Fanny Vainionpää
PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Information Processing Science
Human Computer Interaction and Human-Centered Development
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Fanny Vainionpää is postdoctoral researcher in the INTERACT research unit. She is interested in societal and social change that comes with ICT development. The research themes fall under sustainable technology development and use. She is currently working in the AI-REG project where the focus is on ambiguity that arises from the European Artificial Intelligence Act proposal.
In her PhD thesis Fanny looked into the underlrying reasons for why so few women choose IT careers. She worked in the ESR funded LUNO project that aimed to make IT more familiar to upper secondary school students and later in a follow-up project, TIKO-silta, where the aim is to develop a model for collaboration between secondary and higher education in the context of information processing science.
Fanny has discussed her research in media
- Article in Kaleva
- Article in #UniOulu
- Article in Iltasanomat
- Radio program episode in YLE Kulttuuriykkönen
Research interests
- Information Systems, Technology Design and Use, Sustainability, Inclusion, Societal Change
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PO Box 8000
FI-90014 University of Oulu
Finland