Tänään on kollegani ja ystäväni Anna Lammen aika puolustaa väitöskirjaansa "Robots at work: Organizational power relations, technostress, and affective responses". Kustoksena toimii tälläkin kertaa hänen ykkösohjaajansa professori Markus Salo meiltä Jyväskylän Yliopiston IT-tiedekunnasta. Annaa on ohjannut myös tästäkin blogista tuttu professori Henri Pirkkalainen, Tampereen Yliopistolta. Vastaväittäjäksi olemme saaneet vieraan, Associate Professor Aleksandre Asatianin Göteborgin yliopistosta.
Paljon onnea tuoreelle tohtorille! Tietojärjestelmätieteen tytöt taputtaa yleisöstä! Lehdistötiedote löytyy täältä.
/Today, it is my colleague and friend Anna Lampi’s turn to defend her doctoral dissertation, “Robots at Work: Organizational Power Relations, Technostress, and Affective Responses.”
Once again, the custos is her principal supervisor, Professor Markus Salo, from our Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä. Anna's second supervisor was also well known in this blog, Prof. Henri Pirkkalainen from University of Tampere. We are also delighted to welcome Associate Professor Aleksandre Asatiani from the University of Gothenburg as the opponent.
Anna’s research is closely related to my own work. Robots are not only appearing on our streets to deliver our groceries and in our buildings to clean our corridors, but they are also making their way into schools and kindergartens, working alongside teachers.
Robots have truly entered our workplaces, as my colleague Kristof and I discovered last year when the media took an interest in our work on robot-assisted language learning at a local kindergarten.
In her dissertation, Anna has been particularly interested in the relationships between people, organizations, and the robots entering their workplaces. What kind of technostress does a robot cause when it could potentially take your job? And what is it like to work alongside a robot, especially when it does not behave as expected?
Information Systems Science focuses particularly on the interaction between people and technology, and robots, which are becoming increasingly common at a remarkable pace, are certainly at the heart of this field!
One particularly fascinating aspect of robots is their human-likeness, or the way some robots present themselves as a kind of human-like technology that people may encounter and treat differently from more conventional technologies.
How does it feel for a person to encounter a physical robot? How can we interact with one?
The opponent specifically asked what studying interactions with robots contributes to the field of technostress research. Anna gave an excellent answer, explaining that the physical presence and social dimensions of robots introduce new perspectives that go beyond traditional technostress research.
Warmest congratulations to the newly minted PhD! The women of Information Systems Science are cheering you on from the audience! 🎓👏Access the press release here.




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