I am a doctoral researcher at the INTERACT research group, conducting my thesis under the supervision of prof. Netta Iivari and postdocs Sumita Sharma and Henna Tiensuu.
Since Fall 2025, I have been working on the ATOM project under Sumita Sharma, researching youth perspectives on how AI will shape the future of work, as well as devising methods to empower young people with the AI literacy skills enabling them to take more active roles in determining how these technologies will shape their future lives and careers. Additionally, my interests include computational linguistics and the popularisation of scientific thinking.
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Publications
Klemettilä, P. A., Sharma, S., Mochiyama, F., Iivari, N., Iwata, M., & Koivisto, J. (2025).
‘It’s Just a Machine that Predicts’—Demystifying Artificial Intelligence / Machine
Learning with Teenagers. Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children,
168–182. https://doi.org/10.1145/371304...
Sharma, S., Klemettilä, P., & Tanaka, J. (2025). A robot teacher ‘is very good for
learning, but not for human relationships’: Japanese Children’s Critical Perspectives
Towards Ethical AI Futures. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/370659...
Recognitions
SIGCHI Finland Master’s Thesis Competition. (2025). My
thesis, AI literacy as ‘a candle in the dark’ : exploring critical perspectives towards artificial intelligence with children and youth won first place in the annual HCI thesis competition hosted by SIGCHI Finland.