Research team

Åsa Cajander
Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University and project leader for AI-PROCARE.

Åsa is a leading Nordic researcher in the digital work environment and AI. Her work focuses on how user-centered design and work environment perspectives can be embedded in the procurement and implementation of AI systems.

Viktoria Rubin
Postdoctoral researcher in Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University. Responsible for the Swedish data collection and provides support to the project leader.

Viktoria’s research focuses on work environment, implementation of organizational change, and the role of managers.

Maral Babapour Chafi
Design and Human Factors researcher at the Institute of Stress Medicine, Region Västra Götaland, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology. WP1 lead in the AI-PROCARE project.

Maral’s research primarily applies a user centred design methodology to study the complex, multi-dimensional relationship between people and technical systems in the healthcare sector. A major interest is to understand how innovations – covering products, services, systems or environments – are adopted into everyday worklife and influence the working conditions.    

Torkil Clemmensen
Professor of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School and the WP4 lead in the AI-PROCARE project.

Torkil’s research integrates psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Systems, focusing on human work interaction design, usability, and digital work environments.

Laura Moll Meldgård
Research assistant at Copenhagen Business School. Responsible for Danish data collection and analysis.
Laura has published in international HCI journals on work environment aspects of autonomous technologies in the healthcare sectors. She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration and Innovation in Health Care, and her research examines how digitalization, organizational structures, and policy frameworks shape innovation processes within health systems. 

Günter Prockl

Johanna Viitanen
Associate professor at Aalto University and the WP2 lead in the AI-PROCARE project.

Johanna specializes in researching the usability and user experiences of healthcare information systems. She has conducted internationally pioneering research on monitoring the development of electronic health record (EHR) systems, focusing on end users and usability perspectives. Her work covers both evaluation methods and the integration of usability into procurement activities. Viitanen has worked on two large public-sector procurement projects for patient and client information systems in Finland, developing and applying usability evaluation and requirements specification methods to meet the practical needs of these real-world projects.

Tinja Lääveri
Postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University.

Tinja combines her research role with a position as Medical director at the City of Helsinki, which brings a lot of relevant experience and knowledge to the project.

Topias Saari
Doctoral researcher at Aalto University.

Topias works in the Human Centered Healthcare Informatics – research group where he has done previous research into procurement of IT-systems. He also works as a UI designer in the public sector on a project related to healthcare.

Marta Lárusdóttir
Professor in Computer Science at Reykjavík University and the WP3 lead in the AI-PROCARE project.

Marta has focused on studying and suggesting new user centred design methods and processes, focusing on user needs, prototyping and evaluation methods. Additionally, she has studied how user-centered design can be integrated into agile software development, especially in Scrum and Kanban projects. She has taken part in several consulting projects for the public authorities in Iceland, for measuring usability in the procurement process for IT systems.

Lilja Jóhannsdottir Petersen
Postdoctoral researcher, Reykjavík University.

Her research is centered around healthcare information systems and digital health technologies, focusing on patient safety and usability. Her work covers evaluation methods into the work environment of healthcare professionals, as well as usability of healthcare information systems and workflows.