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
- 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
- May-June 2024 InfoTech Seminar with IIT Delhi Assistant prof. Charu Monga / IIT Delhi visiting Oulu
- Nov 2024 Interacters visiting IIT Delhi
- Nov 2024 Sumita Sharma co-chairing IndiaHCI Student Design Consortium with Associate Prof. Wricha Mishra, MITID Pune
2023
Workshops
- Nov 23rd 2023 at IndiaHCI 2023 in Dehradun: Designing Ethical, Accessible, and Inclusive Artificial Intelligence for All (AIAI)
Other
- Nov 2023 Interacters visiting IIT Delhi
- Nov 2023 Marianne Kinnula presenting to IIT Delhi design students
2022
Workshops
- Nov 2022 a workshop at IndiaHCI conference: Accessible and Inclusive AI: Looking to the future, as a part of EDUFI AIAI project
- Nov 2022 at Urdu Ghar in Hyderabad old city, a workshop with women health workers on imagining the future of social communication for minority communities based on their covid informational experiences
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
- June 2021 a workshop at Academic Mindtrek conference: Designing Accessible and Inclusive AI (ACM paper)
- Nov 2021 a workshop at India HCI conference: Disruption to Destruction to Directive: Changing Landscape of Design
Other
- Data collection on developing AI support for young autistic children
- Mar 2021 at ACM SIGCHI HCI4SouthAsia's seminar on the AI for the Next Billion (Presentation video)
- Oct 2021 at ACM SIGHCI HCI4SouthAsia's 2nd seminar on AI for the Next Billion (Presentation video)
- Nov 2021 presentation at AI day 2021: Making sense of how to create ethical AI for young children with autism
2020
Workshops