Laura Kohonen-Aho

Scientific articles and book chapters

Kohonen-Aho, L. & Vatanen, A. (accepted). Negotiating the sharedness of activities and stances in social virtual reality: alignment and affiliation in the activity of throwing darts at a co-participant. Accepted for publication in Human Studies.

Eilittä, T., Kohonen-Aho, L. Falcon, M., Wikström, V., Martikainen, S., & Saarikivi, K. (accepted). The Emergence of Technology Adaptations During a Collaborative Problem-Solving Task in Immersive Virtual Reality. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 2025 ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Boudouraki, A., Cameron, H. R., Reyes-Cruz, G., Martinez Avila, J. P., Orduna, M., Varela Castro, S., & Kohonen-Aho, L. (2025). Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719855

Salomaa, E., Kohonen-Aho, L., & Martikainen, S. (2024). Navigating Between On-Screen Activities and Discussion: Multiactivity in Video-Mediated B2B Sales Interactions. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v7i4.143519

Martikainen, S., Kohonen-Aho., L., Seittenranta, N., Makkonen, E., Falcon, M., Wikström, V., & Saarikivi, K. (2023). Text-based patient – doctor discourse online and patients’ experiences of empathy. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-023-09481-8

Kohonen-Aho. L. (2023). Transitions between interactional spaces: Working towards shared understanding in a hybrid workshop setting. In P. Haddington, T. Eilittä, A. Kamunen, L. Kohonen-Aho, I. Rautiainen & A. Vatanen (Eds.), Complexity of Interaction: Studies in Multimodal Conversation Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30727-0_13

Haddington, P., Kohonen-Aho, L., Tuncer, S., & Spets, H. (2023). Openings of interactions in immersive virtual reality: identifying and recognising prospective co-participants. In P. Haddington, T. Eilittä, A. Kamunen, L. Kohonen-Aho, I. Rautiainen & A. Vatanen (Eds.), Complexity of Interaction: Studies in Multimodal Conversation Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30727-0_12

Eilittä, T., Haddington, P., Kamunen, P., Kohonen-Aho, L., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. On the complexities of interaction: An introduction (2023). In P. Haddington, T. Eilittä, A. Kamunen, L. Kohonen-Aho, I. Rautiainen & A. Vatanen (Eds.), Complexity of Interaction: Studies in Multimodal Conversation Analysis. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30727-0_1

Kohonen-Aho, L. & Haddington, P. (2023). From distributed ecologies to distributed bodies in interaction: Capturing and analysing ‘dual embodiment’ in virtual environments. In P. Haddington, T. Eilittä, A. Kamunen, L. Kohonen-Aho, T. Oittinen, I. Rautiainen & A. Vatanen (eds.), Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and Technologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424888

Eilittä, T., Haddington, P., Kamunen, P., Kohonen-Aho, L., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (2023). Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in motion: An introduction. In P. Haddington, T. Eilittä, A. Kamunen, L. Kohonen-Aho, T. Oittinen, I. Rautiainen & A. Vatanen (eds.), Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and Technologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424888

Kohonen-Aho, L. & Vatanen, A. (2021). (Re-)Opening an encounter in the virtual world of Second Life: On types of joint presence in avatar interaction. Journal for Media Linguistics, 4(2), 14–51. https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2021.30

Kohonen-Aho, L. & Vatanen, A. (2020). Participation and co-presence in the virtual world of Second Life: Transitioning from a gathering to an encounter. Journal for Media Linguistics, Discussion Paper 2 (2020). http://dp.jfml.org/2020/opr-kohonen-aho-vatanen-participation-and-co-presence-in-the-virtual-world-of-second-life

Suorsa, A. & Kohonen-Aho, L. (2018). Knowledge creation and interaction: Developing the concept of Virtual Utility. Informaatiotutkimus, 37(3), 95­–97. https://doi.org/10.23978/inf.76089

Kohonen-Aho, L. & Tiilikainen, S. (2017). Constructing shared context for temporary teams in virtual worlds with informal interaction. In Proceedings of ICIS 2017 - International Conference on Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea, December 10–13, 2017. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL).

Kohonen-Aho, L., & Alin, P. (2016). A processual view on social presence emergence in Virtual Worlds. In Proceedings of HICSS-49 - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 491-500), Kauai, HI, January 5–8, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2016.68

Kohonen-Aho, L. & Alin, P. (2015). Introducing a video-based strategy for theorizing social presence emergence in 3D virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 24(2), 113–131. https://doi.org/10.1162/PRES_a_00222

Kohonen, L. (2013). At the heart of virtual teamwork: The impact of visual biofeedback to social presence in computer-mediated communication. In Proceedings of CO-CREATE 2013 – The Boundary-Crossing Conference on Co-Design in Innovation (pp. 623–634), Espoo, Finland, June 16–19, 2013.

Edited volumes

Haddington, P., Eilittä, T., Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Oittinen, T., Rautiainen, I., & Vatanen, A. (Eds.). (2023). Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and Technologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424888

Haddington, P., Eilittä, T., A. Kamunen, A., Kohonen-Aho, L., Rautiainen, I. & Vatanen, A. (Eds.). (2023). Complexity of Interaction: Studies in Multimodal Conversation Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30727-0

Doctoral thesis

Kohonen-Aho, L. (2017). Video-based observations on the construction of social presence in virtual worlds. Aalto University publication series, Doctoral dissertations 200/2017. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-7666-9