Virpi Roto

Professor of Practice

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20042024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Artistic and research interests

Memorable experiences make life meaningful. Design practices are advancing from problem-solving approaches to experience-driven ones, which requires a radical change in industry. Virpi’s mission is to help technology companies to transform themselves into experience providers. She studies experience design in business-to-business industry, and is interested in improving not only user experience but also customer experience, brand experience, and employee experience. Virpi develops techniques for experience design, co-design, and service design to improve experience design maturity in partner organizations. In addition to the impact in practice, she is one of the top cited academics in user experience research. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

Education/Academic qualification

Doctoral degree, Engineering and Technology, Helsinki University of Technology

Award Date: 18 Dec 2006

Keywords

  • Experience Design
  • User experience
  • Work automation
  • Employee experience

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  • Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work

    Wu, Y., Lee, J.-J., Pillai, A., Cho, J., Sacathep, T., Ahmadpour, N., Roto, V., Liu, J., Sawan, M., Dongjin, S., Caic, M., Cheng, L., Kettley, S., Liu, R., Soares, L., Grace, K. & Astell-Burt, T., Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) CSCW '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ACM

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference article in proceedingsScientificpeer-review

  • Co-worker, Butler, or Coach? Designing Automation for Work Enrichment

    Roto, V., 22 Oct 2024, Humane Autonomous Technology Re-thinking Experience with and in Intelligent Systems. Rousi, R., von Koskull, C. & Roto, V. (eds.). 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 45-65 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterScientificpeer-review

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  • Evaluating Learning Experiences-Comparison of Two Student Feedback Methods

    Larusdottir, M. & Roto, V., 1 Jul 2024, Human-Centered Software Engineering : 10th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference, HCSE 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 8–10, 2024, Proceedings. Lárusdóttir, M. K., Naqvi, B., Bernhaupt, R., Ardito, C. & Sauer, S. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 171-180 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 14793).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference article in proceedingsScientificpeer-review

  • Fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration – Case Experience Research Society

    Ahola, M. & Roto, V., 2024, Transformational Experiences Beyond Borders: Partnership Development for Sustainable Futures . Auckland University of Technology, 24 p. ( 7 Experiences Summit of the Experience Research Society; vol. 1, no. 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference article in proceedingsScientificpeer-review

    Open Access
  • Humane Autonomous Technology : Re-thinking Experience with and in Intelligent Systems

    Rousi, R. (Editor), von Koskull, C. (Editor) & Roto, V. (Editor), Oct 2024, 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 349 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyScientificpeer-review

    Open Access
  • -: ENACT-A80325

    Roto, V. (Principal investigator) & Vainio, T. (Project Member)

    01/01/202131/07/2023

    Project: Other external funding: Ministry of Education funding

  • -: Sea4Value A80325

    Roto, V. (Principal investigator) & Leinonen, A. (Project Member)

    01/02/202031/08/2023

    Project: Business Finland: Other research funding

  • RAAS ARTS/A80325

    Roto, V. (Project Member)

    01/04/201930/11/2020

    Project: Other external funding: Other government funding

  • D4V

    Roto, V. (Principal investigator), Huusko, M. (Project Member) & Wu, Y. (Project Member)

    01/12/201630/06/2019

    Project: Business Finland: Other research funding

  • BRAND-NEW

    Roto, V. (Principal investigator) & Pirinen, A. (Project Member)

    01/01/201531/12/2017

    Project: Business Finland: Other research funding

  • IFIP Service Award

    Roto, Virpi (Recipient), 21 Sept 2022

    Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

  • Red Dot Award

    Roto, Virpi (Supervisor) & Lu, Yichen (Supervisor), Oct 2018

    Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work