Marko Nieminen

Professor
Professor
T313 Dept. Computer Science

Strategic Usability, HCI: User-centred design UCD, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), usability in business, usability as a business factor, usability engineering, user-centred product development, user experience (UX) design

Collaborative ICT in Industry: Information and communication technology (ICT) in the support for collaboration in industrial networks, social media and computer-mediated communities in industry, Computer-Supported Co-operative Work CSCW, Shop-floor usability: Information support for assembly tasks, Interactive Task Support

Finance and Healthcare: Research and development on mobile payments and other financial services, ICT in healthcare: user-centred design of healthcare ICT

ICT4D and participatory design: ICT for Development, ICT for under-served communities in emerging markets

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Areas of expertise

Strategic Usability Research Group STRATUS, Käytettävyys, HCI, Strategic usability, User-centred design, User experience, Usability, User interfaces, CSCW, SoberIT, Participatory design, Mobile Financial Services, Accessibility, Human-computer interaction, Service design, User studies, USchool, Käytettävyyskoulu, Käyttäjäkokemus, Computer-supported cooperative work, Software and Service Engineering, Qualitative Research, 2 Engineering and technology, Software engineering, operating systems, man-computer interaction

Honors and awards

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

2017 Highly Commended Award of Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
Award or honor granted for a specific work Professorship Nieminen M. Jan 2017

Distinguished senior researcher (1999)

Award for distinguished senior researcher (1999), Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Helsinki University of Technology
Award or honor granted for a specific work Professorship Nieminen M. Jan 1999

The award of Finnish Federation of Electrical and Electronics Industry (2002 )

SET:in palkinto vuodelta 2002, Sähkö- ja elektroniikka- ja tietoteollisuus SET ry, Finland
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Jan 2003

Research groups

  • Computer Science Professors, Professor
  • Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction and Design (HCID) - Research area, Professor
  • Computer Science - Software and Service Engineering (SSE) - Research area, Professor
  • Professorship Nieminen M., Professor

Publications

Energy Management System for Inter-Connected Self-Sufficient Microgrids with Blockchain-Based Peer-to-Peer Energy Market

Iurii Demidov, Antti Pinomaa, Samuli Honkapuro, Marko Nieminen 2025 2025 21st International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM 2025

Social ISP for Reducing Digital Inequality

Oleg Missikoff, Heikki Almay, Marko Nieminen, Antti Pinomaa, Martti Ylikoski 2025 IST-Africa 2025 Conference Proceedings

Investigating the Crowdfunding Communication Gap Between the Campaign Creators and Backers: a Case from Namibia

Anna Muller, Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria, Pietari Keskinen, Marko Nieminen 2025 ICTD 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

Human-Centred Design for Digital Ecosystems: Actors, Roles and Responsibilities

Riitta Peltonen, Marko Nieminen 2025 Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries - 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2025, Proceedings

Flora, Fauna, and Merry Weather: The Impact of Situational Context on the Distance Learning Experience in Higher Education

Kaisa Tsupari, Hanna Mäenpää, Amir Dirin, Marko Nieminen 2025 Journal of Educational Technology Systems

User Participation through WhatsApp – Mobile Instant Messaging as a Medium for Distributed Co-design

Pietari Keskinen, Karin Amukugo Frölich, Portia D. Singh, Antti Pinomaa, Sandhya Menon, Bandna Kumari, Shyam Kumar Masakapalli, Marko Nieminen, Yvonne Dittrich 2024 Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2024

Aalto Global Impact – a cross-continental journey in sustainability education

Matleena Muhonen, Riina Subra, Najmeh Viki, Saija Hollmen, Mikko Koria, Marko Nieminen, Apurva Ganoo, Kristjana Adalgeirsdottir, Claudia Garduno, Anna Kinsturashvili, Anni Juvakoski, Nisha Javed, Xin Chen, Çağatay Şen, Meri Hilden, Julia Laihinen 2024

Addressing Usability and Complexity in Procurement of IT Systems

Topias Saari, Kaisa Savolainen, Mari Tyllinen, Johanna Viitanen, Marko Nieminen 2024 Journal of User Experience

Energy Management System for Community-Centered Off-Grid System with a Blockchain-Based P2P Energy Market

Iurii Demidov, Henock Dibaba, Antti Pinomaa, Samuli Honkapuro, Marko Nieminen 2023 2023 19th International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM 2023

Emotional Contagion in Collaborative Virtual Reality Learning Experiences : An eSports Approach

Amir Dirin, Marko Nieminen, Teemu Laine, Lassi Nieminen, Leila Ghalabani 2023 Education and Information Technologies