Virpi Roto

Professor of Practice

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20042025

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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 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

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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  • HiFive: Kumppanuusmalli - HiFive - Meaningful industrial work in hybrid human-technology-AI teams

    Caic, M. (Principal investigator) & Roto, V. (Project Member)

    01/04/202431/03/2026

    Project: BF Co-Innovation

  • -: 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

  • D4V

    Roto, V. (Principal investigator), Ala-Karvia, E. (Project Member), Huusko, M. (Project Member), Niskavaara, 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) & Sarkola, S. (Project Member)

    01/01/201531/12/2017

    Project: Business Finland: Other research funding

  • IFIP Pioneer Award

    Roto, V. (Recipient), 11 Sept 2025

    Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

  • IFIP Service Award

    Roto, V. (Recipient), 21 Sept 2022

    Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work

  • IFIP TC13 Pioneer in Human-Computer Interaction Award

    Roto, V. (Recipient), 10 Sept 2025

    Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career

  • Red Dot Award

    Roto, V. (Supervisor) & Lu, Y. (Supervisor), Oct 2018

    Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work