Research and projects

Work

Research first, then the things I build, then accessibility practice, then the communications work I did before this.

Research

2025–2026 · Tampere University and Solita

Attribution and integration labour in AI-assisted group work

What happens to authorship and workload when some people in a team use AI and some do not. The study looks at felt authorship, asymmetric attribution, and the work of integrating AI-produced material into shared output. It began as my master's thesis, supervised by Professor Markku Turunen and Jussi Okkonen, with an industry collaboration with Solita on cognitive flexibility and AI adoption in workplace workflows. The resulting paper is first-authored with both supervisors and is under review at Academic Mindtrek 2026.

Human-AI collaborationThematic analysisWorkplace

See the attribution paper in the publication list

Co-creation for Finnish Indian R&D · Finland and India

COFIRD

A Finnish-Indian research and development consortium with KONE, Konecranes, Demola Global, 3D Talo Finland and Citynomadi. I coordinate parts of it, working with partners across two countries on coordination and data gathering. I coded and analysed the interview data and am writing the resulting paper with colleagues. I also built a shared collaborative-map output on the Citynomadi map API.

Consortium researchInterview studyIndustry partners

Read the COFIRD case study  ·  COFIRD project page at Tampere University  ·  Demola, a COFIRD partner

Tampere Accessibility Unit (TACCU) · BERT project, 2024–2026

Global mapping of assistive technologies in education

BERT, Breaking Education Barriers: Inclusion, Rehabilitation and Technology, works with the University of Rwanda and the State University of Zanzibar to strengthen East African higher education institutions on disability inclusion. I contributed to its systematic review of assistive technologies in education, with a regional focus on East Africa. The review informed the project's accessibility manual, published online, for which I designed the graphical assets and posters and wrote several pages with the project team. The review is under review at Academic Mindtrek 2026, with Teija Avellan as first author.

Systematic reviewAssistive technologyEast Africa

See the review in the publication list  ·  BERT project page  ·  Manual on Assistive Technologies and Accessibility in Education

In design · Industrial partner

Virtual reality user study

I am designing a VR user study with an industrial partner. It combines usability and playtesting sessions with subjective measures and objective sensor data, so that what people report and what the sensors record can be read against each other.

Virtual realityStudy designSensor data

Projects and game development

Unity · MIT licensed

Dik-dik

A game about a rover that only acts when spoken to. Speech recognition runs on the player's own machine through whisper.cpp, with no cloud dependency. Every voice command has a keyboard equivalent, enforced at the architecture level rather than added afterwards, so voice is an alternative input and never a requirement. There is no failure state. Built against the Game Accessibility Guidelines.

AccessibilityVoice interactionUnityC#

Read the Dik-dik case study  ·  Dik-dik source on GitHub

Hackathons and design sprints

Ramboll and Nysee

Sustainable Travel Challenge

72-hour design sprint developing sustainable urban mobility solutions. Pitch-to-experts format.

Spark Finland

Health Innovation Challenge

Healthcare innovation sprint connecting international students with Finnish health sector problems.

SPARK Finland

Demola and Wärtsilä

Cruise Ship Emission Reduction

Industry-partnered sustainability project with Wärtsilä. Semester-long, outcomes presented to the partner.

Demola project stories

Accessibility

November 2025 · Paidia, Nokia Arena, Tampere · In partnership with Xbox

Over the Barriers

An accessible gaming tournament that existed before I joined it. I led the organisation and running of the 2025 edition together with a team, covering accessibility provisions, sponsor relations, participant logistics and volunteer coordination. We are writing it up as a book chapter with Pauliina Baltzar and Markku Turunen.

AccessibilityEsportsEvent design

Read the Over the Barriers case study  ·  Over the Barriers 2025 event page at TACCU

Tampere Accessibility Unit (TACCU)

Accessibility practice and outreach

I represent TACCU at booth demonstrations on campus and at external venues, showing visitors what accessibility means through games, simulations and 3D printed artefacts. I also review and edit teaching materials for accessibility, including adding subtitles, and I designed the graphical assets and posters for the accessibility manual and wrote several of its pages with the project team.

Universal designPublic engagement3D printing

Read the accessibility manual

Communications

2022–2024 · International Bureau of Epilepsy

Epilepsy Lived Experience podcast

Conceived, produced and hosted a podcast series on epilepsy lived experience for the African Region of the International Bureau of Epilepsy. Full production pipeline: script, recording, editing, publishing, audience development.

PodcastHealth communications

Read the epilepsy podcast case study  ·  IBE chapters in Africa