Dr. Sanna Kuoppamäki is an Assistant professor in Technology in Health Care, Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She has a PhD in sociology and experience in interdisciplinary research in medical engineering and Human-Computer Interaction in the design and development of user-centric digital technologies for health and wellbeing.
Her research interests include the adoption, use and implementation of digital technologies in the everyday life of older adults, with a focus on understanding user’s needs, skills and intentions and detecting the mechanisms of care provision to optimise care delivery in a patient-centric way. Recently, she has investigated Digital Home Care systems supporting the wellbeing and ageing-in-place for older adults, and the design on Digital Kitchen Technologies from the user-centric perspective as a part of Human-Robot manufacturing.