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Annu Perälä
Dissertation 20.10.2025
Adapting to climate change is necessary for Finland, but communicating the topic to citizens can evoke conflicting emotions. This is revealed in a recent doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa. Annu Perälä's dissertation shows that climate change adaptation is still a relatively unfamiliar concept for the media and the public, which can complicate society's preparedness for a changing world.
Annikki Hyppönen
Dissertation 06.10.2025
A recent doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa reveals that although banks' online services meet technical requirements, for many users they are difficult to understand and cause feelings of frustration, fear, and uncertainty. According to Annikki Hyppönen's research, over one million Finns need more accessible services. It is no longer just a matter of digital exclusion, but also of a growing cybersecurity threat.
Henkilöt rivissä. Vasemmalta: Rebekah Rousi, Nils Ehrenberg, Catharina von Koskull, Virpi Roto, ja Martina Čaić.
News 14.02.2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems are rapidly transforming various sectors, bringing new kinds of ethical challenges with them. In a new open-access book, a multidisciplinary group of scholars offers a timely and critical examination of these technologies from a human-centered perspective. The book focuses on how AI and autonomous systems impact human lives and ways of working.
Alesha Serada
Dissertation 01.10.2024
When blockchain is introduced into video gaming, the economy and sometimes the entire design of such games focus on artificial scarcity and ownership of game items. However, this approach overlooks some of the most important aspects of value creation in games, according to Alesha Serada’s research at the University of Vaasa. The value of game items is derived from manifold social relations in gaming communities, in the ways that frequently disregard rarity or price of digital assets.
Nainen ja virtuaalilasit
Dissertation 07.12.2023
New technologies, such as robots, smart wristbands, artificial intelligence as well as AR, VR, and other extended reality (XR) tools, are increasingly surrounding us in many areas of our lives. In addition to hype, benefits, and fun, they also bring new everyday challenges to our working lives, says Satu Rantakokko in her doctoral dissertation. Her dissertation focuses particularly on how XR can be used to mediate technical instructions.