Papers published within India collaboration (part of data collected in India)

Sebastian, P., Sharma, S., Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Gautam, A., Pitkänen, S., & Monga, C. (2026). A Tale of Many Futures: Children in Finland and India Envision the Future of Education. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-18).

Sebastian, P., Sharma, S., Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Gautam, A., Monga, C., ... & Tandon, C. (2026, June). "Robots should not be used for household chores because that would make us lazy": How Scaffolding Shapes Children’s Capacity to Imagine Educational Futures. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 656-671).

Sebastian, P., Sharma, S., Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Gautam, A., Pitkänen, S., & Monga, C. (2026, April). A Tale of Many Futures: Children in Finland and India Envision the Future of Education. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-18).

Sebastian, P., Sharma, S., Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Monga, C., Verma, D., & Abbas, M. S. (2024, August). Emerging technologies in Global South classrooms: Teachers imagining future of education. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2024: Full Papers-Volume 1 (pp. 234-247).

Shrivastava, V., Sharma, S., Chakraborty, D., & Kinnula, M. (2024, October). Is a sunny day bright and cheerful or hot and uncomfortable? young children's exploration of chatGPT. In Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 1-15).

Sharma, S., Achary, K., Kinnula, M., Norouzi, B., Kinnula, H., Iivari, N., ... & Holappa, J. (2022). To Empower or Provoke? Exploring approaches for participatory design at schools for neurodiverse individuals in India. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 34, 100521.

Sharma, S., Hartikainen, H., Ventä-Olkkonen, L., Eden, G., Iivari, N., Kinnunen, E., ... & Arana, R. F. (2022). In pursuit of inclusive and diverse digital futures: exploring the potential of design fiction in education of children. Interaction Design and Architecture (s), (51), 219-248.

2026

  • Oct 2026 presenting in IndiaHCI Out-of-India track a CHI 2026 paper "A Tale of Many Futures: Children in Finland and India Envision the Future of Education"
  • Oct 2026 presenting in IndiaHCI a paper "Everyday Democracy in the Making: Children Designing Relational Infrastructures for Social Media"
  • Nov 2026 Interacters visiting IIT Delhi: co-developing elective modules of Design Thinking Curriculum for Indian students
  • Nov 2026 Interacters visiting IIT Bombay in relation to Design Thinking Curriculum project

2025

Workshops

  • Nov 2025 a workshop at IndiaHCI conference in collaboration with IIT Delhi and Tampere University: Designing Transhuman Classrooms: Speculative Co-Design with Generative AI, Robot and VR. This half-day workshop explored the educational potential of transhumanist technologies in shaping future classrooms. By integrating Generative AI (GenAI), Furhat conversational robot, and virtual reality (Meta Quest 2), participants engaged in hands-on, speculative, and participatory design activities to co-create visions of transhuman classrooms. Through direct interaction with these emerging technologies and under-pinned by transhumanist theory, the workshop challenged conventional paradigms of education. It encouraged critical reflection on cognition, embodiment, identity, and the evolving human-technology relationship. Partici-pants collaboratively envisioned futures where learning extends beyond traditional human capacities ethically, creatively, and inclusively.

Other

  • Feb 2025 University of Oulu delegation visiting IIT Delhi; IIT Madras; and Amity University, Noida
  • Feb 2025 Marianne Kinnula teaching academic paper writing in IIT Delhi
  • Oct 2025 Assistant prof. Charu Monga / IIT Delhi visiting INTERACT; co-developing elective modules of Design Thinking Curriculum for Indian students
  • Nov 2025 Interacters visiting IIT Delhi: Workshop with schoolchildren; co-developing elective modules of Design Thinking Curriculum for Indian students
  • Nov 2025 Sumita Sharma co-chairing IndiaHCI Student Research Consortium with Kalpana Shankhwar, IIIT Delhi
  • Nov 2025 presenting in IndiaHCI Out-of-India track a NordiCHI 2024 paper "Is a Sunny Day Bright and Cheerful or Hot and Uncomfortable? Young Children's Exploration of ChatGPT"

2024

Workshops

  • Nov 2024 a workshop at IndiaHCI conference in IIT Bombay, Mumbai in collaboration with IIT Delhi, University of Tartu and Tampere University: Future Classrooms: Embracing Nature and More-Than-Human Perspectives in the Metaverse. This workshop invited Bachelor's and Master's students to rethink future classrooms by using Virtual Reality (VR) and Metaverse technologies. Students explored integrating natural elements and non-human perspectives into virtual spaces to strengthen connections with nature and promote sustainability. Activities included VR orientation, design thinking, and collaborative paper-based conceptual designs, with peer feedback to refine ideas. The workshop encouraged ethical, ecological awareness and aimed to inspire innovative educational environments.
Other

2023

Workshops

Other
  • Nov 2023 Interacters visiting IIT Delhi
  • Nov 2023 Marianne Kinnula presenting to IIT Delhi design students
  • Nov 2023 Sumita Sharma co-chairing IndiaHCI Women in HCI track

2022

Workshops

Other

  • Data collection on developing AI support for young autistic children
  • Nov 2022 Interacters visiting IIT Delhi and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
  • Nov 2022 Marianne Kinnula lecturing on a course on Design Futuring on "Shared visions of digital futures through cultural translation" in Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
  • Nov 2022 Netta Iivari lecturing on a course on Design Futuring in Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
  • Nov 2022 Marianne Kinnula giving keynote in IndiaHCI in BITS Pilani, Hyderabad with the topic "Democratizing design – children as future design protagonists"
  • Nov 2022 at AI-Day in Helsinki - a poster presentation on 16th Nov on Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children

2021

Workshops

Other

2020

Workshops