Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Leena Ventä-Olkkonen is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Education and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 16 papers in Education and 11 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Leena Ventä-Olkkonen's work include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (31 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (14 papers) and Interactive and Immersive Displays (13 papers). Leena Ventä-Olkkonen is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (31 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (14 papers) and Interactive and Immersive Displays (13 papers). Leena Ventä-Olkkonen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and India. Leena Ventä-Olkkonen's co-authors include Netta Iivari, Sumita Sharma, Thomas Olsson, Tuula Kärkkäinen, Jonna Häkkilä, Heidi Hartikainen, Tonja Molin‐Juustila, Marianne Kinnula, Kari Kuutti and Kaisa Väänänen and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Information Management, Journal of the Association for Information Systems and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

In The Last Decade

Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

48 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Digital transformation of everyday life – How COVID-19 pandemic transformed the basic education of the young generation and why information management research should care?
    2020 662 citations Netta Iivari, Sumita Sharma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leena Ventä-Olkkonen Finland 12 378 304 298 165 154 51 1.1k
Tony Hall Ireland 15 309 0.8× 174 0.6× 224 0.8× 162 1.0× 73 0.5× 64 945
Fernando Moreira Portugal 20 255 0.7× 117 0.4× 408 1.4× 169 1.0× 226 1.5× 189 1.4k
Katja Buntins Germany 13 660 1.7× 127 0.4× 274 0.9× 148 0.9× 260 1.7× 24 1.3k
Xiaoqing Gu China 21 666 1.8× 306 1.0× 376 1.3× 178 1.1× 321 2.1× 96 1.8k
Sylvester Arnab United Kingdom 20 473 1.3× 318 1.0× 339 1.1× 463 2.8× 588 3.8× 107 2.2k
Yu‐Chang Hsu United States 22 599 1.6× 175 0.6× 450 1.5× 160 1.0× 446 2.9× 59 1.5k
Wim Westera Netherlands 22 475 1.3× 119 0.4× 232 0.8× 236 1.4× 310 2.0× 83 1.5k
Andri Ioannou Cyprus 21 690 1.8× 255 0.8× 359 1.2× 211 1.3× 394 2.6× 108 1.7k
Harry Budi Santoso Indonesia 20 564 1.5× 172 0.6× 631 2.1× 174 1.1× 411 2.7× 203 1.9k
César A. Collazos Colombia 21 346 0.9× 438 1.4× 678 2.3× 265 1.6× 542 3.5× 296 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leena Ventä-Olkkonen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ventä-Olkkonen, Leena, et al.. (2025). Identities in Flux—Exploring Children’s Emerging Identities in Design and Making. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 32(5). 1–36.
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Iivari, Netta, Ole Sejer Iversen, Rachel Charlotte Smith, et al.. (2024). Transformative agency – the next step towards children's computational empowerment. Repositori ObertUDL (University of Lleida). 322–337. 4 indexed citations
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Sharma, Sumita, Noura Howell, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, et al.. (2024). Promoting Criticality with Design Futuring with Young Children. Aaltodoc (Aalto University). 1–15. 5 indexed citations
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Iivari, Netta, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Heidi Hartikainen, & Sumita Sharma. (2024). Participatory design that matters – with activism education of children. 221–233. 1 indexed citations
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Iivari, Netta, et al.. (2024). Fostering children?s critical literacy in computing education. 57–65. 3 indexed citations
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Hartikainen, Heidi, et al.. (2022). A Series of Fortunate Accidents: Lessons Learned When Things Go Sideways in Making Projects with Children. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 1–4.
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Hartikainen, Heidi, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Marianne Kinnula, & Netta Iivari. (2022). “We were proud of our idea”: How teens and teachers gained value in an entrepreneurship and making project. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. 35. 100552–100552. 12 indexed citations
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Sharma, Sumita, Marianne Kinnula, Netta Iivari, et al.. (2022). Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children. 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Sharma, Sumita, Heidi Hartikainen, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, et al.. (2021). In Pursuit of Inclusive and Diverse Digital Futures: Exploring the Potential of Design Fiction in Education of Children. Interaction design & architecture(s). 219–248. 18 indexed citations
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Hartikainen, Heidi, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Marianne Kinnula, & Netta Iivari. (2021). Entrepreneurship Education Meets FabLab: Lessons Learned with Teenagers. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 1–9. 8 indexed citations
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Ventä-Olkkonen, Leena, Marianne Kinnula, Heidi Hartikainen, & Netta Iivari. (2020). Embedded assumptions in design and Making projects with children. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 178–188. 9 indexed citations
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Lanamäki, Arto, et al.. (2019). Is a Taximeter a Guarantee of Honesty or a Barrier to Entry? Exploring Technology Discourses as Consequences of Policy Ambiguity.. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations
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Ventä-Olkkonen, Leena, Arto Lanamäki, Netta Iivari, & Kari Kuutti. (2016). USING WITH DISCRETION: IDENTIFYING EMERGENT PRACTICES AROUND INTERACTIVE PUBLIC DISPLAYS. European Conference on Information Systems. 4 indexed citations
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Ventä-Olkkonen, Leena, Netta Iivari, Arto Lanamäki, et al.. (2016). People lining up to use a cool new gadget in the city? Surprise and variety in technology appropriation of multipurpose public displays. Interaction design & architecture(s). 136–158.
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Ventä-Olkkonen, Leena, et al.. (2014). Touching the ice. 129–132. 5 indexed citations
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Ventä-Olkkonen, Leena, et al.. (2014). Investigating the balance between virtuality and reality in mobile mixed reality UI design. 137–146. 11 indexed citations
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Häkkilä, Jonna, et al.. (2013). Jogging in a virtual city. 1–2. 4 indexed citations
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Häkkilä, Jonna, et al.. (2013). Clearing the virtual window. 85–90. 14 indexed citations
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Häkkilä, Jonna, et al.. (2013). Co-creating a digital 3D city with children. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Olsson, Thomas, et al.. (2009). User expectations for mobile mixed reality services: an initial user study. 19. 26 indexed citations

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