Collaborative and Industrial Design

Martina Čaić

Assistant Professor, Service Design
Potrait of assistant professor Martina Čaić

Martina Čaić is an Assistant Professor in Strategic Service Design and the leader of the ENCORE (Engaging Co-Design) research group. She holds a PhD from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where she was a Marie Curie Fellow funded by the Service Design for Innovation Network (SDIN). Martina’s research interests are at the intersection of service management, service design, and emerging technologies (e.g., AI, social robots, chatbots). She studies interactions between AI-powered agents and humans in diverse public and private service settings (e.g., healthcare, education, financial, and industrial services) with a focus on value co-creation, well-being, ethical implications, and organizational transformation.

Courses

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Designing for Services

Designing for services course addresses application of design competence and engagement in the emerging topics of service design.

Collaborative and Industrial Design

Latest publications

Viewpoint: advancing service design with practitioners’ insights

Martina Caic, Nuria Solsona Caba, Tuuli Mattelmäki 2025 Journal of Services Marketing

Intentional Action at the Margins : Unpacking Agency in Public Service Ecosystem Design

Nicole Hussmann, Annukka Svanda, Martina Caic 2025 Proceedings of Nordes 2025: Relational Design, 6-8 August, Oslo, Norway

Mental Health and Wellbeing Practices in Design Education: A Call for Action

Daniela Sangiorgi, Martina Caic, Amalia de Götzen, Rike Neuhoff, Rebecca Price, Nuria Solsona Caba, Josina Vink, Hena Ali 2025 ServDes 2025: Empowering Diversity, Nurturing Lasting Impact, 6–10 October, Hyderabad, India

What do We Design with the Public Sector? Disentangling Service Design Deliverables in Education

Nuria Solsona Caba, Martina Caic, Tuuli Mattelmäki 2025 International Journal of Design

AI and the Future of Work: Enhancing Employee Experience from Satisfaction to Flourishing

Anna Viljakainen, Juho Silmukari, Virpi Roto, Martina Caic, Susanna Aromaa 2025 ECCE '25: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE)

Designing meaningful work in the transition towards Industry 5.0

Anna Viljakainen, Juho Silmukari, Martina Caic 2025

The healthy aging and service firms: the promise of smart technologies

Jochen Wirtz, John E.G. Bateson, Martina Caic, Darius-Aurel Frank, Nina Veflen 2025 Journal of Service Management

Am I Even Needed? Navigating Through Role Changes in the Age of Artificially Intelligent Agents

Martina Caic, Robert Ciuchita, Katja Einola, Violetta Khoreva 2024

Help Me Help You: The Dilemma of Collaboration Between Expert Employees and Chatbots

Martina Caic, Robert Ciuchita, Giuseppe Chiorazzo 2024 Humane Autonomous Technology Re-thinking Experience with and in Intelligent Systems

Collective imaginaries for the futures of care work

Yiying Wu, Jung-Joo Lee, Ajit Pillai, Janghee Cho, Thida Sacathep, Naseem Ahmadpour, Virpi Roto, Jiashuo Liu, Mouna Sawan, Dongjin Song, Martina Caic, Lucas Cheng, Renxuan Liu, Sarah Kettley, Luis Soares, Kazjon Grace, Thomas Astell-Burt 2024

A transdisciplinary review and framework of consumer interactions with embodied social robots: Design, delegate, deploy

Marah Blaurock, Martina Caic, Mehmet Okan, Alexander P. Henkel 2022 International Journal of Consumer Studies

Robotic role theory: an integrative review of human–robot service interaction to advance role theory in the age of social robots

Marah Blaurock, Martina Caic, Mehmet Okan, Alexander P. Henkel 2022 Journal of Service Management

Design of Robotic Care: Ethical Implications of a Multi-Actor Perspective

Martina Caic, Stefan Holmlid, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2022 Service Design Practices for Healthcare Innovation

YouTube It Before You Buy It: The Role of Parasocial Interaction in Consumer-to-Consumer Video Reviews

Valeria Penttinen, Robert Ciuchita, Martina Caic 2022 Journal of Interactive Marketing

Scaling up Diversity and Inclusion: From Classroom to Municipality

Annukka Svanda, Martina Caic, Tuuli Mattelmäki 2021 Proceedings of Nordes 2021

Robotic Versus Human Coaches for Active Aging: An Automated Social Presence Perspective

Martina Caic, Joao Avelino, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder, Alexandre Bernardino 2020 International Journal of Social Robotics

Robotic transformative service research

Alexander P. Henkel, Martina Caic, Marah Blaurock, Mehmet Okan 2020 Journal of Service Management

An Interdisciplinary View of Marketing Ethics

Dominik Mahr, Martina Caic, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2020 The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Ethics

Leveraging service design for healthcare transformation

Lia Patrıcio, Daniela Sangiorgi, Dominik Mahr, Martina Caic, Saleh Kalantari, Sue Sundar 2020 Journal of Service Management

Beneficiaries' View of Actor Networks: Service Resonance for Pluralistic Actor Networks

Martina Caic, Stefan Holmlid, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2019 International Journal of Design

Value of social robots in services: social cognition perspective

Martina Caic, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder 2019 Journal of Services Marketing

Service robots: value co-creation and co-destruction in elderly care networks

Martina Caic, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder, Dominik Mahr 2018 Journal of Service Management
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