkilökuntaa. Tämän tutkimuksen kohteena on viranomaisten työ, jota lapsiin kohdistuvien väkivalta- ja hyv...
